scene of this unified labels, a new media report in navy ships that were tracked in the facility of the pipelines just days before the sabotage. according to the broadcaster, the danish military, to $26.00 such photos, the rest of nothing shall rushes foreign ministry spokesman, ass cold, the report. fake news. the 1st thing the, any gen list observed or any other person will ask, is, may a, take a look to which the danish special services say the danish on forces come on, does not intend to publish these images on. do you know why the funny thing is they say it's because of this sensitive nature, such publications, i'm old and that establishing the truth, but designed to muddy the waters. it's a classic case of this information, just some facts being disseminated. the bbc report referred to the russian vessels of those ships, claiming their transmitters were switched off to avoid detection. however, they were reported least though, track down their broadcast interest,

acted with the vessel sailing right above the pipelines which were still functional . at that point itself, the 1st time western media outlets have made such dubious claims about the north stream case. while some reports have initially tried to blame russian for blowing up its own gas pipelines, other publications later focused on the mysterious pro you premium group. but all of those allegations up so far failed to spend up to any scripts. what you let your prize winner seem or hers. how's the ledge stuff? the u. s. military was responsible for the north stream bombing, according to his report last june, u. s. navy special forces divers placed explosives on the pipelines which were then remotely designated by a no region plane. months later, the operation was reportedly signed off by president biden and orchestrated by top of the state department officials who have allegedly being plumbing the attack since december 2021. before russia began this operation in ukraine.

but i'll call them is. busy on publish or i can't home or sees that the bbc is report, could be that distracting the public from the revelations by seymour hersh, the whatever was discussed afterwards in my opinion, is to mislead from the story. but so i my here in detail that and what they now try is trying to distract the people by putting out some new possible people who could have done this to not to mention that it was to us. the funny thing is when they started the investigations, who could have done this last spring to pipeline tetra tech? they overly said from the beginning that there will be no investigations against the us when they come up with a story then it is somehow in the biking interest of the british politics or british british officials,

to mislead somehow it doesn't make sense at all for the russians to blow up the old pipeline because all they have to do is just shut the pipelines and don't send any gas if they don't want to supply germany with guessing more. now, before we go, let's take a quick trip to the great beyond. russian cosmonaut top conducted their 2nd space walk of the year. i bought this for a work view, cosmonaut surrogate for a copy of and demetrius patel in and spencer on 7 hours outside of the international space station, they perform tough. same, but maintaining the functioning of the i ss, such as connecting tables between the module and the are loc chamber. that's the pass that provide space walk entry some days ago, rushes space agency or all calls most agreed to continue participation of the work at old station until at least 2020 eights. a lot of us where we live in use are off for now. i but if you're in the mood to tell the little different,

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hello. i'm a noah chan. you are tuned into modus operandi. it's no secret that the us is the number one manufacturer and supplier of arms all around the world. hasn't gone contracts spring and billions of dollars annually to continue brutal wars by allied nations. nobody, that's an eye at these facts. but when the proliferation of these arms seep into the black market, the us call that

a problem. this week we'll examine the lords of war and black market arms. all right, let's get into the m o the what's the difference between the pentagon and a black market arms traffic or some lights say nothing really, given the end result is the same death and destruction. but they'll tell you that the former is done legally, and on the books that they are accounted for. and those arms are for noble wars or causes maybe just protection or deterrence. in fact, a more accurate comparison might be the c i a versus arms dealers. like say, convicted and now freed dealer victor boat, because when you really think about it, given the c, i as long sorted, ugly history of farming and surgeons within the countries, the us deans anatomy,

america's top spike agency, is responsible for the proliferation of more off the books transfers of arms around the world than any one traffic or let's be clear about something. i am not promoting illegal arms trafficking in any way, shape or form. but we can't pretend the black market arms dealers or mafia is or crime syndicates are the source of these arms. that dubious title belongs to the us military, industrial complex, who break in hundreds of billions of dollars, year after year, and a foreign policy of aggression. the benefits from continuing to r any and all conflicts around the world. now to discuss this complex web of arms trafficking will bring in someone who has seen just how all this stuff works. first hand dr. field tra raleigh is a retired c, a case officer and executive director of the council for the national interest. so

