1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:04,040 Here is a quote from the new book provoked How Washington 2 00:00:04,040 --> 00:00:07,520 Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in 3 00:00:07,520 --> 00:00:10,840 Ukraine by Scott Horton, Director of the Libertarian 4 00:00:10,840 --> 00:00:15,240 Institute. The Pentagon's post Iraq War One 5 00:00:15,680 --> 00:00:20,800 Defense Planning Guidance DPG from 1992 defined foreign policy 6 00:00:20,800 --> 00:00:24,480 and military doctrine for the new decade and into the new 7 00:00:24,480 --> 00:00:27,440 Millennium. The US must remain the single 8 00:00:27,440 --> 00:00:31,000 global hegemon with enough strength to prevent any possible 9 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:35,000 strategic rivals such as Germany, Japan, Russia or China 10 00:00:35,280 --> 00:00:38,840 from even considering a challenge to US dominance or 11 00:00:39,080 --> 00:00:42,560 access to natural resources. Aside from America's great 12 00:00:42,560 --> 00:00:46,400 triumph over global communism and its apparent success in the 13 00:00:46,400 --> 00:00:50,680 first Iraq War, Deputy Secretary of Defense for Policy Paul 14 00:00:50,680 --> 00:00:55,000 Wolfowitz and his staff wrote that the US had also succeeded 15 00:00:55,240 --> 00:01:00,880 in the integration of the leading democracies into AUS LED 16 00:01:00,960 --> 00:01:05,040 system of collective security and the creation of a democratic 17 00:01:05,080 --> 00:01:08,480 zone of peace. They proposed expanding the 18 00:01:08,480 --> 00:01:11,760 North Atlantic Treaty Organization NATO military 19 00:01:11,760 --> 00:01:15,360 alliance into Eastern Europe, saying that a substantial 20 00:01:15,360 --> 00:01:18,680 American presence in Europe will provide reassurance and 21 00:01:18,680 --> 00:01:22,600 stability as the new democracies of Eastern Europe and possibly 22 00:01:22,600 --> 00:01:26,760 some states of the former Soviet Union, seek to be integrated 23 00:01:26,920 --> 00:01:31,080 into a larger and evolving security architecture, an 24 00:01:31,080 --> 00:01:34,320 enthusiastic Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney told 25 00:01:34,360 --> 00:01:38,760 Wolfowitz aide Zalami Khalilzad. You've discovered a new 26 00:01:38,760 --> 00:01:41,320 rationale for our role in the world. 27 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:46,920 Cheney officially published the document as America's Defense 28 00:01:46,920 --> 00:01:50,960 Strategy for the 1990s. Beyond their practical 29 00:01:50,960 --> 00:01:54,520 implementation, these documents were much more important 30 00:01:54,520 --> 00:01:57,880 politically, setting the boundaries of debate regarding 31 00:01:57,880 --> 00:02:03,280 America's place in the post Cold War world, including an emphasis 32 00:02:03,280 --> 00:02:07,680 on continued dominance in the Middle East and expansion into 33 00:02:07,680 --> 00:02:11,200 Eastern Europe, as Wolfowitz told author James Mann. 34 00:02:12,360 --> 00:02:15,440 What we were afraid of was people who would say, let's 35 00:02:15,440 --> 00:02:18,960 bring all the troops home and let's abandoned our position in 36 00:02:18,960 --> 00:02:21,360 Europe. It's hard to imagine just how 37 00:02:21,360 --> 00:02:24,440 uncertain the world looked at the end of the Cold War. 38 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:29,440 By 2000, Wolfowitz boasted that his doctrine had become the 39 00:02:29,440 --> 00:02:34,000 mainstream consensus Penack after it was leaked to the New 40 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:36,560 York Times, causing a small controversy. 