if you look at the immigration aspect of it, you know, russia, according to the word migration report in 2022 is the 4th largest in the country. so the nation's, if you look at india and the recent in the recent boston and they implemented and implemented c e at which is the, you know, citizenship amendment that and basically, um, you know, it's very common to immigrants based on the, on the fact that the most do persecuted, one valley just off. i'm so, if you consider all of that and see, you know, how, by doing this currently, you know, the, the, he said he's facing in the, in the us right now is basically because of his, you know, immigration policies, on a recent survey that basically suggests associated with this and in the wash and survey, it basically, you know, suggested that to types of americans disapprove of might intimidation policies. 68 for some people of the us, disapprove of you know, the policies and 48 person think it's extreme by them is extremely or very responsible for those policies. in a few days, they've sent

a survey again to the same, you know, same kind of findings, democratic supporting when leading voters on 66 percent of them actually towards that. it's a major crisis. you know? so this is manufactured in biden's approval ratings as well. if you look at his, it full, everything is sort of the lowest. it's put the 1st infections and the countries that he is accusing off right now whether the street didn't think you know, or, you know, putting himself or movie, you know, the approval ratings of all of these need. those actually are one of the highest, the best, you know, do things in the world, you know, with 71 person, 73. you did, you know, 83 percent for both may as well. so there's not so factual contradictions. i would say. all right, uh we have to leave here now. uh, i must. thank you so much for your time on this uh, profess up or the box, the social scientists office of a professor of the chinese university of hong kong. thank you for your insight. thank you. thank are. all right, so you can check ours. he does come for more all day to see you again in the box 30 minutes from now. thanks for watching

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i'm rick sanchez. and this is direct impact the in the special report i want to take a look at something that has personally or bothered me and it's this wire, russia, us relation so bad. it's like siblings and can't get along so much in common, so much to share. so many missed opportunities and you had a history has simply not been kind to this relationship, believe it or not, as bad as it seems now, with the us government's ridiculously stubborn refusal to accept brush as a global partner. no matter how many times russia has asked to be a partner, it's been as bad or worse, at other times, forces inside the us for reasons apparently having to do with power and money, has simply not accepted,

consistently friendly or even fair relations with russia. but when did this really start? how could this could have been different? how good been different when i go in quite a bit in quite a bit of a very different is a, towards the end of world war 2. there was a deep appreciation in the united states among almost all americans for what joseph solid. yeah. joseph stalin, for all his issues had done had mustered. after all, it was clearly his russian army that a truly defeated or put the finishing blow in the adolf hitler's nazi regime. that's a fact that over time was whittled away by british power brokers, us industrialists. and of course, how could we forget hollywood the

sooner on earth you went to the most extraordinary days of world war 2 and of the biggest battle of the mightiest more man have ever for exciting to watch a battle of the bulge. that's what we call grew up with, right. it's pretty good stuff. we were told all the time. still told to this day that we won world war 2, but of course a little help from the british. and of course it was a french resistance. right. well, why? oh, yeah, so russian, spain were somehow also involved. what really happened was very different and you know, who understood that the president of the united states at the time before his death president franklin delano roosevelt enjoyed a respectful, would appreciate a relationship with the soviet union and its leadership as well. of that. so interestingly enough, david, his vice president, his vice president, was

a lot like here. let's talk. the guy's name was henry wallace. as was big here, right. was, was the 2nd most popular man in america after up the, he was, oh, it was a people guy. you know, not, not a typical politician, not a guy who came from money like so many around him. i mean, i'm gonna share with you something. now here's a speech. this is wallace's famous speech on social reform and the common man. the speech came to be known as the revolution of the people's speech. so having spoken of the american century, i say that the century on which we are entering the century, which will come out of this war, can be it must be the century of the coming. but there must be neither military nor economic imperialist margin. freedom of 150 years.

