western governments and they're playing media then you know very little about the conflict in ukraine. the fact is, ukraine is losing. on this edition of cross talk, we discuss how this conflict is likely to end ah, edging closer to world war 3. that's the warning from some german politicians after berlin reportedly agrees with them. it's advance, thanks to ukraine. after months of pressure from nato allies also does our class with police through the controversial new president says she's agree to resign as soon as snap elections can be helped. with china, the you as better minded, some financial problems, instead of accusing beijing of being responsible for the economic crisis and african countries like sam

b and the palestinians urge the west to help stop the israeli demolition. the key bill it in the occupied by bank has locals been anger over the destruction of their homes. and will you, do we exist on the slam before they israel? we call them them, came unoccupied, a message to the railway occupation. we will not leave these place. this is all property, and we will remain here with you live from the russian capital. this is our t international. i'm rachel blevins. here with the top stories of the our welcome to the program. germany has reportedly caved in and approved sending its main battle tanks to ukraine after months of resisting pressure from nato allies and t at this decision which has not yet been officially announced, has already been condemned by some german politicians. the left party co chairman

in parliament says the move would bring us closer to world war 3. the delivery of lee upon battle, tang switch, leaped another taboo potential. it takes us closer to world war 3 than towards peace in europe. the decision to continue making germany a war pots he doesn't have the support of the majority of the population lay apart . tanks are the prelude to a possible sly towards a catastrophe. at least 14 german lumber tanks will reportedly be provided to ukraine and several other western countries say they're ready to send even more. berlin is also expected to allow poland to hand over some of this. german made leopards to key at berlin had previously stopped short of providing such heavy weapons to ukraine over fears of being seen as a part each of the conflict and provoking russia. some of the critics in berlin say the government is more worried about pleasing its nato allies, while ignoring what the move could spell for germans,

who still remember the tragedy of the 2nd world war. this is from 9 am to the santa anderson. this is an interesting approach that you are taking here, saw german tanks against russia and ukraine. your grandfather's already tried that by the way, almost back then with melnick and ben dera. and what was the result? unspeakable, suffering millions of deaths on both sides. and in the end, russian tanks here in berlin. 2 of them are even here standing outside. you should walk past them every morning and remember that so rich us, we're constantly press and the government's in billing to make them share the allow pods. i would urge my german cali to do that if you can meet a, a need that the ukrainians have. then you know, we obviously want to see you do that. labor in human rights lawyer dan cove. alec says it's clear that berlin didn't want to send his tanks to ukraine, but was forced to do so by the us and its allies. it's disheartening from

a number of perspectives. first of all, it's just going to add fuel to the fire. it's just gonna lead to the deaths more ukrainians and more russians and most likely won't change the outcome of the war. but also it has to be seen as a sad day procurement. a who said it was not going to send tanks and clearly the u . s. pressure germany to do so. even the head of nato communicated to the u. s. to germany would not be sending the tags unless the u. s. would send their own tags. but again, germany's been strong armed and pressured and doing this has to be seen as a green flag to countries that want to intervene more into this war. so it's a bad sign. it's assigned the west is going to continue to double down on the military support of ukraine. again, which will do nothing but increase the suffering of the cranium. people. it seems

to me that all this is going against the interest of german. they've pretty much shot themselves in the foot by foregoing russian natural gas, which of course, an hello american beg your beg for the nord stream to, to be bill. you know, so no, this is to the advantage of germany. it seems to me that germany is doing all this out of pressure from the united states. the u. s. itself is reportedly also finalizing plans to send its abrams main battle tanks. do you crane that decision is expected to be an hour later this week? american officials have so far decline to share any details. russia as a master to the us says the move would show the world who is really the aggressor in ukraine. an analysis of the whole sequence of washington's actions demonstrates that the americans are constantly raising the bar of military assistance to their puppets. if the us decides to supply tanks, then justifying citrus that with arguments about defensive weapons will definitely