41 00:02:36,840 --> 00:02:42,200 The DPG draft was rewritten to include more multilateralism, 42 00:02:42,280 --> 00:02:44,280 but remained essentially unchanged. 43 00:02:44,680 --> 00:02:48,800 And those same neoconservatives wrote in their 1998 Project for 44 00:02:48,800 --> 00:02:51,840 a New American Century Penac study. 45 00:02:52,120 --> 00:02:56,320 Rebuilding America's defenses, expanding the US presence in the 46 00:02:56,320 --> 00:02:59,720 Middle East and the NATO alliance in Europe was at the 47 00:02:59,720 --> 00:03:03,840 core of their doctrine. The region is stable, they 48 00:03:03,840 --> 00:03:06,040 wrote. But a continued American 49 00:03:06,040 --> 00:03:09,360 presence helps to assure the major European powers, 50 00:03:09,360 --> 00:03:13,960 especially Germany, that the United States retains its long 51 00:03:13,960 --> 00:03:17,920 standing security interests in the continent, they added. 52 00:03:18,480 --> 00:03:22,080 This is especially important in light of the nation European 53 00:03:22,080 --> 00:03:26,720 moves toward an independent defense identity and policy. 54 00:03:27,080 --> 00:03:31,000 It is important that NATO not be replaced by the European Union, 55 00:03:31,200 --> 00:03:34,160 leaving the United States without a voice in European 56 00:03:34,160 --> 00:03:38,040 security affairs. Anders Ausland is a Swedish anti 57 00:03:38,040 --> 00:03:41,640 Russia hawk and at that time Director of the Russian and EUR 58 00:03:41,640 --> 00:03:44,520 Asian Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International 59 00:03:44,520 --> 00:03:46,080 Peace. He had been a part of the 60 00:03:46,080 --> 00:03:50,200 Harvard Institute for International Development HID 61 00:03:50,560 --> 00:03:53,920 group who helped to wreck the Russian economy in the Bill 62 00:03:53,920 --> 00:03:57,800 Clinton years and aided George Soros as he rigged the 1994 63 00:03:57,800 --> 00:04:02,280 election for Lenoid Kochma. Oustling would later 64 00:04:02,280 --> 00:04:05,280 hysterically demand that President Biden bomb Russia 65 00:04:05,560 --> 00:04:09,520 after an errant Ukrainian missile killed 2 Polish farmers. 66 00:04:09,800 --> 00:04:12,880 And The Associated Press reported a false claim by a 67 00:04:12,880 --> 00:04:17,120 single American intelligence source asserting Russia had 68 00:04:17,120 --> 00:04:19,720 deliberately fired it. This would have been November 69 00:04:19,720 --> 00:04:22,840 15th of 2022. Vladimir Zelinsky. 70 00:04:22,960 --> 00:04:28,200 The Associated Press explicitly fabricated a story which almost 71 00:04:28,200 --> 00:04:32,680 got nuclear armed America and nuclear armed Russia into a 72 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:34,960 conflict. This is what's at stake. 73 00:04:35,120 --> 00:04:37,720 This is why books like this are so vitally important. 74 00:04:37,720 --> 00:04:41,840 Check the description below for a link to this book section 75 00:04:41,840 --> 00:04:46,800 titled Afghan Bounties Hoax. In the summer of 2020, New York 76 00:04:46,800 --> 00:04:50,240 Times reporter Charlie Savage wrote a trash article reporting 77 00:04:50,240 --> 00:04:54,680 an obviously fake rumor that the Russians were paying the Taliban 78 00:04:54,920 --> 00:04:57,960 bounties to kill U.S. troops in Afghanistan. 