or the after the end of world war 2, the national liberation movement, it'd be intensified dramatically, haven't driven away the japanese occupiers. the vietnamese patriots by no means wanted the return of the former french colonizers flood france did not want to lose the rich colony and decided to beat the opposition by force. in december 1946, a full scale war broke out. the main victory addict organization led by o g man inflicted heavy losses on the french. the invaders were in raged. according to western historians, up to 250000 lives of peaceful beaten. these were on their contents. the colonialists widely used the practice of mass rape of b. it means women as revenge on the guerrillas. in 1947, the french destroyed the village of knights rock, murdering 170 women,

and 157 children. however, terror did not help. in 1954, the vietnamese defeated the french army and the decisive battle of gen, being food, almost 12000 french soldiers and officers, including the commander general of the categories. and his command staff were captured. the configuration of a huge garrison had a demoralizing effect in europe. the french laughed vietnam, but they were replaced by even more violent and much stronger invaders. the american hard times were awaiting be and again the rick sanchez here. this is direct impact, and this is what we're going to be talking about. shouldn't be the world's policeman. and we can't eradicate every client and then just as in the world of what america can be and must be a forest for good. what are we?

are we are forced for good or are we really doing what we can to be a force for good? the former president, the former 1st lady, to give him command performances for pamela harris. we're going to examine at all and we're going to play it for you. i'm rick sanchez. let's do this. the . all right, let's get started with they to the democratic convention st. go up, basically without a hitch. nobody stormed the stage, the palestinian protests. i've not seeming lee taken over as some people expected. they might or taken the attention of the media. and it seemed like the person who, who made the best page for couple of harris is the person who actually said, she's the most like common lawyers here, comma la harris. and i built our lives on those same foundational values. even

though our mothers grew up in the ocean of parts, they shared the same belief in the promise of this country coming to work her way up to become vice president of the united states of america. the been ready for this moment. my girl, it was uh it was it, listen, it was a well received performance. right. and, and what amounts to pretty much on broadway performance, which is what these political conventions for both sides have now become. and there's no news there. by the way, her husband followed suit with another impressive performance which loyal us in the crowd. i mean, that's what you've got to conventions. absolutely. 8 up. we do not need 4 more years of bluster and bumbling and chaos. we have seen that movie

before, and we all know that the free trial is usually worse. the better. we are ready to go. i mean, look, there's no doubt right, that there's something infectious. something seemingly genuine about the former president brock obama's oratory. we've always known that unless in the gray hair it doesn't hurt either at this point. but behind the smooth veneer is his question of intellectual honesty. is that the right word, intellectual honesty in many ways. is he really being straight with americans or even the people there at the convention? or is he being intellectually dishonest?

what's his comment? we shouldn't be the world's policeman, and we can't eradicate every client and then justice in the world. but america can be and must be a force for good discouraging conflict and disease promoting human rights. protecting the planet from climate change depending warranty to it's the most american to last night when i was listening to his speech at home, of course, with my wife taking notes because you know, i'm a nerd and i got to do this stuff. i made a list of those things and he just set so let's talk about those real quick. here. as he said, not being the world's policeman. discouraging conflict with the united states does, right? we discourage conflict. we are not the world's policeman. we promote human rights. we're doing the most to improve climate change. what else?

defending freedom and brokering piece. okay. let's take these one at a time 5. uh 1st we are the world's police, but in many ways like a crooked cop, we only patrol the rich neighborhoods where we think we can somehow get something out of it. do we discourage conflict? hell, know, iraq, syria, libya, gaza. i mean, how do we discourage those things from happening? most would argue we cause the or at least helped promote human rights. one word, gaza. we do the most to improve climate change. i looked this one up last night. we make up 4 percent of the world's population, but we're responsible for 14 percent of the world's carbon emissions. these are just facts. okay. we defend freedom, really. let's just talk about that as well. real quick as an example. we fomented 5 cruise and then as well, we've been recruited and trained and