not work. this would be another blatant provocation against russia. no one should have any illusions about who is the real aggressor in the current conflict. can the current president, please even more western weapon for calling his country a big business opportunity for arm suppliers? we've got the details of how ukraine is increasingly turning into a testing ground for nato firepower, and the details of who's making the big bat on our website, our t dot com as the west sends more weapons to ukraine to be used against russia. some european critics say the tragic lessons of history are being forgotten. the grandson of france's world war 2 era hero charles de gaulle at spoken up against the arm slow, which is landed him and hot water on the homefront. russia was seen by my grandfather as an indispensable rear ally because it was part of his concept of

balance in europe. a pro russian who owns it. that's how one of frances taught newspapers, lafitte who has just described a piano girl. while asking, quote, was gotten into this advisor and strategy and corporate finance holder of a master's degree in swiss residence to venture out at the age of $59.00 in the controversy where there are only blows to take. if the name sounds familiar, it should be able to go to the grandson of world war 2 era french general turned french president shouted the good who is routinely ranked at the very top of the list of favorite french historical figures alongside napoleon when i passed or shangdorf joan of arc or scientists re pester, and murphy cutie de go led the french resistance against the nazis during world war 2. he then kicked the americans off a french military bases. when they figured they might just want to stick around afterwards, he pulled france out of nato to secure the country's military autonomy. and here's

what's the girl said about russia at the time for france and russia being united means being strong and being separated means sending up in jeopardy. truly, it is a categorical imperative of geography experience and common sense. diggle aimed trade deals with the soviet union, whose support against nazi germany. he considered critical during the 2nd world war . he also saw moscow as critical in preventing france from becoming a vast the state of washington. and now his grandson p. f. the girl has stepped forward to express his regret that france is marching in lock step with washington and nato. the same very entities from which his grandfather tried to protect frances independence, adding that he quote, felt it was my duty to restore the truth as the heir of the general. so the general's grandson is being slammed by critics, by the likes of lucy, yahoo!

as being pro russian when his position really just is pro france and looking out for french interests 1st and foremost, current french president emanuel my call has repeatedly claimed admiration for president de good bye has exemplified us, gets a frantic mindset of wanting to be a partner of russia, well nonetheless, falling in line with washington's agenda, for example, advocating for a negotiated piece in the ukraine conflict before then calling for an outright ukrainian when or late saying that russia's interests matter until western critics pylon come after him for the remark. and then he just backs down to go placed equal value in relationships with both the us and russia, with the french people being the top priority at all costs and at all times. now it's hard to imagine to go telling french citizens as max home did amid the you praying conflict that the time of abundance, when it comes to energy,

is over. all because washington decided that it was time to pick a fight with russia. that hard, france, europe's energy interests in, well, france just decided to go along with it. speaking of which it was thanks to the girl that france became energy independent in the 1st place, through the construction of nuclear power plants, the same no how. who sail mac hole green lit to pentagon contractor general electric when he was francis economy minister, p. m. the gone is simply serving up a reminder of what the mainstream french position visa, the moscow used to be back when france was becoming great. again, the fact that the position of one of the most beloved figures in french history is now considered controversial, and even a tackle just goes to show that the country really did take a wrong turn somewhere to south america. now, where per is president?

dina bullard tech has announced that she is prepared to step down, but only as soon as the date of a snap election is determined by congress. you'll meet a i will leave when the congress members vote and call general elections. the only thing i want my fellow citizens is that we work together in this desire to have a developed united and a strong country in new values. her testers, one of the streets of lima, on tuesday, to the man the president's resignation. police weighed in with a heavy handed response. the clashes lasted for several hours with police firing tear gas and rubber bullets at protesters. people were heard chanting dina, assassin flaming the president for dozens of deaths and st. riots which flared up after a previous president. pedro castillo was deposed and replaced by a valar date last month. china has criticized washington and its relations with africa after the us treasury

