interesting to you officials like around borderline. don't seem to be nearly as concerned with crackdowns on campus protesters right inside of europe right now. advocating for gases civilians against israel. they don't seem to be as interested not as they are with what's going on inside. non you, georgia, go figure that any quote unacceptable for us as we're also seems to always be against causes that you just happens to support. and in this case that you really hates the george and governments idea of requiring organizations in the country to register. as for an agents in cases where they get 20 percent or more of their funding from foreign sources, something that the george and prime minister actually considers to be fully in line with what you expect of the country. if it pass everything and we will certainly possibly slaugh, they'll be several days of discomforts. however, the long term will ensure the construct, gays polarization and broad to colors and for years, if we do not break the close. so a couple of polarization and rise of colors and it will be very difficult for us to

become a member of the repeating union. all right, so why would the georgian prime minister be scratching his head over to use opposition to this particular law? maybe because of the process itself unveiled similar legislation last december against foreign influence, citing the need to bolster democracy with the need for organizations and individuals to formally declared their activities and funding at a public register under financial pendant penalty for non compliance. now, where did the you get this idea? well, from washington's born ages, registration acts their act. so of course, washington would be all in favor of the george in law. right. this legislation in georgia in dreams, anti western rhetoric put georgia on a precarious trajectory. the statements and the actions of the george and government are incompatible with the democratic values. the underpin membership in the you and nato invest jeopardize george's path to euro, atlantic integration use of force to suppress peaceful assembly. and freedom of speech is accept to bulk and we are just stories to allow non violent protesters to

continue to exercise their right to freedom of expression. yeah, let george's pro madeline supporters protest. it's not like the modeling is russian, right? because is our the case, they be all for a law to prevent it. so if it's not russian modeling that the west is opposing, d wonder who could possibly be must be binary life scrape misty. wrapping up the program here, if you didn't already know what the son of george soros is, or formerly struck a deal with t of selling 400 square kilometers of ukrainian land, the american corporations for the disposal of chemical and hazardous waste. so much, but the rich black, this is off the internet the the,

the power body program though, we now post a show every single day used to be weekly. we continue to be daily because you requested it. maybe it's cause we hold no punches. so look for it true from number one. how one man who was cheated out of the us presidency could have completely changed the world truth from number 2. why the man to replace them was simply not ready for prime time. you get it not ready for the job or the moment . truth from number 3, us russia relations. who destroyed it. how did it get destroyed and why? i'm rick sanchez. and this is direct impact the, the

in the special report. i want to take a look at something that has personally or has bothered me and it's this wire, russia, us relation so bad. it's like siblings, you can't get along so much in common so much to share so many missed opportunities . and yeah, the 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. have simply not accepted, consistently friendly or even fair relations with prussia. but when did this really

start? how could this could have been different? how could i have been different and i go in quite a bit. it quite a bit, very different. you say towards the end of world war 2, there was a deep appreciation in the united states among almost all americans for what joseph stalin. 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 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 was you into the most extraordinary days of world war 2 and of the

biggest battle of the mightiest floor man have ever for battle. exciting to watch the battle of the bulge. that's what we all 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, wow, oh yeah. so russian, spain were somehow also involved what really happened was very different that 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. and so interestingly enough, did 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 f d r. he 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 speech. to have 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 good common man, how good stops. now, most people like the sky a lot. however, and here's the problem, the british and the other global industrialist. they did not like wallace winston churchill in particular, hated this guy. and importantly, sent agents into the united states to monitor him. church will seem to hate russians and also seem to resent the credit that the soviets have gotten for marching into berlin and taking out the nazis because of wallace. didn't agree with churchill regarding the soviets. he kind of like the more least respect to the churchill disliked all of us. 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 lovely. the notion of anglo saxon superior or did it

in church as approach will be offensive to many treacher. that's quite a bit of whisky said why be apologetic about under sex on seberio, 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 it was a great thing about church. you didn't like imperialism. he also believes he can work with the soviets. that sounds troubling, too. that makes them popular with people all throughout the americas. for example, live america, where i come from and latin america. this guy visits almost every single country, any celebrated locate the neighborhood, not when the upper part is says i have the good fortune of visiting other pieces other countries, pardon me, i have a good fortune of doing so nature. 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. chosen another guy, a guy named harry truman instead. and this guy was a salesman, areas older, but as a young man that's all he did. he sold suits. he wasn't confused as an example by party leaders who said he was prime, they could just about get any part of your left 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 and 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 stolid yet because of what the projects kind of did. when roosevelt dies, this guys in charge a great human. i did. i called upon all americans to help me achieve our nation united in the sense 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, i'm was for campaign with them and us government convincing them that the soviets

