China closer together russian the russian government years ago wouldnt have wanted to be caught dead in bed with the iran now they find they have so many geopolitical interests in common and they can deal with them so professionally compared to the westerners that you know were looking at another defacto Strategic Partnership its interesting that when you have to when you compare maybe russias relationship with the rand and how it has to negotiate honest baby step level with turkey for example its russian to both was iran and was it really can you not to put in its time of course it war but its that is growing in the one nine hundred ninety s. When the west and you see olson was the president of russia it wasnt because he also was intimidated and he wasnt it wasnt because his administration was sound that somehow against washington it wasnt it was because it was initially relationship the. Its pushing. Wanted to be the only superpower in the world and not letting anyone else have a voice it was can saw they think their powers you know this fight that. Because with the end of the communist ideology. Actually began realizing its own Real National interest wasnt blinding blinded by ideological goggles here go ahead im returning to this here where its due i mean when Michael Waltz says that weve lost rainy and influence who kidnapped the lebanese Prime Minister had kept him against his will in riyadh for several weeks iran oh no it happened to be saudi arabia but we forgot about that who are just born there Syrian Forces clearly in one hundred ok syria so doubts about you i want to go here i know but im glad you are dovetailing into them and mark we have this israeli jet that crashed we dont know exactly what happened to it but it was really fascinating. Predictable how the israelis and washington mimicking what television talking points what its all about he ran ok here here is a country that you know the United States tax pro Government Forces in syria over one hundred people are killed and then we have this goes down we dont know exactly what the circumstances are but then the talking point is its a brands fault to be going after assets in syria israel has admitted in recent hours that it was brought down by Syrian Air Defense yet it is real present and so is their justification for their most recent attack on syria and lets be clear. When were talking israel uses the excuse of defense selfdefense and everything well that is madness is saying also interesting. Wow militarily invading and occupying syria israel has attacked syria over one. Hundred times since two thousand and eleven in fact they call it the prominent the idea that israeli fighters just own syrian airspace and fire on any other means and do whatever they want there to whether this is come to an end as of yesterday. Is that victory is this an escalation or is it sending a very strong signal and what is russias role in this because there is some kind of debate here. And one of them is that damascus has had enough considering what mark you said there that they are going to start reacting here or is it the russians and you really and whispering in assads ear i tend to think the the the the syrians are saying enough is enough they will strike back when the Syrian Civil War start to two thousand and eleven in there and then spread to other regions of syria with the support of the west with the support of the United States is that no and these are the only additional sure that the opposition would win and that assad would lose he would he would go and then proamerican that he would. Come in in that mosque us and some catholic would be just right here to go to iraq and so for years is it ok. Islamic for me. This is not that she cant even newspapers like her outs have written about islamic fighters being taken to. See indeed and other groups too and. Now in the last few years after. Tearing the tide in syria and it is now obvious to everyone in the field that assad is going to stay hes not going to go no matter how many pronouncement that theyre going to be made by parents but tillerson or anyone else for that matter that israel is now fleeced with a very different situation so israel now understands that contrary to what you expected iranian influence in syria. Is now going to decrease and somebody is going to increase in oil and israel now wants a stake in the future of syria again and thats why the u. S. Is staying there because they want to stake in the future like even before we go to the greatest moment let me just look at it from another angle i mean they keep talking about israels security well before the syrian war the golan creates was the quiet backwater always israel to lose groups want to take a go at how its a syrian territory. The agree occupy doing anything wrong by israel but talking about israels security tourists were taken there it was the safest way cation in israel know its a war zone why because of the Israeli Government together with western governments decided to do some resume change in syria i dont know theyre crying that iran is spreading its influence you know mr netanyahu comes to whats called to negotiate that russians will somehow pressure iran not to spread into that area theyve kind of themselves to blame for starting that war if there is any kind of judgment here gentlemen here and were going to go to a short break and after that short break well continue our discussion on some real news stay with our. Join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and ill be speaking to guest of the world of politics or business im show business ill see you there. About your sudden passing ive only just learned you worry yourself and taken your last abang turn. 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Its an experience like nothing else i want to because i want to show what i think what i know about the beautiful game but great to transfer. And thinks hes going to. Welcome across time for all Things Considered im Peter Lavelle to remind you were discussing some real news. Ok mark you before going to the break you want to finish up but we have you know i was seriously in syria this is the whole situation is escalating so quickly weve had at least one israeli jet shot down right it most recent hours weve had israeli syrian pro Syrian Government arab tribes in east syria attacked by the United States and over one hundred of them killed theres rumors about whether Russian Security contractors were killed as well thats thats unconfirmed as of yet we had. One or possibly two turkish Helicopter Shot down over afrin. By the Kurdish Forces that are resisting the turkish invasion of syria there and we have a russian fighter that was shot down by a manpad this follows a multiple drone swarm attacks on Russian Military bases the syrian conflict is at a point of escalation and crisis that we havent even seen before the low hanging but you know i didnt really know that if you were watching and Cable Networks as you know it would mean israel and. Us really show is that if there is anyone that has a right of self defense it is syria against israel the United States turkey saudi arabia and so there is another very short point to it another reason for this escalation but march eighteenth are going to be president ial elections in the russian it is when you are already well known the in the United States and other western capitals and one of the things they are trying to do these these is to discredit the russian position as much as they can before the elections so in the next month month and a half we will see more of this more of these attempts to propaganda information war attacks on the russian interests around the world not just this year everything is possible. No i just can say that dont forget about russian medicine in the u. S. Elections where you see direct us men and then russian ok. Well well probably. Later in the week well go back to a member of theres going to be more memos coming up but i want to talk about some diplomacy and optics mark the opening of the olympic games. Whos the winner and whos the loser from an optics point if you go ahead peace peace the winner is the winner the site of the two koreas the north korean delegation entering south korea and marching together the end lympics under a unified unification flag with the other is what youre about there without the border this was incredible and theres one point person on scene who was extremely upset by this and had to give his protest against peace and that was the u. S. President mike pence. Vice president im sorry. For doing so they could have been going to be ok mark knew from our new look if he refused to stand up for the for the host south korea because it was a joint Unification Team he refused to shake hands with any of the north koreans out of its he had this look on his face and actually the the side i that kim jong un sr who is leading the north korean delegate delegation sitting behind mike pence gave him thats thats gone viral over the internet shows i think you know for once the world with north korea side on this showing discussed at the u. S. Throwing a tantrum even the prospect that some peace gestures are being made in the koreas and hes got. The. North Korean Leader otherwise known by some people as rocket man is turning in to be quite. Adroit diplomat and you say im not sure of the right to pull out those somebody who has been for years by. Himself but i think himself theres a deal maker writing a book or its a great deal well worked. For the past year almost every the twitter speeches writings and so forth oh that lucky one of the General Assembly yes examiner how did you get a good speech in front of the General Assembly locked and loaded ready to attack. Exactly almost every single day and daily basis and essentially of his administration kept seeing that the United States will not negotiate with north korea and then last year and yank it gets rid of its Nuclear Program and so forth the only young has not has not compromised when the single negotiating issue not on a single one and whats