the soviet union, gathered right next door to where i am, at the presidential palace, signing the warsaw pact. check out the news reel from that day. >> leaders of the communist world, meeting in warsaw, to sign the treaty which is their answer to nato. the survey it premiere is on the platform, when they show themselves to warsaw's thousands. china's defense minister, and russia's general or their, to, clapping, and being clapped. the polish premiere tells of the new military, and political treaty, while the general essence. china is not a member of east communist nato. they want to show that they can negotiate from strength. >> the warsaw pact. the anti nato, or, the nato mirror image. the warsaw pact had a closet mirrored nato's article five. an attack on any member nation would be considered an attack on all. the warsaw pact endured for around 30 years, but in 1989, as the berlin wall came down, and communist governments across eastern europe fell, one by one, the members left the warsaw pact, until it was formally dissolved in 1991. but, nato, the greatest military alliance in the histor

although we had the warsaw pact and the soviet union in place. and after the soviet union disappeared from the world map along with the warsaw pact, the u. s. got absolutely out of control german suck, which they think they can do whatever they want you. slavic. as a case in point, we saw utter disregard for international law. the use of the armed forces and weapons by a number of countries including depleted uranium. ammunition, that was of any uproar. no. they realized they could go ahead. he concocted a justification and got away with it. today some european leaders admits, well yes, maybe they overreacted a little, but it does not go any further. again, the u. s. behaved this way around the world because they think there is no longer any competition, but they all wrong. that life does not stand still prompting new developments and international relations and new countries emerging a strong power houses that it means their centers of gravity in international relations are being shaped. take the people's republic of china, india, and the russia

former countries in the warsaw pact that were allied with the soviet union under pressure, under force. the u.s. policy was to support color revolutions in those countries, meaning the united states wanted influence in the new governments and we pushed the idea we wanted democracy and freedom. but democracy and freedom as long as they are aligned with the united states' policy. this has led to, along with the growth of nato from seven countries to now 30 and those countries moving east toward the russian border -- and a nato base 150 kilometers from st. petersburg. the question is, is it really in the national security interests to surround russia closer and closer and having nato bases and some with missiles, supposedly defensive missiles against iran in poland, is it in our national interest to surround russia? and our own interests, we have had the monroe doctrine almost 200 years. host: there is a lot there so let's get a response. guest: the western allies have surrounded the soviet union and the warsaw pact since the smoke was still clearing from world war ii. airbase in turkey h

based on the stand off to we night on the warsaw pact. the u. s. saw itself as the winner and the so beneficiary of the soviet union's demise. while in reality, the soviet union broke up. not because of nate as activities, but for internal reasons. and that's why they behave accordingly. they believe they cannot be brought to justice, but they have the right to judge every want. they are the ultimate decision makers, that they have the right to do whatever they want deals. then there are a number of drivers behind this behavior. first of all, economically the u. s. is a very strong country. secondly, it issues the main reserve currency with vengeance while continuing to pile up its domestic debt. i. but in fact, it is the whole. well, that is the u. s. is creditor, the entire world could be struggling, plunged into crisis while the americans are printing dollars. that is why they now fell completely unpunished in this respect as well. exactly. for that reason, the u. s. actions in afghanistan, iraq and vietnam a few decades ago. i've never come

although we had the warsaw pact and the soviet union in place. and after the soviet union disappeared from the world map along with the warsaw pact, the u. s. got absolutely out of control. they think they can do whatever they want . yugoslavia as a case in point we saw ought to disregard international law. the use of the armed forces and weapons by number of countries including depleted uranium ammunition, was there any uproar? no, they realized they could go ahead, concocted a justification, and got away with it today. some european ladies admit, well yes, maybe they overreacted a little, but it does not go beyond that. again, the u. s. behaves this way around the world because they think there is no longer any competition, but they're wrong. life does not stand still prompting new developments in international relations and new countries emerging. the strong powerhouses. it means new centers of gravity and international relations being shaped. take the people's republic of china, india and the russian federation. the unipolar world is over us,