thank you for joining us. so 1st, according to a 2017 report by rand europe concerning how small arms proliferate into the u, it says, the us appears to be the most common source country for arms that are for sale. on the dark web, they say 60 percent of fire arms listings are associated with products that originated out of the us. are we to assume that the sales are by individual sellers or is there perhaps a criminal enterprise associated with some of these, such as like the mob or mafia is organized crime, things like that? well, i would say it's probably a combination of both. it's very easy to buy weapons in the united states in most states here in virginia, for example, if i wanted to go buy a military style, so called assault rifle, i could walk into town right now,

and within 30 minutes have it. um yeah, these weapons of course can be to our military views. they can be taken and modified to fire or full automatic or by any goldsmith and they are readily available. there are more weapons of this type in the united states alone. then there are americans. so you can see we're talking about $300.00 plus 1000000 of these weapons floating around, and there are certainly organising is terrible criminal. and that serve other purposes, political purposes, perhaps in some cases that have easy access to these weapons. and if you're talking about getting that men to your there are a lot of ways to get things in new york leave. most of the eastern european borders are somewhat porous. and also europe is surrounded by a lot of water. if you can get a 1000000 and a half immigrants in smuggle into europe, you can certainly get us

a webpage and into europe too. and that's what we're shape. and for obvious reasons, it's difficult to get concrete numbers on just how much money is brought through black market arm sales or the dark web. the latter is estimated to generate around a $100000.00 a month and just fire arms sales. but compared to the d o d sales numbers that are reported by the state department, those numbers are peanuts according to the state department, for military sales or approximately $55000000000.00 annually. along with the direct commercial sales under the bureau of political, military affairs, the directorate of defense trade controls, they approve approximately a $115000000000.00 a year in direct sales to for an allies and partners. and we're talking heavy military hardware like patriot missile batteries, javelin r, p g 's, and so forth. now with the net result is the same. death and destruction. what's

the difference between conflicts around the world being armed by traffickers or the d o d, a? well, actually they're, they're a lot of subtle differences show we say the deal with the weapons. once, interestingly enough, those numbers that you just provided. these are the known sales. these are sales that are approved by the us government. and uh, basically uh or done by the us government. and once these weapons are in the hands of a ukrainian or in the junction, uh, or any combination of, of the people these weapons could go anywhere. and uh, this is the real danger that i think they were missing here is that there are a lot of criminal sales or non ethical sales. how ethical i would describe

as sales that are sold, working, sold to a foreign country for their own defense. that sort of thing, or at least that's the justification. but the fact is there are many other possibilities in terms of weapons being, you know, sent to places like up pakistan where they are distributed in central asia. i think of all of the weapons that wind up in the hands of the libyan government. that which we then or through and these weapons walk up all over africa and are still making trouble in africa. and look in syria, syria, we have a militia groups that are, are allied with the us star given access to these weapons. and i'm sure that this does not appear in any official report that your i would be allowed to read and up . and these weapons basically wind up in various places including in turkey, which is and they go out. so there's a, there's a, another statement,

and these numbers, i think the numbers that actually relate to weapons dispersion, dispersed souls around the world to various groups, to various countries. to various individuals is much, much bigger than that. these numbers would suggest, you know, what about the role of the c i a in army various groups around the world, for example, in latin america during the 1980s. certainly some of those arms proliferated beyond the groups that the us initially armed or intended or more recently under obama, the botched fast and furious scheme could any of these ca, issued arms have contributed to armed conflicts we're seeing today or? oh i, i think there's no question of that. obviously you can go back as far as the, the us attempt to get rushing out of as cabbage them in which a number of terrorist groups, including all kind of were on trade and further equipped these weapons. some of

