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so crazy that it s estimated. one of every 10 countries on earth is being sanctioned in some way. and remember, the sanctions also then extend even to countries that are not sanction. think about that because what is a sanction? it s a punishment, an economic punishment pronouncing to the world that country acts or person acts right is not allowed in the international playground. that means the other kids can t play with them. obviously the other kids are actually real, real countries who are essentially being told who they can talk to, who they can do, deals with who they can buy goods from or services from and who they can sell goods or services to. so it, here s the thing. what happens when enough countries are told over and over again what they can and can t do? what happens when that happens, right? what do you think they do? i ll tell you what they do. they start creating ways to work around these u. s. punishments, these castigation. if you will, and the results are usually also not good for united states companies. in fact, let me share something with you. some u. s. companies are themselves told. they have to stop doing business with a foreign counterpart. here in the united states, u. s. companies, a lot of tech companies, simply because our state department has said so is it because we monetize them? ah, less than perhaps other companies. is it because we want to treat them more as enemies than as a friend? well, think when you start to put that idea together about why we choose one company to punish over another company, even in the united states, and you try and figure out which companies you think we really want to help and which companies we don t want to help think of what our chief export is, one guess weapons look either way, it s an economic problem that is affecting us ceo s so much that some ceo s here in the united states are now complaining to congress, saying that it should step in and come up with a sensible sanction policy and laws to make sure that the benefits of these sanctions outweigh the cos oh, there s lot of cross. i ll give an example. when the united states sanction rushes oil, the price of oil went up. the russians then simply sold it for more money. and they made more money, the u. s. didn t want it. and they told the european countries, you re not allowed to take it. so then what happened? countries like china and india, they step in and they say ok, sure, we ll take it. we ll take it, you don t want it will take it so much for the punishment, right? so who gets hurt? americans here in the united states who suddenly saw the price of gas go through the roof. and then of course, there s this around the world oil. and just about everything else is traded in dollars, and that gives the u. s. a huge advantage economically and a lot of power. but what does that thing they say about power? with power comes, what? with power comes responsibility? now for decades, countries around the world have been okay with this system. but as more and more countries come together and try and figure out how to get around these sanctions that are, you know, hurting their economies. they then begin to ask themselves the following questions . why are we continuing to rely on the dollar if it s hurting our economy? and then they ask, what if we all were to get together and work out an alternative? maybe some kind of di dollarization plan, if you will. that makes your wonder than right. it makes you wonder, is that why we re seeing more and more of these not so back porch meetings that wouldn t we would not have seen in the past. is that why this is going on? because think about it over the last year we, we ve shown you videos here. saudis, right. meeting with indian leaders. russians meeting with iranian leaders, chinese delegation, seen here meeting with everybody. after all, who doesn t want to pose for a picture with the world s economic version of elvis these days? yeah, to say the chinese are popular is an understatement. so here s the question. as we watch more and more of these newly formed alliances, and as the u. s. continues to keep sanction upon sanction upon sanction. will speed up the change in the global order somehow. that s important. joining us now to talk about this is peter cosmic. he is a professor of history and american univer at american university, co author of one of the greatest books ever ever written. i think i, i think this book is, i learned so much from it, the untold history of the united states. i know peter, i m always talking about that book, but i know you ve written others and if you want to plug on, please go ahead and do it right now. will my graduate students just read a rethinking cold war culture? i, you know, you know, the end were coming out next in 2023 with the graphic novel version of the untold history, the united states. that s great out by that, i want to read our 9 her to page book can read the graphic novel. no. are your, i ll wait for somebody to do the documentary, which is equally good. by the way, um you just said something about the cold war. you know, it s interesting that the sanctions smack of cold war mentality. and yet we re hearing from leaders like president biden, that we want nothing to do with the cold war. we re not in a cold war. we don t want a cold war with china rush or anybody. you know, it seems like the words are good, but the actions are different now. now the words go in one direction, the practices, the actions go a different direction. i would, i would pay attention to the actions. what are the words? i think for the cold war, our economies were not so integrated. it was a different world ever. and now that localization has really changed the world. and now we re seeing sped lot of economic nationalism. you know, we ve got, 1st of all the sanctions that