hello and welcome to crossfire for all things considered i'm peter lavelle on this edition of crossfire we answer questions sent to us by you the viewers we received quite a few questions here we do our best to answer some of them. cross talking fan mail i'm joined by my guest robert bridge he's in our website writer we also have dimitri bobbitt she is a political analyst and editor at interest me internet media project and in london we cross to marcus papadopoulos he's the editor of politics 1st magazine or a gentleman cross-talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate we got a lot of questions sent to us we're not going to be able to answer them all but i'll get the worst one out of the way and go to marcus 1st of this year ok we have

a question from adrian holeman question pretty obvious will donald trump be eventually removed from office go ahead when as we go into the new year the impeachment saga continues go ahead marcus. personally i find it very difficult to believe it or that donald trump will be removed from office i think that republicans are very unlikely so for his impeachment it's more likely if anything donald trump could resign well none the less i think the whole trunk will go into the twenty's when see as presidents i think he finds the nov 28th once the presidential election and i believe. a little late in the american. dream him down to impeach him will fail you know you get to ok i think that's a given here and it's going to be in peril as he interesting question more up your alley here is mccrone the french president realigning with your regime interesting

question well i don't think so i think we shouldn't be reading too much into he is statement about the brain death of need toll so don't take the french president seriously don't they. race seriously because it was obvious that decided to bully the liberal game you know everyone is allowed to insult trump so he decided to insult him too and he went a little too much. too far in his criticism because without anglo merkel poll america sadly issue mediately pull him back in all by he is sleeves of atheist color yeah and. basically their message share from america and from the e.u. was that. you know at that this man month on the deck the institution we need the institution so that we can basically wage a few more wars band if we analyze micro statements

a lot of them are basically pretty aggressive against russia i mean his suggestion to have a new european army united european army he 1st said about the russian danger and then the. then if you mention chair in line with what you think i thought you think this is more of a kind of and napoleonic urge on his part here i don't sound very vibrant but let's remember you were in history recent history there were 2 tyrants when you were a unified single army and porno and the heat let borstar a step by me at back to russia and they didn't like the anglo-saxon by the. sea so save this least it's going to another question here i want to ask robert here we have. does russia see itself turning communism by deepening its relations with china i ask you that question. very good reason is because there is this perception peddled by the mainstream media that nothing ever really changes in russia and of

course things have i mean you and i have lived here for a very long time and we have our russian friends as a sharper to help us and we are. right but just because russia has a growing relationship with china doesn't mean its ideological good i think that's kind of like the same as saying that the united states is turning communist because we're doing business with its well look at a presidential candidate ok. they are reinforcing that idea i mean actually get up and say in front of the congress we will never become a socialist country because there is that tendency from the progressive far left we're heading in that direction slowly but that's a different story i would like to just throw in there i don't think people in the united states when they talk about socialism have any idea what they're talking about this is this a label that has been thrown around you know it took you know it's been but it's been thrown around in american politics it's something taboo when we get down to it some of the things that proposals and people would agree with that so but that's

socialism so you know what you do is you give it a marketing color. so i really hate that conversation about communists i mean let's quickly move on to another quote. because i really appreciate both of you are sending in their men linda warren asking i think this is a very interesting question this is for marcus in london has the e.u. deserted christianity and traditional family values and if so why go ahead marcus. not officially but of course the year in britain america i mean dates most of the world's has now adopts it's a cool cap so this idea of ideology and corporate capitalism and in my own castes it isn't her so what's the soul as a nation and catalysts makes people dot it serious and it makes people put serialism over spiritualists on so it's not that the us doing anything different sort of better off or it isn't or indeed australia that is the nature of corporates

