so anxious about losing the support, we are angry, there is no solution. this italian government has no right to do what it is doing. this government is starving over 170000 families by taking away their subsidy. this government does not love it. citizens, we are desperate on sundays. this is the message that the government sentenced by phone a death message, still the subsidy. what the politicians do, they have increased the salary because they come to live and they gives money to other countries like ukraine's the things that we autonomy and shouldn't be interested in this autonomy and governments has made up the thieves a government the thinks of other nations and goes against the poor people. well, that is all people. we cannot defend ourselves. there is no work, there is nothing in italy and what do they do to help us get no, nothing the the message that the government sent to inform them that they were stopping the subsidy is simply a death message that they are leaving these people to start with what the maloney government is doing is a war on the poor. you will see something serious happens because these people are

tired. this is our revolution, arms to ukraine. this is a shame of this government led by georgia maloney. what it is doing is a slap in the face to italy and the italians i bought it is abandoning poor people and it's financing a conflict. it is not ours. it must be a shame. it is paying for arms to another country, money, money that could have been used for the poor and that they're using to buy tanks and stuff. is this jani place? thanks very confident here at all. say internationally, it's always appreciated. don't forget to check our website. all take the place and what was the latest on the back of the,

[000:00:00;00] the hello and welcome to cross topic were all things are considered on peter lavelle, the architects of nato's proxy war and russia have big plans for the key every shame, as the cranes counter offensive fails, the country's postwar realities are being planned in the west. alas, these plans will fail to

the crossing ukraine's fades. i'm joined by my guess. erin, good in philadelphia. he's a political scientist historian, as well as author of american exception empire, and the deep state in raleigh. we have re, mcgovern, he is a former c i, a analyst, and elizabeth we cross and natalie morris. she is post of the redacted podcast white cross top roles and the fact that means you can jump anytime you want. and i always appreciate re, let me go to you 1st. so we all know it's, it's safe then to raise the media. and then in the west that the counter offensive is not going well. we also know from the wall street journal, again regime media, but it was never thought to be, it would work out very well any way. um and, but they let it go forward. but at the same time, i hear the state department and pentagon officials talking about post war realities . i mean, i don't know how we get from a trailed counter offensive to talking about post war realities. can you connect that dot for me? go ahead. right? yes, peter,

are there finally trying to act like the best versions in the gospel of matthew? you remember those virgins just some of them bored, extra oil and extra shells for their 155 millimeter howitzers. they got to go to the wedding. the ones that ran out of the mission vision. in other words, there's been no real planning for it happen here. uh, your current is or administration. and yet the president united states, and here's the lieutenants. keep saying russia has already lost the war. yeah. bottom line here, bottom line, the president is delusional. he would speak in, in maine or last friday. and he said, you know, who couldn't save the world, who couldn't bring the person who could bring the whole world together. is not may, but the president of the united states can only he can. and then

a cited madeline albright for god sakes a, you know, we are exceptional. we're indispensable. and, you know, the aaron is written the whole book about how accept true and where you are. it's go to all folds very flat. meanwhile, i have to complement mr. poaching. i'm being very cautious or very gradual. and you're where the delusion or even president, one doesn't want to put his back against the wall earlier than one hash to yep. natalie and, and lisp in the well array is already mentioned, so i'm going to pull it forward. we had a anthony blink and the secretary of state, and the president united states saying that russia's losing a or has lost. so natalie did, they are implying that ukraine is one. i mean, it is kind of a binary when lose. go ahead. now. yes. and we saw that when cnn talked to president trump recently a few months ago, and they said, who do you want to win or lose as if it is a binary? as if there's just no nuance in it. he said,

i want the dying to stop indicating that there is sort of an option for peace. if we all understood the nuance, the problem is that the west sort of feels like all of ukraine is being just bombed to oblivion by russia. you know, to their chagrin that they have no way to stop this. they don't understand the offerings of peace talks. they don't understand that the war has been concentrated in the don boss for almost 10 years now. this lack of nuance enables them to continue to sell the war and enables them to sell the idea that if we don't stop hooting, he's just going to keep on going all the way to where i live been, which is the western most part of europe. that, you know, all of a sudden this will be russia if we don't stop this regime of fruit and, and this lack of nuance is lack of studying this inability to rewind the tape is

what allows them to sell the war to americans. so that they, it just, you know, they accept it, they accept you at the same price as they expense what the president says. they sell it to a respective of the realities of the ground. that's what we're trying to. absolutely, but i think what's important is just today or just recently on military dot com, there was an open call for a draft inside the united states. and i think that that's important because the previous floors in the middle east really didn't cost the middle or upload classes very much. it was farmed from the poorest among the amongst us. so we didn't have to feel it. if you were an educated upper middle class person, just like, oh, that's too bad, right? but if there is an opportunity for a draft, if it cost actual american lives, we might feel quite differently. i have a teenage son now. i absolutely don't feel like any of the wars, but the united states has been involved in the last 40 years or something that i would want to sacrifice my son or anybody else's son. and it's different when it

