Of Russia with Love with Mike McFaul
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4.8 • 25.5K Ratings
🗓️ 8 March 2017
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Tommy and former US Ambassador to Russia Mike McFaul talk about the US-Russia relationship. We cover pop culture and Rocky IV, arms control, Russian harassment of US diplomats, Mike’s assessment of Putin’s leadership and when relations turned bad, if Romney was right to call Russia our number one geopolitical foe and the lessons America can learn from Putin’s rise.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to PodSaveTheWorld. |
| 0:07.4 | Thank you to everyone who was subscribed, who was shared on social media, like the tweets, |
| 0:12.2 | who's given us a 5 star review, I appreciate it. |
| 0:14.4 | My guest this week is former ambassador, US ambassador to Russia, Michael McFall. |
| 0:18.4 | Mike was a colleague of mine in the White House, he was on the National Security Council. |
| 0:22.7 | He is now at Stanford University, he's a brilliant guy. |
| 0:25.9 | What we did is a couple weeks ago we sat down and we just talked through the history of |
| 0:30.4 | the US Russia relationship. |
| 0:32.1 | Arms control, Obama's accomplishments, where we may have failed, we really tried to dig |
| 0:36.3 | into this because I think what's lost in this conversation about Trump and Russia is |
| 0:40.0 | not whether or not they had meetings or have ties that are on toward is what is the nature |
| 0:44.1 | of this relationship? |
| 0:45.1 | Why is it important? |
| 0:46.1 | What are our concerns about Vladimir Putin and the way Trump team is approaching this? |
| 0:50.1 | So I think you'll enjoy it, I really appreciate you guys listening and talk to you soon. |
| 0:58.8 | Alright I'm here with Mike McFall, the director of the Freeman's Spogely Institute for International |
| 1:03.2 | Studies at Stanford University. |
| 1:05.6 | Mike was an early advisor to then send an Obama's presidential campaign, he then went |
| 1:10.1 | on to work at the White House for you as a specialist to the president and senior director |
| 1:15.0 | for Russia and your Asian affairs and then in 2011 Obama tapped into the US ambassador |
| 1:20.0 | to Russia, not bad for a kid from small town Montana. |
| 1:23.8 | Yeah good for us. |
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