Twists and turns in the messy conflict known as syria. Cross talking those thirteen russians im joined by my guest mark sloboda hes an International Affairs and security analyst we also have alexander me cares he is a writer on Legal Affairs as well as editor in chief of the duran dot com and we have Dimitri Bobbitt shes a political analyst with international as always gentlemen crosslike roles in effect that means you can jump anytime you want and i always appreciate lets go to those thirteen russians three entities and all that cash maybe not so much cash i wasnt even writing about it from a legal perspective give us your major take the first point to say is that of course none of these people are going to be. As prepared to a very complicated shes. Shes never going to be tested because there is no extra days. No extradition brought the russians are not going to extradite these people they get to stay in russia so you doesnt have to prove any of the things that he has said what seems to have happened is that some of these people have been gauged in trolling on the internet and theyve done things which lets be straightforward of glee things mr but not unheard of the not unheard of and not just specifically to russia if it were actually going to hear nothing you hear at all i mean anybody who goes on the internet comes across troubles what most has done is he wants to prove that there is this vast intricate dangerous conspiracy hes put all this together hes labeled as the Internet Agency and petersburg is responsible and he strolled around to various laws that he can stick offenses against these people essentially what this was if you read the indictment well this was a commercial barket thing is what it was and and even the indictment itself admits that it was pro and trump. Hillary clinton and for everything in between i mean theres no specific political for him to it theres no connections at all theres not even any allege any connections between this. Supposed company which is run by a guy whos known as putin chef because he ran a catering business but before and it is this that is even if theyre catering businesses for russian schoolchildren in the course of which a lot of cold food you know it was just dinner and they were all media so in russia there labeled him that and theres no connections at all to the russian government theres no connections at all to the troubled ministration the Truck Campaign or any of the other four people on completely unrelated and you know spurious charges that we all or has charge any of the other four people who died on taxes. Charges so anything else so we have four indictments before this now we have these indictments of thirteen individuals ever betray the three entities and none of them have any any. With the russian government or with any order trump me right oh really the delusion at least its an offer that they what russians they were lively interest thousand and sixteen and they posted something on facebook that americans could see it doesnt matter that ninety five percent of the european media was very broad hillary during that campaign and americans could read millions of pages of their stuff during their campaign thats not important what is important is that these thirty russians did it well let me. Make this seem very its called. Bloomberg he is a writer for bloomberg he used to be a deeper all russian journalist knowledge he leaves a broad writes about russia just like marsha guess the difference is that he knows a thing or two about russian history and literature i like much i guess so heres what he wrote i think should be surprised i havent been indicted i am russian i was in the us in two thousand and sixteen and they published coolum screed a couple of both clinton and trump without registering as a russian h ok that goes to my next Point Alexander given what we just heard from dean but then Christopher Steele should be indicted as well hes a foreigner he wasnt registered as a Foreign Agent he didnt. Report to the federal Election Commission about what he was doing. This is a glaring absolutely a lie you dont pay any money that we have to go to confession according to the actual terms of its Dimitri Babich is the unnamed fourteen friendship is all yes because people like this is crucial if you read the indictment there could be very possible going to get really let me go back to the ghost of christmas and steal because i think its really important so the questions being answered i mean all the things that people have been indicted for all. Christopher steele has done what he has liked he is into feet in the us election he has done so secretly hes been phoning up new spaces he has been publishing information in adults. He hasnt registered as any kind of Foreign Agent so why hasnt he been indicted why is the resistance on the part of the Justice Department to undone this is probably what i find most puzzling of all alexander is the trumps own d. O. J. And maybe its a slightly different situation with the f. B. I. With the d. O. J. Why isnt it moving there that was a mystery to me because its the troops ok that answers the trucks every move talked about it plenty of time to this before no power of his own administration hes hes certainly given away foreign and military policy his own Justice Department is is pursuing him and you know this cabal of generals mcmaster maddest mcmasters and kelly keeps him in a little playpen and you know hes only real power is tweeting and evidently hes not allowed to do that whenever he wants as well well i mean its its an attempt to use one thousand same tree legislation twenty first century. I mean in the Nineteenth Century maybe it was illegal to bring in pamphlets in favor of a lot of the king it is during the campaign now we leave it