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guests of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then . a little in welcome to cross talk we're all things are considered i'm peter lavelle the host soviet frozen conflict no one is not going to look out about is no very hot we tell you what you need to know and it's america in 2020 acting out similar events that witnessed the bolshevik revolution in 1970.

to discuss this and more i'm joined by my guest george said he is an author and a you tuber a gaggle and here in moscow we have dmitri bobbitt she is a political analyst and editor it interest me internet media project originally crossed up rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i was appreciated ok let's go to the georgian budapest the conflict the call about a buck has flared up again those that have. been watching the post soviet space gotten used to this year now after over 7 days of the conflict create knighting again georget some kind of stalemate put it into context why is this conflict important to follow. where you have to go back to the earliest days of the bolshevik revolution and to the decisions of joseph stalin who was the bolsheviks point man on nationality he was the nationality. in among the bolsheviks

and he decided that the region. should be a part of there by john b. you know within the within the territory by john. and it's ethnic make the exactly it's ethnically armenian the armenians were going on about this is the need is there that this would be a part of i mean but he decided to be a part of us there by john in large part because the bolsheviks was seeking to appeal to the muslims of asia and also the muslims of the of the what became the u.s.s.r. and in particular to turkey. that's right and the nascent bolshevik regime was making great efforts to. keep turkey happy. so that back when it was set up now of course it didn't really matter so much within the u.s.s.r. because everybody just did as they were told by the leadership in my. but when he

when the soviet union broke up in that completely chaotic. way then of course these national issues. it was one thing to be for the armenians of the border guard about the buyout of us led by john which was within the soviet union and it's quite another thing to be part of us that by john which is now an independent state i mean really going on since since the breakup of the soviet union one of the things that makes it different than what we saw from the original complex coming out of the end of the soviet union was in the late eighty's early ninety's i want to be unimpressed this you in this case both countries are relatively well armed now. even though azerbaijan has significantly more well because of oil and russia is supplies the arms to both

countries more or less here but the difference in this case this time around is it's becoming much more internationalized turkey is playing a major role here and a lot of people are very critical of turkey's role here israel is involved others want to pull in iran this is the internationalization of it if it were internationalize it would be a repeat we've seen a number of times this is what makes it different this time. well you're absolutely right i think. a lot of qantas just behaving irresponsibly to this company. i would just suggest you compare the statements of president and the statements of the graben and got just open to say yes i code we will support everything in azerbaijan thinks it makes sense to do it for its security i mean what kind of my gosh you aim to do it if he does that yeah so that is certainly.

sponsible on the side of turkey baster why did it become possible turkey has not behaved so responsibly in during the last conflict and in 1940 basically with the big 3 or one media well i think the reason is basically what happened in the last i would say 1015 years just let me remind you when turkey syria in 2000 you haven't 1012 all been everyone reported the western press reports of the turkey supported you know the terrorist groups that entered syria from the north it was not a secret nato was on the side of turkey let me remind you of that when syria downed turkish fighter planes always its territory in the beginning all the war quite legally because the turkish fighter plane was on the syrian the syrian air space

nato even had a crisis meeting they were deciding what to do in order to support to make it. ironically just a few years later in 2000 i guess 19 when turkey moved against their american allies in the north of syria against the kurds that any future of nato was completely different they started talking about ever gone trespassing the borders over sovereign state or syria which they didn't care about just a few years ago right so it was a complete change of attitude. unfortunately after gun kind of you know what did you love it so if you do think that the west not object to you're free to act as you walk as you want basically in this situation he decided that it was just about time to to give support to and then by july that early coverage is yours and i'll jump back to sid. then one of the things that we discussed all 3 of us to discuss

