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00:00:19is
00:00:19a 9:00 p.m. on the east coast, I'm Ben
00:00:20of Swan, here are the stories we're following at this hour. First, could the United
00:00:24States be losing two
00:00:26of wars for the price of one? We'll explain. And a secret military.
00:00:30Test, a civilian aircraft and four people dead. We detailed the new report
00:00:34raising serious questions about experimental weapons in
00:00:37America. And finally, the
00:00:39of migrant crisis in Spain isn't just about borders anymore, it's now
00:00:43reigniting a high stakes power struggle for energy. On
00:00:47this show, we know you don't need more
00:00:48of content, but you do need context. Anybody can tell you what's happening in the
00:00:52news? Tonight we hope to help you understand why it's happening, how it's
00:00:56happening, and how it affects
00:00:58of you. of This is America now.
00:01:09Well, last night, Kieve was hammered, and the real story isn't
00:01:13the resulting damage, but the reason they couldn't defend themselves.
00:01:17Russia launched a massive barrage of
00:01:19of ballistic and hypersonic missiles against the Ukrainian capital
00:01:22overnight. Reports indicate that that attack included at least
00:01:2520 Iscander M and S400 ballistic
00:01:29missiles. four hypersonic
00:01:31of cruise missiles as well as over 100 drones, fires
00:01:35erupted across Kiev, warehouses, logistics hubs, industrial
00:01:39facilities, even
00:01:40of major shopping center were hit, but here's the question:
00:01:43why? why did 100% of those missiles get
00:01:47through? because
00:01:48of Ukraine didn't fire even one interceptor, not one.
00:01:5239 Russian missiles successfully hit their targets, and it's
00:01:56all because Ukraine has run out of patriot...
00:02:00of interceptors: the patriot system is not magic, it only works if you have missiles to
00:02:04fire, right? and according to Ukrainian officials, the last available interceptors
00:02:08were fired days ago, that is stunning
00:02:12of admission, but even more deflating
00:02:13of for of Kiev, President Trump has denied Zelinski's request for more
00:02:17patriots. Trump says that the US needs them in the
00:02:20of Middle East, and the entire Ukraine strategy so far has been to let the
00:02:24US defend them. So now, the United States and NATO and
00:02:28Ukraine
00:02:29of find themselves. a strategic nightmare, they may be losing
00:02:32two wars for the price of one, one in Europe and one in the
00:02:36Middle East, and both are competing for the same missile
00:02:40interceptors. By the way, that's not politics, that is industrial
00:02:43math, and the math is not looking good. a single
00:02:47patriot battery costs around $1.1 billion, but the
00:02:51real expense, they aren't the launchers, it's the interceptors
00:02:55themselves. see each pack th missile costs about $4
00:02:57million again, That's each. And
00:03:01here's the part the few people understand. It
00:03:03of takes more than 2 years to build just one
00:03:06of of them. Two years. You cannot surge that overnight. You can't flip
00:03:10a switch. You can't order
00:03:12of Amazon Prime for missile defense. The supply chain is complex,
00:03:15advanced seekers, solid rocket mortars, high-end
00:03:18microelectronics, specialized composite materials. See, many
00:03:22of those
00:03:23in components come from a small number of highly specialized suppliers that were
00:03:27already running the capacity before the Russia-ukraine. war
00:03:31and that's why even Lockheed Martin and RTX are spending billions
00:03:35of dollars to expand their factories. Lockhead says it plans to
00:03:38triple Pack 3 production, but not until
00:03:422030. So
00:03:43of let of of that sink in, right? We're talking about a war that is happening right
00:03:47now, and the industrial response, four years
00:03:51of away. Today, the United States produces fewer than 1,00
00:03:54of patriot interceptors per year, so even with that triple
00:03:58production in
00:03:59of 2030, that's... still less than 3,000
00:04:01a year. military contractors insisted for
00:04:05years that 1,00 year, ah, that's plenty, don't worry, that was
00:04:09until of course the Russia-Ukraine war, until ballistic missiles began raining down
00:04:13on cities week after week, until the United States found itself firing
00:04:17of patriot and that interceptors, not in training, but in combat to stop
00:04:21Iranian missiles, and of course, you got the drones, because
00:04:25of 10,00 drones against 1,000 interceptors, well
00:04:29kids that math. does not math, so let's get a little deeper here,
00:04:33who makes the
00:04:33of patriot interceptors? well, it's Rtx, formerly Ratheon, they build the Patriot
00:04:37system, right? Locke
00:04:39of Martin builds the PAC interceptor, and while Germany and Japan have been licensed to
00:04:43produce parts of that system, they do
00:04:46a not have the
00:04:48of of industrial capacity to solve a global shortage,
00:04:49of which brings us of course to Ukraine's Zelinski. He hasn't just been
00:04:53asking for more missiles, he's been asking for something much bigger,
00:04:57the right to build them himself. At the NATO summit last month,
00:05:01President Trump suggested that Ukraine, could receive
00:05:04license
00:05:05a in the future to manufacture patriots. Listen, so one
00:05:09of the things we're going to be talking about is you'll
00:05:11uh, we're going to give license.
