s. secretary of defense, michael maloof. michael, welcome to the program. worrying you escalations, i would suggest how do you assess right now the prospects of significant global disarmament? i think it's, we're getting further away from global disarmament. and with this trend toward rearmament and not wanting to abide by the existing treaties, it's going to make the world more dangerous since start and other agreements that the united states was involved in and what have you. i think that and then it's already dropped out up and now the suspension. i think that it's going to make the world more dangerous. i think the, the, the trends should be trying to get other countries to come on. come on board these disarmament agreements. a since those treaties were established and agreed to and now being suspended. other countries have come up with their own nuclear weapons and, and their own medium range, ballistic missiles, which in fact is making the world more dangerous as a consequence. and we don't even have china on board, we

earlier we spoke to the form of pencil and security policy, and it's michael maloof, who discussed what the president said in the interview. i think just the deployment response is in a response unkind to appeals by, by putting repeatedly to de escalate. and all he's doing is bringing parity, some semblance of parity and indivisibility, if you will, because under the visibility, which was heavily violated by the west. you don't arm the, the west at the expense of the east, but they, they've done that. so i'm envisioning that that bella rose and the other members of the collective security treaty organization could become at the new warsaw pact if you will. in response to the existence of an expanded nato. and i see that evolving quite clearly now with the, with the movement of new nuclear facilities into bella roost. and that could be extending it to the other members of the c s. d o. they have an article for which is equivalent to nato's article 5, which is natasha on one of the attack on all. so this is a very interesting development. vladimir putin has also said that western power wa

heard area broken down and dismissed those claims. former pentagon security policy analysts, michael maloof, says the american drone was likely being used to call the shots for the ukrainian military. that drone probably was used to guide and to give assistance to ukrainians on the ground for targets. i'm a little puzzled by the damage to a propeller by a, by a russian jet without it sustaining without the russian jets sustained damage. but i haven't heard any reports of any damage to the russian aircraft. if in fact it rammed it. that's the only way that this could have happened. so it's that there's still more to the story. the fact that it was, it does show, however, the extent to which the united states is providing assistance to, to, to ukraine without actually putting boots on the ground. but it is in effect, acting assisting as a proxy, seeing the ukraine as a proxy in this conflict against russia. the terrorist attack, which crippled the north stream pipelines last september, was committed out of state level. that's the message from russian president vladimir putin. number scuse the

um, it's not a military hub, is not a communications hub, michael maloof, i'd like to direct this 1st question to you. what do you think about the how important the battle for the city is for both sides? and what do you make of this? you turn in washington's position, it can be a significant, strategically significant given it's access to the rest of the dumbass. for 2, you got to keep in mind lloyd. austin oversaw the withdrawal of us troops out of iraq back in 2011. and what correct in isis, so i don't really care that much for his strategic analysis. and number 3, it would take a lot of ukraine troops out of the fight. and i think that this is what they want to do given the ukrainian was us. i don't think it said insignificant and just to put, i think would be a demoralizing factor for the ukrainians at this point. if they weren't just to get up and, and leave. and you look at the territory, that's there. that's significant territory. if the russians take it back over, so we know that thousands of civilians are reportedly chosen to remain inside of scope, but others have been tryin

it's not a military hub, is not a communications hub, michael maloof, i'd like to direct this 1st question to you. what do you think about the, how important the battle for the city is for both sides? and what do you make of this? you turn in washington's position. it can be a significant, strategically significant given it's access to the rest of the dumbass retail. you got to keep in mind, lloyd austin over saw the withdrawal of us troops out of iraq back in 2011 and what crept in isis. so i don't really care that much for his strategic analysis. and number 3, it would take a lot of ukraine troops out of the fight. and i think that this is what they want to do. don't we know that thousands of civilians have reportedly chosen to remain inside our tim of school, but others have been trying to flee. so what exactly do we know about the situation in the city? at the moments, while without a doubt, the vast majority of the civilian population of this city has been evacuated, but several 1000 civilians have still remained. then you gotta, you gotta ask yourself, why would they stay in a comple

military efforts against russia, but also potentially saving money. former pentagon officials, michael maloof, says this schema than they will, the u. s. and his allies, to save billions of dollars. the cost of demilitarize, a lot of that equipment is about half again of what the cost, original cost of the equipment was. you're talking potentially billions. yeah. that would save billions especially even i'll goes to ukraine. that saves a lot in terms of having to replenish or, or in terms of demilitarize. so i think that this will be, this is something to look forward to, but it's going to take a while to back up the what, what has been sent with new equipment. the supplies are not unlimited, and i think it probably cannot go for a much longer, more than probably another 6 months to, to almost a year at the most of it without some very serious.

