well, i'm delighted to welcome on to the program now former pentagon security analysts, michael maloof for his talk. michael, good to see you today. i do literally, should we take all this talk a further nato expansion. is it a negotiating ploy from un stolen burg or, or do you expect significant new additions on, on rushes borders or near them? well that's, that's a lot lot to unpack there. of 1st of 1st of all, a student burge, i think he has to look out for nato interests and he's not going to try to at this point to try to, ah, discourage ukraine. and because nate, because nato wants to, can do more military exercises than i think stolen bergen natal generally is under so very serious pressure behind the scenes from the biden administration, particularly it's neocons and in most, especially victoria newland in pushing that narrative and out victoria newland is, is, is a very hostile toward russia and she's very, and she was very much involved in the overthrow of a legitimate government in ukraine, along with then vice president biden. and it's to, it's to their interest to try and

we discussed the latest diplomatic spat with michael maloof, a former senior security policy analyst in the office of the you a secretary defense. he says, this is a case of double standards. i think that by this constant harassment in the black sea, in an area half way remove from from the united states and going right up against the borders of the russian federation. i think it really isn't aggressive move. the exercise in the black sea area was in response to the failures and the expulsion of the united states from afghanistan. so the united states has to show re assertiveness that it's still a leader in the so called free world. it lacks any recognition really, spheres of influence, just like if the russians were to come into the area of gulf of mexico tomorrow, you can believe that there would be a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth in washington. the united states feels that it can do it to others, but it cannot be done to itself is part of that exceptionalism concept that the united states slow to tout around the world, in a sort of a bravado way. and it's getting tiring. br

can read his thoughts and auntie don't comp now we've discussed the latest diplomatic spot with michael maloof. he's a former senior security policy analyst in the office of the u. s. secretary of defense. he says, this is a case of double standards. i think that out by this constant harassment in the black sea, in an area half way remove from from the united states and going right up against the borders of the russian federation. i think it really isn't aggressive move. the exercise in the black sea area was in response to the failures and the expulsion of the united states from afghanistan. so the united states has to show re assertiveness that it's still a leader in the so called free world. it lacks any recognition really, spheres of influence, just like if the russians were to come in to the area of gulf of mexico tomorrow, you could believe that there would be a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth in washington. the united states feels that it can do it to others, but it cannot be done to itself. it's part of that exceptionalism concept that the united states sliced to tout around the w

fulfilling prophecy. charlotte davinsky, i also spoke with former pentagon security analyst, michael maloof. he thinks the aggressive remarks coming from nato are being guided by washington. stop, bird. i think has to look out for nato interests and he's not going to try to at this point to try to ah, discourage ukraine. and because natal, because nato wants to do more military exercises and i think stolen bergen. nato generally is under some very serious pressure behind the scenes from the biden administration and pushing that narrative and is in their interest to push nato it up to the border for containment purposes of russia proper. the united states is coming halfway around the world to, to assert this kind of action. when you have moscow, i, alarmed by the activity assertiveness by ukraine and native, generally and, and thereby they have every right to, to arm their, their western flight. as far as i'm concerned, i marie a cnn producer has been charged with sex crimes involving under age girls arrival news. i to lead has also discovered a criminal complaint involving the man dated fro

so it's got a reason behind this action as well as what will be the result we bring in a michael maloof, a former yes thing. artificial and chris sent it us china relations expert and author of here you go feeding the dragon. thank you so much for joining us, chris and michael, obviously a lot of different parts i want to get to this. i'm gonna start 1st with you on chris, on this one. you know, the timing of all of this, this has been hinted by the by administration and the speaker plus even said it that this is going to be coming. so i've got to ask you what the recent headlines is this happening because of the attention being given to the test per pinch. why and her disappearance, or the human rights violations which are nothing new being used really as a cover for the vitamin ration. not being able to make any headway with chinese officials in both trade military, in fact, anywhere. well, it's an interesting time to say the least. and in fact there's a conference of events that have really gotten us this point. i particularly like the foreign ministry stating that we haven't even ha

i live to form a panic in scarcity analyst michael maloof. i welcome to the program again. so secretary of state lincoln says that rushes planning aggressive moves against ukraine. i once he got to back that up. do you think? well i, i think i'm really concerned about the hypocrisy that we're seeing in blankets. comments are when you look at the time table in which a russian military concentrations occurred within the russian federation. it came after the navy, nato, and u. s. military exercises began in a very robust fashion. naturally, there's going to be at an end and with ukraine, which is a non nato member. and now this is contrary absolutely. contrary to the assurance that then president clinton gave to president putin, that there would no not be any kind of movement toward, ah, bringing in countries such as ukraine or ga, into, into nato, even though i guess ukraine and ga, have a inherent right as independent countries to want to join, but politically, it would be contrary to that understanding that had occurred. now as a consequence, i think what blake, i would arg