00:05:12to you to make patriots, that's pretty cool,
00:05:15this way he can't complain that we're not giving them enough, it's say make
00:05:19him yourself, yeah, but not long after that
00:05:23cabinet meeting in Camp David, the president changed his
00:05:26mind, we have to be very careful
00:05:29about letting somebody build them, you have to be
00:05:32very judicious, but you have to be very
00:05:35careful, now we have not agreed
00:05:38to that, we're talking about it, but it's a hard thing to give. away that
00:05:42kind of technology, yeah, it's a hard thing, and again as of today,
00:05:46President Trump has rejected Zelinsky's request for patriot
00:05:50interceptors, stating the missiles are needed to defend US ass assets in the
00:05:54Middle East, and here's something important to understand, even if, and that's a big
00:05:58if, that license were approved tomorrow, it wouldn't change this
00:06:02war, not this year, maybe not four years, because building missiles
00:06:05isn't like building the pickup truck, you need factories, and you need new tooling,
00:06:09new suppliers, highly trained engineers, long lead time components,
00:06:13years of certification,
00:06:16and if you're
00:06:16in the middle of a war zone, how are you going
00:06:18to keep those facilities from being destroyed, look, you can't solve
00:06:22a missile shortage by signing a piece of paper, so maybe the biggest story
00:06:25here isn't what happened in Kiev last night, it's what happened to
00:06:29America's defense industrial base for the past couple of decades,
00:06:33because if the United States can no longer produce missile defense systems
00:06:37faster than our adversaries can force us to fire them, then
00:06:41this isn't a Ukraine problem. This is not an Iran problem,
00:06:44this is an American problem. The United States may have treated what
00:06:48it thought would be a short-term victory, and instead traded
00:06:52it for long-term strategic liabilities.