previously is that why disturb you do it is because it can do it here and that's it that's a very dangerous form almost the ok because you're not thinking about the consequences of it george there are there are media reports that oh well it's through a turkish channels that you have fighters from syria and libya and the in the caliber of that these are militants this one description or another they're being transported into this conflict into the box that is a very dangerous step here and considering what demon just said about the reaction to turkey we have to french president speaking very very clearly that this is a very dangerous development according to reports george yes the reports certainly credible and i don't know what extent they've been going on but they are widely. accessible reports and it's certainly consistent with everything else that no one

has done i mean a great remember initially there were these jihadi terrorists who were transferred from libya to syria you need to talk them out of the overthrow of gaddafi and then recently transferred. these from syria to libya so that we would be publicly plausible. now be transpiring jihadi fighters from syria thereby get. it as you say why is there no one doing this yet because he can he figures that if he creates enough trouble than he is heavy defeats on the armenians then you know russia and the rest of the mince group will have to accept realities on the ground. you know the armenians will have to give up some territory within hours or by johnson to the charity of my going to be reduced and then aired on will. hale this is

a great victory yet another france's foreign policy but also that we signal the defeat for russian foreign minister. that they really don't think is you know i mean people talk about america while in this neo ottoman is a 1000000 things like that i mean there's a literature on it and maybe it's a pipe dream too but one thing is undeniable in all of this this is a major irritant for russia because russia trades with these country i mean even to the point with the kind of military hardware with planes very example both governments need permission from russia to use them in military absent here i mean this is a real annoyance for the kremlin here and maybe that's the whole point go ahead. well i would say that both sides of course have arguments in their favor and i don't buy junk some arguments too because well i just you know let's be clear the cannot about a bishop legally under international law is part of us or by juggling absolutely and when the war ended in 1904 as i said it was armenians victory and most of their

refuse genie is from the government car park where ethnic azerbaijan yes not only is and i want to cover a bar armenian control but also several jason. districts or over again by jump rope on armenian control so i think what we should all pray for is that baku just wants to get back to these areas which are not populated almost by a new one right now that would be i think the best outcome because it would be you know the formula security in return for terrorists in action but unfortunately there is a high risk it's not going to happen because both sides are raising the stakes you know the latest reports are that armenian missiles some army and a huge area have targeted ganja which is the 2nd largest city in azerbaijan. that

just kind of raises the stakes dramatically in this situation so both sides have arguments in their favor and the russian interests at this very simple just stop fighting trying to resolve with by peaceful means because if there are if you're just of course a lot of them will go to russia. and and then the more i think. a few due to this conflict because if we go back to history you know both sides will find those arguments in their favor. but you aren't absolutely right that it's an era for russia i think it's not just an irritant it's a very bad situation for all the international community and the west is also in a precarious situation here because initially in the late eighty's the russians liberals. and the west basically supported an armenian side but

i was there by john joint who are you know this anti russian coalition or for soviet states the exit use in the west suddenly changed and there was more and more sympathy for i stand by john so basically i think. there is only one solution is just to stop fighting and restart the formula experience in return for security because you know what destructor weapons it's very interesting is that in the in the late eighty's and early ninety's. around could have played a very important mediating role but that they were shut out by the west again and again a regional player a very important and powerful one was shut out of a process that could have. had a peace process internationalize instead of having someone like everyone trying to flare up the conflict. will quit will end on this point george i think we'll know it's all over when everyone is summoned to sochi. for a good. but i think that at some point russia would have to intervene in

a more decisive fashion russian novel to be marginalized in this process so if one is able to hail this as a great victory. for russia as the great power in the region russia mediated the the end of the previous conflicts it chemical will to weaken in a decade that there were going to go to a short break and after a short break we'll continue our discussion on some real news state with our team.

because i want to look at what why yes why do you know. how lucky. we hope to be but there are also friends that the us are still slow but they're still feel hoping to do something to see. the charge. they have about the physical act the cell phone and i will say with some of them that you know we'll look at that. welcome back to crossed up where all things are considered i'm curious about trauma . we were discussing some real news.

