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[00:00:06] of
[00:00:10] of
[00:00:25] Russia's investigative committee unpacks the results of its probe
[00:00:29] into Kiev's. the invasion
[00:00:30] of the kursk border region launched two years ago to
[00:00:34] this. also ahead on the program, thousands
[00:00:38] of migrants, including many children remain in suita
[00:00:41] of following last week's mass influx into spain. we examine the political
[00:00:45] fallout as the EU demands that Morocco police the very frontier
[00:00:49] it contests and the
[00:00:52] devastating consequences on leash by the atomic age is
[00:00:56] remembered this August the 6th, as Hiroshima marks:
[00:01:00] 81 years since the US dropped the
[00:01:04] a bomb.
[00:01:18] of international news
[00:01:19] of rap. four people have been reported wounded in a Ukrainian drone attack on
[00:01:23] Russia's Yaraslaval region. our defenses are said to have destroyed
[00:01:27] close to 100 UAVs there, which the local governor called the
[00:01:30] of largest ever drone assault on the area. storage tanks at
[00:01:34] a refinery were hit by falling debris with emergency
[00:01:38] services working to put
[00:01:40] of out the resulting fire. well right ahead of
[00:01:44] that, Ukraine's forces
[00:01:45] of attacked hospital in Dunbas launching a drone into a
[00:01:48] ward. one woman was killed and two other people
[00:01:52] wounded.
[00:01:53] of according to federal authorities fragments found at the scene suggest the
[00:01:56] UAV was
[00:01:57] of produced in the west.
[00:02:01] of during inspection
[00:02:02] of the scene, it was determined that the attack resulted in extensive damage to
[00:02:06] the medical facility building, including destruction of its exterior facades
[00:02:10] and shattered glass. furthermore, according to preliminary
[00:02:13] information, one civilian was killed in the attack, and at least two others
[00:02:17] sustained injuries of varying severity. they are
[00:02:20] of currently receiving medical attention. furthermore, fragments
[00:02:23] of what are believed to be foreign made drones were found at the attack site. these
[00:02:27] fragments will be seized and sent for examination. determine the specific type
[00:02:31] and nature
[00:02:31] of the explosive device, information on casualties and damage is being
[00:02:37] a clarified. well, moscow is continuing its probe into quote war
[00:02:40] crimes
[00:02:42] in committed by the Ukrainian military and foreign
[00:02:44] a mercenaries during Kiev's incursion of Russia's Kursk region, which began
[00:02:48] exactly two years ago and ended some months later.
[00:02:51] 640 people were killed, with hundreds more wounded
[00:02:55] and displaced including civilians forcibly taken as prisoners of
[00:02:59] war. Well, the Russian investigative committee
[00:03:03] have once again indicated that no crime committed by the
[00:03:07] Kiev regime will be forgotten or go unpunished.
[00:03:11] Now
[00:03:11] the harshest sentences await all those that committed
[00:03:15] of terrorist of acts against civilians and some
[00:03:18] of the verdicts have already been announced. Now the map of
[00:03:22] atrocities committed by Ukrainian militas militants and
[00:03:25] foreign mercenaries is very vast but
[00:03:28] one Russian region. stands out among the rest.
[00:03:32] exactly two years ago on this day, the Kiv regime invaded
[00:03:36] of Russia in the Koursk region and
[00:03:38] of occupied several dozen settlements. now acting with a feeling
[00:03:42] of complete impunity against civilians who could not
[00:03:46] put up a fight against armed goons, they committed
[00:03:49] of
[00:03:49] of massive, especially serious crimes. now those included
[00:03:53] mass murders,
[00:03:55] a rape and other acts of sexual nature,
[00:03:59] looting and kidnapping of civilians, one Ukrainian militant
[00:04:02] by the name of Yevgini Fabrisenko along with
[00:04:06] accomplices
[00:04:07] of killed 14 civilians in the
[00:04:09] of village of. now investigators said that
[00:04:13] they also raped eight
[00:04:16] of of women and later executed them. now those
[00:04:19] of involved of received life sentences while other Ukrainian soldiers who
[00:04:22] stole goods worth several million
[00:04:25] of rubles from local store were also sentenced to long
[00:04:29] prison terms. "now 640 civilians were
[00:04:32] killed,
[00:04:34] of 561 were wounded by Ukrainian militants in the Course
[00:04:37] Cregian alone. Now when Russia began liberating
[00:04:41] uh the region, investigators made shocking discoveries
[00:04:45] as they found
[00:04:46] of multiple bodies
[00:04:47] of of civilians with signs of torture. Now the Ksk region
[00:04:51] was liberated in April of last year, more than eight months
[00:04:55] after the invasion began, and all that time Ukraine was
[00:04:59] terrorizing.
