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2/2: #Ukraine: #Russia: Warlords. Anatol Lieven, Quincy Institute

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🗓️ 3 June 2023

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2/2: #Ukraine: #Russia: Warlords. Anatol Lieven, Quincy Institute
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2023/05/31/has-a-succession-struggle-begun-in-russia/


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0:00.0

This is CBS I'm the World I'm John Batshu with my colleague,

0:06.6

editor, Leven of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft,

0:10.4

writing with his colleague, George Beebe, about

0:13.3

Procution, the head of the Wagner Group, the man who is

0:16.7

outspoken almost daily now about what is wrong in Russia,

0:21.2

why Russia has failed in the Ukraine more.

0:24.0

Need to meet the opponents, however, because they also have a

0:27.7

place in the future of Russian government.

0:30.8

Mr. Shoggo is the defense minister and has said to be very close with Vladimir

0:35.8

Putin, I can remember before the war, the two were

0:39.0

tromping off in the Siberian woods together, dropping out of airplanes or doing

0:42.8

something, um, vivid.

0:45.5

A Gerasimov is unknown to me, but he is the general chief of staff, so

0:49.2

clearly a man with great skills. And one more,

0:52.8

Ramon Kadeirov, the head of the Chechen warlord,

0:57.7

the head Chechen warlord, head of his own private army,

1:01.1

these three men, which one of them is Pagosin's opposite,

1:07.4

what Pagosin did worry about most in terms of being another warlord.

1:11.7

Pagosin's got his private army. Kadeirov has his private army.

1:15.6

Does Shoggo have a private army?

1:18.8

No, I mean Shoggo and Gerasimov.

1:22.5

If you can say that, the Russian army, but that is not their

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