decision makers, because i'm sure the military intelligence community knows that at least the russia has the kinds of weapons that can inflict the norm as damage to the united states. the few guys at this point of time have no defense against despite all these per trail of a present pollutant as a, you know, as a psychopath, as this gets a frantic as an a rational person is a calculation that he will be, you know, say is saying there and wiser than that he will be in fact more responsible and not to start than nuclear weren't even if he's pushed to the limit the most of the pricing thing that i, that i assume about president clinton and his behavior in the course of this worries that he's a profoundly rational actor, he's a show amazing restraint in the face of massive by western provocations. that doesn't mean i agree with the russians. invasion of you, craig, i absolutely don't, but we need to see what i wrote an article recently in the national interest in which i stated with the american needs to have more strategic empathy for russia.

if we were to put ourselves in russia shoes and in texas were to become independent right. allied with russia in china. we, we invade bomb and internet, all of a texas and call it a defensive war in much the same way in a rush to seize this as i understand it as a of a pre, a pre emptive or rather preventative, more to prevent ukraine from a boy from the to sacramento member to a full member of nato. and i think that's a, that's absolutely and rushes, you know, legitimate national interest to do and, and we have to recognize, rush is a legitimate security concern as if we're ever to the end is, uh, you know, this cocked ongoing conflict with the russian federation. now you mentioned the present, put and being at a rational decision maker, and i want to ask you about the president bite and then i would never dare to ask such a question about them. you know, private says a citizen, but he's not a private citizen. he is the president of the united stays,

intrusted with some of the most destructive powers in the world. then you have to be here him, you know, making statements that he has some parish than the rockland, the whole world knows that he died from cancer and many other um, not just gas, but uh, statements that clearly demonstrate how compromise his cognitive ability is how compromised his member is, how do you feel as an american, as a person who was, who served the american army? how do you feel about that person in such calling to stay making decisions about global warren peace to, you know, strictly alarming. we don't really know who lisa, lisa, united states for america. it's, you know, sometimes we think it's fine, but as you say, you subtract out out cognitively, it appears to be someone else. and so we need to let you know, we like to joe biden to be a president, and if he lacks the ability to serve, so i've been calling for his resignation, or is the removal from office by impeachment or other means are going to prevent us

clearly we need, we need a more rational actory or the less, i mean, i would argue that a bind is much more international accurate based on his decisions and his actions in the course of the warranty crane and specifically not avoiding the warranty created the 1st place when with all of the russian prize it was asking for essentially was a written guarantee from the us, the nato, that you probably would never join nato and the support from the mates to, of course, which up, up until i think the february 22nd of last year president clinton stated should be the basis for a peaceful coexistence between russian new crate. and that was a, that was an arrangement far more advantageous to ukraine. if, you know, the don boss region would've been fully restored to create a control. i'll be it with substantial self rule and economy. and now of course, is that the best case that you created faces that is a ceasefire and which are right. it recognizes roughnecks ation of a 5 different

a prior you create, you know, less well, yes, mr. finance, a pretty bleak situation on the, on the front lines right now, but let's pause for a 2nd. we'll be back to this conversation in just a few moments. switching, the english propaganda war against pressure beginning to show practice stimulatory situation. your brain is being revealed is grim with anything approaching optimism, fading, the less the by the administration and the inner parties, soldier on wasting ukrainian blood the welcome back to into parts with david pine,

a former in us army combat arms officer and military affairs commentator. mr. pine before the break, we touched upon a prison, biden's cognitive capacity and you know, my own country. i was born in the hope of winning years of the soviet union. it have, has had its own experience with the student leaders. and one thing that uh, it showed, at least to us, is that when you have such um, elderly liter and usually what happens is a lot of, uh, you know, behind the scenes clams and there is interest groups fighting with the child. there are 4 influence. do you see any signs of that within washington or within the biden administration? yeah, you know, there is a, a really interesting article that came out in newsweek recently. i think it's quite credible in which it stated, revealed that a, the director of the ca travel to ukraine, to, uh, uh, you know, convey a, uh,

an offer of, uh, you know, to essentially swear offer for both russian ukraine in which of us would recognize the russians territorial and ex ations that be great exchange for peace and that that is, you know, that's exactly what needs to happen. but i think the missing piece is, i don't, i don't believe dividing this ration was willing to agree to print it. and probably i think that they continue to pursue this. uh, you know, this unfortunately dream of ukraine. they don't membership, which has been really this, almost the sole cause of this, you know, this entire conflict between russia and ukraine and in through the cold with the collective west in general. uh, you know, from my vantage point here at vineyards, policy on ukraine or reserve, your rush is a pretty similar to a present biden's. um well awareness or disability all for i. he's called me or just hours because one day they say one thing and the next day,

