A Putin Interview on Currant Topics

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An Armenian lady is inteviwing Putin

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eyes can kill when you see that at least argues that generally excited about

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today is this an engine case a man who is now being dubbed a second assailant

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has expanded total finance practices employed by the american government

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decides to this story

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on the one hand that was classified information which makes this man a

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traitor with that on the other hand information has leaked is of crucial

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importance of primarily for the american public and for the world in general

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what do you think of that

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local store

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and but on the he told us nothing we didn't know before but i think everybody

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has long been aware the signals intelligence is about surveillance of

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individuals and organizations is becoming a global phenomenon in the

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context of combating international terrorism and such methods of gymboree

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practicable

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the question is how well those security agencies are controlled by the public

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if i can tell you that's at least in russia you conscious goin tap into

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someone's phone conversation without a warrant issued by court

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that's more or less the way a civilized society should go about fighting

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terrorism with modern day technology

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as long as it's exercise within the boundaries of the law that regulates

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intelligence activities it's alright but if it's unlawful then that's patios

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nothing at all

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about the pty throws on my side rather than going to think that you cannot have

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a hundred percent security while maintaining hundred and privacy

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officials will be

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but you can't i'd like to reiterate you do have to obtain a warrant for specific

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policing activities domestically

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so why shouldn't this requirement be valid for intelligence agencies as well

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campbell and it showed watch

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water people

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yemen here he's going to have it didn't smacking osteria tacky

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has been talking using hostages earliest told me to do more than it would have

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been talking about today baki sab misses you know it does not have something to

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get nine when he spent to build a after about a component of that particular

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questions still remain

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unwanted by the religious aspect of your divorce and and this is something many

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people are questioning at the moment

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you look at all

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untrue

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coverage for the uh... you know it's only for the first of all i can tell you

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that ludmilla and myself agree

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that is much more appropriate to be open about our actual state of relations

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office than try to keep it secret will apparently

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orthopaedic church was correct

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database that's what they say in the past year and i haven't got any hazing

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photobook well thanks for that much talk of as for the religious aspect of our

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marriage there is none because we never waiting chuch

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and invited

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i think i'm keen system on the deal is deputy editor in chief with aunty and

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robby some of you have the microphone wishful christopher philip we'll take a

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margarita

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actually i only have time to buy my present position for a week before that

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i spent twenty years working as a reporter

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our travel particularly all over the world including many conflict areas i

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haven't lost my sense of danger in the process before and that's why i'm still

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alive franklin yes bank on star world question bicep muscle thank you very

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much lower

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is good and my question concerns conflicts to i mean to ask you about

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romance below was political arm-in-arm aerial vehicles

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uh...

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packages that we're cutting off american police drugs to leave her airstrikes

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almost nineteen and a system this happens especially often in pakistan and

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if you are their country's wound up with them

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drones are arguably a very convenient means of warfare there is no direct

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engagement and no risk of your rank and file are its own remote control

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like i can't even when it uh... however this is something we see in the news

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almost everyday this kind of warfare

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support with massive casualties among civilians soul on one hand controls our

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efficient in combat

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but on the other hand it will all aware of the collateral damage reading the

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public in many countries a foundational king that has already been a motion for

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imposing an international ban on using drugs i would like to ask you about

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russia's attitude on the issue thanking

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what stored in the gunpowder was originally invented in china and no

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one's managed to keep it from spreading ever since

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then came nuclear arms and they also started to spread

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modern means of warfare keep evolving and they always will

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adaptive is possible to simply ban it all

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but you certainly can and should introduce certain rules an exercise

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control

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i'm sure the united states is not always civilians on purpose

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and the current operations you've mentioned two people too

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and i think they understand all these things but you still need to combat

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terrorism

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i know that karti debating this issue in the united states

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and a notion is being advocated increasingly often within the u_n_

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framework

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that you need to put tour inside to control you need to lay out certain

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rules we gauge minsk in order to prevent or minimize collateral casualties

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it's extremely important

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i don't know whether all western counterparts will choose this option