secretary accused beijing of failing to help zambia solve as debt problems. even if the u. s. one day sold its debt problem, it is not qualified to make groundless accusations against or press for all the countries out of selfish interest, because it cannot at all alleviate us. tremendous responsibility for the reason of the world debt issues saw the african journalist cattail mas only breaks down the latest diplomatic spat between the us and china. the tensions between washington and beijing is based on the increasing geopolitical tensions between the current nations. i mean, washington is seeing beijing as a country that is making very big inroads within the african continent and is focused on that military power and the economic influence that it has on the continent. they also worried that the influence that china now has on africa will

soon surpassed that of the u. s. i mean the u. s. has gone on to accuse china of making inroads with regards to unfair trade and also taking out natural resources unfairly on the african continent. but of course, china has come out to say that all the a cooperation as well as the trade agreements between themselves and the african continent have been above board and rather for the benefit of the african people. now we do know that in the last week the us treasury secretary jenna t. ellen has been on the african continent, her state again on saturday in senegal. and this comes weeks after china had already come on to the continent to solidify some of the relations that it has made inroads with the continent of a number of decades. who also know that the russian foreign minister is also on the continent and solidifying. we know that he wasn't fuzzy land in south africa and now in angola and as typical of the western jaelyn came out to say that the

chinese have contributed towards the debt that has been accumulated. in zambia. we do know that zambia has had very close ties with china with regards to some of the influence and the economic growth in that country. now it's quite typical of the us as we do know that they are trying to weaken the relations that the chinese have with the african continent. but a little too late. since we do know that the americans have spent more time, not solidifying. they stance in terms of growing africa, but all the in creating wars and instability among many african countries, while china was making those inroads in terms of policy making, it has made many investments, most of which have been loans to the zambian nation. however, we've seen 2 upgrades for of a ports. we've seen dams, we've seen telecommunications roads, many of the countries infrastructure has been developed over the years in ensuring that zambia is not equal to many of its african counterparts with regards to being

able to be more economically active. but the kind of infrastructure that has been placed on that and the country, the inroads made by china in the zambian region has really benefited that region in terms of economic growth. and can only seem to benefit them even more. meanwhile, russia's foreign minister has moved on to get another nation during his latest tour of africa survey. la ra is in angola where he has been sitting down for talks with his counterpart on tuesday lab, rob was an as martini where a visa, free travel agreement for diplomat was signed. it was the 1st visit by a russian foreign minister to the king then says the establishment of diplomatic relations back in 1999. on monday lab, rob spoke with his counterpart in neighboring south africa where they agree ticket mine efforts to boost the african countries. atomic energy and other infrastructure

ah, how assigned them master did he you says european officials have condemned israel's atrocities against palestinians. abdur rahim all far made the stay men. after high level talks in brussels, the envoy also says the e u has opposed is reli efforts to seize funds from palestinian authorities. according to reports, europe is preparing an aide deal with a $325000000.00 grant to palestinians. meanwhile, palestine foreign ministry has called on the western pressure israel to stop the demolition of a village in the occupied west bank. the fleet comes after residents came out to protest against the destruction by israel, the crisis and the village which links the west banks north and south is part of it is reli plan to destroy so called a legal building. locals have voice their fury over the move and

what are people came today to tell nuts in the yahoo then give ear and all the extremist right wing officials that this land is palestinian. we did not allow the destruction of our hon. allah march. this government led by the and yahoo had been given. we'll go to the dustbins of history, and the palestinian flag will continue to fly on the slow. and i told you that we existed on this land before this railway government came unoccupied. it a message to the israeli occupation. we will not leave this place. this is all property and we will remain here. and i'm not, we're afraid that al con alack mar may be demolished because have been veer's actions. his electoral campaign was to demolish al con alack, mar, and he is now forced to do so that the palestinian national initiative party told us that the real goal of the current israeli government is to expel palestinians from their land. if i'm kind of like maddox, you have a necessity of subject it to the process of that being the other linens and

