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RT CrossTalk July 13, 2024
To discuss this and more im joined by my guest
Dmitri Bobbitt
in moscow hes a political analyst and editor of you know smee media project and glenn beason in oslo hes a professor at the university of southeastern norway as well as author of russias geo
Economic Strategy
for a greater eurasia original macross up rules in effect that means you can jump any time you want and i was appreciating lets go to oslo 1st glenn we have this pandemic ongoing and we have been in crisis in the
Energy Markets
and its easy to conflate the 2 and one in the
Energy Situation
in the markets has gotten worse as a result of this pandemic but they are very separate things and i would say right off the bat that this is the result of disastrous policies particularly by the
United States
using a series of tax breaks sanctions and really just unprincipled market behaved. Or to try to support
American Energy
companies and its all blown up in their face and a pandemic is made even worse and i dont think theres any really any real road back i mean this is some of the most worse was poorly thought out policies i can imagine and people and average working people are going to pay for it go ahead learn. It well i agree with that assessment because polish shale revolution a serious has been very much all shared all in the us media for quite some time and indeed it has been very spectacular that its going to stay too its taken from a huge
Energy Importer
to become a big exporter and theyre going to trump celebrated american big game to its
Energy Independence
which high priority however this was achieved so many things was not just the shale taken ology the u. S. Was also able to a large extent to replace the energy or oil coming out of iran and venezuela by sanctioning them and replacing it furthermore since the russians and assad has been trying to stabilize prices by cutting production in the us especially been able to move and failed to demand so it is been able to increase. Fuel this sheller of lucian on many aspects but one i would also. Keep in mind that americas
Oil Companies
have been running up huge debts. Especially since the
Global Financial
crisis in 2008 theyve been enjoying almost 0 percent
Interest Rates
and the problem with 0 percent
Interest Rates
is super much lending away money for free and in such you have a lot of male investments that is see or making investments where they shouldnt be made and i sense a lot of
Consulting Companies
are able to continue to operate so a lot of this a lot of observers of the shale industry been waiting for some time now to see you know when this house of cards might collapse or what is the pin that will pop it well obviously this coronavirus has been a well hell of a pin. Yeah but nonetheless its kind of demonstrates i think yes the
Current Crisis
has helped to crash the
Energy Markets
in the us us no one is driving flying without producing this thing but at the same time its important to note that the foundation of it was already there flawed so i guess were all celebrating or at least americans were celebrating
Energy Independence
and this economic a miracle it is worth knowing about it it didnt have the most
Stable Foundation
and of course for the whole thing to fall apart now in the
Current Crisis
just makes it. Ok to me. Now i think they were its criminal intent here ok im not going to be kind about it at all ok i mean using sanctions as a political weapon to prop up your own
Energy Companies
i mean that is just you know that is just throws in the face of
International Law
on the entire concept of free trade here i mean this is this is anti free trade i mean too but to a point weve never seen before ok that is what that is one of the basis of the antigun is wailin problem policies and anti rand is to support
American Energy
companies and the illusion the illusion of
Energy Independence
which is gone it probably will not come back and then you have this cascade effect where these
Oil Companies
are right up what glenn was saying theyre you know theyre going to default on these loans and its going to ricochet all the way through the
Financial System
hundreds of thousands if not millions of people are dependent on this thing on that part of the economy so this is that you know when that house of cards falls it falls patent stop catastrophic glee and thats what were seeing right now with the rest of the economy spiraling down as well and thats why i said in my introduction i dont see any return to coronavirus for the for the
Energy Markets
here go ahead. Well indeed. What it will that american conservatives was a logical. Its the bomb of the situation and the article called the weight of. The
United States
removed about 2000000 barrels a day or production by imposing sanctions on man soil and iran since 2018 you know that i think it was by squad greta and its headlined. This is the beginning on that and on the u. S. Energy independence. Its all b. S. You know its your business that it was a mistake to war against you know poor people are important countries with economic sanctions you know these predatory drama you know it was also adequate and by he is an east trade war because of the trade war against china decreased the demand for oil so basically that your mind has been going dahlan since 2018 and now hold the wire it killed it. So basically what we have in the
United States
now is and we want their. Industry insiders call tank tops you know when it just evolved all their
Warrior Games
all the possible what we want for a story in the oil can be a field during the next few weeks maybe months but you know i dont think that the reasons for it excludes it really material you know the
European Union
