hello and welcome to cross talk more all things are considered i'm peter lavelle with the appointment of john bolton is the new national security adviser should we expect more stupid wars of choice says he wants success but everything associated with bolton's name is a failure the war party is again in charge. in the war party i'm joined by my guest mark sloboda he's an international affairs and security analyst we also have extra levitch he's a political analyst as well as a leading expert of the center for actual politics and of course we have dmitri bobbitt she is a political analyst we spoke nick international right gentlemen as always crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it john bolton two words that i never thought would be associated with a position of power again considering his legacy victor your reaction to this news as it ripples through the foreign policy establishment and what we call international diplomacy five years ago everybody would be shocked if they were told that john bolton would get a. respectable positio

hello and welcome to cross talk more all things are considered peter lavelle with the appointment of john bolton is the new national security advisor should we expect more stupid wars of choice from sense he wants success but everything associated with bolton's name is a failure the war party is again in charge. crosstalk in the war party i'm joined by my guest mark sloboda he's an international affairs and security analyst we also have a draw levitch he's a political analyst as well as a leading expert at the center for actual politics and of course we have dmitri bobbitt she is a political analyst we spoke nick international right gentlemen as always crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it john bolton two words that i never thought would be associated with a position of power again considering his legacy victor your reaction to this news as it ripples through the foreign policy establishment and what we call international diplomacy five years ago everybody would be shocked if they were told that john bolton would get the resp

a little unwelcome across stop where all things are considered i'm peter lavelle there is an issue probably the only issue that unites many of the most powerful individuals surrounding donald trump and the issue is hostility directed at iran there is every reason to believe these same people will translate their hostility into action even military action the war cabinet is mobilizing. across talking trumps war cabinet i'm joined by my guest. in london he is a journalist and documentary maker with press t.v. also in london we have some a humvee he is editor in chief of the international interest as well as a geo political risk consultant and in los angeles we cross to john rainwater he is executive director of peace action. in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate russia let me go to you first in london we have mr bolton come. national security adviser to donald trump we have mike palm pale leaving the cia going into the state department and there are others in the around trumpet have an intense intense hostility towards iran we also know that it is a lit

hello and welcome across not we're all paying for considered i'm peter lavelle the russians are coming the russians are coming for well over the last year and a half this is the message western audiences have been served up twenty four seven what is behind this hysteria what does this message aim to achieve how is russia supposed to react importantly are we facing a possible conflict. cross talking anti russian hysteria i'm joined by my guests lord richard in london he is a member of the u.k. house of lords in paris we have john laughlin he is a historian specialist in international affairs and in washington we cross that we strand and he is an investigative journalist as well as co-host of fault lines on radio sputnik right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate let me go to john laughlin in paris first john what do you make of this because when i hysterical environment like we see in the united states in the u.k. and now spreading through europe there's no words of reason that can be spoken no dialogue is allowed whatso

hello and welcome to crossfire where all things considered i'm peter lavelle fifteen years ago this month the united states and its so-called coalition of the willing illegally invaded in occupied iraq american troops remain there to this day and iraq continues to grapple with that fateful decision many call the invasion of iraq a blunder shouldn't we call it what it really is a crime. cross talking about fifteen years on i'm joined by my guest ken o'keefe in calgary he is a political analyst and an ex u.s. marine who renounced us citizenship in washington we have chris turney why he is a former army military police sergeant iraq war veteran and contributor to the hill and into iran we have mohammad marandi he's an associate professor at the university of toronto writes of the crosstalk rules in effect that means he can jump in anytime you want i always appreciate before we get started here i'd like to refresh everybody's memory of what happened fifteen years ago preceding the war and also because the mainstream media is largely ignoring this fifteen year. because it's certainly not an an

hello and welcome to cross talk we're all things considered i'm peter lavelle the firing of rex tillerson at the state department surprised a few how he was fired if something well completely different tillerson was often described as bland and on numerous occasions out of step with donald trump the nomination of mike to replace him is anything but bland. ross talking foggy bottom i'm joined by my guest michael flanagan in washington he is president of flanagan consulting and a former congressman also in washington we have morgan much niek he is a republican strategist as well as founder of the mtu group and in williamsburg across to andrew langer he is president of the institute for liberty as well as host of the andrew langer show on w b l baltimore all right gentlemen crossed rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want michael let me go to you first in washington well we know what kind of secretary of state donald trump doesn't want does mike pompei o fit the bill of a secretary of state do you think he does one go ahead michael thanks peter i think yeah i think trump i

