de facto yes that's that's a positive there are rushed there is where was a small russian contingent wolk kind of afraid and the kurds believe that while the russians are there they're more or less secured of the turks will not attack and the third to share for us will not appear because the russians all kind of on agreement with the met with the pentagon were covering that part of syria but the turkish military rebel delegation came to moscow last week they had talks with here in the russian defense ministry in general staff and apparently they reached package the deal that the russians allow de facto the. turks to go on offering while the turks so well the russians and the their allies from the pro asset forces and iranian forces to go for the syrian opposition in the . so this is a kind of two thing there's two operations happening similar thing is silly russian operation in the so-called former announced the conflicting zone and turkish operation against the kurds. the kurds appear to be indispensable in the fight against islamic states now that that fight appears to have been one big

trying to cash in on social justice movements by paid painting themselves as woke and what is woke wolk is a term which is used to say that you're aware of injustices in the world in particular racism and this is a term from the united states that's used so essentially unity ever have come out and said that they you know are saying that it's bad for the industry the big companies are jumping on this and they need to be very careful because they can actually lose a lot of buyers of their products that's the thing of course if they don't seem authentic then you know they are not trustworthy is iran's all right thank you so much probably is greatly appreciated. next up glaciers in the himalaya mountain range north of india are melting about twice as fast as they used to according to research by columbia university in the united states the world's highest peaks which include mount everest have been losing ice at a rate of about one percent a year since 2000 the scientists say the excel or weight of glacial melts poses a serious threat to the water supply of the indian subcontinent. the glac

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now russian liberals have been chanted with the western so-called western values western ideological wolk ism is changing this woke ism disparages tradition patriotism the family and even logic like math for russian liberals this appears to be going too far are russian liberals falling out of love with the west. to discuss these issues and more i'm joined by my guest paul robinson an author when he was a professor in the graduate school of public and international affairs at the university of ottawa in also we have wendy's and he is a professor at the university of south eastern norway as well as author of the book russian conservatism and here in moscow we have to meet bob that she's a political analyst and editor and you know smee internet media project originally cross talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it ok i was going to call 1st. in light of my introduction paul i'll ask the big question but i'm sure there's no easy answer but given that you're all everyone on our panel here is an expert in russia. are russian liberals following

article by a woman called yulia latina which was very similarly outspoken denouncing what she called wolk socialists who she denounced as a bunch of loses. and use and quite inflammatory language about black lives matter we saw also by the us why fix any assumption that famous socialite and one time presidential candidate was used to be the face of audi and russia was fired after making what some people said was a somewhat racist tweet under a number of other races comments which appeared to come out a liberal countering the. movement. on the language i don't know if you know it's when you're happy degree it when you agree that. racism and bigotry isn't one of the hallmarks of russian liberalism is something that i've been telling people for years i mean the west likes to fixate on mr no bonnie but you can go to you tube and you can see what he what he thinks of migrant workers from the south i mean back kind of language in england. move over to. glen here that kind of language would get you canceled in the united states and pretty damn fast ok i mean this is there's a misperception in th

you have the professional raw material class that in my opinion is using systemic racism and other wolk isms as a cover because they know that the economic and political system is interest extremely unjust and then we have all the other players matter. to what degree they're really important is still one unclear to me but they're certainly being propped up by different elements of the elites and importantly the media so i mean it is kind of a purpose but i don't see a list of demands the only thing that is absolutely clear to me is that the establishment is is worried while for the 2nd time in 10 years we see a massive transfer of wealth to the wealthiest people in the world when up to 2025 percent even more families are food insecure here in the united states so i listed a kind of the macro the big picture here is your take what. i mean when when i take a look at what's happening right now in the united states i kind of see this as the establishment class the neo liberal elites kind of admitting definitely admitting that they can't be trump at the ballot box especially with with joe bi

candidates like liz warren and cory booker and kemal harriss is that they like to like to give a lot of wolk and progressive babble and doublespeak but they're not progressive they're neo liberals and they're just not believable and. everyone's trying to out woke the other person and it's just not working well i'll tell you alex it alienates a lot of people this woking it's ok because that's not part of solutions kevin you know i mean you know you're going to be the minority on this one i'm really happy you're here but i mean what's the difference between their policy suggestions and virtues signaling because you know you go from resistance to russia russia russia to races i mean you the democrats could try to keep pivoting these things that just fizzle or have no substance whatsoever and the democrats say it's good for the public it's quite exhausting what's their next little trick out of the hat i mean. there is the perception that there is just this all the thing you need to do is hate trump in a world will be a better place but we all know that's not going to happen go ahead kevin. well

kurdish factions and that's also a democratic project is syrian kurdistan for political reasons for wolk reasons as well they feel like they're hindered spirits in that sense politically but if not going to work things are deterred was a few years ago i don't buy this at all i mean again one of these big leaves here you know edema the you know jets to oppose you know washington's policy in the region and russia is number one russia cox almost everyone in the region it is shown. a lot of the days when it comes to destroying isis and al qaeda this is what he did while working hand in hand with the government in damascus and russia's position is that it's going to help. a legitimate member of the you know of the united nations and syria requested assistance because it was under threat from internal and external forces perfectly under international law but we keep hearing is that you know there has to be regime change in damascus because it hurts russia how does that logic work in your mind. well i was just mazen you're quite right that it became kind of an initiation ritual for every new am

