of this dissenting view to present the signs, facts like uh, you know, the saving counter offensive new plan, which i raised the fact that these uh, very unfortunate young ukrainian men are being sent into emissions that nato forces would not be sent into into prepared, defense has added onto mine fields in, in some cases, quite old equipment. i mentioned one of the, our 1st, the carriers that we're seeing lot of in ukraine and the, and 113, developed in 1964. so action in vietnam. yet it's being rolled out across prepared defenses in the south of, of done that skin dumbass against these prepared defences. and it just shows the scene. is it in my view and this is what i mentioned to the chamber that ukrainian lives are held in at the finish. i, i did mention that i made a point to mention that to represent my visits to areas where ordinary civilians have been shelves with weapons provided by the nato countries. may i reiterated that several times because i feel it's in my obligation to do that. as

a journalist who's traveled with these people seen their homes burned, it's really incumbent that we use these opportunities to tell the truth about what's been happening in these regions with us. ok, the correspondence shaped bows just mentioned, the editor of the grey zone investigative outlets. max bloomfield was also the un security council meeting. and during that meeting, he presents a details of how american taxpayers money allocated his financial aid to ukraine, ends up with more recipients than perhaps expected. the american public has no idea where their tax dollars are going. and that's why this week we have the grades on published an independent audit of us talks, tax dollar allocation to ukraine throughout the fiscal years 2022 and 23. our investigation was led by heather kaiser, a former military intelligence officer who served in iraq and afghanistan. we found among many bizarre payments, a $400.00, a $4500000.00 payment from the us social security administration to the key of

government. we found $4500000000.00 worth of payments from the us agency for international development to pay off ukraine. sovereign debt, much of what is which is owned by the global investment from black rock. that amounts to $30.00 taken from every us citizen at a time when $4.10 americans cannot afford a $400.00 emergency. we found tax dollars here mark for ukraine, patting the budgets of a television station in toronto, a pro nato think tank and poland. and believe it or not even rural farmers. in kenya, we found tens of millions to private equity firms including one of the republic of georgia, as well as a $1000000.00 payment to a single private entrepreneur in key. if once again, congress has failed to ensure the shady payments of massive arms deals are properly tracked. in fact, much of the military and humanitarian aid shipped to you printed simply vanished last year. cbs news quoted the director of a pro zalinski nonprofit and ukraine, who reported that only 30 percent of aid was reaching the front lines. the embezzlement of funds and supplies is at least as troubling as the potential

consequences of the list of the transfer and sales of military grade weapons. but according to the greys own reports, some of the funds have paid off parts of ukraine's sovereign depth. some of the age is simply labeled ukraine as a justification without identifying its use. it's all comes as the pencil good recently, our method to an accounting era of its funding to key if of estimating the value by more than $6000000000.00 as well. washington that has not provided unofficial audits of his funding for ukraine. according to official vegas, at least $40000000000.00 of aid has been spent since the my done uprising in 2014, with more than 90 percent of that's arriving after the war broke out last year. a greystone investigative journalist on the power i'm pill believes that there are key questions about washington's involvement. i think he has a says over the past decade, fortunately, since 2014 sent the might on to since the us and other western powers

conspired to over throw you cranes elected government. i think it's hard to make the case that the country has been sought is sovereign at all. they were talking about very openly how they plan to use ukraine, that they actually see this more as an opportunity to test the digital future that they want to implement throughout the entire west. they stayed up in 2030 ukraine will be rebuild. and it was kind of bizarre for me to hear that because what they were tacitly admitting by in that discussion was that they are expecting you crane to be completely destroyed. and then black rock already owns the country, can come in and rebuild it. it's very cynical, it's very disturbing. really, it is a scheme that is ultimately more than anyone else asking craniums to sacrifice ukrainians will pay the price. another news this we go to kenya national human

rights commission, has launched an investigation into a legit killings and attacks by security guards at the local pine or perform owned by an american company comes after a scathing investigation was published about the risk of violence on the foundation we had for some of the victims in my and doing my own. i was bitten by the gentleman guards for the room on my head and they left me dying. actually, they thought i had already died and that's one of the drag me to a forest nearby, where i spend the whole night. while i go solomon conscious and informed my family members who took me to the hospital, not a delmore where being seriously beaten by the guard, summer, killed and others when they are called, disappear completely in your mind within your i think the defeats we used to get grass for our livestock set, the delmonte site, one day these guard sauce and chased us and unfortunately their dog caught me. the guards thoroughly beaten me. they left me and conscious and dragged me deep inside the pineapple field. later in the evening, they cared me outside the plantation and left me to die at the roadside. and by

