okay, well, i was in the tank is speaking to me, be the early and we can speak with david swanson. he's a peace activist and the executive director of the group will be all morning. all right, you're very welcome. david. thanks for your time. what are your thoughts then on the summit g think kit will improve relations between russia and the us. so perhaps you could make it worse. i hate to predict. i like the advocate, but i see no reason to expect it to make things better. present. who is wrong, by the way on russia? never having been blamed for black lives matter. i us, you can find that very easily in us media, buying ads on facebook for black lives matter. exploiting black lives matter, perhaps not inspiring the beginning of it. but you know, i think what's, what's shocking about that interview is not anything that the president said, or that was said about him. but the hostility of the interviewer, the role of the nbc employee as something beyond state media attacking of foreign leader with accusation after accusation. not, not what do you want to do at the summit, but in the l

with the meeting between joe biden invited me put in less than 2 weeks away. anti war activist david swanson called nato's actions unfriendly timing before a meeting between biden and burton couldn't be worse and is certainly intentional. nato is an offensive force, desperately searching for a way to pretend to be defensive force. and the only way it can do that is to generate actions from russia to provoke russia, to do bigger, more dangerous war rehearsals, so called exercises, provoke russia to, for more military units, to send more troops to the west, to engage in its own war rehearsals. so they're playing around with fire. the aggressor here is overwhelmingly the united states and nato. these are the forces putting the huge dollars into militarism rushes. military budget is about 8 percent of that of the united states alone. never mind. the rest of nato president biden has broken most of his promises that he made as a candidate on a wide range of issues. and he hasn't so much as promised to anything good in terms of his approach to russia. russia's flagship business conference, the st.