which if it had been indeed representing the interests of
European Countries
it would be very much interested in rational oil and gas but the
European Union
did everything to wreck the brought all solid steam and it didnt do any deal save north stream so when they were like the states went. Just. In the north when the you was basically illegal pretty big legal sanctions on any companies that will help russia finish the broader basically of the e. U. And you are doing anything to stop the
United States
from doing that i dont need any money to provide you pushed a little bit to the germans did push back and they made it very clear their position there would be dictated by washington but on the whole i agree with you here you know from the same article as scott ritter that demon was bringing up here and that i love this theres a line that really stuck out to me or
Oil Contracts
come in go big bad policy is for ever and a big thing that thats really well put now i mean you know im the one hand its perfectly fine you want to have competitive advantage in advantage in the marketplace i get there and that there are consumers there and for shareholders here but those are the predatory nature of this its all its like karma coming back in a hard way because that these distortions of the market has made it even worse and again of course we have to recognize we have the pen demick on top. But were demand is just flat lining all over the place so bad policy is forever in this case got headline. Its worth noting when we talk about policy because a lot of the problems behind this are physical in nature that is minus
Interest Rates
did in helping to set up a lot of this say well this house of cards is just not collapsing if you dont mind at all not just in the u. S. But around the world now you see many countries moving in to minus
Interest Rates
or you know paying money to companies to borrow and spend and that we have of course theyre going into minus. Sign they can to boil prices in which its quite remarkable now actually having
Oil Companies
have to pay. People to take the oil off their hands now this is quite ready quite an interesting thing because. The among mentioned theres no storage and more tankers are you know just hanging around the ports looking for somewhere to live maybe i dont know what sorry and theres no demand theres no demand and as a problem so again in the economy if there is you know supply and demand theres no demand in a more diverse thing of course deathstar stop pumping out but the problem with a lot of oil wells especially with shale is you cant just simply turn off the well studies often have to fill it up with various chemicals its if you want to reopen them later on you might not to get the same profitability ultimately if you can at all so its hard to just stop the pumps especially if they think its short term then its easier just to continue to rack up and sell it at a loss but i think the problem now is what will what will be the be the american solution to this i mean in a capitalist system what you really have is you allow a lot of these
Oil Companies
in the u. S. Hundreds of them to go bankrupt by having less supply the demand the prices will increase and other
Oil Companies
can survive but it seems. Forward
United States
for everything to stay seems to be simply be build them up print more money see if you can keep the party going on a little bit longer in order to watch for us but what youre saying glenn is on the one hand you are the cynic in me and you should be cynical in these days is that youre bailing out shareholders of these companies that have been underwritten by the taxpayer i mean the moment when is enough enough ok because this was a big get i get going to have
Energy Independence
i mean i believe in sovereignty here but the means of by the way they went through this process here is a as i said earlier is going to have a cascade effect all the way through the economy just to keep your friends that have shares in these companies that its very expensive you have to have
High Oil Prices
but at the same time you know you you have this tendency to want to. Not tendency to this drive to put your own oil on the market and demanding other people not participate in it again the most kind of anticapitalistic antitrade process you can imagine go ahead dean well i think its not their only market its and they nature of i mean they fear that theyre in that that states should not be using the oil from being a so our you know where by the will of what you know there was a lot of tropical forests in there and sometimes and theres a lot of oil in venice so it just makes sense to use it in the
United States
this a year is simply a nature of the same story with the
European Union
and the or ratio which is mostly basically russia you know they year they have the
European Union
which is basically a big you know stretch in the southwest and direction of being eurasia that they gear they have these peninsular is not to go into you the oil and the gas from the rest of the corner. An ant is absurd its hudibras its against their their their laws of nature so when they hear this award
Energy Independence
its not about independence its about discrimination it against other countries its a yes youre right bailing out your friends who are producing quite using this very very controversial topic nor would your freaking hold hold that thought were going to go to were short break and after that short break well continue our discussion on the oil markets with r. P. Is your media a reflection of reality. In a world transformed. What will make you feel safe from. Isolation for community. Are you going the right way or are you being led somewhere. Direct. What is true what is faith. In the world corrupted you need to descend. To join us in the depths. Or a maybe in the shallows. Youre sitting somewhere i. Can. See it yes. I was on the floor somethings in my basket oh you know trying praying. Theres time for us to doubt words i was having children fever i didnt have any sense of ceaseless now im spending the most you can put the world with you. Recently she you know sometimes you just used to. Comment on grounds for research. I have to. Push myself to do this for me in the face im going to. Go. Welcome back to crossfire were all things are considered im peter about to mind you were discussing the global