a pointed to presidents and presidential candidates. that's freedom for the people of it as well as not. we broker piece deals where 3 times we failed a broker, a deal and guys, but when it was possibly available and twice we told ukraine to walk away from any of these deals with russia. so look, no, let me bring you in on this. look, i'm not arguing that we should be, that he shouldn't stand up there and be negative and just say we don't want anything or anything like that. we shouldn't be negative about this country than you. and i love as much as he does. and as much as many americans do, i think what i'm arguing for here, and maybe that's the reason we do this show is just a sense of realism. you know, a sense of, you know, a comparative intellectual honesty that the way i would do with my kids or with myself or, or with my wife or would like football team. if i coached one, you know, i want to constantly be telling them that they won when they last. and that's kind of a problem with mr. obama and, and with our political system,

how do you see it as well? or rick, if you coached a football team and, and if you're as good a man as tim walls apparently is as they kept saying last night and how kind campbell harris is, is, as they were saying last night. so we're, we're seeing this theme. and as you aptly pointed out, that this is all show, none of this is actually genuine. i think what we heard from brock obama, as well as michelle, is be ideals of what america should be painting. america as if this was j of kay's, you know, early 19 sixty's america. that's not who we've become this coming from a to time. former us president who authorized more than 500 drones strikes during his 8 years as president killing thousands of people. many of them innocent civilians. yeah. then going on to win the nobel peace prize after you know,

droning. that's a for the small to, you know? yeah. and then he's over here telling us about, you know, peace and, and, and monitoring the world to spread democracy. it's all a matter of how you define democracy, how you define peace and brock obama, as you know, because he is such a great reader as well as his wife. we should point out both the obama is, are great or readers and they command a lot of i think they, they, they kind of have the vision as a cloth, as i say, right? yeah. and it looks so land or emotion and the blue ball is good for that so we can bring yeah, no, that's important in politics. and i think, you know, i think mr. trump, which is that he would be able to read a teleprompter as well as either mr. or mrs. obama can read a teleprompter or a lot of other people for that matter. but i think the point that, that, that i'd like to make and the point that why you were having this discussion is to be on the veneer of a beautifully read teleprompter and examine the world hers. and that doesn't happen

in these conventions that use to in the past, but it doesn't happen any more because conventions are now to fact check in the well, no, it's beyond that. they're just commercials. it's a commercial. there's no 2nd thing to do. there's no fats. it is just, you know, hey, i would greatly lots of great music. anyway, let's move to the other thing on the geo political front. in case you haven't heard, germany's now pulling back on the enormous contribution to the funding of ukraine. so i checked to see what kind of impact. uh, this is having look at this, this is what i found when i was looking for this. look at that article. what does it say? it's sending defense stocks into a plunge defense scott's fall has germany plans to reject ukraine. the folks who have been feeding off of this trough are now worried that this will become a trend with other european countries telling washington luck. we've had enough of sending all of our treasure over to ukraine and here's how this is also interesting . i checked on bloomberg this morning to see how they were reacting to this. uh,

this is from london this morning. uh, bloomberg. news. here's the present or is on there, you know, political or pardon me, their business analyst having a discussion, i think some of the inside here is interesting watching. let's watch it together. crane is fascinating. in as much as a, we've got a story on the ground that is developing and days quite hard to cool as to the impact, the, the credit and encouragement to russian territory, which we haven't seen obviously, since the 2nd level is going to have both of the funding story in europe, you've been focusing on germany. i think it's a really fascinating one. we know these kind of a debt. the discussions are these bunch of discussions i should say out of germany or crucial with the facts that we're actually pulling back on. ukrainian 8 i think is gonna be something like 6 percent of what it was previously is massive because it's already being used as rhetoric going back to the states from the trump campaign thing we'll look into europe. largest economy isn't helping kind of funding the a towards ukraine. why should the united states as one argument not showing up in the us political fear, not to mention what kind of preston does a set for, for all their countries within europe as well. bring go right, is right. i mean,

