Borderline Post-Soviet Disorder

CONFLICTED

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Religion & Spirituality, History

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🗓️ 2 March 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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In the last episode we talked about how the American half of the Cold War was established in Saudi Arabia. Today, we’re shifting our focus to the other half of that epic conflict: the Soviet Union. What were the Soviet Union’s designs on the Middle East? Or were their forays into Middle Eastern geopolitics simply countermoves in a Cold War chess game, attempts to wrongfoot their American opponent? And now, as the spectre of war between Russia and Ukraine hangs over Europe, to what extent can Soviet history, and indeed the earlier history of imperial Russia, help us to understand what’s going on? Listen to exclusive bonus content and get all episodes ad-free by subscribing to Conflicted Extra on Apple Podcasts and Spotify for just 99p/month. Join our FB Discussion group to get exclusive updates: https://www.facebook.com/groups/450486135832418 Find us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MHconflicted And Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MHconflicted Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Join the Conflicted Community hub on Discord to discuss all things Conflicted with fellow dear listeners, get exclusive content, bonus episodes and ad-free listening. Register your interest through the link: http://www.levellr.com/conflicted Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:33.9	different. You see, it was always our plan to talk about Russia in this episode as a way of
1:38.9	laying out some aspects at least of the geopolitics of the Cold War, which is what this season of
1:43.6	conflicted is all about. When we recorded it four weeks ago, Russia had sent over 100,000
1:49.5	troops to the Ukrainian border, which we thought made the discussion especially topical. But we
1:54.7	didn't know then that by the time this episode came out, President Putin would have ordered a
1:59.2	full invasion of his neighbor and put his nuclear forces on high alert. Like a lot of people did
2:04.9	four weeks ago, when Aiman and I discussed Vladimir Putin's aims and objectives, we did so
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