then electronically interconnected to what if i want my american friends to read my opinion on trump all wrong i just posted to all the internet i pushed it over because he doesnt know twitter doesnt know borders makes you a criminal exactly but it makes me a criminal if that is a misstatement ok well lets talk about election meddling a couple of days ago on the laura Ingram Program the former head of the cia james wos lee was on and she asked a few questions about his reaction to the indictments and then she talked about election meddling but American Election meddling. Abroad lets take a look have we ever tried to meddle in other countries elections oh probably but it was for the good of the system in order to avoid the communists from coming over for example in europe. In forty seven forty eight forty nine the greeks and italians we dont know that we dont mess around other people will. Only for a very good idea that you know for a good. Hard good viewers that was the former head of the cia who wants to go first. Let me let me speak about here western media speaks about the former head of the head of the cia former cia could you know if we use that language to use a boat. Ok maybe a general form of the freedom caught up to that who say it solves its mr. Mr mubarak were coming after you which was actually true you know and hes not mad that hes not interfering in other countrys elections you know just somehow i think. That ukraine was the the crown jewel i mean looking for regime illegal change there i wanted to react to that because you know they both chuckled in the. Jar dropping you know you youre accusing a foreign country and a very powerful one russia of doing something against your country without any evidence whatsoever beyond a troll farm ok and there is ample evidence mountains of evidence the United States middles in elections and has for decades in its probably doing so exactly right now. When i was in greece in one thousand nine hundred sixty eight when that was the. First greece. I was actually taken prisoner at the age of the people who carried out the us back to the house where we. Used to live was taken over by a family from the u. S. Embassy so its not actually such a long time funny thing well i mean is it not i mean if you look at the entire segment is it you know if the u. S. Does it its ok with anybody else does it isnt ok thats the double standard ok if you could very with me a little bit im going to run for a little bit of literature i know youre prepared i know yes i write so this is about the projection from the u. S. On to other countries like russia of what it does the guardian revealed u. S. Spy operation that manipulates social media this is from two thousand and eleven the u. S. Military the pentagon is developing software that will let it secretly manipulate social media sites by using fake online personas to influence internet conversations and spread proamerican propaganda and it specifically notes that the discovery that the u. S. Military is doing this with fake on line personalities sock puppets could also encourage other governments private corporations and Government Organization were going to also hear that when there was a program with on twitter and they did does the same thing with these of a q but im very much on the seas this is the u. S. Message that what weve just heard alleged there theres no connection to the next one more one more minute before you get the right g h c q this is the british version of the National Security agency does the same thing overwhelming evidence. We have a database from Carnegie Mellon using the u. S. Governments own data theyve meddled in other elections eighty one times only up to two thousand not counting coups and regime changes and of course the famous how can we forget this picture Time Magazine russia the americans openly helped yeltsin in a rigged election keep our yanks to the rescue they were quite proud about their meddling back then they even made a movie spinning boris congratulating the ninety six million eighty six dont forget to vote face date you know. Well i think its just a case over double standards you know but you know that its interesting youre right but they dont see it that way they cant see this far away from their face when it comes to issues like this well you know the problem is also with oh elite you know the response of rush and he is usually you are using oss in your internal struggle well for to tell you terry and i do it would you with global explorations which is no reason in the United States there is no difference between foreign and domestic policy and your foreign forty c. Is spot of your domestic importance so you know they were trying to go in there just when you get to a short break and after that short break well continue what those thirteen russian state with our. Hey everybody im steven both of the task hollywood guys usual suspects every proud american first of all im just George Washington and r. V. s to say this is my buddy max famous financial guru and were just a little bit different im not a lincoln one of the oh no one knows up with all the drama happening in our country im shooting the brood have some fun meet Everyday Americans at home and hopefully start to bridge the gap this is the Great American people. Thats who we are where americans were smooth enough but what thats not us americans are crude ruthless huckster golf claims sharks thats who we are and thats who John Travolta is thats why i dont like a barack obama thats what the lunchroom. Welcome back to crossfire for all Things Considered im Peter Lavelle to remind you were discussing some real news. All right gentlemen to switch gears here and go back to serious go back to the middle east. Last couple of days we had secretary of state