Lawfare Archive: Who is Vladimir Putin?
The Lawfare Podcast
The Lawfare Institute
4.7 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2022
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
From April 4, 2015: With a tenuous ceasefire holding in Ukraine, we asked Fiona Hill onto the show to discuss the man behind the unrest: Vladimir Putin. Hill is the co-author of Mr. Putin: Operative in the Kremlin, and a Senior Fellow and Director of the Center on the United States and Europe at Brookings. On the Lawfare Podcast, she tackles the hard questions about Putin. Who exactly is he? What does he want? Is he an unhinged madman obsessed with personal appearances or a shrewd realist with a nuanced understanding of the geopolitical challenges his country faces? And how should the West respond to Russian aggression based on what we know about its leader?
It's an important look at an often caricatured but rarely understood man.
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| 1:14.0 | I'm Katherine Pompilia with an episode from the LawFair Archive for January 23rd, 2022. |
| 1:19.0 | Throughout this week, tensions between Russia, Ukraine and NATO have been built in. |
| 1:24.0 | This week alone, Russia has increased the count of its troops along the Ukrainian border |
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