cap's it is and i think it's very sad i think it's very dangerous i think the fabric of society in the west coming in has been it was a corporate tax system and it is therefore refreshing to see that more 'd and more people are looking to sell its ideology it's you know stay with linda's quite only towards question here robert because i think it is really important in and i'll give my own humble opinion here which of course it's my program so i'm going to do it but there is a considered attack on family values and the family itself and i think this is something that's tearing the fabric of society apart in the west and i was i know the west the best and this is the foundation of western civilization in the modern times and there's a concerted attack on it and i don't see anything good coming from it because you know why because no one's happy everyone ends up being miserable as

a result robert yeah i think it has a lot to do with mo number one materialism and number 2 this influx of maybe some people would disagree with me but the influx of illegal migrants into europe. that i think has had an incredible effect on the families the family structure i mean they're kicking people out of their apartments so that illegal migrants can can live there they're they're cutting back on strip ins for families so that they can give more people more money to illegal these illegal migrants so i know that you know you have these christmas festivities that are happening in town and town squares and these have been going on for hundreds of years without any problem and now you have you know they have to set up anti-terrorist bunkers around these little christmas bazaars where people you know once celebrated for generations without any question. i think they're transnational companies multinationals are involved here because they need a new man just you know not to stalk about a new man. but don't they want to displace the current exact demographic to replace

it where you have more lie and quote unquote voters yes i'll get all the name of democracy i deal walk of for a multinational is a human transform someone without a family who you can send to africa to day to china to moral he or she feels absolutely the same way or if they want to have children it's a bad bad idea you know you're going to have children we can freeze yours sell some then give you a child without a husband when you all 40 so it's easier for us then to have it things happening unpredictably but this is against human nature and. you know this idea that every human should close to change itself you know. this is the reason why there is so much talk about transgenders i have nothing against homosexuals people have been very just they were born that way but this is their idea of

multi-nationals change yourself to yourself every day this way you will leave for 300 or 400 years transhumanism these are all dangerous ideas because in their hand one. getting humans to a gate and some kind of new specious and freak out if they are going to go back to the markets another question from one of our viewers come out commit go see them he ask is saudi arabia really changing or is it purely for a show with them a lot of programs on saudi arabia. primarily because of the anti western campaign against iran and the genocidal war being waged against yemen what about saudi arabia go ahead marcus. saudi arabia is an autocratic states and its official create wahhabism is not just weak it's not just deprived it is obscene therefore posts on those 2 realities it is impossible for saudi

arabia sort of course it's no different to saying for example christianity per se capitalism per se communism i say the not evil but evil deeds have been done in the name also capitalism christianity and communism but what does that or you need to do is read about the principles the tenets of wapas and you will see that this is an evil ideology and we have an equal ideology in place in our country entrenched in palate but it is simply a market for it markets you never hear that in the mainstream media saudi arabia is a valued ally in the middle east like israel they put them there on par ok i mean but what does that say about the consciousness of public be a political elites in the west. they don't know that politicians in britain and america and journalists in britain and america whether they are liberal or conservative have no moral compunction with

a lawyer themselves with any government with any going isolation with any group cruel thought it's cruel that country that group that organization so holds american i'm british geo strategic objectives and saudi arabia yes these are very important friends there not a lot so america and britain but it's the most potent country in the roads ok if i can interject here before we go to the break but it's russia's fault and china's fault that assad is still in heaven pollard enemy and damascus you know inject just one thought. without western support on without the need from the west was 'd in yemen and in syria would not have begun it was not saudi arabia that started that it was the west that kind of pushed salad day and other states into doing this ok we're going to jump in here we're going to go to a short break and after that short break we'll continue our program on cross talk

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and about that moment when you yes. in the news i mean that so that in such a ball. a lot of people see sawing as if 2 kids each other most called. by. god they were days doing. people who simply knew. what to do. welcome back to crossfire where all things are considered i'm peter lavelle reminder we're discussing some questions we received from our viewers.

