I spy: meeting Ukraine’s intelligence chief
Economist Podcasts
The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 7 July 2023
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
We sit down with Kyrylo Budanov, Ukraine’s youngest-ever spymaster. He is intense, resolute—and oddly charismatic. A world of electrified transport is going to need lots of nickel for batteries. We argue that, environmentally speaking, gathering it from the seafloor clearly beats mining it on land (11:12). And remembering Donald Triplett, the first person ever to be diagnosed with autism (19:25).
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| 1:01.5 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. |
| 1:04.7 | I'm your host, Jason Palmer. |
| 1:06.7 | Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 1:15.6 | The transition to electric vehicles will require lots of nickel, more perhaps than has ever been mined. |
| 1:22.6 | We look at the nascent effort to gather it from the seafloor, which we find would be far more environmentally |
| 1:28.0 | sound than mining it on land. |
| 1:32.4 | And in the 1930s, psychiatrists did not yet have a word to describe the strange verbalizing |
| 1:37.6 | and distant manner of Donald Triplett. |
| 1:40.5 | But in time, his condition became known as autism. |
| 1:43.7 | We reflect on the life of case one. |
| 1:53.2 | First up, though. |
| 2:00.8 | In the story of the Ukraine war, there's now daily familiarity with the main players, |
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