there were the american revolution, the french revolution, the american revolution, the russian revolution. somewhat the common man, how good stops. now, most people like the sky a lot. however, and here's the problem, the british and the other a global industrialist. they did not like wallace. winston churchill in particular, hated this guy, and are part of lisa agents into the united states to monitor him. churchwell seemed to hate russians and also seem to resent the credit that the soviets had gotten for marching into berlin and taking up the nazis, had become wallace didn't agree with churchill regarding the soviets. he kind of like the more least, respect to the churchill dislike wallace by the way. wallace was no fan of church on either. i'll show you a clip. now is interesting where wallace all but calls churchill publicly

a drunk. i said, remember, the notion of anglo saxon superior nor did it in churches approach will be offensive to many treacher upside a bit of whiskey said why be apologetic about under sex on superior or is it that we were superior? that's right. as i drink by whiskey, i will tell you we are superior to every us. so was the crazy about church, you know, like imperialism. he also believes that can work with associates. that sounds troubling. so that makes them popular with people all throughout the americas. for example, i'm america, where i come from in latin america, this guy visits almost every single country any celebrate the locate to naples. not waiting for it says, yes, says i have the good fortune of visiting other pieces other countries, pardon me?

i have a good fortune of doing so nature a wallace at this point is a sure to follow roosevelt. but 1st he had to continue to be a vice president. and if the people had been allowed to choose, he would have been the obvious winner as vice president. money wasn't up to the people, much like the way the democratic party, upper adjective, done today with president biden. they wanted somebody else, someone they couldn't, maybe manipulate wallace was cheated. the party knowing that f d r probably didn't have much longer to live, shows another guy, a guy named harry truman instead. this guy was a salesman, areas older, but as a young man that's all he did, he sold suits. he was once used as an example by party leaders who said he was paying for that could just about get any part of your life to truman actually admitted. he had no idea what he was doing when he became president. he wasn't

kidding well, wallace and roosevelt had been very close. um and wallace had met with the president and roosevelt the ad for leaders. when he was the vp. truman had actually met with the roosevelt to types. that's it. to meetings with roosevelt before he died. he knew nothing about you all to nothing about stolen yet because of what the projects kind of did. when roosevelt dies, this guys in charge a great cumulative. i call upon all americans to help me keep our nation united in defense of those ideal which i have been so eloquently proclaimed by franklin roosevelt. actually, truman turns out to be nothing like roosevelt roosevelt wanted to work with the soviets. truman was mediately talked in the hating them. that was easy, because he knew nothing about them or even what they had actually done. truman

became the victim of what was like a whisper campaign within the u. s. government convincing them that the somebody, if we're gonna try to take over your sound familiar, it wasn't true, but it didn't matter. what was true was the people advising truman the pro big business class. they wanted him to believe it most with the heirs of the rich, you know, the railroad class, the banking class, the pink time industrialists. they disliked the soviets because they hated their social reforms. and in fact, they hated any government that wasn't for big business interest because that's what their interest wants, right? make sense? well, something like wallace tried to tell truman that he should engage with the russians . the president didn't listen. instead, he tried to bully them. and so, no matter how much soviet leaders tried to negotiate with him, what they got were conversations where a truman would later be quarter to saying, i see, i put them in their place. i showed them those guys i really did. right. and in

many ways, some historians would argue that those beginnings, those post world war 2 moments set the course for what is taking place today to join him. you know, is peter goose neck he is. if there's ever been a perfect guest, he's the perfect guest. this is the professor and the director of the nuclear studies institute at american university, and oliver stone co authored the 10 part documentary film series and but both titled, until the story of the united states. this is a piece of work that i have seen and read again and again. and if you do nothing before you leave this or before you have your next conversation about politics with whoever, please do yourself a favor. read this book, watch this documentary. it is that good and can actually change again. here's the matter, wrote it peter grossman, professor american university professor, thank you so much for being with us. after the, with your rec, that was quite an introduction. write a little history less than you gave. it's your less than

a professor and why we should start so few americans now this my classes are big enough. said scripts, i take my classes i. they know it. but you know, we don't get access. people who got a contrary view that doesn't fit into the narrow framework of american exceptionalism. don't get access to mass media in the united states. i do, i'm amazed stream, bad television, major television, all over the world. except to my own country. this is tighter control over the media in the united states than any place else in the world. and so we can't, if you do get a question, the narrative about american goodness, american benevolence, america wanting to spread freedom and democracy. i use simply get frozen out. and

