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114: Michael McFaul | What It's Like to Stand Up to Putin

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The Advantages of a New Ambassador to Russia

There was a big issue just for instance, huge protest over the vendor for lunch because Russians don't eat sandwiches. They have hot food for breakfast after lunch. That's their main meal of the day. So they were thinking, this is prison food. Right? The Americans want, grab and go, you know, church sandwiches and sushi. There was this huge societal fight over what we're going to have for food. I had to have it that way. You've got your American staffing, sure, and you don't want them to hate life. But these Russians, they can quit and leave. And so there's that bundle of issues.

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