the issue of providing us with macroeconomic assistance will be resolved, and we understand that this is now a matter of life and death for ukraine. the situation unfolds within the framework of the us governmental and legal system, where the great power of the us congress lies in its authority to determine the distribution of funds, in particular for the executive branch of government. therefore, when the president makes a request either for the annual budget or for a specific additional program, such as aid to ukraine. congress must approve it. linzi graham has long supported aid to ukraine, its independence, and its restoration territorial integrity. however, as a politician, he has evolved from challenging donald trump in the primary election to becoming one of his staunchest supporters. graham admits that trump prefers not just to provide aid to ukraine, but to frame it as. trump has suggested, and graham

admits, that this loan may never be repaid. the interest rate is likely to be very low, similar to world war ii bailouts under the lynlis act, much of which never was not compensated by recipient countries such as great britain, the soviet union, china and other allies. so calling it a credit is a political tactic , in the end it will still function as aid, but by calling it a credit it will appease a small faction of extreme house republicans who are blocking a vote by threatening to remove speaker michael johnson from his positions, and johnson, fearing to lose his role, prevents the vote. however , it is expected that the vote will take place already soon. when we talk about... about

our ukrainian fossils and the visit of linseygram, who begins to talk about help from the united states, a certain feeling creeps in that maybe someone, i don't know, the deep state, the american deep state would like this in this way solve issues related to fossils, well , i don't know, fossils in exchange for large-scale aid, this is about specific environments in the united states, maybe i 'm wrong. no, this theory seems propagandistic to me, maybe. the russians are behind the fact that it is the current subject of discussions in ukraine. the united states government has no interest in providing itself with natural resources from anywhere but the united states. the us government is trying to encourage other countries to allow american companies to extract oil, natural gas and other minerals on fair terms. in addition, it promotes the global extraction of natural minerals to meet the needs of the world economy. in fact, i wish they

would think as strategically as you suggest. instead, a lot is happening in washington a narrow partisan political struggle between those who support donald trump in the house of representatives, seeking to demonstrate unwavering support, and the rest of the country, essentially the population of the united states, who want ukraine to receive aid and recognize that ukraine needs it, in other words, no matter how important ukraine was not for the usa. strategically, it is not the main foreign policy issue for biden right now. his primary concern is israel's conflict with gaza and the associated houthi attacks on shipping in the red sea sea, which can significantly affect the world economy and worsen the image of biden, who is campaigning against donald trump. however, the most pressing issue concerning the rest of the world in us politics is.

the border with mexico. there is currently a complex debate in which republicans accuse biden of insufficient border control, especially now during the crisis in haiti. in washington, there are fears of another significant wave of migrants from haiti heading for the southern border. that is why this issue is the number one issue on the pre-election agenda biden at the moment. ukraine is really important, but it is definitely not about the depth of the state. conspiracy, it is simply a short-sighted pre-election policy of the usa, which prevents the allocation of aid to ukraine. yes, mr. ambassador, well, in any case, we understand that conspiracy theory is a very convenient tool for political experts and for journalists, in order to, so to speak, consider various additional options, problems, but in any case now in the dry balance we have extremely positive signals from the president of the united states, extremely positive... a signal from

pentagon chief lloyd austin, there are a lot of extremely positive signals, but the issue is not resolved, and it could mean that maybe, i don't know, one or the other... sar has accomplished its mission, and so has the united states received extremely specific threats from the kremlin. we understand that the process continues in europe, but this process still cannot solve all the necessary tasks facing our state, because russia is entering a new, additional, even more serious phase of the war. you are right when there were threats from putin about application of tactical nuclear. weapons in ukraine, bill burns, the head of the cia, a former ambassador to russia, went to moscow and explained to president putin that if russia were to take such a step, it would have serious military consequences for russian forces. to me , that meant that if putin used tactical nuclear weapons, the united states

would attack russian forces with conventional means, but i don't know if that would be the case. this is just what reliable news sources like yourself have been reporting. "i agree with you that the signals coming from general austin or president biden on providing aid to ukraine are positive. national security adviser jake salevan was visiting kyiv the other day, and it was at this time that secretary of state blinken headed to egypt to try to broker a ceasefire in israel's war against hamas. in this way , the biden administration is trying to make it clear that the united states is with ukraine." the us is sending its second most important foreign policy official, the national security adviser, to kyiv. while the top us diplomat is going to cairo. as graham told linca while in kyiv, he is more confident than ever that a political solution will be found to help

ukraine. the problem is that ukraine does not have time to wait. so, unfortunately, one of the greatest weaknesses of our american political system is that... extreme ideological players in one house of our parliament can block what almost everyone else wants. certainly, the majority of american citizens approve of aid to ukraine, and as i understand it, most members of congress also give the green light help ukraine. unfortunately, we have to live with this problem all the time in the united states because of the inefficient governance, because of how the rules of our democratic system are set up. that we are getting closer to the point where aid will be appropriated by congress and we will see ukraine finally get more of what it needs. putin recently reappointed himself to the post of president, and we understand that he has to crown himself with, i don't know,

