the existence of the warsaw pact did not fire a single shot in europe and there was no warsaw pact war the fall of 2000, the belgrade regional court heard in absentia a criminal case against those who ordered the bombing of yugoslavia. i was the chairman of the collegium of the supreme court in belgrade sentenced clinton blair and others besides them to 20 years in prison french president jacques chirac german chancellor gerhardgerröder us secretary of state madeleine albreid nato javier savana commander-in-chief of alliance forces in europe welsey clark nato foreign and defense ministers prisoner for which the leaders of this use of banned cluster warfare weapons where did i have the opportunity to ask brussels west clark a question to nato commander-in-chief i called him a criminal of the planetary scale, as it is. i asked how you could attack my country that did not threaten anyone, and you did not have the consent of the security councils of the security councils, but we reached the end within the framework that commanded the world's largest force in an attack on a country that is

the warsaw pact is no more, it collapsed and immediately began a war in the balkans.as the president of the supreme court in belgrade which passed the verdict against clinton blair and others besides them french president jacques chirac german chancellor gerhard schroeder was sentenced to 20 years in prison us secretary of state madeleine albright nato secretary general javier savannah commander-in-chief of alliance forces in europe welsey clark ministers foreign affairs and defense of nato countries one of the criminal offenses for which nato leaders have been convicted is the use of prohibited weapons of cluster bombs and munitions. i had the opportunity. i asked how you could attack my country, which did not threaten anyone, and you did not have the consent of the un security council and he said, yes, it's true, we did not have the consent of the security council, but we reached a consensus within the natalian. here is a man, such simple statements of a man who commanded the world's largest by force in attacking a country that is a thousand times weaker and did not

for the entire existence of the warsaw pact , not a single shot was fired in europe and there was nothe warsaw pact is no more, it collapsed and the war on the beams immediately began. in the fall of 2000, the belgrade district court is considering in absentia a criminal case against those who ordered the bombing of yugoslavia i was the chairman of the collegium of the supreme court in belgrade that sentenced clinton blair and others besides them french president jacques chirac german chancellor gerhart schroeder us secretary of state madeleine albright sentenced to 20 years in prison nato secretary general javier savannah commander-in-chief allied forces europe welsey clark nato foreign and defense ministers this use where i had the opportunity to ask a question brussels west lee clark to nato commander-in-chief i called him a planetary criminal , because he is one. i asked how you could attack my country, which did not threaten anyone, and you did not have the consent of the un security council, and he said, yes, it's true, we did not have the consent of the security council, but w

the existence of the warsaw pact did not fire a single shot in europe and there was no more warsaw pact. in the fall of 2000 , the belgrade district court hears in absentia a criminal case against those who ordered the bombing of yugoslavia. gerhardgerroeder us secretary of state madeleine albright nato secretary general javier savannah commander -in - chief of the alliance forces in europe welsey clark nato ministers of foreign affairs and defense the crimes for which nato leaders are convicted is the use of prohibited cluster warfare weapons i called him a criminal on a planetary scale, because he is one. i asked how you could attack my country, which did not threaten anyone, and you had no the consent of the un security council and he said, yes, it's true, we did not have the consent of the security council but we reached a consensus within the framework of the natalliance. here is a man such simple statements of a man who commanded the world's largest force in an attack on a country that is a thousand times weaker and did not threaten any nato member country, the alliance did not th

the warsaw pact even had a clause that mirrored nato's article five. on any of its nations would be considered an attack on all. the warsaw pact endured for over 30 years for the 1989 as the berlin wall came down and communist governments across eastern europe began to fall with it. one by one, countries love the warsaw pact until it was formally dissolved in 1991. nato, the greatest military alliance in the history of the world picked up the slack. every single worst affect country ultimately joined nato. nato started with 12 members of 1949. today, the alliances 30 member nations strong. ukraine is notably not a member. russia's been trying to prevent nato from accepting ukraine because russia sees ukraine as its own land border protecting it from nato expansion from the west. over the past year, nato has united behind ukraine, almost as if ukraine is an honorary member of the alliance. this may just be the strongest nato has been in its nearly 80 years of existence. putin's plan to occupy ukraine and we can nato seems to have backfired. when >> > li

