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Ep 335: A Deep Dive Into Ukraine vs Russia

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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The Cultural Gap Between Putin and Zelensky

To fair well in any large organization, what you need to do is to reduce the power from the room. If people will talk to each other in a civilized way and you will not impose horrible retribution on people for disagreeing with you, then you start eliciting knowledge and ideas. There's a cultural gap between the grim, hard men and the clever ones. And society succeed when the clever ones get a bigger say in the working of organizations. Putin felt that he had corrupted Germany and France to a point where they would not be able to question Russia. The whole concept of the post-Second World War arrangement is that you do not invade your neighbor. That's it. No questions asked

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