the government to you. if that happens, this will lead different loan because it will be for the festival as an act of beginning annexation of the ban of the section of the potential for an independent. this is also another act that will give any potential to sticks. so in my opinion, these are very danger the facts and this would be stopped immediately and they can be only with in your business. starts on the ground as well as a serious and national pressure on israel, threatening it with boy cut divestment sanctions. if it does not start the processes of ethnic cleansing and then, but more than that, this is really government include people who describe even in israel as fashion. they are very in their goal is really to destroy, i mean,

potential for being. and they continue to declare that the whole of palestine is exclusive for jewish people. practically what, what can be called as jewish supremacy of apartheid and racism, boasting, and he'll go there which will not be fulfilled, i hope is to expel from the land. and the question, he does not want to come to life day and i did this and you why do you doesn't stand it? why didn't 55 years of military completion of the band as well as 75 years of ethnic cleansing. not as soon good faction was used against, allowing it to be above the little above, international law. impunity to responsibility in front of international law. this has led to that creation of the most recent government and i feel distributions.

and that is one of the results of this international behavior that continues to use double standard when it comes to posting in now, as the ukraine called, like escalate a 30 year old publication by george soros has resurfaced casting further down on the western narrative, the nato in its allies have no stake in the conflict. the millionaires speaks discusses how crises could be manipulated by the u. s. for its own goals through using european soldiers as cannon fodder instead of americans. the united states would not be called upon to act as the policemen of the worlds when it acts. it would act in conjunction with others. instantly. the combination of manpower from eastern europe with the technical capabilities of nato would greatly enhance the military potential of the partnership. because it would reduce the risk of body bags for nato countries, which is the main constraint on their willingness to act. this is

a viable alternative to the looming world disorder or the nato countries continue to insist they are not a party to the conflict, but this document from 1993, published by george soros is open. society institute gives a different impression. this document from 993 lays out how the united states and its allies might be interested in using countries across eastern europe as proxy device, russia. and they could incur the losses that might make the conflict on popular if nato countries themselves were directly involved. and it was their own soldiers who were doing the dying. not a coo and 2014, in which the united states over through the ukraine government and installed a fanatically anti russian group to power in kiev seems to match what this document put forward. what we generally here in western media is that ukraine is simply under attack, turning for help from the democratic west. but jeffrey stack,

the columbia university. he recently came forward and said, that's not the case. the united states is overthrown dozens of governments. it definitely contributed to the overthrow of yanna, ko bitch. and i know this from the inside, not just from the outside. so i just want to be clear. i will bid, i know from top people involved in these issues is what i'm discussing right now. now the soros document not only matches the situation where kiev is having you as weapons mild into it and being supplied with weapons by the united states. it also matches that the government of poland is very war mongering and hostile to russia. and furthermore, if you look at the situation, there are some estimates that the ukrainian casualty rate we may have seen over a 100000 dan. they are being carried out and people are dying to serve nato goal.

yeah. has recently admitted this is what's been said, shouldn't you, could i, isla z mind through today we are carrying out nato's mission without the loss of their blood with but with the loss of ours. but i think that's why they need to supply us with weapons. cathy and furthermore, we've had us officials admit that this is indeed the purpose of the conflict in ukraine. it's about serving nato's goals, the united states, age ukraine, and her people so that we can fight russia over there. and we don't have to fight russia here. ultimately, i think this is a sound investment for us national security because not only are we defending a country from authoritarian aggression, not only are we taking one of our biggest geopolitical competitors down several notches in the process and we're doing it without us boots on the ground in harm's way. now it appears that deanna covert government and ukraine wasn't the only

government that the united states had. its eyes on were stirring up some kind of regime change and perhaps using it against russia. any place that you're looking at in terms of a potential regime change that could be stabilized region or, or the world, obviously a good one would be russia, but i don't think they're on the precipice there. i think things have to get worse economically and there have to be many more body bags and frankly, military losses before there's a change in the government. in, in moscow, we have a very casual statement from western leader that they seek to utilize the lives of people across eastern europe. let them go out and die to serve their own political agenda. and it shows that it's all narrative where ukraine, you simply being targeted, the democratic country just begging for help. it doesn't fit at all. this is part of geo political maneuvers. we spoke with international lawyer and human rights

