Military Intelligence Expert Breaks Down Russian Mindset

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Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster

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🗓️ 4 April 2022

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Martti J. Kari is a former intelligence Colonel in the Finnish Defense Forces and now teaches at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Watch the lecture that inspired this interview here: Evaluation of Russia by Finnish Intelligence Colonel (subtitles) https://youtu.be/kF9KretXqJw - *SPONSORS* Stitch Fix: Make shopping for clothes easy! Go to stitchfix.co.uk/trigger and get 20% off when you keep all five items. Babbel: Learn a new language! Go to babbel.com/play, and use promo code TRIGGER for an extra six months free. Join our exclusive TRIGGERnometry community on Locals! https://triggernometry.locals.com/ OR Support TRIGGERnometry Here: https://www.subscribestar.com/triggernometry https://www.patreon.com/triggerpod Bitcoin: bc1qm6vvhduc6s3rvy8u76sllmrfpynfv94qw8p8d5 Buy Merch Here: https://www.triggerpod.co.uk/shop/ Advertise on TRIGGERnometry: marketing@triggerpod.co.uk Join the Mailing List: https://www.triggerpod.co.uk/sign-up/ Find TRIGGERnometry on Social Media: https://twitter.com/triggerpod https://www.facebook.com/triggerpod https://www.instagram.com/triggerpod About TRIGGERnometry: Stand-up comedians Konstantin Kisin (@konstantinkisin) and Francis Foster (@francisjfoster) make sense of politics, economics, free speech, AI, drug policy and WW3 with the help of presidential advisors, renowned economists, award-winning journalists, controversial writers, leading scientists and notorious comedians. - Chapters: 00:00 Intro 03:40 How Do Russians Think Differently? 10:50 Why Russia Prefers Strong Leaders 13:33 Yeltsin, 1990s Russia and Attitude to Democracy 16:49 Corruption: Unwritten Rules 20:29 Why Russia is Fearful of Invasion 24:04 Putin is Surrounded by 'Yes Men' 28:27 Ukraine War: Intelligence Failure 31:22 Why Did Putin Invade Ukraine? 38:16 Could This Have Been Prevented? 40:49 The Suwalki Gap and Kaliningrad. Will Putin Keep Going? 45:12 Why Do Russians Support Putin? 49:25 Meanings of Truth in Russia 53:33 Russia Today and Sputnik 55:55 Where Does Putin Go From Here? 58:16 How NATO Can Both Not Eslacate AND Support Ukraine 01:00:03 Would Putin Use Chemical Weapons? 01:01:13 NATO Membership For Finland and Sweden 01:03:14 Ironically, Putin Has Strengthened NATO Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The biggest mistakes of the New Grand War was that it was in Delicence Failure.
0:12.0	Hello and welcome to Trigononma Trill. I'm Francis Foster. I'm Constantine Kissen.
0:18.0	And this is a show for you if you want honest conversations with fascinating people.
0:23.0	I am so excited for the guest we have for you today. He's a retired
0:27.0	colonel from the Finnish military intelligence now lecturer.
0:30.0	Colonel Marty Carrey, welcome to Trigononma Trill.
0:33.0	Okay, thank you. Nice to be here.
0:35.0	It is great to have you. I'll call you Maira because that's the short version of your name.
0:39.0	But listen, before we get started, I just wanted to say for anyone who doesn't know who you are,
0:42.0	we'll ask you to tell everybody your background.
0:45.0	I listened to a lecture that you gave about Russian culture, history and attitudes that's on YouTube.
0:52.0	And it was the best thing as a Russian who's father used to work in the Russian government.
0:57.0	Everything you said was entirely true. It was just I've never seen anything this good.
1:02.0	And the moment I watched that I said to Francis, we've got to get this guy on because he's so good.
1:06.0	So just for people watching this who don't know who you are, can't wait to have this conversation.
1:11.0	But before we do, tell everybody your background. Who are you?
1:14.0	What has been your journey through life? How come you know so much about Russia,
1:18.0	Russian culture, Russian history and so on.
1:20.0	Okay. Okay. So I was born quite a long time ago.
1:24.0	And when become became time to be because we have in Finland, we have an obligatory conscript service.
1:31.0	I went to the airborne rangers. I served as a airborne ranger as a conscript.
1:36.0	And I was my plan was to become a history teacher.
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