Continent are not exactly clear. Not only did the west approach to africa back fire, it only brought the continent even closer to russia and china. I suppose relations with africa date back to soviet times and have been strengthening recently as russia has proven itself to be a reliable partner to the continent. So the mother, if you see the component of everything difficult times that you find out who your true friends though, when africa was experiencing difficulties. Whether that was slavery, clarity lies ation upon the size. Russia has always been, if not the 1st one, im the country. Then one of the countries quite africa side to how were listed. As the multi paulo world emerges phone, the american dominance, all countries are demanding to be treated as equals. And hes the West Colonial mindset that is cloud in its vision to clearly see that diplomacy is a 2 way street as the other party should not be run off the road. And as parts of africa are openly handling the us, its half an coast in the middle east. Washington continues to delay is departure from iraq of to being repeatedly asked to go home or with a pen to go on, seemingly a bit confused because its insisting that instead of leaving by god it should be protecting americans. Are these attacks put, coalition and iraqi personnel at risk . We call them the government of iraq to take all necessary steps to ensure the safety of us forces in iraq and syria against attacks from these groups. If these attacks continue, we will not hesitate to defend our forces as we have done in the past. Well, that message comes off of a us troops in iraq were attacked by local militias, which washington accuses are being linked to iran, of the car and contingent of 2500 american soldiers stationed in iraq, a part of an International Coalition to fight isis. Well, ship buying that narrative. Since then however, the rocket government has repeatedly asked washington to go home. Is what a Prime Minister had to say even a few months ago. The end of the international calculations mission is necessary for the security and stability of a rock. When necessary, containing some destructive bilateral relations between a wrong and the International Coalition. What time was it . What is the, how the, the yeah, i was discussing americas continued presence in iraq with the International Affairs research. Im on the list of law mistreated homeless. If youre not, theres another law now its far as of the, of the resistance. Its and the iraq is okay its, its still, it has some the basis american basis. Of course, it came from a study after the war and youre not gets agreement between the 2 governments. So they are in between the outside. Of course. Also they have economies of difficulties the for option as many of, of the arab neighbors the same. So all this is it the necessary action for the american to have more control on, on, on whats happening in your, your act is after putting the american, putting troops from us get assigned to your out became more important to america than it used to do in the past and especially now and also the new development and the duties that the claim, the ground for a new type of a political and Ministry Power also in the mid eighties. I think all this would help us to reach a n u. S. Military architecture. Uh, the Security Architecture and the whole reason that we come out also at power to International Part of that conversation was simply the fact that baghdad still relies on washington to get his dollars that it has to use to set its oil and the profits go back to america, a complicated system for sure. It dissolved so you dont use retarding in about half an hour. The hello and welcome to cross stock where all things are considered on peter level. The mass of 8 bill for ukraine passed by the us congress ensures the conflict will continue. Countless lives will continue the loss. But will this aid all through the events being played out on the ground . There is no reason to believe so. The prospect in ukraine im joined by my guest. Im the one go in north florida. He is publisher of gold goats in guns, blog, and newsletter in miami. We have andrea wong. She is a journalist and co host of the final count down on scrutiny international. And in prichard, we crossed through derrick evans. He is a candidate for congress, as well as vitamins political prisoner, alright, prospect roles and the fact that means you can jump anytime you want. And i always appreciated derek. Since youre running for the us congress, i would like your reaction to the flurry of ukrainian flags being waived in the house of representatives after that massive bill was passed. I i, i was wondering if it was just a i trying to fool me. Your thoughts . Well, was it was a, i just trying to fool, you know, no flag should be waived inside of the, the us house chambers and some peoples house. So its not the that it was the ukrainian flag necessarily. It said there was any 4 in flag that none of them should be waived inside the peoples house inside of the american. Okay, well, but the press book, it very differently that this was, i think there was a congressman said, ukraines border is our border. Derek, would you like to continue with that is, is that an american border as well . If it was the american border that they wouldnt care about securing it because they dont care about securing your own board or theyre leaving a wide open right now for people just invade our country. So i wish that they put that much effort into securing the american border as were currently being invaded. 