in california the 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 to you and then just as in the world. but america can be and must be a forest for good. what are we? are we are pours for good or are we really doing what we can to be a force for good? the former president, the former 1st lady, give 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 conventions even go up basically

without a hitch. nobody stormed the stage, the palestinian protests. i have 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 comma la harris here, comma la harris. and i built our lives on those same foundational values. even though our mothers grew up in ocean, a part that they share the same belief in the promise of this country, pamela 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 in, in what amounts to pretty much

a 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 get 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 sequel is usually worse. the story. 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 is a word,

tory, we've always known that unless in the gray hair it doesn't hurt either at this point . but behind the smooth veneer, there's just a 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? and we shouldn't be the world's policeman, and we can't replicate every criteria. and then just as 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 sort of most americans. so last night what i

was listening to is 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. 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 of the 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 did 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. it's not a we broker piece deals where 3 times we fail to broker a deal and guys, so when it was possibly available and twice we told ukraine to walk away from any police deals with russia. so look, no, let me bring you in on this. look, i'm not arguing that we should be, that he should 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, but new 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, a realism, you know, a sense of, you know, it, and comparative intellectual honesty that the way i would do with my kids or with myself or, or with my wife or with my 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 coach to football, team it. 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 the 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 drone 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 part of small to, you know, yeah and, 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 or 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 they say, right? yeah. and the land or emotion and the blue ball it good for that. so we 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 the 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. and that doesn't happen in these conventions that use to in the past, but it doesn't happen anymore because conventions are now so fast 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, it's 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? selling 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, but 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, 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's interesting watch it. let's watch it together. the crane is fascinating. it as much as a, we've got a story on the ground that is developing and is quite hot to cool as to the impact the, the credit and encouragement to russian territory, which you haven't seen over say. since the 2nd level is going to have both of the funding story and you are moving focusing on germany, i think it's a really fast that when we know these kind of a debt, the discussions are these bunch of discussions i should say out of germany or

crucial with the fact that we're actually pulling back on ukrainian 8. i think it's 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 showing up in the us political sphere, not to mention what kind of preston does it set for, for all other countries within europe as well. rainbow right is right. i mean, if other countries look at business, i will wait. the driver is not going to put any money in this. why the, how are we going to put any money on this? and then there's a question of how the problem layers, if she 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,

and it may be working and it, it may be working, you know? yeah, yeah, i think i think you're right on that regular with definitely this, this small incursion, all of it impactful for getting your attention has little to do with, with the ultimate outcome of the way this war will ultimately and rec, 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 10s of billions, but relative to economic size. okay, that's, that's fair. but the, the new, the new finance minister christian winner. 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 leaked. 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 ain't 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 they who gets selected here in november? what, what's the, who's going to keep funding it? well, yeah. and then 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 nestor, 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, lord, 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 be jape, rashad 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 the it's, it's almost uh, almost a cliche in the west, but this whole idea of reply to the last ukranian. there's some truth behind it. i

mean, think about it for the american, a $60000000000.00 for the recent a package. not a lot of money. a lot of money stays within the united states in terms of the defense contract, as in the light and pulled out money that, you know, they buy times like for along the wall. but keep russia busy. you know, this is the, ultimately, this to what the west is doing is all about you know, trying to preserve west to the hague higgin monday. the roses are, which are ours to make. you know, i'm not gonna listen to you. you care about me if you care about the place. i wish somebody could just tell me why this is for harold patriot

lynching, beating poverty. why supremacy is just the disgusting, amber. the people of mississippi voted on a flyer, and 65 percent of the people voted to keep the car for our purposes to defend the name of the confederates. so, because of these monuments that you see are required or not, can, they're not monuments to the confederate government or monuments to the, to the soldiers, to the veterans. you know, if we're going to be offended by everything, every negative part of our history, we have to get rid of everything 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 to this guy's 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 to put mr. moore this trip, as well as india's 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 asserting 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 0. why you continuing to buy, or at least said something very interesting. you said, you know what india buys in the, 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 to 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. c, mr. moore, the was in russia in july embraced vladimir both. there was

a photograph that circulated loader me, zalinski attacked that embracing that. you know, this is disgusting and so on. well, mr. moore, he 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, there were 20000 indian students in ukraine and, and in the, i had to work with the ukrainian 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 or 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 has moved ways 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 effectively 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 star wars everywhere because we're american, we can do that. do you fake? 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 the story, 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, burdock obama. he has a very similar biography, as company i had as his father was from kenya, is mother was, you know, an american woman, complet harris's mother was from india. her father is from jamaica. they met

a while graduate students in california. um, they have something similar between obama and governor harris of manila were 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, 16 year old of the month alone. lucky born in denver, colorado, 16 years old, was drawn to under mist obama. so, i mean, does having some foreign experience bestow obama 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 of us stayed there many years ago, c, a agent 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, we people in the us up, people like other be books. you don't need to have much other be books. you can talk, you can negotiate, you can find a way to live together. otherwise, we're basically driving each other through some sort of you aren't big mass hatred, which i really am not looking forward to a final question. cuba, 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 q about from this point on it was leslie. you are right. 11000000 people rig 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 you 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 solving

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're a guest. 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 know it's literally the mob. yeah. also the kennedy administration behaved like the mob. they basically said if you don't listen to us,

we're gonna whack you. yup. trying to dig him out of the cubans are incredible. during the pandemic, i interviewed a number of cuban doctors who 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 woman oriented 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 god edit time in the united states, for instance, when people harding vaccines here with the cubans going out there and helping people. and when the united states please 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 have 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. true say don't live in boxes. i like to say i'm rick sanchez. will be looking for you next. that who

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