Energy Markets
. Ok lets go back to that glen in in our slow week and the 1st part of the program we put all our focus on whats going on with the oil price and demand and storage of its place a very
Important Role
in all this but how does this change american hegemony in the as we enter the post corona. Virus pandemic i mean there is a lot of people saying that that had to monic presence has been declining ever since its peak at the end of the cold war but now we have this because because energy has been a big key element in the in the unit polar moment for for the washington consensus then and now thats been pretty much blown out of the water i mean we have no idea where the
Global Economy
is going to go and anyone that says we know that they dont know what theyre talking about because we dont have an epic data points i mean every countries are going in a different direction in trying to find solutions to a different a rate of problems and theyre all intermingled right now but i mean this is something thats been going on ever since the peak of the universe whole moment and if the energy is not going to be such a powerful tool in the strategic tool box how does that change of the trajectory. Of the unit polar moment that the that the americans are so proud of which seems to be a beary very much illusory today. Well. Youre right a lot of the problems we have today is largely about this competition for for global hegemony or primacy and
Energy Always
has a key. Role and its not well the main problem for the
United States
is that its a power in relative decline and it bases its security on privacy that its global hegemony no days it could do you could make an argument for it probably wouldnt do the main argument was from the early 1990 s. That if the u. S. Was simply dominates the world this could lead to more peace because you know destroyed this way large powers from competing against each other especially having this concentration of power now from the early 1990 s. The u. S. Oladi indicated this would be its main
Security Strategy
that is security through dominance and it was formalised and its a curious strategy in 2002 no problem obviously the rising power stay they will have to be pushed back in order to maintain or to preserve. The problem over the last 2 years or has been done to us in relative decline so this makes the us a big threat to countries from china russia iran and though you know the
European Union
and the rising power is seen as a threat to this model of privacy so really the u. S. Only has to mean. One it could begin to accommodate the other large powers and censorship the way in
Strategy Global
dominance or privacy and start to call it a more multipolar system or you can keep the party going d a bit longer by suppressing rising power stuff means more investment in military force and this actually pushing back anyone who doesnt hold the line now. The problem with this strategy and always the latter is what appears to americas been following in its thing and if we keep things going a little bit longer but not only. Are there exhausting all their resources but do you still have a multicolor world forming the only difference now is countries like china russia iran this initially formed multiple or system in opposition to the
United States
because they all see the us their main threat tried to prevent their eyes now again obviously people be looking at the we can a country. Predict how it will play out after this crisis but the crisis will probably put the us in a very difficult
Economic Situation
so far the chinese appear to be able possibly to benefit to some extent. You know the information coming out about russia and the west is worth noting that over the past 23 decades russia has been while 2 decades has been working to fix its financial house in order. That all is dead and is actually put in a very good situation to you know. To get through such a storm you can even there you get all d this attention has also put the u. S. Russia in a position where it can handle a very difficult situation as opposed to for example in the u. S. Where they made everything deficient to such an extent that they count there really such a sharp. Well ive always been a big fan of the sanctions ok important subsidies there were its worked really well ok all right the breach cheese and cold beer wasnt so good but now theyve got it up to speed ok i mean it just took a little bit of time ok in the capital across the economy and you know de mint one of the interesting things here is that when we look at how. The
Dmitri Bobbitt<\/a> in moscow hes a political analyst and editor of you know smee media project and glenn beason in oslo hes a professor at the university of southeastern norway as well as author of russias geo
Economic Strategy<\/a> for a greater eurasia original macross up rules in effect that means you can jump any time you want and i was appreciating lets go to oslo 1st glenn we have this pandemic ongoing and we have been in crisis in the
Energy Markets<\/a> and its easy to conflate the 2 and one in the
Energy Situation<\/a> in the markets has gotten worse as a result of this pandemic but they are very separate things and i would say right off the bat that this is the result of disastrous policies particularly by the