that's been my experience largely except for a few blips here and there. and oliver, when i 1st came out with that and told history, i always certainly did get on all the mainstream media. but since then we have not been getting on it have, here's something i've always wanted to know is the u. s. had, let's say henry wallace and not harry truman. and they would have engaged the soviets. do you think that the u. s. russo relations would have been different, and even more importantly, do you think russia, as we know it today, would have been different, would have changed from style in this that and as to something else, had we just given them room debris to. well, that, sure that russia itself would have been different right away. but eastern europe could've been different. what the soviets understood what their concern was. they've been innovated twice through eastern europe. mm hm. live germany. what they

want that after world war 2 was a buffer zone. and they say, so there security in terms of space and territory and geography. so they wanted a buffer zone and they did not impose lock step quote unquote, communist or soviet style governments. immediately after the war. there was even a relative degree of democracy allowed ace to europe. they had elections, they had a open discussion. it wasn't really until the truman doctrine in early 47, that the soviets began to crack down and impose the kind of dic tutorial governments that we saw in, in eastern europe. but that was after they've given up on the united states. and so that when somebody got that's on, so that's what i was getting at, did they, did they,

did they cut down because we pushed them in that direction because we started seeing from what i was just telling and what i read mostly of your materials. it seemed like harry truman didn't even want to give them a break. didn't want to have a conversation with them. treated the russian soviet leaders at the time. like, it's like why even talking to me, you don't deserve to be in the same room with me. right. from the very beginning, that was his attitude, unlike roosevelt that you say, unlike wallace. one point that i would add to what you were saying about wallace and there's popularity. caliber released the pole on july 20th 1944. the 1st day of the democratic party convention in chicago, asking potential voters who they want that on the ticket is vice president. 65 percent of potential voters. so they wanted wireless back as vice president, 2 percent. why did truman? yeah that's, it was so one sided, it was worse. and the university of connecticut,

purdue basketball game. so at least they were in there for a half. do you think, do you, do you do think the same forces? gosh, i like, it makes me angry to ask this question, but i have to ask it because it's just so damn obvious. the same thing is we see today people who have power, people who have money, people who have influence people who are military contractors, the money in class, back then i called at the railroad glass or whatever the heck they call that the gilded age. today. it's like those same people are still doing the same thing. am i wrong? sadly, you're right. it's, we're in the, in some ways the worst situation. now, the only words during the 1st cold war we've got, we're facing potential li, explosive situations and gaza, me in ukraine for inside one or over tie one. me any

one of these could erupt into world war 3 because there is no diplomacy. there is no statesmanship, there is no looking at the world for the eyes of our adversaries. and that's what special wallace kept trying to impress upon. trimming because roosevelt begged wallace to stay in the cabinet after truman was chosen, his vice president. as well as bid, as secretary of commerce, and from that position for the next, almost 2 years, he weighs a campaign to try to open truman's eyes up to how what the us was doing. look to the soviets. and it would say it is memos to it. and the meetings are truman, how would it look if we had them or not, if they had a monopoly on time, a bombs, and we didn't. if they had basses all over the world, and we didn't, if they had bomb or is that could attack us? and we didn't know what john kennedy, who's the only president since roosevelt hall that brought home that thought i

where you're going cuz where i want to go, in fact, i've got the proof of what you're about to say. i've got it queued up. and when we come back, i'm going to let people hear exactly what uh, john f. kennedy said, the 1st time a president comes out and says something that it's almost a mystery why nobody had said it before. stay right there will be right back. the when i was wrong, just don't you have to see the house and engagement equals the trail. when so many find themselves will depart. we choose to look for common ground, the

the wires and why in this country. what if i give borrowed money at the store in this they should have been a short order, but i'm not going to stay less. so could i scan when i am what i could catch at your desktop session? i am no. let's just sean your. just a bunch of mine is going you sit on the set up on me and the the public sanchez, this is direct impact and i'm talking to professor peter cosmic. and he was about to say something to you that i, i wanted to hear him say,

but 1st i'm going to give him some material to work with. it's funny, but here's what i think he was about to express. long past world war 2 after roosevelt for example, no single u. s. president ever gave. busy russian people, they're due for what they did to defeat the nazi's. nobody. i mean, this is crazy that we were able to essentially erase that piece of history. it wasn't until j. f, k, john of kind of be finally stood up and did it. he said, what should've been said earlier by truman and, and by others here it is, we got it for you. a nation in the history of that ever suffered more than the soviet union. in the 2nd, at least 20000000 lost a large, countless millions of whole families were burned or a 3rd of the nation's territory. including 2 thirds of its industrial face was

