For the simple reason that these two countries, while they have an interest in overlapping interest in opposing us and creating a world that is safe for their autocracy and thuggery and corruption, et cetera, in the end they re more worried about each other. and document or no document, when the russians look south, they see a problem. and when the chinese look north, they see an opportunity. and you know, we could see this as a propaganda document. this is joining the propaganda together. but they re always going to be frenemies and because of the way i think about it is two mafia families. they could together, to sort of cooperate, to combine their criminal organizations, but in the end they can t trust each other and they don t trust each other. so we shouldn t ignore it but we shouldn t hype it up too much. because that is what it is meant to do. to hype up an alliance at its core is based around two men who want to make sure they keep their own power and make sure
And if britain, america and the west want to influence events on the ground it is very difficult and virtually impossible for them to do so directly and they will need to do so directly and they will need to do so vicariously through these other countries that do have direct links with the taliban. so countries that do have direct links with the taliban. with the taliban. so how then will the un security with the taliban. so how then will the un security council with the taliban. so how then will the un security council play - with the taliban. so how then will the un security council play a - with the taliban. so how then will. the un security council play a part? the un security council hasn t played much of a part of the last two weeks. the last time they i55ued any statement was on the 3rd of august which sort of condemned this augu5t which sort of condemned this growing violence in the country. of course growing violence in the country. of course since then it s been completel
Investigating a member of the elite protection brigade tasked with guarding the saudi crown prince. turkey has identified 15 saudis who arrived and left the same day khashoggi went interesting as persons of interest in the journalist s death. at least nine worked in security forces, military or government ministries, according to the new york times. still, the united states is allowing saudi to reach its own conclusions. we have many overlapping interest places we work together. reporter: secretary pompeo now returning to washington, with hopes that saudi will keep its promise. they made a commitment to hold anyone connected to any wrongdoing that may be found accountable for that. reporter: and jake, this has become such a highly politicized case. and it s not just about u.s./saudi dynamics. there is, of course, the very different dynamics with turkey and various different regional players. and it s going to be quite interesting to see exactly what
Were hoping to see the fruits of the nuclear deal. but the regime was anticipating this. they ve been talking about this for days. there s been a big buildup here today. the president of iran is due to give a speech any moment now to address what president trump just said. but the revolutionary guard have come out firing. if there was any encroachment on them, if they re labeled a terrorist organization, if there are sanctions, their response would be crushing. a senior commandser from the guards came out today and said we ve buried many like trump. we ll bury them again and we re used to fighting america and we ll defeat them. this is language that we hadn t haef heard for a while. the iranians feel they needs to ratchet things up and setting the stage for renewed there s a lot of overlapping interest between america and iran in the region. despite not being labeled a terrorist organization, the irgc
Just me personally, just somebody watching and analyzes people, other than nancy pelosi s, wait a second, there s got to be some connection with russia we don t know about. no other logic from political, moral, strategic point of view for him to constaen, constantly be promoting this kind of bromance. it doesn t make any sense other than that conclusion. well, donny, i would say as donald trump has said. he doesn t know vladimir putin, does not have any deals or relationship with him. he s also pursuing or proposing a path barack obama pursued early in his presidency, which is trying to have a better relationship with russia given overlapping interest we have. that relationship would be good. part of the problem president obama and previous two presidents had dealing with vladimir putin, they thought they could deal with him equal basis without coming at him from a position of strength and trying to put pressure on russia all the provocations of u.s.