A plate for many clubs over the years so i know the game inside gods. Football isnt only about what happens on the pitch for the final school its about the passion from the fans its the age of the super money kill the narrowness and spend the city to twenty million. Its an experience like nothing else going to because i want to share what i think what i know about the beautiful game played great so it will transfer. And thinks its going to. And were back with dr matthew barras a cia veteran analyst and a former National Intelligence council are discussing u. S. Russian spat and other issues causing global concern and i think turkey a nato member waste currently attacking the syrian kurds who are here u. S. Allies is washington going to do anything about this is a going to throw the currents to who are lying on and on to the bus i think. Washing it is very concerned about turkey. Where turkey is heading. So yes there are efforts to to or to warn turkey against its attacks but you know it is a nato member when there is an effort not to alienate for their turkey theres been you know tense relations between the u. S. And turkey for some time so i think the effort is to handle this in a very low key manner out of the public eye best of us have been have enough leverage to stop turkey anyway i dont think we have the leverage you know there is. I mean in the past turkey is taking unilateral actions that have highly displeased the washington. Turkey believe this is very much a threat. And you know in the case of any country that believes that they face an existential threat from some sources its very hard to to deter it from carrying out actions to eliminate that threat. Now for decades youve been analyzing and predicting crisis for the u. S. Government how do you expect the turkish intervention to unfold and what consequences will it have well hopefully turkey doesnt mean that its warning the us but does not. Tries to avoid hitting certainly us first and now. And also. Draws back words on here its actual. Actions against the kurds. You know as i say i think this is a difficult negotiation but i dont think turkey wants to completely alienate the us pentagon has recently revealed a new us to fast track which sas that interstate strategic competition with russia and china is a number one concern for the us is terrorism no longer the biggest threat to america it isnt i mean this is a dramatic switch it on terrorism is still a big threat. And you know any u. S. President does not want to see a repeat of the nine eleven episode so we have been hardening our borders. And we continue. In the middle east and elsewhere cooperate ing with countries who are fighting terrorism and following also. The spread of extreme extremism in the u. S. Or elsewhere to try to dan to any terrorist attacks but increasingly you know u. S. Is Foreign Policy elite believes that were falling behind china. On Technology Certain technologies or that theyre moving ahead on certain technologies. And they actually despite having lots of problems with how Foreign Policy is executed under President Trump actually the Foreign Policy elite both republican and democrat would agree with those statements in the National Defense strategy is to us and in fact abandoning the war on terror are returning to a cold war type of thinking and if so why i wouldnt say its abandoning totally as i talked earlier but i do think that it does worry that. Its margin i mean the u. S. Believes if you go back to the past twenty years you know there was a period in the ninetys when the u. S. Believed it was the unit polar power so clearly above every other power in the world and able to take unilateral action what youve seen in the last decade or two is the fact us seeing china particularly rise very quickly and there is a warri on the economic side you know china is six seven years away from becoming the biggest economic power in market value terms so that is the concern i think were approaching in an interesting way another spot nick moment. As you remember in the fiftys when the u. S. Worried it was falling behind the soviet union and Technology Development russia and china are cold revisionist powerset want to shape the world under their modelling the latest us to fan strategy so to me it sounds that an american mindset there is to American World to you which is right and there is all the rest which are incorrect or adversary revisionist and need to be confronted how can the us exist and multiple reality with this type of uni polar mentality well thats thats a big diff the call day and thats something that. Ive been worried about for years because i think the u. S. Is going to remain a great power in whatever sort of. World order we have but if it continues to play its cards you know like it did in the ninetys believing it. Was a you know are power and could do these things unilaterally then i think we could be in for a rough ride because i dont think its just not china or russia but i dont think other powers want to see a you know polar world with the u. S. As the top power now in your book the future declassified you say that america has to take charge and direct the needed changes in the world what about all the countries of the world that arent excited about the american direction i mean do you think they should be forced into following americas elite no i mean i think way you earlier said about a poly centric world is correct and if you have a poly centric world then that means that the u. S. Has to sit down with other powers. And players in the world and we have to think about how we can Work Together we do have an enormous number of weve talked about some of these shared interests so the effort should be thinking about how do we cooperate in dealing with the shared interests so anderson and youre talking about the u. S. Adopting a sensible Strategic Policy and going through with it but if we try to look at it from a non American Point of view we see that since iraq invasion in two thousand and three american Foreign Policy has been impulsive and quite chaotic and focused on its own interests rather than the common one and has contributed to the mess in the middle east rather than solving anything and after two decades of this how can the u. S. Regain the trust of the International Community and its leadership ability because i mean so far and i repeat from an outside point of view its not being ticket well i completely understand you know your view on it and i think Many Americans would also share your view that. The invasion of iraq was a strategic blunder and disaster for the u. S. And they were very unhappy about and thats why they the popularity of george w. Bush went down in his second term but you know americans look on this is well we had good intentions we were trying to deal with what we thought was a threat of weapons as a liberation. And in afghanistan we are trying to rebuild the the country now that doesnt exist the good intentions doesnt excuse what it happened and the disrupt jund disarray that happened in the middle east but that is still how a lot of americans look on that the rest of the world is very focused on the disastrous results the u. S. Public and elite tends to think more more about the intentions were. Seeing those is good intentions almost a decade ago. You set cybersecurity as a top threat now the pentagon has recently proposed writing a Nuclear Response to devastating cyber attack into the u. S. Military doctrine what kind of a hostile action in cyber space what merits a Nuclear Attack well i think in the in the. Pentagons mind it would be to disable. Critical infrastructure so for example like the electric grid in the us or the functioning of Financial Institutions in the us. Now whether they that would actually im not sure that even those actions. Would. They certainly dont justify in my mind a Nuclear Attack but i am not sure if they would actually trigger one. Because i think you know most americans are very scared about what would happen after they did trade a Nuclear Attack and that would be particularly against russia china or another Nuclear Power there would be retribution. Dr virus on that optimistic note thank you very much. You were talking to madame maurice and cia veteran analyst and former National Intelligence counsellor about all the major challenges that put our paul and order to test for this edition of so i think ill see you next time. Run out of the closest to the first out of the jaws of. The concepts i was preparing to perform i had to actually prepare myself to die. Hed won the necessary trust me last time. 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