79 00:04:58,720 --> 00:05:02,840 The story caused a huge outcry in Washington and on cable TV 80 00:05:02,840 --> 00:05:05,040 news. President Trump had refused to 81 00:05:05,040 --> 00:05:08,280 do anything about it. The truth is there was no truth 82 00:05:08,280 --> 00:05:10,960 to this at all. The Russians paid the Taliban 83 00:05:10,960 --> 00:05:14,480 for the same reason the US spent the last years of the war flying 84 00:05:14,480 --> 00:05:17,200 as their Air Force. As the Washington Post admitted, 85 00:05:17,760 --> 00:05:22,240 they the Taliban had won the war and were a far better bet for 86 00:05:22,240 --> 00:05:25,480 fighting ISIS terrorists than the phony Afghan government the 87 00:05:25,640 --> 00:05:28,800 US had created in Kabul, whose intelligence agencies had 88 00:05:28,800 --> 00:05:32,040 obviously made-up the bounty lie or beat it out of some poor guy 89 00:05:32,320 --> 00:05:35,080 in a desperate attempt to get America to stay and support them 90 00:05:35,080 --> 00:05:37,720 in power. Ultimately, the general in 91 00:05:37,720 --> 00:05:41,160 charge of the war, the Chief of CENTCOM, the Secretary of 92 00:05:41,160 --> 00:05:44,320 Defense, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Pentagon, 93 00:05:44,440 --> 00:05:49,360 the DIA, the National Security Agency, and even other analysts 94 00:05:49,360 --> 00:05:53,080 at the CIA debunked these claims, as Savage himself was 95 00:05:53,160 --> 00:05:56,560 forced to admit. In the end, all he had were 96 00:05:56,560 --> 00:06:00,120 claims from unknown Afghan interrogators who had used 97 00:06:00,120 --> 00:06:03,640 unknown methods to obtain this intelligence from unknown 98 00:06:03,640 --> 00:06:07,680 captives. Savage's co-author told MSNBC 99 00:06:07,680 --> 00:06:11,440 that the funds were being sent from Russia regardless of 100 00:06:11,440 --> 00:06:14,480 whether the Taliban followed through with killing soldiers or 101 00:06:14,480 --> 00:06:17,240 not. There was no report back to the 102 00:06:17,320 --> 00:06:20,840 Gu about casualties. The money continued to flow. 103 00:06:21,640 --> 00:06:25,160 So then even if this money existed at all, it still had 104 00:06:25,160 --> 00:06:28,360 nothing to do with bounties for murdering U.S. troops. 105 00:06:28,880 --> 00:06:33,320 I think you have over learned the lessons of the pre Iraq war 106 00:06:33,320 --> 00:06:38,000 reporting failures almost 20 years now and see that dynamic 107 00:06:38,080 --> 00:06:43,080 as the norm rather than the aberration that it was, Savage 108 00:06:43,080 --> 00:06:46,160 insisted. But in a series of articles, the 109 00:06:46,160 --> 00:06:49,960 Times itself walked back the story nearly to the point of 110 00:06:49,960 --> 00:06:54,000 complete retraction. In April of 2021, President Joe 111 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:57,080 Biden's White House admitted the story was fake. 112 00:06:57,320 --> 00:07:03,280 Even the CIA had given the story only low to moderate confidence, 113 00:07:03,400 --> 00:07:07,520 leaving the extremely partisan Daily Beast to acknowledge that 114 00:07:07,720 --> 00:07:11,480 those who call the story a hoax might have been right after all. 115 00:07:11,840 --> 00:07:15,800 This is why books like Provoked are so vitally important. 116 00:07:16,720 --> 00:07:21,880 The New York Times almost got America with its nuclear arsenal 117 00:07:22,160 --> 00:07:26,880 into a conflict with Russia and its nuclear arsenal over a 118 00:07:26,880 --> 00:07:29,920 completely phony story. If there's a nuclear exchange 119 00:07:29,920 --> 00:07:32,800 between these countries, it will make the crimes of the Third 120 00:07:32,800 --> 00:07:36,240 Reich look look like minuscule in comparison. 