you re talking about. we also have terrace and with the europeans are balking at a lot of american trade policies recently as well. so these things have repercussions and they blow back and they have effects. and sometimes we see it very strongly. i was out in california recently, and some of those gas stations were selling regular gas at $675.00 a gallon in us is outrageous. it s come down a little since then, but it, it has an impact on the united states and it has an impact on other countries. we st. sanctions, as seems like i, she, man, it s harry, an alternative to war. but it often has the same impact as war as we know, as is a great example i just a couple decades ago when madeline albright was asked by a reporter said, you know, people are estimating that the sanctions on iraq have caused the deaths of a half a 1000000 children. is it worth it? madeline albright says yes, we think it s worth it. these these do whoa, next real humana? she said, and she really, she really said that a she said the late ninety s. yes. my goodness. you know, i can t help but wonder if the united states recognizes the impact that this is having it s, it s one thing to be mean to your little brother until one day you realize that your little brother s ox screwed up because of it, and your dad and your mom talked to you and say, look, take it easy. on junior, the united states, it seems, treats other countries in many ways our country treats other countries like their juniors like their kids. like we need to castigate them, punish them, do whatever we need to do with them. but my question is, do they not know that the other countries will eventually, like always happens, come together and fight that by hurting you? well, we believe that we re so economically and militarily and morally, you know, dominant, that nobody s going to be able to challenge us. but we see that s the opposite. having the opposite effect, our sanctions policy as well as a, as good as part of a broader approach to the world. and the u. s. approach the world is that it s no longer the global war on terror, no longer international terrorism. that s the main threat to us, is russia and china. and that was that changed in 2018 with our new security strategy that we hope that when biden came to office, he was going to break with so many of the regressive policies of the trump administration. and sadly, he s done the opposite. i, when it comes to china, the trade war, the sanctions policy seeing it as a hostile competitor, rather than a friendly competitor, a biden has it orse, the worst of the trump policies. we re going to drill down on that when we come back with the professor peter kostnik right here on a direct impact. by the way, i have a podcast where i as a journalist, as a latino and as a co founder of a 4000000000 dollar company, tell my story and share with you what i ve learned to succeed and grow from my mistakes. and we cover news, and we ve had professor peter gooseneck on that podcast as well. by the way, it s called the rick sanchez podcast. i invite you to check it out. and i ll see there, by the way, when we come back more with professor peter, cuz nick on the sanctions regarding that one word, what is the one word that changed in the way we cover our own situation? that changed everything. don t go away. we will be right back ah, ah, need to come to the russians state little, never the tires on the no san steve asking him then again, i ll send them up for a group in the 55 when. okay, so mine is professional speaking with we will van in the european union, the kremlin, ca, yep, machine. restate on russia for date and c, r t spoof neck, even our video agency, roughly all band to on youtube with me. i m willing into a solution. would you know cranium, tv, toys, soon. enough idea. she ship, dock, lean that ship for a control. you put you on board. so you should feel free to give them a wadell by latest w premium. if not cigna, vice president of lucy leah with a 6. we have skim circle room dish but i live alone. okay. excuse dental, are you store lot of date my subway, but just dory. yes or no. i live, she has a lease, get us, but we ship them said yes, they got a new door should look like you know what of them. i need a new transcript for that. for a one. they each the one that or up with global, i m saying years about how she took on my job is to provide you enough room for a few quick to take a picture, go double play. you have to go so good. i m up with a series of leaving the video gym, who needs to be from united nation system, and it s on a, on sort of you and has taught me then it s good to believe it is for it s on good that you want. system must read a form to make it more contemporaneous to make it so look now in terms of being representative off the reality of the don t. and also therefore, you know, being more effective in resolving issues, but then shoving piece that of the world ah, part of back i m rick sanchez. that s part of the job. i m meeting with his a chinese counterpart g and assuring him that the u. s. does not want it and gauge in another cold war with beige angles are his words to saw them right there. it s important to hear the usa that i with any kind of certainty because it reassures the global community. of course, as we were talking about a while ago with professor cruz nick, there s only one problem. the actions of a country are more important than the words of a country. and certainly when it comes to china, there has been, at least in of actions to make a, make a scene. if not make it seem make it appear to us quite clearly that there is still a cold war. start with the sanctions against the country. it s companies, it s leaders, and then add to that the military exercises in both the south china sea and in the taiwan straits. and what you have, you know, looks a lot like a cold war, right. don