none the less nato is undeterred. this alliance continues to be the biggest threat. japan, european security, is also indifferent to the damage dose to the international system. ah, cross stocking nato doubling down. i'm joined by my guess, daniel nick, adams, and lake jackson. he's the executive director of the ron paul institute for peace and prosperity in washington state. we have on 3 months to be on of he is a writer, as well as a military and political analyst, and in loan's we cross to yon oberg. he is the director of the swedish independent transnational foundation for peace and future research, or a gentleman cross sack rules that affect that means you can jump any time you want . and i always appreciate, danny. let me go to you 1st and like jackson here, nato is double down, you know, it's a, it's a, they met in book book harass, you know, they, they're doing it all over again. the door is open. so how is ukraine done over the years, with the open door to nato? has it really benefited nato? it all has it ben

that'd be also said that he hoped to welcome a finland and sweden into the nato, into nato, at some stage, and talked about nato, perhaps coordinating actions on the high on the high seas in order to protect a critical infrastructure from the secretary general. we heard, thanks to he is a german host, also made the point that nato is not a party to the conflict in ukraine, as has been said today by the russian foreign minister. so gay, a lover of thank to germany a for it's playing, it's passed in the f, as i said, that german arms deliveries had saved lives. let's get more on this from our political correspondent, simon young. welcome, simon. what stood out for you at this press conference? well, i think the 2 men were working just to re confirm that germany stands as a solid ally within nato. and that was something that the secretary general installed and beg, repeated again and again he, he picked up. oh, la schultz, his words from his speech back at the beginning of the war. the german word, citing vendor, a sort of turning point, a real shift and the pocket shift as it were in german

plan of the vilnius in nato and it could have been.en. and russia is taking over and attacking georgia, and the country is a member. they say that we will help georgia as a member of nato. well, she has not yet fulfilled the plan, she will fulfill the plan. we will help. that is. putin could have his own focuses there, well , the point is to attack already then, if the pdc already is already. to join the european union nato, but there is also a second approach, if the enemy country is already on the way to the european union nato, then maybe it is necessary to bite off as much as possible from it, because then it will not be possible, it could speed up intervention in both of these countries and not stop it, we don't know how it would react in crimea, the kremlin would try to understand, again using the example of georgia, whether nato member countries will fight. consider that they fought, well, no, of course, this is not provided for, even the document if the kremlin starts to fight with georgia as a member and as a non- member of na

they say that we will help georgia as a nato member.e plan. to attack if at all this process is more integrated in taking away some territories, that is, it remains. there are two approaches. the first approach is to transform an enemy state into a disabled country so that it cannot join nato, the european union, but there is also a second approach if the enemy country is already on the way to nato of the european union maybe we need to bite off as much of it as possible, because then it will not be possible to bite off, this could accelerate the intervention in both of these countries and not stop it, we do not know how the head of the crimea will be, the kremlin would i tried to understand again, for example, with georgia, will the nato member countries fight, do you think they did, well, no, of course, this is not even provided for in the document if the kremlin starts to fight with georgia, as a member or as a non- member of nato, as a country that received a military coup and does not receive a real blow from nato, you are opening

so how is ukraine done over the years, with the open door to nato hasn't really benefited nato at all. has it benefited nato? who has it benefited? go ahead, daniel. well, who would benefit? it is, of course, the beltway. then that's the u. s. weapons manufacturers, raytheon who's representative is now our secretary of defense, or who made bracey on missiles the big beneficiaries of this whole project. it's now been 14 years since the 2008 declaration that georgia and ukraine would be welcomed into nato some day. and we saw from the foreign minister statement at this nature meeting that despite the rhetoric of jen salt and berg, which is always very heated and very turgid, the actual invitation. if you read the declaration is just kind of weak just as kind of in the future as it always has been. yeah, so under the, the, the, the status quo over the last 14 years is just fine for salt and bergen, nato ok is a matter fact. it is, it is actually highlighted. i mean, all of us growing up nature, which is kind of backwater alliance. but soviet union never had any intention been invading, a

