3 day voting period. let's get started. the, there is no greater duty or privilege for a citizen than the right to vote. this is exactly why the people of the regions of the next tier son landscape is up a z. a. were given the freedom to do so long was 79 other regions in russia just like elections held in almost every country around the world. border integrity quickly came into question. as the united russia party was over whelming, we elected this was not hard to predict as the election was condemned by most of the west. even before the 1st ballot was cast, accusations of intimidation, forced voting and rid the elections, could've just been copy and pasted from previous articles about western elections. all wacky and specifics, and full of anonymous tips and sources. unable to prevent this,

the russian government did what most foreign governments do, and invited election observers from other countries to watch the balloting for transparency, legality, and offer confidence in the outcome. one observer, steve gal who has traveled at the request of the united states department defense multiple times and has told the truth about military operations when they felt like the mainstream media was misleading. the american people and the belief that the troops on the ground for doing more harm than good from baghdad and pollution, 2005 to guantanamo bay detention facilities. and took away united states military clearly has confidence in steve gills. ability as an independent observer of the action on the ground and the ability to tell the truth. now steve was just asked to do the say what observer, the elections held in the recently annexed areas and ukraine. guilt was formerly the director of in or governmental affairs, the us trade representative under both president bush and clinton. and steve go

also has a popular can sort of talk radio show and practice international law. steve gill joins us today. thank you for joining us. you've just got back at 5. yes. well, i got back about 48 hours ago. wow. so you're, you're still trying to get over the jet lag. let's start off with what was your role as an election observer, and what were you told to look out for you know, i really wasn't given instruct you on what the look for. basically we were told we could look at anything we wanted to talk to anybody we wanted to, and that's exactly what i did. i went to about 7 different election sites in the don bass region was the mary hugh fall was, is on this was in a couple of the smaller towns and villages. but we were given the opportunity to ask anybody anything to observe the process, which we did take pictures, and we didn't just do this at the polling site. again as we kind of travel in and out of the, the restricted zone. we stopped the convenient stores in grocery stores and talked

to people there. i talked to people in moscow as well. unfortunately, i had a, a colleague of mine who has been on several of these observations. i visit the russia and other countries to speech russia and he's in america and he's a lawyer, he's actually a lawyer that i do work with on a regular basis. didn't include the speech russian. so i didn't just have to depend on the translators. they provided to us, i can provide on my own guy. so i wasn't being given any kind of, you know, information that wasn't accurate. and i'll tell you got it. i've been involved in american politics rover for decades. i've worked in campaign run as a candidate. i've insulted formerly and informally, and i was looking at this process of pulling station to police station trying to figure out how would i cheap. uh, not because i wanted to, but how would i cheap the system? i got to tell you i couldn't figure out a way well steve, you before we get to kind of what you guys are. so i have to wonder what you want to do this. why was it important to you to travel across the world to observe these elections? i got to tell you, studies you mentioned i went to rack

a couple of times and then took away and interact after we liberated those people. they had the opportunity to vote. they had the opportunity to turn out facing danger or the very active casting their boat. and they did their fingers and purple ink that clearly designated them as somebody who had had utilized that right to vote. marching them, possibly for death and certainly for, for danger and risk. and they did that. and i felt like giving the opportunity to go see these areas where american media western media has ignored what's going on there for, for over a decade, where the voters, there were having the 1st opportunity to cast their votes without the oppression or the restrictions being placed on them, they were radically dipping their fingers and purple and, and i felt like having the opportunity i would go get my fingers and purple ink with them. well, it's interesting because already you're seeing some backlash. and so when you saw the elections and everything of your observations, you're obviously not afraid to talk about it. are you worried about being called

a russian propagandist as ukrainians have already done? or that you might actually have backlash here in the united states? in fact, i think they're actually calling for some sort of punishment on your head from united states government. yeah, you have this transgender spokesperson for the ukrainians at american france. gender, who's gone over there to express the, i guess, whatever propaganda the ukrainians want to put out. who is threatened punishment for those of us who went to see and tell the truth. i got to tell you, i didn't see cnn or fox news or the new york times, or the washington post or any other western media outlets. they're actually seeing for themselves, hearing for themselves what's going on. and yet they're quick to carry out the, the, the ukrainian propagandist from this uh, this american transgender man or woman who's now over there, you know, spewing out the propaganda. so yeah, yeah, we've already been being attacked and criticized. it's been said that we gorged on the bodies of dead ukrainians while we were there. i'll tell you,