and they say they either and you have written yourselves that they use the united states has also admitted to helping ukraine target them kill dozens of russian generals. they are supplying rocket launchers to enable them to destroy targets on the russian territory, including uh, crimea. and on the top of the document just heard the same or her sho, pulitzer prize winner report on the american intelligence services authorizing a couple of acts of industrial, tow terrorism by blowing up the north stream pipelines. i wonder if that is, um, you know, typical american conduct, or is it an overkill even by the, by the previous lose american standards. i mean, do you see any changing, any shifting of the norms here a well, i think this is were almost an unprecedented territory. because of the us, of course, our way of warfare is, is much like world war 2 and much like russia during the, the, the great feature of we're in the, you know,

we're used to finding total wars bombing series of so many different structure. and of course, lately we've engaged or limited wars, but this is a really, in a for, i mean, this is a just afghanistan and we're, you know, we're, we're trying to counter a, so the soviet occupation back gas, this is, this is a war of the heart of your and it's a war you know, it, which, which rest of uses, existential. and so these type of actions, all the actions that you just mentioned are, are really irrational. and it's an absolute opposition to us national security interest. and they are creating a very dangerous and unstable world in, in europe. that could easily spiral out of control. i mean, a president goodness stated that there's absolutely nothing that he's not willing to do to any warranty crate. so, i mean, there's a way to do that. by advice is very near to escape the commander in chief and any

president or any person in his position and would have to swear to the same. yes. and so he's willing to escalate all the way to, to the tactically, to the level, if necessary, to win. i don't think, i think he understands. that's likely not as barry. but um, you know, i just, i just don't see, it says matt as to be at the bottom. just raise your zack in this way when we have no national interest and ukraine. i mean, if a rush you were to next, all of you create tomorrow and it wouldn't affect us or nato national data security in my opinion. but that was a plan. i don't want our viewers to make an impression that the most accurate of ones do are, you know, global. so if you oh, of ukraine because i mean, it's a huge territory and russian doesn't have the resources to support all of that. i think at least as far as i'm concerns, the primary goal of the russian military operation is a security strategic security. and for anyone who's ever cited military history

it's, it's not hard to understand what's hard to understand is why the united states would push so vehemently against pre be understandable, requested by russia. i mean, any great power is use that would, that would ask for nothing less. and i've heard you suggesting that perhaps one of the potential answers to that is that for, by the end of the, the fighting refreshing ukraine has become a sort of a religious dog mind. what do you mean by that? it? well, what i mean by that is that there is a painful factor of, you know, the c ukrainian war propaganda saying that, you know, treated demonize, russia, you know, on fox news, i hear the russian army referred was an army of terrorist. i mean, that's just, it's just not true. there's no, there's no um, fax to back up the desk. far russia has, is refrained from direct attacks against the civilians,

you know, for. so he prayed, he is you creating army forces, have hidden schools and hospitals, which is an in contradiction to the chief convention and, and you know, pauses them to be legitimate military targets. but of course, the rest is not after the next you crate it, it's uh, in fact, it, it will day 2 of the war. a rush at these terms to ukraine, which is the ones he quickly, you know, immediately accepted. a rough is offered to begin negotiating, and essentially that was that all russian troops would leave the dog boss free leave all over the ukraine. but of course prime, which is part of pressure and the dog boss region in exchange for peace and it's rally. yeah. and they actually came your tentative agreement, march 31st and assemble in which a russia rudest commitment to peace by withdrawing for 3, you pre and all boston in northern new grade. and the end of us was funded by

escalating and towing those liskey not to accept negotiations anymore. i would like to ask you about the how you see the desired outcome of this course. say that the by the end of ministration is waging. what is the ultimate goal here to punish russia and if so, what does it mean? does it mean, you know, teaching, right russia less than converting, rushing america's image, or perhaps raising russia of the map? and if that's the case, i mean, in practical terms, what do they actually want to achieve? you know, i mean, there's been so many different statements made. ultimately i said, because the bottom line is that the, by the ministration would like to to restore the, the status quo auntie. which is, which would be 2 of a russian troops to withdraw to their uh, their free and uh, february 24th position one. they were offered in january during the last summit by putting that in between put an invite and they didn't take it at all for yeah, i mean, it's completely law school in

a rational why we didn't do that. essentially. uh, it was really a matter of pride. it by the, by ministration refused to close the open door policy for nato, that any nation in the world can, can join data on it. it's, it's really ridiculous. you know, we could have had a policy that allowed for other european countries other, other than a former soviet union to join to. they closed the door for a former soviet republic south side of the baltics. and that was, i believe, entirely of going to this world. and instead of what we see for the by the mystery shows is a desire to, to essentially use the ukranian troops and civilians as can far i mean to tweak and russian militarily after you had uh, sent mr. pine. uh, i think this is actually a very important point because uh, it's one thing, one of your house pride, but uh, you know, sending uh, weapons and weaponized, the ukraine as a, essentially a battering ram against russia is, you know, is it, is, it is this thing of