putin came forward with his demands, and his demands were essentially to re-establish the warsaw pact, to terminate nato in the eastern european countries that once for part of the ussr, the warsaw pact countries. he had very clear ambitions, which he then began to carry out by instituting and starting this war. he took previously in 2014 -- he took crimea and a large part of eastern ukraine. earlier in 2012, he went into georgia, took back some of that country. he intends to re-establish the soviet union. what does that mean for latvia, estonia, lithuania, poland, romania, and the other countries on the eastern side? it means their freedom would be lost. now, what about china? we pull out of ukraine, what's china going to think about the american role in the western pacific? taiwan and beyond. they'll think we're not going to stand to fight, and they will move forward, so we have to be there. we've got to give everything that ukraine needs to win this. otherwise we're going to see a crumbling security all around this world. >> congressman, thank you for your valuable perspective. we

prague events, the organizers of the prague spring raised the question of withdrawing from the warsaw pactin destroyed the most complex political structure that had developed as a result of the victory over fascism. this was understood not only in the soviet union, but even in the west , the french newspaper figaro wrote. the geographical position of czechoslovakia can turn it, both as a bolt of the warsaw fact, and into a gap that opens the entire military system of the eastern bloc, that is, our russian military system with you, and here we are again let's remember, and mikhail sholokhov, the writer of the show, then had absolute weight. in society, and occupied a place proportionate, partly to the place that was in later years at dostoevsky or nikolaevich tolstoy boulevard , however, unlike them since stalin 's time, sholokhov could communicate directly with the leaders on july 22, sholokhov wrote in a friendly way to leonid ilyich brezhnev dear. leonid ilyich wrote, i know how hard and difficult it is for you now, and therefore i hug you with friends and sincerely wish you good health

how did the warsaw pact and such a scenario.n general, it was likely at some period, but, but she herself in general. somehow cheered up a lot of afghanistan during peacekeeping operations in quotation marks in yugoslavia yes, and in a word , these anti-terrorist peacekeeping operations breathed a second life into nato, nato chiefs and at the country level at the alliance level are now very stressed that the ladies are massively training ukrainian officers and the army is changing, the ukrainian army will fight differently according to western standards, and so on, firstly, how this standard differs. here, if it’s rude for non-specialists, and secondly, here you, as an observer from the side, you notice, how tactics are changing precisely in the direction of some other other tradition, and today e vsu receives information from satellites. ah, but gradually new topics emerged, let's say, uh, information warfare. and or a variety of hybrid types of war, all this was also studied and passed on their experience, cyber cybersecurity.

and then the warsaw pact evaporating after the end of the cold war. what i'm seeing is a possibility that the collective security treaty organization could become the new war self act. and because they've got to have something that will be able to counter this expansion, that seems to be continuing, obviously with been live and sweden, those countries within the c s t o, it's kind of our, our, you know, they have very in degrees of wanting to participate, but they have an article for which is equivalent to nato's article 5, where the tack on one is attack on all. and if the, if the federation is hit once again by heavy weapons from from ukraine. i think we're going to see at least, bella luce, coming into the act as a, as part of that commitment. and it will be brought on by the west. not, not because not by an initiative by russia or bella roost. but in response, as a, as an article for event, you know, it's a very good point because because look, as you know, at winston churchill famously said in iron curtain is descending all across europe . he sai

