Expert Heather Conley on Russia's "Strategic Conservatism"
Intelligence Matters
CBS News
4.6 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 6 July 2022
⏱️ 39 minutes
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In this episode of Intelligence Matters, host Michael Morell speaks with Heather Conley, president of the German Marshall Fund of the United States, about Russia's use of "strategic conservatism" to exploit divisions with and within the West. Conley explains how Russian President Vladimir Putin has leveraged the support of the leadership of the Russian Orthodox Church to portray himself as a global defender of conservative values. Conley and Morell also discuss how the Russian Orthodox Church has undermined its own objective of ecumenism by alienating those who oppose Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
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| 0:12.0 | What the Russians are doing is turning that on its head and making this about the collective interest, not the individual, |
| 0:20.0 | and really, in many ways, perverting freedom of religion. |
| 0:23.0 | So this is something, again, these are freedoms that we have to protect, the sanctity of them, |
| 0:28.0 | and beware that they are being twisted. |
| 0:30.0 | So heal our societal divisions, note newsies as these culture wars, which are, again, |
| 0:36.0 | eating and abetting actors who do not wish the United States or our allies well. |
| 0:40.0 | And that's really the place we have to start. |
| 0:47.0 | Heather Connelly is president of the German Marshall Fund of the United States. |
| 0:51.0 | She recently served as a senior vice president and as director of the Europe, Russia, and Eurasia program |
| 0:57.0 | at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. |
| 1:00.0 | Heather joins us today to talk about a report she helped author while at CSIS, |
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