121 00:07:36,480 --> 00:07:41,600 Section titled The Ghost of Kiev, the war party's public 122 00:07:41,600 --> 00:07:44,960 relations machine, went into OverDrive immediately after 123 00:07:44,960 --> 00:07:48,040 Russia's invasion. For example, it pushed the story 124 00:07:48,040 --> 00:07:53,600 of the great Ukrainian fighter ace, the Ghost of Kiev, who 125 00:07:53,920 --> 00:07:58,080 through his great patriotic valor had destroyed at least six 126 00:07:58,080 --> 00:08:02,120 Russian fighters and Top Gun style dogfights in just a day, 127 00:08:02,360 --> 00:08:06,160 more than 40 in all. Fox News insisted the Ghost of 128 00:08:06,160 --> 00:08:10,640 Kiev is real. Who is this legend we have no 129 00:08:10,640 --> 00:08:12,640 reason to believe exists as Newsweek? 130 00:08:12,640 --> 00:08:16,200 While Representative Adam Kinzinger fell for it in an 131 00:08:16,200 --> 00:08:20,240 instant, the claims were later debunked by the Ukrainian Air 132 00:08:20,240 --> 00:08:23,240 Force itself. The public relations men had 133 00:08:23,240 --> 00:08:28,440 literally just recycled some old cutscene footage from a video 134 00:08:28,440 --> 00:08:32,640 game Snake Island. The Ukrainians came up with a 135 00:08:32,640 --> 00:08:36,880 fantastic story about how a few of their soldiers stationed at 136 00:08:36,880 --> 00:08:41,120 the tiny Snake Island had bravely taken on the Russian 137 00:08:41,120 --> 00:08:45,520 Navy, telling them Russian warship go fuck yourself and 138 00:08:45,520 --> 00:08:49,400 fighting until the bitter end. The men died heroically. 139 00:08:49,760 --> 00:08:53,080 President Zelensky said the story was a hoax. 140 00:08:53,200 --> 00:08:55,120 Never happened, they just surrendered. 141 00:08:55,600 --> 00:09:00,840 But what Great War propaganda? The papers and cable TV news 142 00:09:00,960 --> 00:09:04,480 loved it and reported it to their credulous audiences. 143 00:09:05,040 --> 00:09:08,840 Truth is the first casualty in war, as they say. 144 00:09:09,240 --> 00:09:14,440 But nobody believes in the word of the boy who cried wolf for 145 00:09:14,720 --> 00:09:17,800 very long. Almost every single war is based 146 00:09:17,800 --> 00:09:20,600 on a lie. In order to get people to risk 147 00:09:20,960 --> 00:09:24,240 getting their limbs blown off, sending their sons off to die, 148 00:09:24,440 --> 00:09:27,640 they have to constantly sensationalize and amplify the 149 00:09:27,640 --> 00:09:29,480 reality of potential threats out there. 150 00:09:29,680 --> 00:09:33,360 That's why books like Provoked, How Washington Started the New 151 00:09:33,360 --> 00:09:36,160 Cold War with Russia and The Catastrophe in Ukraine by Scott 152 00:09:36,160 --> 00:09:40,560 Horton are so vitally important. This is a conversation between 153 00:09:40,560 --> 00:09:44,680 Victoria Newland, the Assistant Secretary of State for Eurasian 154 00:09:44,680 --> 00:09:48,440 and European Affairs, and Jeffrey Pyatt, the US Ambassador 155 00:09:48,440 --> 00:09:52,560 to Ukraine. On February 7th, 2014, someone 156 00:09:52,560 --> 00:09:55,600 leaked an intercepted phone call between Newland and Ambassador 157 00:09:55,600 --> 00:09:57,560 Pyatt. They were simply caught red 158 00:09:57,560 --> 00:10:01,440 handed deciding which major protest leaders would fill what 159 00:10:01,440 --> 00:10:03,400 positions in Ukraine's new government. 160 00:10:03,960 --> 00:10:08,840 Vitali Klitschko, the Boxer, UDAR Party, Ukrainian Democratic 161 00:10:08,840 --> 00:10:13,360 Alliance for Reform leader and later member of parliament and 162 00:10:13,360 --> 00:10:17,120 mayor of Kiev was to be kept out of leadership but in the public 163 00:10:17,120 --> 00:10:20,680 spotlight. Ole Tayanjebuk, the Hitler 164 00:10:20,680 --> 00:10:24,600 saluting former member of the Rada, former presidential 165 00:10:24,600 --> 00:10:27,600 candidate and leader of the Svoboda Party, formerly the 166 00:10:27,600 --> 00:10:30,200 Social Nationalist Party, if you can believe it. 167 00:10:30,760 --> 00:10:34,760 In 2005, as a member of parliament, Tahanyabuk wrote 168 00:10:34,760 --> 00:10:38,840 several open letters to President Yukashenko demanding 169 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:42,640 he stop the criminal activity of organized jewelry. 