ok the next question from one of our viewers the donovan mccormick in this is right up your alley demon something you talk about almost every single program and actually marcus papadopoulos talks about it a lot here so a little lengthy but i'm going to go through it what do you think the future of nato looks like with its apparent mission pivot and all of that it's agreements between the united states and other members pretty special of the turks do you believe the turks will make good on their threat to remove u.s. military airbase home of u.s. war. another nato army take the base going well the problem with the ultra liberal ideology is that it makes people quarrel you know it's just amazing how the it gives russians or discord in the united states between blacks and wives between you know all of us and i know we're all to whatever has if and see if their liberal media did not do it itself you miles a dame all the time so the same story with need to a we see a real inability to resolve conflicts because we see an ability to compromise.

unfortunately there was there is totally inability of for compromise also in the turkish case just a few years ago in 2012 nato was saying we need to protect turkey from syrian aggression i'm quoting the new york times. which was absurd because syria was suffering from a civil war itself. from the outside yeah but also at turkish fighter jet was downed by syrian defense because that fighter jet breached the syrian airspace and it was viewed as a cause big league you know the people in france in london were talking about the need to protect you know this year i just couldn't believe my ears say couldn't believe my eyes turkey is a take in syria it's the terrorist of all elyse so suddenly that narrative

turned completely the different direction of course in this situation you have called for it's and of course you have conflicts between turkey and european allies to weaken the united states and our unless they change their ideology there will be collapse of nato if you have as you have nato in its in its. reasons to exist which is to exist that's its mission it has to exist but you have heard. he really turning to it in kind of a neo ottoman ism here but markets i mean you're living in a market sell an income of less than 10 seconds compatible here because we just recently had the nato summit and of course western media they just you know smooth all the edges and all the crevices everything's a big happy family and it's going to protect the west from all these evil outside forces which of course don't really exist and then you have this turkish behavior erda one doing every i mean basically spitting in everybody's i but no everything's

all nice and fine with the 'd north atlantic treaty organization i mean media again is shameful in its coverage of this go ahead marcus. peter there's a lot of naive that say your marks comments made sense in the west and also in russia regard in turkey no turkish later do anything so we can turkey's strategic relationship with the west with america with britain and with nato it would be national suicide for turkey to do anything that could cause it so late the west's all bit turkey is in cyprus illegally because of the blank check you see some america turkey is in syria illegally because the blank check you see from america turkey goes in syria iraq illegally because of the blank check it's the same now we have and now we have and now we have a libya coming up. yes what's what will it again says in public is very

difference what he says inquiry in public he has to come across as this strong leader he's telling the turkish people no one will tell me what to do in private circles he same fans very different to the americans if erdogan wants to make good on his pledge that turkey is independent and would do as it pleases then leave nato tell the americans to pack up their military bases and tell the americans to look we've joined then you can or warrants but of course he's not going to do that the turkish state is unbelievably circumvent the other way you're sleeping with where you're saying our case is that the the the western alliance needs turkey more than turkey needs the western alliance is that what you're saying that's the kind of leverage they have. so that's 3530 is power that it exerts today eastern mediterranean and in the middle east that is based on its relationship with the

west but also the west against massively through its influence in circles for its strategic relationship with its own to spy on russia on the black sea it's a cement its hold over the middle east in the eastern mediterranean so so key is firmly entrenched in the west so well. and there's there are so entrenched they can be extremely mysterious and that's exactly what we're seeing from and on let's go on there have another question here jonathan as the u.s. china deal would suggest a compromise is possible but there is a cost is that it's a question is there a cost the chinese sovereignty robert because what you see now is that you know what we've seen i think 2019 in many ways was a year of sanctions sanctions in friends and foes here we had in the middle of the 2019 a tentative trade deal and the chinese backed away from it because it was imprinting

upon their sovereignty did we see you see this new phase one that they're all talking about being able to take the heat out of this trade so-called trade war and the trump benefit from this go ahead. there's so much to benefit from good relations with with china and with china remaining sovereign and i don't see i don't see china ever agreeing to give up any sort of any sort of its own sovereignty in order to have a deal with the united states have to keep in mind too that the chinese economy just unbelievably powerful they're like. they have 400000000 people in the middle class ok 2nd 2nd amount of wealthy people super rich people oligarchy billionaires i'm sorry billionaires in the world so this is the part of the world that trump just there is no way they could sacrifice their aid. you know if you're in the u.s. more of. a bad for well boys ation then donate the state laws why is that ok

