to r t about the state of is relative. what i can collect is the ship's, the end of the rarely savings depth times from extreme exhaustion. after enduring of a full months of continuous torch. i'm had this valid present as reveals his true story . he was transferred to the prison where he faced the same harsh conditions. any person that might face during interrogation illness. these details revealed that way and don't ad none was moved within the prison. he was bound by his hands and feet. oh, for prisoners built with narrow stairwells. moving through such a tight space is exceedingly difficult. the prisoner hope is cramps that case is off to make it impossible for 2 people to policy each other according to eye witnesses. during one of these trends. first, a god appeared to deliberately loose and dr. edmond's restraints. it seemed like a calculated moving types of the home even further. these pushed and fell down the stairs. of the most of torture, his physical state was fragile and making him especially vulnerable to severe injuries on the injuries he sustained including potential flights or head trauma.

with deliberate reports indicate they left him in the courtyard upon realizing he was unresponsive cuz he had carried him into the cellar later announced death as heinous acts, amounts to a crime against humanity, no less terrific than any other form of execution. an i've done all bush was on orthopedic surgeon, that throughout the 1st year of the conflict, he worked in multiple hospitals. the guys including all ship the i'm at the attacks . he was forced to move from one facility to one, not that he was eventually detained while we're. busy looking at the hospital in the know he face touch and died within weeks of being sent to off our president. he's will denies responsibility for his death. not even before the war broke out last year. and all bush was already famous for his, you know, live saving efforts throughout his stay there. now for the, showing him covered in blood in an officer for operating see, it's a web viral in 2018. it is claim that he had before and 28th operations that

day alone, a came by the time of a constant flow of casualties following the great march of return protest, we'd lost the 2 years and left over 6000 people. when did i've done was tired, let's be working right onto his final day of freedom. now these are set to be the last photo is showing him at the hospital by the un has reported. he's what has been conducting deliberate attacks on guides of health care system all the while. not pointing to the latest data from the policy and health mystery. more than a 1000, probably seen in health work as a medical work, as have been killed, or the attacks of talkative hospitals and even ambulances. the more of the un says, hundreds of medical personnel have also been detained so far, that during the period now we now bush again says a be a task. so what does prove the true intentions, all these ready authorities,

it is not that heavy. it should be emphasized i talked to ad man is not the 1st no assembly. is he likely to be the last sort of thing? many in the medical field doctors, nurses and paramedics, the face direct and focusing injury or death because he never turn anyone away. he was a true humanitarian and when he spoke it, alice cheap a hospital, the world listen, does he does detaining the har as the dead? the injured in the chaos during bombardments. he tirelessly conveyed the events and horrors to the world. people judge me published, published, sending me grim pictures of what was happening. he would say, look at how we're digging all grades without hands, don't even sides. we may end up buried in the ad. man's death sends a clear message about the in humanity and off to disregard the life shown by israel to talk. it's all aspects of kind of sydney, an existence, consult labs, and every fundamental right. and we'll talk about that. i suppose victim hood has lost credibility in international circles. people have stopped to see them for what they owe, an occupying a price. the poles once viewed as

a victimize and the price of people they and now being recognized as aggressive and occupier city. and not the news now, since we're watching, i'll see you again, bye. the . the hello and welcome to cross ok. we're all things are considered on peter level. in the waning days of the by the administration, the u. s. has reversed as longstanding policy, allowing ukraine to use long range missiles against russia. the binding administration clearly intends to escalate the conflict before trump into his office. what could possibly go wrong? the

crust sucking ukraine. i'm joined by my guess. erin, good in philadelphia. he's a political scientist historian, as well as author of american exception empire in the deep states in pittsburgh. we have den kabbalah key is a professor of law and author of the case for palestine. why it matters and why you should care. and in new york we have mike larose, he is a lecture in political science at rutgers university, orange island cross lock roles in effect. that means you can jump anytime you want . and i always appreciated. but i want to make it clear to our, our guests in our audience. here there's been a zip to, uh, is this of this recording. there's been no official word from the white house on the change of policy. however many players involved in it to bardy a signal that it is a reversal. so i want to make that clear for the record here, michael, let me go to you 1st. i mean, the obvious question is why, how does this help ukraine, and is this an escalation to trip up the new administration?

