t contribute are rachel marson. rachel, good. the see you. yet. what does this reported? plans signify, in terms of the use approach to ukraine. cut it suggest europe itself is preparing for war. well, what it suggests, it really looks like europe is trying to get in on some of that military industrial complex profit action that washington has been enjoying using ukraine is a convenient pretext. who needs peace when a plan to settle in for the long term armed conflict. is so much more profitable. so this new 3 prongs plan concocted by the european commission is supposed to help both the e. u and ukraine. and here's how they're presenting it. the fundamental problem is tackled the rapidly decreasing ammunition stalks of e u countries, and that inadequate supply production capacities to be rapidly increased. so for the details, the ne grade, the proposal involves giving ukraine ammunition that european countries say they already don't have enough of already. and also placing bulk orders of new ammunition for both block countries and for ukraine, kind of like when a bunch of

we have rachel marson, she is the syndicated. com, that's an rti contributor, and here in moscow we have escobar, he is an independent geopolitical analyst and author specializing in eurasia or in cross talk roles and effect. that means you can jump in anytime you want. and i would appreciate it. i want to go to rachel 1st in paris. i want to get everybody's take on the, the downing of a drone over the black sea and the reaction, both governments, russian and american to.

here's the tick of art contributor, rachel marson. well polish prime minister mateus mar. wiki is usually busy, browbeating germany, france and the u. s. and the rest of the west for not doing enough for ukraine. now poland is always leading the charge and demanding higher powered weapons for ukraine, and is quick to rummage through its closet for fighter jets and tanks when it can easily replace them with better weapons for itself. with all that defense assistance cash from washington. and it just reportedly billed the e u. 2000000000 euros for sending hand me down. weapons that it had to ukraine. yeah. why sell for h n n? when you can get rid of it from your closet and replace it with chanel? right. it's like giving away your whole wardrobe to a friend and then billing your parents for it. so of course, you're not walking around naked from a national security perspective. so poland has really been generous with ukraine when others are footing the bill. but when it comes to sacrificing its own economic competitiveness to ukraine, wel

collapse of 2 major banks has sent ripples throughout the financial world. archie contributor rachel marson picks up the story. the failure of silicon valley bank in the united states is sending shock waves through europe's financial system. and it's also sending its bank stocks into free fall on wednesday with the european press, making the link between the u. s. crisis and new trouble for europe's banking sector. credit suisse had dropped on zurich, so stock market by mid day. it's top investor, the saudi national bank said that they won't help cushion the blow by buying any more than the 9.8 percent of the shares that they already own, since they want to avoid any new regulatory regimes. they kick in above 10 percent investment economists, new rail rubini said in an interview that they could histories crisis is a quote, lehmann moment for european and global markets referring to the lehman brothers collapse. that sparked the 2008 economic crisis in the united states, which then spread to europe. french banks were especially hit hard on wednesday with trading and francis b and b about the

r t contributor rachel marson gave us her take on the story. well, the european council on foreign relations is a western back think tank. it's analyzed, recent data from british and european polling firm is like you. gov and data praxis . and it's found the overall a majority of europeans in 9 different countries, plus great britain. consider russia to be an adversary with which their own country is in conflict. now rushes in conflict with ukraine and more largely nato, but there is no direct arm conflict between european nations and russia. but the figures are highest in the baltic. states like poland and estonia, but also in denmark, where authorities have really been playing up. the russian fear factor since the onset of the conflict in ukraine to ram through defense policy changes like, for example, an increase in defense spending to meet u. s. a native demands and also the abolition via referendum last year of denmark, sovereign ability to avoid, to opt out of you defense operations that no longer exists since this conflict in ukraine jus

r t contributor rachel marson explains sholtes who was once considered pretty much positivists is now pumping up the military industrial complex worm. she investing more in no defense and it is absolutely clear that we will go to 2 percent for g. d p as has agreed and lay too. because we already have the highest defense budgeted european union to be very clear as germany. but we are willing to in priestess, that's interesting. german defense minister boris historian. set the tone recently by saying that the country has currently defend itself, militarily. strange thing to emit out loud by the way even wants to now buy back some german made a leopard, 2 tanks from switzerland because apparently they've so many leopard, one tanks away to crane that it blocks tanks for itself. it's like someone on the street corner asking you for money. so you hand him, your bank card. he completely drained your bank account, and the loops are stuck on the street and pegging for cash herself. just another example of the amazing foresight and strategic savvy that we hear in europe have come to expect from

we have rachel marson. she is a syndicated column. this an rti contributor. and here in moscow we have pepe escobar. he is an independent geopolitical analyst, an author specializing in eurasia, or a cross hoc rules and the fact that means he can jump any time you want. and i would appreciate, i want to go to rachel 1st in paris. i want to get everybody's take on the, the, the downing of a drone over the black sea and the reaction, both governments, russian and american to that fact because it's very interesting that they've gotten to a certain threshold. and then both of kind of moved back. rachel, what do you think? yeah, i think we're looking at a p. r battle for hearts and minds throughout this entire thing. and there's a lot of talk of potential false flag falls, flags could escalate, could it deescalate conflict? i think ultimately it's just going to keep following its course. and there's going to be these little incidents here or there. and nobody really, as you mentioned, peter has an interesting escalating any more, but it does allow for each party t