low in welcome to crossfire all things are considered i'm peter lavelle putin tells the us to come back to earth challenging washington's polar ambitions also calls to end the illegal war against yemen and why arming the can bring is a recipe for disaster as well as the return to trade wars. across talking some real news i'm joined by my guest mark sloboda he's an international affairs and security analyst and we have dmitri bobbitt she is a political analyst with spook nick international originally crossed locals in fact that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it first of all we have to go to putin's speech on russia returning to nucular parity with the united states and we have to comment about the erosion of arms control regimes that are very important you know mark and looking at the major cable stations in the broadsheets they don't give much of a background why this speech was given and its significance go ok well there's two speeches the first part of the speech was a domestic state of the union speech saying this is what i've accomplished in my years

follow in welcome to cross talk we're all things are considered i'm peter lavelle both the united states and russia have been announced their nuclear weapons posture both countries are in training a new age of war the age of hypersonic weapons we were told the russians hypersonic weapons can render us lead missile defense systems useless can. washington allow this to stand and are we now in the new arms race. across talking hypersonic wars i'm joined by my guest george samuel in new york he is a fellow at the global policy institute of london and author of the book bombs for peace in lake jackson we have daniel mcadams he's the executive director of the ron paul institute for peace and prosperity and in london we have married a chef skee she is a columnist for the independent and the guardian all right cross talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate mary let me go to you first here are the reactions to president putin's address to the joint some bully. parliament last week was like a thunderbolt for a lot of people and of course that was rou

hello and welcome to cross talk we're all things considered i'm peter lavelle from north korea to syria's president donald trump's foreign policy is literally all over the map north korea says it is open to direct talks with washington only to be met with preconditions in syria where the u.s. has no legal right to be in the first place peace is within view but this is not what the trumpet ministration want. cross talking missing diplomacy i'm joined by my guest in washington he is the executive vice president of the eurasia center in new york we have daniel is our he is an author and freelance journalist who writes frequently about the middle east eastern europe and the us constitution and in fort lauderdale we have ivan eland he's a senior fellow and director of the center on peace and liberty at the independent institute or the gentleman crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want i always appreciate dan you let me go to you first you were calling this program missing diplomacy and let's look at two areas where a lot of diplomacy is next. north korea and syria

welcome back to crossfire all things considered i'm peter lavelle to remind you we're discussing some real news. ok mike i want to go back to you right before i went to the break you were talking about bolton iran and regime change go ahead the mujahideen eco is it is a terrorist group it was formerly formerly designated by the united states is a terrorist group it targets iran they are they have extremely extremist views they were sheltered in iraq then the u.s. took them under its wing after its invasion occupation of rock iraq and rehabilitated them and now they openly hold meetings and they've got a million dollar war chest a lobbying washington's and john bolton is one of their favorite advocates he recently spoke at a gathering of the m.e. in the united states and he promised two things first he wanted to make sure that the government the iranian government that was put in place during the islamic revolution doesn't reach its fortieth birthday and also he promised them that we will celebrate two thousand and nineteen meaning him and these terrorists in tehran which you know like

welcome back to crossfire where all things are considered i'm peter lavelle to remind you we're discussing some of russia's new weapons. ok not to go back to mary in london and i'd like to ask all of you basically two questions in this part of the program. how the russians implicitly at least acknowledge that there is a new cold war and very importantly mary you said you watched it. putin big reach out his hand to say there's still time to sit down and talk instead of all of the bluster ok because i think we are in a new cold war i think we're going to find a new term for it because it's not ideological it's like more like a nineteenth century great power struggle but at least in those days you recognized and had respect for the other powers that's not the case today so those two questions really new cold war and can the west reach out and say and sit down with the russians on these issues go ahead mary well my personal take on this is that actually we're not in a new cold war we're in something rather different we're in more of a sort of psychological stand off i think and i'm quite reluc