[00:05:08] of
[00:05:12] отработал по нам дрон,
[00:05:15] а как раз сработал,
[00:05:19] а рэп, сработал на моей машине, рядом с нами прямо метров
[00:05:23] семи, наверное, взорвался, милость божия, вырвались, вырвались,
[00:05:27] вот привезли, ребят, вот
[00:05:29] выгружают, сейчас вот
[00:05:32] в автобусы уже дальше,
[00:05:36] вот с трудом вырвались прямо, слава богу, нелость боже,
[00:05:40] есть и раненые у нас.
[00:06:12] of civilians and committed heinous crimes against peaceful
[00:06:16] residents using weapons and explosive devices. now many
[00:06:20] locals are still unaccounted for, as Russia's commissioner for human
[00:06:24] rights, Yana Lantratova reported the absence of data
[00:06:28] on at least 302 residents the Coursk border
[00:06:31] region. now the local governor Alexander Hinstein says that
[00:06:35] only 171 residents have been
[00:06:39] returned by Ukraine to Korsk, now the rest are: is
[00:06:42] simply missing and their fate is completely
[00:06:46] unknown, which makes the entire situation even more difficult and
[00:06:50] tragic. now investigation into the crimes the Kiev regime in Koursk
[00:06:53] region continues as Russian criminal experts have
[00:06:57] examined 186 settlements in the
[00:07:01] area. according to their results, the damage caused by the
[00:07:05] actions the Kiev regime armed groups have already been
[00:07:08] estimated at over $6 billion dollars.
[00:07:13] Well that's as Kiev has found itself dangerously lacking in
[00:07:17] airdefense systems. Vladimir Zelinski has
[00:07:21] attributed the shortage to a western conspiracy
[00:07:25] designed to make Ukraine more
[00:07:27] malable.
[00:07:29] I don't know if
[00:07:30] there are any other reasons for such a large shortage of anti-missile systems
[00:07:33] besides the Middle East. Perhaps these political steps are being taken to make
[00:07:37] Ukraine more let's say accommodating. In my opinion this is not
[00:07:41] accidental. "We understand that this is serious
[00:07:44] challenge. Well, let's
[00:07:48] get some more perspective on the matter from military analyst and former
[00:07:52] Swedish armed forces officer Michael Walterson. You're
[00:07:56] most welcome sir. Mr.
[00:07:58] Zelensky blames Ukraine's weapon shortage
[00:08:02] on the conflict in the Middle East and some veil plan to
[00:08:06] reduce Ukraine's standing. Do either of
[00:08:10] those theories in your view hold..."