a different order of magnitude, no rush or could the, you know, i think compromise around the appearances. but when it comes to, you know, turning a neighboring country into a military battle ground against us. that's quite a different matter. yeah. i so say, you know, it's something that russia refused to tolerate, understandably, and it's something us would never tell. or, in fact, i would argue that us present would be even even more firm and decisive and depending us interest. then the goodness that and you know who's doing what's in rushes best to address um, unfortunately bind is not doing what is in america's best interest. you just mentioned put in and i wanted to ask you a question at sort of continue and discussion on the religious nature of this that and beto because i've heard a put to make repeated references to the bible to and i think for him it's also an ontological battle, and he's rational comes down essentially, to asserting that the united states wants to replace god uh wants to put itself

into place. i've got to be the only judge of good and evil, what's permitted, and what is not on this planet. while also, i'm not subjecting itself to this kind of scrutiny. so essentially put in his argument that is that the washington tries to peddle supremacy under the guise of a mess and isn't do you agree with that? well, no, i wouldn't go that far, but i would say that the us for a policy of a liberal asian is gemini, is as been a really failing disastrous policy. you know, that's, that's kind of the part for policy. we adopted in the wake of our cold war victory like so you and i say victory. there was no, i mean there was no uh, no tree design. there was no surrender ceremony. was it? it was a bit create a sense that we no longer had rushes an enemy, and that was a huge missed opportunity because we had the opportunity to incorporate rusher and the 2nd security architecture of europe. perhaps even as, as a member of nato,

or through the o. s. perhaps more realistically through the o. s. c, e with a, a security agreement from atlanta to start to of at cooper, which would ensure the security and peace of europe for decades, perhaps centuries to come for. now one last question i have time for um, i want a quote uh the usa general omar bradley, somebody who advocated against expanding the korean war into china back in the 1950s. and he saw that the time that america was running on the momentum of a godly ancestry. and then the one that's my mental runs down god help america. i sometimes feel that the god really needs to help us all at this point of time. looking at where things are going and they will do still have any hope for, for sanity or for rational resolution to all of this. well, i think i do, i do have some hope. i particularly with the vitamins reported to offer a,

you know, to offer a 20 percent of you create a territory that essentially that which russia is already an x s. as part of the russian federation to, to rush. i mean, i can face all that. i mean that they would have to ask their craniums after that, after all, don't they as well? i don't think so. i think that the problem is that with a biased racers, they've essentially subcontracted us. rush a policy to you. grade in soleski is not a special actor. he sees a be comments about his desire to have us engaged at a pre emptive nucular strike against russia. that's ever going to happen by this the most, the time to present we ever have. and so, you know, there's no risk of new to that we're on, on our end. but um, yeah, that's uh, you know, we just need to get, get richard, a sanity, you know, in a commitment to peace. and i think uh, i do think a ceasefire is the way to do that. what i see happening in the near future is uh, you know, rushes report only on the verge of a massive winter spring defensive involving press,

an additional half 1000000 troops on your praise for a that's likely to occur in the next couple of weeks. and i think there's going to be a massive success of the russian dillinger's park in, you know, the concrete, a wide swath of the pre and territory as was captured, a large number of pre interest. then we'll essentially bring western leaders to, to our sense as well. and we'll be forced to admit that ukraine is just being defeated and has been defeated. as a result, we'll have to, you know, we'll have to come to negotiate and table the russian. i think it should be a negotiator to it between the us and russia and of us can, can represent the praise best interest without having you created the table. well, uh, mr. piney, i think you're very optimistic, but uh maybe that's the american spirit that i, i hope uh i definitely enjoyed your hopes for peace and for a rational way to the see spar. we have to end it there, but i'm very,

very grateful for your time today. thank you very much and thank you for watching hope to see her again. on the part of the, the, the, [000:00:00;00]

