Maximum Security
The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg
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The Limits of Putin's Foreign Policy
Putin was a mid-level KGB officer stationed in Dresden in East Germany when the wall came down and that experience was searing for him. He spent much of 2020 and 2021 in virtual isolation, apparently doing you know, research in the whole Russian and Soviet archives. And so there are these weird idiosyncratic factors that come into play. It would almost be funny if it weren't so tragic is a lot of what's happening right now has to do with the way Putin spent his COVID isolation.
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