i, we do not consider the right to self determination actually applies to the general . since i don't the question of self determination, the legal advice we have received is actually the chickens. we're not at all, not a people. for me, it's time to move on and see what we can do for the child. the said community to return back home, there is no support from the nomination. i commission, i forget united michigan, don't care about checklist and people ah, i hello and welcome to crossed out. were all things are considered. i'm peter lavelle piece and ukraine seems essentially impossible. and there is

a reason for this. nato wants russia to be completely defeated. russia and turned demands new pan. european security structures protecting its interest. as long as nato exist, there'll be no peace or security for anyone. i cross stuck in ukraine. i'm joined by my guess, pepe escobar in paris. he's an independent geopolitical analyst and author specializing in eurasia and brussels. we have look rebate. he is an independent journalist and in kingston we cross who gerald 70. he is founder and director of trends research institute and publisher of the weekly trends journal magazine or a gentleman cross hoc rolls. in fact, that means you can jump in any time you want. and i always appreciate pepe. let me go to you 1st here. there's a huge, a, some, a symmetrical process in play here. the europeans, the west collective wants to see russia completely defeated. russia wants security guarantees, i have a solution to it. and it's

a simple one. why don't work towards peace. and that's something that the west will never do. pepe, of course not. and they keep saying that every day, why school defining stolt, embarrassed by american generals, via and tony will terrace the story, portuguese, the head of the you. when i read she in london every day, we have a call to our sound bite from one of these, of course, not to mention the 28000 or 28000000 function errors in russell's thing is that kind of the same thing. planned a continuous on schedule plan a is forever war. land a is afghanistan on steroids, at least another 20 years. there's no plan be so far. russia they can play it. ok. we can finish this thing in 20 minutes, which they can't or ok. all right, let's keep going. little by little. we inflicting

a very refined form of chinese torture on natal as a whole and on the west leadership as well. and let's say one day you're going to cry, uncle, well, i agree with the general. let me go to you in kingston here. this a symmetrical approach here because this explains how russia has proceeded in ukraine because it wants security guarantees. it's not going to take land that it can't determine its destiny. ok, they're not going to go in and leave. russia is not going to do this in 5 years in another 10 years. this is why this is a defining event in this century. here, there has to be security guarantees for all are there will be security guarantees for none. go ahead. you know, this is the american way. as pep, i was saying once upon a time there was a president the united states by the name of dwight d eisenhower. fivestar general supreme commander of the allied forces and to charm

president is say a well, a jess, january 17th, 1961. he was the american people that the military industrial complex is robbing the nation of the jesus sciences, the sway labors and the future, the children, and that sort of america's become. i just turned 76 years. all world war 2 is in ancient history. look at all the was america's been in since then. it like the korean. oh no. i like the vietnam war. a have out the 1st iraq when i like the 2nd iraq war, a lot better. you know, the afghan war was terrific. it only lasted 20 years. oh, what about what's going on in somalia? how about the nobel peace prize winner brock o'bonham? i want that guy gadhafi out of it. i want that guy assad added in living in, in, in syria, gadhafi and livia. the united states just passed

a defense budget of $858000000000.00. so a $105000000000.00 of our money now is going to ukraine. 63 percent of americans living paycheck to paycheck. it's the american way and it's not stopping this is my magazine from spring 2014, that happy face on their washington is driving the world to fight the final war. world. gemini is not a right america has earned article written by dr. paul craig roberts, former assistant treasury secretary of the ronald reagan and he talks about russia, conclude wash included, that russia needed to be confronted with or distracted by problems that would leave

the russian government less confident or able to counter washington's aggression elsewhere. ukraine presented to perfect opportunity for washington. okay, geral insurance, gerald on that. on that note, i agree with you. okay, let me, let me go to look here. get everybody in the mix here. luke, i mean it because the nato will not discuss russia. security guarantees as we to why we're in this mess in the 1st place, okay? and as long as they continue to do that, russia will do well, unilaterally make its own decisions. if it doesn't happen to interlocutor, then it will make its decisions on its own and what it will not care what the west says whatsoever. because the west really can't do anything about it. and that's what we've learned. luke and brussels go ahead. while the responsibility of nature is over, well, of course in the conflict since day one and done because we follow america and we should, europe should dissociate from america on this america, it once war, russia, we don't, we should we europeans. oh,