based on the stand off to we night on the warsaw pact, the u. s. saw itself as the winner and the so beneficiary of the soviet union's demise. while in reality, the soviet union broke up. not because of nate as activities, but for internal reasons. and that's why they behave accordingly. they believe they cannot be brought to justice, but they have the right to judge every want. they are the ultimate decision makers, that they have the right to do whatever they want deals. then there are a number of drivers behind this behavior. first of all, economically the u. s. is a very strong country. secondly, it issues the main reserve currency with vengeance while continuing to pile up its domestic debt. i. but in fact, it is the whole. well, that is the u. s. is creditor, the entire world could be struggling, plunged into crisis while the americans are printing dollars. that is why they now fell completely unpunished in this respect as well. exactly. for that reason, the u. s. actions in afghanistan, iraq and vietnam a few decades ago. i've never come

, but when the warsaw pact disappeared, when the soviet union disappeared, it had to be decidednow she wants to defend a little to the east, then a little more to the east, advanced, and so on and so forth. what kind of defensive alliance is this, which itself determines the line of its defense? moreover, including in itself strange, which no one was even going to, not only that there was no thought to attack there , in order to threaten these countries, and now mr. stoltenberg, who apparently has the norwegian central bank, will not wait soon, but who remains at the head nato is already saying that nato must be held accountable for the global security. this is where the line of defense passes. this is where democracy turns into autocracies into dictatorships. indeed, nato is playing an ever- growing role not only in european security, as the minister said, but is also taking on global tasks. if we consider the changes that have taken place literally recently after the summit, which there was a new emphasis, which appeared due to the fact that the well- known 2014 formula was di

in all the countries at that emerged from the soviet union and substantial influence in the ex-warsaw pacttates. why in the world should he have that? that directly challenges vital american interests. we need to stop putin in ukraine and i think we are doing that right now pretty well. host: margaret in north dakota, hi. caller: hi. i'm calling about -- i'm kind of nervous, i have never been on the air before. guest: relax, i am nervous too. caller: why can't they arrest putin and this would all be over, for war crimes? they do not talk about that. what are we doing about de-escalating the nuclear threat? i'm so frightened right now. guest: look, they will not arrest putin because he happens to be the president of russia. as far as we know there is nobody in russia with sufficient authority or force to arrest him. but your point has merit because, one, this is putin's war. even his national security team is uncomfortable with this. and you are right, too, that this decision is not popular among the elites or the people of russia. and eventually those facts will influence defense in russia

former warsaw allies don't want to have anything to do because of what they experienced in the warsaw pactere treated like crap. they vhave a military that's vey large and all of the intimidating equipment they've had, and i've seen some of it up close and personal, it's modern, but their soldiers and their general officer core are absolutely incompetent across the board. they have one-year con scripts. they use their force asser mo of a police state forces, specially their airborne forces are almost riot police, if you will, and the rest of their force trains over a year's period of time, if they're conscripts, and they do not have the sergeants like the american military has and other armies in the world so their leadership is terrible. across the board there is an inferiority complex by mr. putin and i think he's trying to re-establish it. he's trying to re-establish the old soviet union. >> yeah. it is so interesting what you say about the russian military because we are seeing that in real time with the invasion, right? even the 40-mile long convoy, the russian convoy has been stalled

days, where they have control — union, warsaw pact days, where they have control of their borderr, and nike _ nations, establishing a border, and nike to— nations, establishing a border, and nike to say— nations, establishing a border, and i like to say it sort of glibly, they— i like to say it sort of glibly, they want nato to move back and they want the _ they want nato to move back and they want the us to move out. that is what _ want the us to move out. that is what they— want the us to move out. that is what they are demanding. it is bigger— what they are demanding. it is bigger thanjust ukraine. what they are demanding. it is biggerthanjust ukraine. i what they are demanding. it is bigger thanjust ukraine. i think moldova — bigger thanjust ukraine. i think moldova and georgia and places like that are _ moldova and georgia and places like that are sitting on the edge. as we on the _ that are sitting on the edge. as we on the west— that are sitting on the edge. as we on the west continue to signal, listen _ on the west continue to signal, listen to— on the west continue to si