this is a real boom for the studies people because every you know to fight racism black lives matter wolk ism you need an equity counselor you need a diversity counselor you need it your person the chief in this apartment and you know what all those worthless agrees that have been burned up don't last 30 years there is upward mobility there but it would they do is you taking this paradigm and they're just reinforcing all the problems we have discussed here and it feels so great doesn't it if you're if you're the one it's there it's pointing and you know if you're if you're a priest or a priest as in this church you're elevated ok i mean this reminds me of you know kids that were pol pot you know sit down and get on your knees you know you know and it's terrifying and you know what people are sick maybe going to this is extraordinary moment go ahead george yes yes exactly so what you're now creating and i don't obviously didn't create it for some time is a fast administrative klotz reality parasitical. that will be in i get another boot on the neck oh well those. because they will be there

people very different policies but just because they're women i guess that's why i mean this whole wolk stuff that's what that's what destroyed war and she went way way out and everyone says what in the world are you talking about you could have a 9 year old trans person decide who your secretary of education is i mean elizabeth have you missed your meds today i mean saying that on national television you made up of but one out of yourself and you destroyed your campaign and then you went and got in collude you colluded with c.n.n. to go after bernie to the calm of sexes i mean he was promoting women you know in the 1970 s. when it was on earth of go ahead david. i think the problem that we have is the media has just shoved aside a lot of the candidates like you said they disappeared most of us they did want to really hear our opinions and our viewpoints and our and our policy. and the policy and the character of the candidate is important i mean you can't have these people that are candidates doing things that are just. just bizarre i mean that's that's the only way i can describe eliz

so between continued team changed now i think over the last few years this is what's referred to as wolk ism is a lot of this is a liberal idealist now decoupling completely from conservatism i mean. now refuting often family values people don't you want to be defined by gender it's that you know that there are radical secularism you have the multiculturalism instead of having a common cultural a form that everyone belongs to so it's all i think there's a lot of unraveling going on between the allens we had before so i think more often now in use our russian liberals look towards the west and thinking well we were under the west between you know in 1950 s. and 1000 a.d. really we don't know what this is about this is not what we want for russia and again i think it possibly can be positive because you know liberals do need their representation for presentation in russia a son's oliseh are sent us being this you know a suspicious group you know possibly more loyalty to the west to russia itself i think that's what it was in so many did he cut loose from western liberalism liberalism could

unmasking request about lee the trying issue throughout russia hoax story which was the flint kesey act wolk it took place on december the 29th when obama issued his sanctions ruling and here is the expulsion of the diplomats. and from that moment done from december the 29th through to january the 5th there were no unmarked requests so the story that we had been told which is that oh well you know who we were spying on just we are because he's a russian ambassador and he's. there and it was spying on him and coincidentally we picked up his conversation with clint is untrue there were no unmasking requests and yet by january the good which is when mccabe the deputy director of the f.b.i. is having a conversation with mary mccoy it was. just as by then mccabe knew all about the just react hole and was already bringing up the logan act and obama on january the 5th also knew all about the flynn gets the acro so how did they know about it there were no unmasking requests that lease the conclusion that it was flynn and flynn always who was the target of the obama administration they were spying on

happened over the last few 100 years from time immemorial there is been slavery but you look to these wolk is walking around it it's something that's been around for 300 years i mean it's so a historical and it's cynical go ahead george. exactly right and the exact. colored people are not the only ones who have been in slavery and as you say slavery has been around since the beginning of time and you know i mean you're going to talk about philosophy remember the the great an 8 year old philosophy revolved around the mosque the slave dialectics because he said that a crucial moment in the growth of self-consciousness of man in other words slavery was just went part and parcel of war and the new orleans labor congar all of the conquer so there's nothing at all that this is uniquely whites against colored people but what's really happening now is that big list any historical that the destruction of people's lives and careers if they refuse to follow our culture because what we have not as black lives matter is a cult and he demands going of the beast just as you know the fashions leaders of t

people have just washed their hands a bit and i'm really worried and at the same time we have this wolk ism that is charging our politics at the same time it's going to be a hot summer i guess you would agree and you know it comes back the money and i think you know what happens is those people who oppose particular things you know if i oppose this group of women on them and if you oppose that group you'll blame it on them but when it comes down to it when they try to throw 365000 people out in los angeles county alone when you see that kind of mass. homelessness you know we can discuss it around the edges but you're going to have another tender box and it may not even take arc of a bit i'm just. feeling like george it may just explode so i'm predicting bad things and i'm connecting it directly to the economic policies american leaders. michael last 30 seconds go to you go ahead the good news is we do have a very strong security blanket in this country for instance medicaid available for individuals without income or assets section 8 housing available were homeless without income or ass

generalized culture of war that we've imported from the united states where the right can only bash so-called wolk academics who are trying to protect the left cubans from right wing views. but the right is blind to its own restrictions on free speech and academic freedom so what is needed is i think a repeal of the prevent duty and the new legal status of tree duty for university to protect freedom of speech on campus but it is very difficult for this government to take any action in a consensual and serious way until that takes the plank out of its own eyes so to speak by looking at prevent present interesting where some in this opposite in effect a culture war as he says. yes that's right i think both sides are kind of unable to see free speech as what a free speech should be the point neutral you know it's not a let it shouldn't be a left right issue and i think you know least correct there is i think there can be a danger with what the government is trying to doing to do it where you have in effect what i think is a contradiction in terms of thing and what's not like a free speech crackdown w