"Best of" Intelligence Matters: Putin's Russia

Intelligence Matters

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🗓️ 16 June 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Intelligence Matters, and ahead of the summit between U.S. President Biden and Russian President Putin in Geneva, host Michael Morell revisits three conversations focused on U.S.-Russia relations and Putin's personal trajectory. The episode features insights on U.S. foreign policy priorities vis a vis Moscow from Antony Blinken, now Secretary of State; an analysis of Putin's mindset from Angela Stent, Director of the Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies at Georgetown University; and findings from writer Franklin Foer, who studied Russia's election interference tactics. Morell also offers personal reflections on the presidential summit and ongoing security threats from Russia.

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0:00.0	This is Intelligence Matters, with former acting director of the CIA, Michael Morrell.
0:06.7	Brought to you by Lockheed Martin, your mission is ours.
0:11.2	With this week's summit meeting between President Biden and Russian President Putin, we wanted
0:17.4	to bring you a special edition of Intelligence Matters.
0:20.4	We went back and curated three different discussions we've had with guests about Russia, then
0:26.0	member of the Biden campaign and now Secretary of State Tony Blinken, Russia expert in Georgetown
0:31.9	professor Angela Stent, and journalist and staff writer at the Atlantic, Franklin Four.
0:37.3	We'll be right back with that curation after a word from our sponsor.
0:42.2	I'm Michael Morrell, and this is a special edition of Intelligence Matters.
0:51.1	If anything has got a chance of solving the world's problems, it's science and technology.
0:56.7	And every breakthrough was the result of somebody doing the breaking through.
1:01.9	I'm David Poe.
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1:22.3	We're going to start today's episode with part of a conversation we had with Tony Blinken
1:27.0	on September 23rd of last year.
1:29.8	In this segment, Tony talks about then-Canadace Biden's foreign policy vision.
1:34.6	Let's listen.
1:35.6	So look, I would sum it up in three words.
1:39.6	Leadership, cooperation, democracy, which also sums up the profound differences between
1:45.6	President Trump and Vice President Biden.
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