United States<\/a> using a series of tax breaks sanctions and really just unprincipled market behaved. Or to try to support
American Energy<\/a> companies and its all blown up in their face and a pandemic is made even worse and i dont think theres any really any real road back i mean this is some of the most worse was poorly thought out policies i can imagine and people and average working people are going to pay for it go ahead learn. It well i agree with that assessment because polish shale revolution a serious has been very much all shared all in the us media for quite some time and indeed it has been very spectacular that its going to stay too its taken from a huge
Energy Importer<\/a> to become a big exporter and theyre going to trump celebrated american big game to its
Energy Independence<\/a> which high priority however this was achieved so many things was not just the shale taken ology the u. S. Was also able to a large extent to replace the energy or oil coming out of iran and venezuela by sanctioning them and replacing it furthermore since the russians and assad has been trying to stabilize prices by cutting production in the us especially been able to move and failed to demand so it is been able to increase. Fuel this sheller of lucian on many aspects but one i would also. Keep in mind that americas
Oil Companies<\/a> have been running up huge debts. Especially since the
Global Financial<\/a> crisis in 2008 theyve been enjoying almost 0 percent
Interest Rates<\/a> and the problem with 0 percent
Interest Rates<\/a> is super much lending away money for free and in such you have a lot of male investments that is see or making investments where they shouldnt be made and i sense a lot of
Consulting Companies<\/a> are able to continue to operate so a lot of this a lot of observers of the shale industry been waiting for some time now to see you know when this house of cards might collapse or what is the pin that will pop it well obviously this coronavirus has been a well hell of a pin. Yeah but nonetheless its kind of demonstrates i think yes the
Current Crisis<\/a> has helped to crash the
Energy Markets<\/a> in the us us no one is driving flying without producing this thing but at the same time its important to note that the foundation of it was already there flawed so i guess were all celebrating or at least americans were celebrating
Energy Independence<\/a> and this economic a miracle it is worth knowing about it it didnt have the most
Stable Foundation<\/a> and of course for the whole thing to fall apart now in the
Current Crisis<\/a> just makes it. Ok to me. Now i think they were its criminal intent here ok im not going to be kind about it at all ok i mean using sanctions as a political weapon to prop up your own
Energy Companies<\/a> i mean that is just you know that is just throws in the face of
International Law<\/a> on the entire concept of free trade here i mean this is this is anti free trade i mean too but to a point weve never seen before ok that is what that is one of the basis of the antigun is wailin problem policies and anti rand is to support
American Energy<\/a> companies and the illusion the illusion of
Energy Independence<\/a> which is gone it probably will not come back and then you have this cascade effect where these
Oil Companies<\/a> are right up what glenn was saying theyre you know theyre going to default on these loans and its going to ricochet all the way through the
Financial System<\/a> hundreds of thousands if not millions of people are dependent on this thing on that part of the economy so this is that you know when that house of cards falls it falls patent stop catastrophic glee and thats what were seeing right now with the rest of the economy spiraling down as well and thats why i said in my introduction i dont see any return to coronavirus for the for the
Energy Markets<\/a> here go ahead. Well indeed. What it will that american conservatives was a logical. Its the bomb of the situation and the article called the weight of. The
United States<\/a> removed about 2000000 barrels a day or production by imposing sanctions on man soil and iran since 2018 you know that i think it was by squad greta and its headlined. This is the beginning on that and on the u. S. Energy independence. Its all b. S. You know its your business that it was a mistake to war against you know poor people are important countries with economic sanctions you know these predatory drama you know it was also adequate and by he is an east trade war because of the trade war against china decreased the demand for oil so basically that your mind has been going dahlan since 2018 and now hold the wire it killed it. So basically what we have in the
United States<\/a> now is and we want their. Industry insiders call tank tops you know when it just evolved all their
Warrior Games<\/a> all the possible what we want for a story in the oil can be a field during the next few weeks maybe months but you know i dont think that the reasons for it excludes it really material you know the
European Union<\/a> which if it had been indeed representing the interests of
European Countries<\/a> it would be very much interested in rational oil and gas but the
European Union<\/a> did everything to wreck the brought all solid steam and it didnt do any deal save north stream so when they were like the states went. Just. In the north when the you was basically illegal pretty big legal sanctions on any companies that will help russia finish the broader basically of the e. U. And you are doing anything to stop the