all all the warehouses that were a-a saved from the warsaw pact. for some reason, they all ended up in the donbass in the kharkiv region, and in the dnepropetrovsk region they all ended up here, and when they entered kharkov, they opened the fruits. listen, they were full, they were completely packed, and armed with shells, cannons, and there the tanks that went there were called malysheva once preserved a huge, huge number of tanks that traveled from bulgaria to poland there and all the rest . now they are talking about the fact that now we will bring two dozen leopards, listen, but hundreds, and no one saw all 72. so many of them were there 300-400 500-700, that is , to their 2,000, that is, and now it remains all before the frames. that is, we have not seen it. we do not know all this, we will not address this, like 8 years before that, 8. people killed him before they smashed the donbass listen, well, it's not something we have there, if now he says here, how is it? well, kiev is being shelled. as you can, so listen, look at you. look at your f

comic con and the warsaw pact.ly the idea take of ukraine and. the idea for the past 20 years to take over belarus has been on the table of russia back in the nineties recognised the independence of chechnya and yet went in and conquered the country afterwards anyway because we had the 2008 war with georgia , now we have war with georgia, now we have the provocations from russia regarding moldova , saying that regarding moldova, saying that ukraine will go in to transnistria. now ukraine have always denied this . moldova has always denied this. moldova has denied this . but it seems that denied this. but it seems that the idea of expansion is still there and in very well to the domestic market. he needs to galvanise the domestic market because he hasn't made any advances really in the war in ukraine and. the only hope he has to stay president, to stay the ruler , russia is to make the ruler, russia is to make sure that both the elites and the people generally support him. the nationalist argument plays very well th

in soviet times, we have many ranges even in the countries of the warsaw pact. which was used means,ilitary district, so i think that in the next five months, belarus will fulfill its role, and then everything will depend on how it will develop events eh let's say on the ukrainian front how successful the actions of the russian federation will be if russia does not succeed in sterilizing its plans this spring. i think that it is not included that an auxiliary strike may be launched from the territory of belarus, but for this it will be necessary to mobilize the belarusian army because the number of belarusian ground forces today is not enough for offensive actions , which means that the ground forces will have to be increased by 4-5 times in order to try to paralyze the defense of ukraine on the border of belarus with russia they will not succeed, mr. oleksandr , you said that lukashenko's regime will exist as long as putin's regime exists. what will be discussed the meeting of the two dictators to pay homage to his master, the self-proclaimed president of belarus oleksandr lukashenk

here are the collisions nato and the warsaw pact. what is the absurdity?ns that the americans do not allow russian inspectors to enter their own territory. yeah, but they demand from russia and when she refuses , they raise this issue in every possible way in international organizations, and openly. they say that they are striving for the destruction of russian statehood , they practically do not hide the fact that they delivered this blow, including on airfields, but also what putin was talking about. this is an important factor two nuclear nato countries france and britain they are out of of this treaty, like china, yes, like china well, china is still connected there with the number of gods, but we will not talk about that. in this case , there is a confrontation between nato's sleep, and france has the entire triad of nuclear weapons. so what is the meaning of this agreement, but i want to tell you that in the russian federation, in all seriousness. a revision of a whole series of, uh, treaties and agreements, which concern not only weapons, but also m

time to master it and masterly use it, and therefore when they caught up with the countries of the warsaw pactthe t-72 t-64 armored personnel carriers and everything else was all clear. they were all ready for it. now, when they started to drive. listen, wait a while in the crabs. why poles travel. and why in hummers? well, for some reason they are english-speaking for the gunner , and therefore, accordingly, everything else is air defense , which means that these are all the possibilities, the planes are there , at least uh, at least euro-fighters, at least f-16, at least anything. yes, it will all be with foreign stuffing, nato stuffing, that is, nato will be directly involved. in all in these processes, the austrian general already took off his lachi and tried not to take off his uniform, after some time after some time. they will simply forget to take off their chevrons, which they have on their kikels. well, you see it quite calmly in this? honestly, they have already caught the donbass. personnel yes , they forgot to take a picture there, you see all this all this all there everything we

