All Things Considered on this edition of. A post mortem of the recent us around conflict what has changed and what bodes for the future issues the Mainstream Media refused to discuss. Some real news im joined by my guest going is a professor at the Higher School of economics as well as author of the case of western civilization and resurgence of russia we also have Dimitri Bobbitt shes a political analyst and editor in a smi internet media project. Andy in london we Cross Alexander macarius he is a writer on Legal Affairs as well as editor in chief of the duran dot com our german crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciated let me go to alexander in london you know over the past 10 days or so weve heard the term escalation deescalation proportional and one of the things i think that is mr very much is the how the behave the behavior on the side of the leadership and to iran and in washington we term asymmetrical was used all of the time
And thats how i see the European Union meeting donald trump in france go ahead alex well well i think thats actually had thats very good because hubris is of course the when you have this overwhelming sense of pride which makes you aspire to more than you really can all should be and invite nemesis down upon yourself star see this is when you cant actually shift because you are in such a divine position that there is no real possibility of movement it is a condition that exists within states or indeed within a law and says and i think that actually describes very well the situation with the g. 7 because on the one hand or at least with the european part of the g 7 because on the one hand they call it excepts that they doing anything wrong in International Affairs even though they see the United States is gradually drifting away from them and you are absolutely right to say the personalize. All around donald trump is a huge mistake there are deeper reasons why this is happening at the s
A tremendous discussion. On the e. U. No one has a new Payment System to buy american sanctions against iran and a bit to save the 2015. With the top stories from the past 7 days in the late developments as well this is the Week National to take a while. And fosse stop dont trump made history on sunday becoming the fost sitting u. S. President to end to north korea he shook hands with him jong un in the Demilitarized Zone before the 2 leaders walked across the demarcation line into the north trump had proposed the meeting just a day earlier in a tweet after speaking for almost an hour and stepping briefly into south korea trouble and kim hailed it as a breakthrough moment since my honor. I didnt really expect it to return to the g. 20 we came over. Here i work for you and we got to meet and stepping up 1st that was a great honor a lot of very good. Going to President Trump has just walked across the demarcation line that made him the 1st u. S. President to visit our country i believe j
Because i think we all know how he will go ahead marcus the introduction of the instead Payment System by the europeans as a way of trying to circumvent the american restrictions on countries wanting to trade with iran and the in 6 payments system is not only a goodwill gesture by the European Institute on it is also every year against trying to keep it on in the j. C. You know a do you and it is also a way of the europeans lets have a name access to the iranian well kits which after all is an important market sphere in particular for countries like germany and france but its paid for the insteps Payment System to be sustainable and effective it must apply so oil purchase ends because dont trump start sentients on a wrong which are all completely the most dangerous thats a. America has had placed iran over the last 40 years or go in for wrongs jocular and that jocular is irans ability states to export oil if the european Payment System does not apply to the purchases by other countries