that time i was seriously bleeding and woke. i spent a whole night bleeding beside the road and early in the morning the man carried me to the hospital and they, these guards beat us. they chased us with dogs, and some people died while in the hands of these guard. how am i allowed? we are the can you, human rights commission has expressed concern about the ability allegations of honors by personnel regarding delmonte plantations. the commission, also as the company to take immediate measures to provide help to the victims. the amounts of kenya is the largest exports of con, pineapples. from kenya, application some bias of plantation products including u. k. retail, john tesco, they've been suspended supplies, local journalists funds is why river has more details since 2019 that more than 5 people have died. if the result of being a victim of a gods who um with the one of the clubs locally called rules 5, the more to guys have been charged according to quote unquote. and it is believed

that they have not been sentenced and as in constituting the community that has been affected is seeking the inc. painful remainder of the kind of prints code beneficial to the family members, protection against the future as whom i try to avoid emissions. and the change to the court system that they see has denied them just these money to him. i forget the one i lost my brother at delmonte. his name is james kamani. his friend who had accompanied him was lucky enough to escape the guards. beatings. we reported it to the police station after his friend told us who had heard him crying for help after being arrested. but so far, nothing has happened. no justice. and finally, i don't think we shall, he'll hoping maybe the human rights body will come with a solution for this. after the guards kill people, they normally throw the bodies into one of the reservoirs behind the dams and tie stones to the body. so it must float on water. and what has been happening at the month, i want to say this, it seems they are very influential. persons were on touchable. we're always

frustrating our efforts to get justice, you know, after moving to various ports. later i was told my case has no direction and i couldn't do anything. i just left everything in the hands of god. since that day, whenever i come across the lawn to find apples, i feel like i have seen my sons a lot of the month to feed in a statement that it is a taking the allegations extremely seriously in last on investigations. and typically, the company out of that, it is committed to international this time that the schumann price, according to their incidents, the comp on his team has noted to dine enough for the families of the victims as well. the results of an independent investigation have not yet been released, but we did get a take of local textbooks on the situation. the employees, tens of thousands of people so that people proceed because i was afraid of a food. yes. in the van on the list on the social media, a lot of the 4th of them coming out, showing that the outside of the corporate culture and the corporate brand,

but the drug screwed up there. the be not in existence. some of the human rights abuses. so different rewards differently and different perspective in different places. do you remember? i talked to research dude, when i got to get the moment to go down to to the government is beautiful to give you a good bunch of groups. most likely to vehicle number of the country. it's a systemic issue, which i think they have for us so many. yeah. we've had governments a place to pull them. not because it's not been the ftp of the company has it has been in existence in existence. and all the years that's such complaints have come between the cms, the community and the company. nothing of substance. once the company may be interviewed, just the community, then they think they can be able to speak and talk from this thing. it may become

too um and then thats tundi or how they could and sold these united nations. this week voted to ended peacekeeping mission. in molly, the west african nation had been demanding an immediate withdrawal of the troops. un peacekeepers was sent into the country a decade to go to come by the local tower groups. it proved to be the global of bodies, most expensive mission ever costing more than a $1000000000.00 a year. but it has the face criticism fulfilling to protect civilians. the complete withdrawal of $13000.00 jews will end by the 1st of january next year. i look reports that gave us more details of my lease, calling the for the you may get 2 weeks ago or also municipal. however, funds to assist on withdrawing the from is in the soon after 6 i'm also in the visitors to offer them a cool money on our, to your new most me this month is no longer needed in the money problem. and there's one on on for you, really the deployment of the news and it has served no purpose. when you have

a problem and you need help. but the person who's supposed to help you isn't acting in good faith. you have to do without that help. when asked, we melons, i convinced that our problem dismentos smart because is the source of the lot of damage. and molly, we want it out of our country. we really don't want it on this. like any idea or criticism of minutes. money is that it has failed. when you ask for someone's help, and they're unable to solve the problem, seeing their intervention, it's a failure. so it's so you ask them to leave your home with them and you can call in someone else if he succeeds, even if he also fails, you chase him away. 2 minutes my has the last at the, in this the one on the 17th of it just said it was submitted in the monday, making it to one of the did list you and me so, so this way to view the, have you love this? the disagree opinion nissan has not been able to supplies the country falls into of look also have you been to this way to the present, to offer forwarding peacekeepers that were heavily criticized before and i believe

