What Does Putin Want? (Robert Wright, Nikolay, and Kirill)

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🗓️ 22 March 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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3:05 Are Nikolay and Kirill satisfied with the "special military operation"? 8:26 Why have Russians become more supportive of the war effort? 18:07 Kirill defends the RWA tweet that unsettled Bob 32:53 US policies that made the war more likely 41:15 How much of Ukraine does Putin want? 54:29 Heading to Overtime

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Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Nikolay and Kirill (Russians with Attitude). Recorded March 21, 2024.

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Overtime titles:

0:00 Will Ukrainians blame Zelensky for the war? 10:16 Andrei Tarkovsky’s films and Burkean conservatism 21:40 The future of Russia’s political opposition 31:39 How are Russian nationalists processing the Gaza war?

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0:00.0	Your Listen.
0:03.0	Your listening You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero podcast.
0:33.4	Hello, Russians with Attitude.
0:37.8	Hi. Hello.
0:40.4	I didn't hear as much attitude in your voices as I would have expected.
0:44.8	Let me introduce this. I'm Robert Wright, publisher of the non-zero newsletter. This is the
0:48.9	non-zero podcast. You are Nikolai and Kareel, proprietors of the Russians with Attitude podcast and Twitter feed,
0:57.9	both of which have gained some prominence in some Western circles since the 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
1:07.5	I've had you on the podcast before, and I've been on your podcast.
1:11.7	I went back and listened to the beginning of the podcast last time you were on. And I spent like about five minutes kind of
1:17.2	half apologizing for having you on us. And the reason is because I know there are people out there
1:23.5	who find it offensive that I would want to hear the perspective of Russians who support
1:30.3	the war, which you do, or the special military operation, as I guess you call it.
1:36.3	And I'll keep a brief for this time.
1:37.9	I just believe in listening to all, you know, perspectives, basically.
1:41.5	And I think America would be better off if we had a clearer
1:45.2	understanding of the way various people view the world, including adversaries and allies and
1:51.2	everyone. The other thing I covered early in the last podcast was why you're not visible to
1:57.3	YouTube viewers, and you both explained you choose to remain anonymous on the
2:02.4	internet. The last thing I'll say is if they want to be able to tell you apart, Nikolai has what I
2:08.8	would call a pure Russian accent. Peril has the accent of someone who has spent some time in
2:15.2	Europe, which I gather you've done a fair amount of.
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