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i don't remember when there were so be it missiles put into cuba how frightened americans were how angry and how we almost went to a nuclear confrontation over having weapons of that kind of destruction placed that close to the united states. just fifty united states considers cuba to be in its backyard. then crimea lays at russia's doorstep. the consequences of a u.s. seizure of the base or a nato base which in general. but almost. as much. i taught me to. put you in with a. machine you know it's not bespoke with practical. units. so it's not just in the military use russian to support it we. just wanted to put me on the leader on the. it. was
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a piece of the school board. just i'm a part of what i get there but you know we buzz. but they're both so you know we're on the phone fixed amongst the windows me good to see musea but if you make. the national system. unless you mean it's not. supposed to be a big if we act we would sort of the response. to me because you knew seemed up and you know look it when i should just you know and i guess those. but you know you knew in the lead you disappear you know the same souce and i'm. up in the back of the m. . and i get a little nose and when you see what i pay for a bison you get on your ship. i'm concerned about the expansion of nato nato has expanded into thirteen countries up to the borders of russia thirteen countries at the team which ring up. at the time of waiting any shit way no.
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they did you in the midst of visiting me. in early spring of two thousand and fourteen eastern ukraine was also buzzing with protests against the new authorities in kiev this region with the population close to russia geographically and culturally feared that the ultra right leanings of the newly formed government would bring meal nationalism to their lands. and they have their reasons. the status of the russian language in ukraine has been a stumbling block for many years implementing russian as a second state language was one of the main campaign promises of president putin a full day in two thousand and twelve the government passed a law making it the second official language in the southern and eastern parts of ukraine the areas where the russian speaking population makes up
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a majority ukrainian nationalist groups initiated massive protests opposing the law and observing viewer might see some familiar faces there on a five month. one of our last. on february twenty third two thousand and fourteen the very next day after the regime change the new government voted for in a no meant of the official status of the russian language and even though later this decision was vetoed by the acting president alexander turchynov it still sent a message and a powerful one this alarmed the russian speaking cities of eastern ukraine and people took to the streets to show their disagreement. in response roll mind on its conducted their own demonstrations when the two parties would meet it was always tense and eventually died and over fifty people were wounded in clashes during a pro russian march pro. the crimean scenario began repeating eastern ukraine where
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protestors seized government buildings. and the next day people seventh day proclaimed don't yet see people's republic kiev replied by announcing the beginning of an anti-terrorist operation in eastern ukraine. by that time the international media was screaming about a russian invasion in ukraine russia could now be on the verge of invading ukraine but strong words state only in the media the ukrainian authorities never announced a war like situation why i.m.f. cannot give money to countries engaged in ongoing war that's real puerto shango. when you go to go to too much money was already invested in ukraine to stop halfway i've invested over five billion dollars to assist ukraine in these and other goals that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic ukraine. in
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a city. that will slowly new democracy just. some of them but obviously the funds had to keep coming and the conflict had to keep going to. get more bloody and deadly. so they see. as parties from both sides were using more sophisticated and lethal weapons. to deal. you know. the world seemed too busy welcoming this new democracy in kiev. to notice what was
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being done as it spread its wings over the country. many in southern ukraine had been viewing the revolution with concern. early january two thousand and fourteen the protesters set up their camp in front of the trade union house a building which would soon become a monument to a massacre of its own it's difficult to overestimate the importance of odessa it is strategically located on the black sea and it's ukraine's largest seaport it's not surprising that ukraine's new authorities were watching the situation unfolding there with growing alarm. more and more of odessa as people were joining the anti my don movement at the same time as events in eastern ukraine were heating up. the new ukrainian government didn't have the power to wage war on too many fronts if odessa were to join the growing uprising in the eastern regions it would seriously complicate the situation. this rebellion had to be extinguished immediately and at
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any cost and that cost was high. on may second two thousand and fourteen soccer fans flocked to the center of odessa city for the ukrainian championship match surprisingly a great number of these fans who descended into odessa just the night before also turned out to be fighters from the my don self-defense units along with members of radical organizations from all parts of ukraine that these. law. these families and asked armed and shouting nationalist mottos began disturbances in the center of the city as they marched to the end time i don tent encampment where they attacked. the anti might on protesters sought shelter in the trade union house but it was a track down supporters started throwing molotov cocktails into the building until it was engulfed in flames. people burn to death inside for trying to