hello and welcome to cross talk or all things considered i'm peter lavelle it appears and highly likely these are the words used by u.k. prime minister to resume pinning blame on russia for the poison attack on a former russian intelligence officer turned british claims are made and threats of course without evidence. crosstalk in the poison attack in britain i'm joined by my guest alexander macarius in london he is a writer on legal affairs as well as editor in chief of the duran dot com also in london we have charles shoe bridge he is a security analyst and a former u.k. army and counterterrorism intelligence officer and in brussels we cross to any much shown she is a former british intelligence officer and writer or across time pros in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate alexander macarius i'd like to go to an article that you just recently wrote and the title is very telling to resume the now demands russia provide prove itself innocence and that's a very curious form of jurisprudence isn't it isn't that backwards what she's asking go ahead. we

hello and welcome to cross talk we're all things are considered peter lavelle with the appointment of john bolton is the new national security adviser should we expect more stupid wars of choice says he wants success but everything associated with bolton's name is a failure the war party is again in charge. crosstalk in the war party i'm joined by my guest mark sloboda he's an international affairs and security analyst we also have a he's a political analyst as well as a leading expert at the center for actual politics and of course we have dmitri bobbitt she is a political analyst we spoke nick international right gentlemen as always crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it john bolton two words that i never thought would be associated with a position of power again considering his legacy victor your reaction to this news that ripples through the foreign policy establishment and what we call international diplomacy five years ago everybody would be shocked if they.

to low and welcome to cross talk we're all things are considered i'm peter lavelle it would appear the more the political left and their allies in the corporate media task donald trump the more we learn about the corrupt behavior of the deep state the firing of andrew mackay but the f.b.i. . it's a case in point is this the beginning of a perch. prost talking exposing the deep state i'm joined by my guest philip giraldi in leesburg he is a former cia counterterrorism specialist who is now executive director of the counsel for the national interest in new york we have steve malzberg he is a conservative political commentator and in washington we have bruce fein he is a constitutional lawyer and a former associate deputy attorney general under president ronald reagan all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want i always appreciate philip let me go to you first here. as i'm mentioned at the beginning of the program we have of this law of unintended consequences the more that the the political left in the backed up by the media go after trump an

following welcome to cross talk or all things are considered i'm peter lavelle the art of the deal isbeing put to the test can trump the former reality television host broker a deal with the north koreans will the deep state allow him also is the world entering a new trade war. cross talking some real news i'm joined by my guest mark sloboda he's an international affairs and security analyst we also have victor or leverage he is a political analyst as well as a leading expert at the center for actual politics and we have of course dimitri bob and she is a political analyst we spoke make international or a gentleman crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want i always appreciated what start out well. that was the phrase nixon went to china is trump going to metaphorically go to korea what i find really remarkable me go to victor first is that i think he did this all on his own he didn't tell anyone and the reaction from his own administration they were caught flat footed and of course the media is dead set against it because well they're a front for the for th

hello and welcome to cross talk where all things are considered i'm peter lavelle fifteen years ago this month the united states and its so-called coalition of the willing illegally invaded in occupied iraq american troops remain there to this day and iraq continues to grapple with that fateful decision many call the invasion of iraq a blunder should we call it what it really is a crime. cross talking or act fifteen years on i'm joined by my guest ken o'keefe in calgary he is a political analyst and an ex u.s. marine who were announced u.s. citizenship in washington we have chris turney why he is a former army military police sergeant iraq war veteran and contributor to the hill and into iran we have mohammad marandi he's an associate professor at the university of toronto right jim across the girls in effect that means he can.

