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S8 Ep111: CONTINUED 8/8 Michael McFaul's book Autocrats Versus Democrats argues that Putinism is driven by anti-Western ideology, making Putin a risk-taker, and McFaul believes the US erred by lacking a robust response and failing to provide arms after the 2014 Cr

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 22 November 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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8/8 Michael McFaul's book Autocrats Versus Democrats argues that Putinism is driven by anti-Western ideology, making Putin a risk-taker, and McFaul believes the US erred by lacking a robust response and failing to provide arms after the 2014 Crimea invasion, stressing that helping Ukraine win is essential to inspire Russian democrats....
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I'm John Batchew with Michael McFaul, and we're speaking of the future of what is to be done dealing with the autocrats in

0:38.1

Moscow and Beijing, Xi Jinping and Beijing, who is in his eighth decade, and it's time

0:45.9

to think about retirement, and Vladimir Putin in his eighth decade, I'm in my eighth decade,

0:50.8

you think about retirement, it's natural. So if and when they retire, what

0:55.5

needs to be done to prepare their countries for a better outcome, China looks to have the most

1:02.4

handholds trade and coupling with the West on all manner of production, and they need our money. They just need it.

1:13.7

They depend upon it. They have an export-only model with a crater for a housing department.

1:20.4

So this looks to be opening to us. Is it, Michael? Your ideas are so, so tempting. Is it happening? Well i i hope i do in the book try to spell out a grand

1:32.3

strategy for decades to come it's not just a book for the next couple of years and when i add up the

1:38.2

power and then uh on autocrats versus democrats i still want to be on the side of the Democrats.

1:50.3

I still think when it comes to military power, if we have our allies together, we're much stronger than the autocrats.

1:52.5

When it comes to economic power, yes, the Chinese are growing, but you bring the free world

1:57.2

together, nine of the ten largest economies in the world are democracies.

2:01.9

We're still stronger there. We still have stronger universities by far, including my own at

2:07.4

Stanford. We still have more valuable companies compared to the Chinese and the Russians. G.

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