Getting Russia Right (Robert Wright & Thomas Graham)

Robert Wright's Nonzero

Nonzero

News & Politics, Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.7 • 618 Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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0:33 Tom’s new book, Getting Russia Right 2:13 Does Putin want to take more territory before talking peace? 12:35 Putin’s "messianic" transformation 22:41 America’s failed effort to Americanize Russia 32:46 Does the US focus too much on other nations’ internal affairs? 41:10 The 2004 event that sunk US-Russia relations 49:16 Why Tom supports a diplomatic reset

Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Thomas Graham (Council on Foreign Relations, Getting Russia Right). Recorded November 09, 2023.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero Podcast.
0:33.7	Hi, Tom.
0:35.2	Hi, Bob.
0:36.2	How you doing?
0:37.4	I am doing fine, and you?
0:39.3	I couldn't be better.
0:42.7	I mean, I kid, but I'm very happy to be talking to you.
0:46.2	Let me introduce this time.
0:47.8	Robert Wright, publisher in Nanzeraner Newsletter.
0:50.2	This is a non-zero podcast.
0:51.5	You're Thomas Graham, Distinguished fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.
0:55.8	You also have a position at Yale University. And most important for today's purposes,
1:01.2	your author of a book called Getting Russia Right, which we're going to talk about.
1:08.4	You've been thinking about Russia for a long time. a lot of it during your career in public service
1:12.9	you're on you're on the national security council during the george w bush administration
1:17.9	before that you had a couple of stints in moscow was a foreign service officer in uh both the
1:25.5	late so soviet and early post-Soviet periods, I guess.
1:31.2	So you were there in the 90s.
1:33.3	And also in the 90s, you served in the State Department.
1:37.9	And so on the policy planning staff, and I think you had another position there.
1:42.9	So this is kind of
1:44.8	your life's work, in a sense, what we're about to talk about, right?
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