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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. you can take that to the bank, the, the only one main thing is important for not isn't internationally speaking. that is of nations, but thoughts are allowed to do anything, all the mazda races, and then you have the mind and agents who are the slave americans rock obama and others have had a concept of american exceptionalism. international law exist as

long as it serves the american interest. if it doesn't, that doesn't exist by turning those russians into this dangerous boy, a man that wants to take over the world. that was the culture of strategy. so some of the vehicle in your industry, i'm a be an oxy leashed golf. to observe on a tablet block, nato said it's ours. we move east. the reason us, hey jim, it is dangerous. is it the by the sovereignty of the countries, the exceptionalism that america uses and its international war planning is one of the greatest threats to the populations of different nations. if nature, what is founded, shareholders in the united states and elsewhere in large arms, companies would lose millions and millions or is business businesses good? and that is the reality of what we're facing, which is fashion, the

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speed. what else holes question about this? even though we will then in the european union, the kremlin mission, the state on russia to day and split the r t supposed neg, keeping our video agency roughly all the band on youtube tv services. for what question did you say even closer to the hello, i'm a no a 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 seeping to the black market, us calls 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 bill 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 as sort of 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 u . s. military industrial complex. who break in hundreds of billions of dollars, year after year, and a foreign policy of aggression then 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, your 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, in the joel 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 a 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 organizations that are both 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 it takes them directly. most of the eastern european borders

are somewhat porous. and also europe is around to buy a lot of water. if you can get a 1000000 and a half emigrants and certainly you have a webpage and into your for a $1000.00 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 of 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, javelins r, p g 's, and so forth. now is 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 d o, d 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 basically, uh or done by the us government. and once these weapons are in the hands of a ukrainian or need your option, uh, or a combination of, of the people these weapons could go anywhere. and this is the real danger that i think that what we're 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 what and 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 of 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 wanda, 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, 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,

dispersions, 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 c i a issued arms have contributed to armed conflicts. we're seeing today. the 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 our invest kabbage 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 iran contra, i don't know if you remember that, but it was a scheme to sell weapons to the radians. this is post revolutionary, right. and the money coming from this was the, was like hitting money was, 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 in any way. 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 the are ready and leaders and uh, this was all done under orders for 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. alright, filled are all the is staying with us, more of a spill 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 look forward to talking to you all that technology should work for people. a robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except we're so shorter is it

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which is good for those who will need to be moved on to something on a computer or do you do bus 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, so in, 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 that we surely and save the equipment. it's just been a bad indicator of gather stand. 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 you know, 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 versa groups and the sources of discharge of the weapons, it could be ask it because a lot of the weapons were in the hands of the, of the half dan 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 get 90 space left? 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, 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. ringback 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, a officer landscapes, 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 proliferate email. so this is going on already turning this into cache. and the 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 the weapons which are fully functionable. you could sell them anywhere. you could get a good price for them anywhere. and, you know, this is the kind of thing that i, i believe the lot these weapons are going to meet you halfway. do well, take them over that 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 slippery be stock home international peace research institute in 2020, they say the official global arms sales weren't 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 and up in black market traffic in the yeah, absolutely. i don't think there's a question about it as a say, you can sell the, you can 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 weapons 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 add that the, the stock whole, the suggestion of, of, of 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. you might even want to 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 commercially viable. so you have a new built hypocrisy and built contradiction right here, which is the fact that you know, the citizens, i'm sure if we're not allowed to have weapons. but 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's a very fine line that separates the 2. but when your number one export is weapons

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