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The West Must Prepare for a Post-Putin Russia

Gaslit Nation

Gaslit Nation

Politics, Society & Culture, News

4.7 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2024

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Every dictator dreams of living to a ripe old age and dying in power, leaving behind a worshipful cult to ensure their immortality. Putin's disastrous war in Ukraine, which was supposed to take Kyiv in three days, may bring his end sooner than he thinks. There was already one violent coup attempt against him last spring, and there are signs of failing health and increasing delusion. As his war drags on, with more Russians forced into the meat grinder, or coming home wounded, armed, and angry, Russia is a powder keg.

Is the West ready for the collapse of Russia? Will the country return to the chaos and car bombs of the 1990s? Will the statues of Stalin come down or be joined by ones to Putin? If the Kremlin is ripped apart by a succession battle, what will happen to the nukes? Olga Lautman, the Russian mafia expert and co-host of the Kremlin Files podcast, joins Gaslit Nation to forecast the collapse of Russia and why the West must get ready, especially for the sake of ensuring Ukraine prevails–for all of us.

This week's bonus show, exclusive to our supporters at the Truth-teller level and higher, answers questions from our listeners at the Democracy Defender level and higher. To our Patreon community, we look forward to seeing you at our Gaslit Nation Social Media workshop on January 18th at 8 pm EST, made especially for those who hate social media. Rachel Brody, a tenacious organizer who helps various campaigns with their social media strategy, will help lead the discussion and answer your questions.

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SHOW NOTES:

  • Putin's $300bn Belongs to Ukraine https://cepa.org/article/putins-300bn-belongs-to-ukraine/

Transcript

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0:00.0

I can't, I've lost count of how many times you and I have talked in that period, but there's

0:03.8

one conversation that sticks out to me.

0:05.5

It was the end of a conversation where I said, Tim, you can have the conversations you can

0:10.1

have and write the books and go on TV and I can do what I can do.

0:13.2

What can most people do to inoculate themselves?

0:16.1

And you gave me a litany of things, including, you know, joining, voting, running for your city council,

0:22.3

supporting and subscribing to your local news. What can people do to inoculate those around them?

0:27.7

Because we're finding more and more Americans are believing this lie rather than fewer of them,

0:31.8

despite more evidence coming out. What can those of us who believe democracies at stake do for

0:36.9

others? How do we have that conversation? Yeah. I mean, you and I have the great luxury that we can have this conversation in front of lots of people. But what we all have to be having is the smaller conversations. You know, I was in the Midwest of the holidays. I had some smaller conversations. You have to have small conversations. You have to play this small game. You have to treat this as a kind of, for the next 10 months, 11 months, you have to treat this as a struggle where every little bit matters, where every letter to the editor, every conversation, every subscription, every supporter of a good reporter, all these things are going to matter. Every phone bank, every little thing is going to matter. We have to treat this as, I think President Biden was right, as a, it's a sacred cause, but the sacred

1:16.2

cause doesn't defend itself. It gets defended by a million people doing a million little

1:21.0

things.

1:32.1

Welcome to Gaslit Nation.

1:36.1

Happy 2024, everybody.

1:37.4

It's real.

1:38.4

This is happening.

1:48.2

There is no escaping the 2024 U.S. election and its massive repercussions for the whole world and human civilization as we know it.

2:01.7

This is Gaslit Nation, and I am your host, Andrea Chalupa, a journalist and filmmaker, and the writer and producer of the journalistic thriller, Mr. Jones, the film The Cremlin doesn't want you to see, so be sure to watch it.

2:08.8

And with me today in this very important episode is the world-renowned Russian mafia expert and anti-cliptocracy researcher Olga Latman of the Must Listen to Kremlin Files podcast.

2:17.3

Hey, Olga. Hi. And I just want to add it's a leap year,

2:21.8

which makes everything even more insane. Yeah, it's a leap year, spooky leap year for 2024.

2:28.7

And together, Olga and I are the glam squad that are going to defeat Botoxed bitch Putin with his super,

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