china and western powers, they didn't, wall and the china would not allow any infringement upon its sovereignty or territorial integrity. specific figures for china's defense budgets are expected to be announced during the current policy making event in beijing. well, earlier we heard from cdn correspondent jang, again, he says, a focus of the events will be new economic policies under range of appointed officials to session is one of the most or it thank the most important political event in china. and what makes this year's event so special or different is that is the 1st year after trying to optimize co restriction. so no wonder all eyes are all disadvantage. see how china is going to re boost is to economic vitality how. what kind of a g g d p target in the country going to set? will it be a more conservative one or will be an ambitious one? and how is trying to go into any of those goals? and more crucially, the n p c this year will actually bode on the kinds of leadership lineup. we are

expected to see the new top officials, including premier vice premiers and other economic and financial leadership roles including market regulators. and we're notably during the rep of the 2 sessions. there will be the new, previous 1st time hosting hundreds of journalists from a local, a foreign media journalist. and that will be the 1st chance for the jury was to ask questions directly or to the new premier. and the appointment of all of these top officials will actually give a good, very good indication of where the countries of policies in development trajectory will go in the coming years. but that's all from me. pizza, scott was i'll be passing the baton onto nicky, aaron who behaving around 30 minutes time. so you through all the latest and into the evening. thanks very much for watching. ah

. oh, the western countries are very concerned. the china might be sending russia me so weapons as a way to help rush us military. we can paint in ukraine. now personally, that's my just put personal view on very suspicious of that on i don't buy does it contradicts to what i see. the basic logic of well behavior puts in the front, the chinese things i rick sanchez. i've been doing news for some 30 years and 2 languages around the world. and here the united states i've interviewed for you as president, founded a $1000000000.00 business. and i believe that new should be honest, direct,

and impactful, and this is direct impact. ah, so for the very 1st time, media outlets are acknowledging that russia may have the upper hand over ukraine. now, what's interesting is that this narrative began to shift prior to some of the recent comments that we've heard from president biden and from president fulton, which we're going to break down for you. so as far as the narrative is concerned, even the most casual observer of western media reports will tell you that it's coverage has been narrow cast on how russia is losing the war. ukraine is winning the war and it's just going to be a matter of time before russia backs out. i mean, to, to be fair if you're even the most casual observer of news here in the united

states. that is the consistent narrative that we have received. however, now we're seeing examples of coverage that seem to balance that perspective with a bit of a different perspective. one that seems to suggest that russia may now have the upper hand when it comes to a protracted war. in other words, the longer this war lasts, the longer this war last, the more likely it is to play to russia's favor. now, look at this article, this articles in the wall street journal. and here's the headline. quote, some western backers of ukraine worry that time. might be on russia, sy, that is not an article that one would have seen publish, say, 6 months ago. and by the way, the wall street journal is not alone. papers like the washington post, have also been writing recently stories with narratives that seem to suggest that

the u. s. is support for ukraine may reach its limits and then what? right then what? so i want to read you this paragraph. it's written in the post, one of the best and most respected newspapers in the united states by the way, in its recent coverage of president biden's visit to p f. and this is what it says . first, the headlight, the headline is u. s. warner ukraine. it faces a pivotal moment in war. satellite. now let me read you the 2nd paragraph in the story. quote, despite promises to back ukraine as long as it takes biden officials now say recent aid packages from congress and america's allies represent kev's best chance to decisively change the course of the war. it goes on to say many conservatives and the republican lad house had vowed to pull back support,

and europe's long term appetite for the funding of the war effort remains unclear. now, those words, that reporting seems to paint mr. biden's recent trip to care of as a mission to let mr. zalinski know that time is not on his side. like, you know, you gotta get giddy up here. right? because support from both americans and european leaders could a road at some point if it isn't starting to a road already. look at this recent story in the new york times. right. very recent headline. the wes tried to isolate russia. it didn't work new york times. and here's the article, oh, here's what the article says about european and other countries commitment or lack thereof, quote, even some of the nations that initially agreed to. busy announce russia,

see the war as somebody else's problem and have since started to move toward a more neutral position york times. right. so the point being raised by legitimate news outlets like the wall street journal, like the new york times, like to post is the same as the one that mr. biden seemed to be whispering to mister zalinski. look times not on your side. and here's part of the reason for that, for ukraine to succeed in this conflict with russia, it must continue to receive armored vehicles and air defense systems and military funding and military training and military advisors. in other words, without external assistance keyword external, her ukraine cannot compete. i mean that with an adversary that is larger and is not beholden to the backing of others. common sense, right? there was a previous previous narrative that st seemed to suggest that russia would be buried