involves your husband, your nephew of your brother, your son. but it is what is interesting, aaron, is that we have us congressman lindsey graham, for example, wanting the ukrainians to give up their sons at a whim or for for ideology. aaron, i mean, you know, it's, this is what makes it really whimsical because the us in many ways because it can print money into oblivion the, the, me, the chickens will come home to roost eventually on that. but the, they couldn't print all the money they want and they can buy all this extremely expensive hardware and send it to ukraine, but they don't lose forces. and that is part of what part of the cynicism of this war, aaron? yeah, absolutely. the ukrainian losses are pretty staggering now, i mean 400 that over 400005 many accounts, which is that's how much the us last fighting world war 2. if you add up both theaters, pretty much. so this is, and this is

a much smaller country. and so the idea that they're going to somehow turn this around is preposterous at this point. and yet they're saying this, you do, it does raise the question is by unseen i'll uh, or to see being misled or is he, does he just delusional in some other way? or are they just trying to somehow limp along to say we're waiting, you know, everything's going great and hope that they can do that until the election or mean it, it's become strange because you at some point they have to be aware. the reality is going to is going to come into play and be brought to bear on the perceptions of people. and it just reminds me of karl rove. and that statement he made a ron suskind. it's always attributed to call rosalie. we're an empire now and we make our own reality. and we're seeing the end of that cycle, which really began at the end, within the world, or 2, dropping to the nuclear bombs,

which was totally new to us. and the way that the u. s. has just ex, explains the way that it one of the world to be understood by people and pretty much and force that as much as it could. and, but the more, you know, the more the empire kind of, it comes over extended and praying. the more that the narrative just stops conforming to reality. yeah. but we're in that stage now or nothing makes any sense . it doesn't make any sense to me cuz i'm an errands, right? right, right. but then one of the problems that i'd be a symmetrical element of all this is that russia is couch this all in its security concerns. the west ignores them, but russia will enforce them. but they, the us, primarily in it's in, in nature world, they're finding an ideological more for a gemini and not about security. and that is why it's so a symmetrical re well, so russia, as you say peter, it's an existential threat. uh and uh, just looked at what made g h here. so sort of pressure that said just

a few days ago about being required to use nuclear weapons in the unlikely chance that nato shyster prevail. so is it an existential threat to nato or to the united states? well, not in re out for the take terms, but in a logical if it will. age administer terms. yeah. it is. yeah, yeah. so like my break but rate, they made it that way. they framed it that way is some kind of moral crusade, and then they, the and, and that's what makes it even more dangerous because these people look at victoria know and got a promotion for goodman say go gay. these are idea logs, and you can not negotiate with audio logs, ray. and they're also delusional. okay? they're not going to, when they're going to have to face up to the possibility that are actual when definitively russia has enough troops in place to do that. so what will bite and do

that's really the questionnaire, right? of administrative normal haven't, you know, should there, there certainly will be out of this cluster. i mean there's will lease, now a fight say well on that top shelf. they're the one that has the lock on it. those are the many noakes will they do that? i would not would put it passed. so i was. that's why you know, natalie, the amy ray is absolutely right. and this is what i've been arguing all along. is that, you know, red lines mean nothing to these people here because they believe that they are, you know, they, the angels are on their side and that they must win the end. and because they have that perception logic, he loads them natalie. right? but as an american living abroad, it never ceases to amaze me how just being american affords me some kind of cool points. because america is so good at selling an image at x sporting cultural capital, right?

and so for that reason we can sell anything and get away with it. so what the hell was there to pay for the wars in the middle east? not really much. we were able to leave a smouldering wreckage and go home and what did it cost? well, not the media leads and their families and so for that reason we continue to sort of think that this is a good template, right? but the idea of, i mean, you're right, it's the, you know, the idea of selling something that you are too afraid to push back on. so for instance, weapons of mass destruction, even if you believe that that was not a possibility, it still was too scary to push back. because of this idea of your family and smoldering bruin's. now we have the same, the same weapons of mass destruction is being used as the narrative of nuclear weapons. and if it was going to say that we sent out around with that, but not but natalie. again, looking at being rational and being using logic, the united states never would have invaded iraq if it did have weapons of mass destruction. i mean, nobody's right on the price of flip that around,

repeat it because they knew they didn't have it. that's why they did have the invasion here, but this they have a hedge, a monic mine site is in place here. i have ok, right, but my area go ahead, daddy is the media. and so the media knew that there was no weapons of mass destruction. they knew that there was no mounting a forest on the border to create. they knew that and shows not to broadcast it. and so what i'm most interested in is why is the media picking up the state department lies and running with it going into a war where we've been there before? no. well, i thought you didn't see what ray was doing, but yeah, i'm going to ask ray what his, what he was using is fingers far. when we come back from the break. i'm going to jump in here. we're going to continue our discussion on ukraine state state without the, the, the,