that during its existence nato hardly eh?rd at least one real success story as an asset, she brings devastation and suffering to the outside. i have already mentioned the aggression against serbia, the aggression against libya with the destruction of the libyan statehood iraq, let's remember my last examples of afghanistan, which for 20 years the alliance has tried unsuccessfully to instill democracy in its understanding, and also very, very eloquent is the fact that it is not possible to solve problems with security in the serbian province, kosovo, where nato members are also already more two decades. well, i’ll note in brackets that, if we talk about the peacekeeping abilities of the united states themselves, look. how many decades the us has been trying to put things in order in this. e. it would seem small and under his control in a country like haiti. well, this is no longer europe. although there are a huge number of examples of this kind outside the european continent. uh, if in the ninety-first year nato consisted of

and nato, but in no means has any sort of treaty or which would justify nato's intervention. nato countries are giving all, they can, all they have to ukraine and they are fueling the war. we know now through anglo miracles i would say, recent testimony and also to push ankle, ukraine's previous president that the west has been using the minced piece agreement to buy time for the ukranian army to be trained funded to receive weapons from nato. and now nato is saying that russia is advancing on, on it's on it's offensive and it's military offensive. and this makes no sense. nato feel this florida does not forget that there was a acquitted time 2014, then nato train ukrainian army. now the full fledged. busy war is not forget that this war did not start last february, but it did start in 2014 with habits. it's inhabitants of don bass being shelled on a daily basis or 10000 people died. the west never speaks about this. and now nato wants to act as a piece keeper. how can you be a pyro man and a fire man at the same time? so this, this really doesn't make any sense to not. i think again, this

p. gland, nato. but i yourself to look at the situation office, see any country needs to have some security. and the united states wanted security where may have the cuban missile crisis. ready and you have to look at what are the former president gorbachev said, and because he was the architects with our agreements between the old soviet union and have a nice that. and he said a, you may not humiliate a country and expect prayer to be no consequences or the cause. there are consequences, good mismatch, they pima humiliates the russia, which is what's been happening now. but it's as though these agreements we had, ah, the helsinki, the, the, the structures we have in place to our bridges tension. i have been totally ignored, as, as you've said. and the voice is for peace, are shut down and are one of the objectives of nation, or nato is c supposed to be, to protect freedom. but there's a freedom in the, in the west at the moment. it's about our free and open debate each. well, this whole issue, and t

and on top of that, you have nato demanding clamoring stilton berg and others, that every nato members spend 2 percent of its g d, p on the military. whether there is a legitimate need for them to do so. and whether, even though there are pressing domestic issues, that every member of nato has to confront, including poverty and an environmental and be environmental crisis currently confront, you know, anthony, and one of the things is very curious in this propaganda rich environment. that this isn't a lead to war it because if you look at polling, if you dig down, most people are interested in domestic issues here. but this isn't an elite agenda . yes, it definitely is a registered comments about the record of nights which should be one failure. in fact, of the one instance where they could have succeeded to get his son. i totally didn't grade different but which i had 26 been in afghans. she'd been ride city caisson standards for women and so on. i said they because they did a deal with the taliban, never lost a major battle with the toddler, barry, so that he conveniently left after

how it, how does nato survive? this which i'm rubbing my hands with glee because it's a failed alliance. it's being proven. well nato's mission and according to its 1st secretary general, who was a british peer, unlike suttonberg, who is an absolute nbc said that the mission of the alliance was to keep the americans in the russians out in the germans down. and it has been doing that. and it has been beneficially doing that ever since. the problem is that you cannot have european security without russia. you cannot have, you know, europe with, with germany suppressed. and obviously, american tutelage is turning out to be not really a blessing of liberty that everybody thought it would be. nato is a fail alliance. if, if there is any justice in the world, it needs to be dissolved. it has manifestly served the opposite purpose of its official one. again, lord, his mace definition worked out much better in that respect. but again, not to the interest of the people involved. i would argue that goldenberg's in his infini