United States<\/a> from doing that i dont need any money to provide you pushed a little bit to the germans did push back and they made it very clear their position there would be dictated by washington but on the whole i agree with you here you know from the same article as scott ritter that demon was bringing up here and that i love this theres a line that really stuck out to me or
Oil Contracts<\/a> come in go big bad policy is for ever and a big thing that thats really well put now i mean you know im the one hand its perfectly fine you want to have competitive advantage in advantage in the marketplace i get there and that there are consumers there and for shareholders here but those are the predatory nature of this its all its like karma coming back in a hard way because that these distortions of the market has made it even worse and again of course we have to recognize we have the pen demick on top. But were demand is just flat lining all over the place so bad policy is forever in this case got headline. Its worth noting when we talk about policy because a lot of the problems behind this are physical in nature that is minus
Interest Rates<\/a> did in helping to set up a lot of this say well this house of cards is just not collapsing if you dont mind at all not just in the u. S. But around the world now you see many countries moving in to minus
Interest Rates<\/a> or you know paying money to companies to borrow and spend and that we have of course theyre going into minus. Sign they can to boil prices in which its quite remarkable now actually having
Oil Companies<\/a> have to pay. People to take the oil off their hands now this is quite ready quite an interesting thing because. The among mentioned theres no storage and more tankers are you know just hanging around the ports looking for somewhere to live maybe i dont know what sorry and theres no demand theres no demand and as a problem so again in the economy if there is you know supply and demand theres no demand in a more diverse thing of course deathstar stop pumping out but the problem with a lot of oil wells especially with shale is you cant just simply turn off the well studies often have to fill it up with various chemicals its if you want to reopen them later on you might not to get the same profitability ultimately if you can at all so its hard to just stop the pumps especially if they think its short term then its easier just to continue to rack up and sell it at a loss but i think the problem now is what will what will be the be the american solution to this i mean in a capitalist system what you really have is you allow a lot of these
Oil Companies<\/a> in the u. S. Hundreds of them to go bankrupt by having less supply the demand the prices will increase and other
Oil Companies<\/a> can survive but it seems. Forward
United States<\/a> for everything to stay seems to be simply be build them up print more money see if you can keep the party going on a little bit longer in order to watch for us but what youre saying glenn is on the one hand you are the cynic in me and you should be cynical in these days is that youre bailing out shareholders of these companies that have been underwritten by the taxpayer i mean the moment when is enough enough ok because this was a big get i get going to have
Energy Independence<\/a> i mean i believe in sovereignty here but the means of by the way they went through this process here is a as i said earlier is going to have a cascade effect all the way through the economy just to keep your friends that have shares in these companies that its very expensive you have to have
High Oil Prices<\/a> but at the same time you know you you have this tendency to want to. Not tendency to this drive to put your own oil on the market and demanding other people not participate in it again the most kind of anticapitalistic antitrade process you can imagine go ahead dean well i think its not their only market its and they nature of i mean they fear that theyre in that that states should not be using the oil from being a so our you know where by the will of what you know there was a lot of tropical forests in there and sometimes and theres a lot of oil in venice so it just makes sense to use it in the
United States<\/a> this a year is simply a nature of the same story with the
European Union<\/a> and the or ratio which is mostly basically russia you know they year they have the
European Union<\/a> which is basically a big you know stretch in the southwest and direction of being eurasia that they gear they have these peninsular is not to go into you the oil and the gas from the rest of the corner. An ant is absurd its hudibras its against their their their laws of nature so when they hear this award
Energy Independence<\/a> its not about independence its about discrimination it against other countries its a yes youre right bailing out your friends who are producing quite using this very very controversial topic nor would your freaking hold hold that thought were going to go to were short break and after that short break well continue our discussion on the oil markets with r. P. Is your media a reflection of reality. In a world transformed. What will make you feel safe from. Isolation for community. Are you going the right way or are you being led somewhere. Direct. What is true what is faith. In the world corrupted you need to descend. To join us in the depths. Or a maybe in the shallows. Youre sitting somewhere i. Can. See it yes. I was on the floor somethings in my basket oh you know trying praying. Theres time for us to doubt words i was having children fever i didnt have any sense of ceaseless now im spending the most you can put the world with you. Recently she you know sometimes you just used to. Comment on grounds for research. I have to. Push myself to do this for me in the face im going to. Go. Welcome back to crossfire were all things are considered im peter about to mind you were discussing the global
