the u.k.'s defense secretary says he will counter russia and china militarily post-grad said as he delivers a plan to boost the british military's global presence. with efforts to rebuild the war torn iraq the city of mosul under way the situation on

the ground remains grim locals say this city is the ghost town there's no reconstruction here all the reconstruction efforts are just being on paper like the living dead we have a cemetery over there but here it's a cemetery living. on venezuela's president nicolas maduro initiates launch scale moves military drills in preparation for a possible u.s. military intervention. we'll have a full news bulletin for you next hour but coming up next on r.t. internationalise close talk and in the u.k. and ireland it's time to run a great. low end welcome to crossfire for all things are considered. i'm peter lavelle how's

that for regime change going in venezuela a few snags a few bumps in the road and can we believe some u.s. troops will leave the middle east and much much more on this edition of crossfire. cross talking some real news i'm joined by my guest here in moscow exactly in morrow he is the founder of the center for political strategic analysis poll we also have victrola bitch he is a political analyst as well as a leading expert at the center for actual politics and we have to choose a political analyst with international or a german crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate picture let me go to you first let's talk about venezuela we have the pretender president backed by the united states the united states mr cardew he's come out in public saying that he may because of his power whatever that may be mean in venezuela asked for foreign intervention which of course would

be the use of the middle american military in venezuela as we've seen many many times in the hemisphere is this going in a very bad place or is this telling us that as i said in my introduction a few bumps in the road a few snags with this force regime change of course there are keeping cool is keeping so it's still going it may not be going as fast or as quick as the new station or its lights in the venezuela liked it to go but if such an intervention ever took place it would be a complete total violation of international law why door has no legitimacy in the international enough he has not been elected by the venezuelan people here is essentially been elected by washington d.c. and that's and its allies and then it let's point out here and then.

prain playing a very interesting role of exactly and what washington is starting to do right now is also a plea p.r. game so right now in the colombian venezuelan border there are several trucks with loads of so-called aid to the venezuelan people that the is delivered under the auspices of the united states government now it's being blocked but it's being blocked because first of all the venezuelan government doesn't know what's in that tax second of all the whole well it's just a p.r. game because if the united states wants to cup the venezuelan people it should lift the seven weeks of sanctions on top of the let's remember that ilya abrams did use that trick before in sending arms exactly you know i think it's interesting there's a juxtaposition here. we have all of this coverage of the humanitarian crisis there's a crisis there yet ok but you know there are more under the chavez and i'm a conservative everybody knows that and i'm not talking up chavez but he pulled more people out of poverty than any other political force in venezuelan history

their economy is on the rocks the government does take responsibility for that sanctions are very real ones who come in recently even more the average person but at the same time we get all this coverage here but the yellow vests continue to march on but there's more violence there are people losing limbs people losing their eyes but you wouldn't know very much about this the only time you would hear about it is that there are socialists which of course is not true it's very interesting the media lens on venezuela in the yellow vests yes it's completely crazy because for instance mark. for relief of the poor but at the same times had five thousand people ninety three french people were injured twenty the. last. by you. and yesterday during the last. act of

yellow jacket again a man lost completely lost because they use some. grenade that they used to use when i was in the army so it's all the violence used by. even though is there is no comparison is it fair to say that violence is one direction one of course of course of course it's. the jacket there is there is no party it's real that's its strength yes that there is no leaders when and when the some of the others try to. at least for the european elections they were immediately inserted there were. they won't be any. at least at the end on the open election because the people don't want to i don't know it's not going to happen because if they institutionalize it will be corrupted. if they don't trust anymore because you have to remember i mean an american was elected by

a coup. by fraud so so the people in the street. who are supported by seventy seven percent of the french population so it's not only yellow jacket it's a french people but uses human lives in no way today that they can lose and and i was myself you know it was a week ago and i was of yes i was afraid because when we when we see the police we immediately you know we're going to stand uses this whole force you better be afraid of your very well you know the juxtaposition of these stories is really quite amazing here because i would say that the young will best how the legitimate right under french law to demonstrate their grievances but the people in venice waver well they're supporting authoritarianism they're supporting socialism with everything people of venezuela want to support whatever within reason in my mind government. ideology that's their business it's no one else's business to dictate