ok let's go to d.m. let's switch gears a little bit here i came across an absolutely fascinating article in the american conservative by a writer helen andrews and her her article is a 2020 is tumbling towards 9 $117.00 subtitle we think we're safe from revolution we're wrong it's already in the works what do you think about the comparison of what's happening in the us politically in this very formal she was year and reflection about what happened historically in 1970 and in the russian empire that would soon come to an end. well it's rare that you read sides being seen in the american media because it's and then for the american ultra liberal to compare more than the united states to the soviet union you know the the poor comparisons

to will spot in years more but in fact for me you know due to my historical knowledge of russia and due to their summations that i made up to go wife right now the perilous up all of us you know that not just because they're striking you know i think that the reason for that perilous is that they're out there now we have basically to look at than it did in his most here which have a lot of things in common you know tromp is on a board to do so and this stood to put it in his mind you know the 3rd off the nazis and corman which is now basically rooted in do think that states you know instead of him and elected president this is that i do all your ultra liberalism that is really in the united states and trumka not trivialize it so he just traces it back to you know the soviet ball should be examined and the marxism well there are parallels. but these are different and you're just paradox in ready because you

know the technology is seen you find a certain group of individuals a social group you declare them to have been oppressed historically no you claim to have the right to represent the is formally oppressed minority and to act on their behalf indicator to bring russia into right even though they're going to read between the lines there so there's also makes them look like life matter going to historical in the whole is absolute and it's not just had an endurance that drew attention to this but also peter suffered in europe in the tablet which is an american magazine on religious affairs here published fascinating article called. walk america is a russian novel published it in july and let me just quote that you know he talks about you have given your bizarre effect character or turn again of snow

will return in the mid 19th century but not a few bolshevik so to speak a nihilist you know this is when the war nihilist became popular in russia and later on in the whole world so let me just called peter sullivan one wonders even buzz out of is there different from today's protest and state you populace the twinkies some thinks sowing discord in our news rooms the castle culture it's the global hawk the social part who police our social media feeds well this is exactly true because you know the problem with bolshevism is that it's less of an ideology it's less the communists it says it's acknowledge of coming to power. you shut down all your corner you declare everyone who disagrees an enemy you to go. everyone who disagrees and reactionary

and story just walked in the wall street journal for example where you have that opinion beach fighting in the news room you know that being in beijing all today would be gross they're like the constitutional democrats who toppled the czar in february $1017.00 be called to create a new rebuttal russia and me if you will and then you throw out the bolsheviks you know what was actually us there already sidelining all the american people in the ways in the same way bolshevik sidelined constitutional democrats in russia and you know the reason why this can happen on george the reason why this is going up because there's a crisis of legitimacy ok that's this that is the ultimate parallel it's the bolsheviks in 1917 or of france in $1789.00 i mean it's always about the lack of legitimacy and you have people within the power structures that are fueling on this illegitimacy ok they are actually destroying the system then sell it's

a this is not a bottom up thing that's a top down thing again jurors know there's rights mentioned to gain of fathers and sons i would cite in other great russian novel which is perhaps even more apt which is does the us is the process because it was condense that the nihilist or you know some of them and some of them were. extreme socialist were really are the product of the liberals of the earlier generation the liberals of the earlier generation that encourage this nihilism this destructiveness and they had lost the radical movement but what was really a stunning about that novel is the complete collapse of the order of the old all of the just collapse like a house of cards and so you know just as you wrote this almost 40 years before 917 and before the postal exactly what happened the entire. russian governmental

structure what it has been there for hundreds of years collapsed like a house of cards and that's really what's and that's what there was a kind of a rock from within and that's what you see in the united states because you wish trumps real problem it's within the intelligence military security establishment they are openly defying the elected president they're openly speaking of them does it with disdain as if he had no legitimacy they they criticize he is his moves when he went to that church and play at square you know has the military chiefs criticizing and trump really didn't have the strength you don't have doesn't have the political strength to fire all these people and which and therefore sure you know this election turned out to be the chaos and that it looks like it's going to be then we should expect some sort of an insurrection within the government and trump made might be able to do very much about it you know in the in the know the people on the political left in the united states are indeed are are just. absurdly