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the music is for us to go out here. it is a dangerous distraction. pension is preferable, tension keeps your shop the reason why driving towards the front will stop a tell a command post, find out what's up with the rain for such a shelley and whether we can move to then get you to all forward positions. other than that, we're enjoying the weather. close to a mess with them with that shell hoble. how's the weather? do you copy over the home? you go to that election all the and out. the final stretch, the moves dangerous. he's on foot. the shilling goes louder. i deal with those heavy rain to the not

often enough, but the, it's a blessing. it is an incoming shell for job destination in the moment for a few sentences because it's with very itself, the destination side strapped to the ultimate $150.00. counted bush out, the impact run, run, run the come on, come on we arrive to a flurry of activity and shelly out of mind and i don't mind that. i don't mind that the radio china is incessant tension on the h. the taco settlement, and that's yeah,

the above the doesn't really show the gun against the context of the heavier you can just go through position with just a few weeks ago. was one of the front lines that he's no longer with us through the force of the to the intensity. now, troops of the atm tank regiment in the middle of an assault on a ukrainian position. as we watch one, bush and soldier dodges 3 grenades in as many minutes. these lot of uh, 53 russian troops versus 10 ukrainians with more arriving. yeah, you're doing your best to be out of who, you know, most of what it's in a do. you did to me, you're not sure west cockle, i'm essentially what the affiliated and that's a pretty, you know, don't like the united just funding for the united is on the,

with the russian troops of pulled back a mass of ukrainian soldiers congregates together. it is a fatal mistake. yeah, yeah. a 152 millimeters shell screens in impacting just meters from the crowded soldiers. many undoubtedly hate with shrapnel. they begin to flee, carrying but of the wounded with the others i left behind dead in india, the like and not the shell hits. they break, leaving the injured come raid that was in july you go to yes, 8 of them ran. they have a band and they're didn't it hundreds, some of them are wounded as one who can fairly crawl. the rest are on the move. now we can see them running new more than

a relative. lovely settles the russian. a sold team were tons, 2 of them are injured. you are very grateful old enough so well, i will blinking out. do you want to sleep? remember, one rule, don't fall asleep. got any kids? 2 or 3 of them. wow. now repeat off to me. kids a was leaving for come on, said the there is a volunteer medic. he has a way with his patients and he does ask the counselor to follow you to worry if you panics, then he could freak out. so he shouldn't look at the wins and stuff like that. tell him anything to distract him. make him last chat about something. make him think about other things. when he talks, that's good. if he can answer, that's great. the wounded are evacuated even though i'm

a vehicle. in the meantime, magazines are reloaded. i mean nation is poor theme in less than an hour of fresh salt squad who be sent in to claim the trench alone with all the bodies in it. for a gas t of a t for them came in, i looked on screech of the uh, the ukraine conflicts escalades that was design. think even more fuel to the file with another $400000000.00 in military age promised by us officials at the expense of american tax pay is that as well for an increasing criticism on the home front is almost easy. my h, i explained in the united states, has plenty to send $400000000.00 in military a to ukraine. now the package includes a variety of munitions for advanced air defense systems, as well as is through billions for the drones. but overall, the united states has spent over $41000000000.00 on ukraine since the beginning of

the costly and it seems like it is very much dedicated to see a ukraine when they're even planning to send cluster munitions. some western analysts have said that this conflict for the united states, the negatives of this conflict outweigh the positives. and they've said that what's best for the united states is to open up for dialogue. but let's take a little look at the negatives right now. so they've mentioned a potential nuclear risk, as well as an escalation of direct conflict between nato and russia. and as the us general mark, milly has even listed to avoid a russia and nato war as a top priority for the united states. because that was essentially mean that the us would be in hot water is with a nuclear power. now, a long conflict poses other difficulties for us interest. one of them be in spending more money when it comes to ukraine to make it return to its economic sustainability as well as this, the united states has an interest in stable energy markets. the longer this

conflict goes on, the more pressure comes on food prices. but also global economic trends affects the united states, greatly. the united states economies to be precise. and so as long conflict would mean that the global economic growth would slow down, if this conflict goes on even longer, that would mean that the united states global priorities would essentially be suppressed and the conflict would absorb its military resources and its energy. analysts have also mentioned the bilateral relations between russia and the united states. and they have said that it is very much unlikely for them to get any better if the conflict can see use. they've also mentioned the prospects to negotiate a follow on to the new start treaty, which is set to expire in 2026. these products prospects will remain weak. the costs for the united states and the european union of could be in the ukrainian state,

economically. solvent will multiply over time as conflicts inhibits investment and production beyond the potential for russian gains and the can only consequences for ukraine. europe and the world a long war would also have consequences for u. s. foreign policy. the ability to focus on it's all the global priorities, particularly competition with china will remain constrained as long as the war is absorbed, senior policy makers time, and us military sources. we have the democratic presidential candidate, robert f. kennedy, who has said that this is no longer about humanitarian aid for the united states. but instead, the united states has turned this into a proxy war with the roster up we have neglected many, many opportunities to settle this work peacefully. the way that we have conducted the war is bad for the client id is terrible for the accredited people. even among the current administration bite and administration, the us national security advisor jake sullivan has also said that the bite and none