you can answer any one of those questions. go right ahead. i mean, i'm looking for a one word way of describing all of this and i'm caught between either rec, us, or insane on behalf of the, by the administration. but it doesn't help ukraine. apple. russia has been very clear in um, stating that any use of long range missiles by ukraine into russian territory will be met with a retaliatory response. and russia has just updated its nuclear doctrine of wednesday of this week, saying that any attack on russia by a non nuclear states, with the support of a nuclear country and the support of a larger military alliance will be seen as a joint attack. so this does not help ukraine situation at all. beat absolutely

escalates the conflict and did all booked schedules any attempts by the trump administration in negotiating some ceasefire in the 1st days of his administration . so aaron, in philadelphia, so the failed legacy of the bike ministration. they want to tack it onto the, the, the new administration in january, essentially, as everyone likes to say box a trump. and because if there's an escalation, obviously it'd be the optics of it has been, trump doesn't want to look weak. that's the whole point of this air and i'm not sure what the point is because i agree. and it's difficult to figure out what the point is. i agree with the go ahead. yeah, i don't see it is really changing the imperative forks from to in the go see and, and into this to this war. one wonders if it is about attempting to. so some idea of maintaining credibility to at least keep russia from wiping out the rest of ukraine. re ukraine's armed forces before trumpets sworn in or,

or making further gains in that time period. maybe the hope is that it will have some kind of restraining effect on the per what's an extra ruble march of the russian military. it is a baffling move for a lame duck president to do. and his supporters who are so sad about the trunk, you know, in the prospects of a trump presidency, which i'm not excited about. but it's very strange that his supporters and all of the democratic supporters, really they were so clueless about foreign policy. because they should understand that by them is risking the lives of a of them and all of their children and everybody in the world with this policy. it's pretty clear that this uh, that russian steve, this is an existential threat and rush as a massive nuclear arsenal. and this more was always due. uh and so this is really a strange, strangely, stupid move by the, by the industry as well. then all the more so is before the unofficial announcement

came out in, in various capitals in europe. it's confirmed in the news cycle before the person that is running ukraine, the, i guess the former president of zalinski told his own media that the war was coming to an end probably early next year. he said that in the next news cycle, we get this from the bite and ministration. so what do you say to ukrainian soldiers? and i guess russian ones too is said, you know, it's good to come to an end. maybe you'll make it maybe you'll live through it. maybe you'll make it to the last day. right. that's a pretty gloom gloomy way to move forward. yes. well, yes, it is gloomy and again, it's dangerous. and that's why, by the way, you know, by announced through the, by the minute administrators announced he would make the decision on these long range new 3 missiles after the election. right? because he knew this would be unpopular, right? so we knew what he was going to decide. we knew he was going to green light. this

was the administration was like, let's be honest, is by the green lighting. anything i mean by and it was not the candidate for president because he doesn't have the mental pass that need to be candidate unhealthy. the have the mental capacity to be president and make a decision that could lead to world war 3. i mean, that should be the scariest prospect anyone could face it is. as you mentioned, his supporters don't seem to care. they care about friends, social issues, and not about the fact that the world to blow up tomorrow. well michael, i mean, what is some of the scenarios here? i mean, again, they're saying that these attack them, they'd be used against the quarter screeching, for example, where the, the ukranian troops are slowly but surely being wiped out and pushed out. i mean, again, how does that help ukraine? i mean that, that down, but was a failure from the, from the beginning. i mean,

i just don't understand how it is. escalation is going to move the interest of ukraine forward, or even the waning days of the biting administrator. what did they suppose to say? we went out with a bang. well, i mean i, i, when this was 1st reported in the new york times, even the new york times itself had said that they see very little way in which this will change the fortunes of war. and it won't produce much um and if this is primarily going to be used in course, the only logical reason that i could see this happening is that it gives you crane some attempt to retaining a foothold within this territory in some hope of using it as leverage for some negotiated solution afterwards. and yet, at the same time, it completely neglects the fact that every day, a town or a village in ukraine's east himself is captured by the russians. so it seems to