i had some worst. i had to be struggling off. i didn't need any dead babies while i was there. well, let's get to the election itself. what did you observe? you know, it was a lot like election sites here in the united states. you know, people came in there were not bus loads being brought in. they were not being brought in by armed guards. this idea that they were being forced to vote is the furthest thing from the truth. and again, i was it 7 different the following stations throughout the region. others in our group are a different ones. i can just tell you what i saw. and people were enthusiastically voting, they were getting the opportunity to express themselves. and as i talked to them, they were excited. they weren't coming in sad and depressed. it again was, was a joyous occasion. there are many times they were playing music at the site at one of the sites they had a, a, a russian, a group of a full seniors singing and performing for us to kind of share their russian history . and people, i think in the west on,

i understand that this part of the brain speaks russian. they identified as russian . and for the last 9 years they've been attacked and, and brutalized by the ukrainians, trying to force them to be brainy. and when they identify as russians, so what we saw is people coming in, being able to cast their votes. the voting boxes are, are completely transparent. you slide your written ballast to a little slide so you can't stuff in more than one. when you're going through the process, you have to show your, your passport or a government issued photo id. you then sign in to vote in, in which one you want to sign in to. and most people are forced for voting and both the local provincial elections for their basically their mayers, their, their governor, as well as for those that were being sent to the russia and some of the areas to represent them in the do my, their, their house of representatives so to speak, and they would pick, you know, they would sign in to, to get to ballast to vote in those they would fill out the ballot in the curtain

where they were again covered from view just like in the united states. and then they would gas their vote in that open box. it was transparent for everybody to see what the interesting things that they do in russia that we should do here in the united states is they have video cameras live streaming. what's going on in those following stations throughout the whole course of the election day or multiple days if the case may be. so anybody, anywhere in the soviet union or former soviet union, now russia and go online and actually watch it or figure appalling station. what's going on in real time and the mosque allergy election, central. they had party representatives from the various parties sitting in a large room with computer screens in front of them with 15 or 20 different openings sites that they were observing at any given time. shifting to whatever they wanted to watch, you talk about transparency. it was live streaming real voting so anybody can see what was going on. and they also record it. so somebody raises an issue and wants

to go back and say, hey, i suspected something, it's 1245. let's see if somebody came in and voted here a 2nd time. it is under that, another free say, it's on the record, it's better to say. and then at the end of the day, they do the count in the same way visible, transparent. they didn't hold up the boat down after the party, people there who watched them counts a vote. they hold up the number so everybody can see. and then that number is transmitted to mosque out, where the central election numbers are taken into place. i would say it's got a, if we had had this an effect and united states, joe biden would not be president. wow, that is a pretty strong statement. they were like you said, as transparency from the beginning to the end. there's also the conflict itself going on. tell us a little bit about the cities themselves. i don't know how much you are able to say the worst is going on now for almost 18 months. what did you observe about the streets of mosque out as well as the territories a while in, in the territory is the conflicts actually been going on the don path region for

more like 9 years where they've been seeking independence from your brain and the premium militia many of these a's are battalions have been coming in brutalizing murdering raping people. it's no surprise that the people in this area want to be separate from ukraine, but they experience the shelling and the brutality for, for almost a decade and then have the opportunity to pursue another course. so there were the bonded out buildings we were in the parts of areas where the shelling was obvious, where the destruction was obvious. we did not get within about 50 kilometers of the actual front lines because that's about the length of the missile range. and they didn't put us in that danger, but in parts of done ask, you're still having drones strikes. one of the polling stations that one of our team was visiting later in the day was hit by ukrainian drone stripe just before the voting took place. so they, the rights, the intimidation that we're hearing about was there, but it was coming from you brain. it wasn't coming from, from the russians and in that side. and in moscow, i think most americans have

a perception of, of mosque out as this kind of soviet era blooming. you know, concrete buildings. nothing could be further from the truth. i have not been in moscow for about 25 years. and i was shocked at how much it has changed me. mean tall skyscrapers. a dinner one night at the 84th floor i think is the tallest building in europe in moscow city. that would challenge the beauty and the glass and steel of any american city that you would want to find and lock out. people are going about their business. you know, there was a 7 story mall next to the hotel. i stayed in 7 stories. each 4 was bigger than the biggest malls in nashville, so i'm not seeing the sanctions bring the russians to their needs based on what i saw. okay, so then let's talk about the people. did you get a chance to interact with any of the locals and how did they actually feel about you being an american you know, they were actually excited about the fact that somebody in america could maybe tell