170 00:10:43,080 --> 00:10:47,040 One of his party's demands was for Ukrainian citizens to have 171 00:10:47,040 --> 00:10:49,840 their ethnicity printed on their passports. 172 00:10:50,120 --> 00:10:54,000 He told his group in 2004, it's time to give Ukraine back to the 173 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:57,600 Ukrainians. You are the ones that the Moscow 174 00:10:57,600 --> 00:11:00,960 Jewish mafia ruling Ukraine fears most. 175 00:11:01,480 --> 00:11:05,880 This led to his expulsion from Viktor Yukashenko's party, Our 176 00:11:05,880 --> 00:11:08,880 Ukraine. I hope I'm saying that last name 177 00:11:08,880 --> 00:11:12,480 right, but quote, yachts is the guy. 178 00:11:12,960 --> 00:11:16,960 End Quote, Newland declared, referring to Arseny Yachtsenyuk 179 00:11:17,240 --> 00:11:22,120 of Yulia Tommyakashenko's party Fatherland, whom she wanted to 180 00:11:22,120 --> 00:11:25,080 be Prime Minister. A State Department cable by 181 00:11:25,600 --> 00:11:29,680 Ambassador William Taylor identified Yatsenyuk as being 182 00:11:29,680 --> 00:11:34,320 closely tied to oligarch Victor Pinchuk, who is the son-in-law 183 00:11:34,320 --> 00:11:38,800 of former President Lenoid Kumcha and close to the West. 184 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:42,560 His foundation gave at least $8.6 million to the Clinton 185 00:11:42,560 --> 00:11:45,840 Foundation while Hillary was Secretary of State in Obama's 186 00:11:45,840 --> 00:11:49,000 first term, for example. Presumably it was the Russians 187 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:52,280 who intercepted and posted the audio on YouTube, where everyone 188 00:11:52,280 --> 00:11:54,840 could hear it two weeks before the overthrow. 189 00:11:55,120 --> 00:11:57,640 They just went through with it anyway. 190 00:11:58,520 --> 00:12:02,800 The State Department did not deny the audio was authentic or 191 00:12:02,800 --> 00:12:06,000 claim it was edited. Instead, they simply apologize 192 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:09,760 for the foul language. Fuck the EU, Nuland had said. 193 00:12:10,080 --> 00:12:12,240 A limited hangout if there ever was one. 194 00:12:12,640 --> 00:12:15,720 It was clear U.S. officials had been plotting a coup weeks 195 00:12:15,720 --> 00:12:17,560 before they finally carried it out. 196 00:12:18,040 --> 00:12:21,240 Hawks often claim that in fact Nuland and Pyatt were talking 197 00:12:21,240 --> 00:12:24,240 about compromising in a new deal with Yanukovych. 198 00:12:24,480 --> 00:12:27,160 Under pressure from the Americans and Europeans, 199 00:12:27,320 --> 00:12:30,720 Yanukovych dismissed his Prime Minister and cabinet in late 200 00:12:30,720 --> 00:12:34,040 January. But the US, EU and UN forcing 201 00:12:34,040 --> 00:12:37,080 the president to accept their hand picked Prime Minister and 202 00:12:37,200 --> 00:12:39,600 hold early elections is still a coup. 203 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:42,560 Even if the worst was still to come. 204 00:12:42,840 --> 00:12:46,560 It was major foreign powers who were midwifing, gluing and 205 00:12:46,560 --> 00:12:50,240 sticking the transition making its sale as Newland and Pyatt 206 00:12:50,240 --> 00:12:53,440 said on the calls. Besides, Yanukovych had already 207 00:12:53,440 --> 00:12:57,600 offered to make Yatsenyuk the new Prime Minister, but his deal 208 00:12:57,600 --> 00:13:00,400 had been rejected out of hand by the leaders of the Maidan. 