A War for the Former Soviet Union
Angry Planet
Matthew Gault
4.3 • 882 Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
The former Soviet Union is looking a bit restive nowadays - putting it mildly.
Russia has more than one hundred thousand troops on Ukraine’s borders - and has invaded Ukraine before - and has been fighting a war there ever since.
And in the last few days, many Americans have learned there is a country called Kazakhstan, even if they can’t find it on a map. And Russia is playing a role to prop up the authoritarian government there.
To help us understand what’s going on, we have the perfect guest. William Courtney is the former ambassador to Kazakhstan and is now a senior fellow at the Rand Corporation.
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| 0:25.0 | Frankly, that seems to be the problem. |
| 0:31.0 | Welcome to Angry Planet. |
| 0:34.0 | Hello and |
| 0:37.0 | Hello and and welcome Matthew Galt. |
| 0:48.0 | The former Soviet Union is looking a bit restive nowadays, putting it mildly. |
| 0:54.8 | Russia has more than 100,000 troops on Ukraine's borders |
| 0:58.9 | and has invaded Ukraine before and has been fighting |
| 1:02.0 | a war there ever since. |
| 1:04.0 | In the last few days, many Americans have learned there is a country called Kazakhstan, |
| 1:09.0 | even if they can't yet find it on a map. |
| 1:12.0 | And Russia is playing a role to prop up the authoritarian government there. |
| 1:16.1 | To help us understand what's going on, we happen to have the perfect guest. William Courtney |
| 1:22.3 | is the former ambassador to Kazakhstan and is now a senior fellow with the Rand Corporation. |
| 1:27.2 | Thank you so much for joining us. So happy to. Can you describe Kazakhstan when you were ambassador, sort of the character of the regime and maybe even the people? |
| 1:39.0 | Kazakhstan is a vast country in Central Asia and the border with Russia. |
| 1:45.3 | It's as large as all of Western Europe combined or as large as Texas times 4.5. |
| 1:51.5 | People are nomadic by tradition but friendly. They were very open to the outside |
| 1:57.5 | when the Soviet Union collapsed. I think they felt that their candle had been snuffed out by Soviet Union for so long and so they were thrilled to be welcomed by the outside world. |
| 2:08.4 | The people, well, maybe as part of the nomadic tradition. |
| 2:12.6 | We tend to be friendly, self-reliant, |
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