116: Vladimir Putin: Isolated, Unhinged, and Cornered
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🗓️ 19 March 2022
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Host Reed Galen is joined by Lincoln Project Senior Advisor Trygve Olson to discuss Vladimir’s Putin recent chilling, fascistic speech that served as a warning to pro-west Russians, the pro-Russia rhetoric we continue to hear from Tucker Carleson and his fellow American travelers, and who exactly the audience is of Russian state media when what’s being broadcast is so obviously false. Plus, how does all this influence the 2022 midterm elections, now just less than 8 months away.
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| 0:40.0 | Welcome back to the Lincoln Project. I'm your host, Reed Gailan. Today, I'm joined by Trig Beals, |
| 0:46.2 | Senior Advisor to the Lincoln Project and President of Liking Strategies, |
| 0:49.8 | a Washington DC-based public affairs and political consulting firm. Trig Be, welcome back. |
| 0:55.1 | Reed, thanks for having me on again. It's good to be back. So Trig Be, today I want to talk about |
| 0:59.9 | Russia and Ukraine with special attention to the rhetoric that we continue to hear from Tucker Carlson |
| 1:05.5 | and the fellow travelers here in the US, as well as what all this means for the 2022 elections that |
| 1:11.1 | are getting closer every day. But before we do that, I want to talk about Vladimir Putin's speech |
| 1:16.0 | this week and the rhetoric that we were hearing and what that means for what we see in the future |
| 1:22.5 | and what it also means historically. So on Wednesday, he gave this, I don't know what else to call it, |
| 1:29.0 | Trig Be but like a chilling fascistic address. He said, quote, the Russian people will always be |
| 1:35.1 | able to distinguish true patriots from scum and traders and simply spit them out like a fly that |
| 1:40.5 | accidentally flew into their mouths. He even went further and said, quote, I am convinced that such a |
| 1:47.1 | natural and necessary self purification of society will only strengthen our country, our solidarity, |
| 1:53.9 | cohesion and readiness to respond to any challenges. I mean, Trig Be, this is like blood and soil, |
| 1:59.5 | like this could be the sport past 1934. Right. So a couple of thoughts. One, it was pretty unhinged. |
| 2:06.8 | For somebody that has always been perceived in the West as calculating and somebody who's thinking |
| 2:15.6 | through clearly as his FSB roots but trying to manipulate that was pretty unhinged. It had |
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