00:06:56Again, we may be losing two wars for the price of one, one because
00:07:00Ukraine is running out the missiles that it needs to defend it cities, it has
00:07:03none, the other because our own stock piles were depleted
00:07:07fighting a war with Iran that hasn't made the Middle East one bit
00:07:11safer, and the heart. truth of all, you can't rebuild a
00:07:15missile stock pile with a speech, you can't surge defense
00:07:18industrial base with a press conference, and you cannot win a war
00:07:22if you cannot build the weapons fast enough to fight it, and that
00:07:26may be the real lesson of what happened in Kiev last night,
00:07:30so joining us now to discuss, we have Ben Freeman, he is the author the trillion dollar war
00:07:34machine, how runaway military spending drives America into foreign wars
00:07:37and banks bankrupts us at home, I can't think of better
00:07:41title, can't... better way of talking about this issue, and
00:07:45let's begin by taking aim, I would say pun not
00:07:48intended, but maybe it is, at military contractors, right, because
00:07:52those contractors been, I think, have absolutely run a
00:07:56scam on the American people, they have run a scam on
00:08:00everything that they're supposed to be protecting against, they have created
00:08:03a business of war instead of creating
00:08:07the the obligation and duty for defense of our
00:08:11country. "I think that's absolutely right, Ben
00:08:14uh, I'm remissed if I don't say thank you so much for having me, it's an honor, I'm a fan
00:08:18the show, so it's it's an honor to be here for the first time, um, but you
00:08:22really hit the nail on the head there, and you when you're talking about two companies
00:08:26like this, uh, RTX, formerly Raythion and Lockey
00:08:29Martin, war is profitable to them, you you when a conflict breaks
00:08:33out, whether it's in Ukraine or whether it's in Iran, their stock prices
00:08:37surge, their military contracts go up, and
00:08:41and the problem..." that
00:08:43we have in the issue that that you laid out in the
00:08:45opening and you hinted at it very quick is that this
00:08:49problem is actually decades in the making
00:08:52and
00:08:53and I would trace this back at least to the 90s
00:08:57and into a period of of what we call defense
00:09:00consolidation where you had the so-called peace dividend at the end the cold
00:09:04war, things weren't looking so scary out there, so the Pentagon
00:09:08decides that we want fewer and fewer contractors, and so what ends up
00:09:11happening is the... firms like the lockeeds, the Rathions, they start
00:09:15buying up all the little guys here and there, and they become
00:09:19these these mega firms, these so-called primes, well what the primes figured
00:09:22out real quick was that things like
00:09:26munitions, well they didn't have the profit margins that they
00:09:30wanted, they didn't have the profit margin of say an f35 or
00:09:33litoral combat ship, and so they started making less
00:09:37and less these and munition started becoming
00:09:40soul source into the... to the point where you have now, where you
00:09:44only have one or two these factories running, so you
00:09:48just don't have the search capacity, and that is what
00:09:52ultimately has led to the point that you so eloquently laid out in your
00:09:56opening. you know, i i appreciate that. i think one
00:09:59the biggest issues that we're facing with all of this, and i
00:10:03think we've been exposed to the Iran war, is the idea that
00:10:07most Americans,
00:10:08i think most of our adversaries around the world would have believed.
00:10:12our stock piles are deep, much deeper than we're letting on,
00:10:16but what was actually happening is that you had military contractors
00:10:20who of course encourage all these wars, they lobby for them, they go out and give
00:10:24money to... to vote for them, and then they
00:10:27say, with Ukraine for example, let's just give them on the old
00:10:31stock piles, right? we'll just clear them all out, because what that does is it
00:10:34brings in multi-billion dollar orders for new
00:10:38patriot interceptors and new missiles, and so they say, oh, great,
00:10:42so, and I've heard this from lot of politicians over the last couple of years the Ukraine
00:10:46war, don't worry, that money is not really going to Ukraine, it's going here at
00:10:50home to build more missiles and more weapons and new updated
00:10:53stuff, but as we talked about... "the lead time is so long that if you
00:10:57do that, you have the exact
00:10:59scenario that we're living in right now, which is
00:11:03you've run out the old stuff, but you don't have time to replace it with new
00:11:07stuff. that's years and years down the road. it feels
00:11:11like malpractice to
00:11:13me. i could not
00:11:17agree more ben, and it's not just you know financial
00:11:21malpractice here, there's a real national security threat to..."
00:11:25to this lobbying enterprise that you were talking about that is very active, you
00:11:29documented in in the trillion dollar war machine, and what
00:11:33goes on, them pushing for these conflicts, these these wars
00:11:37of choice, these these expenditures of US arms,
00:11:40ultimately it makes us weaker, because now
00:11:44while we're fighting a war of choice here with Iran,
00:11:47we're not prepared as much for the wars of necessity that might
00:11:51come down the pipe, you
00:11:53if you're China sitting out there... right now and i i think a lot the china fear
00:11:57mongering is very overblown, i'll say that up front, but if you are China sitting
00:12:01out there right now, you're looking at the US, you see these stories in the
00:12:05headlines the the US running out of bombs, running out of missile
00:12:08interceptors, running out of surface to surface weapons right now,
00:12:12man, if there was ever a time to to go over there and take
00:12:15Taiwan, this you might
00:12:17know be it, and and you know when you think about that, i certainly hope
00:12:21they don't do that, but when you think about that, that's the real...