and on top of that, you have nato demanding clamoring salt and berg and others that every nato members spend 2 percent of its g d, p. on the military, whether there is a legitimate need for them to do so. and whether, even though there are pressing domestic issues, that every member of nato has to confront, including poverty and an environmental and be environmental crisis currently confront, you know, anthony, and one of the things is very curious in this propaganda rich environment, that this is an elite war because if you look at polling, if you dig down, most people are interested in domestic issues here, but this isn't an elite agenda. yes, it definitely is a registered conference about the record of nights which should be one of failure. in fact, the one instance where they could have succeeded to get his son. i totally didn't grade gibbon which i had 26 with afghans. shaban ride syndication standards for women and so on. i said they because they did a deal with the taliban. no, never lost a major battle with the tyler, so that he conveniently laughed after this time to get enrol

i find it in thinkable that nato will survive in any meaningful form. perhaps some rump of nato, confined to a core of states and western europe, might survive this disaster from a reputational perspective. but nato's in this, in this sort of existential crisis because it staked its credibility on total victory in ukraine, which from a practical perspective is achievable. and you know, quite apart from that nato's credibility, in any rational world would have taken a massive hit. well before the commencement of the special military operation in february, because for example, natal committed, you know, extraordinary trillions of dollars of resources. apparently, the nexus of a trillion dollars to the war and f dentist in an over 20 year period was unable to the taliban, who were armed with soviet era small arms. nato in the name of human rights. and the doctrine of the responsibility protect doctrine which it's abuse. shamelessly effectively destroyed libya, which was at that point in time up until that point of time, the most prosperous state in africa,

whatever join nato and they said never. it is never going to happen and we joked with sweden in particular the swedes are. to fight the russians down to the last fin, they were in together, out together. let me ask you briefly about, tell us, we are not on the ground, remarked will change in attitude in finland, finland now once it becomes a member will have the border with russia and has for years even outside the alliance been forced to train for and prepare for a potential russian invasion given history with the war. what do you think you will bring to the alliance given that experience with your russian friends? >> thanks for the good question. i forgot my green socks, sorry about that coming from the green party. we made this kind of big change in finland, the night was february 24th. russia trying to change the government in a country of 40 million people. and what happened to what is happening if ukraine cannot defend themselves and the risks that exist if this suddenly started to hear about the chemical weapons and

when nato proceeded to attack. that was flavio, without any sort of breaking you, went charter, its own charter to health. think you charter all imaginable charters? it was privy to and it did that was just basically ok. we did it because we wanted to and what are you going to do about it? and you know, 23 years later we are where we are. so it's one of those obviously none of us would have happened had the west abided by the treaties that it's signed by that has really never been the case. has it well to meet tree. i mean, it was a few days ago that the german chancellor came out and said that, you know, there has to be new security guarantees for europe after the conflict ends in ukraine, which russia, obviously in his mind, will lose which he's obviously wrong. but it's really kind of befuddled me. is that the, does the german chancellor that those low security guarantees were in place before nato expanded? i mean it's, there's this sense of, of forgetting history. it's really extraordinary how the german chance

members because when we are nato members all the states who cosign around the baltic sea with the nato members, ball one, russia. that's going to increase the security and safety for everybody who are inhabitants of this area and i'm looking to germany and poland here who are also close neighbors to us, very close also to this pipeline, etc. we have to think very much about what's going on not just on the surface but also below the surface in the years to come and we're ready as an incoming nato member to do our part of the job. we have a good navy and we're going to build them back -- build on that. and as it has been stated before the government's ambition is to reach the 2% goal by 2026 at the latest. and this is a public statement which has been made already by the prime minister but i'm repeating it here as well so that you know it. >> i will come to you and then i will go to the audience. it's unfair to the c.d.u. to ask a green politician, but seems to be a rethinking of angela merkel's tenure as chancellor in light of the decisions made since 2014 and she herself has become def