received from the countries of eastern europe, the former members of the warsaw pact gave it over 400ks 250 combat vehicles soviet-made infantry 40 grad multiple launch rocket systems. in addition , american m-13 and m117 armored personnel carriers are supplied, and attack aircraft received almost 40 haimos multiple launch rocket systems and ukrainian aviation. soviet-made fighters , mi helicopters, as well as bayraktar drones from turkey , air defense systems are german self-propelled anti- aircraft guns. cheetah systems eight batteries per self from the us production soviet missile systems strela and the british sides from artillery ukraine received about three hundred two-sim howitzers mainly from the usa and also self-propelled artillery mounts from britain, poland, germany and the usa the anniversary of the start of the campaign caused great excitement everywhere at the munich conference they swore to support ukraine to the end, because confronting moscow the main task has always been, as the british prime minister noted with captivating sincerity, there is no need to spare kiev

and nato gives us an excuse to reason to sell enormous amounts of arms to now to the formerly warsaw pact, nations which had only 2nd raid or obviously soviet weapons altogether. from the moment that the berlin wall came down, lockheed representatives were in warsaw showing them on a need for f, 20 twos and for other weapons right there. against who, as the russians are reasonably asked, actually, russia is an indispensable enemy in europe. and nothing else can rancho, it's the same noble enemy that if that's that fascinating language, break that down for me, the, an indispensable. and what does that mean? it means that you can't really justify new trident submarines or i she be amg that northrop grumman is making a whole new life she be up against ian or isis or i l. cater ah, nature, stone cutters. as rationale for multibillion now dollar arms bunker, only russia has to targets any sophisticated arms to fight against. you don't need advanced 5th generation fighters against people who don't have any aircraft or fighters of their own, or sophisticated ones. but russia and now china. and f

1991, when the cold war ended, when there were no grounds for conflicts, when, let's say , the warsaw pact was dissolved on our side and, logically , the north atlantic the alliance, first of all, has been preserved. although there were no threats. after all, it was created under the soviet cargo, calling a thing by its proper name has not been since the ninety-first year. from the soviet threat there was no bloc that opposed the nato bloc, and the north atlantic alliance survived this time. he uh, signing with our country is enough. uh, specific documents on non-expansion and non-deployment on the territory of new member states of significant armed forces and weapons violated all these obligations of the alliance e, created recruitment program. possibly more new members. at first it was called so that partnership for the sake of peace is not visible, but then it turned into a completely frank nato expansion program, and of course. this is an advance of thousands of kilometers, closer to the russian borders and that's it. this. naturally, from their point of view, it was a preparation for

between that period of time and now nato had sent an equipment from the warsaw pact leftover from the cold war to credit. and that that was a lot of equipment we're talking hundreds of times. russia has destroyed that, which is what brings us to today, where they're talking about shipping western main battle times to crime. and these are weapon systems that a lot of people are aware of. take months if not years to incorporate into a, into an army that is not familiar with them. and then when you're talking about something like aircraft, it's even more complex and involved and the timeframe is even longer. so what are they actually really doing? surely in moscow, they know that these weapons are not going to to be effective, at least not in the hands of ukrainians. so what is natal planning on doing? and this is the real big question. are they going to have nato operators operating this equipment? and i would argue that even then it would not matter what they openly intervene and use everything they have in combined arms. warfare will not make a difference. and are they going to escala

cold war with austria, 959. austria was basically made a neutral demilitarised country by both the warsaw pact and nato. and it was glorious for the people of austria. i was there during the cold war. it was a nice thing everywhere else was bristling with factions and jets. and here was a place of peace and prosperity enjoy. we need to, we need guarantees that nato will get out of ukraine and stay out of there or reach a black form of virginia state republican sentences. thanks very much for your time and for sharing your thoughts today on those complex topics. this is just part of our ongoing coverage of the war in iraq on the mistake, the through the oil rich country into tails, while increasing instability across the middle east. so do stay tuned as we continue looking back at the us led invasion of the next couple of months for even more exclusive content do head over. it's all web sites oxy dot com the my g area, which is africa's most populous nation on biggest economies preparing for presidential elections this saturday until nazi we continue in our special coverage, one of the constant

