Asked like sending back pastor bronson or other things so everything is mixed up but when you look at from one chorus perspective but they believe that this is a legitimate coast to do this military operation there ok so and thank you for that update from istanbul or now lets find out what President Trump has been saying and bring in ken lay out that she is joining us from washington so whats trumps reaction. Well hes continuing to make the argument to a domestic audience mainly that hes keeping a Campaign Promise made in 2016 to get the United States out what he calls endless wars take a look at this tweet that he sent this morning he says turkey has been planning the attack for kurds for a long time theyve been fighting for ever we have no soldiers or military anywhere near the attack area im trying to end the endless wars the president goes on in his 2nd tweet to say that turkey is a member of nato others say stay out let the kurds fight their own battles even with our financial hel
A paradigm shift going on here what its the root of this here go ahead emmanuel in paris well its oh of what youve mentioned but i asked to admit that it is not a european position and then of course not speaking on behalf of the European Union i mean and france is a president sharing the g 7 at least till the end of the year but it is not at the head of European Union finland is leading that is it has in this response ability since last july i think the position of france which is of course a new paradigm which is a shift must also be put into consider taking into consideration for very. Obvious agenda you mentioned the domestic agenda it is true that as bit has been a lot shouted on this position in regards to the internal policy and this leading him not to have a diplomatic agenda which of course is. Has been put aside with the presidency of the g. 7 and starting with the g. 7 summit in delhi its really assessing the necessity to be a president confident president speaking not on be
Hello and welcome to crossfire all Things Considered im Peter Lavelle there are growing indications the wests anti russias stance may be softening a case in point is the recent visit of frances top diplomat and defense minister or take for example the New York Times editorial calling on trump to better relations with the kremlin as a way to block china the important question remains can moscow trust the west anymore. Cross talking a thaw in relations im joined by my guest in a new well you point in paris he is the president of the institute for european perspective and security and. We have lucre of a he is an independent journalist and in brussels we rush to John Laughlin hes a political scientist and historian all right gentlemen cross talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it many well let me go to you in paris i will make the the obvious admission i very rarely had good things to say about the french president emanuel mccrone howeve
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