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What Everyone Gets Wrong About Putin - Historian Mark Galeotti

TRIGGERnometry

Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster

News, Politics, Society & Culture

4.62.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Mark Galeotti is a British historian, lecturer and writer on transnational crime and Russian security affairs. He is an intelligence consultant to various governments and well-known international bodies. He is an honorary professor at the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies, a senior associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute and an associate fellow in Euro-Atlantic geopolitics at the Council on Geostrategy. His books include, We Need To Talk About Putin, Russian Political War, The Vory: Russia’s Super Mafia, and A Short History of Russia - available here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B084HN5TSB/ SPONSOR: https://GETSUPERBEETS.aCOM Use Promo Code: TRIG to get a free 30-day supply + 15% off your first order We are proud partners with GiveSendGo - a world-leading crowdfunding platform that believes in free speech. Go to givesendgo.com and raise money for anything important to you. Join our Premium Membership for early access, extended and ad-free content: https://triggernometry.supercast.com OR Support TRIGGERnometry Here: Bitcoin: bc1qm6vvhduc6s3rvy8u76sllmrfpynfv94qw8p8d5 Music by: Music by: Xentric | [email protected] | https://www.xentricapc.com/ YouTube: @xentricapc Buy Merch Here: https://www.triggerpod.co.uk/shop/ Advertise on TRIGGERnometry: [email protected] Join the Mailing List: https://www.triggerpod.co.uk/#mailinglist Find TRIGGERnometry on Social Media: https://twitter.com/triggerpod https://www.facebook.com/triggerpod/ https://www.instagram.com/triggerpod/ About TRIGGERnometry: Stand-up comedians Konstantin Kisin (@konstantinkisin) and Francis Foster (@francisjfoster) make sense of politics, economics, free speech, AI, drug policy and WW3 with the help of presidential advisors, renowned economists, award-winning journalists, controversial writers, leading scientists and notorious comedians.

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I mean what we might be missing is there is a tendency to think of him as this kind of bond villain.

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I think that we have to realize is the degree to which he's also a scared and rather limited old man.

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When even the boss doesn't want to know what's really happening.

0:15.2

That's when you are on a path to potential disaster and this invasion of Ukraine was a classic example.

0:20.4

He doesn't think that it's Ukrainian wanting to join the EU and NATO. He thinks it's the EU and NATO wanting to steal Ukraine. It's just a minor point being it's all nonsense.

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Mark Galliotti, welcome to Trigonometry.

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You've talked and written extensively about

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Russia, Russian history, the security issues to do with that.

1:10.0

You're a security consultant in addition to historian. We're going to have a

1:13.6

fascinating conversation about one man in particular, which is of course Vladimir Putin.

1:18.6

I feel like the public interest in the war in Ukraine has died down and it's something we've covered

1:25.0

extensively on the show already.

1:26.8

But the one thing I think even now, even after all the talking that's been done about that,

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