00:12:25cost the military industrial complex
00:12:28constantly pushing for these conflicts, constantly
00:12:32pushing for the uf, the us to give our weapons, to
00:12:35give our security away. you know, trump did something uh,
00:12:39i don't think it was intentional or even in the way that that i'm going to express it, but i
00:12:43think he did something correct when he renamed the department of defense to the department of
00:12:46war, right? it has long been the department of war uh, and and it's
00:12:50not been a department of defense, but if it were the department of defense, everything
00:12:54we should be doing is about those stock piles and it's about making sure that we
00:12:58can protect our nation. We are at this moment, I think,
00:13:02I i've said it for the last couple of days, but deeply exposed in ways
00:13:06that I would never have imagined, I'm sure you as well, would never have imagined
00:13:09even five months ago. To your point, if the Chinese
00:13:13decided to take Taiwan, if the Russians decide, you know what, at this point,
00:13:17Ukraine has no interceptors, we can lay waste to the whole country. We
00:13:21didn't really want to take the whole thing, but we can, now we can do whatever we want because...
00:13:25because no one can really stop us, that I would lay at the feet the
00:13:28pentagon, but also those contractors who I think have misled the
00:13:32administration about what our capabilities actually were, when they
00:13:36were nothing the sort. I'll give you the last word
00:13:38here. 100%, and
00:13:42I
00:13:42I I completely agree with all that, and I would just add one more thing on on the contractor
00:13:46malpractice here, is that addition to everything we've we've already
00:13:50said, they have intentionally and and
00:13:53forcefully... stifled innovation at the department of
00:13:57defense, they have kept out for years
00:14:01firms who could do lot these tasks a fraction
00:14:05the cost, so you
00:14:06you know when when you talk about a missile interceptor, some these missiles costing millions
00:14:10of dollars for every you know small thing that either
00:14:13Russia or Iran is sending out, we know from the defense
00:14:17tech firms that they could do this a fraction the cost, for years,
00:14:21for decades actually the primes kept them out the business, only in the
00:14:25last couple years that we see these firms rising up, so again,
00:14:29this is decades long problem that we are unfortunately having to
00:14:33face as nation right now. Ben
00:14:36Freeman, we appreciate your time on this, thanks so much. Thank you so
00:14:40much, Ben, take care. All right, well,
00:14:44meanwhile, tonight, let's talk about deadly plane crash that happened in New Mexico and it's
00:14:48raising major questions about military technology, and
00:14:52whether or not that actually played role in all this, so joining me now. is Julissa
00:14:55Duro sitting in the chair, so we'll come over here and have a conversation about
00:14:58this. You know, I've seen the headlines about this. Let's lay out
00:15:02exactly what happened and then kind the theory around it bause there's a lot of claims
00:15:06online that this was actually kind of a downed military plane,
00:15:10correct? Right, so you have um, you have investigators
00:15:13investigating, they're investigating whether it was a
00:15:17military signal jamming operation that brought down that medivac
00:15:20civilian aircraft in New Mexico, like we said, so
00:15:23you know we spoke with. a professional on this who says that
00:15:27essentially what happened is you have two young pilots who are manning the plane
00:15:3023 and 30 um and you have them flying a particularly
00:15:34dark night the moon was not uh you know shining super bright, there was overcast, but
00:15:38there wasn't turbulent uh weather right, but it's especially dark
00:15:41excuse me, it's especially dangerous because it's so dark so they can't
00:15:45navigate. now what happened was the military or the
00:15:48CVB was conducting a uh GPS jamming
00:15:52operation and the thing with that jamming operation is that it's
00:15:55not uh it doesn't have tight scope on exactly what's being jammed and
00:15:59where imagine like paint splatter it's just kind of like this is where we're going and it could
00:16:03it's as far as as who knows really and so it's not.
