world politics or across stockings in effect, that means you can jump it in time, you want and i would appreciate it. okay, let's start with media. let's start off with you. or you have a fascinating article in anti war dot com and in common dreams. and it's, it's very sustained, honestly, our support everyone reading a memo to congress, diplomacy for ukraine is spelled m i n s k, which of course minsk, raggedly. again, in a nutshell, what is your argument for in this article? and why did you write it in? why did you send it to congress? go ahead of very concerned that congress is moving ahead with these bills that introduce these draconian sanctions that would hurt ordinary russian people and in all of europe and perhaps the global economy and rushing $500000000.00 more in quote lethal aid to ukraine, which will only make the conflict worse, and instead, what they should be doing is listening to the american people that show in poll

after poll, that we're not interested in going to war with russia. and that there is an obvious solution right in front of their faces. and that is called the mince agreement, min 2, which was signed in 2015, which lays out the basis for a solution. and what we need is that the international community, particularly the united states, come back in full force and say, that is what needs to be implemented. i think that the u. s. encouraging the president zalinski in the ukraine to pull back from ukraine's commitment under the mens cro protocol has been one of the big problems and that if indeed now of the u. s. people are saying to our own government, stop this conflict from escalating, then we have to go back to that and put the pressure on ukraine and the pressure on russia, of course, as well. to agree to this framework, that is

a solution to the current crisis, as well as the need to pull back on the expansion of nato. and then give us in russia chance to look at these larger issues that have to be dealt with about european security. exactly. so well, put in a market. the reason why i wanted to start out with me is article because this is an intro ukraine conflict and that is something western audiences are not told. ok . and to, to put an end to that. com, like they hell mens one in to which you and i and others have talked about it as a starting point. this is not something the average consumer of news understands in the u. k. and in the u. s. so many is houses that the american people, and i would say the europeans also are not interested in more. so who is marcus? why are we here? oh, let me set the st. peter. i said that nato is a criminal, an expansionist military block,

which exists today in the world to preserve and enhance american global hedge money . and this is achieved by nature fruit in part targets in an attempt into we can russia with the knowledge back to russia is truly the only country in the world that can limit american aggression in the 4 corners of the world. when nato is leadership, in particular, the inept yen. so book says that nato has no intent intention of a mix in ukraine into each rhymes that is a lie. because at the nato summit in 2008 in bucharest, the nato, that collaboration semen from that summit, explicitly stated that whilst ukraine will not be given a membership action plan. nonetheless, one day ukraine will become

a nato member. and despite what washington says, despite his pronouncements about support in the midst agreements, the reality of calls is that ukraine is of absolute importance to america and for need. so why not for defense, say, for reasons not because of the democracy of freedom or human rights, it is because of ukraine's immense. g. o. strategic importance. it has the missing puzzle for washington, because a ukraine in nato would say, russia totally isolated on its western buddha. by nato member states, that is why america carried out the crew in ukraine in february of 2 and full change. that is why the americans are increasing the flow of weaponry to the ukrainian on forces. that is why the americans are refurbishing the ukrainian puts

about dasha and watch a cough. so accommodates american worships. and that is why we see great enormous tension today between america and russia. because as i said, you crane in night. so would pose a tremendous threat to russian national security. and russia has a number of options which is at its disposal in regards to ukraine, one of the york, but under no circumstances, can russia not take any action? well, they have foreign ministry in russia, only made it clear that the membership or ukraine will not happen because it will be very, very serious consequences. it girl, let me go to url in washington. over the last few days we've had a real flurry of diplomatic. you know, that kind of a shuttle like a dimension where you've had the president of france mc chrome. he's gone to moscow,