[00:08:12] water: yes, the middle
[00:08:16] east conflict at least, the other thing is
[00:08:20] probably just attempts from zelensky
[00:08:24] to push the politicians in the west
[00:08:27] to send the few missiles they have, but
[00:08:31] in the middle east the usa use
[00:08:34] both tad missiles
[00:08:38] that are more advanced than patriot missiles. and
[00:08:42] they have used up uh at least three quarters of
[00:08:46] all the missiles they have, they have moved them from South Korea and
[00:08:50] other places, so they don't have many left, and
[00:08:54] that make the US much more dependent on the
[00:08:58] remaining patriot missiles they have, and they have used maybe
[00:09:01] half the patriot missiles also, so they have very
[00:09:05] limited capability in the US now
[00:09:08] to uh make another large sc
[00:09:13] war uh against,
[00:09:14] for example, if if they would be fighting with China, US
[00:09:18] would have very limited capability,
[00:09:22] and in if if you look on
[00:09:26] the pentagon, many the military men have
[00:09:29] told the politicians there that they aren't enough
[00:09:33] missiles even to continue the war against
[00:09:36] Iran, neither to defend
[00:09:40] against Iranian missiles. or
[00:09:44] offensive missiles, so that's true, there's a very
[00:09:47] limited number of patriot missiles
[00:09:51] left. It's certainly not a charm offensive
[00:09:55] by Mr. Zelensky, whatever stick he has instead
[00:09:59] the corret, he's attempting to use it, essentially
[00:10:02] berating those who have kept the country afloat. What's
[00:10:06] your views on the language he's
[00:10:08] using? Well, Selensky.
[00:10:12] has this problem because uh when he gets uh
[00:10:16] disappointed or
[00:10:18] angry uh he
[00:10:21] really uh shows it and that...
[00:10:25] doesn't endear him to his
[00:10:28] allies, they instead are more
[00:10:32] prone to be negative to
[00:10:36] continue supporting ukraine, at least
[00:10:40] in the US, and I believe
[00:10:43] that the promise of future production
[00:10:47] of patriot missiles merely was attempt
[00:10:51] from Trump to divert attend.
[00:10:56] from ukrainian demands for missiles now and when
[00:11:00] he didn't even get those when he met
[00:11:03] with trump
[00:11:06] the any licenses for production and
[00:11:10] ukraine will probably not get it, he's very disappointed
[00:11:14] now and he is angry and shows
[00:11:17] it and that won't to get get him any more
[00:11:21] missiles, can i just touch as well on the reality?
[00:11:25] surrounding the patriot situation, even if
[00:11:29] Washington were to allow Kiev to manufacture its
[00:11:33] own systems, it's going to take years and years to
[00:11:36] get production off the ground, how would a a
[00:11:40] manufacturing licenser impact Ukraine in the
[00:11:44] conflict? well, not
[00:11:48] at all at presently, because it will
[00:11:51] probably be maybe 20-30. uh
[00:11:55] before they can start producing and that's
[00:11:59] only if there are no disturbancess
[00:12:03] and during the time Russia will have a
[00:12:06] good opportunity to
[00:12:09] destroy but 2030 you say is
[00:12:13] that almost Ukraine saying we want
[00:12:17] the conflict to continue into the next
[00:12:19] decade?
[00:12:23] well the... they are preparing
[00:12:26] for the future uh, but but that won't change
[00:12:30] anything now, they have bought uh
[00:12:33] yaz 39 gripen air fighter
[00:12:37] aircraft from Sweden, but they won't get them either
[00:12:41] until maybe two or three years in the future and they will continue
[00:12:44] to deliver them to Ukraine until maybe
[00:12:48] 2035, so they won't
[00:12:51] impact the war either, so but "they are
[00:12:55] preparing for a future conflict with
[00:12:58] Russia uh, if they is some kind of sea
[00:13:02] s fire now, so they will try to rearm
[00:13:06] and be a better position in the future, but at
[00:13:09] presently there are no uh functioning air
[00:13:13] defense in Ukraine against missiles, Russia has maybe
[00:13:17] launched 150
[00:13:21] uh, escander missiles towards Ukraine during..."
[00:13:25] july and maybe seven of those have been shot
[00:13:28] down and uh that's a very very low, it's
[00:13:32] all lower number, so you can say that every
[00:13:35] missiles will hit its target, so Russia
[00:13:39] has very good opportunity uh for the forceable
[00:13:43] future to attack important targets in
[00:13:46] Ukraine. Mr. Zelensky also theorized that the
[00:13:50] US could be restricting aid to make Ukraine
[00:13:54] quote, more accommodating, what would drive
[00:13:58] Washington to pursue that goal now in your
[00:14:01] view?