be this fools venture in desperately holding onto the course with some belief that they will have something to bring to the bargaining table. it also seems to me, right, that every time you crane comes close to a new, to some negotiated solution, some western country scuttles it's so you have the minutes the cords in 2015, which we have evidence of the right of, of the french and the germans telling part of shingle store don't sign arm and you'll be able to retake that. that didn't work. then we have the stumble agreement shortly. following the start of the special military operation, we were ready to sign to an agreement, boris johnson, who seems to be more pro ukrainian than even the landscape. this pullman decides no, don't sign, you know, change the fortunes of war. and voting has said what his terms for peace are and

the radio chatter has gradually started to come to peace to come to terms with this executive, we telling the landscape, this is the best deal that you're going to get because every time to use it all or reject it rush, it increases this fortune. this can only be seen as just another way of startling this. um, so i, i, again, i, i failed to see what the military strategy is, except in just giving russian a bloody nose before the war ends. yeah. well aaron, that's that, that's not thinking geo politically, i mean, what's interesting is that over the last few weeks, i think almost all of you would agree that there was a growing consensus. this thing has to come to an end, okay. and then all of a sudden, out of the blue. no, we need another offensive just as michael just said, every time someone talks about a process, the end this conflict, there is a western power politician. 6, there's nothing there knows and, and schedules that parents. right. and i'm not sure where this could possibly lead

when you say, give russia bloody nose as i'm trying to game through these things militarily and is out of my wheelhouse. exactly. i'm not the expert in like the art of you know, blowing things up with mechanized. you know, warfare, but the response from russia, if they were to launch some sort of a effective attack into russian territory, i would, they have said that they would and they would consider responding with nuclear weapons in european cities and or the united states. uh at that, but i would wonder if they would also be more or if they would be more likely to just on lease conventional weapons in ukraine to devastate them because they realize the other, the only other options would be nuclear escalation. they don't want, i don't believe that they want based on their conduct so far. they don't appear to want to destroy ukrainian civilian, no structure or civilian populations. but they faced with a choice of potentially escalating the nuclear tuesday,

or just saying good bye to what's left of ukraine. i think they would likely go for the latter. and then what, how would the us let us wouldn't have the excuse to launch a nuclear war that it would be clear the world. i believe that the us provoked this . um, this would just be a disaster. so it makes no sense to me what? well, let's be clear everyone, the main going new killer is, is a part of a, a possible reaction. but i think we're far from that. down there. russia is already demonstrated. it has conventional weapons that are very, very powerful and can create an enormous amount of damage. i agree with there, and i mean, it's this war, it's been going on a long time. but the infrastructure has not been the point and the energy because it's part of the military infrastructure, but for the most part, it has not been a, a war of the complete destruction of civilian life. go ahead then. no, of course not. and let's compare it by the way, to what's happening in god's, you know, where the west is backing a genocide and not just

a genocide by the destruction of almost the entire infrastructure of guys, including churches and mosques and hospitals and ancient sites. and now that's the, you know, israel's move that to 11 on as well. it's a totally different war. the reason the war ukraine is lasted as long as it has, is because russia has not won it to engage in that type of devastation. i cut one is very quickly um with some sort of blood squeeze operation, but they didn't want to do that. they was, we don't need any and you know why because they don't want to rule over ukrainians . and then we're going to talk about that when we go, come back from the break gentlemen, i'm going to jump in. we're going to go to a short break. and after that short break, we'll continue our discussion on ukraine. stay with our team, the

welcome act. across popular all things are considered on peter lavelle to remind you were discussing ukraine, the okay, let's go back to michael in new york. i, i suppose another we've already given a number of reasons why this is a bewildering decision. but i guess what really stings the most michael, is that there was an election. i wouldn't even say a pebble of sites in the united states. and part of that publish site is on war and peace. it wasn't the number one issue. i agree, but it was there. okay. and the people voted and it was a referendum on the binding administration. and this is what we get. i mean, it's intensely anti democratic as well. i know because of the oddities of the american system that there is a break between administrations, but this is

a very talis approach. i think most would agree. ok. um, yeah, i mean ukraine is still on the lines of, of, of some, but it's no longer a trending hash tag that it once was. and, you know, government officials, not just in the united states, but across major european countries are still holding to the, you know, the liberal, this belief that ukraine is defending democracy for the western worlds. and a growing sentiment among the population is asking a very simple question. why and how like, why do we need to spend so much money into ukraine? disaster after natural disaster in the united states and vitamin ministration? yes, throws little bit more than pocket change. and yet, shortly after trumps victory biden has secured another couple $100000000.00 to the ukranian cause, which might which by the way, if it's all in regards to, you know,