s. nato, the soviet union, and the warsaw pact. the world was living through a cold war then. but right now, the situation is somewhat worse in my view back than our opponents did not try to bring the situation, the soviet union to a boiling point. so aggressively true, the actions may have been disguised, but no sanctions were imposed on in ty, industries or agriculture, let alone personal sanctions. it never occurred to anybody to impose sanctions. they understood, of course, that it made no sense just they do now. but at least they had their brains not to do it then. now every one is in an awkward position. they've imposed sanctions, but it's still necessary to communicate if only to prevent all sorts of undesirable consequences, including such terrible ones as say, a conflict between russia and nato is like every one is under sanctions. every one is on some kind of list. i signed the well known start 3 or start treaty with president obama, that tracy was extended by president putin and president biden. why make it so embarrassing? the treaties was signed, but it was done b

they point out that they have disbanded the warsaw pact, their military lives, and ask why the west should not do the same thing. so started including former socialist countries and later, even former soviet union members drawing closer and closer to russia. george or any crane appear to be next on the list. with the guys waited a week hewlett commission whistle. dustin, i'm going to need another school shooting. mimi michael was machine. yeah. with that i knew that there. so my only answer elecom is between you is a bus missed it real? don't know about it a few years. no part of what to do is you fuck them to you j. she wouldn't they even that with you unless you, but i mean, you were, but i was a eunice breasted roger, go international, and you're still still. esteem is median in godaddy. noel is, is up within your budget. you know what i mean? was there hospice? good bunch of go the go run the u. s. have always accused each other of trying to install public regimes. that was the case in georgia where we saw an internal armed conflict, lead c at another stand self between russia and the

can you imagine back during the warsaw pact days that canada and mexico had been part of the pact?ost: do you see this as extending? caller: i do not think those countries that were formerly part of the soviet union should be should have been made part of nato. that probably would be nuclear war with russia. host: mike, independent line. we will hear from george in st. paul, minnesota. democrats line. caller: i just want to say that we are doing what we can do at this juncture as regards to ukraine. it is very obvious that the next step would be to engage russia militarily and that is going to be very problematic. i think that we should continue the measures and restrictions we put on russia's economic system and just continue to isolate them and blow medically around the world. now, unfortunately, it is falling on the russian people who for what i understand are not 100% behind what putin is doing. we need to be a little bit patient here and just keep going and see how the economic and political restrictions work. host: the president has said that he would not send u.s. troops to

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further, but nato is very concerned that he might try to go after one of the countries, former warsaw pact countries, that are right on the border, including lithuania, estonia, latvia, those countries along the edge of his border. and they are making big plans to beef up the defense is there to make sure that doesn't happen. but there's one other big wildcard here, and that is russia has this unique nuclear doctrine. you know, the united states and most of the countries that have nuclear weapons argued that the purpose of nuclear weapons is not for them to ever be used but to deter and prevent war. that people are not going to attack you if they know you have nuclear weapons. and that the best use of them as if they are never employed and only used as a deterrent. but russia's nuclear doctrine that was adopted in 2014 calls for the use of so-called tactical or battlefield weapons, lower yield nuclear weapons in the conflict to escalate the conflict to de-escalate. that's what the doctrine is called, escalate to de-escalate. and the idea is if rush is losing on the battlefield or if the co

in the other warsaw pact nations and what i'm suggesting is it won't work in ukraine. >> reporter: how russian forces handle the cities already under their control could provide clues to putin's end game for this in. early, theainian maeace has not shep >> g thanks. >>> there's another oblem growing more acute tonight in ukraine. finding enough food. jacob soboroff reports. >> reporter: the situation here is desperate. millions of ukrainians without a place to live and increasingly withfood to eat. irined from sumy she says thed there is bread and en that's rare the conditions especially dire in mariupol aid workers have called it apocalyptic. food is quickly running out, and humanitarian convoys haven't been allowed in t is cruel," t man says "my child is hungry. i don't know wto give to eat. geg supplies cities is grg more dangerous by the day this massive warehouse in kyiv used to hold 50,000 tons of food. it was hit not once, but twice. we find a different reality in lviv where food is still sold on the street, for now. president zelenskyy has encouraged you all, food producers, no