to them what kind of leadership the critically leader of the should have and upturn the political order had to remind all of us interviewers the venezuelan people voted for their constitution that is very very rare when they have a substantial bottom of the population that is against my door ok diana look dialogue is something that is usually used in such situations and we have the group of one t.v. deal. you know the group convened by europe why mexico are the neutral states in fact we have that group whenever there are dialogue what's the response from washington and they say that this is not the right way montevideo is not going the right way it may only prolong the days all the dural in power so you know there are night states now is ruled by and i don't know which it which is sometimes right sometimes left it is supposedly centrist but they really it's

a very radical look with a lot of the new president of brazil just recently with bad he was you know he was ultra right he was for dictatorship and know suddenly he's a normal president you know he doesn't exclude to the true option against business well and he's fine you know who is p.r. people are american mainstream media never did he get to make over and over and the point is you know why i'm slightly disagree with victor the consequences you know they. might do or will suggest it in his appeal to the american people he suggested and history has said that you know that you're a presenter just you said in his address is trying to use the same tactics they used in vietnam they're going to bring it closer to your doors because when you started so much colder so the military option is excluded asked for it and economic blockade look you. survived an economic blockade for fifty years and what is really

surprising is that the same countries of the european union which you still can down the cuban boy cage at the u.n. vote no eighteen out of twenty seven or eighty eight e.u. member states they already recognized who i believe you are they all think you are going to spiritually thank goodness it will jump in. again not as you correctly pointed out this is not about what type of economic policy example the government in caracas chooses to pursue were what their canonic policy the people of venezuela believe is the best for them this is about the summer and right for the venezuelan government and the venezuelan people to decide the future of their country i want we just talked about mexico and its support for the workings of the montevideo hoop and the willingness of the us to follow in step without even being there when the right wing governments work in police in mexico city and when the united states was pressing mexico to to cut diplomatic ties with have and with cuba even right wing

governments who were there which were. if used to cut those ties why not because they supported fidel castro not because they supported socialism in cuba it was because they believed that cuba even if they disagree with the people of cuba they still have the right to choose their own future without the united states or other look at this they're on the case and usually my pompei o has said recently that they did been as well in meeting their security forces your hizbullah has souls in venezuela i mean if you can't so we're being you know it's socialists we can. follow that i'd like to know have a directed make an agent who i adore writing course arcus thank you the author of the government where is his people who were in the queue but usually. during the course of revolution it's time when there is some snipers coming in caracas and starting to shoot on. the that was freshly have and. that's his initial

to prepare for the. about. hypocrisy of the european union i mean ok cuba was a one party state when they docked at this un resolution condemning the us but kate when your soul is north of one party state. has called for another new elections over the parliament charged us almost araf around do it in venice show how can a dictator was a referendum and show me. this whole issue of democracy is that when elections are held the opposition doesn't even par dissipate they actually can get an election so who are the democrats ok it seems to me the people or the western media will refuses and again i'm not defending chavez but he brought people into the political process they were invisible from the very beginning of venezuelan statehood and

that's why i do worry victor about violence because they will defend it because they may be in trouble now but they have more than they did twenty years in the reason that he was in the bar and i still think many survive is because they have turned to for so terrible i mean their brilliant back the people who were in power before one thousand nine hundred eight and they keep saying that your father was the richest country or south america well potentially yes but people were pool you know the previous president in one thousand nine hundred three it was removed for embezzle meant to be said the company of the oil company of innisfail provided not even billions hundreds of millions of dollars to the state budget charges stopped it and that's why it was poor people so people may not like doris financial policy it was a failure but if you tell the people you're going to have the same guys who have been running the country until one thousand nine hundred he said it was i don't know they got a good job and you were going to go to a short break and after that short break we'll continue our discussion and some real names are.