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but i would suggest it would be in their best interest

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however there are other threats to for example they have presently debating the

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option of using norma nuclear ballistic missiles in the united states can you

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imagine how potentially dangerous that is what if such a missile which involves

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from somewhere in the middle of a nation and distorted by nuclear powers early

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warning system

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how should that nuclear power reactors missile coming its way

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how are they supposed to know whether this missile comes with a nuclear

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warhead or not

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what if the missile impact right next to his border

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or inside his territory

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do you realize how perilous that can be

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ble

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or take the notion overload yields nuclear weapons

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he realized how badly that comply with the very down trees of using nuclear

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arms

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well how long the threshold might single authorizing such a strike

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can you imagine the possible implications

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where the limits the lettering that threshold and who's setting them

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there are many threats in the world of today

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and there is only one way to address them efficiently that is working

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together within the boundaries of international law

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you got a lot rent now people showing up in the missile crews to present a lot of

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our most popular size crosstalk i'm peter has lacked only dot seasons it's

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very beginning

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he will be speaking in english and i will translate a question for you

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like pushing the very short here

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it seems that we live in the age of opposition

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uh...

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well we have their own spraying

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they're not europe and the crisis there

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uh...

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and may occupy movement united states which party did an excellent job in

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covering

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but what about the opposition in russia and public opinion polls show it's very

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small not much simpler

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what kind of opposition would you like

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challenging

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the role of mr cunanan

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orbit entire time i did for you

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clarifies its well up opposition can be useful

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you just mentioned occupy wall street at a certain point we sold the place

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cracking down on the occupy wall street activists

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i will call the actions of police appropriate or inappropriate my point is

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that every opposition movement is good and useful if a tax within lol

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if they don't like the molt they should use democratic means to change those

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rules they ship assuage bases to join them in they should get elected into

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legislatures

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so that they can have a chance to change the law

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this is the way to change things on the ground were

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if there are people who acts outside the mold than the state must use legal means

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to impose more in the interests of the majority that's the way it's done in the

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u_s_

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and that's the way it's done in russia

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truth be told we criticized for that's but when the same thing happens in the

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u_s_

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is considered to be normal uh... never mind that it is double standards we have

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got accustomed to this

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and pay little attention to it while about it when it happened in the u_s_

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artsy grills america yield

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about for

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uh... you do the right thing everyone must be treated in the same fashion

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because these two situations are identical yeti differences that are

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diplomatic missions don't actively cooperate with occupy wall street

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and your diplomatic missions work together and directly support russian

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opposition i think this is wrong because diplomatic missions must forged ties

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between states and not meddle in their domestic politics

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getting back to popular movements reckless behavior

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is not appreciated by people

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if these activists are breaking the more then it's illegal if they expressed

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their will by legal means without breaking the law

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bed f forty entitled to do that

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in this case it would be beneficial to any states

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because it's a way to provide grassroots feedback on state policies

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whether it be social domestic or foreign policy mad

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blasphemous to curator in his mind long-standing associate

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we see eye to eye on many vital issues of russia's development and that's

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bernabe s reason

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we've known each other for a long time now soup we work together back in saint

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petersburg

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and then he became a member of the cabinets and proved to be one of the

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most efficient ministers

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i've always backed him on key decisions and

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if i didn't he won't be able to work to implement those ideas and principles

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that he promoted

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so to a certain extent that walls are joint policy he has his own view on

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certain things that uh... is so happened that they had a disagreement with mister

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negative on a number of issues

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and since mister needed it was president we have the right to take a decision

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that he eventually took

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today lexi couture he says that he's ready to rejoin the executive branch

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if the authorities were more decisive

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but he's quite reluctant to specify what he means by being more decisive when i

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tossed continue wide because more decisive means taking tougher steps for

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example in terms of the pension reform in terms of raising the retirement age

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no-one including the opposition

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wants to speak about it to the public was they think it's the rights but they

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don't want to talk to him out to be on the issue

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also taking tougher steps onto other issues like slashing budget expenditures

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and social spending first of all