if other countries look at business, say, well wait, it traveler, you're not going to put any money in this. why the, how are we going to put any money on this? and then there's the question of how the probable error essentially becomes president as the polls the name of the k right now, how is she going to play off this being the, you know, the daughter of indian parents or partial indian parents. it's fascinating and then i was also fascinated by the fact that he starts off talking about, well, but there is in this incursion going on, which shows that, that incursion was manifested as a way to get people to say squirrel and look the other way. and, and it may be working and it, it, it may be working, you know, of yeah, yeah, i think, i think you're right on that regular with definitely this, this small incursion, all that impactful for getting your attention has little to do with, with the ultimate outcome of the way this war will ultimately and break, and that will of course, have to be ukraine coming to the table at one point point or another because the

funds are drying out. so let's go back to what's actually happening in germany. we know that the, that the germans are the economic powerhouse, the economic engine of the european union. and they had been funding a very distant 2nd, but still 2nd behind the united states this uh, ukraine war. mm hm. um, i mean, the u. s. as in the hundreds of billions there in it for you know, the, the 10s of billions, but relative to economic size. okay. that's, that's fair. but the, the new, the new finance minister christian listener. now he is notoriously very hawkish when it comes to keeping the budget in tact. i guess we could compare him almost to kind of a a ron ron paul. yeah. libertarian type of of keeping the budget and nice and squeaky clean. good for him. so he's the one that's kind of pulling the plug on this. he sent a letter that got wait, i don't know by who we don't know yet at this point,

but the letter got leaked earlier this month in august. he sent a letter to the defense ministry, basically saying, we're pulling the plug on ukraine. i'm trying to balance the budget. you cannot take any more money from germany's coffers in 2025. you're going to have to look elsewhere and i suggest you and the g 7 go look in the frozen russian assets if you want to fund this war, but it aint coming from inside the country. so this is going to be a huge change of the flow of weapons and of course aid overall. and to your point, what's going to happen? what else can it, who gets elected here in november? what, what's the, who's going to keep funding it? so yeah, i'm looking at the situation and they're asking themselves this looks like a lost cause to a certain extent, so we're throwing good money at a bad situation. do we need to keep doing that? 1 of course mr. zalinski is trying to create a diversion so that they look at it and say, okay,

maybe we'll hold back and see how this ends up and you know, most, most, most uh, yeah. geo politics, important military people tell you that finally master that's probably not going to end well for him one way or another. so finance minister finance minister doesn't care if you, if you're like doing a shock tactic over here over there. he says, i don't care. there's not enough money in my coffers for this country. all right, war department, go look somewhere else period. but when we come back, thanks manila. when we come back, we're going to talk more about this and this as well. so indian prime minister in the under moody is heading to ukraine to talk. we think about a, some kind of peace deal with mr. the landscape. and the man that we're going to be talking about this with has a, well, interestingly enough, he's written off a lot of books. he's a respected historian, he's an author, he's a commentator as b j per shod. you're looking at right there. he's a really smart guy. interested in just wrote a book about cuba. place i was born. we'll talk to him when we come back.

the a beautiful sun soaked to the vineyards nestled among some rest, picking the rolling hills. as a gentle breeze comes off of the surrounding sea comic the imagery of french one country. but this is not france. we are in a coupon at russia on the black sea where recently they've got a serious about making some world class one the,

the so welcome back. i'm rick sanchez. this is direct impact if you want understand jill politics. you need to read the j per shot. his latest book is entitled on cuba. interestingly enough, that certainly got my attention reflections of the 70 year old struggle. but listen, this guys also written a lot of other books. there's the on cuba book, which is out now. he's also rick written. the struggle makes us human. washington's new cold war. in fact, the most out here now started listing all of his books. so we wouldn't ever be able to have a conversation. i v j i agreed to be with you. thanks a lot. likewise, let's start with my uh, moody. uh, going to visit with mr. zalinski. uh, what do you make of that? do you think he's going to anger the russians for doing that? i don't think so. i think it's really important, but mr. moore, this trip,