the european nations ultimately experienced that transformation with the exception. that is, was kind of defeated by the hard realities. right. or at least confronted was having this in a very significant way, spend, you know, the space up more or less a more or less the only exception to the general tendency. that, of course, has to deal with the fact that the jet radical situation of the other states is one of the things that of an iowa that is the size of the continents

the of the, the welcome act across software. all things are considered. i'm peter was about to remind you were discussing ukraine's fate. the . okay, before we go to re, i want to go to air and 1st in, in philadelphia,

i'm glad that natalie brought up a erac because, you know, it was a catastrophe and it was, there was no victory there. afghanistan, there was no big tree there. um, olivia, in north africa is still living with the consequences of that even now as we speak right now and i here, but the air and you know, all those conflicts catastrophes they didn't directly affect the united states. natalie is absolutely right. if you're a middle class family, you probably saw it on the news every once in a while and probably got tired of it. okay. but this is very, very different. and something being a scholar of the cold war, i'm a product of the cold war, a child of the cold war. is it one thing great powers bit and do you didn't go after each other, you had proxy wars. this administration wants to take out a nuclear power and have regime change. now, i know people have fantasies, but you know, the reality of that is that that is the, the recipe for catastrophe for world war 3. aaron to yeah,

absolutely. and it's really the continuation of, of policies that do day back to the early cold war uh, the, the nato did. and the iron curtain didn't have to exist in the way that they did. they did so because the us economic planners, the pinnacle of wall street power, people at the council on foreign relations and the oligarchs, they answered to decided that they needed to make western europe totally aligned with the united states and not trading with the soviet union or the eastern bloc, and so this is a big part of why you get nato and the co, the iron curtain. and you know, throughout, once the cold war ends a few years later in the ninety's, you have china and russia issue in joint declaration saying that they, they believe this will be a multi polar world. and it's a few years later that we start seeing that the us like, you know, lots of the c i a launch is an al qaeda branch to deal with al qaeda and then months after that. okay, to, to says it's going to attack the united states,

which is an interesting chronology. but all of these incursions into this whole, the near abroad of, or of the former soviet union. these lead up to, um, to what really, what to the, to the well, it's like a prelude to the global war on terror, which is a way to also show up at contested areas of the energy infrastructure of the world . and then also, you know, ukraine, the brzezinski writes about as explicitly in the late 19 ninety's commissioned by the council on foreign relations. his book, the grants um the grand test board, he writes about how you create is pivotal entity. if you want to make sure that rested in china, don't come together. and for us have counter hedge a monic block, you need to control these areas and emissions you created specifically. so this is the latter, and i think terminal stage of this whole initiative, you know, in the project for a new american century, we can call it and it failed it with the 911 wars in afghanistan in the rack. and it failed with the air of spring wars in libya and syria. i mean,

i get as they quote, unquote succeeded in libya, but syria, they failed in their still occupying it blatantly illegally and so on. and they are and, and losing, and ukraine. and this is really, i think the, it's, it represents the collapse eventually i believe. well, well, the air is there when i, i want to go back to, to re on this one, went ahead to mine is going down. it doesn't take it lightly. okay. if it doesn't take it lightly, and what i worry about going to re right now in raleigh is that they get a refuse to lose. okay. or they'll come up with some kind of praise. i've already coined it from this program that the russians didn't make it to paris oversight. lisbon we won. okay. but we are more serious note array and you know, we've, we've seen the north streamed pipelines blown up. we've seen a major dam destroyed. and what else do they have up there? so you because why mike only will concern now is this complet comes to an end

eventually is a false flag operation. that's what i worry about. most right. well, peter, you may recall, and so let's see his own ideas about a false flag operation. namely, blowing up is up our osha nuclear plants, the largest in europe. we advertise that, and of course it wouldn't be the russian so we're blamed for it. now it was really interesting, it's just a few days before the videos summit, all manner of western officials, nato officials, are of, came down on. so live scan said the doors weighs 100. the don't, does the, the russian attack are ends up. oh, yeah, yeah. it should say says dog though and so i'd ski and so when you arrive in the us, it was already under a cloud. are you? why does that have fall out? come into poland and romania and the rest of you. yeah. and he was sort of already ostracized. now,