t actions matter the more than words, like professor said, and i guess we could say that a cold war is a lot like the story about the duck. right. somebody might say that it s not a duck. and then somebody else is going to say, but wait a minute if it walks like a duck and it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck. it s a duck. tuning is not a continue. this conversation is a professor peter kostnik fessor of history at american university co author of the untold history of the united states. oh yeah, there s no question. it s a duck, right. well, i won t talk that one. i m so, yeah, it, it s a duck, but we don t know if it s a cold war duck. you know, a lot of ways this is different than the last cold war. but the danger is that we re dividing the world again. and when it comes to sanctions, which we started with, most of the world is not going along with you as sanctions against russia. why is that? you know, the u. s. is still the dominant economic power was certainly the dominant military power. $800.00 bases almost around the world still. of who yeah. out. spend the next half 1000 or more countries when it comes to military. but countries are not going along with it. well, there s, well, let, let me stop you there. there s 2 kinds of countries. there s the countries using the as an example, who are, are looking at both sides of the story and they re saying there are 2 sides to the story. there s not just one side to the story. and when i watch reports from india, i see smart, more analytic portrayal of this crisis that we all want to see end, right? yes. what in the western media, you only get this site is bad? that site is good and of story. the other part of this professor, which i think we realize is there are those even in europe who want to see this come to the end because they just, you know, they don t want to freeze to death. it s, you know, it s humanistic, almost for them. no. i did a show in indian t v this morning. indian certainly see this differently. how much, what s the world sees it differently? they say the united states is somewhat realistic when it comes to the russian invasion. but what about all of america s invasions that we were talking about? but i m glad you know we learn the lesson because all those countries that are so upset about this sanctioned i so badly, it hurt the american economy. you know, that is that you turn on the american mass media mine, they re all pro sanctions and, and, and weapons even weapons. but they have no sense. you know, that the united states wars take vietnam. when robert mcnamara came into my class, he tell my students that he accepts at 3800000 vietnamese died in that war. 3.8000000. now i think this russian invasion of ukraine is horrendous. i think it is illegal, immoral unconscionable. but we have that some sense of proportion when it comes to these things. and what s happened there, a 100000 that ukrainians, or maybe even a little more than that may be an equal number of russians. this is heartbreaking. and what s going on to the poor people and ukraine has heartbreaking, but it is not the worst thing that s ever happened here. so they say, always, you know, the, the worst war that must be worse violence in europe since world war 2. yeah. it is. and that s true, but it s, but if we say the worst violence in the world, we would have to look at some of the other things that you mentioned earlier. yeah . but we don t have respective. and so in other words, it s only that worst violence in europe since world war 2, because the united states has not attacked the european country. well, not exactly. well, there is no, i mean, the reason i m saying that is because we did attack iraq and we did attack afghanistan, and we have attacked other places. i guess the only reference point i have is bosnia. and you know, let s, that s the main one. but the united states is not engaged in a cold war in europe. that almost turned into a hot war on many occasions. and we just see commemorated the 60th anniversary, the cuban missile crisis. mean there been a lot of times we ve come close, but fortunately, cooler has prevailed in those situations. there is no guarantee that s going to happen. in this case. let me ask you a question that or make the point that i was making before we went the break. as you said, something that made me click, i m a journalist, i know this profession, and i know when every ching, everything changed for us. and it was the, the, during the drumbeat to the war in iraq, fox news, and a fellow named roger ailes who s since passed, who i knew very well, and he tried to hire me on many occasions to go work at fox news. so he and i used to have a lot of meetings, but he s the guy who told his journalists that from now on when referring to the upcoming war in iraq or anything having to do with that. it s we. so journalists had to change the word which we used. we were taught, you know, as journalist to use, the word u. s. forces, say, or the pentagon says, or, according to general such and such, it was no longer that it s now we and them. so he made his fox news anchors go on the air every day and say, we need to do this and we are angry that iraq is killing people. and we must do this. so by changing that one little word and then everybody else cnn, emmis and b, c c, answer. oh god. if we don t do the same thing they re doing, then we re going to be called traders literally because they were. so the whole entire media started. so they stopped reporting about the united states as observed, neutral observers, which is what we re trying to do in college. and literally became cheerleaders participants in the run up sort of speak. i m telling you of peter, that that s where it all changed and it hasn t stopped since anna is that. and you guys are all wearing your american flag lapel pin number. well then they brought