human rights and defending against aggression, it's amazing how nobody refers to the palestinians. nobody refers to the lebanese, and this is not lost on many american welto. now, michael, i also shouldn't be lost upon any one, is that the pentagon again, failed in audit, but it's still found another $7.00 to $8000000000.00 for you quite. it's just really remarkable. okay. they know, how do they know how to cook the books when they need the money? aaron, let me go to you. you know, again, i think it's fair to say even the new york times and the washington post and all the rest of them. you know, there was this feeling that with a trump victory, that this conflict would have to be wound up. and one of the things, and you know, daniel been on this program so many times that the thing i harp on all of the time, i want peace, i want the end of the complex. but i want security for all that's the only way we're going to avoid this happening again. so aaron, when this is good,

this discourse gonna start work, you know, you're gonna have to sit down and everyone's gonna have their gripes, and they're gonna have their demands. but every single player is gonna want security, and that's where we begin not a ceasefire, not a 20 year delay on nato membership and all the other points that we this flooded the zone. here, we have to talk about security when we talked about security. that's when we get moving. aaron, right, this is going to be the way it works out eventually because i do not see it being possible for the ukrainians and nato to reverse their fortunes in ukraine. and i also don't think that there is much appetite in nato for maintaining the um, the sanctions regime and everything else. i think that the rest of western europe is struggling economically. and that they, you already see moves from germany looking to affect rep rosemont, with, with moscow. so i,

i don't think the time is on the side of the us and nato. and ultimately, this could end up bringing about the end of nato, which is an organization that really doesn't need to exist if it, if it ever did well, the well in. and aaron, i getting a ridiculous a tow nato is a threat to security that it's been my thesis all along here. yeah. it, you know, a dan, this, but what the winding up this war ending it is going to oppose some very, very awkward questions. like, what was nato's role in this? i mean, we'll ask it a lot of other people that don't have this vested interest will ask it, will they ask about themselves, stand? you know, i don't think so. i mean, i, because i don't think the answers are good, especially because it's this thing, winds down in the war ends up, you know, at least for these regions in the east. the eastern part of ukraine will be part of russia. that's inevitable, i think. and so what was this were all about,

right. and, and of course, you know, we talked about, are they claimants for democracy. meanwhile, the landscape planes to be president and is term ran out months ago when he didn't go up or elections and he's arresting your, you know, opposition leaders that he doesn't like and destroying orthodox churches. that me the answers are not good. this is not a pretty situation to billions and billions of dollars that the west to spend on this. they could have been used for the human needs of their own people. uh, there's just no accounting for that. and so i don't think they can ask the questions because they don't want to hear the answer. yeah, well michael, there, there's already been forensic studies without this conflict started. and this mythology about democracy. and anyway, every country has a right to join alliances and all of this, it's pretty worn out by now. i mean, if you tune in and you're interested listening to people like yourself and our

other guests here, me, we know the chronology very, very well. and it's in slowly, but surely it kind of seeps into the main stream. but i want that to happen because i want people to be held accountable like victoria new and i would, we know what was your role in all of us. all of us know what it was, but this, the general public, not really michael. right? i mean, this is ultimately what is the weakness of the deliberate list theory of international relations? you know, i tend to be myself more of a constructivist. i agree with about 80 to 85 percent of what professor john mearsheimer has, you know, said i know just about the rest of the ukraine crisis, but also about the, the limitations of liberalism in which there is this crusading ideology that these liberal estates will take which exonerates them of any wrong doing any comfortability, and if there is any damage to the country that is being saved,

it is a small price to pay for a larger victory. the biggest problem that we are going to have to face is not so much what becomes of ukraine, but how do western leaders a tone for this? how do they come to terms if they lose as gun use done was our pet project for 20 years. we gave it up to the pallet, it's a to, to the tally bon in as many days as we occupied the country for years. and we don't talk about it anymore. and what is the rights? what are human rights enough gun use them today? they are appalling. they're just as bad as they were 20 years before we don't talk about it anymore. yeah. but michael, when michael a lot of people made a lot of money in the, in between oh, well then there's that's and then democracy is just simply a nice candy coating way of explaining at the end of the day that you know, great power interests. but with a spin it's, it's a nice brochure model. well, i mean, i agree with you. i mean, i don't, you know, a, you know,