received from the countries of eastern europe, the former members of the warsaw pact gave it away more than 400 tanks , 250 soviet-made infantry fighting vehicles, 40 grad multiple launch rocket systems. in addition , american m-13 and m117 armored personnel carriers are supplied and almost 40 highmars multiple launch rocket systems and ukrainian aviation received attack aircraft. soviet-made fighters , mi helicopters, as well as bayraktar drones from turkey air defense means are german self-propelled anti-aircraft. cheetah systems eight batteries per self from us production soviet missile systems strela and british sides from the artery ukraine received about three hundred two-sim goldfish mainly from the usa as well as self-propelled artillery mounts from britain poland germany and the usa ukraine to the end, because the main task has always been to confront moscow, as he noted with captivating sincerity british prime minister rishinok, kiev should not feel sorry for weapons and shells. they were already intended against russia, florid, as always, emmanuel macron for the victory of u

a few days ago, lukashenko addressed the participants of the odkb of such a mini-warsaw pact that remained the soviet union and where the leadership is in russia he told the federation that everyone will have to make up their own minds in this war, and sooner or later no one will be able to sit down. i understand that he was obviously not talking about himself, because according to the dcb treaty, these states also have to react in the event that the territory of one of these states, which is part of this collective er organization of the collective security agreement, is attacked, then everyone should react to the extent to which these countries have resources in order to support russia and whether everything in this organization revolves around one country this is russia, well, by and large, around one country, well, formally legal uh, in a legal language, then uh, you can consider that uh, one of the countries, that is, russia has already been attacked because they recognized part of the ukrainian territory as their territories well, formally, that is, it is magically complete, but well

political e- is the regime, well, from the potential threat from the socialist camp, well, after the warsaw pact after the soviet union disappeared. well , it is clear that nato remained why? well, because the so-called institutional interests arise, yes that is, so that they could not say ok, since our potential adversary stopped his actions, they wrote the end of history , well, in principle, nato is no longer needed, but the ladder is that millions of people worked in this structure , well, the inertia was huge and they ended up with a large bill, well, in such a well i would say there is a crisis, a crisis of self-awareness. that is, this is a military-political bloc. well, they were increasingly moving in the direction of not so much a military but a political bloc, yes, that is, they were constantly trying to find what would they to do what other important functions were they supposed to perform in order not to lose the expediency of their existence, ask this story with constant underfunding , that is, non -fulfillment actually, in terms of the provisions of the nato charter regarding the

crimea, of course, they ground all the weapons that remained from the warsaw pact to him or the west,little about what is junk in the name of what we take what it supplies samples for what they showed me guys at the front. it's been since the vietnam war. that is, what the nato members threw there, this old man, how much do you want? well, not at all, at least, everyone there argued. that's what a colossus oh, that they have already won, that everything, as a matter of fact, now there should be a question of how we will divide. eh, accordingly, the fruits of this victory do not need to be said that now, if here is the coming of a trifle, and it was three or four days, in my opinion, ended before our operation. there was such an anti-russian coven, which is also here we are all from time russia will not do anything russia will sit, as she sat quietly, when she was squeezed out of the diplomatic mission in san francisco, so she will sit. that's all changed now. i would say. so, what are these talks about the victory that russia is about to collapse, this is what we said in practice. the

countries , we understand poland, we understand the former neighbors of warsaw according to the warsaw pactcalled military treaty of the soviet union of satellites, and they are definitely more tense. hungary , but the rest of the western europeans say well , well, maybe we need to think about russia in some way. well, maybe we can no longer save face, as it was already six months of war, but there is an understanding that this is a problem for many years, it is necessary to come up with a new european design, diplomatic, military, social, and so on and the like. whoever would not allow russia to start a war again, there are such academic conversations in the west among people who are simply intellectuals who should tell their government that our problem will not end with the end of the war, even because of the victory of ukraine, russia will remain russia, it will not fly anywhere , please, ladies, you know. unfortunately, these efforts are related to forecasting and er-e-er justification of what kind of russia we will have to deal with after the end of this war, and such and such efforts