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many of our liberal economists think that all social expenditures too high

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that we raise salaries and pensions and social benefits too fast

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they point out that the growth in real disposable incomes is unjustified

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last year we had a full point two percent increase

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antes up five point nine percent in the first four months of this year already

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they argue this salaries a grain fostered and labor efficiencies with

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which is bad and dangerous for the economy

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there's no denying it an absolutely bright but maybe it's best not to

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decrease real disposable incomes

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but brother to improve our labor efficiency

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persons often saves the goal is not to expand the amount of the wealthy people

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but brother to reduce the amount of the poll this is a very hard thing to do of

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the best part of the opposition has admitted this to us in private and

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professional meetings and publicly they're afraid to speak about it and

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this is wrong

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i have told the many times now

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if you stick to some idea you have to be straightforward about it

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don't be afraid to some part of the nation would like it

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if you can't go on a more support for your ideas you have to stick to your

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principles to expand jora literal basic let's look at western europe today

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they brought their countries to the edge of bankruptcy

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but whenever they talk of lower salaries of people are up enormously so it

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would've made more sense to increase your social spending and debt more

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gradually before also it would be great to hear fartsy as if they had been

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someone you could have told them about our city

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identical social spending is too high

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i don't think that we increased tensions salaries and social benefits too much

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whichever team is two to three men and other people like him have a point to

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make and we need to listen to that war it's very useful

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so i believe that opposition that has the national interests at heart will be

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in demand

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at some worker a solution next question is how fast they want to add the present

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alongside from london to presenting after several years of reporting party

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was elected to monthly anywhere you want to hang seng intolerable

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was upset i felt that i thought was left without any of us up to the dish rakyat

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chang question is a follow-up to your previous trip like this anymore

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principles and a principled position

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i would like however tendinitis notions to the amenities sheet that inamnabi

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holding a presidential elections and

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i know that russia doesn't like to meddle with domestic politics of other

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countries and that's my my question would be as general as possible

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it's more often philosophical kind

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tumi iran is a great example of how you can create extreme tension in mutual

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relations by blowing out of proportion some insignificant differences iranian

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nuclear issue that everyone's been talking about the last decade ahead

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basically online zoning on some vague suspicions which year after year have

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been dismissed even by americans themselves and that i think has ignored

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the fact that iran has been compliant with the nonproliferation regime by

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ninety nine eleven hundred percent at the mason focuses on suspicions at the

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court as i see is is the relationship between the u_s_ and iran

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and not as possible to blame for the times and build up

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but in the mood of the problem is the stance of washington s signature foreign

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policy principal friends and fellow divide a meeting that you cannot ally

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you are the enemy and it seems that the level of tolerance to the census quite

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slow and when it drops too much we see threats of war basin groundless

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suspicions as is the case with iran on assistance to war as is the case with

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syria russia has a good record of avoiding tension and relations with

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other countries your public statements indicate that you know the cost of

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admits he ought rather open confrontation however i'd believe it

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russia and the u_s_ senate ideological fundamental differences on the use of

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force in particular that no private meetings and result it all stems from

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the national idea of the u_s_ they believe they have a high responsibility

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which is actually just i think that's right so where is the room for you

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between avoiding an all-out confrontation that could have an impact

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on the russian security and maintaining up principles position which will still

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be critical to our security art

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wishes mccormick and they want to answer the question u_s_ or brock

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alone i thought that was a tough tough dying uh... but uh... let the proposals

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will cut the check the response to your question could take hours

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it's so complex i will try to be as concise as possible

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first i've repeatedly voice russia's official starters iran has the rights to

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a peaceful nuclear program any company singled out for discrimination

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second we need to be aware that iran is located in a very challenging regional

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i've told our radiant partners about that and that's why radiant threats made

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towards neighboring countries he'd be taken in israel

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threats that israel can be destroyed absolutely unacceptable

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this is counterproductive typically a yet but it will become the from comes

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complete with office is not a proper hotel where many restaurants along

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hypocritically great indicated is everyone has a whether it's appropriate