2246 sibley and so from a dentist at fox, this boy deploying is assessable force, and having an under budget of over 1000000 use the us doing the fuel tools as far over so to thousands of people have been displaced in starting. my lease is of the beginning off of 2020 to us please to keep the so we are not able to stop classes, victory, not to a non states army hopes. no many millions of believe dr. munious must own newport eggs. friends interests the mother and child and go with the news much because it has contributed nothing. a front is fighting to keep the news made molly, it's defending its own interest. it is simply because of its own interest. molly's not can see it. a country by the west because they are only money to defend the

interest. nope. to secure money. that's my opinion. well, no problem is one more to francis fighting for it, because me newsome is equal to france, france, and me use my do the same thing. what we're looking for is for it to leave for good and of the minutes. mind me. so it's a flow so use to offer a song in the destructive beat, univision, the end of the money and population for almost 2 in the center of the country to the city, but more school monday. and so hes been through glory, rolling and calling for the end of minutes a month with a multi and security experts outlines why there's been such a local distrust in the un mission in the government of molly. the longer the mission remains often they communicate on immediate withdrawal. the more likely it is, the mission may turn out to be a problem tomatti then a solution. at the same time, the government clearly sees the dominance of funds within the framework of this un mission. in molly portman lives size say from 2013 to date,

different emissions or different mandates that have been extended. they have not only prevented the un mission in money from contributing to the restoration of a sustainable piece. but at the same time, the mission is because they didn't panic, a as a mission that only exacerbate tensions. the wind hardly achieves results for reasons related to the chief political position of certain states. because for all state the united. but now this is a diplomatic problem, competition between states that eyes they say developed in terms of ga, political positions. future you admissions would also be perceived by the population in destination countries as occupation. missions not the gratian ones un is perceived by countries in which there are companies as an organization, funded by certain international forces finance within the framework of j political competition. going to the detriment of those countries that are being assisted me to collision between 2 military planes on

a train here size in columbia has left at least one person dead for fish posted on social media shows 2 of the planes taken pods in the excise colliding before crossing to the ground and they're local uh, based on some today, we do reports and suggest the both pilots projected for both. what about the end of the one later died and investigation has been launched? as well is moving forward with funds to constructs motors settlements on palestinian london, the westbank enough, despite widespread international condemnation. even from the us about those news being a legal autism roofing option that has more. it is the largest rally, settlement in the middle of the palestinian territories is home to a thousands of jewish families with kids. and it is going to get even larger. these really high planning committee, the entity within the defense minister, responsible for planning area see, has okay, did the construction of mold in 6 to 600 new housing units and a number of sacraments all across the west bank. including at least the most

pressure people of israel and need all the promised land. as it says in the told rush. but somehow with a push to one side of the country. now we're trying to settle and we face of all and so of a level with dancing could exist. i'll answer eastern lodge, our presence in our state prison. i mean, we're gonna go to expansion was a response to a deadly pair attack that happened here in a fall from the entrance to a lead to palestinian gunmen opened fire 1st at the guard and then randomly of people at these gas station. it took the lives of boys railways, bringing the total death toll hall was really killed and terrorist incidents. they tier 228 the highest number in decades part. the reason for the terror attack is for us to leave the region, and every time we are attacked, our routes will become stronger and we will definitely stay here. so every hair attack, we are retaliation will be building more and more because we're here to stay. and we have the right to stay according to his really,

authorities building more homes for jewish people throughout the westbank is nothing but an effective tool to fight terrorist. and for years i have been saying that the appropriate response to terrorism is to fly that service. and at the same time, to deepen our roots in our country. indeed, we have been charged and the record number of terrace and also build it in our country on a broad scale, according to approve construction plans. i emphasize, approved, approved and not approved even by the is really government. this is a brand new outpost across the settlement. right now. basically, it's 5 months old, the things for 5 dues families who are ready to stay here until the authorities approve a new home. the idea they say is to create bouldering jewish communities in the area, connecting them to a chain and to defend routes retain because of the attack. that 4 of our friends died. they were murdered. and that's why we came here. because when the arabs ones