because it is a command seem to be simply because. they are not straight jacketed by this new battle ideology and because chinese a powerful nation you know with a huge potential i think in the long dull it's that but the point is that the pressure from trump was so shameless it pulled even a bomb because well look at the pressure on china they did not start with trump you know when a bomber suggested transpacific partnership t p p without rushing china in which was intentional it was intentional and it was of course they've changed but the cheney's knowing that they are so able to compete they're almost bending back what's known to insult the united states not to step on their interest so it was definitely not china who started the trade war it was the west it worked is that you reflect upon that because i think that's going to be one of the very big story of course we have in speech and we have the us presidential

election coming up but so much else is happening in the world and in so little media time is given to it but it china will continue to be demonized if the us doesn't perceive it as a victory i mean this is the problem that i see is that the u.s. has a very hard time compromising and we're in a never believes that have to compromise with a power that is perceived as weaker but china is a different case it's very very different and depending on who you want to ask it's either we have parity in economic strength in g.d.p. or it's more or less the same and china will continue to accelerate but maybe at a slower pace but this story is not going to go away and i just have to wonder given the the track record of quite a good compromise or deploy diplomacy here the u.s. is going to be running into a very big brick wall because as robert pointed out i don't see them compromising their sovereignty go ahead marcus. china who never compromise it's often said it

through its tailings with america for its failings with russia in due to its statements with any country in the world but the chinese leadership are a cheat me aware that its economic progress in the last 40 years and since then check in which is mean nothing short of a miracle has been based overwhelmingly when it's trade and investment relationship with america so the chinese leadership really needs to start suit diversifying its economy in terms of who it's trading with in the world it needs to it needs to move away from its overwhelming dependence on america and there in lies china's economic killie's here and the americans know that it's the americans of course if there was a major disruption in the economic relationship between washington and beijing of course washington of course america would suffer immensely but peeta china would

suffer far more because of it because its relationship is sensor overwhelmingly on its trade and investment relationship with america so that is where the problem lies to china not chinese solvency but it's economic progress and it's economic progress in well future of us yeah but i would i would mark as i think a big issue with that when we have this belton road initiative which is incumbency in the majority of the countries of the world right now i think that the it is stressing the chinese american relationship is over done because i think the chinese see so many more opportunities and people that want to come to the table they do want the investment of china and infrastructure i mean if you the greatest juxtaposition of course of the u.s. sends troops all over the world the chinese said build bridges and ports and factories that is that is a competitive big band. edge and in the long term and the chinese know it and i

think the americans are are very slow to wake up wake up to the markets i'll give you the last 30 seconds of seconds on the program go ahead. well i just you know an ensuite 2020 states there will be continuation of the russian progress in the local chinese through the rest in the world and i do hope that countries such as keep up and send us later and syria. independent sovereign countries and anyone in the well we sincerely scheme it's a global peace and global stability should rejoice for countries such as russia and china because nobody know china in the world that america truly it's the global last and that will mean more wars i don't more abject pain and suffering katie marcus ends this program in a very pessimistic melamed a very realistic one here many thanks to my guests here in moscow and in london and thanks to our viewers for watching us here r.t.c. you next time remember profit from us.

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an issue of tower and violence male sexual predators for the large part of target whoever is there to prey upon whether that's men or women. moscow rings in the new year and a new decade bright lights and cheering crowds in the streets of russia's capital welcome 2020. and as our review of the key events that shaped 29000 continues we shed some light on the impeachment saga. also the united states announces that it will send $750.00 more troops to the middle east a response from tack on the u.s. embassy in baghdad the events follow american air strikes in iraq and syria that killed 25 people at the weekend.