it's r t contributor longtime pentagon oficial and keen observer of geo political arm wrestling michael maloof michael the meeting sure did happen with a number of senators president reportedly it got lively and we're told the turkish president returned that very unpresidential letter to president trump makes a statement doesn't oh yeah it does. it's as though he's saying someone signed your name to this crazy letter i'm getting that i just wanted you to see it authenticated but contrary to popular rumor which i attributed to fake news it was not balled up and thrown into the trash is that a reprint of another or reprint of the meeting reportedly took a turn when air to one surprise trump by whipping out its i pad to show them a video depicting kurds as terrorists whereupon senator lindsey graham got hot reportedly asking the turkish president well you want me to go get the kurds to make won about what you've done after which oddly graham then blocked senate consideration of a house resolution blaming turkey for the armenian genocide michel that was 1915 why now and what is this accomplish wha

well for some more insight on this we can now cross live to michael maloof he's a former pentagon security analyst michael thanks for joining us let's start here the u.s. has broken as we are saying with the overwhelming international consensus here let's take that that's the u.n. g.a. you want to see red cross and international court of justice they all say the settlements all illegal so what has prompted this shift in policy from the u.s. . well i think it's just one more manifestation of. the united states supporting whatever the israelis want the agreed to the annexation of the go on which was to. and over by conquest. and. the same basically with the west bank and where these what he's doing as netanyahu is doing is just seen everything and he doesn't really care what the palestinians think and i think he's probably developing this from the mood and the signals that he's received from the saudis where they don't really feel that the palestinian issue is anything for them to to get all of of about like they used to so perhaps staring out of some of the reasons or there are other reason

america contributor and keen observer of the geopolitical landscape michael maloof the last time president ever to want visited washington was before recent remarkable events and even then the visit went south when his security detail roughed up protestors how surprised would you be if this visit doesn't happen. i would be a little surprised because i think something really needs this visit there are a lot of issues that need to be done of course there are going to be other demonstrations i'm told are going to be even larger demonstrations so we might see his security forces go at it again who knows that was a moment that. affected diplomatic relations between the 2 countries and particularly u.s. perception of turkey be that as it may everyone's coming to town frankly with more leverage over trump than he than he's had in quite some time trump needs air to want to solve a lot of very serious problems and i think also trump respects the fact that there is that he's one of these tough guys along with a lot of near putin and he feels like he's got to be part of the group but frankly everyone

senior security policy analyst in the office of the secretary of defense the one and only mr michael maloof michael always a pleasure having you on thanks for having me so why are we seeing this dramatic uptick in airstrikes in afghanistan over the last few years especially since donald trump took office 2017 why why are we putting now more bombs and more strikes and breaking these records well in the midst of peace negotiations that are going on between the united states and taliban and cossar. off and on i might add i think each side is trying to establish leverage. strength and no matter what what will be how afghanistan will be divided them and how the afghan government if it survives will have its portion taliban will have its portion but taliban is just waiting this out they know they know we're not going to hang around forever and that and that trump has already announced we're moving out all they have to do is wait us out and they've already begun their own constitutional committee of what they want in a success in a succeeding government and it does not include the existing governm

senior security policy analyst in the office of the secretary of defense the one and only mr michael maloof michael always a pleasure having you on thanks for having me so why are we seeing this dramatic uptick in air strikes in afghanistan over the last few years especially since donald trump took office 2017 why why are we putting now more bombs and more strikes and breaking these records well in the midst of peace negotiations that are going on between the united states and taliban and costs are. often on i might add i think each side is trying to establish leverage. strength and no matter what what will be how afghanistan will be divided them and how the afghan government if it survives will have its portion taliban will have its portion but taliban is just waiting. they know they know we're not going to hang around forever and that and that trump has already announced we're moving out all they have to do is wait us out and they've already begun their own constitutional committee of what they want in a success in a succeeding government and it does not include the existing government th

we're joined now by michael maloof f.l. the pentagon security analyst thank you for joining us on the program michael how is it possible that weapons or in this case vehicles can end up in enemy hands i mean what's the most likely or common scenario for this. well generally it's through surreptitious sales if there's no real strict accountability of these arms particularly in the hands of the saudis and and the. the u.a.e. so and that's what the investigation is going to be about is try to get some idea. how some of that those arms may have gone wayward based on those reports and i don't rule it out because if local troops there can make some money and sell some arms they will now it's a little. fantastical i guessed to have a whole enwrapped go way word like that because those are fairly well accounted for and but but the state department's going to look into it i i don't know if am raps which is like a big troop troop carrier. is in the hands of rebels but it's quite possible because there's no real strict accountability o

from the pentagon analyst michael maloof told us the u.s. is unable to keep track of all the weapons it sells. if there's no real strict accountability of these arms particularly in the hands of the saudis and and the immoralities the of the u.a.e. so. that's what the investigation is going to be about is try to get some idea. of how some of that those arms may have gone wayward based on those reports and i don't rule it out because if local troops there can make some money and sell some arms they will now it's it's a little. fantastical i guessed to have a whole. go way word like that because those are fairly well accounted for and you know we were involved in so many wars so many actions are so many fronts and that's why the defense department frankly cannot pass an accounting because. because there's no way to account for where any of these items go alternately certainly aircraft will be watched bigger items big ticket items ships but not not small arms not that's almost impossible to control. sculptures of whistle blowers julian a stance