to kill us and they want to separate us from here, we want to come back here and to make the establishment sir, and bigger scale was indeed unprecedented. over half a 1000000 to assess there was leaving new york to find west bank was clear, a government's support and supplements that all considered illegal on to international law. and expansion goes on and on. the international community is furious. the united states is deeply troubled by these really governments reported decision to advance planning for over 4000 settlement units in the west bank were similarly concerned for reports of changes to israel system of settlement administration that expedite the planning and approvals of settlements, settlements or a legal under international law, as stated consistently, the e, you will not recognize any changes to the pre 1967 borders. settlement activity threatens current efforts to rebuild trust, to resume civil and security cooperation between palestinians and israelis. and to

prepare the ground for an eventual resumption of meaningful and direct negotiations . the government of israel should reverse these decisions and hold all continued settlement expansion. but the u. s. b u n. n b u r, faraway palestinians are all around here and they take is rarely expansion as a threat. the talent of to the most. i a weakness of violent attack by do stuff. there's just recently was dozens of cars burned and houses damaged again in response to the shooting at the gas station, as like a gas that in the body it keeps expanding and expands in on a daily basis. this threats lots of alliance until the people. so that's on the call to on. so that's on the village, the, the farming, it's about the, on everything. and the as low open sides, the slides this time. even though we're on the military control, i think we are the longest nation on that. i could face them in the world. i mean,

we just have to fight back. we can just sit there, let them keep going. we have to do something about it. we can just let them take our land. it's not right, but it seems the 2 state solution that the world is worried. the supplements policy will prevents from being achieved is long out of the picture. at least for these rarely government had a closed door meeting of the can essence for rent affairs and defense committee. prime minister engine. yeah. who reportedly said that israel must stop palestinians aspirations for an independent state. construction works are expected to start soon, and he is getting ready to bring a new residence. as our author is, rally sacraments, all across the west, bank and outposts no matter what. it is, not exactly clear how new homes and more to recess are assumed. the heart of the palestinian territories will help counter terrorism. but what is clear already? it is not going to help is the tensions raised notional ality from elli supplement as well. those uh, some of the stories of shipping news this week. hey, on safe on any of them, including all the latest on that one rest in front of the checkouts. all websites.

one has to be to scott, so i'll be back into the . so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy from foundation, let it be an arms race is often very dramatic. the only personally, i'm going to resist, i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very unclear to get a time time to sit down and talk the

attorney, welcome to was a part and take it a go. when historians were revisiting the origins of the 1st world war, the current sleepwalking became very trendy in describing how divergent factors and self serving actors tangled together to produce one of the biggest catastrophes in human history. as a world andrews, he had another period of tribe always to some number lading, or are we being deliberately lot into an a b 12 to discuss that i'm now joined by benjamin ablow. both are all how the west brockport to ukraine is to add a little bit great to see. thank you very much for your time. thank you for having me. now the title of your book, how the was brought warranty ukraine is quite self explanatory and unambiguous but the contrary in and me wants to challenge it immediately. because after all, it was russia that launched this military operation on the ukrainian soil. and this

is something that uh, both decision makers and opinion shapers in the west. so trying to frame as, as an act of aggression, a totally unprovoked act of aggression that goes against international law. and i have to say there, there's some validity to this argument. why do you think it was the was that was the main driving force behind this conflict? one of the points i make in the books is to try to distinguish between what are referred to as proximal causes. the causes of it immediately proceeded to war and the different causes it can extend back in history for there's no natural starting point for 1. 1 tries to establish just a sequence of events. so that while i make clear that the immediate cause of the war was mister food and decided to wash the war, he and his military staff or whoever else in the criminal was intimately involved with decision. and that sense laid their responsibility for initiating the war and

if the war could have been stopped and preventive at that point, then he bears responsibility. and of course, that the russians bear responsibility for how the war is being carried out. what i'm focusing on the book more is not so much the proximal causes, but are for those additional causes. the causes that extend further back in time that are now kind of hidden from sight that may have been on the newspaper papers, you know, the newspaper on the pages of the newspapers years ago and have been forgotten. or they may never been on the pages of the papers at all. so it's, i'm focusing mostly on the distal causes and the causes leading up to the current moment. i'm do you know your book uh, remind me reminded me a bit uh this uh, 2012 best seller by christopher clark on the origins of the 1st world war the, the sleep workers. and one of the reasons that book was so popular is because he tried to break with the old paradigm of assigning a culture it then focusing on the cool and the why. and instead,