1 by the millions right now, every single month on the southern border and as well as the northern border of our own country. So theyre a bunch of hypocrites. They say whatever they want in order to laundering pockets. And we know that theres Money Laundering going on from this money. Its going to ukraine, supposedly, and then coming back to these corrupt politicians inside america. Yeah. Well, theyre, theyre paid in bought. Thats for sure. You know, tom, immediately after the bill was past, the President Biden had a conversation with his counterparts in ukraine, zalinski and zelinski me in the that was the read out ukraine can win this war. What is he smoking or he does . He have another preference. Go ahead tom. Um, he is clear that they are running a they, theyre using ukraines of, alas, ukrainian, right . Theyre gonna fight this word of law she currently. And then once we get to that, that state, thats when they, those gonna come in its, its kind of similar to, you know, how they fought, bid of the german civil as nearly the last bread during the seasons, london and world war 2. If this is a very similar strategy and they just feel that the longer they, they draw this out and then get this point to get it to a point of desperation on the part of the frame. Thats when they can justify Everything Else of what we should expect. Maxed. If this is the, the same script is some kind of false flag or american composite operation against america in order to justify why we need to go in and fight the evil poodle or who is not hitler. And hes not stupid. And because hes not stupid, hes not fighting the war the way they want him to fight it and its in fremont. Were few, he refuses to take their proper cases. He continues to just wind out small victory after small victory after small victory ended on bass. Is mastery and car comp and getting ready to to, to, to moves there and possibly so me. And i find that fascinating, because ultimately hes just going to continue to grind out growing down nato, knowing full well that he can bite them on their terms until they finally commit. And then he can raise the pain threshold. Not just kind of politically at the attrition wise, but now really up the anti financially militarily and then clearly politically after that. So i think thats a strategy. Yeah, andrea, by it, and when the conflict started, i asked my dest repeatedly, whos got the time, and whos got the clocks . And always the answer is, russia has a both. And you, i have a bit of a different take on this. Here with the 61000000000. 00 and its all about the election cycle. Unfortunately, its not about lives because americans arent losing their lives in ukraine. So ukrainians are, uh yeah, you can, you can, you dont have to spare their lives there that you can. They dont mean anything to american voters, particularly not to the members of congress. But i think theres one way you can look at this is one big wet kiss, one last crunch before the elections. And then its like, well, we did what we did. I. Nato is a spend for us. Its not going to up the ante, at least militarily in ukraine. This is the last shot, angie, absolutely like this. The property ukraine. Congress has dwindled over the months. In fact, the House Freedom caucus didnt want to hear about it. It was really strange, one, the House Speaker of mike johnson did a 180 when he was just the congressmen. He voted no for any additional aid to ukraine. And also when he becomes House Speaker, hes got to push the money through. We got to get that and, and you know, why . Because we have to fund the military complex, right . We have to find them so that they can Fund Congress and they can pad their super packs because had their congressional funds, etc. And thats why all the democrats were waving their little, you know, blue and yellow flags in on the floor of congress. I couldnt believe that. I mean, like, where an American Flag on my lapel people look at me funny. Now that is the big difference that we are facing today. Now, no one can talk about it, not even large retail degree who was basically told just do it. Dont talk about it will fund your, you will fund you or whatever deal they made. But thats what happens, every one got a little bit of grease on their hands. They got a little bit of cash going into their campaigns. So theyre happy. Do we care about what happens in ukraine and russo war . Im not so sure that support is still there. Amongst the americans, well its where theyre certainly not their public opinion. Polls say very clearly, its not derrick and its, its very interesting. The New York Times says the democracy dies in the dark. Well, id say democracy dies in congress. Okay. I mean they, they, the Republican Base is adamant that they not do not want money. And an anti, it brings up the question that maybe well have an answer to what the hell happened to mike johnson. Go ahead. The. Oh, 1st of all, democracy, when you hear that term in america, you might as well just struck that out and say communism because thats what theyre really meeting at the end of the day where a Constitutional Republic and they keep using that word democracy when they really just made communism. Speaker johnson has really just been um, a complete uh sorry, a failure. He should have been vacated a long time ago. I wonder what kind of chaos that what it would have cause it really speaks volumes to the old saying that absolute power corrupts absolutely. Because to our point, he is done on 0. 18 as time as the congress meant to be coming. Speaker, i wonder who has been in his ear. I wonder what kind of promises hes been given. Its very unfortunate right now because while Congress Continues to grease their pockets to line their pockets with all this money thats going to the military industrial complex, its the, its the average people all across the world. Not just in america. Its the average people who are losing right now. We have our own people who are struggling here in america. Were sitting billions of dollars. Other countries, actually were borrowing money from china to send to other countries because were 34. 00 trillion dollars in debt. And then at the same time, you have every day, average citizens in ukraine and russia who are dying in a war right now that quite frankly, these people in congress dont care anything about. Yeah, and tom, it, it just came out today. But um, uh, the, the, the Russian Defense ministry is estimates that the cleanings of last a half a 1000000 men in this conflict that i assume that that is debts and, and severe injuries here. Um and so the plan is to get the next 500000. 