Former US Ambassador to KSA Chas Freeman is exceptionally interesting always and certainly in this talk with Dr Glenn Diesen.
Glenn Diesen said something which makes very good sense. 'The harsh conditions the Russians are putting forward in the diplomatic solution are certainly much better than what a Russian victory would look like.'
Chas Freeman: The idea was we should have all Europeans, meaning everybody but the Russians in a common security structure. That was the logic and that was tragically wrong. I actually had something to do with promoting that fallacy because I remember asking myself when I became assistant secretary of defense if NATO's the answer, what was the question? And what the question was was should we have an an inclusive national and security structure in Europe? And what's the logical basis for that? A logical basis is NATO, so let's expand NATO at least in terms of its outreach through the partnership for peace and let's graft on to that an inclusion of Russia with the Russian NATO Council. Well that effort might have led to something but it was overrun by cold war of triumphalism and and this competing idea of Europe as everything but the Russians something that de Gaulle would have rejected as an idea, of course, since his concept of Europe extended to the Urals at least.
Chas Freeman: Hamas in the Israel lexicon just means any Palestinian nationalist. By the way Hamas is keeping the ceasefire. Israel is engaging in provocations not responses to Hamas violations. There's only one side keeping the peace or ceasefire and it isn't Israel.
And the United States has now built a base on the fringe of Gaza from which apparently we are directing a lot of the Israeli actions with the result that nationalist Israelis are upset that Israel is compromising its sovereignty and there's a crisis in US Israel relations as a result.
An odd way to generate a crisis. One would have thought a crisis might have occurred over genocide, but now it's occurring over the efforts of the United States to direct activities that are part of the genocide.
So this is a very depressing situation.
Glenn Diesen: Besides the escalating the tensions with Gaza and Lebanon, we also see now reports that Netanyahu has visited the newly occupied territories in Syria. what should we make of this? - it doesn't seem like something he would do if they have any intentions of returning these territories.
Chas Freeman: No, they have no such intention.
He is pursuing the vision that many of his quasi-fascist religious messianic cabinet members have of an Israel that extends well beyond the the borders of Palestine.
So it has come to the attention of the world that the source of instability in West Asia is not as has been alleged Iran but is Israel.
And therefore you're seeing various coalitions formed to contain Israel and you're seeing hedging against Israel like the Saudi Pakistani defense pack which by the way is going to facilitate a Chinese technology rush into the into the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia since the Pakistani military technology is all Chinese or Chinese derived and proven in battles with India and newly credible.
Therefore, I mean this is a really important evolution that's going on. While we have our eyes on the mass murders that are being conduct conducted by Israel, they are having consequences in terms of geopolitical rearrangements.
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