country is getting worse, innocent people are dying and there is no understanding of who's killing them. nevertheless, people are working together so that the country can move forward. as always, you can find out the latest that means updates as well as discussion and debate on our website, r t dot com. thank you for choosing audience 9. i'm 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.

that 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 headlight. quote. some western backers of ukraine worry that time might be on russia's 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 keith. and this is what it

says. first, the headlight, the headline is u. s. warned ukraine. it faces a pivotal moment in war. say, headland. 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 nor types. 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 denounce 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 one 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 mister biden seemed to be whispering to mister zalinski. look times not on your side.

and here is 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 here 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 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, paul. this is a quincy institute pull in it 57 percent of likely you. busy esther 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 korea go,

he's a conflict analyst and he specializes in that meeting place between asia and europe . so he's the perfect guy, a perfect person to talk to. oh, here it is. it's a quincy institute, a 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 portion of the american public are definitely fatigue. other portions are pretty upset that products me, $100000000000.00 apart or tax, you know, fun, have been diverted to this proxy war. i think that now after the mainstream media meeting official have started to basically ship your narrative from one of whether it was already meant to mislead or it 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 sour 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 costs. 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 of those stock ready to loan up and the forthcoming

ones that are going to be sent to ukraine. they could otherwise, we spent the us asia pacific allies 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 white of so called balloon incidence. now that there is kind of a syria 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 u. s. can contain on both thing tied to 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, my rep, pragmatic faction among american decision makers,

whether in the military and elegant community with deformity. there really is nobody really speaking truth the power. can we just try to find some years of deal? a new type of y'all tech conference, if you will provide a better description and find a way to peacefully balance or interest and inform without having to favor rattle anyone else. nobody is serious. you talking about why not, i think why now, why not? why not? and, and why not? and why not? well, you have corruption. you have a military industrial. com, but they go hand in hand and you all, they have ideology. i think that's id, ology, of american, exceptional of on that in fact a lot 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 what isn't in the united states foreign policy and it was so many and it was done over the decades. and unfortunately, nobody's curious. and any position of influence want you to say hold on

a 2nd. and then us talking about, we spent another 100000000000 continue russia, or 200000000000 containing china. why can't we just invest the money on the homefront and read some type of years, a trade military strategic deal with these 2 countries. so we can all just focus on recovering from the crisis of what, what ation that hit us from the trade war to cobra. 1900 ukrainian conflict and just try to work on approving average people. why 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 or tell my story and share with you what i've learned about how to succeed and grow and fail, babs, grow the most. when you fail, it's called the rick sanchez podcast. i invite you to check it out. and i'm going to see you there. when we come back mister putin's speech that every one seems to be talking about. what he says about nukes, what he says about an existential situation between the west and his country.

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get ah, okay. and government has been killing its own people and on buffet is it's amazing that this is not to be covered in western media and hasn't been covered for the last 8 years. i'm here for 5 minutes and then i'm told the 1st 5 people they found it was 5 decapitated head providing up in a quarterly request on demand, a boy fos, cathartic. dietary mckinney is me. no fiber to say keep his own your father law kid evie, the inflammation war. almost all the independent journalists pointed out that nato and the u. s. were directly responsible for initiating the military conflict in ukraine. our casualties of it as long as we want the war to continue. we will fight that war using ukrainians as proxies and we will fight it to the last

ukrainian death. that's what's happened in dumbass this whole time. this is, these aren't objects. these are people that and so that's why i do what i do. that's why i'm here. ah, i wanna, i want to talk now about mr. rub putins a speech much is being made of his decision to back out a lot deal with with the us. but this is important, by the way, it's important to note that mr. potent had remained steadfast in his adherence to those deals that go back all the way to of gorbachev and reagan. recently, it appears that he has had a change of mime 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 at 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 in 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 history of the go. it was that it did get there is 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. busy 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, marks, lota, he of focuses on russian international relations and is good enough to share his wisdom with us. i want to start there that mr. brewton 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. with the 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 men's go courts. now, 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 porsche jenko, the oligarchy. state that the minster courts. they never intended to fulfill them, that they were always just away 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 that 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 didn't want to do what mr. brewton said. yeah, i, i think that the us 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, emma, 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, 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 u. s. 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 don, 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 how that happened in the country. it doesn't represent all of ukrainians. in fact the, the, the, the violent and insurrection that led up to this, the, my daughter 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 are leading up to a crescendo on 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 in k. yeah, and it was, 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 to recognize that my country has a hedge. a moni is tendencies and as a latin american, 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 nord stream, $1.00 and $2.00 gas pipelines running from russia to germany and me again, victoria newland 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 it 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 happening to seymour hersh. seymour hersh is still of 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 are the, any of the conflagration that we've been in lately. the american people just don't care. after a while i've can stand blasted 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. that 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. they 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 decade. a few fringe republic, you know, trump populous republicans in the house does not make a see change now. and at the end of the day, what the government, what the blog,

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 will always of people. i hope you're well sit 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 march carol, story. yeah,

i know you're here, 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, and i thank you for taking time to be honest with us. thanks. rog, me, rick. all right, up 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. i'm or sanchez. i'll be looking for you again right here, where i hope to provide some direct impact. ah ah

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