the cap of ivan the terrible until he is completely happy. on the other hand , we understand that the current situation is brewing this or that so-called negotiating point. this is how we understand that russia is now in this negotiating moment. if he really will, he feels much stronger than a year ago. on the other hand, certain processes are ongoing, and we have two tracks, one is the so-called geneva track, so in geneva they are trying to form a big conference that would be dedicated to the so-called peace formula, on the other hand , we understand that the russians will not be there, but the chinese will be as observers. last couple of months lihui, special representative china, traveled the entire european union meeting. with all possible representatives of various authorities, and i would like to analyze together with you what this so-called geneva format and the second track, which will most likely be formed by beijing together with moscow, can be. i do not know when

the geneva peace conference will take place, but i see the swiss government's agreement to hold it as a positive sign, especially since russia will not be there. so that's good. and in the end it will be a sign of support for ukraine. to me, it's so cerebral an assault aimed at finding ways to achieve peace in such a way as to allow ukraine to restore its territorial integrity. it is worth noting that even china's so-called peace plan, which is quite vague regarding ukraine, actually included the idea of ​​restoring ukraine's territorial integrity as the first item. of course, china... is forced to take such a position because of taiwan's problems. if you observe china's behavior after russia's full-scale invasion of ukraine, china has not behaved as an ally of russia. instead, it acts more like a country that has understanding with russia, having a common

enemy, which is the west and the united states. xinjin pin is essentially using vladimir putin to do the dirty work, the hard work of waging war. china is trying not to provide weapons to russia and not to violate sanctions because it is very concerned about secondary us sanctions. these are the sanctions that, in case of violation, could hurt chinese banks. for example, if chinese banks no longer have access to the us dollar, the swift system or the us financial system, xijing ping fears that his home there will be a political earthquake of its own. so, china's presence in geneva is not so bad in my opinion. it would be much better if china, apart from the ukrainian issue, did not share russia's desire to undermine the us west. however, i really have high hopes for the geneva conference and i am confident. that there will be no serious pressure on ukraine to abandon its legitimate

demands to clear its territory of all occupying russian troops and to fully restore its territorial integrity. when we are talking about the parameters of what russia considers to be a certain achievement of its goals, this is one point, and the second point is the question of how our friends see the victory of ukraine, that is jake sullivan, the national security adviser to president ... biden for a couple of days therefore , he made an extremely powerful signal, that is , according to him, the victory of ukraine means the preservation of the ukrainian state, sovereign, democratic, economically independent, and so on and so forth. the only thing he missed was a very important point, the return our territories temporarily occupied by the russian federation. and here we once again return to what is called strategic help from the outside. of the united states and our allies, not just help, so to speak, at the tactical level, which allows

us to preserve at least what we have at the moment. strategic assistance involves fundamentally new types of weapons in sufficient quantity to inflict an extremely painful defeat on the enemy. what i am very critical of the biden administration is that no jake salevan, no president biden, no... did not clearly state that we want ukraine to win, we want victory for ukraine. they always say: "we don't want ukraine to lose." but they do not say directly, we want ukraine to win. so psychologically, in my opinion, this is too weak a position. but one of the reasons why they don't clearly define what victory means for ukraine, or even talk about it, is that, as they often say, it's up to ukraine to decide. what will victory look like, you are a democracy so this is your country

your territory and your people, therefore it is up to ukraine to decide how the war will end and what victory will mean for it. yes, i understand that russia has resumed its military offensive, but russia's goal all along has been to survive. i mean, after it failed its first attack on kyiv in february, march 2022 , and after the successful counteroffensive of ukraine, which is being pushed out. russian troops from kherson in the south and kharkiv in the north. russia had to literally dig in, dig a trench and hope, or maybe even pray, that the united states and our european allies will not provide ukraine with the aid that its brave ukrainian soldiers need to win. this is what is happening now. yes, that's it. we 're not giving you the help you need, so russia can hang on, and maybe even make a few. steps forward, but, as i said, i am increasingly confident that ukraine will receive this aid, and it is important that

ukraine uses it as wisely as possible. i want to share with you frankly what i hear from the american military, who are passionate supporters of ukraine. they say that ukraine previously trained very inefficiently, firing too many rounds and shells during exercises, and that the aid should have been used more sparingly. in addition, there were fears that... the price of the received money was used for other purposes, for example, to buy expensive cars for ukrainian officials who had access to finance, but these numbers are small. ukraine will win if we give it 60 billion dollars of aid and 40 billion dollars that the european union promised to ukraine. for me victory means that ukraine will push all russian troops out of its territory and fully restore its territorial integrity. but for me... it's easy to talk about this, sitting in the comfort of my home in istanbul, the leadership and people of ukraine