simply. didn't have ten months from now to the independent with that with. less impact the counselors if i woke up at a saw me today. it was the sort of my lemon who speculations that me or the mail with jamie has a hunk on the roof. now at the height of the last scene but because hell i got money but that never. seemed like him to make me forget me or the only measure how

comforting closer here got because of me it's because he sees when i leave. when folks are talking about socialism like cortez out of new york that congresswoman saying see they all say that you know socialism is back and we need higher taxes we need redistribution of wealth that's actually not the solution to some of the shortcomings of capitalism the solution is access to give people access to capital because fifty percent of the stocks in america are owned by one percent of the population now that's an incredibly lopsided concentration of the greatest growth engine in the world by a very small community. welcome back across the uk where all things are considered. dr you were discussing some

real names. for example and i want to slightly turn directions here we're talking about the yellow verse in the first part of the program and the main me worsening crisis a crisis in venezuela you know we have this green new deal ok of course in the state of the union address i don't think it was mentioned directly but this is socialism again throwing out this sort of view i don't know if it is or not but it's certainly greater state involvement in the economy and on this program i will do a separate program on the green new deal but it's it's never really said in the mail in the mainstream corporate media is that the possible appeal of some of these programs it's not because if it's ideologically driven because i don't believe most americans know what socialism is but it's really it more of an indication of how

the status quo has failed them and they are looking for new ideas because the same old bad ideas isn't helping. you i couldn't agree more and for instance if you compare it again with a speech. before industry because there can't be. additional tax on oil just to go to work with. homes who are in that no wait we have to save the planet so you don't know who or people are. rich people flying to davos to talk about it yes but not what people look at so what they have to eat they can feed the children because there is no more. french country and when. when you can do what you want when you cover someone cause when you can buy you have to change your television. screen. you're. more than his case

traditionally up until the last few years french model for a lot of the world because of the quality of life yes of course but equally with how you know hospitals in the region in the rural areas which are disappearing post offices disappearing social services disappearing in the road and these people and those on the street. but there is no more able to get aid there is no more school or there is no more any single leave so when you're talking about saving the planet to just you know feed it likely towards your own suited kids is it here to go look some parts of the new deal look more like fantasy land than socialism the promise to eliminate air travel and the police authority more to some degree and the police it was more of. an expectation of systems and a lot more but this is in a way this is exactly what the democratic establishment wants two thousand and sixteen the last presidential elections what was the main problem for the

democratic national committee in the democratic establishment he was bernie sanders who was the left wave that took away the people that we from that support for their main stream centrist hillary clinton candidate or they did not yes they did not want that main thing is they did not want a repetition of that in two thousand and twenty so what political technology are they using these days they are putting this newly installed congresswoman from new york alexandria court as somebody with no political experience somebody not known for a cure intellectual brevity but not for a willingness to speak with a new subject without even without having much knowledge about it we're all going to see it and yet so essentially she got a ten million exam to do you know what your words your actions she descriptives she described to say that the lesson is that but isn't that intentional do you believe this eventually my experience my theory is that. for the cable network c n n n b c he will see as their darling because. sheets of track to use

a new phrase. interjections everywhere ok but he did it correctly and she's politically correct and they feel good about themselves did you start doesn't really like her very much they might they might get rid of her district by two thousand i think they will but who loves her the most the political right you know service was absolutely but i think this is a very interesting question the question of the language politically correct language i mean they use this term prong to i could be just what does it mean. it means indigenous people communities of color the pool of the women the elderly. people in this it exists but everybody you know the youth the problem is that there are through play real from play here in the world created by a president who was a democrat people of the us there from white community they had been killed they had been born by ukrainian to be aviation in syria who the british are from the look at you from the president of the party of the democratic party which is now

pushing these green new deal people in leave it there are community so the stall of the old and the and they use it the misuse it you know they misuse it for their own purposes they create a real real big there was a war and they're not talking about them they're both well and all the others should have shot through them to me it's all going to be the last word on the last one on this side maybe just a few words maybe just a few words because it's interesting you know when the enumerated all this front i mean you know what it reminded me of he didn't mind i mean all of the any well far you know in the animal show that we care and you know that's part of the leaders so that you had a noble who is like a democrat who looks like a leftist he creates and while he could be patient couldn't and he suggests same didn't peter the star the countries who stood up three billion so that we don't have to get found ourselves well the problem is that snowball is always fought by the other guy by. paul on. benefits from this from this empty.

