Sanchez Effect | Murad Gazdiev, RT senior correspondent

In the latest episode of RT's 'Sanchez Effect', they cover a range of topics from the Ukraine conflict to the U.S.-backed regime change in Syria. Murad has had personal experience reporting on both. He says Washington's policies are being heavily influenced by a pro-Israeli lobby and the American military industrial complex. Murad and Rick discuss how the EU has ditched its own economies to ramp up sanctions on Russia. Also, admiring the view at the Kremlin, they note how Moscow has re-emerged from a volatile, post-Soviet 1990s to become a tourist mecca as one of the world's safest cities. All this and more, here on RT International.