209 00:13:00,880 --> 00:13:04,000 They were still holding out for the president's resignation 210 00:13:04,160 --> 00:13:06,000 while the US continued to support them. 211 00:13:06,520 --> 00:13:10,400 And though Newland and Pyatt are recorded discussing why they did 212 00:13:10,400 --> 00:13:14,680 not want Tahanibuk in the new government, he had not been 213 00:13:14,680 --> 00:13:18,760 offered a position in Yanukovich's proposal, another 214 00:13:18,760 --> 00:13:21,560 indication that they were not considering that deal but 215 00:13:21,560 --> 00:13:23,400 planning to force through their own. 216 00:13:23,920 --> 00:13:29,440 Tahanibuk did, however, credit the role of these Fubota party 217 00:13:29,440 --> 00:13:32,880 ultras on the side of Maidan for Yanukovych's willingness to 218 00:13:32,880 --> 00:13:36,280 compromise, boasting we put the squeeze on him. 219 00:13:36,760 --> 00:13:40,560 The Christian Science monitors Dan Murphy, certainly no Putin 220 00:13:40,560 --> 00:13:44,600 apologist, explain the context of the intercepted Newland phone 221 00:13:44,600 --> 00:13:47,120 call. Her strong statement of 222 00:13:47,120 --> 00:13:50,120 preference for how Ukraine's government should be formed and 223 00:13:50,120 --> 00:13:53,600 apparent confidence that the US has major influence over that, 224 00:13:53,840 --> 00:13:56,960 is a reminder of the disconnect between U.S. government 225 00:13:56,960 --> 00:14:00,400 assurances that it doesn't meddle a nation's internal 226 00:14:00,400 --> 00:14:04,160 politics and it's actual behavior, he added. 227 00:14:04,560 --> 00:14:07,760 This was not a conversation analyzing unfolding events and 228 00:14:07,760 --> 00:14:09,320 how to respond to what comes next. 229 00:14:09,600 --> 00:14:12,520 This was about molding a situation according to US 230 00:14:12,520 --> 00:14:16,720 interests, journalists Keith Gessen wrote. 231 00:14:17,400 --> 00:14:21,280 What was remarkable about the episode was the utter confidence 232 00:14:21,360 --> 00:14:24,600 with which Nuland seemed to speak for the United States and 233 00:14:24,600 --> 00:14:28,320 its policy, he added. From the start of his 234 00:14:28,320 --> 00:14:31,440 administration, President Barack Obama had tried to lower 235 00:14:31,440 --> 00:14:36,320 tensions with Russia and refocus American attention on rising 236 00:14:36,320 --> 00:14:39,280 China. He had made clear he wanted no 237 00:14:39,280 --> 00:14:44,720 part in the problems of the post Soviet periphery, but he noted 238 00:14:44,720 --> 00:14:46,440 the neocons do whatever they want. 239 00:14:47,240 --> 00:14:50,120 Yet in the middle of the uprising in Kiev, there was 240 00:14:50,120 --> 00:14:54,680 Newland encouraging protesters and insulting European allies. 241 00:14:55,040 --> 00:14:58,240 And after the call leaked, it was Newland as much as Obama who 242 00:14:58,240 --> 00:15:01,600 came to personify American policy for everyday Russians. 243 00:15:02,480 --> 00:15:07,280 That was written in 2018, but at the time the Times went along 244 00:15:07,280 --> 00:15:10,760 with the rest of the major media in crafting a meaningless 245 00:15:10,760 --> 00:15:14,040 narrative to explain away the important truth that had been 246 00:15:14,040 --> 00:15:17,040 revealed. Newland said a bad word on a 247 00:15:17,040 --> 00:15:21,560 phone call. CN NS Christine Amanpour and 248 00:15:21,560 --> 00:15:25,960 other leaders of the news narrative had their hook top US 249 00:15:25,960 --> 00:15:31,320 diplomat launches F bomb on EU leaked recorded conversation and 250 00:15:31,480 --> 00:15:34,760 that was that. But why was she cursing the EU 251 00:15:34,760 --> 00:15:36,960 anyway? Aren't they our friends? 