if we don't step up and do more, as a group, including many of these countries that are former warsaw pact countries that have the weapons ukraine can use immediately, then we will have failed. i hope he leads and lets people know the united states of america stands with ukraine and we will do everything possible. we want and expect the nato allies to be with us. this is a difficult discussion because they are a lot more dependent on oil and gas than we are, but they have to make a decision. are you for tyranny? because that is basically what you are saying if you will continue to be dependent on russian oil and gas. he uses it as a political weapon. always has. talk to the people from moldova, ukraine or germany. this is a tough issue, i get it. i agree we should be providing more of our energy to the europeans to substitute for some of this, but there are other countries that are willing to as well. qatar has made that offer. we should not be fueling the war machine by giving vladimir putin all this revenue. it is his number one export. it is a primary way in which he develops his foreig

nato on one side, the warsaw pact countries on the other. that was the chessboard for the cold war, a power struggle that continued until the collapse of the soviet union, in 1991. and with that collapse came a new world map, a shift in global power, and those 15 soviet republics, they became 15 independent nations. now, of those 15 former soviet republics, three are nato members. they are known as the baltic statesestoni latvia, and lithuania. these are the three nations with the strongest diplomatic and military ties to the united states in this western allies. belarus, the former by all russian and soviet republic's argument to flee -- the most close with russia in the post cold war. about 70% of its population is russian speaking. it is directly north of ukraine. moldova, another one of ukraine's neighbors has had an on and off relationship with russia since independence. moscow currently approves of moldova's government because of its pro western leader. post soviet russia has also invaded and instigated conflict with armenia, azerbaija

it with soviet union, stars supplying it with arms, with grosbeaks to from mexico to enters the warsaw pact. oh, do you think? what is united states do, in this case, when all what they did during the caribbean crisis when cruise shelf installed, some was watkins while next, reaching the american territory. and we were on the brink also nuclear war that we were ways enough, you know, to step back. so this link is considered a compressed as an image. it can only and, and clench, and that if we have to pay, that's my own opinion. you know, i'm not an as that erst estate function. i am just an expert. and besides for my carstairs, member of parliament for 1st of all, i am a historian and from the family renowned historians. i studied international relations from ha, still 20th century. okay. whether it's will arguably a jelly the we have to re, if we're b let's, it's better to bake for gains and not for losses. while arguably the united states, sir, i had to figure it out of hand with the mexican revolution in a very different way. and obviously did occupy territory, but then why did vladimir

think about that in terms of nato, it is often the countries on the eastern flank and the former warsaw pactf the kit. what are the ukrainians looking for? they've asked for tanks, you know, they are used to operating the t—64 tank, quite an old one that has been updated a little bit. and also the t—72, and lesser the t—80. so their tanks are potentially countries like poland, hungary, bulgaria may have. but they would be using some of those, especially the more newer variants. and then also they have looked for air defence systems and actually anti—ship systems, too, missile systems. and again, this is where the us would probably come in. we know that they have been getting a lot of stingers which are effective at low altitudes, but what the ukrainians are looking for is the next level up, the sa8 and s—300, which have longer range and are, yeah, capable of faster targets as well. so, dr bury, that is their wish list. now, we have already learned, haven't we, with poland? they have been more than willing to supply some planes that ukraine said they could use, but they haven't been able to b

certainly after the fall of the berlin wall and the advent of the breakaway republics and and the warsaw pact is that is that i can't imagine why obviously is politics. obviously, there are people against it but bringing people in to talk is always i think he's always better than negotiate peacefully rather than you know being sent into war into, you know wartime, so, i'm sorry. i can't answer that better for you, but it's a good question. any other questions from anywhere in the morning? so i heard the good news there that you are going to write two more books about ronald reagan. yes. yes. all right. that's pretty exciting. so, can you give us a sneak peek? sure. yeah. sure. well, first of all i say is that serene knows that you know doing all this that you keeping off the streets and all the pool halls. i'm writing i'm editing a book about reagan and grenada and grenade is significant because it's the energy time. it's the end of the time it's beginning of the end of the soviet union. it leads the straight line projection of history from grenada to the fall of the berlin wall. and then the