below unwelcome across top where all things considered i'm peter lavelle the firing of rex tillerson at the state department surprised a few how he was fired is something well completely different tillerson was often described as bland and on numerous occasions out of step with his boss donald trump the nomination of my home pale to replace him is anything but bland. talking foggy bottom i'm joined by my guest michael flanagan in washington he is president of flanagan consulting and a former congressman also in washington we have morgan much nick he is a republican strategist as well as founder of the mtu group and in williamsburg across to andrew langer he is president of the institute for liberty as well as host of the andrew langer show on w b l baltimore all right gentlemen crossed rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want michael let me go to you first in washington well we know what kind of secretary of state donald trump doesn't want does mike pompei o fit the bill of a secretary of state do you think he does one go ahead michael thanks peter i think yeah i t

hello and welcome to cross talk or all things considered i'm peter lavelle it appears and highly likely these are the words used by u.k. prime minister to resume pinning blame on russia for the poison attack on a former russian intelligence officer turned british claims are made and threats flaunted of course without evidence. crosstalk in the poison attack in britain i'm joined by my guest alexander macarius in london he is a writer on legal affairs as well as editor in chief of the duran dot com also in london we have charles shoe bridge he is a security analyst and a former u.k. army and counterterrorism intelligence officer and in brussels we cross to any much shown she is a former british intelligence officer and writer or across top roles in effect that means.

following welcome to cross talk we're all things considered i'm peter lavelle the united states and russia have announced their nuclear weapons posture both countries are entering a new age of war the age of hypersonic weapons we are told russia's hypersonic weapons can render u.s. led missile defense systems useless can washington allow this to stand and are we now in a new arms race. across talking hypersonic wars i'm joined by my guest george samuel in new york he is a fellow at the global policy institute of london and author of the book bombs for peace in lake jackson we have daniel mcadams he's the executive director of the ron paul institute for peace and prosperity and in london we have married a chef skee she is a columnist for the independent and the guardian all right crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate mary let me go to you first here are the reactions to president putin's address to the joint some bully. parliament last week was like a thunderbolt for a lot of people and of course it was roundly condemned no context was

hello and welcome to cross talk where all things considered i'm peter lavelle is the global trade war imminent if donald trump follow through on increasing keris and ending existing trade deals it seems very likely after all this was at the very center of his campaign for the presidency it was a promise he made to his base will it make america great again. across talking trade wars i'm joined by my guest mitch firestein in new york he is a fund manager and author of the book planet ponzi also in new york we have and lee she's a former adjunct professor at n.y.u. and her latest book is will china's economy collapse and in brussels we have steve keen he's a distinguished professor at university college london all right crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate. it to all of you before i ask you first question and i to reflect on something that pat buchanan wrote a couple days ago but title of his article is why is the g.o.p. terrified of terror so this is what he has to say from lincoln to william mckinley to theodore roosevelt and fro

hello and welcome to crossfire for all things are considered i'm peter lavelle when he was fourth and most probably last term is russia's president vladimir putin has six more years to fashion his legacy how his putin changed russia how will he continue to change. cross talking russia's presidential election i'm joined by my guest mark sloboda he's an international affairs and security analyst we also have big he is a political analyst as well as a leading expert at the center for actual politics and of course we have. he is a political analyst with sputnik international rules in effect that means you can jump anytime you want and i always appreciated. your take away from this election and his reelection was obviously expected he got more percentage points and i think a lot of people were predicting this but not only that i just took more than i predicted just a few facts that i think are important for all of us to understand first. more than in two thousand and twelve. we're going to go up this. sixty three percent of the vote forty five million russians vote if we came this time he

welcome back to cross talk where all things considered i'm peter lavelle to remind you we're discussing some of russia's new weapons. ok not to go back to mary in london and i'd like to ask all of you basically two questions in this part of the program. how the russians implicitly at least acknowledge that there is a new cold war and very importantly mary you said you watched it. putin big reach out his hand to say there's still time to sit down and talk instead of all of the bluster ok because i think we are in a new cold war i think we're going to find a new term for it because it's not ideological it's like more like a nineteenth century great power struggle but at least in those days you recognized and had respect for the other powers that's not the case today so those two questions are really new cold war and can the west reach out and say and sit down with the russians on these issues go ahead mary well my personal take on this is that actually we're not in a new cold war we're in something rather different we're in more of a sort of psychological standoff i think and i'm quite re