have to weigh much more difficult trade-offs, life and destruction against territory, and only the people of ukraine and their elected leaders can decide what that trade-off should look like . you mentioned istanbul, and actually, i would now like you to analyze the situation with the president erdoğan and his potential opportunities, we understand that president erdoğan has now managed to...unprecedented de facto coordination of certain possible american sanctions mechanisms in relation to turkey with the agreement of the turkish authorities, that is, we understand that the president...is a powerful player, but how powerful it will be, and if we talk and return to the so-called geneva format or the istanbul format in combination with the geneva format could give one or another fruit, do you have the feeling that putin is ready, despite all diplomatic attempts to go to further escalation with further entry into

the so-called even bigger war. i think president erdogan has proven to be a very effective negotiator. he managed to conclude the so-called green agreement with ukraine with the participation of moscow and kyiv. he wants to continue playing this role. he seeks to mediate and sees turkey's foreign policy as aimed at stabilizing the region and bringing peace, prosperity and justice. this is his self-esteem and the goal of turkey. a lot of people don't agree with that, but i think that's his first priority. therefore, i believe that he will come to geneva. willing to help make a deal if possible. on the war in the middle east, erdogan and his foreign ministers are also active behind the scenes, trying to broker some sort of deal. although erdogan is highly critical of netanyahu, behind the scenes turkey is trying to facilitate a deal to free more hostages and then stand

ready to step in if there is a ceasefire, acting as a guarantor state. this is an aspiration. turkey. so, how strong erdogan? i don't know how strong turkey is in this situation. this is not so much a matter of brute force, because erdogan is not going to threaten anyone with military force or economic sanctions. no, he simply proved himself to be an effective mediator. and in the past, both putin and zelensky said that they welcome erdogan's mediation. putin is saying that russia is ready to escalate the conflict in order to force ukraine to de-escalate. this is russia's national, security and military doctrine, but i don't think it is capable of going very far in the context of escalation enter. the only major concern is weapons production. the russian economy is now on a war footing, it is being completely reoriented to the production of weapons. russia produces about 200,155 millimeter

artillery shells per month. and when the eu increases its capacity, it will only produce. 50 thousand per month, so russia can produce a lot of weapons, but in the long run such costs will simply bury its economy. yes, the economy of the russian federation did not collapse, but that is only because there is so much national wealth in russia are now invested in military production, which means that the goods being destroyed do not contribute to economic growth. so putin's long-term costs of this war will be enormous, and if he escalates, the costs... will be even greater, he wants to stay in power for another 12 years, and i don't see how he's going to survive if he escalates this war . well, in any case , we see a readiness on the part of the kremlin elites to continue the escalation, we see that over the next couple of years, the russian economy did not collapse, it was rebuilt, they now they are, i think, at the end of the late

middle ages, yes, but they are ready to smear their country. about the war, that is , there is no such question as to preserve these or other things, no, and here is the key story taking into account this moment, how would it be right for us to do your vision and your advice, so to the leadership of our state, in order to in order to activate certain additional mechanisms, should we now deepen, i don't know, military and economic cooperation with great britain or with the european union, in particular with france, germany and. poland within the weimar triangle, or on the contrary, we should now intensify our cooperation with the possible next president of the united states, donald trump, so we understand that now we should already develop an additional new strategy of relations and specific tactics, propose and develop, of course, an ideal the formula is

to cooperate with everyone. i think that ukraine needs the deepest possible cooperation with everyone. with his friends, unprecedentedly deep cooperation. i participated in the conference, on to which a german government official spoke, and he mentioned that if someone had said, say, in the fall of 2021, that the european union would invest its own money to help ukraine buy weapons, people would have thought he was out of his mind, but that what is happening now therefore, i believe that senator graham actually gave ukraine two pieces of advice: to produce as many weapons as possible. as soon as possible and attract more ukrainian citizens to the army. he insisted on lowering the conscription age from 27 to 25 years. i know that it is very difficult to do this in ukraine politically. points vision, but it seems like a very necessary step. in addition, i believe that it would be useful if ukraine emphasized more to its friends around the world that it has significantly

increased its ability to produce weapons at home. as far as i understand from an article i read in the atlantic council a few days ago, ukraine is now capable of producing $18 billion worth of artillery shells and other weapons per month. however, in the state budget of ukraine. for the purchase of equipment and weapons that ukraine can produce independently. therefore, i believe that ukraine should ask for help not only in the form of weapons, but also in the form of financial support, which will allow you to produce more and prepare for the long-term deterrence of russia in the future. how should we work with donald trump's potential new team? so there were rumors that, for example, donald trump with... musk and so on and so forth. we understand that there are issues of teams that may neglect, well, at least in a small area, what is called the ethics

