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• Guest Name: Anna Borschevskaya • Affiliation: The Washington Institute • Summary: This segment discusses Vladimir Putin's vision for a multipolar world with diminished US influence, emphasizing a strategic triangle of Russia, China, and India. It highli

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

Society & Culture, Arts, News, Books

4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

• Guest Name: Anna Borschevskaya
• Affiliation: The Washington Institute
• Summary: This segment discusses Vladimir Putin's vision for a multipolar world with diminished US influence, emphasizing a strategic triangle of Russia, China, and India. It highlights Russia's increasing cooperation with Iran and Belarus, despite conventional wisdom. Putin is seen as willing to accept Russia's junior position to China, viewing it as a necessary alliance against a perceived Western attack on Russia.

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0:00.0

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0:23.6

This is CBS, I On the World. I'm John Bachelor with Malcolm Holmine, my colleague and friend,

0:29.4

and we welcome our colleague Anna Parshiewski of the Washington Institute, speaking over the years

0:35.9

for us about the Kremlin and especially about Vladimir Putin.

0:41.1

Vladimir Putin in Beijing standing with Xi Jinping, the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party,

0:47.7

and Kim Jong-un, the dictator of North Korea, the big three.

0:51.6

And the parade, the display of offensive weapons, the marching young people

0:58.0

with weapons in their hands, all reminiscent of the Red Square, 1952-53, except this time it was a

1:05.9

celebration of the Chinese Communist Party's victory over Imperial Japan in World War II, a complete fiction.

1:14.0

Putin knew that, standing there.

1:16.3

The reason the Hitlerites and their allies in Tokyo were defeated

1:20.7

was because Great Britain at Great Sacrifice,

1:24.7

the United States at Great Sacrifice, and Russia at great sacrifice, combined

1:29.4

to be the big three who defeated the Hitlerites and the Japanese together. Putin knew all

1:36.7

of this, and he stood there as if the fiction was real. This is a very high price to pay. If you're

1:42.7

the younger brother of a child you never knew who died of starvation.

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