00:16:07for second so i can understand so catch me up though so the the the kind of
00:16:11plane that went down what what exactly was it that went down it was a medac plane
00:16:15so there it was four uh three personnel i think they were or they
00:16:19were heading to or coming to pick up uh somebody who needed emergency medical services
00:16:23and they crashed into the side of a mountain and
00:16:27this was because the gps uh there were number of reasons actually which is why it's so
00:16:31controversial this is really what the essent the the the point the entire
00:16:34story is you have articles online that are kind of since sensationalizing it, nobody
00:16:38really knows head from tails right, but but what are what are the big claims,
00:16:42like if we're talking about like the biggest conspiracy around it, what are the big claims that are being
00:16:46made? the claim here is that the United States is using secret uh
00:16:50equipment to take down planes or that we're using secret equipment that c
00:16:53civilians don't know about other testing special weapons on
00:16:57you know American civilians when I mean that's kind of uh it's not
00:17:01really what happened when you look at the facts actually it seems to be that this is uh just an
00:17:05unfortunate situation there are many things that people are looking at, for
00:17:08instance, like we said the weather, um,
00:17:11you know, the uh air traffic controllers in that area for that airport, that
00:17:15landing strip, they were not there that night to be able to adjust or to notify them about
00:17:19their elevation being 9,00, and it was supposed to be 12. why were they not there? where were they? it
00:17:23was too late, it was too late, so the air traffic control had gone
00:17:26home, yes, the plane is flying at 9,00,
00:17:30yes, feet instead of a 12,00, instead of $12,000, the
00:17:34GPS, the GPS that they were using, it was... is
00:17:37disrupted by this uh by this jamming
00:17:40exercise, however there are other ways to track so
00:17:44such as uh radio beacons, which is primarily those are the two ways that
00:17:48plans can fly, both them are, they have both capabilities in the plane, and you have some
00:17:52sound on this, correct? do, we uh spoke with Chris Lado who was an F16 fighter
00:17:56pilot, and this is what he had to say on what it looks like. hope they don't
00:18:00just deny all jamming,
00:18:03um,
00:18:05you know, maybe they they could restrict it to day only. um, but then we
00:18:08don't get to train against knight GPS jamming. I
00:18:12don't, it's difficult to direct. I think ultimately, yeah, the
00:18:16best thing for the military and civilian,
00:18:20especially after this case, probably just with the amount of publicity that
00:18:24it's getting, is to try and come up with some sort of directed
00:18:27GPS jammer. So it pretty
00:18:31much sounds like he's saying this could have been related to the
00:18:35jamming exercises. you gave a great example, we talked about this before the
00:18:39show, right? you refer to it as swiss cheese, and the holes in this
00:18:43case would have all lined up, right? can you just run through that real quick for us? usually you
00:18:47have guidelines or guard places in place in case of
00:18:51emergency, right? you experience a problem, there's a hole, but usually there's lines
00:18:55with no holes. unfortunately in this situation, all the holes are aligned and every uh
00:18:59method to save the situation completely failed is what happened here.
00:19:02yeah, it's it's it's tragic and it's very sad that this is the way it played out
00:19:06but not every st. no matter how dramatic is always
00:19:09conspiracy, exactly, this case it could just be a whole lot of errors
00:19:13all happening at
00:19:14the same time, perfect storm of, it was it was a contribution, it definitely was a
00:19:18contribution, which is what investigators will find, but i think you opposed to the
00:19:21headlines it wasn't solely the government, understood, girl, thanks so
00:19:25much, okay, let's go over to
00:19:29Spain now, right, that recent migrant chaos, we've
00:19:32been telling you about this right, in Spain's
00:19:34uh seuta region has returned to Madrid. to its
00:19:38long-time headache, diplomat balance between neighboring
00:19:41Morocco and Algeria. The nations are important for Spain, but from
00:19:45different perspectives and at the center of it all is, of course,
00:19:49energy. RT correspondent Umana Hchar
00:19:51explains. Spain is facing two very different
00:19:55crises at the same time, one its border, the other in
00:19:59its energy sector, and together they reveal just how difficult it has
00:20:03become for Madrid to balance its relationships with both
00:20:06Morocco and...
