u. s. department of defense shows it's applied on fits, amends with almost $26000000.00 to its troops. and despite the stimulants which encourages alertness and physical strength being bound for use in the us, military or of it is also used to treat attention deficit disorder and narcolepsy. the us food and drug administration has reported on the thousands of negative consequences from using unfair him and including to engine to fatal cases between 94 and 2020. but earlier i taught to michael mallow of a former senior pentagon security policy analyst, who said the u. s. has been using such drugs for decades. that's a very entry, intriguing studies. the 1st time i've ever seen anything pulled together like that . but it's based on it's based on fact and, but that is also the reality of some 22 years of war. the united states has been involved in and, and, and in fact, it any addiction in war a, particularly from the us. i've actually began during the american revolutionary war and in the us civil war, initially with the alcohol. and then there's the years went by progressing to drug use.

u. s. department of defense shows it's applied on fed minns with almost $26000000.00 to the troops. that despite the stimulants, which encourages alertness and physical strength been banned for use in the u. s. military. it's also used to treat attention deficit disorder and narcolepsy. the us food and drug administration has reported on the thousands of negative consequences from using unfair men including children, to fatal cases between 94 and 2020. and now let's cross live to michael muller, former pentagon, senior security policy analysts. michael, welcome to see international. now what do you make of this information cited by that bulgarian journalist? well, it's a very inter, intriguing studies. the 1st time i've ever seen anything pulled together like that, but it's based on it's based on fact. and, but that is also the reality of some 22 years of war that, that the united states has been involved in. and, and in fact, it any addiction in war a, particularly from the us. i've actually began during the american revolutionary war and the u. s. civil war, initially with the alc

u. s. department of defense. should that give you any reason for concern? definitely, but i actually want to go a step further and point out that the united states is on the decline and u. s. officials and they're in the they are constantly being fed information from their their people in the persian media that they funded that they own nbc persian b o. a persian iran international, which is a saudi outlet to mother and all these and their online army, their, their cyber army in albania, funded by nieto and supported by their had this information that iran is about to collapse and so on. and this is all wishful thinking. the fact is that the united states does not have the ability to undermine iran. iran is rising, is ascending as the united states and its european allies are declining. the smart thing for the united states to do is to change his behavior and to behave more realistic, realistically. but i don't see that happening in the times. all right, so i will have him out on the professor at the university to ron, giving us some pretty interesting pers

u. s. military. now the pro follows of mountain concern in the white house over the defense department's manipulations of foreign audiences. last week, the u. s. and the secretary of defense is georgia. those responsible for conducting military psychological operations online to provide a full account of the activities matter shut down more than a $150.00 fake u. s. accounts in august for spreading pro western propaganda in middle eastern unscented asian countries with some promoting unseat russian narratives. or former pentagon official, michael maloof says that the pentagon covers up the extent of his different disinformation operations. the military and the see i have gone through these types of, of channels to try in that and met and masked the sourcing of this is probably very deliberate. and in, in, in, if any, anyone knew that it was the military or, or the us intelligence agencies automatically, people are going to scoff at it. but if it looks like it's in, it's from innocent sourcing. and in the hearing and here say from from friends and colleagues in it so voluminous and they hear it enough

u. s. military. the pro follows mounting concern in the white house over the defense department's manipulations of foreign audiences. last week, the u. s. under secretary of defense, instruct to those responsible for conducting military psychological operations on line to provide a full account of the activities met to shut down more than $150.00 fake u. s. accounts in august for spreading pro western propaganda in middle eastern and central asian countries. with some promoting unseat russian narratives. let's cross live now to former pentagon officials, michael muller. michael, thanks very much for joining us here on archie today. i'm now given the contest i nature of the pentagon itself, do we think we can expect a completely independence on chance barn investigation? i think they're going to try and deep 6, a better these. these kinds of things are often times used are approved through other channels that are not going to be ever be revealed. ca is, are always done it. i know the defense department is also done this in the past, but it's under very carefully orchestrated things and everything is so com