he was more interested in the structural dynamics of swelling, animosity when you observe um the way the, the winds develop on both sides of the atlantic. do you think decision makers are cognizant of how dangerous could it could be? and perhaps of the historic lessons of the previous conflicts. yeah, that's a great way of framing it with sleep walking. um, i would make just a couple of points 1st. i think i can't speak for the inner mind of the leaders, but just going from what statements i see being made publicly on both sides. i'm sure there's some cognizance of the threat of nuclear war and the danger of this getting out of control. i don't think there's enough, and that's my fear or, or one of if here's connect with this conflict. i'll also just a riff for a moment that your comments about world war one. i think very often in the west and, you know, different people have different opinions. but i think the main stream view that's

coming out of washington and in the media is trying to impose the model of world war to a sort of hit or like expansionist. and unfortunately, there are even some who refer to mr. put in as a new hitler or whatever. and this is i would call shoot warning, a past event into a, a current event into a past model. so some people refer to that progress proquest in bed. and i think that the model that people is this actually more appropriate and the greater concern is the model of world war one, where it on control the arms race between as is usually described in their complications. this but non control arms race between britain and germany, through a series of events and a series of 500 controllable circumstances. contingencies led to the outbreak of the war. that was a catastrophe. and i think there's a great danger that we may run into that kind of problem now. and it's that world war one model that needs to be attended to closely in the west. and also in russia,

of course, one uh, how the united states to accumulate. they cannot make potential, and there are lots of people, not lots, but some of analysts here in moscow who believe that the americans are interested in having another global conflict as a way of overcome me, the multiplicity of costs of crises that we are facing right now. the crisis of capitalism, the crisis of global governance, ecological crisis. what have you, um, and i was going to, there are some historical precedents of that. i mean, i only klein's book the shock doctrine clearly demonstrates how the capitalist aims couldn't be served by, by the use, by the sanction use of states violence. ultimately, is this a conflict about the values of the bottom administration queens, or is it a conflict about resources and, you know, getting preferential,

i'm keeping preferential conditions that the united states has accumulated as a, as a head german. yeah. so i don't see this conflict as being one of our values. that's not to say that there might not be differences in values between uh, you know, elements of us population or elements of the us leadership and elements of the russian population and russian leadership. there may well be some differences, but i don't see it as conflict as having to do with that. i see this primarily as really, frankly, a proxy war on russia's border that is being pursued by the u. s. and then, you know, powers. and i think that there it's, it's not to say that it's all poorly intentions. i think there are probably a range of motivations. some people probably are not seeing clearly, some people are probably very well intentioned, but are imposing outdated models and incorrect models. and they were transportation of events. um, but i think um, so i think the geo strategic thing is very central. there are certainly people and

elements of the us, the leads that do want to weekend russia. you know, this whole question of a unipolar world. there is concern about that is the will for it's dr and etc, etc. so i don't see that that's actually, uh i, i don't like that. i don't like what's going on with respect to that. as far as the financial, the monetary issues, you know, there certainly are questions built into the background about the, the role of us dollars, the international reserve currency. there's questions of course, about, you know, how international markets work. on the extent to which i've really thought about the financial elements of this is, i do believe there's actually much truth to the concern about the military industrial complex. i'm sure your viewers are aware that this is a term that originally coined and popularized by president eisenhower. who was a 5 star world war, 2 general and hero, and in his farewell addressed to the american public. his final tell of his address

he wore in the american public of the combination of military, a garage. there are credit power and financial interest of the arms industry. and in fact, he even seemed like he was going to go so far as to bring in the question of financial conflicts of interest within congress. but was told mister president, you can't go so far. so i think that there are conflicts, financial conflicts of interest and power, conflicts of interest that have played some role in motivating the western stances towards what's happening in your book. you make the point that for 200 years of uh, the us as defense policy. it was uh, based, if not on the respect done at least paying some attention to the opponents, red lines or secured to sensibilities. and that's when it came to russia, the united states and nato disregarded this, this principal question number one, do you think they made that decision deliberately? was it a conscious choice? and why would they do that.