the truth about what they were experiencing. a couple of good stories and one of the following places. there was a dad with his young daughter that was there and, and it struck me that you know, if you're being oppressed, if you're in, in danger, you're not bringing your young child to boat with you and show the future to her that you're testing your vote for there was another lady who is an election commissioner and one of the smaller villages that we went to. she said she had lived there her entire life. and for 40 years there was a bridge next to her house that had been a block. and it said, do not cross the danger, you know, that it was a, a broken down bridge. the soviet era, they didn't repair it. you premium era, they haven't repaired it. but in one year, since they had been liberated from the military fighting there, they have a brand new bridge, solve the same thing. and in maryville, where you have the bombed out of the apartment buildings. and then across the street you have 4 or 5 brand new 1000 unit apartments that have just been constructed in just the last year with chinese contractors doing most of that work

. so american contractors can be doing a lot of work to sort of rebuild what's been broken, but instead others in the world are going to be doing that and making those profit . one other lady is that one of the following stations was talking to me about the, the new schools, the new construction, the roadways that have been built in just the last year since. uh uh, the premiums have been moved out and, and the new construction has, has taken place. that the americans are placing bombs and missiles and weapons at the disposal of the premiums that are being shot into their neighborhoods. the chinese are bringing construction and cement and tractors and trucks too. are we going to have more affinity for in 10 years? she asked the americans of the chinese. wow, thank you steve. hold on. because after the break, we're going to continue our conversation with steve gill on the trip observing and let, which is in moscow in the annex regions of ukraine and how those alterations compare

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welcome back to the show. you're watching the 360 view and i'm getting now hughes. we want to bring back in steve gil conservative radio show host, steve, as i mentioned in your introduction, you've traveled the globe at the request of the united states department of fits multiple trips to observe balloting and worked for an area. so how does this trip compare to your visit to a rack with the various military branches and post operation iraqi freedom and you have it in 2005 in baghdad. and felicia, you also went to the detention facility at guantanamo bay, right before the courts were opening open. what was that like comparison? you know, there was a lot more military presence in, in those experiences. and then i had in, in moscow and certainly even going into the dumbass regions on ask and some of the other areas, you know, there's some of the ukrainian propaganda. there's claiming that people are being forced to go about that. that soldiers are driving them to the polling places. i

think it'd be further from the truth that again there were soldiers, one or 2 at each polling place, guarding and protecting the people who were coming to exercise their right to vote . there were teachers that were voting, there were city officials who were coming and boating, they were just regular citizens. people who work in that one of the areas in the coal mines a lot of it was very agricultural, one of the areas that we went into, you drove miles and miles and miles through sunflower, seed fields with both sides of the road, being miles and miles of sunflower seeds, it looked like parts of rural tennessee, frankly, before you got to the following station. some of them were where these old classic buildings, others were in the, in brand new schools that have just been rebuilt in the last year. so it was very much a um, a peaceful setting. it was not like, you know, for lose. it was not like a pre, or baghdad or, or, or the military security that you saw in the, in guantanamo bay. and again, i've been in places where they are essentially occupied territories like in

interact with their soldiers on every corner in moscow, in, in, in these areas. if you pray, you do not see a military presence. now they may be on the front lines where they are still engaged in combat. but in these areas where i was, you're not seeing a big military presence that's being oppressive or repressing the people. and more importantly, you're not seeing us in western media there to see what's there to be saying do share which there to be heard. they don't care to report the truth in these areas. and that's been the case from the, from the outset of this, this conflict. you get the propaganda that is issued to the western media by you praying that they just report whether it's the ghost of g of, or, or these are the stories. and you're not having anybody on the other side reporting what's going on to the people who are suffering in, in don bass, the in the husband and in the don't ask in these other areas. the absence of media was more glaring than the presence of military. what's interesting you bring this up, steve, because when you look at what your saying,

you're in the minority over here in the west. in fact, probably several will dismiss this whole interview saying it's just russian propaganda. why? because your and then you and i have not talked before this interview. i've not told you what to say. nobody's told you would say your saying, you're the exact consistent thing. you've said all along what you're saying. there was exactly opposite in many cases to what the mainstream media is reporting in the west to the american people. it contradicts what they're reporting, what you actually observed during the election in these different countries in these different areas. why do you feel like, 1st of all, should we listen to the minority? cuz there's only a few of you that are saying this. why should that, and why would people in america and the west, purposely being lead with, with miss information about what's going on in the area. what god said for a while, but any time you're only getting one side of the story from the media, you know, you're being scammed, you know, you're being lied to, whether it's covered, whether it's the vaccines, whether it's what's going on in the, in this region. and ukraine and russia were only being told one side of the story.

