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WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

Stephen Kotkin on the Present and Future of Russia and the West

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Wall Street Journal

News, Society & Culture

4.22.8K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

What will become of Russia after Vladimir Putin, and what is the endgame for the war in Ukraine? Paul Gigot speaks with historian Stephen Kotkin about how the United States would handle Russia once a successor to Putin is in place, the role the Biden administration will continue to play as the war between Ukraine and Russia continues, and how much Russia is dependent on China in order to survive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

0:38.0

Hello everyone, I'm Paul Giego, and welcome to the Special edition of Potomac Watch, the daily podcast of the Wall Street Journal opinion pages.

0:47.2

I'm the editor of those pages and our guest today is Stephen Kotkin, perhaps America's most distinguished historian of Russia.

0:54.5

We'll take a deep dive into the present and potential future of Russia and its relations

0:59.3

with the West, but first little about Professor Kotkin.

1:02.9

He's the Kleinhines Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution

1:06.6

and a Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogley Institute

1:09.3

for International Studies at Stanford.

1:11.5

For 33 years, he taught at Princeton University where he was the John P.

1:16.6

Birklin professor of history and international affairs and took a merit to status at Princeton in 2022. He's also the author of a magisterial three-part

1:26.4

biography of Joseph Stalin. Two of the books have been published and he is

1:30.5

working on the third, if I got that right, Professor I get that right yes you did Paul thank you so much for that gracious

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