welcome back to cross like where all things are considered i'm peter lavelle to remind you we're discussing some real news. ok let's talk about spy mania that is overtaken consumed the u.k. well what does it all mean because from what i can tell and no evidence has been demonstrated to the public about motive the means anything that would have to do with a criminal investigation they've really jumped their skis again that's exactly true because they didn't produce a single shred of evidence of the russians somehow involved but you know last week i got plenty of calls from the b.b.c. and for all my channel four they all wanted to kind of use me as you know the other site and they just refuse the other side in their mind the problem is that the other side is supposed to be a law and the media who just doesn't want to recognize the all b.s. and the obvious is the most dreadful thing here just i read the version from the times the version from the times is that putin is like henry the second who go out these guys delivered to him like for most back it was did it was kind of the second seventy t

hello and welcome to cross talk where all things considered i'm peter lavelle it would appear the more the political left and their allies in the corporate media task donald trump the more we learn about the corrupt behavior of the deep state the firing of andrew mccabe at the f.b.i. it's a case in point is this the beginning of a perch. cross talking exposing the deep state i'm joined by my guest philip giraldi in leesburg he is a former cia counterterrorism specials who is now executive director of the council for the national interest in new york we have steve malzberg he is a conservative political. commentator and in washington we have bruce fein is a constitutional lawyer and a former associate deputy attorney general under president ronald reagan all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want i was appreciated philip let me go to you first here. as i mentioned at the beginning of the program we have of this law of unintended consequences the more that the the political left in the backed up by the media go after trump and the so-called.

hello and welcome to cross talk where all things are considered i'm peter lavelle it would appear the more the political left and their allies in the corporate media task donald trump the more we learn about the corrupt behavior of the deep state the firing of andrew mccabe at the f.b.i. it's a case in point is this the beginning of a purge. cross talking exposing the deep state i'm joined by my guest philip giraldi in leesburg he is a former cia counterterrorism specials who is now executive director of the council for the national interest in new york we have steve malzberg he is a conservative political commentator and in washington we have bruce fein he is a constitutional lawyer and a former associate deputy attorney general under president ronald reagan all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want i always appreciated philip let me go to you first here. as i'm mentioned at the beginning of the program we have of this law of unintended consequences the more that the the political left in the backed up by the media go after trump and th

hello and welcome to cross talk where all things considered peter lavelle the united states and russia have announced their nuclear weapons posture both countries are entering a new age of war the age of hypersonic weapons we were told russia's hypersonic weapons can render u.s. led missile defense systems useless can washington allow this to stand and are we now in a new arms race. talking hypersonic wars i'm joined by my guest george samuel in new york he is a fellow at the global policy institute of london and author of the book bombs for peace in lake jackson we have daniel mcadams he's the executive director of the ron paul institute for peace and prosperity and in london we have married a chef ski she is a columnist for the independent and the guardian all right cross talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate mary let me go to you first here are the reactions to president putin's address to the joint some bully. parliament last week. it was like a thunderbolt for a lot of people and of course it was roundly condemned no context was g

hello and welcome to cross talk where all things considered i'm peter lavelle there is an issue probably the only issue that unites many of the most powerful individuals surrounding donald trump and the issue is hostility directed at iran there is every reason to believe these same people will translate their hostility into action even military action the war cabinet is mobilizing. across talking trumps war cabinet i'm joined by my guest russian mohammad ali in london he is a journalist and documentary maker with press t.v. also in london we have some a humvee he is editor in chief of the international interest as well as a geo political risk consultant and in los angeles we cross to john rainwater he is executive director of peace action. in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate russia let me go to you first in london we have mr bolton coming in as the national security advisor to donald trump we have pale leaving the cia going into the state department and there are others in the around trumpet have an intense intense hostility towards iran we also

hello and welcome to cross talk where all things considered i'm peter lavelle there is an issue probably the only issue that unites many of the most powerful individuals surrounding donald trump and the issue is hostility directed at iran there is every reason to believe these same people will translate their hostility into action even military action the war cabinet is mobilizing. across talking trump's war cabinet i'm joined by my guess. in london.