and any time that's the case, you should be even more skeptical than the normal and listening to the media. and we're being told that we're fighting for democracy in ukraine that are $130000000000.00 or so they've gone into the zalinski administration, is, is fighting for democracy. and yet it is a lift gate that has attacked the russian orthodox churches and shut them down. the tea that has canceled elections. and now it's saying he's not going to have them unless the american taxpayers pay for the election. is the one that has shut down opposition, media critical media in his country. he's the one that shut down opposition, political parties in his country. none of that is, is representative of democracy or freedom. and yet that's not being reported widely in the united states or in or in western you either you're, it's, it's no problem that the american people in particular don't know what's going on there because they're not getting the truth. they're not being told the truth. and you've got too many politicians that are just blindly taking the we gotta be anti

russia. we've got to be at the food. and i'm not a fan of food and i'm not a particular fan of russia. i'm a fan of the truth. and, and, you know, over the last 30 years of my career and tv and talk radio, nobody's told me what to say whether it was about a state income tax in tennessee or political figures in tennessee or nationally. so the idea that somehow i'm a, i'm a show for either side, i just went to see it myself and to tell what i've seen. and what i've seen is we're not getting the truth in the united states. and the media are doing a disservice when they don't go find the truth and tell it, well, why is that, steve? why are they not telling the truth to the american people or to anybody in the west? you know, we just had a warrant. afghanistan's come to an end and we left behind about $80000000000.00 of equipment. you've got those that sell missiles and bombs and bullets that have a big industry. the military, industrial con, a corporation entity is not a lie. it is real reasons they run all those tv commercials with fighter jets on

the sunday morning. political shows is not so people watching at home will go out to buy it f $35.00. they're doing that to communicate the members of congress and the senate and the, the deep state. but they've got money, but they're in play. and if you want their money, you want their assistance, you better play on their team. so after that war hands, they got to find a new place to sell bullets and bombs and missiles and they're selling them that were then giving or freighting the price. so the, the question is, what's the next conflict that they're going to get us into? just to fund their business and i'll tell you what i'm looking and in the done best region in the construction in the and the rebuilding, it's already going on american contractors, all the be 1st in line over there to get their, to their share of the reconstruction of that area, rather than letting the chinese and, and saudis everybody else in the world go in because they are going in there and they're going to rebuild it. and again, the affinity they're going to have for those countries. and those people who are going to be greater than americans coming in johnny come lately, try to get

a piece of the pie later. i know it sounds so unfortunate that we're letting our military industrial complex direct our foreign policy. but when you're looking at the money that flowed into the bite and family, the money that flowed into $100.00 binding there, there's no secret that the money talks. and what you're seeing and play out is, is, lives are being lost. and fortunately, american lives aren't on the ground, they're being lost. but if we don't stop it soon, that may be next. well, that's what i have to ask you. a final question here. do you feel like the russian people were preparing for this conflict to escalate? possibly a full world war, something that we continue to hear threatened here in the west. are you hearing that over in russia? i didn't see that in moscow or the other parts of rush i was in and. and when you look at the videos coming from g u, where they are having full parties and the night clubs are still open, they don't look like they're really preparing for a for world war 3. either it's business as usual, they're, it's business as usual and marked out the ones that are living in these areas where

the conflict is taking place for whatever agenda, some of the west and that there's a lensky administration has their, the one suffering. and we all ought to be pushing for peace. i'm shocked that the democratic party that used to be the anti war party is now combining with the pro war republicans to push more at any cost because american lives are being put at risk at this point. and keep in mind, the corruption in the brain is deep. some of our members of congress are starting to ask about, as well as the money going. why can't we get accountability of where the funds are going? and yet we're being denied that at every turn, and yet the zalinski administration, as, as fired about a dozen of their top officials for corruption. he just fired his defense minister for corruption, just fired 6 deputy defense ministers for corruption. the idea that the only honest person in ukraine is the landscape is as crazy as the fact that the western media won't cover any of this. well, it's very interesting, steve, and i think it's going to be interesting to see if you suffer any backlash here at home as the ukrainian minister has called for. and i'm sure you'll keep us updated

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