so the victims half is concrete on. so we need to the final piece strategy and we should look, for example, in turkey. we should look at hungary, countries, whether leaders are responsible. people say, yes, we must have something on the medical front on the social front and things, but not send arms and be part of that conflict with your salt and beg and mental, we should not do that. well, i, you mentioned a lower octane thinker, salt and berg. let me go back to peppy here. well, that's exactly what he is. okay. now, has had one journalist ever asked him a hard question. ever, never, it's never happened. okay. and that's, that's by design peppy notes. the other bird says it a bit free for russia. is it a feel for the west? yeah, yeah. that's what i think i agree with him on. okay. but of course, no, no, it's not part of the conflict. okay. i mean, it's absurd. what this man says here, but i agree with him and i was actually, it will be the end of nato. the way that the, if they continue the down the path,

they are pepe. go ahead. well, of course, with nobody knows what the general or the russian general staff, displaying mid term and long term nobody acquired from a putting part through share in may be just in more than showing did they have a menu which is so juicy in terms of inflicting geopolitical and g way, konami pain, different levels of the dial own europe, and on the u. s. which is, you know, you have to laugh about it and they built, dismantled, ah, they tried to win it, remember what they were try one year ago. diplomacy. you remember the visibility of security, right? those letters sent to the pentagon and to russell's you all remember that non response response. you all remember what happened next, which was the preparation sort of blitzkrieg against don boss. so we know

everything that happened up to the beginning of the s m o. and we also know how russia is, has been to weaken the approach stores the s m o, which is now for all practical purposes, the electrification campaign on top of dina's, if occasion and demilitarization it's working. and on top of it, they get absolute chaos and panic. all across the u. this is something that you see from outside the u. i just came back from brazil, which is in a very sorry state after the boss on our project. and even from brazil, looking at your bill says birds is not that bad. but if i pay you bring up a good point, if i go to gerald on this $1.00 here, i mean it again after 10 months of the same thing. they say, continue to double down on it without any kind of what they claim that ukraine is winning, which is absurd. i mean, this propaganda in the west is absurd. its ukraine is not winning pepe is absolutely right. i would even posit that ukraine will turn into

a failed state before there is a military decision on the battlefield. gerald, what are your thoughts on that? well, we said had, from the beginning that that ukraine is not going to defeat russia. i have a famous chart of napoleon as march to moscow. ready in 1812, we are in lee's holland with 420000 troops to attack moscow and comes back with 10000. and then it was a thing called a world war. 2 operation barbosa with a germans killed some 25000000 russians and who was the 1st to defeat the germans, the russians. and you mentioned about propaganda and that's all it is. and that's all it ever reads. and all the media does is keep selling it. i just found this a couple of days ago. it's from 1960. this is the headline. so he had threatens rocket set spy basins. so now we really hate those soviet right

. you read the article member, this is may 10th 1960 premier. nikita khrushchev warned monday that soviet rockets will shoot down any spite plays. the adventure was surveyed soil and his government will take appropriate measures. american plays of flying. all right, so the of territory and they put a headline in like this. so if soviet plays were flying over american territory, it would just be fine. everybody would love it. it's the one is shane, period, paragraphs. it's been going on and it's not only destroying the world destroyed this country as well. and it is kinda going on. i mean, i'm again is non stop. i'm again, look in here before we go to the break it up, but, but look, what is the veneer of this propaganda up program failing? i mean, now we have protests all through europe here. i mean, what in the world you're the european union is willing to die on the hill called

ukraine. that's insane. 40 seconds before we go to the rake. jake isn't saying i would agree with you when you say that you crime could become a face state. it is a face, they ok, the map and show since the end of their you can peachy, right, and some up and show the ukraine politics. so now we see salons, q was corrupted since 2012 with properties in london with accounts in the kind of b and then m, i think star are obviously you know what you see in all the places corruption ready while he had to be elected to fight. gotcha. so it is a real problem to see that the propaganda in the west is really solid for all the media that we have here in western europe. it is the voice of here, and that's why and that's why we're pariahs. ok, but not as you know, rumble were on rumble when a few other platform and we'll get our word out. the hell with you. to my opinion.

