France and so on for whom a russian threat doesnt really exist anymore but who are paying a price through sanctions and economic losses for the grand a strategy of the United States to keep russia in its box and so there is a tension about where youre going to go because if this situation of a new cold war between russia and america continues is your really benefiting from that you know if it isnt which europeans are going to make and yeah i mean just to decide to move in a slightly different direction marc makes a very good point i mean that the tensions are prior between the United States and russia and europe as usual finds itself in the middle with a mixture as marx pointed out here but that is not a proper way forward that is the that is paralysis and as i said in my interrupted introduction they have to start defending their interests or theyre really going to become irrelevant because we have the rise of china the closer relationship between moscow and beijing where is europe in
Between washington and the new. Low and welcome the cross for all things are considered im Peter Lavelle the Atlantic Alliance the bedrock of the post world war 2 Global Security order is slowly but surely unraveling more and more often washington and brussels diverged on important Foreign Policy issues today europe has a choice to defend its interests or fade into oblivion. Crosstalk in the Atlantic Alliance im joined by my guest mark allman in oxford hes the director of the Crisis Research institute in london we have Jonathan Steele hes an International Affairs commentator also in london we have a real because he is founder of a consulting and Foreign Affairs analyst all right gentlemen crosstalk. Rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate mark let me go to you 1st here let me just read you 2 quotes here of number one foreign minister lavrov in munich saying quote change course speak for its too late and we have the new head of the European Un
Broadcasting live from our studio. International im. Certainly glad to have you with us right in one of his latest tweets president has commented on the assassination of the iranian general saying that whether he was an imminent threat to america or not. By his administration his fate was predetermined anyway. The Fake News Media and the democrat potence are working hard to determine whether or not the future touched by terrorists and the money was imminent was my team in agreement the owns and to bush is a strong yes but it doesnt really matter because of his horrible possed well the implications of donald trump statement are quite large essentially its being argued that for the United States to kill someone not just someone but a top foreign leader a leader of the foreign country top military leader its not necessary that they actually represent a threat as long as they had a history of bad deeds or a bad past thats essentially what donald trump is saying now folks will recall that i
For several months she was an Emergency Services you have been. Nothing has been the problem of. The life from moscow. Welcome to the program. The president has again leapt to the defense of americas drone strike assassination of an iranian general earlier the United States justified his death by presenting him as an imminent threat without revealing the details now though the u. S. Called the threats irrelevant. The Fake News Media and the democrat partners are working hard to determine whether or not the future touched by terrorists and the money was imminent and was my team in agreement the owns are to bush is a strong yes but it doesnt really matter because of his horrible possed we have trouble speaking up on social media and saying that it doesnt really matter whether or not qassam solomonic actually represented a threat to americans because he was a bad fellow who had a bad past sense qassam solomonic was killed by the United States the United States has been emphasizing that qa
Here in moscow welcome to the program. Wiki leaks has released a 4th batch of documents from the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons that cast further doubt on its report on allegations of a chemical attack in the syrian city of duma last year they reveal the o. P. C. Chose to ignore evidence that contradicts its conclusion that the attack came from the air. Picks up the story the toxicologist pharmacologist and the bio analytical chemist walk into the u. P. C. W u b c w shows them a video of an alleged chemical attack and ask them what sort of symptoms they see could they tell what gas it was the specialists look at the video and agree on one and the rest is classified or was classified. It was agreed among all present that the key takeaway message from the meeting was that the symptoms observed were inconsistent with exposure to chlorine and no other obvious candidate chemical causing the symptoms could be identified another day another leak another embarrassment and