of international cooperation. yes, we are starting to live in a new time, right? well, accordingly, it is not known what can happen additionally in the united states, but donald trump is making extremely contradictory signals, but we see that he is not losing. yes, i want to wish joseph biden's team. i don't know, victory , successful development and so on and so on, but we see that, well, trump's team is recruiting, and accordingly, what should we prepare for under those conditions, if in six months the united states may have its own the revolution is political, so we understand that when we talk about isolationism, we are not saying no about political or politological categories, we are talking about very specific things, in particular about the military... aid and financial assistance, which may not arrive, or maybe on the contrary, well, when donald trump talks about the fact that he has a script, he has vision, yes, what

could it be if he was ready to act sharply or not sharply, for example, communicating with the aggressor state, russia, no one knows that, trump does not have such a plan, trump is as he is in all to her beauty, she is absolutely narcissistic and self-confident. man now he looks to me like a stronger political candidate, but biden is gaining momentum and trying to counter the concern among democrat voters and among all voters that he's outdated, he's doing a pretty good job of that. trump is facing various challenges related to the various criminal cases against him, some cases may actually help him win voters' votes, or get them to come to the polls and stay home because they think that donald trump is being prosecuted by the us judicial system, but certain other cases, such as the one alleging that he essentially instigated the january 6 mutiny in

congress, will cost him votes. so it's too early to tell, but even if i knew that donald trump would be elected president, i still wouldn't be able to predict anything concrete. i have no idea what his approach to ukraine will be. on the one hand, he said he would end the war in one day. if he becomes president, obviously that would mean he would push in some way on the ceasefire, which may not be in favor of ukraine. that's probably what he meant, though he didn't specify, so that's a bad thing. but the good thing is that he is the first us president to provide lethal aid to ukraine in the form of javelin anti-tank missiles. this is something that president barack obama could never or would not give ukraine. and now president trump is not saying. that does not want to help ukraine. he says that he does not want to help ukraine for free. it is about the fact that if ukraine receives something from the united states and from donald trump, then the united states and donald

trump must get something from ukraine. so let's talk not about a gift, but about a loan that ukraine may or may not have to pay back. that's trump's approach so far. all of this boils down to the fact that i am not too concerned about donald trump's approach to ukraine if he is removed. president, but i am deeply concerned about his approach to nato, because he has previously spoken of the alliance as a relic of the past, and a few weeks ago from his mouth we everyone has heard another delusion, which is that any nato member country that does not invest 2% of its gdp in defense, which is nato's goal, is effectively allowing putin to do whatever he wants with it, because the us is not going to defend such countries. in my opinion, this is heresy, this is heresy. of a political nature. no leader of any nato member country should ever say such a thing, least of all nato's most important leader. so trump is very unpredictable.

absolutely opportunistic, unstrategic and selfish, and yet he has not yet said that all aid to ukraine should be cut off, and thank god. thank you very much, mr. ambassador, for this brilliant analysis on the air of the tv channel, i want to remind our tv viewers that matthew bryze, former adviser to the secretary of state of the united states, ex-director of european and eurasian affairs at the us national security council, was currently working for them. america, glory to ukraine, glory to the heroes, oh, there are no potatoes, you will bring them, but my son, something has caught on. i remind you, put on dr. tice's comfrey and get back to work, comfrey ointment, german ointment for pain in the joints and muscles, oh!

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stronger together. andriy piondkovskii, a famous political expert who is in washington, will be on the espresso tv channel now. glory to ukraine, andriy andriyovych, i congratulate you. deroy, glory. well, extremely difficult situation in which we are, that is, on the one hand, we hear that the european union is, as it were, taking a second breath when we talk about the supply of ammunition and so on. on the other hand, we understand that... the united states is once again going on a break, american congressmen will be on vacation again for two weeks. yesterday at the meeting in ramstein, or the day before yesterday, there was an unprecedented statement by the us defense minister. in fact, he called the behavior of the american side in relation to ukraine shameful. he said indignantly that he still hadn't approved aid to ukraine and that it is a matter of

honor and security for the united states. this shows the drama of the struggle taking place in the us on this issue. indeed, for six months , a draft law on providing military aid to ukraine worth 64 billion has been thrashing around in congress. in particular, i want to tell about two visits to kyiv. on tuesday, there was a so-called friend of ukraine lynsey graham, a republican senator. he came to kyiv at the age of ten, always considered himself a friend of ukraine and said. some nonsense that he spoke with trump, that trump said that there is no need to implement a law on aid to ukraine, he told the ukrainian audience that trump cares about ukraine, that he thinks about ukraine, proposes a new law that ukraine will receive money only as a loan, which, i'm sorry, we don't care if it's a debt or something else, we need weapons, it's not scary to be in debt, because...