because they agree to a deal i'm not against all this but i'm against demagoguery this is ok we're going to do this this is not the last word on this is going to have been of course. as it's well known he may have wanted to write about the soviet union or other countries or which he didn't know much but as somebody who spent most of his life in his native great britain he always ended up writing about the system can you most dislike and that's where i want to switch gears my talk about. real or imagined troop withdrawals from the middle east here we have as we speak here. we have the pentagon coming out that they have a timetable the troops are coming home we don't know if it's going to be all of them because all doesn't always mean all brags it doesn't mean that you know how language is getting through polluted right now. but we have the state department saying the troops are going to be remaining there at least some of them to do to protect the kurds or will suddenly love the kurds and to protect israel or why

doesn't israel protect the kurds but that's never quite that's an inconvenient question to be asked is trump winning on this. because you are no choice because in two years there would be some election internet in states or and if you remember. was a peaceful one was against you could decide the word were in iraq you criticize were in syria. you wanted the u.s. army implicated are going to be so maybe it's time to get back to the program and you're absolutely right about this we've said this so many times and that's why i think troops deployment in venezuela all options on the table i don't think he really wants to do it i couldn't agree more yes. there may be some special forces used to some point of course it's very unlikely that a full scale invasion would take place with u.s. troops at the can simply because the u.s. understands very well that that. it would be a disaster it would be a p.r.

disaster it not just in venezuela but throughout latin american agent then as it would become a similar question of resistance to american intervention american aggression and that's the last think that a new credible in year candidate for real madrid would want of course but at the same time is. first of all does he have the willingness the political will. this he even dammed or the even the intention of withdrawing all u.s. troops from syria probably not he already has already been stated in the south of syria of the border with jordan that is the least those troops will be there is unlikely that they will be withdrawn i mean you can the forces are very rarely withdrawn completely from. before very rarely and so to me questions here first of all the time but even that he wanted to do it does he have the power within the american foreign policy and defense or perhaps to to implement his

decision and the second question is he has stated on a number of occasions that he does not want to use the other cities or his enemies what he really intends to do and all of these statements when you see something that they don't have much credence because think it's a cycle of pop aeration this point i want to end same sions which is very real or do you know what to call what trump said about this troop withdrawal ultimately some of them will be carbon coal but we're going to be there and we're going to steve but there will be coming back in a matter of time you know and then you know is it borthwick to do this again and then they are to solve it and then there is the the new york times york times reporter there actually three thousand ok would you be good once again. to get smaller let me just quote that they need these additional one thousand to protect and carry all of the put it not just give someone the excuse not to get out of course you know in the end of that it is. don't forget that trump is

a developer so. you want to be into trying to work. in the so you give you give you give gets and i really think it's to get the. old of many sides but after you give the target you will negotiate it you will negotiate with everybody. else you will have to get the you're going to have the summit coming up with. annoying cuban trump. trump needs a win on this. for a tamper and they agree with servia of his business experience he understands of course he understands that no major break is possible with him at this point simply because the united states is not willing to give anything up on its own or we didn't stay in for years yes in fact washington it wants to impose even harsher sanctions against north korea even though north korea has a lot idea that part of its what it promised to destroy one of its.

conduct a new business and actually death and so forth so what would at the end of the summit he needs a nice photo up which i'm sure he will get and also he will get he wants more promises from the north korean side and then claim that those promises are going to be implemented in the next leaves at a local american english will cut the mustard because of his enemies at home you know what they of course they able to see easily see through it doesn't really matter they were his opponents will easily easily see through this they will criticize that is they can't down with the previous segment but that part of his buddies will believe it is the optics will be nice. another neat think he will of course claim that it was only because of his pressure it was only because of his existence because he is owned this ok yes it's nothing but you know he will say they're doing what they are on their own because of him many thanks and i guess you know in moscow this is the end of our broadcast stay with us for the extended version on our you tube channel so you next time remember.

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