Ah ah hello and welcome to cross top where all things are considered on people about washingtons unipolar moment, ended years ago, unfortunately, and dangerously. The Foreign Policy blob has refused to come to grips with this new reality. This explains the increase tensions in europe, middle east, and asia, and the biggest loser is the west. Ah. To discuss these issues and more, im joined by my guest, glenn, these and in oslo. Hes a professor at the university of southeastern norway as well as the author of the book, a phobia propaganda in International Politics and america. We crossed martin j. Hes an Award Winning journalist and commentator, or a gentleman crossed out girls and the fact that means you can jump any time you want and i would appreciate it. Or i would start, i was going in our slow, im you and i were in contact before we started this recording and you decide on the topic on the unit polar moment. Well, well, much to my surprise. So tony blair, the former british prime m
Hello and welcome to cross top. Were all things are considered. I peter level washingtons unipolar moment, ended years ago, unfortunately, and dangerously. The Foreign Policy blob has refused to come to grips with this new reality. This explains the increase tensions in europe, middle east, and asia, and the biggest loser is the west. Ah. To discuss these issues and more im joined by my guest, glenn, these in oslo. Hes a professor at the university of south easter norway as well as author of the book, research phobia propaganda in international politics. And in america we crossed to martin jay. Hes an Award Winning journalist and commentator, or a gentleman crossed out rules and effect. That means you can jump any time you want. And i was appreciated. So i was going in oslo. Um, you and i were in contact before we started this recording and you decide on the topic on the uniform moment. Well, how much to my surprise a tony blair, the former british prime minister, gave a big speech abo
What is meant by the unit polar moment, unilateral . What does that mean . Well again this i think was major story of our time because when the soviet union collapsed, the world became unipolar. This means that there was only one Central Power in the world because during the cold war you heard it was bipolar 2 centers. Now under the uniform order, you only have one center which is United States. It was organized as the west as a collective hedge money. So and so this really immersed in 30 years ago as the soviet union collapsed and megan, preserving the unit polar distribution of power, became the foundation for your security strategy. For i, there was that as long as the u. S. Maintained its global hedge money, then there would be no rivalries between the great powers. And this was therefore refer dresser unit polar piece or a hedge, a monic piece if you will. So the problem was, what many academics point out which was the unit for a moment, would unavoidably be temporary because 1st
The news is coming out of the region from the mainstream. Western price isnt really reflecting the reality on the ground. I myself have been inside ukraine and i can tell you from 1st experience that the brit whats being relate to the british public. That certainly is in tune with whats happening. I was of course threatened, and when i was inside the country, i was threatened with execution. And there are other journalists, like even a canadian journalist who is also paid on the government list. Im not sure how theyre going to proceed with this and how are they going to impose any sanctions or any fines . Seeing if they cant accept any payment in rubles, it cant broadcast on, on another channel. So, you know where we go from here is very clear, the use of sanctions to control the median narrative is an absolute clump down on press freedom. And weve seen this time and time again for the government, which insisted it, you know, that it stands up for the truth. But they, theyre, you know,
To discuss these issues and more, im joined by my guest, glenn, these in oslo. Hes a professor at the university of southeastern norway as well as author of the book, phobia propaganda in international politics. And in america we crossed martin j. Hes an Award Winning journalist and commentator, or a gentleman crossed out girls and the fact that means you can jump any time you want and i would appreciate it. Or i would start, i was going in our slow, im you and i were in contact before we started this recording and you decide on the topic on the unit polar moment. Well, how much to my surprise . Well, tony blair, the former british prime minister, gave a big speech about dominance of the west is coming to an end. So what a interesting collision of perfect storms here for. So for our. Busy our audience, what do you, what is meant by the unit polar moment you to pull out or what does that mean . Well again, this i think is major story of our time. Because when the soviet union collapsed,