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230. Russia, Ukraine, and the West | Frederick Kagan
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
Is Russia Part of the West?
Russia has never considered itself fully part of the West. Peter the Great broke a window into Europe in the magical phrase of Pushkin by establishing St Petersburg. There is an inherent Russian messianism that goes all the way back to Yvonne the Terrible. When Putin's talking about the geo-strategic calamity of the fall of the Soviet Union, what he really means is the loss of Russia's privileged position as one of the two rulers of the world.
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