attorney or not delay, who recently visited don bass. he says ukraine is being used by the west as a tool against russia, with civilians caught in the crossfire actually visited this refugee tree center. and a lot of the people that were coming from solid are, and the 1st thing that struck me was that they really look shocked. i mean, they had gone well literally of their life was taken away from them in away their routine. their houses were destroyed and lost everything. default line right now is what i understand really a qualitative evolution. and there's, i would say a collapse of the, of the front. and so the civilians are stuck in between. and i, i guess the cab regime is trying to lash out out of frustration on the civilians to the weston, already galks deep state. you know, they're using ukraine as

a device as a mechanism as a tool, as it were. and knowing full well that that's going to be blog and it's going to be a broader the nation. it gets bother the nation essentially, but they don't care. those are this just variables for them and all they use a cynicism measure mean of implementing their policy, facts, osbourne and off. whether it's a me or my colleagues and all the people who came before or not the area format. it's an accumulation of facts which shaw consistence systematic. but we're dealing with a problem dealing bearing on cognitive dissonance, gender, supplies to western states are constant. the u. s. federal reserve bank has been caught red handed, trying to twist the facts,

as it clearly manipulated numbers in his report, focusing on global military spending. now, at 1st glance here, the data seems to show that china spent more than $900000000000.00 on its military in 2021, which would far exceed the u. s. total of about 770000000000. but upon closer inspection, washington's defense budget is actually reflected on the right ac, while the military spending of china and other nations is shown on the left, which is a scale of much smaller numbers. now, here is what the chart should actually look like for a proper and fair comparison. we can clearly see that washington spent the most on its military and 2021, totaling some $770000000000.00 weaving beijing in 2nd place. i don't think 270000000000, which is more than 2 times lower. however, the us should spend even more on its war machine. at least that's according to an

american military, industrial lobbyist who claims the country isn't ready for a potential military conflict with china and would run out of vital ammunition within a week. the primary challenge we see in the research we've done with the u. s. industrial base is that it is not adequately prepared for the security landscape that now exists in a major regional conflict such as a u. s. war with china and taiwan straits. the u. s. would exceed in that war. the current stock pile of the department of defense. so for example, with long range into ship missiles or l ransoms in our war games, the u. s. runs out of those l ransoms in less than a week of a war. so we have an industrial base that is not prepared for a war time environment or a near war time environment. well, it turns out that

u. s. military corporations look lockheed martin, boeing and general atomic, are among the major contributors to the thing tank which published that report and have attended meetings between us military corporations, top brass, and the think tank executive director of the world beyond war movement. david swanson says pro military campaigns in the us are often funded by weapons manufacturers themselves. people have no clue what the reality is. so they'll look at that chart and not notice that, that there is anything dramatically wrong. and, and that is, of course, the point you can't increase military spending if you realize that you're already spending as much as the next 10 countries put together corruption profit. it is a big business. and the wars are famously a made to a suit. the weapons rather than the weapons manufactured for the war any more. and until, you know, you know, just think tanks, it's political campaigns,

it's universities. it's everything in the united states funded by the weapons dealers so that it's normalized and accepted and you're not supposed to think of it as shameful or even as profitable, but it is hugely profitable and that's a major factor us needs to dominate the globe for its own good, whether the global likes it or not. and china is standing away and china is an economic competitor, which means it's um, military enemy. this is, this is what everybody in washington tells and suggests and implies the whole worry . the whole question being asked is madness. the u. s. doesn't need to be ready for a war with china. it needs to get out of a war in europe and some wars in africa in the middle east. that's all for now. be sure to check out our t dot com for all of the latest breaking news and updates. we'll see right back here at the top of the hour. ah.