them are still floating around this, this produces a whole chain of, of, of disasters. i had up in my own personal experience when i was just on bull. i was involved in the wrong contra. i don't know if you remember that, but it was a scheme to sell weapons to the radiance. this is post revolutionary, right. and the money coming from this was the, it was like hitting money was be, which was going to be kicked back to support the countries in the crop. and this was illegal to sell the weapons to uranium. and it was illegal to be doing this with the cartridge, but we were doing it anyway. now i was a c r c i officer on the ground, arranging for the flights that were going back and forth with the weapons in the money. and they are ready and leaders, and this was all done under orders from the national security council at that time . so a lot of the stuff that uh, is, is credited to the c, i assure the c i,

it has the resources to do these things. but they do these things under orders of the national security council, which is indeed the right arm of the president are all right, filled or all the is staying with us more of a fill in just the 2nd coming up next finders keepers what happens when the us a band and a war effort and leaves behind billions of dollars in military hardware and weapons . we'll discuss it when we return. sit tight, the m o will be right back. 2 the who, when i would show the wrong just don't

safe house because the application and engagement equals the trail. when so many find themselves will support, we choose to look for common ground, the. it will never be a victory for russia. solutions when you're still waiting, muchly, waiting for them, but to locate me of this as a war between russia and the united states made it comes to the she said, the name of the forces are in, you're not in your engaging conflict with russian. ford is american forces are here to defend nato allies. nato escalates even more indiscretion,

military operations, becoming more bills of sounds like the social is much to see if i see you as well. thank you. positive. we've still use 3 issue and we can spend some, let's see, let's finish the ring and see what you're saying that i see the what truly motivates nato isn't strategic interested in jail, political positioning, or is it audiology in a pathological hatred of russia? i will let the viewers decide, but one thing is certain. the alliance has split its very existence on the line. different take that to the bank, the

watching wires and why in this country. what if i give borrowed money at the store in this they should have been a short order, but i'm not going to say lots of green scale. you know, when i am what i could catch at your desktop session? i am no. let's just sean your guess is when you mine is when you said, oh it's in the the the the welcome back to the m. o i manila chan filled urology a retired c i a case officer has gracious lives. the gracious way stuck around to talk more about the proliferation of us arms around the world. so felt, let's examine that hasty departure by the us military from afghanistan. we had an

entire base, their complete with chin, not helicopters, m raps, transport vehicles, another very expensive, valuable military hardware. those are all now in the hands of the taliban, who the us state department labels a tara group. now, in similar instances when the us leaves a conflict and so on, or they say, ends a war or military equipment, just sort of the spoils of war. and it's finders keepers mean what happens with all of that stuff. well uh precisely is in the case of, of kansas standing if there is no kind of uh, withdrawal thats we surely and save the equipment. it's just been a bad and the case worker, i understand they knew this was coming and they still didn't take steps to remove a lot of the equipment because they felt, hey, it was more expensive to remove it that believe it. and that is a kind of stupid judgment, but the human that's what this administration was into and they were confused about

what was happening and where i would go. and so now the taliban have the weapons and the weapons probably all over the place that are going to, well we regard as terrorist or so 1st of groups and the sources of discharge with a weapon that could be accurate because a lot of the weapons were in the hands of, of the half can army, which was believed to be under control and monitored and so and so forth. but that was a bit of affection. and so a lot of these, uh, soldiers. uh, when did you do 96 less. they just kind of dropped their weapons where they were, they went home. so i would assume a lot of these weapons have already gotten into the hands of people who we would prefer not to have these weapons. so it's a, it's, it's kind of a problem with us foreign policy in general that they can't, the, can't seem to figure out what's coming up next week. and this is

a manifestation of indeed war lords, proliferate. now presently, the us has been arming ukraine to continue what many call a proxy war with russia to a, to well, north of a $100000000000.00 artillery shells, guns, mid range, missiles, the air defense systems and so on. this is all in the 1st year of conflict. now to contrast the u. s. spent around $83000000000.00 to train an arm. now failed asked and forces between the year 2001 till the fall of cobble in 2021. the head of inner poll, your oregon stock, said this to the guardian regarding the massive amount of arms now going into ukraine. he said, quote, we can expect an influx of weapons in europe and beyond. we should be alarmed, and we have to expect these weapons to be traffic not only to neighboring countries,

