Exhusband is acquitted of sexually abusing their daughter. His name is collin bray and he has your global news update next hour but 1st it is Cross International while in the u. K. And ireland its time for renegade stay with us. Hello and welcome to cross talk where all things are considered im Peter Lavelle russia. Has just been released starring donald trump but also now Bernie Sanders indeed russia gate has achieved cult like status also turkey on the ropes in syria. Across talking some real news im joined by my guest here in moscow dimitri bob hes a political analyst and editor it interests me internet media project and in london we cross to Marcus Papadopoulos hes the editor of politics 1st magazine all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate let me go to london 1st marcus we have all of this going on in the United States with the president ial election and Mike Bloomberg and Bernie Sanders and russia gate but m
His book on the raid comes out, it is now out and you can buy a copy of it at our bookstore. Im pleased to introduce dr. Timothy smith. Thank you, i appreciate the chance to be here. I have always heard about pamplin park, and it is great here. Were going to talk about the western theater today. Vicksburg, how many of you have been to vicksburg. She o he is one of the great battlefields, listening to the civil war American Trust now, you know theyre doing a lot of work down there. They turned over nearly several hundred acres. So there is a lot going down at Champion Hill. So were going to talk about that battle in particular, the larger Vicksburg Campaign. And i do not have a power point either. Im a little old fashioned. We have a map of Champion Hill which we will talk about in just a little bit. I tend to go overboard when i go into power points and i confuse everybody, so to keep from doing that, i dont do powerpoints when i can help it. And im beginning to realize that powerpoint
Fixbering campaign. He discusses how the leadership contributed to a victory. This event was part of historical parks small battles big results symposium. Weve got a great speech for our second session this morning. Dr. Timothy r. Smith is a veteran of the park service and currently teaches history at the university of tennessee at martin. In addition to numerous articles and essays hes the author and editor and coeditor of 18 books including Champion Hill, the decisive battle of vicksburg. His book comes out this fall and actually is now out, and you can buy a copy of it out at our bookstore at battlefield center. So im pleased to introduce dr. Timothy smith. [ applause ] thank you. Appreciate that. Appreciate the opportunity to be here. Ive always heard about it and its my first time to be here. Ive always heard about it and how nice it was and im a believer now. I believe you. Youve got a great place here and appreciate the invitation to be here. Were going to talk about the western
Between earth again and food since turkey and russia are involved in a proxy war with each other today in syria similar to how soviet and american leaders would meet each other when their countries were involved in crosseyed wars with each other in viet nam and afghanistan now turning to elites turkey overstretched itself when it is both itself illegally in syria and it turning points in turkey in syria was when this hurt shot down a russian Fighter Aircraft at the end of 2015 because ever since then lusha has significant leverage over turkey when it comes to syria lets not forget that it was earth again who flew to set pieces but at the beginning of 2016 so made sweet crude. And sucrose fusillade apologized to putin for the shooting down of that russian aircraft why kate did earth again do that 1st because of the serious peer russian sanctions yet that includes in place on the turkish economy but there was another raise that if you have a look in the immediate period after that search
Word of condemnation from ankara finally patzer i would submit this to you turkey has been left on its own in syria by American Society russia on its own similar to how the americans left the british and the french in egypts to face the soviet union during the suit so this canal crisis you know the you know theres been some noise being made pompei was backing the turkeys claims and on goals all that but they havent really done anything yet and i doubt Donald Donald trump will pursue that as he so close to the his reelection bid here but Marcus Papadopoulos of that is really right ever since russia was invited in to end the conflict in syria and this is essentially a conflict against terrorism to end terrorists and countries around the world that support terrorism turkey is one of them theres a lot at stake here is this again one of arab. Ones bluffing games because if it is maybe it works at home it hasnt worked with the russians at all and i would even say the russian side is show eno