Rex Tillerson in ankara trying to smooth some feathers i mean both countries would realize that theyre at a crisis point here after a three hour meeting with the turkish president. There is the impression at least that some kind of agreement was made i dont get that impression the way it was what was released here what was the point of the meeting and what is the main bone of contention here because this is these are nato allies and theyre going toe to toe no to know is in a country syria where neither one of them should be hit with this this was obviously two for washington to hold her guns hands tried to reassure him it was its there over there are meeting of the white p. G. D. On turkish border. Theres the kurds and owning a a large chunk basically claiming as it of their own of syrian territory again much of it right on the turkish and and the iraqi border. So turkeys extremely upset about this there were these optics didnt do much because even as tillerson was arriving there was the announcement that the pentagon is going to be giving another five hundred fifty Million Dollars this year to arm and otherwise support these forces that hes very upset about but there has to be a Tipping Point here demon i mean everyone is and is invested enormously in this operation here all of the branch unbelievably its called the invasion of the invasion of syria here i mean and the United States is not making it very its saying the pen. And saying it will stay in syria indefinitely against International Law here something has to go one way or another well what happened was the United States indeed kind of provoked into moving and thats was that was started by all foreign minister Sergei Lavrov who said because of the support of the kurds thought of the kurds and you know this Border Security forces. Started talking about them or they didnt tell the turks didnt know exactly provoke or provided a pretense and basically i dont understand providing mr tillotson this talking to god because god has been saying the same thing so i still dont know about the United States in the last two weeks he accused the United States off helping terrorists you know so you can see how desperately the u. S. Is trying to preserve its relationship with. The background of this is that we have an upcoming meeting in istanbul with iran turkey and russia it seems to me is basically checking out the terrain here ok because the United States is certainly not going to quote you are not cooperating in this regard when it comes to the kurds theyd it seems to me its patently obvious that the u. S. Wants a statelet it wants a partition of the israelis wanted the saudis are going to want to work and they want their own and they and we have to look at the occupied territory where the u. S. Says if this is where the gas fields are for syria again no money for reconstruction ok so everyone is looking at the horizon and i think hes looking for maybe hes going into the grand bazaar go ahead these are two illegal invasions of syria to nato allies which are working at the moment at cross purposes theyre dangerous for syria and i think that is important point to remember as for him he has to try and balance the fact that hes now in conflict with the United States so he is now trying to get some kind of arrangement with the russians and the you. Radians to try and balance the am i really the usa being what is being proposed that the turks in him merican his Work Together militarily when the americans are in bed with the kurds i mean thats not going to happen get out and this is the problem the same john that hes trying to leverage the russians against the americans hes trying to use the americans to leverage against the russians so that he can extract concessions in syria can we which exactly hes clueless may be a right cause just a few days ago when the reports about a turkish army using chemical weapons. Appeared what was the reaction from the spokesperson for the u. S. Led coalition. But the u. S. Coalition has no information of this before when there were there was just a rumor about the Syrian Government using chemical weapons immediately they had was that while they had they had a lot of rhetoric for something they never ever happened they didnt even send inspectors there that they were so sure that this information was correct went to turkey somehow they preferred to be silent is the interesting thing to mark is that we have to look at the internal dynamics of turkey and everyones perceived american stance is very popular domestically for him so this is again another part of the spectrum that hes playing i mean he first of all he accused the u. S. Of a coup trying to overthrow his government u. S. Back to under the bed probably the only coup that i believe the u. S. Has been in recent times but its an enormously popular with his islamist based and their base is as long as that on top of that hes turned his country into basically the whole day resort for all of the jihadi across the world who are been barking into syria for the last six years if he suddenly god doesnt about face turns away from al qaeda turns away from regime change in syria hes got to deal with them on his own sort of who is the. But he also has your view with alex is that again going back to this. Meeting with. The iranians the russians and the turks is that. What everyone is doing is wanting to make sure that he is part of some kind of Peace Process were two countries russia and iran can play a forceful role instrumental role because the United States is the spoiler ok its the spoiler country its not interested in any kind of conflict resolution thats the kind of gambit hes. Also trying to use hes deals with the russians to extend hes influence into syria hes now sending troops into syria. Or teary occup