Energy Markets<\/a>. Ok lets go back to that glen in in our slow week and the 1st part of the program we put all our focus on whats going on with the oil price and demand and storage of its place a very
Important Role<\/a> in all this but how does this change american hegemony in the as we enter the post corona. Virus pandemic i mean there is a lot of people saying that that had to monic presence has been declining ever since its peak at the end of the cold war but now we have this because because energy has been a big key element in the in the unit polar moment for for the washington consensus then and now thats been pretty much blown out of the water i mean we have no idea where the
Global Economy<\/a> is going to go and anyone that says we know that they dont know what theyre talking about because we dont have an epic data points i mean every countries are going in a different direction in trying to find solutions to a different a rate of problems and theyre all intermingled right now but i mean this is something thats been going on ever since the peak of the universe whole moment and if the energy is not going to be such a powerful tool in the strategic tool box how does that change of the trajectory. Of the unit polar moment that the that the americans are so proud of which seems to be a beary very much illusory today. Well. Youre right a lot of the problems we have today is largely about this competition for for global hegemony or primacy and
Energy Always<\/a> has a key. Role and its not well the main problem for the
United States<\/a> is that its a power in relative decline and it bases its security on privacy that its global hegemony no days it could do you could make an argument for it probably wouldnt do the main argument was from the early 1990 s. That if the u. S. Was simply dominates the world this could lead to more peace because you know destroyed this way large powers from competing against each other especially having this concentration of power now from the early 1990 s. The u. S. Oladi indicated this would be its main
Security Strategy<\/a> that is security through dominance and it was formalised and its a curious strategy in 2002 no problem obviously the rising power stay they will have to be pushed back in order to maintain or to preserve. The problem over the last 2 years or has been done to us in relative decline so this makes the us a big threat to countries from china russia iran and though you know the
European Union<\/a> and the rising power is seen as a threat to this model of privacy so really the u. S. Only has to mean. One it could begin to accommodate the other large powers and censorship the way in
Strategy Global<\/a> dominance or privacy and start to call it a more multipolar system or you can keep the party going d a bit longer by suppressing rising power stuff means more investment in military force and this actually pushing back anyone who doesnt hold the line now. The problem with this strategy and always the latter is what appears to americas been following in its thing and if we keep things going a little bit longer but not only. Are there exhausting all their resources but do you still have a multicolor world forming the only difference now is countries like china russia iran this initially formed multiple or system in opposition to the
United States<\/a> because they all see the us their main threat tried to prevent their eyes now again obviously people be looking at the we can a country. Predict how it will play out after this crisis but the crisis will probably put the us in a very difficult
Economic Situation<\/a> so far the chinese appear to be able possibly to benefit to some extent. You know the information coming out about russia and the west is worth noting that over the past 23 decades russia has been while 2 decades has been working to fix its financial house in order. That all is dead and is actually put in a very good situation to you know. To get through such a storm you can even there you get all d this attention has also put the u. S. Russia in a position where it can handle a very difficult situation as opposed to for example in the u. S. Where they made everything deficient to such an extent that they count there really such a sharp. Well ive always been a big fan of the sanctions ok important subsidies there were its worked really well ok all right the breach cheese and cold beer wasnt so good but now theyve got it up to speed ok i mean it just took a little bit of time ok in the capital across the economy and you know de mint one of the interesting things here is that when we look at how. The
International System<\/a> is changing is that it seems really interesting is that in the 1st part of the program we discussed energy and that that tool in the in the tool box is tool boxes is spent are being spent the
Financial System<\/a> is in chaos right now the dollar decline but theres only one thing that hasnt decline and thats military spending at the expense i would argue strenuously at the expense of infrastructure and what is what needs to be done in the us itself because because with the lacking a
Health Care System<\/a> that accommodates the entire population that deals actually with help and profit the u. S. Is going to suffer from that for a long time to come and so you have all of this holds a rate of issues coming to a head at home but at the same time you have enormous defense spending and that seems to be the card that washington wants to play is that maybe they cant be the same kind of financial powerhouse. Not the energy hedge im on but they have the military it seems to me that is the most brutal and probably the least forward looking i mean the