under sanctions and other western castigation, which would shorten its resolve and ability to execute the war. old narrative, that narrative seems to have run its course. and now, while public opinion in europe and in the u. s, remain steadfast in supporting military and financial aid for ukraine. i should say, it does appear to show some signs of doubt, especially if the war is long and protracted. just trying to be fair look at this poll. this is a quincy institute pull in at 57 percent of likely us voters say they support the idea that the u. s. should pursue diplomatic negotiations. diplomatic negotiations as soon as possible to end the war and ukraine, even if it's an important caveat, even if it means that ukraine will have to make some compromises with russia. 57 percent

a lot bigger than what we would have expected or would have seen 67 months ago. so here's the question. are we starting to see a shift in public opinion? and how long before that shift has an effect on public policy? if ever and joining us now is on andrew crib go, he's a conflict analyst and he specializes in that meeting place between asia and europe . so he's the perfect guy. perfect person to talk to. oh, here it is. it's a quincy institute of poll, and it says that 50 percent of likely voters in america strongly or somewhat support the u. s. pursuing diplomatic negotiations as soon as possible to end the war in ukraine, even if it requires ukraine having to make compromises with russia. ah,

regarding land for example. so think about that for a minute. if we would have gone back a year, you would 57 percent of the american public would not be saying something like that . are granted that they're not necessarily saying they're on rush aside here. but they're saying they want somebody to step up and, you know, have some peace talks that lead to something. what do you make of that? i think that portions of the american public are definitely fatigue. other portions are pretty of that, that products me. $100000000000.00 apart or tax, you know, fun have been diverted to this property words. i think that now after the ministry, media and meeting officials have started to basically shift the official narrative from one of whether it was already meant to mislead or was just a miscalculation of imminent victory to novel. hey, we're kind of in a for the long term. what kind of, you know, i think people are now feeling a little bit dower about that because they're wondering where is the return on investment and how much more we still going to have to throw in there. we're also

seeing the fact that there's an opportunity cost to think there is a wider awareness of the opportunity cost. these are the china. i'd be very interested in seeing how american perceived this question. what do you mean? what, what do you mean by opportunity cost with china? because by using the term opportunity cause, what are we, what is the u. s. giving up all the stuff that i've already been blown up and the forthcoming ones that are going to be sent to ukraine. they could otherwise be sent us the asia pacific l eyes for more muscular early containing china. and i focus in all of the but i never was acknowledge that it is one of the leading determinist of us grand strategy, especially in light of so called balloon incident. now that there is kind of an area about china because the things flew across the mainland mainland united states and shuttle guy. i'd be very interested in seeing how the populations perception tours does. there are some choices containing russia or china because the us can

continue on both the same time the same extent. how that may or may not change back to be could tell you the more do they need to be content? no, i don't think they need to be content that's part of the problem because there really is no alternative. myra pragmatic faction among american decision makers, whether in the military and health and community of with diplomacy. there really is nobody really speaking truth to power. a 2nd, can we just try to find some series of deals? a new type of yalta conference if you will, for lack of a better description and find a way to peacefully balance or interest and influence without having to save or rattle against anyone else. nobody is serious, he talking about why not think you're going now, why not? why not in the military and, and why not? and why not? well, you have corruption. you have the military industrial complexes go hand in hand. and you also have ideology. i think is ideology of american exceptionalism that

affects the light of the higher level of decision makers, whereby they think they have this right to reshape the world according to their image or what they think is right. i think that that is really poisoning the united states foreign policy and has led to so many needless deaths over the decades. and unfortunately, nobody serious and any position of influence want you to say what i 2nd, instead of talking about was been another 100000000000 containing russia, or 200000000000 containing china. why can't we just invest the money on the home front and read some type of serious trade, military or teacher deal with these 2 countries? so we can all just focus on recovering from the crisis of one was ation that hit us from the trade war to cobra. 19 to the ukranian conflict and just try to work on improving ever people's lives. i mean, that should be the priority here. by the way, i have a podcast where i as a journalist, as a latino and as an entrepreneur, tell my story of share with you what i've learned about how to succeed and grow and fail vibes grow the most. when you fail,

it's called the rick sanchez podcast. i'm going to check it out and i'm going to see you there. when we come back, mr. putin's speech that everyone seems to be talking about. what he says about nukes, what he says about an existential situation between the west and his country. stay right there. ah ah ah, well, emily and not afford to go, we use and i made a gift salem, but ideally chaslek knowledge was focal more of neat and clean. so keep i keep them up a quote,