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escape jumped from. fire station was less than a mile away it took almost half an hour for firefighters to arrive when they finally did the damage had been done. but here's an intriguing fact just a few days before those dreadful events a messenger from my don on be made a visit to odessa it's an interesting coincidence that some of the people he met with in odessa were seen at the scene that fateful day. but not everyone was mourning on the popular political talk show schuster live the news about the people burned alive in odessa was welcomed with a long round of applause is for you sure what this it but lots of see just to just
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put it. on its facebook page the right sector announced the events of may second a proud moment in national history an official investigation into this sad event has been going on now for nearly two years and it's yet to reach a conclusion but it seems the experts and all the information they needed from the very beginning. to just get really cute. it looks like odessa really is a very important piece of real estate as it was on earth with a very special new governor appointed on may thirtieth of two thousand and fifteen . really an old friend of the united states and born and raised in ukraine's neighboring country georgia. there in georgia. look at his biography
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gives one an understanding that he's been groomed for a special mission. mr saakashvili received a u.s. state department scholarship and he worked for a new york law firm which represented the organization commodity a group that appeared earlier when we learned about the color revolutions and we're dealing with democratic blood blister aleutian this is the revolution of roses and this is me kyle saakashvili with camara busy overthrowing the legitimately elected president eduard shevardnadze. was. soon after the rose revolution blossom fully george announced its intentions to join nato and plant fresh nato military bases in the fertile soil right on russia's border never ever will give our freedom and independence never never will give any piece of our territory saakashvili is mission was accomplished at least with his
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friends and nato the georgian populace wasn't quite as happy though in two thousand and seven they took to the streets to voice discontent and mr saakashvili responded with force. the people's discontent. saakashvili party lost parliamentary elections and the opposition took control this means that the parliamentary majority and new government the president. decided not to wait for the results of the president's election and fled the country in october two thousand. politicians to. put themselves on the line. so when you want to be president. more something i want. to do i. for
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us this is what before three of them or can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters in the. first ship. that's far right parties obsess about the danger is them presents to the western lifestyle some islamic scholars are concerned about the opposite oh no it's been gone argues the dead muslims don't step up their game within the next twenty to forty is islam they vanish from europe all those fee is really justified. on. the list and. i said. to him about mission but then. look.
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into. the modern i don't want to know about. something. mr need. a phone. on of a shuffle stemming with. you know but a little warmth and you know what. this idol of the. in two thousand and fourteen saakashvili refused summons to appear in court as a witness in several criminal cases later that same year he was accused of misuse of power and embezzle. saakashvili wound up in the u.s.
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and soon his friends in washington found him a new assignment. mikail actively supported my down and very soon was rewarded with a high position in the new ukrainian government first as the president's counselor and then as the governor of odessa the day before taking this position he renounced his citizenship to georgia the country of these birth and became a ukrainian citizen. and the scene that asked others gordon would have done in the way exhort that it would in a. poor them to have done in the way exhort that arose in a. as they say the battle is worth the blood both literally and figuratively. now do i not somebody affordable by the us out. last thought on my. chest but i have. geoffrey pyatt the u.s. ambassador to ukraine paid a visit to saakashvili just
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a month after he took office in odessa it is law and the old last administration is delivering results and you raise your voice to see a steady flow of embassy in washington visitors coming here the meeting was fruitful and geoffrey generous. no matter how well saakashvili is job goes it looks like he shouldn't be worried about his own finances on his facebook page he posted an official document showing that the new governor of odessa gets a pretty penny from washington almost two hundred thousand dollars a year for comparison the governor of maine gets seventy thousand dollars a year. so if odessa became a new u.s. state it would be at the top of the list mr saakashvili should feel right at home in his newly adopted country he is best of friends with fellow color revolutionary leader viktor yuschenko who is the godfather of his son.