00. I mean its really amazing because it, with the aim to damage rush or theyre destroying an entire demographic and ukraine. What will you crane have to rebuild after a hold of this . Go ahead. Tom wont, but well clearly, i mean, i dont want to go, you know, too far afield into the population of gender or anything along those lines. But you know, the papers hammering and all the british and bitter jeremy hot and all the for additional. Uh, uh, you know, highlights, megabytes also at the same thing isnt this great. You guys are spending, you americans are spending all this money and not one american live is being killed here. This is great. Your dispute is wasting, basically 5, because in like its, its disgusting. Just how much they hate everybody whos not them like the mask has come off so completely about this agenda and i find it just, you know, to pay for it. Right. But whats interesting looking at whats going on in congress, is this a type of go back to a couple of points of derek and as you made i, it looks to me like this. The situation for ukraine is even worse than we thought it was because its very possible because ive seen some reports of this that weve already stripped Patriot Missile systems from nato allies in places like greece and spain and other in other areas and sent them to ukraine and theyve already been blown up, and that the 6th that a lot of this money that was your mark through this bill was literally to put those replaced those systems in places where theyre already supposed to be. In fact, almost none of this money is going to go to ukraine at all, and its not going to change well what . But, but thats but thats and, and when johns and the dispute just stood like gross and the, this, the change the narrative a little bit for people to think about this one day. Cuz right now, mike johnson is the most hated man in america. The 2nd only 2nd, so im going to make sure on said he deserves that it was us. And so because so goal here cause but, but it remembered the dark night folks, you know, youre either die here or you live just long enough to see yourself become the villain. They make people in the villains by putting them in impossible situation. Oh, i have no, i dont, no, no, no, no, no, no, you know, im not good. I, i dont agree with that that he did this willingly what the payoff is. Thats what i want to know. Thats what thats really what about and a go ahead and jump in. Hes down to one house majority. He, theres only one of these. U. P is barely hanging on. He needs that brand the crowd support in order to get any bills pass otherwise than youre a do nothing, congress, which is what a line that theyre going to use over and over again. Is that better to be . Do Nothing Congress than to be a poodle of, of joe biden. Of all people. Yes, its less than idle is a rock and a hard place. And, you know, one thing to add about the 61000000000. 00 that goes or ukraine, which again goes to american manufacturers, is that the delivery of a lot of these military weapons is not going to be produced until 2029. You guys, this is not for the current, or is that you should look at it again, the nonsense that we hurts there immediately within a week. This is nonsense a lot through whatsoever. Derek is really one of the interesting things. I dont remember the exact number. Its between 8. 00 and 10000000000. 00. Theyll be going to pay for salaries and health care and Everything Else given the history of corruption and new credit and i witnessed it myself many, many times before. 2014 before 2022. Is that that money is just going to literally disappear into pockets and you know what, they, the, they, the, the people in power in washington and brussels. They know thats going to happen. Its a huge, broad, 40 seconds before we go to the break. Go ahead there the. Yeah. First i wanna make sure everyone is aware of that. Not to judge american citizens based on our, our government. Absolutely, absolutely. No, we do not feel this way of talking about if its not a popular thing here in our country or minds, the citizenry. So i want to make that very weird really. Oh, yeah. So, so uh, the thing is in West Virginia, specifically where i live in a lot of other parts of this country. We have our own issues right now. There isnt any of us crosses in southern West Virginia where people are literally dying, waiting on an ambulance. Its not going to show up because they dont have the funding to pay for that, but yet were sending money to to other countries. Specifically, some of the money that was was sent to ukraine was the pay the salaries, pensions, and insurance for 1st responders in ukraine. So are were, were literally paying for those services in your credit, right . Yeah, and i have to jump in here. We have to go to a hard break, and after that hard break, well continue our discussion loan. Youre going to stay with the the welcome back across. Ok, were all things are considered. Im peter roosevelts room and you were discussing ukraine. The is go back the time in north florida. You know, part of this was a part of the debate over the funding. While there was no debate whatsoever. Um, there was, it wasnt allowed, there wasnt of a public debate even within congress itself. And if there had been a debate, maybe we would have understood what the strategy is. What does winning mean . Because essentially what its gotten down to is i just dont lose right now. Right now. Dont lose. Thats the sentences with my bit tom, you know, i agree with that tier and i also agree that we got back to whats happened in Congress Like i just stood. I mean, its, youre, youre all right about how johnson has been a failure as a speaker and all the rest of it. But i want to remind everybody that why did the hold off this bill for 4 months. And then all of a sudden the last moment to a weighty, and he wasnt the only one on the d o p side of the ticket. There were at least i think, 27 other congressmen who that what their vote at the last moment. Now we could say its the middle on bullets hit their desktop, you know, whatever the threats were behind the scenes. I can, i can believe that and i can a