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Hi everybody, it's Tom Woods episode 2680, and I'm joined once again by Vladimir Brovkin,

who is my old Harvard professor. When I say my old Harvard professor, I don't mean you're old.

I mean, it's just been a long time since I was there. He was my professor of Russian of russian history he was so compelling i think i told

the story before that one day i invited my girlfriend to come with me to one of his classes i

did not do this for any other class but i just said you have to come with me he's the most

interesting guy guy in the world and then all these years later, our paths have

crossed again. His most recent book is from Vladimir Lenin to Vladimir Putin, Russia in search

of its identity, 1913 to 2023. And I thought today, given that at the end of this week, there is a meeting

in Alaska between Donald Trump and Putin. It might be an

opportune moment to assess where things are with Russia and Ukraine. So Professor Brodkkin, welcome back.

Thank you so much. Thank you. I'm glad to see you.

Now, I mentioned to you in our email correspondence that this episode would be coming out two days

before that meeting, and I thought, is that meeting

going to make our whole discussion moot? And you insisted that it absolutely would not, for a number of

reasons. Even if there were some big diplomatic breakthrough, there were still many open questions,

but you were suggesting to me that it was unlikely that any definitive resolution

would be reached at the Alaska meeting. Why do you think that is? Well, everything is a process,

and this has been a very long story, so I doubt that it's possible to resolve all the outstanding

issues. It's just all the matter of how you define the issues.

And the Western media defines the issues as the territorial question, which is only one

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