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American Prestige

Bonus - Dispatch from Russia w/ Peter Slezkine (Preview)

American Prestige

Daniel Bessner & Derek Davison

History, Politics, News

4.8705 Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Subscribe now for the full episode and much more content! Peter Slezkine, Senior Fellow and Director of the Russia Program at the Stimson Center and host of The Trialogue Podcast, joins the program for a conversation about his recent visit to Russia and his impressions of the political discourse there. They talk about the atmosphere in light of the Ukraine war, the major political factions in the government, people’s sense of the Western reaction to the invasion, their impression of Trump, how the war has emboldened NATO, why a ceasefire might not be in Russia’s interest in the immediate term, how the era of the end of ideology looks in Russia, BRICS and the multipolar world, and more.     Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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and I'm making a dog that looks just like Monty.

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Mom, where's the scissors?

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0:27.8

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0:32.2

That's kind of conversation to your soul.

0:37.4

That's conversation. To your soul.

0:57.1

Hello, Prestige Heads, welcome to American Prestige. I'm Danny Bessner, here as always with my friend and comrade, Derek Davison, and we're very excited to welcome to the podcast today. Peter Slezkin, Peter's a senior

1:02.4

fellow and director of the Russia program at the Stimson Center, and he's also host of the Trilog podcast.

1:08.0

I actually guessed it on that in Peter. I don't know if you know, but I'm the most downloaded episode of the Trilog podcast. I actually guessed it on that in Peter. I don't know if you know, but I'm the

1:11.5

most downloaded episode of the Trilog podcast. So if people want to have an entry into that,

1:17.2

check out my episode, me and Peter yell at each other, as I hope we'll do here. And there's also

1:21.8

a bunch of excellent interviews with people who are really experts in U.S. foreign relations,

1:27.4

Russia and the like.

1:28.5

So we've invited Peter because he's just actually gotten back from Russia.

1:33.1

I'm talking literally this week, and we want to talk to him about what that was like.

1:38.1

So, Peter, I guess my first question is when you met with Putin.

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