00:20:38another issue has quietly become just as important, the
00:20:41issue of energy. emit global uncertainty and pressure on
00:20:45international gas markets amid the US war in Iran,
00:20:49Spain has has been working to reinforce his energy partnership
00:20:53with Algers, one of its biggest suppliers of
00:20:57natural gas. Algeria was our first supplier of
00:21:01natural gas a time of extraordinary uncertainty in international
00:21:04markets. From Spain, we especially value Algeria's position as a
00:21:08strategic partner and reliable partner. Obviously, it's not just a
00:21:11supply relationship, we also want to collaborate to face together the
00:21:15challenges the energy transition, technological innovation, and
00:21:19also the digital. ation of infrastructure. Today we are at the beginning of
00:21:23new phase. Algeria can count on Spain, it's a key partner
00:21:27to us with its geographical proximity. Spain's
00:21:30position is unique because it shares a maritime border with
00:21:33Morocco, key partner migration and security, while
00:21:37Algeria supplies much the natural gas that powers spanish homes
00:21:41and businesses. For years, Madrid managed to maintain good
00:21:44business ties with both of those nearby countries. Up to
00:21:482021, Alge. Korea was exporting gas to Spain through two
00:21:52pipelines: one, the med gas pipeline runs
00:21:55directly under the Mediterranean sea, the other, the Magharib Europe
00:21:59pipeline ran through neighboring Morocco before going to Spain. The
00:22:03arrangement worked for everyone. Alger sold its gas, but about
00:22:07earned transit fees and received part the supplies, while Madrid
00:22:11benefited from two separate import roots, but that
00:22:15changed in 2021. You see, relations between those
00:22:19two north. African nations have been tent since the
00:22:221960s, but they worsen dramatically in
00:22:262021 over a variety of issues, particularly
00:22:29territory in the sahara, and so amid that situation,
00:22:33Algeries decided not to renew the contract for the Magharib Europe
00:22:37pipeline, ending gas exports through Morocco, that
00:22:40is despite Arabat repeatedly expressing its desire to keep the
00:22:44route open. Morocco's desire to retain this export
00:22:48route has been expressed clear. and consistently at all levels for more
00:22:52than three years. Algeria, meanwhile, announced that it would end
00:22:56the agreement citing what it described as supposedly hostile
00:22:59actions by Morocco. In view the hostile practices
00:23:03the kingdom of Morocco towards Algeria, practices that undermine
00:23:07national unity, and after consultation with the prime minister, the minister
00:23:11of finance, the minister of foreign affairs and national community
00:23:15abroad, and the minister of energy and minds, the president the
00:23:19republic has instructed the national company, Sonatrack, to
00:23:23cease all commercial relations with the Moroccan side, and to not
00:23:26renew the contract in question. From then on, Algerian gas
00:23:30bound for Spain would travel exclusively through the med gas
00:23:34pipeline beneath the Mediterranean, bypassing Morocco
00:23:38entirely, and yet Madrid continued emphasize the
00:23:41importance of its relationship with Arabat. Morocco has been and
00:23:45will remain a strategic ally for Spain and the European Union. Morocco
00:23:49is of paramount importance for the interests of Spain, what we want is a
00:23:53strategic relationship with Morocco even stronger than before. the
00:23:57balancing act became even more complicated in 2022, when
00:24:01Spain began supplying gas to Morocco, move that
00:24:05raised concerns in Algeria about the origin of that gas.
00:24:09Madrid insisted that it was not Algerian.
00:24:12Spain is seeking to strengthen energy deals with Algeria while also relying
00:24:16on Morocco's cooperation on migration and border.