[00:14:03] well uh, if you look on the US
[00:14:07] policy, they are not especially interested, at
[00:14:11] least the white house and the Trump
[00:14:15] administration uh, they are not interested in
[00:14:17] Ukraine, they see it just as
[00:14:20] diversion from other things in the
[00:14:23] world, and so they don't want to give anything to
[00:14:27] Ukraine, but they can sell things to Europe
[00:14:31] who gives it, because then they earn
[00:14:33] money from the weapons
[00:14:36] export, but when it comes
[00:14:39] to the patriot missiles, the
[00:14:43] Europeans want to get any patriots either
[00:14:46] because the US needs them, so the Europeans haven't
[00:14:50] any spare papers to give to Ukrain
[00:14:54] even if they... wanted,
[00:14:58] but um, trump must accommodate pro
[00:15:01] ukrainian groups within the congress,
[00:15:05] so he says positive things some
[00:15:08] sometimes, for example about the
[00:15:11] license or other
[00:15:13] things, but in reality us don't
[00:15:17] give anything to Ukraine, they might
[00:15:20] sell, always interesting, we appreciate your
[00:15:24] expertise. on this and much more
[00:15:35] of last week's border chaos in in Suta, most
[00:15:39] migrants have returned to Morocco, however, between two and
[00:15:43] 5ive them still remain in the Spanish city, according to
[00:15:46] local reports, hundreds them are children, many living without their
[00:15:50] parents in pretty dire conditions. Suta authorities have
[00:15:54] requested assistance from Madrid citing a high risk to
[00:15:58] order and public safety. Here's what migrants themselves had to
[00:16:02] say about their current
[00:16:03] situation. I've
[00:16:07] been in... suda for seven days now, i spent three of those days sleeping in the
[00:16:11] forest without food or water. we barely had enough food to
[00:16:14] survive. it's been seven days since we've been in the
[00:16:18] forest, me, my mom and my brother. hope to become a police
[00:16:22] officer in the future and to be able to go to spain so that we can be
[00:16:25] reunited with my dad, along with mom and my
[00:16:27] brother. godwilling will be okay. they
[00:16:31] give us only one meal a day and look what's in it, milk and small round cookies and
[00:16:35] we're really surviving on just that. always see infants with their mothers, so we're
[00:16:39] forced to give them our share of milk, because it won't make difference for us, but it makes a big difference for
[00:16:43] them. you'll find a woman with a small child who has nothing to feed him, there
[00:16:47] aren't even diapers, they haven't provided us with anything, it's as if all these
[00:16:51] people don't even exist. well, while the
[00:16:54] European Union claims the crisis was resolved quickly and
[00:16:58] conclusions were drawn about stronger border protection,
[00:17:01] questions over whose border it is and who should be responsible for it
[00:17:05] remain. the EU wants to shifer responsibility to
[00:17:08] Morocco, but Rabat considers Suta as its own sovereign
[00:17:12] territory and rejects the plan. We all
[00:17:16] want to have good relations, but if Morocco does not want this, then we
[00:17:20] will have to ask it to at least show respect. We cannot ask it to change its
[00:17:24] policy, not even its foreign policy. Its approaches are
[00:17:27] legitimate, but we can ask it to respect Spain's territorial integrity
[00:17:31] and the security of our borders. We must make this demand with the support
[00:17:35] the rest of Europe. People see this not as a migration crisis,
[00:17:38] it was fundamentally attack, violation of Spain's territorial
[00:17:42] integrity. People felt that this, if not orchestrated, was at least
[00:17:45] encouraged or permitted by Morocco?
