Ukraine’s War, Putin’s Worldview (Robert Wright & Leonid Ragozin)
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🗓️ 15 February 2024
⏱️ 56 minutes
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1:35 What MSM missed about Carlsons' Putin interview 14:20 Putin’s litany of grievances against the West 22:19 Russia gets the upper hand in Ukraine 30:02 Why Zelensky hasn’t paved the way for peace talks 37:02 Putin’s mafia-inspired approach to negotiations 45:47 Do most Russians support the war? 49:49 Why Zelensky fired his popular top general 54:00 Heading to Overtime
Leonid's article in Al Jazeera: https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/2/12/putin-is-ready-for-talks-on-ukraine-but-on-his-own-terms
Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Leonid Ragozin (Rest of World, West of Providence, Lonely Planet). Recorded February 14, 2024.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/NonzeroPods
Overtime titles:
0:00 An approaching Russia-NATO war? 3:39 Why the Gaza war is a godsend for Putin 13:32 Does Putin really prefer Trump over Biden? 22:52 The point of Putin’s long historical monologue
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero Podcast. |
| 0:33.6 | Hello, Leonid. |
| 0:35.9 | Hello, both. |
| 0:37.0 | Thank you for having me. |
| 0:38.6 | Well, thank you for making the time. |
| 0:40.3 | How are you doing? |
| 0:41.5 | I'm doing very well. |
| 0:43.3 | Good. |
| 0:43.7 | Let me introduce us. |
| 0:44.5 | I'm Robert Wright, publisher with Non-Zero Newsletter. |
| 0:46.7 | This is the Non-Zero podcast. |
| 0:49.2 | You are Leonid Rigozen, a journalist based in Latvia, although you're from Russia originally, |
| 0:55.8 | written for a number of places, BBC The Guardian, lately for Al Jazeera. |
| 1:01.1 | In fact, you've written a piece just within the last few days about this Tucker Carlson |
| 1:07.6 | interview of Vladimir Putin. |
| 1:08.9 | I definitely want to talk about that because your take is a little different from some of the takes we saw in the West. I'm really looking forward to |
| 1:18.0 | this conversation because I have frankly been kind of distracted by the Middle East and haven't been |
| 1:23.4 | paying as much attention to the Ukraine-Russia situation as I had been before October 7th. |
| 1:30.8 | And so I'm hoping you can kind of catch me up on the state of play there. |
| 1:35.9 | Why don't we start out, though, with this interview, this Tucker Carlson interview of Putin? |
| 1:43.1 | First of all, how would you say the interview was kind of processed in the West to the extent that you could tell? |
| 1:52.4 | I mean, I assume, you know, I know you're on Twitter and people should follow you, by the way. |
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