of power. the u. s. state department announced $1100000000.00 worth of arm sales to taiwan, saying this was vital for taiwan to maintain a sufficient self defense capability. life now to andrew long and international independent, china's specialist joining us hey, live on this program on our t international, a very warm welcome to you. so just last week, the u. s. state department, announcing $1100000000.00 and arm sales to taiwan, saying its vital for its security. ah mister long, what, what do you think is a, is a weapons sale of that size and, and degree to tie one is not going to deescalate pensions. do you thing? well, let's just keep these on sales in perspective. regardless of the size, it is authorized by the taiwan relations act, acted by the united states many years. and so it is that the us government isn't power is act, but the supply these weapons does not necessarily mean that. busy on there or declare the jewel independence, an effect of the pie one enjoys a great deal of also call freedom of movement without violating the one china policy. but, but the fact of the matter is the united states has been trying to haul out the one t

we don't see any obstacles to doing the suicide of holland omen as a military expert and a former advisor to the u. s. defense department. he joins us via skype from washington, d. c. thank you very much for being on the program. i guess how surprise are you at the advance as ukrainian forces have been able to make in such a short space of time? a not. this is clearly a tactical victory for ukraine. what has been extraordinary and people will study this forever for a long time as to how ukraine has done so well, militarily, i emphasize as, as tactical. this is still a strategic stalemate. russia is incapable of dominating ukraine, and ukraine is not capable of seizing back all the territories and don boston crimea that russian occupies so while this is certainly a tactical victory, and i think ukrainians will probably prevail in terse on the question is, will there be a negotiated piece, that is the issue. russia cannot persist with winter coming, and possibly climate change may make the winter far more mile. both sides will restock their ordinance and their people. will this be a huge stalemate that will just continue

department of defense information, that falls under the classified system and perrella. when you talk about special access programs, nuclear capabilities of foreign military agencies, those are things that the government , the u. s. government in no way wants a spread around. >> and just to be clear, you know, in the article you don't name the country that the information is about. -- you've reported in the past about nuclear related material, is this the same material now that you're talking about with just further or greater clarity on it? >> i think what we are describing in the past story, and you could see it now and a subpoena that was unsealed since that story, is that when trump's people were served with a subpoena for all classified information in his possession back in may. we that subpoena listed a whole slew of categories from different types of classified information. one of the important categories of that was information about nuclear weapons. they were trying to, in that subpoena, trying to cover the waterfront, but they're also saying if you have any information that fits into these categories, this is the type of thing that we are seeking and subpoenaed it must be turned over to the government.

of the european union winter will determine our future. and what the risks are. harlan ullman is a military expert and a former advisor to the u. s. defense department. he says, ukraine has undoubtedly managed to make rapid gains in the northeast. this is clearly a tactical victory for ukraine. what has been extraordinary and people will study this forever for a long time as to how ukraine has done so. well, militarily, i emphasize this is tactical. this is still a strategic stalemate. russia is incapable of dominating ukraine, and ukraine is not capable of seizing back all the territories and don boss in crimea that russian occupies so while this is certainly a tactical victory, and i think ukrainians will probably prevail in terrace on the question is, will there be a negotiated piece, that is the issue. russia cannot process with winter coming, and possibly climate change may make the winter far more miles. both sides will restock their ordinance and their people. will this be a huge stalemate that will just continue to destroy ukraine, or will there be a decisive action? i don't think so. what we need to do is to look how we can end the war on t

u. s military but not openly prior to 1993, gays and lesbians were banned from serving when president obama rescinded formerly don't ask, don't tell the department of defenseated a away for veterans who had been discharged under this policy. to have the opportunity to correct the record and importantly, to reestablish their eligibility for full veteransbenefits. but many veterans sadly don't know or can't even access this important process. military times reports that 14,000 servicemen and women were forced out of the military because they admitted their sexual orientation as gay or lesbian under. don't ask, don't tell it was the thing that almost maybe not enlist, um, because i had to make a conscious choice. voice that i was going to go back into the closet that i couldn't share. all of who i am as a as an individual human herrera served in california's army national guard in the early two thousands and says, although she didn't disclose her sexuality while serving, she remembers how it felt to be investigated. it made an already difficult situation being deployed to an overseas country. the job that we that we were working in, um, the environment that w