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assuming in the modem, which would seem ah, i wanna, i wanna talk now about mr. rub putin's speech much is being made of his decision to back out of the loop deal with, with the us. but this is important, by the way. it's important to note that mister put nevermind, steadfast, in his adherence to those deals that go back all the way to gorbachev and reagan. recently, it appears that he has had a change of mind after the change of mind that we saw during the trump administration from the u. s. and secretary of state, palm pale. so there's, there's a, there's a legacy here. there's a story here. the saul didn't happen just overnight and i'm with you. yes. it is

well known to us that the west straightforwardly has taken part in the attempts of the key of regime to strike our strategic air bases. they used for this operation, drones designed and modernized by nato specialists. this we said, and now they want to inspect our defense sites. under today's condition, during today's standoff about this sounds simply put like insanity. and therefore, forced to announce today that russia is suspending. it's participation in the strategic arms reduction treaty. i repeat, it is not withdrawing from the treaty. it is suspending its participation it to go . it was that it did get you to get there something else i want to talk about. now . what may have been an even more important part of mr. brewton speech is the way that he is now framing the conflict with ukraine. this is fascinating because he, he is positioning it not as a regional conflict so much as an existential threat. he seems to be telling

russians in no uncertain terms that the west wants to destroy russia. joining us now, the talk about this is geopolitical analyst, mark sl boda. he of focuses on russian international relations and is good enough to share his wisdom with us. i want to start there, that mister putin seems to be saying enough is enough. you guys are coming after us. he's made the argument in the past that they, the west, maybe the u. s. were the to military exercises may have provoked russia into the situation with ukraine, but now he's on the record saying, look, it looks like you guys are just trying to destroy this country. what do you make of that? and is it a fair assessment? it, rick, thanks for having me. it's an honor and a pleasure to be on. ah, so actually,

i think the russian government putin and the entirety of the government has, from the beginning declared that this is an existential conflict for russia. and they have held the u. s. to a large degree, responsible since it back the overthrow of the last legitimate, democratically elected government, there in 2014, when you create the non years of civil war in the country. and it is only after the failure of the mens go courts out in the run up to december when we have heard both the leaders of france and germany, micron and merkel, and the leader of the push regime, previous leader poorest jenko. the oligarchy. states that the minster chords, they never intended to fulfill them, that they were always just a way to buy time to build up a powerful proxy nato force in ukraine. can you help me understand?

can you, can you help me? i'm going to stop you for a moment because i want to understand as an american and a lot of people in this country in this country, from where i'm speaking to you right now. want to better understand because they don't know when mr. portland says, america's trying to destroy my country, they think, but we're not. america would never want to go around destroying anybody's country, right. we do something like that. do you believe? and how do you make the case that america, despite the fact that russia is no longer the old soviet union, the big, bad, bare cetera, et cetera, is still treating it as such. and did want to do what mr. brewton said. yeah, i, i think that the u. s. does want to, at the very least cripple, hobble neuter if you will russia, if it could break it apart into several more manageable pieces. absolutely, it wants to do the same thing to china, right? obviously, and to any country that it sees as

a near peer competitor in the world. if regards itself as the global hedge, amman, right, the top dog and any country that could possibly rise up in power to rival that is seen as a potential threat to us prosperity, dependent on, on their being top dog in the world. and russia is once again in that category. well, what, what if, what if, what if we made the argument or not we, but i'm looking at this as a journalist and i'm saying i'm putting on my us diplomatic out here, right? i work now for the state department, and i'm gonna give you what they would probably say, which is countries like ukraine have chosen to align with the west. it's not like we're forcing them to do anything they've come to us and say, look, we want to be a part of nato. we want to be a part of the you. we want to have better relations with,

with washington. and why are you keeping them from do it? they would argue. ok. so full disclosure, my wife is crimea. right. my wife is from the crimea. we have family all over east ukraine in dawn boss, or cough desa. this regime that seized power in 2014 violently and unconstitutionally with open u. s. backing with victoria newland right, working for the state department. caught on tape saying talking about midwife in this thing then who that happened in the country. it doesn't represent all of ukrainians. in fact, the, the, the, the violent an insurrection that led up to this, the, my don protest poles at the time commissioned by u. s. government agencies showed that a majority of the country, a slim majority,