as well as in guest relationship with russia in context. i'm after the soviet union collapsed. india began to get very close to the united states. and in many ways, subordinated india national interest to the interest of, you know, the united states, other g 7 countries and so on. well, in recent years, india has been a cert thing. it's national interest. it's very interesting. um, one of the reasons why india didn't condemn russia in february 2022 was that india wanted to continue to buy russian oil. when the indian foreign minister s just some kind of a distinguished diplomat, was honest, you know why you continuing to buy or at least have something very interesting. you said, you know what india buys in a, you're from russia. you order by. is it an afternoon?

think about it. and then on another occasion, he was asked, what do you mean the i joined need 2 plus and he said no, we don't accept the need to word view. um, this is an interesting and wow thing that's happening in india z, mr. moore, the was in russia in july, he raised vladimir bolt and there was a photograph that circulated loader me, zalinski attacked that embracing that. you know, this is disgusting and so on. well, mr. movie is going to ukraine. he's met zalinski before he met the landscape. the margins of various meetings most recently may at the g, g 7 meeting. so it's not that the strangers, but i think you got to understand that when this conflict began, they were 20000 indian students in ukraine and, and india. i had to work with the ukranian government to evacuate these students

that next on the one hand, multi is going to say, well, it takes a lot, lot of media by helping us and so on. and then he is going to carry the message that look on was ending negotiation. you might as well negotiate. now, i mean, and i sort of negotiated in february of 2022 in bella rules the sort of negotiated in march 2022 in turkey. and we know bars, johnson came in and said, don't negotiate. he said that on behalf of the united states, lloyd austin game said don't negotiate. the chinese have been saying negotiate. now the indians, as saying, negotiate central of the center of gravity of the world is moved to raise yet, if they give you a claim, which cannot pick itself out as a neighbor of russia and deposited silver in iowa. if your brain was to survive as a real country, it has to listen to china, india, other countries that are respectively and its neighborhood,

not just washington. let me ask you a question. i wonder what your opinion is. i'm sitting here talking to you. i was thinking about this we, we may soon have a partial or have indian president of the united states and come over here. and so our parents are indian. i don't know if i phrase that correctly, but you know what, i mean i, i would think that gives her a very different perspective of the world. then somebody like joe biden, who think she's, you know, john wayne and wants to just kill, kill, kill, and start wards everywhere because we're american, we can do that. do you think just tell me a rate of her so far that she will differentiate herself when it comes to foreign policy and not necessarily be all over the south tennessee and you know, bombing iran and giving a 100 percent support to israel and saying that we gotta, you know, help destroy russia by giving more money to ukraine. all these things that are predecessor to what do you think? well, look, you know, you started the show by playing the clip from

a former president, brock obama. he has a very similar biography, as company i had it, as his father was from kenya is mother was um, you know, an american woman coming to harris's mother was from india. a father is from jamaica. they met a while graduate students in california. mm hm. um, they have something similar between obama and cover. the hairs of manila was saying earlier that during obama's tenure, he drone, you know, any legal extrajudicial droning of several people, including all lucky born in las crucis mexico. yeah. mexico he was killed and then a few months later, his son and 16 year old daughter at mon, lucky born in denver, colorado, 16 years old, was drawn to under mist obama. so i mean, does having some foreign experience, but still by my and indonesia, for instance,

where his mother had relocated him. does that change your view of the was i would think it does a little bit. does it prevent you from being the front bus and all the state the many years ago? see age and said to me, you know, if you have a large enough hammer, everything looks like a nail. the us military is a very large hammer, and it really makes the president sitting in the oval office with all the ad against that can produce. it makes it feel like you better use this hammer any with, instead of negotiation, let's have confront vision. it's a really, really bad habit trick, and i wish wish the people of the united states have come to terms of the fact you most is a great country. but it's just another country on the planet. you know, the people in the us up, people like other be books. you don't need to have much other be books. you can