as a reliable nato ally. the polish government when trump was in office, it went a different direction in that they really tried to embrace trump and president duda invited him to warsaw and talked about fort trump being set up in poland and yet trump himself did not seem to warm to the idea of being an active member of nato. how concerned is poland the u.s. is no longer a reliable given the political situation in the u.s. mr. rau: there is no doubt in my mind that americans are absolutely indispensable in europe. we cannot imagine europe defending itself alone without the strong responsibility and sense of community of the whole transatlantic community. i will reply to the comments of my colleague. we wills think nato has to be strengthened because we also believe the transatlantic commitment is a twoway street and each country has to take respond for its own defense and do it absolutely everything possible to strengthen its own armed forces. and having done that have every reason to expect trouble from the

stop expand in nato. stop the east or the expansion of nato. we heard him address in this every single year, but instead what we saw is what you can see on the map right now from the ninety's . when russia disbanded the warsaw pact, it expect that the u. s. to follow suit, or at the very least with nato at the very least not to continue growing and expanding. but they did just that encircling russia and they expected that moscow would just sit there and take it if you will, that it would not do anything. and moscow said, we cannot afford to do that stop at already, but we've seen that those demands have been ignored time and time again. and this is something that mosque of course, finds unacceptable you think of toast of the 2nd integral part is that one should not allow the strengthening of any one countries security at the expense of the security of other states was doing grades here twice, already. ukrainian authorities have tried to use military force to resolve the crisis in don bass. where are our guarantees that they won't try it a 3rd t

we since the 1990s, of course, we have been joining the eu and nato . this course was constitutionally established in 2019. but it seems to me that we started to work on it most actively after the change of power, when ex-president yanukovych fled, when the euromaidan revolution of dignity took place, all ukrainians demonstrated their position regarding the fact that we we want to be members of the european union and nato, and of course, since 2014 , we have started actively working to implement reforms and so on in this direction, also among the main ones is the international ramstein coalition for military aid and support ukraine, which has really become such a special helper for us, because there 43 countries of the world gather every time to provide us with financial military aid, and every time the most important thing is that it is reinforced and strengthened. this aid is already provided to us with the weapons that we need, we will talk about this in more detail later as well it is impossible not to mention the unblocking of our ports and the gra

, but that didn't stop. thousands and thousands of nato trainers, tons, and tons of nato weapons even before the russian special operation into ukraine. so whether or not this officially goes forward in a real sense, it is a done deal and it shows that the u. s. is absolutely has no interest in peace and diplomacy or negotiation. they are all about aggressive us war planning. moving that forward aggressively. and they are willing to stage provocations to get their way they are willing to utilize, as we can see in the ukraine, down to the last soldier, they're going to utilize other people in it. so yes, it shows that they want nato expansion official or unofficial. and they're willing to wheel and deal for including with occurred who they supposedly, where the protector off. so it's simplicity on every stand. but it shows natal aggression and it shows no interest in peace, nato founded on defense. and i believe the whole perspective, all that. okay, so how i mean, well it was never, i think it was never about defense. it was always about how to encircle how to threaten at that time, t

that nato is right now. well, advocating according to russia's foreign minister will basically, according to the russian top diplomat, it was very tempting for them given that back if we will flash back to in history. and remember that at 1st it was ne, 2 and the warsaw pact to different groups that rivaled in europe. but then the warsaw pact collapsed. it was no more. and basically all hopes and the responsibility for global security for keeping the east and west away from each other's throats, o s c was created, but again sir g elaborate did talk a lot about how this particular organization is now effectively impotent and can't solve anything that basically, it removed itself from well, solving any crises from speaking out against nature, from speaking out against nato as well, the military campaigns and so on and so forth. so if affectively, according to certain collaborative, well, always see, it has failed in this regard. and again, he took a job at poland, which is presiding right now. the president of