but a majority of the country actually opposed these protest. this government was forced on about half the country, which is why there has been a civil conflict in the country for the last 9 years. something that the western media tries to, to paper over to, to deny agency to the people of east ukraine. as the government that sees power has tried to politically repress, socially, culturally deny them their language, deny them their religion. uh, you know, leading up to a crescendo in the last few months there are ukrainians fighting on both sides of this conflict. there are tens of thousands of ukrainians fighting alongside russian forces against the forces that the u. s. backs and in k. yeah. and it was for the, i'm probably one of the few journalists in the united states. i'm not the only one, but i'm probably one of the few journalists in the united states. recognize that my

country has hedge of moni is tendencies and as a latin america. and i've seen what we've done in places throughout the world, especially in places like ecuador and bolivia, and bag, guatemala, et cetera, et cetera. so i understand that dependencies are there. it's hard for us sometimes to be able to better understand that because our media doesn't tell us that obviously it never before had it seemed to me and i'll share my thoughts with you and then maybe get your reaction. never before has it seemed to me that our media has been more interlocked with the position of the pentagon in the state department . and i'm not sure that's good journalism. i agree with you. absolutely. and the perfect example of that is the piece that you know, the award winning journalist seymour hersh released recently and saying that it is the u. s. which i think was perfectly obvious from the incident

that destroyed the north stream $1.00 and $2.00 gas pipelines running from russia to germany and me again. victoria newlands raising the specter again. speaking to the u. s. senate saying that the her and the administration are gratified that it is a hunk of metal on the bottom of the c gloating. right? you know, the way you know, neocons do, glowed publicly about such things. and seymour hersh has been pilloried, ignored completely by the western media. why is that this is a man who has broke so many important stories going back to the my lai massacre, he is an investigative journalist. they say, i've seen that headline articles. what happened to seymour hersh? nothing happened to seymour hersh. seymour hersh is still the investigative journalists that believes that journalism serves to question power. the other thing

that i, that i see happening. speaking of this shift that we're starting to see is, history has told me in the years that i've been on this planet, that when something continues for a long time, it creates fatigue. and when it's not your country, you're fighting in that fatigue sets in sooner. these of the, any of the conflagration that we've been in lately, the american people just don't care after a while, i've canister and lasted for 20 years. it really only had 2 years of news coverage . after that, nobody cared. it may have been a 32nd report at the end of a newscast. so after a while, both in europe and in the united states, the sense of urgency will dissipate, if it isn't already happening to you. yeah, in europe the europeans are suffering economically much more than americans are right. they're no longer getting the energy that had built european economic

prosperity, the cheap, reliable energy from russia, their bill, european economic prosperity for decades. the hungarian prime minister, victor, or bon said that it's not that we've shot ourselves in the foot with these sanctions that we've shot ourselves in the lungs. right? describing the damage. so i think the fatigue is due to set in there much earlier than the united states gas prices. inflation rose in the u. s, but then fell back down that may go back up again this year. but here's the thing. there is broad bipartisan support for this war, like all of the recent wars, right of the last decades. a few fringe republic, you know, trump populist republicans in the house does not make a c change. and at the end of the day, what the government, what the blob, what the deep state, if you want to call it that decides is in the u. s. foreign policy interests in the

pursuit of a gemini, what the american people think about foreign policy, doesn't matter. i hope you williams of people, i hope you're well did in the streets against the war in iraq. what did that change? well, i hate to say, i know i listen, i, i understand and you know, i love my country and as an american, i would love to think that there is a sense that public opinion can eventually sway public policy. i know the forces against that seemed to lead us in a different direction, but i still believe somehow in my heart of hearts that people can see and recognise when something is real and with something is being forced upon them. and let us just hope. let us just hope that that's the case with this and that we can have a peaceful resolution and ukraine sooner than later. but. busy mark carol, story. yeah, i know you're, you're, you're really, you're, you're good, you're, you're good guessed you. you really share a perspective that a lot. i think

a lot of people don't get an opportunity to hear. and i thank you for taking time to be honest with us. thanks ragged me, rick. all right, bob. before we go, i want to remind you of our mission. it's simple, really. i kinda wanna de silo the world, right? we've got to stop living in these little boxes, you know, where you gotta think this or think that because i'm a part of this group. you know, truth does not live in boxes. truth is everywhere. number changes. i'll be looking for you again right here, where i hope to provide some direct impact. ah ah ah ah

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