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weight or not

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that means it's best to avoid a word in that could be improperly quoted

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or could be interpreted it differently

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that's why the focus on the wrong does have a reason behind it

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i have no doubts that iran is complying with the rules

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simply because there's no proof of the oppositely according to the latest on

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thier reports iran has been abiding by the commitments it has taken off

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with the truth there is some outstanding issues but with few patients in friendly

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hands use that they can be resolved couple i have a great respect for ron

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had a great interest in it

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this is a great country indeed you don't often hear this attitude mentioned in

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relation to abroad but it's true significant this is a country with a

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great culture a great history and is a great nation

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they're very proud of their country

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they have their own understanding at their place

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brief in the region and in the world with and that's something you have to

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respect

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uh... give gross at the core of the problem iranians are very smart incoming

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politicians and to a certain degree they have exploited this confrontation with

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the united states between hypocrite with yet

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man not young harnesses the list up in the race as a result from the evidence

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of injury to tackle that domestic political issues

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when there's an external enemy it united the nation

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but i guess the united states have been employing the same technique

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after the collapse of the soviet union there'd be no external threats the

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middle of washington to dominate the west

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that must be a threat to say that the u_s_ can protect that allies from a

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typical this position yields political and economic benefits

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if everyone relies on one country for protection in this country is entitled

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to some preferential treatment so it's very important to possess the status of

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of a global defender to be able to resolve issues even beyond the realm at

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the foreign policy and security issues

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i think the u_s_ has been using iran for this very hopeless that it is to unites

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the allies in the shadow of a real all false threatens the vote is quite a

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complicated issue but it's not an issue for russia

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weeping complying with all international commitments including a bronze peaceful

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nuclear program as you know russia bilby doucet power plant in iraq

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we've completed this project and unprepared for further cooperation

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yet when we propose to enrich uranium on russian territory iranian partners

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refused for reasons unknown to us

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they argue that they would enrich uranium on that i did

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in line with the existing international regulation

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and as i said earlier if they don't break any rules that forty entitled to

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do that

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we would endorse this rights but we were also remain aware of the concerns

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that other states and the international community has

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concerning full compliance with that he's rules

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prostitutes have opponent kathleen settlement

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western personal customer are supporting clarify something

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i think as i was asking you know only about the u_s_ in manhattan relations

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that also about the u_s_-russian relations

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which they agree that we have fundamental ideological differences on

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key issues of international law civil rights on the eve of mind meeting with

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uh... obama you pushing me to make some serious statement as a substitute for

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betty punishing

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and contacting city has more expectant parents

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you're the most or they would like for you wouldn't notice my deviation but you

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did

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indeed you all very persistent

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todate we don't have any significant ideological differences

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but we have fundamental cultural differences

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individualism lies at the core of the american identity while russia has been

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a country of collective isn't one students of push kids legacy has

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formulated this difference very aptly

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takes dollars have hara from gone with the wind for instance

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she says eleven beyond regain this is the most important thing for her

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russians have different far lofty ambitions

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more of the spiritual kite

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it's more about your relationship with god

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we have different visions of life

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that's why it's very difficult to understand each other

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but is still possible

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that's why there's international law to create a level playing field for

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everyone

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feels that the u_s_ is a very democratic state there's no doubt about that andy

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diverge we developed as a democratic state

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when the first settlers set their thoughts on the consonants

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life force them to forge a relationship and maintain a dialogue with each other

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to survive that's why america was initially conceived as a fundamental

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democracy

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with that in mind we should not forget that america's development began

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with the large-scale ethnic cleansing unprecedented in human history

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i wouldn't like to dell so deeply into eight parts you're forcing me to do it

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how much time when europeans arrived in america that was the first thing they

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did then you have to be honest about it

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there are so many stories like that in human history take the destruction of

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confidence by the brave men empire the legend has it that romans cloud over

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inside the city with salt said that nothing will ever grow that

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europeans didn't use the salt because they use the land for acrid culture

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but they wiped out the indigenous population than there was slavery and