they join nato without the police. for some reason, i think that uh, for us after the victorious end of the war question let's say, as i said before , registration of our membership will be secondary. and it seems to me that we are going through the stage of the pdc. now we are going through it in the active phase of the war with, well, how they themselves considered themselves the second world war, but that's why what kind of support is there in order for there to be mutual cooperation of the armed forces of some kind of military equipment? i think that this is all being achieved today on the battlefields that are unfolding between ukraine and russia during this war. so, it seems to me that the the most urgent problem, the problem was and will remain a political issue. that is , the acceptance of ukraine into nato will depend on the political will and the opening of a political solution, and not on whether we will go or not. there, the caliber matches them and the radio frequencies match the nato radio frequencies. th

why is hungary so important for nato, well, the eu? but what is hungary's importance for nato, and it's a good question, in fact, i will agree if i hungary will demonstrate a-a let's say such a significant difference with the policy of the alliance in relation to hungary, there are certain questions, again, i do not rule out that the government in hungary can also change. i will just remind you that the president visited hungary a lot, and it is important to us, and here, by the way, it was not so long ago, and it is also important to us, because it shows that after all after all, the hungarian political class does not like it, and let's tentatively call it oriented there on the kremlin or on putin, yes. that is, changes can also take place there, and from this point of view, hungary can become our even additional, more reliable a-a partner, that is, i think that the fact that we are trying to build relations with hungary at different levels, by the way, this can be our guarantee, in a certain way, to get the policy from hungary that w

, nato, as mobilization, problems, nato, as training problems, nato has equipment, problems on the idea that nato could even assemble a military force capable of surviving one day on the battlefield with russia is questionable, let alone defeating russia in 3 days. while some in washington brag about his supposed potentially usm buses. the lions has insisted that russia and china are the main threats. they still are increasingly sharing it till can't. that should concern the nato alliance. there's just no question that china and russia both working to divide the transatlantic partners, the usaa and way of this i, the efforts would be made to the threats from russia and china look, has been seeking to find in the nordics to counter russia. the us has been strengthening is ties, little failure, reportedly providing nuclear cable bull nose and a face of china. while the us maintains the largest number of movie bases around the world. it does the blame on rival powers for increase tensions. we heard from a senior lecturer at the british university of buff. he says, the increase in political

you are absolutely right and nato was just expanding nato nato expansion was part of this crusade, andf nato expansion was , firstly, to consolidate american hegemony in europe in the field of security - this, once and secondly, to prevent the revival of russia in as a great power - these are two, and in order to make this prevention absolute, ukraine was drawn into nato and de facto, and even the de jure question was raised in 2008, when ukraine and georgia were promised membership in nato russia did not agree with this russia challenged both the attempts of the united states to consolidate its hegemony and the attempts of the united states to liquidate russia in general as a great power, yes and uh, that was the cause of this conflict. yes and uh, indeed we are now seeing each other in an existential conflict, which is existential for russia and for those liberals and internationalists and science-conservatives, who believe that american hegemony is synonymous. and in fact the survival of the united states in the modern world and therefore the situation is so dangerous, because neith

well, all the more so for nato, for the transition to nato standards. we already have an army, which i hope will be completely re-equipped before the end of this war and will be modernized with modern weapons, this is one of the conditions of membership in nato well, of course, there are still a lot of requirements related to legislation and how ukraine must comply with anti-corruption legislation, well, a number of different requirements at the end of our program, volodymyr. you as a diplomat as a person with extensive diplomatic experience which of the world leaders in 2022 pleasantly impressed you and who disappointed interesting question well nice phrases me for example chancellor of germany schulz because germany well, i would he said to him, i also added the president of germany, mr. shthang, because these two politicians were able, as they say, to proceed through themselves, i.e., they admitted that stahl has called out, in general, he admitted personal mistakes, personally a wrong position regarding ukraine and to russia, and even apologized to