hello and welcome to cross talk where all things considered i'm peter lavelle a party divided in without a clear message democrats face a fundamental dilemma move to the left and reach out to progressive and in the process alienated stoner a base for continue business as usual party the democrats tired of losing. talking the democrats i'm joined by my guest lionel in new york he is a legal analyst and a news decoder and lionel media dot com in miami we have him and over he is a law professor as well as a candidate for the u.s. house of representatives in florida's twenty third congressional district and in los angeles we have ron look own he's a comedian a frequent guest on the jimmy door show and the young turks as well as host of his own streaming show get your news on with wrong all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate tim let me go to you because i think you're. going on a noble task in running for congress as a democrat here i like to start out as you know as the kind of the democrat democrat on this program wh

hello and welcome to cross talk where all things considered i'm peter lavelle is the global trade war imminent if donald trump follow through on increasing keris and ending existing trade deals it seems very likely after all this was at the very center of his campaign for the presidency it was a promise he made to his base will it make america great again. across talking trade wars i'm joined by my guest mitch firestein in new york he is a fund manager and author of the book planet ponzi also in new york we have and lee she's a former adjunct professor at n.y.u. and her latest book is will china's economy collapse and in brussels we have steve keen he is a distinguished professor at university college london all right crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate. it to all of you before i ask you first question and i to reflect on something that pat buchanan wrote a couple days ago but title of his article is why is the g.o.p. terrified of terror so this is what he has to say from lincoln to william mckinley to theodore roosevelt and fr

flowing welcome to cross talk we're all things considered i'm peter lavelle the united states and russia have announced their nuclear weapons posture both countries are in train a new age of war the age of hypersonic weapons we were told the russians hypersonic weapons can render us lead missile defense systems useless can washington allow this to stand and are we now in a new arms race. across talking hypersonic wars i'm joined by my guest george samuel in new york he is a fellow at the global policy institute of london and author of the book bombs for peace. in lake jackson we have daniel mcadams he's the executive director of the ron paul institute for peace and prosperity and in london we have married a chef skee she is a columnist for the independent and the guardian all right crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate mary let me go to you first here are the reactions to president putin's address to the joint some billy. parliament last week was like a thunderbolt for a lot of people and of course that was roundly condemned no cont

welcome back to crossfire all things considered i'm peter lavelle to remind you we're discussing some real news. ok mike i want to go back to right before i went to the break you were talking about bolton iran and regime change go ahead the mujahideen eco is it is a terrorist group it was formerly formerly designated by the united states is a terrorist group it targets iran they have extremely extremist views they were sheltered in iraq then the u.s. took them under its wing after its invasion occupation of rock iraq and rehabilitated them and now they openly hold meetings they've got a million dollar war chest the lobby in washington's and john bolton is one of their savor it advocates he recently spoke at a gathering of the enemy in the united states and he promised two things first he wanted to make sure that the government the iranian government that was put in place during the islamic revolution doesn't reach its fortieth birthday and also he promised them that we will celebrate two thousand and nineteen meaning him and these terrorists in tehran which you know like like some kin

low in welcome to crossfire or all things are considered i'm peter lavelle putin tells the u.s. to come back to earth challenging washington's polar ambitions also calls to end the illegal war against yemen and why arming the can is a recipe for disaster as well as the return to trade wars. across talking some real news i'm joined by my guest mark sloboda he's an international affairs and security analyst and we have dmitri bobbitt she is a political analyst with international rules in fact that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it first of all we have to go to putin speech on russia returning to nucular parity with the united states and we have to comment about the erosion of arms control regimes that are very important here mark and looking at the major cable stations in the broadsheets they don't give much of a background why this speech was given and its significance go ok well there's two speeches the first part of the. each was a domestic state of the union speech saying this is what i've accomplished in my years in office so far this is what w

hello and welcome to cross talk more all things are considered i'm peter lavelle with the appointment of john bolton is the new national security adviser should we expect more stupid wars of choice.

hello and welcome to crossfire where all things are considered i'm peter lavelle putin tells the u.s. to come back to earth challenging washington's polar ambitions also calls to end the illegal war against yemen and why arming the king of regime is a recipe for disaster as well as the return to trade wars. across talking some real news i'm joined by my guest mark sloboda he's an international affairs and security analyst and we have dmitri bobbitt she is a political analyst we spoke nick international rules in fact that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it first of all we have to go to putin's speech on russia returning to nucular parity with the united states and we have to comment about the erosion of arms control regimes that are very important here mark and looking at the major cable stations in the broadsheets they don't give my.