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that's something that's deeply ingrained in america in his memoirs u_s_ secretary

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of state colin powell reveals how hard it was for him as a black man

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how hard it was for him to live with other people staring at you it means

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this mentality has taken root in the hearts and minds of the people

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and is likely to still be there

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two-syllable now take the soviet union we know a lot about stalin now we know

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him isn't it tastes and a tyrant

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but still i'd everything bill in the spring of nineteen forty five stalin

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would have used in nuclear bomb against germany if he had blood he could have

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done it in nineteen forty one or nineteen forty two when it was a matter

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of life or death what i really doubt that he would have done it in nineteen

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forty-five when the enemy had almost given up and had absolutely no chance to

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reverse that trend

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i don't think he would now look at the u_s_ they dropped the bomb on japan

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a country that was a non-nuclear states was very close to defeat permeable so

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their big differences between us but

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it's quite natural that people with such differences until turning store to find

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ways to understand each other better

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i don't think there is an alternative moreover it's not by chance that russia

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and the u_s_ forces alliance in the most critical moments of modern history that

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was the case in world war one and world war two

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even if it was phys confrontation all countries united in the face of a common

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thread

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which means there's something that you know it's nice picture i must be some

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fundamental interests that bring us together that's something we need to

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focus on first

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we need to be aware of our differences that focus on a positive agenda

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that can improve our corporations have been innovation and she came across a

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narrow and lots of relations with the u_s_ are important issues are not twice

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not to because americans make up most about or d_m_z_ dissent in the towel

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websites statistics

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you'll see that most about wanting to comes from america so anything related

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to the u_s_ is a key topic for us

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and he really wanted to see a checking in with specially coming from new york

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for this meeting she wanted all u_s_-based channel aussie america which

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cases to an american audience and focusing specifically on american issues

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is that most anastacia

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of person that we have kept up asking if they can't uh... look at uh... other yes

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thank you advertising new york for the past five years

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you have mentioned the fundamental differences as well as the common

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features that russia's shears with the united states

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i would like to go back to our diplomatic relations and the

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presentations of international by meets american politicians and russian experts

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these days after here direct knowledge alf record government needs to act has

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effectively come to replace the jackson-vanik amendment which

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demonstrates the same outdated approach to always russian about as we know and

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barackobama mapped with mister mcfadden during the size and sale last year he

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made some hints saying he would have more flexibility after the election

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whether up what uh... little of that is that it but i see you guys just take it

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off their backs to you

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about foster preston i promised them

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complacent

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yeah

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arlington and i was there for him to a conference with brushing carver and that

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is not what lesson to be

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we've already tested for many of our remaining issues within the last why do

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you think the reset has not worked action and can't ever take place in the

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first place as unequal recycler caucasus were is it the trash is always expected

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to sacrifice its national interest

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yourself influential to ship national polls

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any state cassie's its national interests in the u_s_ is no exception

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what's unique area is that the collapse of the soviet union left america is the

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world single leader

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but there was a catch associated with it in that he began to view itself as an

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empire cisco but an entire is not only about foreign policy it's also about

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domestic policies an empire cannot afford to display weakness

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and any attempt to strike an agreement on equitable terms

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is often seen domestically as weakness for the leadership cannot afford display

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weakness due to domestic policy considerations

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i think the current administration realizes that it can also love the

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world's major issues on its own

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but first they still want to do it and second they can only take steps that if

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it for an empire

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domestic policy considerations play his role

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otherwise you would be accused of weakness impeding in order to acts of

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the wise you either have to win over well-meaning support for then must be a

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chance in mentality

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one people will understand that is much more beneficial to look at the

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compromises fled to impose your will on everyone

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but it certainly takes time to change those patterns of thinking in any

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country

25:28

in this case is the u_s_

25:30

first and foremost this change should take place in the minds of the ruling

25:33

elite

25:34

in the broad sense of this phrase

25:36

i don't think that it's impossible of i think we've almost come to that point

25:40

are very much hype will reach its end

25:43

politically

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i see what i mean it's welcome

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