going into iraq if, if the bush administration said we're going into a rack for the oil. well, i think it's wrong, but i can understand the right. so now we're going in there to spread democracy in the middle east. now i think we'll, that's ridiculous it's, it's absurd here. air and you know, it's very interesting just today as i was coming down to the studio, looking at european leaders that support biden and escalation. but this is a couple of people that are at odds with their own electric, who in europe ever voted on ukraine, who i mean, the amount of propaganda that it's put into supporting this thing. and the fact that the public is, you know, look, the support is wavering at this point or not very intense to begin with. i mean, it just shows how the policy is at this point in the us. they, they're not even really effective at manufacturing consent. they just need to make sure that there's not any kind of critical mass that's dead set against a policy similar to what's happening in gaza. they the public favor to cease fire very early on. and then we had, we had 3 candidates for

a little while and then only 2, but all of them were, were slavishly devoted to the israel lobby. so there's very little democracy in this system. it's a very top down system of the oligarchic rule and the public is, i think, increasingly coming to understand that it's not really a question of this or that politician. and i think that trump, with his cabinet picks, looks to be continuing many of the same policies and so on yet. so it's not going to be much of a change. and more people are trying to understand that you're in the west. the west is an oligarchy. presume that is anti democratic and you know, with the end of the, the, by the administration and as far as i'm concerned, i can express my opinion. it's my program. good riddance with them. a failed presidency, particularly in foreign policy. but trump is gonna come in and ukraine will not have been resolved. i'm sorry, mr. president elect. not in 24 hours. it won't be. and the genocide continues in

gaza. so that is trump taking over this legacy it well when do we get started saying, um uh, genocide done yeah. probably for the day. one sadly or before day one. i mean i mean look at the picks that he's made. i mean a israel's cheering for, for the cabinet that he's picked, which just encourages netanyahu all the more back to, you know, the reports or that israel's intensified its attacks against the gods or an 11 or so since trump was it like that. so i think you can start calling in that now if you wanted to. and the other thing is that it looks like trump's looking to start a fight with china. and you know, so they used to say the business of the united states is business. now the business of the united states is one more it and it's a sad thing, but it's,

it seems like it doesn't matter. who was it? yeah, yeah. well, i would, i would invoke some poetry from the last century and i'll give this to michael, meet the new boss. same as the old boss. you know, you had mentioned just a bit earlier about how we can be more honest than our foreign policy. instead of candy coating it with we want to bring democracy. that would be one thing. uh, one of the most brutally honest people with in the built way now is john bolton, who i usually would go. i regard john bolton is kind of a discount. john foster dulles. he's pretty much of the same caliber and as far as he is concerned, he's all in for ratcheting up conflict with china, with the iran. he's certainly happy that the biden has given the order to do with missiles and ukraine. he said, we should have done this uh 2 years ago and the war would have been over. i mean,

i don't, i'm not a fan of mr. bolton by any stretch of the imagination. but knowing what trump will be inheriting, not just with china and with the middle east did make, he may still be busy on either doing one of 2 things, trying to de escalate this tension. i mean, he does it. lensky has effectively 2 months to do this. until trump comes in and then from could put the, you know, put, put the, the, the, the ca bosh on all of that. or, or trump could try to make peace with boots in. it doesn't work, you know, put in has been very clear. and what is piece proposals are, and trump is uh, using the us. so yeah. or any way beyond scan, we could and we'll get russia gate 3 point oh, or 4 point oh or 5, whatever it is right now. it's all the time we have gentlemen. that's fascinating discussion, i want to thank my guest in pittsburgh, philadelphia, and in new york. and it's like our viewers for watching us here at our key. see you next time. remember prospect the,

the, the pressing down on the pedal of escalation and that'd be outgoing us. president joe biden has now reported the approved supplying out to personnel on mind grade on doing his own policy once again. and that's us of washington gave the green light to the use of a top comes to strike deep into russian territory. the fact that talk to him was used for busily last night in the bronze preach in east force a signal that they want escalation. and with all the americans, it is impossible to use these high tech moscow's top tip, the ones that the us is playing with fire. and that's not the verizon about top comes the muscles with fired into russia from ukraine. although most went down.

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