okay, well let's get more reaction to this now and speak with daniel mcadams. he's the executive director at the rome paul piece institute. and as always, you are very welcome. daniel. thanks for coming on. i'm firstly, what's your reaction to this news and the way that america apparently took this decision to effectively block a range websites? well, frankly, i didn't believe it at 1st. i didn't, i thought it was a hoax. maybe the iranians did it themselves to make us look bad because you couldn't have made us look worse than the u. s. government did. so i actually went to the treasury department website and they're lo and behold. they proudly announced that they had taken down these websites because of quote misinformation. and it's interesting just a little over a month ago, secretary of state, anthony blink, and sent out a tweet congratulating the world on world press day. and he said that a free and independent pressed insurers, the public has access to information. and here you have the you were seizing and shutting down effectively. 30 some websites and w

well, daniel mcadams, executive director at rome. paul pace institute does say that the move makes the by the administration look so bad at 1st. he didn't believe it. i thought it was a hoax, maybe the iranians did it themselves to make us look bad because you couldn't have made us look worse than the u. s. government did. so i actually went to the treasury department website and they're lo and behold. they probably announce that they had taken down these websites because of quote misinformation. and it's interesting just a little over a month ago, secretary of state antony blink and sent out a tweet congratulating the world on world press day. and he said that a free and independent press ensure the public has access to information. and here you have the u. s. seizing and shutting down effectively. 30 some websites. what was the crime? well, i've been on press tv quite often. i'll go on any media outlet generally that will allow me to express our view of non interventionism. so what is the effect is simply to shut down any sites. it

s. joint chiefs of staff single down china and russia was the biggest global threats that daniel mcadams, executive director of the rome pool piece institute, says americans just inventing another enemy? well, i wonder if i fallen asleep and waking up when woken up in 1978 or something, you know it's, it's, it's unbelievable that we need to find a new atlantic lines. what is the atlantic? we have no idea what the atlantic is, the atlantic has been certainly since the end of the cold war, european countries incapable of developing their own independence, foreign and domestic and economic policy basically blindly following the united states into places like afghanistan and syria and libya and misadventure after misadventure. china is the big enemy of the defense secretary austin said we have to start acting like china is the and the mean not just thinking like they're the enemy and this is how it works. this is how the u. s. military industrial complex works, you invented in me words, the global war on terrorism, or the global fight against co, good, or the global fight against china. you

go wrong ah cross talking the potent biting summit, i'm joined by my guess, daniel mcadams, in lake jackson. he is the executive director of the ron paul institute for peace and prosperity in awesome. we have glenn diesen. he is a professor at the university of south eastern norway as well as author of the new book, great power politics in the 4th industrial revolution. and here in moscow, we have maxine switch golf. he is the director of the center for advanced american studies at moscow state institute of international relations. are i gentleman cross type rules in effect, that means you can jump in anytime you want. and i always appreciate, let me go to daniel and lake jackson 1st. i have a simple question. it's really short. why is this something happening in the 1st place? i say, after all, ever since it was in announced, i still haven't figured out what's the point of it go ahead. daniel. well, in washington, isn't a prison of its own making us relations with russia or have been a disaster. and there's really no easy way out. the short answer to your short question is there needs to b