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an indian doctor that came in and looked and said, there's no medical reason wires. you should be a luck. you to find something to believe. john story is a story of ho story, victory and whatever i can do to help him i with you. ah, ah ah, welcome back to cross top where all things are considered. i'm peter about to remind you we're discussing ukraine. ah.

okay, go back to pepe in paris. yeah, you are a prolific writer and i really appreciate it. my wife, i don't think i ever really miss a com a couple days ago. you wrote something very long article. very good. but this one sentence really stuck out to me. i'm gonna read it everybody here. a quick win for russia would be a loss because nato would still exist. no, russia has to pace this, so it sucks nato into the grinder, your spot on, right, peppy. why don't you explain what you mean there? ok with without using our collective crystal. busy balls, maybe this is scenario number one, the for the russian general staff because they see that seen only 10 months is being working miracles. so why not? 20232024. and now they have in direct confirmation from all sources that the us wants to prolong this thing, at least until 2025. don't forget the death contract that raphael fast with the

american government to supply them with state of the art anti missile defense. and dest, when they're going to deliver that, november 2025. so we have 4 short pepe. i mean, that big, that big 2 things. i mean, will ukraine still exist? that's up in the air? probably not. probably not, but i'm agreeing with you and let and let me go to gerald because i think it's really important here because the western media likes to frame this as a russia ukraine conflict. it's not that it's russia, the, it's a west, the western world, nato world against russia and the russia is accepted. the challenge, and what i think is, is, is in the cards right here. alright. they want to use ukraine is a cudgel against russia. well, russia will use ukraine to destroy nato, and i think that is in the cards. that's one of the reasons why the russians are taking their time to watch nato exhausted, so,

and watched the european union humiliate itself into bankruptcy. go ahead, gerald. yes. in no, in the sense that america is going to keep the war going. a pet, they mention raytheon. where you did. i mean, who is the defense contractor of the united states? i the excuse me, the defense secretary was young. what was his last job sitting on the board of directors, raytheon. so they're going to keep this war going as much as they can. again, it's the military industrial complex, and i want to make this 100 percent clear. america is at war with russia. yes. it's not a proxy war, and these are the words from loyal austin, the defense secretary, who said he told nbc report that the um, the reason for you as troops in ukraine was they need quote,

experts in the country to help ukraine use critical weapons systems. so america is in ukraine, with u. s. troops showing them how to use critical weapons. they are using the critical weapons. if this is not stopped, world war 3 has already begun. and it's going to annihilate the world, a nuclear war. what people don't understand is that you have mentally ill people that are in control, that have a great soul of the demonic, satanic spirit. because they, there is not one word you were talking about protests in europe. zip not and nothing in america. peace is not allowed to be spoken, sir, and we just heard the national security advisor. this jake sullivan said. there's

no time right now to talk for peace. because because victory is not within their grasp, luke, just the opposite. a victory is staring them in the face. okay. and, and these missile systems, the patriot systems, you know, everybody, let's be honest, here the u. s. military has been fighting sheepherders around the world in this century. ok. it's never even even close come to appear power and this is exactly what we're seeing right now. we're seeing all these expensive weapons that don't work there. it's a complete griffith. ok. and look, i don't care how many american advisors go to ukraine. they should be b, a be aware, because the russians have i in the skies. they can see exactly where they are. luc well, as you say, and the young reek are all made to feel like all the europeans. well, really we don't have a mission to deliver anymore. i mean,

frost the french are i mission for over you, or if there were while? so how can we deliver it? 80 counts to, to the ukraine army or, and login list. i'm sorry. listen from what i understand. at the beginning of the conflict, there were $200.00 german tanks and only 10 of them worked. yes. oh yes. fast to mrs. font lane was on the head of the european commission. you know, she was minister of defense for 8 years and the buddhist fair, the german army is in texas because of her. so that's a good use of how you know, the germans speak about it. smile. so i would doubt that i look, look, i, i can guarantee you, they spend more money at nato to phase than they do on german tax. ok. i can guarantee you that. ok, peppy. you know, the, the thing, the, what you and i been thinking about i actually in unison over the last few months,