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and another mother school bus in the lesson of lucia but is insufficient at the post but you walk us kind of being it's just a d.c. at them the if someone is going to. even though there's a double chooses to show. it when used in the but the least of those three is if i did it with you but i just ended up with. this boy there business do a little bit of that of this all in motion a study of the body of the if you see in the in the special bottle bone is just horrible to contain such. a war once launched doesn't choose its victims we are just learning at this hour that malaysian airlines has now confirmed that it has lost contact with one of its planes plane was indeed shot down by a missile while flying at a high altitude over eastern ukraine near the russian border two hundred ninety
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eight revives number of souls on board all feared dead it was a murder it was a crime there's been this odd nonchalance about pursuing the answers there was a record a very limited report put out a few months after the event but since then they said the next report will be on the first anniversary of the event but you deal with a criminal investigation before becomes a cold case so there's been this curious element of why is there not greater pressure from both the media and the the western governors were appointed immediately that's not an accident that is happening because a russian support evidence indicates that the plaintiff wash. shot down by a surface to air missile that was launched from an area that is controlled by russian backed separatists inside of ukraine usually. to put up a national basis if. the malaysian boeing wasn't the first plane to play
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a significant part in american russian relationships on september first one nine hundred eighty three korean airlines flight seven from new york to seoul via anchorage was shot down by a soviet interceptor aircraft over the territory of the u.s.s.r. in the sea of japan there was absolutely no justification i don't legal or moral for what the soviets did the tragedy of the korean bowing was considered a perfect occasion to demonstrate the nato military power within dangerous proximity to the soviets on november second one thousand nine hundred eighty three nato launched able archer attend a command post exercise simulating a conflict escalation culminating in a nuclear attack it was followed by placing pershing two nuclear missiles in europe . what reagan didn't take into consideration was the paranoid overreaction of the soviets. a recently declassified us intelligence report shows
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that for the first time since the cuban missile crisis the world was that close to nuclear war. just like in one thousand nine hundred three the malaysian boeing crash was leveraged against the enemy. a new wave of sanctions hit russia mediately after the tragedy. the united states is imposing new sanctions and key sectors of the russian economy almost a year and three months later the dutch safety board published a report that is itself a platts m.h. seventy crashed because of three well for. the today just hours. actually airplane the best the left side of the cockpit the report didn't blame any specific group or person and estimated a very wide area of three hundred twenty kilometers as a zone from which the missiles fired at the same time the russian producer of boog missiles day conducted its own independent investigation. that they speeded me up
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the fullest upright only a little of the delegates i mean if you like yet the nist is up a school during the experiment they blew up a retired airliner with a bouquet missile and came to the conclusion that the malaysian plane was brought down by the older type of missiles not used by russia anymore but still in the possession of ukraine the company claims that the missile was launched from the territory controlled expect that these controversial results would again stir up public interest in the investigation but the tragedy of malaysian flight m h seventeen at already played its role in the big geo political game therefore it was soon forgotten the goal was achieved after the third wave of sanctions hit russia the tensions between the two countries skyrocketed so the question presents itself are we truly witnessing the beginning of cold war two point zero and if so what are chances to survive at this time.
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in one thousand nine hundred seven the bulletin of atomic scientists introduce the doomsday clock. it represents a countdown to global nuclear annihilation. in one nine hundred fifty three during the height of the cold war it came its closest to midnight as the superpowers were creating massive nuclear arsenal this story of america's. ever expanding atomic weapons program as the world began to grasp the insane danger of nuclear warfare and took measures to control the arms race the situation steadily improved. in one nine hundred ninety one the doomsday clock was at its furthest
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from midnight seventeen minutes. the time of hope was short lived though as the world has become more and more unstable. but in two thousand and fifteen the bulletin of atomic scientists moved the clock to just three minutes to midnight stay on check to climate change in a nuclear arms race resulting from modernization of huge ourselves those extraordinary and undeniable threats to the continued to massive programs to modernize their nuclear arsenals. undermining the existing nuclear weapons treaties . the clock ticks now at just three minutes to midnight because international leaders are failing to perform their most important duty ensuring and preserving the health and vitality of human civilization.
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god. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it crazy confrontation let it be an arms race is on off and spearing dramatic development only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical diam time to sit down and talk.
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