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A Soviet Reunion: Michael McFaul On What Putin Wants

GoodFellows: Conversations from the Hoover Institution

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Eager Section, He Redistributed Property, Right?

Eager section is a billionaire because vlatimer putton made him a millionaire. The distribution of power within that system is very different than a capitalist society. There's either fear, so that the nineties oligarchs, they're all fearful of right? And most of em now live in the west and fear him. But i think we need to be a humble we need to understand the distribution of powerWithin that system isvery different than acapitalist society. They don't have their m ps that they can go lobby to say, stop this war. You know, even when i was ambassador, they know, thatwas eight years ago,. it was already clear puton was kind of

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