historical in their thinking they think it can't happen to us we can control this we know how to manage it know that that they're missing history here they're good they're not they're not students of history once you start stuff like this it's almost impossible to control it and they end up being the victims of it a bench a leap ok this is not this they're playing with fire here just because they hate the man in the oval office here the implications of which are are are enormous you can't control this kind of thing go ahead. you are absolutely right and the problem is that you know what you should be exposed to want and russia and them the you with bolshevism you know their foreign policy in the united states it's vice versa you know they're all to liberals 1st you must. give one a speech and of political leaders outside the united states they used to. in serbia

they used it against ukraine they used it against russia and now they using it against their own president so that they can or would you of come into power over the new bolsheviks of liberals as they hold them it's very simple the persona you fight evil you know they they don't talk about historical process they don't talk about according to history just there is an evil man you know running this country and life will be beautiful you know ok they removed and what do we have that we have a civil war it's a much more complicated society than just you know one evil man controlling everything and i agree completely with george you know in the process by just ask you please know that. i'm a negative character that evolutionary. he's father is an all star ribeiro you know and he's portrayed satirically in the beginning of the novel so basically he does that yes he predicted that the future bolsheviks will come from westernized

liberals they will stem from them you know he also george you know if you look what you know we all know the techniques that the bolsheviks used to come to power and they understood how collar work i give them not the rest of the ideology i know but they understood that but if you were if you're a student of history and you're a student of the bolsheviks it makes me think of stephen cohen who just recently passed away he wrote the seminal book i think on the bolsheviks and that was one who caught it and what happened to him he was a victim of a huge purge committed in 1937 and the same kind of courage will come to these people ok because they let this this very toxic i call that ideological possession they're possessed people this is this is beyond reason you know it will come for them eventually history proves it over and over again go ahead george because we're rapidly yes i think that's exactly right and. that's

what happens when you start playing this very dangerous game people who should know better. think that oh well you know this will get us the power once we are in power then we can just call this a cold war these mad dogs and we'll be nice and safe no it doesn't really work that way you know as the old bolsheviks found yeah i think got rid of all of the enemies the cool actually. are is bureaucracy it's either you know the entire sotiris establishment they would be safe no it came up to them and it was the old bolsheviks who were swept aside so yeah that's exactly what what will happen here and what is it already this very very narrow goal of seizing power they you know they they seize power that is they believe that it is their legitimate their right or this power overthrow and there would be there and

it never works that way you know again the one of the interesting thing for me i mean when we talk a lot about ideology or nights and you're the best you know it particularly in the in the west in general but particularly in the united states there's a huge economic turndown this is adding on to this because you have these elements that use this ideology for political reasons but the inadvertently or are slaney the economic and financial discontent of people so you're going to get this this mixture of this and this is going to be a very interesting a brew hear it because people are going to countries poorer i mean nobody wants to admit it in media your country is poor and now we're not like a lot like matter we have this intentional need the legitimizing. tradition law rule of law and that's why i wanted to talk about this article last 15 seconds going to you got him yeah well i'm going to commute and i about iconoclasm here you know. we will be dismissed by liberal media for comparing this

name to states now to russia 1700 more for you guys to get angry just off me a wash you know all by the liberals the polish historian and writer your old why bolsheviks was also important in wait for just the feel the void you know what o.b.l. am and others are doing and doing a speech they're creating the boy they say a destroyer legion thing you're lucky with there's a whole lot more to talk about on another episode of cross i want to make my guess it must go in but it doesn't want to make our viewers watching us here aren't you see you next time remember. the us economy was booming doing numbers of people made homeless. you can work 40

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