at the next nato summit. the other issue that's been bubbling around here is a, an initiative from germany and norway, the norwegian prime minister, was in berlin just yesterday. and they want to get nato behind plans to coordinate efforts to protect pipelines, particularly the, the energy pipelines, but also data cables and other things like that. particularly the undersea ones. because there's a lot of concern about that. particularly following explosions that we saw in the baltic sea just back in september attacks apparently on gas pipelines there. so you know that that's a new initiative and as you mentioned a lot short said, he would welcome nato being sort of taking the lead on that, having a coordination office to coordinate new to efforts to protect those, those assets and stilton, beg, the secretary general of nato said, you know, that, that is a good idea and he's going to take it forward, it would say, right, so that, that's, that's a new venture as it were for, for native, brought up by this, this

and why not to nato standards, if we are moving to nato standards by integrating into nato?y is about 70% of the soviet model. accordingly, if we are talking about today, the shells are needed today, not tomorrow. at the moment, the barrel artillery transferred by nato countries and the united states is about 300 units, that is, at most 30%. if you are not talking about tomorrow, but about today, let's talk about tomorrow too, because there is a contract of the ministry of defense of the united states of america for one billion 200 million with a private company for the production of a system for ukraine, but they must be produced over the next few years, somewhere until the 24th-25th year, and this indicates that the usa and nato have far-sighted prospects for cooperation with ukraine , so what does this project prove, let's say, of support for ukraine when we need these individuals already today, nazar, this proves the fact that the united states and nato countries did not present the tactics of creating a multi-level new defense passed . this very project shows the long-t

in addition to soon to be nato members, finland and sweden shows a very big nato family committing to future defense, current defense, before a rough war. yeah, a big family with big missiles including patriot missiles. not too sure the how much they want to share those missiles with you crate and how key are they for ukraine, and will the ukrainian military ever have there is a lot of hope that the ukraine will have a longer range defensive air systems. now the patriot is a long range air defense system. we've seen at the highmark zuka job. there are good german systems that are in place in ukraine, but they can't shoot very far. and the need is to have something that can reach much further. the patriot system can do that, but there's always a question in certain countries across nato. what will these missiles be used for? and there's nervousness that what happens if you crane uses these systems, potentially for shooting into russia. this is a long range question, and is crimea, russia? ukraine doesn't think so. yeah. but there is a question. what happens if you, if crimea is struck

this was an am 9 o 4 bond, which is used by nato countries. if indeed, a nato country dropped a bomb on this factory, which is of great importance for agriculture, for farmers who are engaged in cotton production in the central african republic, one larger than their lives are real danger. it is unacceptable for any country to drop a bomb on a factory visit. the only such factory that we have in the ca are particularly if it really is a nato country. then it is a shame for them also because nato countries are developed countries. la. yeah, we'll keep it close on developments. there are, meanwhile, us authorities are considering labeling the russian private security company wagner as a terrorist group that's despite the organization having help several african countries establish peace in the region above is according to the nations themselves. wagner forces were officially requested in a number of african states, including molly the, a central african republic, as well. officials from there have repeatedly stated the importance of the help tha

nato is conducting intensive intelligence. against this background, the head of state emphasizes that it is important for everyone to be on the alert. who is involved in the implementation of tasks for the country's defense capability. assess the effectiveness of the decisions made and the need for additional measures. all law enforcement agencies note an increase in the number of provocations near the state border, ukraine under any pretext, rather of all, he is trying to draw the troops of the state nato into the conflict, which is confirmed by the recent missile attacks on the territory of poland. at the same time, from the fugitive opposition of our bandits , calls are increasingly being made to seize power by force and commit terrorist acts on the territory of belarus. some of these fugitives are not just traitors, but extremists in a square. i can’t openly call them otherwise, they don’t hesitate to call for strikes on targets on the territory of our country, they even forgot that on their relatives live on the territory