welcome back to the kaiser report imax keyser time medica to charles 2 smith the name of his website is of 2 minds dot com charles welcome back thank you max always my pleasure all right in out in everett to paste about america's quote fatal synergies what does this mean ok that's a phrase that i borrowed from a historian who looked at the 1600s which was a century of just an indian war or conflict revolution uprisings you name it from asia to china i mean from europe to china so he was trying to figure out why societies fell apart and of course part of it was there was a kind of mini ice age where you know the weather cooled off and and there were disruptions and agriculture but he identified other issues that that caused some societies to collapse and he called these fatal synergies and the other on the other end are what he called the 9 synergies where the society kind of has the resources and and cultural values to pull together and get through the crisis so it seems to me that america's got a preponderance of fatal synergies you know like. a totally rapacious over controlling eli

2 countries after moscow amassed tens of thousands of troops on its border with ukraine. we've got to correspondent standing by for us charles transferred in ukraine's matter of paul bernard smith in moscow russia let's go straight to bernard so what is moscow saying about why the troop buildup is coming to an end now. russia's defense ministry always said that these were long exercises on the exercises would end today thursday or of course they've also been as in an enormous show of strength because we have satellite imagery showing perhaps as many as 100000 russian troops on the russia ukrainian border we have the airborne troops armored units attack helicopters reconnaissance drones jamming equipment and a military hospital all on this ground exercise it was a russian show of strength clearly and russia said an indication and notes to nate so about its agitation or its complaints about russia's build up in that area 'd but it's not all over russia from saturday is restricting for 6 months access to the as a. see through the care straight this will prevent the ukrainian navy accessing its eastern ports russia says it's preventing this access for other military exercises but i