what professor of russian and european politics at the university of kent professor. thank you so much to have you on a plenty of strings attached to the international monetary fund claims kenya failed to meet as conditions to receive a new loan that had already been approved for the 600000000 dollar loan that i am at for approve last month was scheduled for summer, but it has been postponed due to waves of protest. now, despite the approval, the i m f is not convinced on can you is ability to generate revenue and make the funds profitable. among other issues, i robi currently owes the organization almost $3500000000.00 with certain conditions, including tax hikes. this is merely a drop in the overall african debt to the i m f, which accounts for another one. 3rd of all money is loaned globally, can use national treasury secretary, who recently traveled to washington for talks on the loan. describe the i am as treatment of african countries as the meaning was embarrassed at the washington notes that we were treated by the likes. and it's, i want to just to clarify, wha

the portsmouth, richard sack club, professor emeritus of russian and european politics of the university of kent. uh, professor stucco. let's talk now about the implications of foreign policy or in the foreign policy around um, even though it's still a pretty early base. uh, we already hearing a lot of statements or seeing some movements coming from different countries. i want to start with israel, where a lot of politicians all of a sudden and now talking about the annexation of the entire west bank. now the trump is in office. and how do you seeing that the conflict is likely to evolve? well, it's been pretty bad so fast. and so genocide, joe is so many people call him, is quite unforgivable of what the by didn't administration did over the last year, allowing at most of ation, mass, killing and garza. so over 700 people killed in the west bank since october the some 10 for live in an unquestioned big day for that. and of course, extending the will into lebanon and using these dreadful tactics, attacking hospital schools, united nations buildings, and so on. well, you can kind of get worse, an

and we heard from a professor ross, and then you'd have in politics at the university of kent. besides, there's nothing new. the liberal media is trying to pin claim on track. it seems that to every election since 2016 when i to him one was accused of collusion. this investigative scandal, the miller report, and so on. and it was also evident in 2020. when many false stories are managed about restaurants here to hunting, encouraging the f guns to suit american soldiers. so it seems to be no us selection can take place without accusation, suggestion intervention. now clearly illegal intervention is to be condemned. but what we're talking about here is that russia is what us china and most other countries, simply pushing for that view. what does that constitute elect to interfere? and so not, is it moved question, but it's a way of distracting attention. i think from some of the fundamental issues, i'm guessing putting forwards also, i think we've got some chinese and the rest of the world putting forward substantial points which need to be debated. it's a way of closing down debate, acc

and the margins in both those in michigan state and the university of wisconsin i think are going to be really important counties. >> i'll take kent county, michigan, which is grand rapids. and this is the question of are those squishy republican, nikki haley kind of republicans coming home. that's gerald ford's hometown, west michigan. this is a place where the republican senate candidate in 2020 carried the county but donald trump lost it. he had won it in 2016. we talk about the republican base a lot but the republican base is not joe rogan's audience. the republican base is actually suburban always republican voters, these stalwarts and donald trump struggled with them in 2020. i want to know if they're back. >> i will pick erie county which actually might be an easy bellwether but also will give us some sense of, you know, maybe, donald trump is topped out in terms of white working class voters or maybe he's not. so that's a county that is very close to the national average, but also in an important state. ok, let's go again, let's go. we'll move around the room. how about we'll go here, . >> michael. i'm a west michigan nati

kent state university press for publishing this book. i'm very happy to go with an academic publisher here. i really didn't any ofthe big five publishers so we'll see what the response is. the audience the readers are the critics to determine whether have sufficiently told them why it matters. well, steve herman, author of behind the white house curtain, thank you so much for being here. lots of it. thankgood evening