252 00:15:37,440 --> 00:15:41,240 Was not the whole point to force Ukraine into an association 253 00:15:41,240 --> 00:15:44,040 agreement with them? Nuland's complaint was that the 254 00:15:44,040 --> 00:15:47,720 Germans were moving too slowly and speaking compromise. 255 00:15:48,080 --> 00:15:51,400 She decided to get Robert Surrey, a former Dutch 256 00:15:51,400 --> 00:15:55,800 ambassador to Kiev who was Secretary General, Ban Ki Moon's 257 00:15:56,000 --> 00:16:00,520 new representative at the UN, and the men in the Vice 258 00:16:00,520 --> 00:16:04,080 President Biden's office to glue the deal. 259 00:16:04,160 --> 00:16:09,760 Instead, Nuland told Piatt she'd just heard from Biden, then and 260 00:16:09,760 --> 00:16:13,080 later national security adviser Jake Sullivan that the vice 261 00:16:13,080 --> 00:16:17,840 president was willing and said she would arrange a conference 262 00:16:17,840 --> 00:16:22,040 call between him and the new pending regime so that Biden 263 00:16:22,040 --> 00:16:27,120 could give an attaboy and get the deets details to stick. 264 00:16:27,640 --> 00:16:30,480 The Post confirmed Biden and that Yanukovych had spoken 265 00:16:30,480 --> 00:16:34,120 several times in January and February 2014 as well. 266 00:16:34,320 --> 00:16:37,280 But once Yanukovych was forced to accept the deal in 267 00:16:37,280 --> 00:16:41,360 negotiations with the UN and EU overseen by the United States, 268 00:16:41,520 --> 00:16:44,960 he was quickly deposed by local actors. 269 00:16:45,160 --> 00:16:49,400 The United States aids Ukraine and her people so that we can 270 00:16:49,400 --> 00:16:52,240 fight Russia over there and we don't have to fight Russia here. 271 00:16:52,600 --> 00:17:04,520 Ukraine, people of Ukraine, this is your moment, your. 272 00:17:04,520 --> 00:17:10,520 Fight is our fight. 2017 will be the year of offense. 273 00:17:14,040 --> 00:17:18,400 All of us will go back to Washington and we will push the 274 00:17:18,400 --> 00:17:22,160 case against Russia. Good. 275 00:17:22,640 --> 00:17:25,400 SO I don't think cleats should go into the government. 276 00:17:25,400 --> 00:17:27,599 I don't think it's necessary. I don't think it's a good idea. 277 00:17:30,920 --> 00:17:37,160 Yeah. I mean, I guess you think in 278 00:17:37,200 --> 00:17:39,480 terms of him not going into the government, just let him sort of 279 00:17:39,480 --> 00:17:41,640 stay out and do his political homework and stuff. 280 00:17:42,120 --> 00:17:47,040 To Ukraine for my third visit in five weeks last Tuesday in 281 00:17:47,040 --> 00:17:51,000 support of these very goals, this time conducting parallel, 282 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:54,720 coordinated high level diplomacy with EU High Representative 283 00:17:54,720 --> 00:17:57,520 Kathy Ashton. Since Ukraine's independence in 284 00:17:57,520 --> 00:18:01,200 1991, the United States has supported Ukrainians as they 285 00:18:01,200 --> 00:18:05,040 build democratic skills and institutions, as they remote 286 00:18:05,040 --> 00:18:08,400 civic participation and good governance, all of which are 287 00:18:08,400 --> 00:18:11,080 preconditions for Ukraine to achieve its European 288 00:18:11,080 --> 00:18:14,600 aspirations. We've invested over $5 billion 289 00:18:14,600 --> 00:18:18,240 to assist Ukraine in these and other goals that will ensure a 290 00:18:18,240 --> 00:18:21,040 secure and prosperous and democratic Ukraine. 291 00:18:21,440 --> 00:18:25,240 We're going to go back and tell our colleagues what Russia's up 292 00:18:25,240 --> 00:18:28,240 to and the and the Baltics, what they're doing in the Ukraine. 