i mean, not having direct contact all the time, but we're very much moving in the same direction here. and, and, you know, it's very interesting, rushes is facing the entire onslaught of the west and the world is watching and the world is amazed that russia is taken on the collective west. and it's certainly not losing. i would even say it is winning. if you look at the it, what winning means and the long term thoughts peppy, absolutely. 87808889 percent of the global south as a whole. and some factors in the global north as well. they have not condemned russia, they have not sanctioned russia. and most of them understand russia's motives and the best merits of course, goals to absolutely faultless russia. diplomacy, you know, run by essentially by love it all, but all the deputy pri, foreign ministers, absolutely brilliant as well. and of course, the higher nodes which bricks which so is going to be bricks plus showing guy

corporation organization, the strategic partnership between the rest and the chinese, and these interlocking partnerships between russia, china, india, any run the what i termed a few weeks ago the quad that really matters. these are the quad or course origin that really matters. so each terms of soft power globally, russia has got it because they manage to explain their position. this a, the thing is they could, they cannot, in fact finish this war in 20 minutes. because this will be written mix of american shocking. all. yeah. and that's not what russia, once russia, once the global size, the global south on their side. so we have to be little by little, this form of chinese starch, torture, which is strategic ambiguity in the words of the russian general staff and the global south bought it. they are all bored because they understand that russia now

is that the one word of this fight again? well, and if we and peppy and peppy, you know, the global south, they remember the european colonial experience that the russians weren't there, but the europeans were ok. gerald, this war is not going to end in diplomacy, not going to end the negotiations because from the russian perspective, there is no one to trust in the west. anglo miracles admission recently. petro poto shank oh, the former ukrainian president. they lied their liars. so there's going to be no to go, shaded into this. it will be a unilaterally decided by russia because there's no one to trust in the west. geral . yes, so what you said about merkle and then for a shank of that, they admitted that the minsk agreement was a total fraud just to get ukraine built up stronger so they could fight against the russians. here i'm a trend forecaster, we have a system called global nomics, which walking right now about, you know, war. so we look at many different fields and one of them, of course,

is to look at is what's going on with a global economy. so of course, with the sanctions they put on russia, you know, of energy prices are going up. there's a lot of hardship in, in europe. that's why you see the demonstrations. one of my sayings is when all else fails, they take you to war. we are facing age geopolitical, socio economic crisis, the likes of which we've never seen before. that had been brought about by all the cheap buddy they pumped into the system. yet when they for the cove, it was. so let's go back to a thing called a great depression and what followed it were award to what followed the dot com bust. oh, you mean the war on terror? went on telling what i'm saying is that when the economy crashes, they get the people's mind off it with war. and they are going to do the same thing . now. american people, when i was a kid, dad is hiding under

a desk because the russians were going to drop an atom bomb. i remember doing the same same. and i remember i remember. so what i'm saying is you're going a russian nestle just landed in poland and killed school. people done to that odd day. oh hi steve night. how do you see how quick it happens? how they believe that of 2 people were killed. 377000 over there in yemen. now we don't care that yemen what. but anyway, what i'm saying, she every one is that when all else fails, they take you to war. the global economy is failing and they will get to people's minds. austin, missouri with war. okay, let me. we have one minute left. look in your crystal ball here. i won't hold it to you, but we're coming to the end of this year by the end of next year. how many governments do you think in the european union will fall? i won't hold her to it. batting possibly several. on the

andrew i saw you fully got it so so the majority got crumble and the opinions within the european union change at all. we have issues that the european parliament with corruption, bike, todd and things. and we see that these people at the european parliament have great ideas about ethics and morality their whole. so it's going to get worse and bureau and a few depression in future, certainly. but america is sending it, making a lot of money with the european stupidity, saving us, ellen g, destroying the european economy and making that the euro will never be kind of you preserve any more. it all gets down to will end on this. it all gets down to being ideologically obsessed and greedy. ok. and then not,

and hubert said that absolutely taking no responsibility for their actions. that's where we end this year gentlemen as all the time. i want to thank my guests in paris, brussels and in kingston. and thanks to our viewers for watching us here are the see you next time. remember, ross? ah ah ah, needs to come to the russian state. little. never. i've side as i'm turning those on skiing vest. mm hm. and i'm not getting that set up for a group in 55 with

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