but now today, as we speak, he is in ukraine. and then we had the german chancellor go to washington, which i thought was kind of a humiliating public appearance on his art. and he's standing right next to the president of the united states. and. and joe biden is acting like the north stream to pipeline is his and that he will do when he will, does what he'll do, whatever he wants with it. and you have the german chancellor sitting right next to him. not really doing much about it. i thought there was a humiliating display here, and i to remind our viewers north stream to pipeline is a german russian project. and only that it's not even an e u project. ok. it's a bilateral project here. so again, i asked the question, who wants a conflict here because joe biden is inept, is here. it shows himself to be. those are fighting words are all that's, that's, that's a declaration. earl. go ahead. yeah, theater. the young one interesting thing i didn't see is that

mister shoulds did not specifically mention nordstrom to it in his responses, if they all were united together by even one press, he did not mentioned germany in x in north spring to was it's not just a german russia project, but it was actually requested and i the germans. yeah. and so it's interesting that we've got mr. biting kind of dictating what the status can to and where it's going to go. and then we also have a bill here. everyone probably knows the protecting european energy security act, which kind of the u. s. is concerned about energy security and in russia or in europe. absolutely not. it's, it's to is to make europe more dependent on the u. s. is to also keep them down economically. further, i sleep contain russia. ah,

but russia just sar energy will just turn to china who will take most of what they have very little loss any the sanctions that are being applied and this are all what will hurt your actually it's actually in a waves or a mechanism. europe as well. so not just an energy war, but a means to obtain europe to prevent them from furthering economic cooperation. both with russia, both energy and non energy, as well with china. i think there's some place in that side to, to, to stop china. so it's to maintain us her genet, aclu monday. i mean, when, you know, we've all discussed over the years, levine, the war is in the middle east, the wars of choice in the middle east. this is another conflict of choice because the, the russians have made it abundantly clear with what would be acceptable to them for pan european security. and nato simply pretends it doesn't understand. it does

understand ok. and it's not willing to take the, the indivisibility of security. i understand that, ok, and i think that's something that all should work towards here. and they say they're foreign, but they, they have a military alliance that is specifically openly publicly directed against russia. thus russia is not allowed in security concerns. it is completely absurd and hypocritical medea well as marco said, i think nato is a militaristic, aggressive alliance. that should have been disbanded at the time that the worse off pack was disbanded and it is looking for. it's ross on mantra. i. it certainly was a bad rap on destro when it went into the war in afghanistan and the world saw how that turned out and the same in the case of libya and it has been threatening china . it is quite ironic. the north american treaty is organization would think

that a country that's in the pacific in china would be somehow a threat to its security. but this is part of, of finding and justifying the massive military expenses that we see here in the united states. but that has been pushed on all of the countries of europe as well. it was a little more overt, during terms time when he was saying, you know, these european countries, they got to hold their weight. but that's been going on for years now where the u. s has been pushing the nato countries to spend more on their militaries. it's funny that that's one of the goals. ringback of the alliance, and i think that this confrontation now and they don't serve them perfectly. and we'll see that this does increase the amount of money spent on the military. it is a great boon for the weapons makers. and i think the

nato is, feels that this is a win situation for them. if it doesn't, if award doesn't rank out, they have still made their point that they are somehow needed in this day and age. you know what marcus mean? we have 45 2nd people go to one of the breaks. i think this can be the demise of naperville. this is a bridge to borrow because they end up again a brick against the brick wall. that brick walls say we will push back and have no doubts about that marcus. before we go to the break in date, and let me quickly say something page or something which you will never hear from the can ramesses' in british and american mainstream major made. so demonstrated it's criminality. when it bombed yugoslavia, it didn't just contravene international law may so violated article one of its own founding treaty, which states that nature will never use force to resolve disputes boxes, why i say nature is a monstrously criminal organization. all right here i'm going to jump in here.