turned into a waste land. a loss of privilege to the destruction of this country. east of chicago, and then not coincidentally, he was assassinated after saying that anyway, that's another show for another day. let's stick to this professor. is it? can you characterize. busy for us, what russia soviets did to, and the nazi regime where they helpers or were they the dominant force that are clearly the dominant force? uh, the united states, roosevelt a promised style and that the u. s. would open the 2nd front in western europe before the end of 1942 s style and to send over molotov, and

a trusted general to washington. in may of 1942. and after meeting he turns to general marshal. as as can we agreed to open up the 2nd front before the end of the . ready and the marshal said, absolutely, how do we convey that to style? and that was what the russians were counting on. you have to remember of it for up most of the war. the united states and british were facing 10 german divisions between us while the salvia as were facing more than 200 german divisions by themselves. and but when we failed to open up the 2nd front, we lost the diplomatic initiative. we don't open it up till june of 44 year and a half later. by that point, the soviets had defeated the germans as stalingrad. they had broken the siege of leningrad. there wasn't a huge tank battle that occurs. as after stalingrad, hitler said the gods of war turned against us. and the army was captured and the

germans were in a full retreat to germany. and it was in that process that the soviets liberated bunch of the kinds of treasury cabs and were viewed as the liberators and much of eastern and central europe. but the world knew that at the time, even the new york times is writing. that if we win this war and we're not in slavery to the nazis, we've got to think the so the relic soviets for making this possible. so was it a concerted effort? was it a concerted effort to change the thinking of that? how did that go away? where now the only time we talked about the soviets in world war 2 was the atrocities they committed as they were going through poland and germany. it's uh, this is as a vandenberg set to truman that they want to get the truman doctrine through congress that he wants to get the us to take over for the british and greece as

well as modernizing the turkish army. he's going to have to scare the hell out of the american people. those are the words they use. scare the hell out of the american people. and that's what wallace warrens about. he said out of fear, great nations are acting like corner beast. as it is talking about the united states and the british. so, so, so we used to sometimes here, so we use for your event to try and convince the american people to hate, quote unquote, soviets backslash rush off. and we did the same thing to try and get into the last 4 of the dentist in syria. and now apparently, we're doing the same thing with ukraine, making up the story that quote, and then the russians are about to invade europe and take it over. i read that in your, in your writings, same thing that we were being told 506-070-8098 years ago. we're being told to

the college flossed threat installation. and this has happened over and over again with l. s. c. 68. in 1950 for how does they convince the world or the united states to quadruple it's military spending? by saying that we have to be prepared to not do what was to respond to what we think is likely on the part of the soviets. but we think they are capable of in a worst case scenario, and we did so the effect of the korean war was to get n s. these 68 pass. it was neat, says idea to crowd drupal, u. s. military spending. we see the same thing after the soviets launched button there. in 1957. if you read the gates a report or the york washington post characterization, the united states has faced in the greatest peril in his history. and how do we

respond? we responded by fear mongering, and so the strategic air command said we have to build 10000 new icbm. the air force want to 3000. the lowest number mcnamara thought he could get away with was increasing a 1000 for selfie, a test for at the time. and how did a look what the us was doing? how does that look to them? i looked as if the us preparing for our 1st strike nuclear strike against the soviet union to wipe it out. and it's like this is why do we have, why do they have the missiles in cuba? and there's all the history. yeah. it's not just, it's but the same thing with more recently george w bush and the project for a new american century. mm hm. the all costs or reagan and the committee on the present danger. i mean all it go over and over the same mistake. and now would say that putting wants to take over europe. i mean, it's crazy. they could barely just the ukraine. it's the same argument over and

over again. the same scare tactics over and over again. the on told the history of the united states, oliver stone and v. peter goes next. professor, thank you so much for joining us. great conversation. it's god rick. it's always great 3 way the end to end with you, sir, and with you at before we go, i just have to remind you of her permission really it's to the side of the world. i mean, we've got to stop living in these little boxes where we think we know everything truths don't live in boxes, neither do we. neither does this show. this is where we are. i'm rick sanchez and this is direct impact. the

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