were 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 were the heirs of the rich, you know, the railroad class, the banking class, the big 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 quoted as 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. or joining me now is peter gooseneck. 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 author, 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. reading this book, watch this documentary. it is that good and can actually change again. here's the matter, wrote it. peter kostnik, professor american university professor, thank you so much for being with us. after the, with your rec, that was quite an introduction. right? a little history less than you gave. it's your less than a professor and why we should start so few americans now this as

my classes are big enough that 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 an mainstream, mat 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 wanted 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 and i 1st came out with that and told history,

we certainly did get on all the mainstream media. but since that, and we have not been getting on it have, here's something i've always wanted to know. if the us had, let's say henry wallace and not harry truman, and they would have engaged the soviets. do you think that a new escrows'll 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 let and as to something else, had we just given them room debris glove that showed that russia itself would have been different right away. but eastern europe could have been different. what the soviets understood what their concern was. they've been invaded twice through eastern europe. mm hm. live german. what they want that after world war 2 was

a buffer zone, a base they saw their 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 had given up on the united states. and so that when somebody had that's on, so that's what i was getting, i did, they did, they did a crack down because we pushed them in that direction because we started see 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 him 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. gallop released, the poll 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 attempts of. busy orders, so they wanted wireless back as vice president to percent wanted truman. yeah that's. it was so one sided. it was worse at the university of connecticut per do 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, 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 bag that i called at the railroad glass or whatever the heck they call it 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. busy it 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 through 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. who it and the meetings are truman? how would it look if we had them and if they had a monopoly on time of bombs and we didn't, if they had basses all over the world and we didn't, if they had bombers 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 the 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 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 gonna 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 the russian people there do for what they did to the st. denazi'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 kennedy finally stood up and did it. he said, what should have been said earlier by truman and by others. here it is, we got it for you. ever suffered more than the soviet union. in the 2nd, at least 20000000 lost a large countless millions of homes and families were burned or sang. a

3rd of the nation's territory, including 2 thirds of its industrial face, was turned into a waste land. and 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 for us? what russia soviets did to, and the nazi regime where they helpers or were they the dominant force? they were clearly the down and, and force due 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 at the meeting, he turns to general marshal, as, as can we agreed to open up the 2nd front before the end of the. ready year and marshall 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 out most of the war. the united states and british were facing 10 german divisions between us rather savvy, as we're facing more than 200 german divisions by themselves. and but when we failed to open up the 2nd front, we lost a diplomatic initiative. we don't open it up till june for. ready 4 year and a half later, by that point, the soviets had defeated the germans as style, a rad, that broke into 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 a 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 ones that are 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 of world war 2 was the atrocities they committed as they were going through poland and germany. it's uh, this is that, as a vandenberg said to truman,

that if he wants to get the truman doctrine through congress, that if he wants to get the us to take over for the british in 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 the use scare the hell out of the american people. and that's what wallace warned 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 some talking here. so we use for your event to try and convince the american people to hate, quote unquote, soviets backslash russia. and we did the same thing to try and get into the raft or afghanistan, syria, and now apparently, we're doing the same thing with ukraine, making up the story that po and 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 506-070-8090 years ago. what means? oh my god, me college flossed threat installation. and this has happened over and over again with n s. c $68.19 for how does like from vince the world or the united states to quadruple it's military spending. by saying, we have to be prepared to not do what was respond to what we think is likely on the part of the soviets. but we think they are capable of and the 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 launch sputnik in 1957. he read the gates, the report or the york washington post characterization. the united states is

facing 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 1000 for selfie, except for at the time. and how did a look what the us was doing? how does that look to them? it looked as if the us preparing for 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, neal cods, or reagan and the committee on the present danger. i have all the go over and over the same mistake and now would say that tutoring wants to take over europe. i mean,

it's crazy. they could barely defeat 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 the peter gooseneck professor. thank you so much for joining us. great conversation. it's patrick. 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 director, the

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