so to discuss this further was cross live now to former pentagon official, michael maloof. mike is good to see you, great to have you on the program today. now the, you actually promised ukraine, huge amounts of weapons. so what reasoning are they using to decide what to send? well, i think we have analysts in the pentagon who are trying to figure out what equipment they're going to absolutely need without ukraine. going ahead on its own and drawing the united states into a direct confrontation with moscow. that's a real slippery slope. that's why you see us fighting or resisting calls for aircraft at this point. but it, but with longer range equipment. and some of it has reached the outskirts of moscow already. i think that this poses a dilemma for the united states. i'm just how far the u. s. will go in, in providing the equipment and so far it's i would say that the ukrainians show the potential that if they have the equipment, the more advanced equipment, they will certainly use it to their benefit. even if it beans drawing europe into a war, they would love nothing mor

with ashcroft live to former pentagon senior security policy analyst, michael maloof to hear his thoughts. all those developments at michael you're most welcome. yeah, so he, here we have a it's, it's quite a web, isn't it? you have us soldiers in the u. k. training the ukranian army. and then we have the whole depleted uranium aspect of this. but just on the former, the, the u. s. military in the u. k. doing they're doing their military exercises as it, where is it surprising to you that they're doing it? they're no, not at all. the u. k. is the one that has stated publicly that they intend to use them or send them rather the u. s. does have a close arrangement with the u. k. they, they work very closely. they get, in fact, those 2 countries were the ones who, who developed the d. u or the depleted uranium rounds. and they've been using them for years and years and years. and as you pointed out in your, in your lead up to the consequences. i know the u. n. has tried to play down the toxic effects, but nobody knows what it's like over time. it's like, it's like agent orange, you know, it

be done the incident between the russian nation from the pentagon security policy on the left, michael maloof said the american road was likely being used to call the shots for the ukrainian military that drone probably was used to guide and to give assistance to ukrainians on the ground. 4 targets. i'm a little puzzled by the damage to a propeller by a, by a russian jet without it sustain you without the russian jet sustained damage. but i haven't heard any reports of any damage to russian aircraft. if in fact it rammed it. that's the only way that this could have happened. so there's still more to the story. the fact that it was, it does show, however, the extent to which the united states is providing assistance to, to, to ukraine without actually putting boots on the ground. but it is in effect, the acting assisting the as a proxy, seeing the ukraine as a proxy in this conflict against russia. washington is adding fuel to chinese tensions over tie one with a former us national security adviser, i think that america may destroy tie one electronic chip industry if china invades they've got

um, it's not a military hub, is not a communications hub, michael maloof, i'd like to direct this 1st question to you. what do you think about the how important the battle for the city is for both sides? and what do you make of this? you turn in, in washington's position. it can be sick of significant strategically significant given it's access to the rest of the dumbass. number 2, you got to keep in mind lloyd. austin oversaw the withdrawal of us troops out of iraq back in 2011 and what crept in isis. so i don't really care that much for his strategic analysis. and number 3, it would take a lot of ukraine troops out of the fight. and i think that this is what they want to do. what your take is about. this reported dissent within the ukrainian military rank. so the commander in chief of the armed forces is saying that after all, the ukrainian military should cut the losses and leave walls. lensky really wants these ukranian troops to fight down to the last man. maybe they have some kind of a strategic withdrawal issue that they want to pursue another area. possibly or are they psychol

but former pentagon security policy analyst, michael maloof, says that the american drone was likely been used to call the shots for the ukrainian military. that drone probably was used to guide and to give assistance to ukrainians on the ground for targets. i'm a little puzzled by the damage to a propeller by a, by a russian jet without sustaining, without the russian jets sustained damage. but i haven't heard any reports of any damage to the russian aircraft. if in fact it rammed it. that's the only way that this could happen. so there's still more to the story of the fact that it was. it does show, however, the extent to which the united states is providing assistance to, to, to ukraine without actually putting boots on the ground. but it is, in effect, the acting assisting as a proxy scene ukraine as a proxy in this conflict against russia. in the news, syrian president bashar al assad arrived in the russian capital on tuesday for talks vladimir putin, the moscow under moscow's have continued to strengthen their relations. thus, despite western attempts to damage both countries,

but i, for my senior security policy analyst at the office of the us defense secretary michael maloof, he says that sending depleted uranium munitions as military 8 to may very well actually end up hurting ukrainians them. so the u. s. does have a closer arrangement with the u. k. they work very closely to get in fact, those 2 countries were the ones who, who developed the, the d u or the depleted uranium rounds. and they've been using them for years and years and years has had consequences. i know the u. n. has tried to play down the toxic effects, but nobody knows what it's like over time, but this also puts the ukrainians in jeopardy in terms of health. and well this whole thing is just maddening. the whole point about this uranium is that it diluted version of it, but it still has radiation impact over time. nobody knows what that impact is. well, hello, multi polar world. brazil and china have struck a deal to ditch the american dollar in favor of their own currencies, but bilateral trade transactions. an agreement and setting payments in one has been signed with brazil, which gr