welcome to KH mahora With Me George
Galloway on Almine television the
fastest growing television service in
the arab-speaking
world tonight we're discussing the
Ukraine Russia and its collapsing
relationship with Western Powers
especially the United States of America
but also some of its key allies
including this one the United Kingdom
now the first point I want to make clear
is that the West has been mad at Russia
for a very long time you could say right
back to
1917 when the Russian revolution
occurred and the Western allies landed
hundreds of thousands of soldiers not
often Remembered in the territory that
became the Soviet Union in order to try
and reverse the Russian Revolution then
it became obvious that the Russian
Revolution wasn't going anywhere and so
they transformed hot war against the
Russians to Cold War and that Cold War
lasted a long time they got even more
mad at the Russians when it was they who
conquered Berlin in
1945 they got really mad when the
Russians developed a nuclear bomb ending
the Monopoly on nuclear weapons held by
the United
States ultimately the Soviet Union
collapsed and the West began to love
Russia for the first time in almost a
100 years they loved it because it was
ruled by a drunken fool called Boris
yelson who allowed Russia's national
wealth to be privatized and stolen by a
whole plethora of uh uh
plutocrats of the former Soviet Union's
nomenclatura as well as others much of
Russia's national wealth went
abroad and some of it quite a lot of it
actually here to London but the drunker
yelton got the more stupid he got the
more he allowed Russia's wealth to be
stolen the more they loved
him and when he was replaced by
President Vladimir Putin the West got
mad at Russia all over again because
Putin is many
things but the one thing he's not is a
pushover his name's Putin not
pushover and he has stood up to not just
the West
but the oligarchs within Russia itself
many of whom are now in prison and one
of the main political missions of
President Putin is to return Russia's
wealth back to Russia so far so good as
far at least as I am
concerned that's what the Russian people
deserve after all their sacrifice in the
second world war when they lost 26
million people in the
War it's the least that they deserve
that their National wealth should be
their own preserve I'm making these
points because I don't want you to think
that this crisis is about Ukraine it
started long before
Ukraine in fact you can say that it
began to
Peak far
from the Russian area itself in relation
to the Arab Republic of Syria you see
the the United States and the United
Kingdom and France the former Colonial
Powers wanted to overthrow the regime of
Bashar alassad in Syria and Russia said
no and Russia made clear in the United
Nations where it has veto power that
they would never allow a repeat of the
Libyan
Fiasco where a resolution was taken from
the United Nations
misused turned into the opposite of what
it said it was and used to overthrow the
regime in Libya with the catastrophic
results that everyone has
seen so they began to get even more mad
against Putin even more mad against
Russia because of Syria and by extension
because Russia refuses to go along with
the policy of sanction quarantine and
double standards against the Islamic
Republic of Iran
then came the Ukraine what happened in
Ukraine is widely misunderstood amongst
the Western public and deliberately
misunderstood by Western politicians and
media they say that
Russia has invaded
Ukraine the truth is that NATO invaded
Ukraine and everything that Russia has
done since is a response to Nato
intervention in Ukraine what do I mean
by intervention Ukraine had an elected
president and an elected Parliament I
didn't care for either of them they're
not my choice they're nothing to do with
me but they were chosen democratically
in an election by the people of the
Ukraine and moreover another election
was du in less than a
year but the Western Powers principally
the United States principally Victoria
nuland who's now at the state department
but was then the US ambassador to
Ukraine by her own admission pumped
millions and millions of dollars into
the protest that became known as the
maidan which ultimately overthrew the
elected president by force invaded the
Ukrainian Parliament by force set it on
fire and held guns literally to the
heads of the members of parliament until
they agreed to support the dissolution
of the parliament the overthrow uh of
the president and the First Act of this
revolutionary new Parliament was to
Outlaw the teaching and speaking of the
Russian language in the Ukraine
now
45% of the people of Ukraine are Russian
speakers
it is a bilingual country and suddenly
Russian was equated with some kind of
terrorist language and the language
banned from all official
discourse the people in the East and the
south of Ukraine completely
rejected the coup which took place in
Kev a
fascist right-wing Ultra Ukrainian
national IST takeover of power was
always going to be rejected by the
Russians speaking people of Ukraine and
so they said well if Ukraine wants to be
led by such people we don't want to be
in Ukraine we want to rejoin
Russia which of course in the past
historically they had been a part of in
Crimea where the Russian Republic had a
treaty in what was called the autonomous
Republic of Crimea the clue being in the
wordss autonomous
Republic the people of the autonomous
Republic said we want to be back with
Russia where we historically always have
been given that the Russian naval base
there was critical to Russia's whole
defense posture
Russia supported the decision of the
people of Crimea to rejoin their country
and now in the East and the south of
Ukraine there is fullscale war it is a
war that was chosen by the coup regime
in Kiev it is a defensive war that is
being fought by the people of east and
south Ukraine Russia has not invaded
Ukraine if Russia invaded Ukraine the
the war would have been over in an
afternoon because anybody that thinks
Russia can be played with militarily
doesn't know The Facts of Life if Russia
wanted to it could end this war this
evening by moving its forces to defend
the Russians speaking people of eastern
Ukraine but it has not done so of course
there are Russians helping fellow
Russians inside eastern Ukraine but
that's not the Russian State
policy diplomacy has been The Stance of
the Russian government from the start uh
Putin his foreign minister all his
ambassadors and plenty potenti is around
the world have been trying to find a
diplomatic solution to this
crisis in a way that would not lead to
war but the West is bent on encroaching
on Russia n
has constantly Advanced closer and
closer to the Russian
Frontier well you don't know The Facts
of Life if you think Russia is going to
allow a hostile military Alliance to
have bases and missiles all around it
pointing at it the Russians reject this
and so they should and so they must
sanctions have been imposed upon Russia
just like the ones on Iran getting
Tighter and Tighter and Tighter and now
we have the absurdity in Britain where
the language that's being used in the
media and in Parliament is like the Cold
War as if Russia were still some kind of
communist enemy of Western Powers when
it is not and it's getting dangerous
just in the last uh few
days Russian military aircraft flying in
international airspace this is important
flying in international airspace were
buzzed by British Air Force jets and
threatened and the Russian Ambassador
has been called into the foreign office
to be given a lecture by the jumped up
foreign minister of the United Kingdom
whose name nobody in Britain even knows
wagging his finger at the Russians for
daring to fly in international airspace
this from people who are invading other
people's countries all over the world
sending their army navy Air Force to
bomb and shell and occupy other people's
countries all around the world lecturing
Russia about flying in international
airspace that's the backdrop I've got an
audience of gifted professionals and
enthusiastic amateurs like me and the
discussion starts after this
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