[00:17:49] well, as the European commission head urges physical barriers to be
[00:17:53] erected on the border, a Moroccan politicians suggest that will only lead to more
[00:17:57] casualties among migrants. this would not solve that that
[00:18:01] problem, this will uh make more risk on the lives of
[00:18:05] migrants, irregular migrants that... are trying to cross uh
[00:18:09] to cross these artificial borders,
[00:18:11] you know, unfortunately this
[00:18:15] will add more victims and
[00:18:17] casualties to this
[00:18:21] to this, mean decision of
[00:18:23] migration, the people will
[00:18:27] still
[00:18:28] you know try to cross, because the origin of this problem is the
[00:18:32] colonization of seta and the remain
[00:18:35] as the... cities are remaining
[00:18:38] under the Spanish occupation, European
[00:18:41] occupation, uh, the risk is there, and
[00:18:45] the people will try again and again to cross the borders searching
[00:18:49] for you, obviously for bitter life
[00:18:52] and and more opportunities
[00:18:56] of of of life and
[00:18:59] and of of income, if they wants to protect their
[00:19:02] borders, first they have to accept the
[00:19:06] their real borders, the real borders are far, they are
[00:19:10] separated by sea, by the Mediterranean
[00:19:13] sea, and we as countries the south
[00:19:16] of Mediterranean, especially Morocco, we are not, as the the
[00:19:20] foreign minister said, our foreign minister, it said, we are not the
[00:19:24] gendarm of of of Europe, and we don't have any obligation and any
[00:19:28] responsibility, even juridicial or more
[00:19:31] responsibility to protect their
[00:19:35] artificial and colonized and
[00:19:41] now the world is reflecting today on the dawn
[00:19:45] the atomic age and it's at times devastating impact,
[00:19:49] none more so than the US bombing of Japan, exactly
[00:19:52] 81 years ago. Hirashima is marking the deadly
[00:19:56] events its peace memorial park. At 8:15
[00:19:59] a.m. local time, the moment gay dropped its
[00:20:03] catastrophic payload, the city fell silent to honor the victims.
[00:20:07] Arashima's population hovered at around 350,000
[00:20:11] people in August 1945 and records estimate that up to
[00:20:14] 160,000 people lost their lives due to the blast,
[00:20:18] aside from those who perished in the initial detonation, many died from
[00:20:22] radiation exposure with many affected, even decades
[00:20:25] later. We heard from one local whose mother was pregnant when the bomb
[00:20:29] fell. After
[00:20:33] all, I have cancer, that is why the fear of radiation exposure
[00:20:37] persists. No matter how many years go by, I am 81 years
[00:20:41] old now, 81. No matter how much time passes, nuclear
[00:20:44] weapons remain terrifying things, it destroys the soul
[00:20:48] completely, the soul itself. That is why nuclear weapons
[00:20:51] must absolutely never be built or
[00:20:54] used, well the day also saw
[00:20:57] what are annual demonstrations against nuclear weapons
[00:21:01] and war. This year protesters focused on the Prime
[00:21:04] Minister's remilitarization plans for Japan. Sinai
[00:21:08] tekashi's government has eased restrictions
[00:21:11] on lethal weapon exports increased
[00:21:15] military spending and pushed to revise
[00:21:19] article 9. the constitution, now that would pave the
[00:21:23] way for Tokyo to establish an official army and
[00:21:26] participate in armed conflicts. Here's some
[00:21:30] reaction we heard in Harashima ahead the morning
[00:21:32] ceremony. A
[00:21:36] massive military expansion budget is the clearest evidence of headl
[00:21:40] rush toward war, and prime minister Takaiichi is the very person
[00:21:43] who pushed it forward all at once, and with smile on her face, no
[00:21:47] less.
[00:21:50] military trillion expenses, eliminate war from the world by using nuclear weapons as a threat. I
[00:21:53] sincerely hope that solutions will be achieved through dialogue. That
[00:21:57] I believe is the role of Hiroshima and of Japan with its
[00:22:01] article 9
[00:22:02] constitution.