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welcome back to across that were all things are considered. i'm peter lavelle. this is the home addition to remind you, we're discussing some real news. ah okay, which are girls for me. the on december 17th, the, the russian sent out to treaties 2 papers, one to nato in one to the united states. and we haven't seen the official replies, but of course it was weeks, most likely intentionally through spanish media. and the way i read the, the nato reply was just completely boiler plate. i mean, just talking nonsense. if they, as they usually do, we're only a defensive a life. i've never heard of a defensive alliance that needs to come, is compelled to expand and look for trouble. i'm never heard of a defensive alliance do that. and of course, it is not a defensive alliance. irrespective what you hear. the american one was a little more nuanced, basically saying, yeah, you got a point about, you know,

indivisible, for the of, of security and about certain missile system. to me, we all remember the whole uproar in the 1900 eighty's about intermediate nuclear missiles. ok. i mean, i think people have this amnesia, these are dangerous things should not be employed anywhere in the world, but just in a very non so hot way and washington were consider everything is always on the table here. again, it's lisa demarcus in the 1st part of the program. this is russia you're dealing with not dealing with nick or was nicole elder or is and bob boy. okay. i mean, i think people in washington have lost the sense of gravity of what they're doing. earl, i think they're yeah, the response, the to nato was to be expected. i think, i think you're seeing it and you know, they had to be coordinated to play the us. you are responsible for the court or court and it basically didn't address anything,

any the key aspects. but whoever was electro which stoughton bergs presentations for the most part are. and if anything it further in taking this is the situation they, i don't know. i think they're living in a delusional world. they don't know if they really grasp their thinking back to the 90 still that they can say and move russia around. however they won and, and it's not like that. they need to look at the serious situation at the same time . i think there's, there's some fragmentation going on within nato. yes. as well. so which we've already seen some are some of the countries and the bilateral require relations going on. i would agree with marcus marcus is me, i don't know where nato anna corpus at one time, but right now i don't see that purpose. i think they're looking for a new mission there in a sense of organization as those henry kissinger. i think that said the back from

the bombing in yugoslavia that basically the well, i guess we can think of nato as a defense of organization. so and so it's been very aggressive then there actually been more of a tool for us or policy and no to regression than european. i think europeans have very little structure. right. but definitely in a, in a bad pastor and, and i, i just, i am astounded how the senior diplomats in charge of the organization and not waking up as a really driving us. it would be very dangerous scam. and you know, many of them, if you, if you look at them and the current policy of the administration, is it? and i, in the, you k, which is this kind of like his side kick joke. you know, mom bo joe flies around, you know, during party gate and all this is really embarrassing for the u. k. um, but you know, there's no downside for them if there's a conflict. well, it's over there. okay. i mean our energy security isn't,

isn't endangered. ok. our job example i'm supply chains aren't disturbed. i mean, the me, the more you look at it, the more you look at it closely any, any form of sanctions will seriously damage the european economy. and since 2008 the financial crisis, and particularly since 2014, after the illegal overthrow of the democratic government and ukraine, russia made itself virtually bulletproof. and you won't hear that in mainstream media. they're not afraid of sanctions, but the europeans should be go ahead media. well, i think there are some sanctions, like cutting russia off from the swift system that would very much damage their rational economy. but certainly the european economy. and what all this does is bring russia and china closer together, just like sanctions of the u. s. is imposing all over the world. has allowed countries to look towards china as their only savior. so i think there is

a downside to the united states and that is elections coming up in the u. s. and is this really what the american people want to be focusing on? know they care about the domestic situation. they want the biden administration to do something about inflation. there is, we're still dealing with a pandemic. this might be a distraction, but i don't think this is what the american people want. and so that's why i'm so worried that even the progressives in congress are not speaking out because it's a democrat in the white house where this happening under trump. we'd see a whole different dynamic within congress. and that's why it's so important for the american people to make their voices heard. we called for demonstrations last saturday, and in 48 hours, we had 75 cities throughout the united states holding demonstrations. and now they're calling congress. they're calling the white house. i think it's important