then it was restored, and the warsaw pact, and then we would remember that a-a dolamashukav offered a-areach a wait, we actually have such a statement , literally three or four days ago, the handsome man said the following thing, yes, if you go to the dnipro , it means a year and a half or three years there, but if you go to the english channel, then i have a special plan. and what is this anyway? what is happening for er such persons means prigozhina and kadyrov who suddenly in there is just an inverlok and uh-uh during this so-called special operation they climbed almost to the very top of the kremlin tower and started swinging a hammer there someone eh i don't know that beregoshin kadyrov is just a rebroadcast of that, tell me those theses of the deep people of that russian radical part which always is those who wanted there wanted to wash chechens in the toilets, those who said that in tbilisi , well, the late zhirynovsky even for example, and it was also forgotten from the left side, uh, that is, all those who displayed these tea rooms of the russian people to show how in this comp

great joy, legal and all, could you have an enemy on your border where you will be nichol, burson, warsaw pact? unfortunately, russia when bel, but the small will carry on. because russia has resources. russia has us bitter. second world war showed it to be a long road war. pay something else to tell you by today the u. s. environmental protection agency has been trying to reassure a locals living close to a major freight train to real meant that happened 2 weeks ago. vast amounts of toxic chemicals were spilled or parental. the ph chief said the local water still fit the drink on the or are safe to breathe. although acknowledged, not all people living near by were convinced. we know that there's a lack of trust, which is why the se, in the federal government have place to be very transparent. as soon as we get information, we post that information with a scale of the disaster and perceived lack of coverage, even acknowledgement from officials in washington sparked outrage locally and online. some critics also suggests that the white house should be focusing more on its domestic problems than

commander-in-chief in warsaw , the gathering of the bucharest nine, as the union of the former warsaw pactountries and the baltic republics of the ussr was once called then accepted into nato in washington , they have always been seen as a cordon separating russia from central and western europe. thank you so much to you all i'm happy to be here some of you may remember in previous years when we expanded nato who are present at this table today , biden's merits are great. but not all poles are happy with the way the united states is dragging them into the conflict. visit. today a picture went viral showing an unidentified man responding to biden's greeting with a far from welcoming gesture. and with both hands at once, nevertheless, the fact that biden stayed in warsaw for two days to the polish authorities is an emergency in their incessant struggle with the germans for the attention of the owner of the current us priorities are obvious. although chancellor schultz talks about germany's leadership in europe, nato is increasingly considering , berlin at best a laggard, and at worst just a

it all started with the destruction of block sef, the warsaw pact was such a very important milestonehe budapest memorandum, from which it is being assembled like this, look. what did the west do to us. we have removed weapons from our territories, which guaranteed us a certain immunity under the promise that no one will impose sanctions and will not touch our borders further. i remember those reports very well, how we cut our soviet tanks, sawed towers, sawed everything , destroyed ammunition, that is, in essence, the west's strategy was to disarm our territories.

yes , i will say this to gorbachev, the warsaw pact destroyed it.is necessary at one time the note must be destroyed. can you imagine, this is your own under threat. this error. the first president of ukraine, kravchuk , was ready to jump out of his pants to please the americans, what you call the capture of ukraine, this is called american politics. remember how america uh, according to one version, captured the wild west. uh, found up to some border, and then eric or there, uh, local judge or authorities spoke. and now run, who runs what territory on the territory of the words of kravchuk's adviser confirms the former prime minister of ukraine mykola azarov, the conquest of the outskirts of russia went according to a pre-approved plan of ninety second. years ago, the americans realized that ukraine was abandoned, and since it was abandoned, you can pick it up, and then the penetration of the americans into ukraine began , six months later, and in may 902 kravchuk would sign a memorandum on democratic partnership between ukraine and the united stat