293 00:18:28,240 --> 00:18:30,240 We're going to get briefed about Georgia. 294 00:18:30,640 --> 00:18:33,680 We hope to make 2017 a year of offense. 295 00:18:34,360 --> 00:18:37,800 We believe that Putin has hacked into our elections in America, 296 00:18:38,040 --> 00:18:40,920 that he's trying to undermine democracy all over the world, 297 00:18:41,200 --> 00:18:43,840 and it's time for new sanctions to hit him hard as an 298 00:18:43,840 --> 00:18:47,080 individual, his energy sector, his banking sector. 299 00:18:47,360 --> 00:18:50,840 It is time to push back against Putin, but be a better friend to 300 00:18:50,840 --> 00:18:53,640 our allies over here, including Georgia. 301 00:18:54,080 --> 00:18:57,880 This is a very important trip. We just left Ukraine where we've 302 00:18:57,880 --> 00:19:04,000 seen first hand what happens when Russia crosses over into a 303 00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:07,800 country's independence and we saw it in our own election with 304 00:19:07,800 --> 00:19:10,120 the attempt to influence our election. 305 00:19:10,360 --> 00:19:13,600 We will be working for much tougher sanctions against 306 00:19:13,600 --> 00:19:17,000 Russia. They attacked the United States 307 00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:20,920 of America. The hacking was an attack and we 308 00:19:20,920 --> 00:19:23,760 should be treated as such. And we think they're financial 309 00:19:23,760 --> 00:19:28,800 institutions and other aspects of the Russian economy should be 310 00:19:28,800 --> 00:19:32,320 addressed. And we always strongly urge our 311 00:19:32,320 --> 00:19:35,160 colleagues to enact more meaningful and stronger 312 00:19:35,160 --> 00:19:38,920 sanctions against Russia because of their attack on the United 313 00:19:38,920 --> 00:19:43,000 States of America. President Putin declared in the 314 00:19:43,000 --> 00:19:47,880 ultimate 2021 and actually sent a draft treaty that they wanted 315 00:19:47,880 --> 00:19:51,960 NATO to sign to promise no more NATO enlargement. 316 00:19:52,520 --> 00:19:56,840 That was what what he sent us and that was that that was a pre 317 00:19:56,840 --> 00:20:00,520 condition for not invade Ukraine. 318 00:20:00,840 --> 00:20:03,960 Of course we didn't sign that the opposite happened. 319 00:20:04,520 --> 00:20:07,880 He wanted us to sign the promise never to enlarge NATO. 320 00:20:08,320 --> 00:20:13,000 He wanted us to remove our military infrastructure in in 321 00:20:13,040 --> 00:20:16,600 all allies that have joined NATO since 1997, meaning half of 322 00:20:16,600 --> 00:20:18,800 NATO, all the Central and Eastern Europe. 323 00:20:19,000 --> 00:20:22,920 We should remove NATO from from that of of our alliance. 324 00:20:23,480 --> 00:20:28,440 Introducing some kind of E&B or second class membership, We 325 00:20:28,440 --> 00:20:31,760 rejected that. So he went to war to prevent 326 00:20:32,360 --> 00:20:35,000 NATO, more NATO close to his borders. 327 00:20:35,400 --> 00:20:37,720 He has he, he, he has got the exact opposite. 328 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:40,480 He's got more NATO presence in the eastern part of the 329 00:20:40,480 --> 00:20:46,640 alliance, and he has also seen that Finland has already joined 330 00:20:46,640 --> 00:20:50,080 the alliance and Sweden will soon be a full member. 331 00:20:50,080 --> 00:20:53,600 This is this is good for the Nordic countries, is good for 332 00:20:53,600 --> 00:20:56,440 Finland and Sweden, and it's also good for NATO. 333 00:20:56,440 --> 00:21:00,880 And it demonstrates that when President Putin invaded a 334 00:21:00,880 --> 00:21:05,160 European country to prevent more NATO, he's getting the exact.