to both fdr and truman but fdr did allow style and to gobble up parts of eastern europe and the warsaw pact countries at the ulta yolta was interesting. i always wondered why they went along you alta was a was a falling down vacation home for the russian sars. and when the communists came to power they'd let it fall into ruin, but they chose it as the site of this important meeting which you decide what to do with the world after world war two. how do we divide the world? how do we handle the world? how do we manage the world? you know, they had this arrogant they could really run, you know this country that country or whatever, but you also had bad food. it was cold. it was it was bad. it was falling down the bedding was bad. all this and fdr has to travel 12,000 miles there and churchill has to travel thousands of miles there and it's just to hike down the street there were for for stalin and he was the most junior member of the big three when you know, you just said, okay, let's have the big three. let's have yolk. let's have in miami beach. but but why they they had it you alta nobody's

uh, the former warsaw pact and still still work in some places.y , the institutes of memory in our country, the yeltsin center is still operating, but in fact, all these outposts and the ideological offensive against russia, they, uh, did not stop working, but in ukraine simply due to the fact that ukrainians - they are the same russians. just not wiser yet. they just concentrated, you know, and we see here here. uh, in the dry residue of that compote, which is poured into the ears of europeans every day and all europeans of all - this is an attempt to sell some ideals, certain values, and starting from the fact that we do not accept others, it cannot be, you understand that in russia it should not be like this from here. all the rest. that's all this machine built for this is to ask from genocification is needed. unless you listen to ukraine, well , the fact is that i think that after all, it is peace and international politics. she always deals with reality. here. uh, when this reality comes in ukraine, some things will change, and as time passe

and then the ukranian pilots to know these machines because in the soviet union and in the warsaw pact, they were flown by all countries and forces they would just come to poland and then take these planes and go back to your crane. and i hope for the 1st in the 1st instance would they would tamma on they said 60 kilometers on lloyd, which has been standing in the open for 4 days and days. i cast whitman, former general of the german army in berlin. thank you very much. your time. thank you. good afternoon. british military intelligence sources say russian forces are now deliberately targeting areas populated by civilians. a response to the ukranian resistance, which is slowing rushes advance in spite of these increasingly brutal tactics. volunteers, including many from outside ukraine, are signing up to join ukraine's army and men between the ages of 18 and 60 have to stay in the country. so they're available for conscription. these men are determined to fight for their country, even in the face of russian firepower, and without support from nato hearing keith, they're waiting to sign

it was the nations on eastern central europe once the warsaw pact broke up. after decades of repression by the soviet union, that came to nato and requested membership so that they could create their own free governments and societies. and so that if they could have peace and security against external threats, nato didn't decide it wanted to expand into eastern europe democratically elected governments expressing the will of their peoples, asked for nato membership. and i'm bassett, bold. and with all due respect, i think you're a sure the now think you understand that mosca would find it's quite provocative that the united states was arming, providing ukraine with lethal weapons for pretty long period of time. you may disagree that it poses a threat to moscow. but more score is within its own right to determine what is this as threatening as it did signal, if this pleasure really didn't it so. so you believe moscow would be perfectly with vantage rights to attack custodial lives be, enlist wendy, are right now. absolutely no, because i don't think last storm

it was the nations on eastern central europe once the warsaw pact broke up. after decades of repression by the soviet union, that came to nato and requested membership so that they could create their own free governments and societies. and so that if they could have peace and security against external threats, nato didn't decide it wanted to expand into eastern europe democratically elected governments expressing the will of their peoples, asked for nato membership. i'm bassett, bold, and with all due respect, i think you're a sure the now think you understand that mosca would find is quite provocative, that the united states was arming, providing ukraine with lethal weapons for pretty long period of time. you may disagree that it poses a spread to moscow, but moscow is within its own ride to determine what is this as threatening as it did signal, if this pleasure with a didn't it so. so you believe moscow would be perfectly within its rights to attack custodial? i've been lithuania right now. absolutely. no, because i don't think last way are big enough coun