[00:22:07] prioritizing 40 the military over the lives
[00:22:09] the people, is something I simply cannot forgive. I believe
[00:22:13] should step down from her
[00:22:14] position. Well we're joined live
[00:22:18] now by professor. director the nuclear
[00:22:22] studies institute at American University and Orther
[00:22:25] as well, we thank you very much,
[00:22:29] today sumber day, Peter, it marks
[00:22:32] the the first time really the world saw the devastating consequence of of
[00:22:36] what atomic weapons can reak, the leading
[00:22:40] US narrative says the bombing was crucial to a
[00:22:44] Japanese surrender, you literally wrote the book on the event,
[00:22:48] how true or how val
[00:22:50] is is that point? there's no
[00:22:53] truth to that fabrication. the
[00:22:57] argument that they put forward is that if the us hadn't used the
[00:23:01] atomic bomb in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, then the US
[00:23:05] would have had to invade, and Truman says in his
[00:23:08] memoir that the US would have lost a half million men an
[00:23:12] invasion. to make it seem even more humane,
[00:23:16] they all later said that they also saved the lives of... millions
[00:23:20] of Japanese would have perished in the
[00:23:23] invasion, so it not only becomes
[00:23:26] necessary, it becomes humane because it saved
[00:23:30] millions of lives. The reality is very, very
[00:23:34] different. The reality is that the Japanese were
[00:23:37] defeated, they were trying to
[00:23:40] surrender, the US knew that was the case. The
[00:23:44] US knew that they had other alternatives for
[00:23:48] ending the war. The primer. one was to wait for the
[00:23:52] soviet invasion. Truman had lunch with Stalin at
[00:23:55] Potsdam on July 17th. Stalin assured
[00:23:59] him that the Russians were coming in on schedule. Truman said,
[00:24:03] wrote in his journal, "Feny Japs when the Russians come in." He
[00:24:07] wrote to his wife best the next day, the Russians are coming in,
[00:24:11] will end the war year sooner now. Think of all the kids who won't be
[00:24:15] killed. US intelligence have been saying since
[00:24:18] April that the... Soviet invasion would convince all
[00:24:22] Japanese that further resistance was fudle, but
[00:24:26] the Americans chose to use the bomb.
[00:24:29] Truman, Burns and very small handful of others
[00:24:33] decided to do so, not because it was needed,
[00:24:37] but because they wanted to send message to the Soviet
[00:24:40] Union, that if they interfered with US plans in
[00:24:44] Europe or the Pacific, they were going to get this and much, much
[00:24:47] worse, and that's exactly. how the Soviet leaders
[00:24:51] interpreted it, it was a shameful act, it was a criminal
[00:24:55] act, it was an immoral act, as Admiral Lahi,
[00:24:59] the chairman the joint chiefs of staff, and Truman's personal chief of
[00:25:02] staff, said this act put us on the level the
[00:25:06] barbarians the dark ages.
[00:25:10] We now know that American generals, including Eisenhower and
[00:25:14] McArthur thought use the A-bomb was
[00:25:16] unnecessary, how much disagreement? Peter, was
[00:25:20] there among the US military and how did this
[00:25:24] decision, you've been laying it out, how did it go foring from that point of
[00:25:28] view?
[00:25:31] the the United States had eight five star admirals and generals in
[00:25:34] 1945, seven the eight are on
[00:25:38] the record saying the atomic bombs are either militarily
[00:25:41] unnecessary, morally reprehensible or
[00:25:45] both. The only one who didn't say that was General
[00:25:48] Marshall. said that the Soviet invasion might well
[00:25:52] lever the United Japanese into
[00:25:55] surrender, so really all eight them knew it was
[00:25:59] unnecessary, but
[00:26:01] it was a political decision. not a military decision and was
[00:26:05] made by Truman. Truman
[00:26:06] is often considered near great president. In my book,
[00:26:10] he's just notch above Donald Trump and George W.
[00:26:14] Bush, one of America's worst presidents,
[00:26:17] had Henry Wallace stayed on his vice president, or
[00:26:21] Roosevelt lived longer. I believe there would have been no atomic bombs
[00:26:25] in World War II and even no cold
[00:26:27] war. There are historic documents
[00:26:31] suggesting Churchill. advocated for setting the bomb on the Soviet Union at
[00:26:35] the end of World War II, what purpose would that have served and
[00:26:38] what does it perhaps tell us about the tenuous alliances at that
[00:26:42] time? well, Churchill
[00:26:45] wanted to destroy the Russian
[00:26:48] revolution from the beginning, he said we have to strangle
[00:26:51] bolshevism in the cradle, but he decided to make an
[00:26:55] alliance with the Soviet Union, knowing that that would be
[00:26:58] necessary to save Britain from the Nazis, so...
