What Russia Does is Bluff, Says Friedman
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🗓️ 17 July 2018
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Robert Hormats, Kissinger Associates Vice-Chairman, sees the Helsinki Summit as an opportunity for President Trump to take "a leadership role" in global issues. Charly Salonius-Pasternak, Senior Research Fellow of the Global Security Research Program at the Finnish Institute for International Affairs, highlights that U.S. global military and trade power is dependent on its alliance networks. George Friedman, GeoPolitical Futures Chairman, says that a great deal of what Russia does is a "bluff." Chris Granville, TS Lombard Managing Director of EMEA & Global Political Research, talks about the importance of smaller countries such as Finland in Brexit negotiations with the European Union.
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| 1:08.0 | with a distinguished career in both public service and the private sector. |
| 1:11.2 | Our guest is Robert Hormats, the Vice Chairman of Kissinger Associates. |
| 1:15.2 | Bob, it's great to have you with us. |
| 1:16.6 | And I was just flicking through what is a fantastic career in public service. |
| 1:21.0 | So you helped manage the Nixon administration's opening of diplomatic relations with China's communist government. |
| 1:27.6 | As you know, typically these are such orchestrated events when two leaders meet each other with predetermined deliverables. |
| 1:36.3 | Do we have any of that with this? |
| 1:38.3 | Well they're not predetermined at this point, but I think that Trump has made a number of statements which have been |
| 1:46.4 | divisive in terms of US relations with Europe and US relations with our allies in particular in NATO. |
| 1:55.0 | But he also has an opportunity as other heads of state have had in the past, |
| 2:00.0 | other American presidents have had in the past, to really exercise leadership at this summit. |
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| 2:08.2 | To succeed I think is very important and other presidents have understood this as well to take a strong |
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