that was the last straw in my view. and there won't be any false legs from the list, or for sure, a certain whether the lensky will try it on his own. i would not put a pass to the important thing here is the fact that no matter what tony blinked and says and already said, of course is i have quoted and did not achieve his aim. so if i could be applying and taking over all of ukraine, well you know, like and think so. those were who trans ams is woefully what mission formed. i prefer to give them the benefit is our last lie. i don't, he has a long career of being a liar. okay. i mean, he was a great rush to gator as well. okay. it doesn't, it doesn't get a pass in my book and all these people are very maniacal. natalie, when you know, when people keep talking about, you know, bringing peace, bringing this conflict to and, and the west. it says it thinks that they can have an a meeting and in copenhagen

now in jet, in this, in saudi arabia. but there's always a missing piece, rushes never there. and so they're not serious about coming. what they want to do is they, they want to re galvanized the world that has losing interest into conflict at the west. started against russia. right. clearly not because restaurant has had an open invitation for peace talks and zalinski passed a law saying that peace talks are illegal. so how can he attend some parties where peace is going to be a discussion? and any time he talks about peace, what he means is increased security guarantees from the west, which he thinks guarantees piece, which have not so far, right. and so they're not serious conversations. and now we see zelinski has extended emergency powers to keep himself in office pass what was planned, an election in october. and so if you're a ukrainian you really have no options here for peace. you have a leader who obstinately refuse is and then every now and again can pretend they're

asking for peace. that's what we saw when he address congress just a few months ago. what he meant by piece was increased weapons. and so those 2 things do not go together unless you're in neo con, but you know, again it's lost in translation because of the sort of, the inability to study the past 10 years of this conflict for most people. and so this idea that it had, you know, had gemini, would lose this battle, be able to spin it because we're so good at p r, and then move on. well, if you look at the map, went from the middle east to ukraine, now we'll go to taiwan and try that there. and then i don't know when this same template happened, so just keep going, right. and so we go around the horn. well, either way, aaron, home, you know, i'm very cynical by watching because i study the media and very cynical it's, i always can. my default attends to be a griffith. ok. afghanistan was a graph. ok. you know, you had mark milly crying in front of bible. what about the girl?

i also not to change to knows about money. okay. because it was a good career there. 20 years. it'd be a lot of people made a lot of money off of it does try and country but by the way, so air and i mean the ukraine adventure is a griffith as well because i tend to think the people in care of realize yeah, but jake is going to be up eventually, but let's catherine, as much as we can. well, we can, aaron, the right i, it's hard to that. of course there are a number of parties interested in eluding ukraine or profiteering office in any way that they possibly can. i don't think that fundamentally it is about a military industrial complex boon dog or anything that state forward or crass? well, i mean it's crass but it's it, i think it's propelled mostly by the urge to punish russia, especially after russia intervened and disrupted their plans in syria. i think that the us realize that a,

a sort of russia that's going to defend its mirror. broad is a real threat to their long term plans, and that the only place that they could bring this to a head would be in ukraine. and so the evolution, i quote, unquote, fundamentally, i agree with you, particularly, you know, when we look at all of these complex, around the world last 40 years. but this one is against russia's specifically. and that's what makes this different. it makes it different because the way the west has constructed this one side has to win and one loses. that is a paradigm that we've never seen before. aaron, continue, well, is it right? definitely. they will. the, i'm sorry, they will end up. they'll end up taking a good chunk of that territory, and i think that what you're going to end up with in ukraine is something that looks like the 2010 election map the which is the actually you can argue in terms of like justice that that's sort of suitable because i, i wish i would throw that. i wish i had that graphic because you're absolutely right. natalie. i interrupted, you jump in. oh i, i just wanted to say,

is it different or is it same when you look at the middle eastern floors? those were and attempts to make sure that various countries did not become friends and present a united economic block. that is a similar thing. it's, it's more geography than it is. um, i don't know. i mean we're trying to describe attentions intentions here and, and aaron was giving them the benefit of the doubt. but it is, it literally just about geography is that you are friends with whoever can disrupt unity in that region. and so ukraine is strategically placed in the same way that syria was in the same way, but libya was. and those leaders who had unifying aims were the ones that became the biggest enemy. yep. yep. right. you want to jump in there, but yeah, one minute before we go to the end, the program go ahead, right. well, i just wanted to say that i think what you're driving at peter is that this is very different. this is challenging a nuclear power, which was on voided ever since then,

since the soviet union and got no clear weapons, right? this is what john kennedy warned about backing up a nuclear power into a choice between that humiliating the state and something less than that. that's what we've done here and we've got a better wake up and smell of coffee. meanwhile, let's, let's just talk to the biggest proceed as a gradual attrition. i attrition attrition page and ukraine road have the have those really radical hawks in moscow, prevail over what i consider to be put change approach? well, i think all of us and i'm not original in saying this, that we all want the conflict to come to an end, because this is a complex that never should have happened in the 1st place. it could have been easily avoided, but there was a certain class of people that were hell bent on making this happen. that's all the time we have one, i think my guess in philadelphia, raleigh and,

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