Russians with Attitude (Robert Wright, Nikolay, and Kirill)
Robert Wright's Nonzero
Nonzero
4.7 • 618 Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2023
⏱️ 82 minutes
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RWA Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@RussiansWith... RWA podcast episodes: https://www.patreon.com/rwapodcast 01:10 Why Bob invited Russians with Attitude onto the Nonzero Podcast 7:30 Why do Kirill and Nikolay support Russia’s invasion of Ukraine? 15:23 Shortcomings of US mainstream media in covering Russia 25:40 The roots of the Donbass rebellion 37:33 Parallels between the Maidan Revolution and the Donbass rebellion 49:05 What was Putin’s main reason for invading? 1:00:53 Is Russia systematically committing war crimes? 1:14:23 Final thoughts from Nikolay and Kirill before heading into Overtime 1:22:23 What was the Prigozhin mutiny really about? 1:29:50 The chances of an imminent ceasefire 1:37:06 How do Nikolay and Kirill self-identify ideologically? 1:44:47 The extent of Russian government repression of dissidents 2:01:14 America’s missed opportunity to bolster global peace and prosperity
Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Nikolay and Kirill (Russians with Attitude). Recorded July 5, 2023.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero Podcast. |
| 0:32.6 | Hello, Nikolai and Kirill. |
| 0:37.7 | Hi, and thank you for inviting us. |
| 0:41.0 | Well, I'm very happy to have you on the podcast. |
| 0:43.8 | I'm excited about this conversation. |
| 0:45.6 | Let me introduce us. |
| 0:47.3 | I'm Robert Wright, a publisher, Non-Zero Newsletter. |
| 0:50.9 | This is the Non-Zero podcast. |
| 0:53.8 | You are the proprietors of the Russians with Attitude |
| 0:58.2 | podcast in Twitter feed, although I gather one of you does most of the tweeting. That's my sense. |
| 1:07.0 | And, you know, one reason I'm really looking forward to this conversation is because it's unusual, even for my podcast, which is to say it's a conversation with two Russians who support the Russian war effort. |
| 1:26.4 | This is a kind of perspective you don't very often hear. |
| 1:30.4 | Certainly mainstream media, even I think an American podcast. |
| 1:34.8 | And I think it's fair to say I'm going to give a certain amount of blowback for this. |
| 1:38.8 | In fact, I've already gotten a little anticipatory blowback. |
| 1:42.5 | And so I want to explain why I'm doing it. |
| 1:46.1 | First of all, I'm a big believer in just hearing the perspectives of everyone in the world, |
| 1:53.9 | especially everyone on both sides of all major conflicts. |
| 1:58.7 | It's called cognitive empathy. |
| 2:00.3 | I'm a big advocate of that. That's not to be confused |
| 2:03.9 | with emotional empathy. Doesn't mean you have to sympathize with them or feel their pain. It just |
| 2:08.7 | means understanding their perspective. As regular readers of the non-zero newsletter, no. I believe that |
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