on all of the experts and did they ever bring on a single anti war person? in fact, one to one person who was a regular, had regular show was critical, critical invasion of iraq was phil donahue and he got fired. yeah. and they said, we can t have him on nbc a to criticizing the war when everybody else is waving the flag. and then they brought out all these retired admirals and generals. and we didn t know the time that they were getting daily marching orders from the pentagon and they were all on the payroll of the defense contractors. and did anybody ever mention that there s a conflict of interest? they were profiting off of this war and killing people. it didn t get mentioned. well, as a matter of fact, i mean whether we re talking about sanctions or for, for example, the situation in ukraine. i m nobody here. i don t think anybody in their right mind says we want to proliferate the situation and ukraine in any way. but i have been watching a lot of news lately and what you just described hasn t changed. i ve seen, portray us, and i ve seen many other former generals who now work specifically their pay by defense contractors. i just googled them the next time you watch tv. and you see somebody being interviewed as an expert on military to fans, google them, and you ll find that somebody s writing, i m a giant check for, for who was a military contractor. and when edison cooper or rachel, matto, or sean hannity, or any of these people on tv in the united states interview them, they don t say that they don t tell you the guy that your news talking to you has a position is being paid to have that position my god, if nothing else, such as shoddy journalism, professor at saudi journalism, many americans that we think in this country naively, that we ve got a free press. and in some sense we do because we can go on, you know, i m not, can i get put in jail the saying the things that i say that are critical of the american government. but doesn t mean that i have access to the media. if i m going to take a position and say things that challenge the view of american hegemony, american, empire, american, exceptionalism, militarism, you know, so when i, when i talk to you, when i do interviews around the rest of the world, i mean, i m a mainstream media constantly around the world, but never in my own country than weird because i m going to question the wisdom of american policy. but that s what it s about, but that s what they re supposed to do. that s what i was trained to do. that s what the reporters during the vietnam war did. that s what dan rather and brinkley, and humbly and, and all of these guys did. and they were the greatest journalist of our time. and they asked the questions and they criticized the johnson administration and they criticized what was going on during vietnam because that s what journalism is all about. what to, to, to criticize what we re doing and say, we need to do it a little differently, or ask whether it works makes you a good journalist. and further, i would argue, a real patriot. i totally agree and i make this toy all the time on russian t v. i say that you should prize of the centers. they are the best patriots. they are the best citizens. you should encourage this and i said on chinese t. v also. yeah. that you should encourage this said don t be so afraid of descent . and that those are the real patriots. but you know, it doesn t necessarily break through there either. it s a poor as that and it s important and i and i, and as usual law professor peter cosmick, thanks for taking time to chat with us and spending part of your afternoon with us today. this is important stuff and i m glad we had a chance talk to you at your rec so look, this is the mission, right? it s simple, really. i just want to try and de silo the world. that s what we do here on this. so this particular show we, we ve got to stop living in these tiny little boxes, right. truce, do not live in tiny little boxes to throw everywhere. how much sanchez, are we looking for you again? right here, where i hoped to provide a direct ah ah ah, what we ve got to do is identify the threats that we have. it s crazy confrontation, let it be an arms race. his own offence, very dramatic development. only personally and getting to resist are those 3 how that strategy will be successful? very critical time. time to sit down and talk ah, in 1935 fascist italy, led by dictator benito mussolini decided to expand its colonial empire in africa and take over ethiopia. by that time, ethiopia was the only fully independent state on the continent. back in 1896, it s inhabitants were able to defeat the italian colonists and defend their independence. since then, rome craved for revenge for the humiliating defeat. in the morning of october, 3, 1935. without any announcement, the fascists attacked ethiopia and bombarded it most severely. ethiopian armed forces fought courageously, but the brutality of the italians knew no bounds. they use not only massive bombing attacks on civilians, but also chemical weapons, toxic gases. this change the course of the war. as a result of the occupation of ethiopia by the fascist 760000 people were killed. the capture of the african state was committed with europe staffs at approval. britain and france recognized the annexation giving the green light to further fascist expansion in the world and dabbing the way for the outbreak of world war 2. ah, as russia celebrate to 9 years of re unification with crimea, we visit they declassified cia reports that admitted the peninsula and overwhelmingly pro ration sentiment back. in 1957 they will. some americans take to the streets of washington quoting for peace and an end to all the delivery is to ukraine. from the u. s. president. donald trump claims that he ll be arrested on tuesday and uses his social media to pull an american process. and jim.