that the american people get involved in say, no way. this is not what we want. this is not where we want our tax dollars going because this $500000000.00 that's now being expedited by nancy pelosi to go to more weapons in ukraine. i think there's a lot of other things that the american people would prefer to spend our tax dollars on. yeah. like fixing a few bridges, you know, because there's a to be fixed. i know the joe biden went to pennsylvania for infrastructure in the day. he was there a major bridge class. ok i'm, i don't think i got enough media coverage. i'm in my opinion of marcus ok. let's go ahead and talk about ned price in his antics with matt lee and he's saying, you know, there's a, we have an intelligence that there's a false flag video being made in matlab said, well, can you give us any evidence where the evidence is, what i just told you that we, we believe, i mean, talk about how to,

how it's gotten to this point here. where if we, if you don't believe a spokesperson of the u. s. government, you're essentially a toady proposed and that's when it's gotten down to tucker carlson. josh holly, i'm a numerous other people and i suppose all of us as well. marcus caliber of american politicians has been rapidly deteriorating many years now and alongside. that is american democracy. because whilst i'm not going to argue that america is genuinely committed to democracy abroad, i do believe that there was a time in america when there was a good level of democracy like in britain, there was once a time in britain when they what really was freedom of speech, but alas, that is now a distant memory. one cannot raise a legitimate issue, a legitimate issue,

which is corroborated with concrete evidence without being denigrated, without being accused of being a russian propagandist without being accused of being uprooted stooge. but what does that tell us? well, peter, it quite simply demonstrates that we have ruffled bare feathers, so to speak, because they would not result so as to such despicable, disgusting, personal attacks on the beach journalists or academics unless they fell, that their narrative was being threatened. but then narrative was being exposed, it is quite simple, if they have nothing to fear than western politicians and western mainstream journalists would not result. so the disgraceful attacks that they are employing against people who question merely question. so it really does demonstrate

that america alongside britain or anything but the guardian of democracy and free speech in the world. it is merely a facade. and what i am infused about peter, is that more and more people in both america and in britain are seen beyond the facade, america and britain do not stand for democracy in about. they do not stand for the role of law or freedom. what they stand for is preserve in western global dominance and enhancing it at whatever the cost. and in this case, they are trying to strengthen their position in the world at the cost of russia at the cost of the russian people. well, history tells us that the russian people have gone, switch strode in every lens to preserve the motherland, to preserve the russian people's welfare. and russia will never back off from this dangerous confrontation that the americans in the british orchestrated on the

russian buddha in earl, one of the things that i find very um, difficult to, to stomach because i listen to the secretary of state and lincoln. i need a translator to understand what he's talking about because he's never talking about foreign policy or security issues. and it's always about values. i have no idea what values he's talking about. forest regime changes around the world is that of value. i'm not recognizing the electoral outcomes of other countries before they even both sometimes is out of value. and speaking of ukraine in february, 2014, there was an illegal overthrow of a democratic government and ukrainian. and now they and they, they have the audacity to talk about protecting democracy. democracy in ukraine is challenged to say the least for a former president is a being charged with treason. the most important opposition figure is under house

arrest facing treason charges as well. western media never picks up on it. go hetero. where peter it sir. i would say the entire senior level one policy with and you asked me to be replaced. they're just, it's embarrass absolutely and birth and regarding our democracy ukraine. i think the issues that occurred in 2014 with u. s. support. i'm that to basically, i view if it through back democracy a fledgling dom, i can throw it back at least 20 or 30 years. maybe dismantled the completely, they've lost their control. ukraine is just right now, it's just whatever the us as the me job, i was responsible. one is vice president for it with the help of the new one and they're back got the same chain now that was back in 2014 is here again. and they

did, they didn't complete their mission and they didn't get crimea. that was a key point. and i think that very upset at that. it could care less about ukraine, but ukrainians. but the people that the care less about true democracy establishing their because they destroyed that. and it's basically a, it's all about meeting us the objectives and also it doesn't matter, but you're, you're is also just that other tool careless but dirty. but, you know, end up on this area. so what is happening is that in europe will be isolated from the world. and eventually the united states will to their, on the wrong side of history, the law, the wrong direction here. unfortunately, folks, we have run out of time on a think, my guess, and watched in new york and in london when i think our viewers for watching us here are see next time. remember the the

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