International System<\/a> is so complex now involving very quickly in ways that we dont even understand as we get through this pandemic relying upon the military seems like. A primitive way of looking at the
International System<\/a> it means were going to use force not
International Law<\/a>. Well youre exactly right and this is what russia has in other and against the in the. Our foreign minister
Sergey Lavrov<\/a> ceral our time sad that we want to talk about
International War<\/a> and the
United States<\/a> and the
European Union<\/a> they want to talk about what they call rules based order which happens to be the sole called international or liberal or no. And theyre talking about hegemony and there was a very will die because of gaining their american conservative called please tell the establishment that us hegemony is all were where theyre off there then you know larry some basically said theyre doing that the states least its dominance you know its claim to dominance during the last 3 decades on the idea that they and warm can protect these
International Liberal Order<\/a> you know with out there this order would collapse well it is already a collapse in without the heads of states you know doing anything dramatic simply because it is order is unsustainable and what you describe very directly you know they fear there you are just my knee or your may give our stupid people a shoe knew you dont spend 2 trillion dollars to fix it all though the damage done by the coronavirus and their the same damn you borel whining about you it keeps. About 700000000000. 00 on us defense every year well sort of that the minds of the
British Empire<\/a> thats how
Great Britain<\/a> went down in the middle of the plane that century and they didnt do this any battles actually won the war against germany but the military machine that they have already before the war it was sustained all only thanks to all forms they had to war all money to keep their military machine worn and it could not be sustained for a long time you know it was not the fault of individual put it to chanson it was a need to know has brought us that
Great Britain<\/a> basically its ceased to be a water fall. So the question is not a ball of us can gemini whether it will continue or not it rolled continue or it will shrink the problem is how will their magic and the wall that large how will we manage these decline you know youll end up with you suggests some logic like the i mean demon you bring up something that is its very difficult because if youre weaned on american exceptionalism its almost like a cold you cant imagine the world otherwise and then its going to be a its a huge psychological problem that the
Political Class<\/a> has and and if they dont they cant come to terms with it its going to be its going to get messy and tragic unfortunately glenn i mean defending the liberal
International Order<\/a> i dont see whats particularly liberal about it and i and actually this is just a code word per american hegemony ok i believe you could have a liberal order but it doesnt necessarily mean you need a hedge of mine. No and you can argue that the rules based order having this liberal are rules based order its. Actually contradictory to have to moan cause if youre going to maintain the pressure of him on it leads to a lot of. Well a lot of rule breaking and furthermore the whole idea of a multilateral rules based system yes if you dont mind if one disorder is central about his death whole idea that they were able to. To uphold this liberal order but it depends on western solidarity so its a western led liberal order though the problem with this is if you go to western and order their 1st principle then will be that we need in unity internal unity within the west but then it became because theyre a difficult question how can you actually have a rules based order and i think for countries like russia especially especially recognize that whenever theres a tension in the
International System<\/a> lets say russia or worse hole in the russia versus the u. K. It would be any possible scenario where russia is not in the wrong where russia is not the bad guy because if you get if you get a rules based system but it depends on western unity they wrote the west will always hold together and russia will always be in there also this whole idea that. Theres a lot of internal contradictions within this liberal
International Order<\/a> and as the
International Distribution<\/a> of power has been shifting away from the west and towards the rest of the world i guess upholding pension money relies more and more on the course of its power that its not just military power and everybody can only sign it and nothing else important i mean that means. A liberal order as defined by the washington consensus means you have to use coercion i mean what value is that in itself violence of a demon rapidly running out of time then. Well there was a book published recently on this issue of the office and
Xander Cooley<\/a> and then next and there the title of the book is exit from hegemony on redwood in all of them magic and global all of that and the 2 office abio that basically this socalled liberal international all of that is maintained by some very illegal means i mean pressure on china demonizing russia basically alienating the contessa like iran when youre so ally and a lot of other important independent countries and the biggest question is legalize these liberal or there is
International Law<\/a> there is the organization of
United Nations<\/a> what else do need to have a system based on justice thats why russia and china insist on their return to even if it will have to end on this note you cant have meaningful
International Law<\/a> if you have a hedge a man that doesnt recognize the value of
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