but to other continents. what do you make of his remarks? a? well, it says interesting comment, and i would refer you to the recent development center in ukraine where we had the resignation of a senior spokesman of the landscape government. and we also had that uh, unfortunate uh helicopter crash. uh, there are sources that are saying right now that these people involved in this were all connected with stealing weapons coming in and proliferating. so this is going on already turning this into cache. and this suspicion is that one of them, or some of them went too far, and there is a bit of a tit for tat going on in terms of the people who are involved with this process. so i think that's an interesting theory. and there is some evidence for it. and um,

also, you know, we're talking about a ton of money either in, in the credits in cash and that sort of thing. and also with the weapons which are fully functionable, you can sell them anywhere. you could get a good price for them anywhere. and, you know, this is the kind of thing that i believe the comment that you're quoting garrett saying, look, these weapons are going to, a lot of that, we're going to just cut loose. and once they're loose, the borders and used to your r permeable, and uh, once you get them out of your up, there are all kinds of people in asia, africa, latin america, quite willing to meet you halfway. do well, take them off your hands. the problem is that once you sell a weapon or give a weapon or give it to a government, or you give it to a group, or you give it to an organization. so many different, this is, this is uh uh, they used to joke about how oil and stuff like that are, are fungible commodities,

well weapons refundable quantities to they have serial numbers and it's pretty obvious where they're made. but that doesn't mean that you know where that weapon isn't any point, or who's using it. once it's out of your hands, it's a, it is free to go. weapons are fungible commodities. absolutely. now, according to separate the stock home international piece research institute in 2020, they say the official global arms sales were valued at least at a $112000000000.00 in that year alone. data for many places like this, including official us numbers, it would appear. the us is responsible for arming much of the world. some uh, 40 percent of global arms sales comes from the d. o. d and distance 2nd place for russia coming in at about 27 percent of all the sales. is it then fair to say that the us is responsible for much of the bloodshed around the world,

but the official sales also end up in black market trafficking. the yeah, absolutely, i don't think is a question about it. as i say you could sell the, you could sell a 1000 machine guns to a very reputable buyer representing a government or something like that. but next week you don't know where those levels are going to be. and, and, and the fact is the united states has, by far the biggest military equipment industry or military industrial complex is generally referred to, which produces all of this stuff. so it's no surprise that most of the weapons that are floating around in the world are american made. and i would, i would also with the stock home, the suggestion of, of, uh, the amount of money that is involved in this, i would say you should double that if you were to take it to the account, the black market. uh, you might even wanna triple and last fil,

is there anything else you think our international viewers should know about the proliferation of arms, perhaps in their own country as well. i think the, the issue becomes one of the uh, let's not let the people know what we're doing. and i think that's a general rule of what goes on every. every major western european country has an honest industry. and the purpose of an ours industry is to show up it's and in those countries, if you're a citizen of, of italy or france or germany or britain, you cannot bioweapon. and so all of this stuff is basically made to supply your own military and your own military. but on the other hand, the rest of this stuff is got to be sold to make this a commercially viable. so you have a new built hypocrisy,

your input contradiction right here, which is the fact that you know, uh, citizens i'm sure if we're not allowed to have weapons with these weapons, are being produced by other countries to be sold to other people elsewhere, who campbell hasn't been used, so this is a bit ridiculous. dr. phil geraldo retired c r, a case officer and executive director of the council for the national interest. thank you so much for sharing your insights. so as you can see, whether it's officials from government selling the arms or individual traffickers, there is a very fine line that separates the 2. but when your number one export is weapons of mass destruction, you become the raining lords of war that's going to do it for this weeks episode of modus operandi the show that dig deep into foreign policy. i'm your host manila. chad. thank you for tuning and we'll see you again next week to figure out the m o

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