book, you can negotiate, you can find a way to live together. otherwise, we're basically driving each other to some sort of do you want the mass hatred, which i really am not looking forward to the final question, kimball, i'm fascinated about your bug. i'm fascinated about your conversations there and, and what you've learned talking about using a hammer on a small nail 70 years now. that hammer has been hitting that little country over the head is too much fault at all. is there anything they could do differently, and what do you see for the future of cube up from this point on? it was leslie. you are right. the 11000000 people rick smaller than new york city. okay. this is really important for people to understand. it's an extraordinary country, as you will know, since you were born in cuba. it is really beautiful. it has people of great

intelligence and sincerity. yes, there's a lot, but you book and do your book and surrender. gilbert can give up and say, bring back the gangsters bring back the casinos, bring back, you know, the big u. s. companies, they can do that. the embargo disappears. but if they want to live as sovereign people, as people want to develop their own agenda in the world, that is just simply not being allowed by the united states government. you know, in the archive. i phone us government complaining that the us, the, the cuban revolution led by fidel castro was disobedient. that's the word that was used repeatedly. it is a disobedient country. gastro is, but this will be viewed and i think you already guessed. fidel castro bought people is not a child. i've met gastro as you have extremely edited. i, bright man, a real symbol of the cuban people, you know, starts up as

a lawyer in cuba wants to make a difference. but he was up against the dentist, or is it, you know, i mean, i like, it's literally the mall. yeah, also the kennedy administration behaved like the mob. they basically said if you don't listen to us, we're gonna whack you. yep. trying to take him out of the cubans. incredible. during the pandemic, i interviewed a number of cuban doctors would going around the world to work in govig parked wards. that means wards where people were struggling to survive from the go with dirty young doctor. while she was in costa rica in the hardwood. i asked uh, where does your families use it? it's there at the moment, orient they in cuba, i have a young child, a miserable i type with them. she said, but i wouldn't be anywhere else. and i said, why is that? yeah, she said, because i became a doctor to so then the cuban revolution is brought to me that and i, for my,

got at a time in the united states, for instance, when people hoarding vaccines here with the cubans, going out there and helping people. and when the united states police cuba on the state sponsor of terrorism list, i reacted very poorly to that because i said they're not state sponsors of terrorism, the state sponsors of public health and you don't get to be being allies for being a state sponsor. yeah, because i wish i could have a conversation with michael rubio to try to encourage him to see this differently. but mr. rubio is, has been on maintaining the strangulation of this little island. yeah, unfortunately, that's politics. and unfortunately, it involves money and it doesn't involve goodwill. and it's not just market rubio, by the way, there's a whole hell of a lot of them. what made? yeah. what, what about what an honor, what a pleasure. enjoyed the conversation. thanks so much for sharing some of your wisdom with you. let's do. uh, more conversations like this,

if you're willing to come on always a pleasure. thanks a lot. thank you. that's our show. remember, always look outside your own box to stay. don't live in boxes. i like to say i'm rick sanchez. will be looking for you next time. who the mistress almost uh, almost depletion in the west, but this whole idea of, with my, to the last you frame. yeah. and there's some truth behind it. i mean, think about the american, the $60000000000.00 for the reason. a package, not a lot of money. a lot of money stays within the united states in terms of the defense contracts and the like, and pulled off money that, you know, they fight side. they prolonged the war. but keep russia busy. you know,

this is the, ultimately, this, what the west is doing is on a file, you know, trying to preserve west and hague higgin, many the on the how the local now i was going to dream live for dreams. come true. we have approximately 10000000 people in california that are risk of becoming on house looks good and then pulls up something for working to pretty jobs and still not enough because of the cost of leaving also has increased coal bags and then they'll bite just last year long the amount of of homeless growth by 12 percent in california.

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