00:24:20management and both relationships are strategically important for
00:24:24Spain. The latest events in Sipta, also known as seuta
00:24:28have reignited questions about how migration and diplomacy
00:24:32intersect in the region. In 2021, after Spain allowed
00:24:36the leader of Polisario Front an organization that Morocco sees as
00:24:39separatist movement and a proxy group controlled by Algeria, to
00:24:43come to Spain and receive a medical treatment, thousands
00:24:47of migrants crossed into sa, which... Again is the city that
00:24:51Morocco views a Spanish occupied territory, making the whole
00:24:54situation even more complicated. Spanish officials then
00:24:58accused Morocco of easing border controls during the diplomatic
00:25:02dispute, an allegation that Morocco rejected. Whether these
00:25:06developments are directly connected or simply unfolding at the same
00:25:09time, remains a matter of political debate,
00:25:12but what is clear is that Spain's geography leaves it
00:25:16closely tied to both Morocco and Algeria, and as my
00:25:20ration, energy security and regional tensions continue to
00:25:23overlap, maintaining the delicate balance is
00:25:26becoming increasingly difficult. fascinating stuff,
00:25:30listen, tune into our next hour by the way, because we're going to have in-depth report on
00:25:34this migrant crisis and critical look at how the US
00:25:37congress may be involved. special guest Harrison Smith will be joining us for
00:25:41that. all right, tonight is this real? we have shown
00:25:45you the videos, right? you've seen them before, men being ripped off the streets, forced into
00:25:49vans, a way to fight, all of that is absolutely real, no
00:25:53question about it, but tonight there is new claim, claim that starting august
00:25:565th, the European Union, no longer granting new temporary
00:26:00protection to most draft age. men who cannot prove they are
00:26:04they legally left Ukraine or have fulfilled their military
00:26:08obligations. EU officials say the change reflects Ukraine's
00:26:11changing defense needs. In other words, the manpower
00:26:15shortage has become so severe now that Ukraine wants to
00:26:19forcibly import men back into the country who made it out
00:26:23alive. For months, Zelinsky and European leaders have publicly called
00:26:27on Ukrainian men living abroad to come home. Well, now that call is being
00:26:30backed by policy. Turns "current protection holders can keep their
00:26:34status and temporary protection holders, for most other
00:26:38Ukrainians, that's been extended until March 4th, 2028,
00:26:41so is this claim about August 5th real? the
00:26:45verdict, yes, while protection stay in place for
00:26:49some, for military, draft age men, EU protections
00:26:52as of tonight are gone. Europe won't send home
00:26:56migrants from the Middle East and Africa who have taken over massive portions
00:27:00their countries, but if you're a draft. age man from Ukraine, they plan to
00:27:04send you forcibly back to die for a war that you cannot
00:27:08win. That is America now for now, I'm Ben Swan. For more stories, visit
00:27:12our website RT.com and join us every night, 7:89 and 10 pm eastern.
00:27:16Thanks for watching, have a great night. Remember, question
00:27:18everything.
00:29:36me tuve que meter prácticamente a situaciones
00:29:40ilícitas, tijuana, cualquier esquina está lleno de
00:29:43poster donde hay personas
00:29:44desaparecidas, there's a reality in
00:29:47mexico,
00:29:59hello and welcome to
00:30:00crossstalk where all things are considered, i'm peter. Well, the longer the
00:30:04US-Israel war of aggression on Iran goes on, the fewer good
00:30:08options are available to end it. In fact,
00:30:11with every passing day the war widens horizontally, while the American
00:30:15administration continues to claim victory, it is being forcibly
00:30:18pushed out the Middle
00:30:20East.
00:30:30To discuss the ongoing war, I'm joined by
00:30:34He is a professor at the university of Toran. A warm
00:30:38welcome back to the program. We've been doing this for 15
00:30:41years now and it's a pleasure to have you just one-on-one for a change here. So
00:30:45I'm going to start um quickly with the uh
00:30:49I'm sure you saw some the senate uh clips the senate hearing
00:30:53with uh the person that claims to be the uh secretary of war
00:30:56Pete Heggsed. And I wanted to start out very broad.