[00:27:02] "there was a alliance of convenience, the soviets never
[00:27:06] trusted Churchill, but they did like and trust
[00:27:09] Roosevelt and Henry Wallace who was vice president from
[00:27:13] 1941 to
[00:27:14] 1945. Truwan from the very
[00:27:18] beginning they were skeptical about,
[00:27:20] and this is such an unnecessary
[00:27:24] decision, but we still justify it when President
[00:27:28] Obama went to Hiroshima in May of
[00:27:31] 2016." "Japanese public television brought me over
[00:27:34] there to do commentary on Obama's visit and he said
[00:27:38] that World War II reached his brutal end in
[00:27:42] Hiroshima and Nagasaki. That's not true, that's the fundamental
[00:27:46] lie at the heart the American empire and the notion of American
[00:27:50] exceptionalism. It was not the bombs that
[00:27:54] ended the war, as we know, to give you an example,
[00:27:58] the uh official US Navy museum here in Washington
[00:28:01] DC. and its exhibitive at the end the war writes, the
[00:28:05] vast destruction reaked by the bombings of Hiroshima and
[00:28:09] Nagasaki made little impact on the Japanese
[00:28:12] military, however the Soviet invasion of Manchuria on
[00:28:16] 9 August changed their minds. We know that
[00:28:20] from lot of sources, including the records the Japanese
[00:28:23] deliberations. It was not the atomic bomb which was
[00:28:27] localized, it was the Soviet
[00:28:30] invasion that convinced. them that further resistance was
[00:28:34] feudal that story doesn't tend to be told though, does
[00:28:37] it? um, just as an side to that, Peter, as
[00:28:41] well, Hiroshima's mirror is said to have criticized Russia's actions during
[00:28:45] his speech today, that prompted response from the foreign
[00:28:48] ministry in Moscow who pointed out that Japan repeatedly fails
[00:28:52] to acknowledge that the US dropped two bombs on
[00:28:56] them, is that fair assessment?
[00:29:00] takaichi, the current... prime minister is an
[00:29:03] embarrassment, she was an embarrassment when she came to Washington
[00:29:07] DC and grovled before Donald Trump and then
[00:29:11] bribed him. She talked about getting rid the three
[00:29:15] non-nuclear principles that more than 70% the
[00:29:18] Japanese want to see. We recently heard
[00:29:22] Japanese defense ministeri
[00:29:25] komi uh called for an open
[00:29:29] discussion of whether Japan should develop its own new... nuclear
[00:29:32] weapons, this is disgraceful. Japan has already
[00:29:36] eroded article 9 the peace
[00:29:39] constitution. Japan had been the most
[00:29:42] anti-nuclear country in the world, and the CIA and
[00:29:46] the state department began a massive propaganda campaign, and
[00:29:50] they wanted to locate the first the nuclear reactors that the
[00:29:54] US was pitching overseas in Hiroshima of all
[00:29:57] places. This goes back to Eisenhower, so there's been
[00:30:01] a real effort, but... up to this point they've never had
[00:30:04] anyone quite as nakedly
[00:30:06] pro-nuclear and and militaristic as
[00:30:10] Takaiichi, so there's going to be a fight in Japan
[00:30:14] about this, but at this point the younger
[00:30:18] generation is very conservative in Japan, and lot the
[00:30:21] older people, the atomic bomb survivors, I
[00:30:25] nominated neonadoncho for the Nobel Peace Prize
[00:30:28] several times and they finally won in 2024.
[00:30:33] and they are the conscience not only of Japan but the
[00:30:36] world, that's the atomic bomb survivors, the
[00:30:39] Abaksha, and so they need to be the voice, but
[00:30:43] Japan has not supported the treaty on the
[00:30:47] prohibition of nuclear weapons at the United Nations, and
[00:30:50] Japan now is wants to become a quote unquote
[00:30:54] regular nation, which means it can go to war
[00:30:58] overseas, and