A Debate on Russia-Ukraine (Robert Wright & Daniel Drezner)

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4.7 • 618 Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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1:06 Bob and Dan reminisce about blogging and Bloggingheads 8:17 Was the first year of Russia’s invasion a success for US foreign policy? 17:45 When will Putin be ready to cut a deal? 23:13 The odds of a wider war—or a nuclear one 27:45 What good can come from continuing the war? 41:08 Has the US mismanaged its relationship with Putin’s Russia? 50:56 Putin’s fear of western-backed color revolutions

Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Daniel Drezner (PostEverything, Tufts University, Drezner's World). Recorded July 31, 2023.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero Podcast.
0:33.2	Hi, Dan.
0:35.0	Hey, Bob. How are you doing?
0:36.8	Cannot complain. How are you doing? Cannot complain.
0:38.1	How are you?
0:40.4	You know what?
0:41.3	We just had the truly glorious day weather-wise to end July, which is wonderful, because
0:48.7	the entirety of July up here has been either ridiculously muggy or thunderstorm,
0:53.8	thunderstorm, thunderstorm, thunderstorm,
0:59.3	thunderstorm. Yeah, it's been weird here too, but today I have no complaints about the weather. It's been nice. Exactly. Let me introduce us. I'm Robert Wright, publisher in non-zeroy newsletter. This is a
1:04.6	non-zero podcast. You are Dan Dresner. It's been a while since we've talked, but we've been doing it for a long time.
1:09.6	You were an old
1:11.0	blogging head back when that was the brand this was done under, blogging heads. Every once in a while,
1:17.3	when I do a Zoom chat, I flashed back to when you sent me like a camcorder with a tripod and like
1:25.1	this incredible, like, the attachment i will never forget it was like
1:29.3	some sort of card that had to have been the size of like a credit card that i had to like insert
1:33.9	into my computer to be able to like you know so that the the computer could download the video and
1:39.1	so forth and it was it was powered by a steam engine as i recall too yeah basically yes it was pretty
1:44.1	old we that's because we were ahead of our time folks we started this in 2005 powered by a steam engine, as I recall, too. Yeah, basically, yes. It was pretty old.
1:44.9	That's because we were ahead of our time, folks.
1:46.7	We started this in 2005 before you had enough broadband.
1:50.3	It's a long story.
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