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Syria, Ukraine, and parallels between autocrats - with Jean-Pierre Filiu - Thinking in Dark Times #8
Explaining Ukraine
Vladimir Assad and Bashar Putin - What Are the Common Features?
French Professor of Middle Eastern Studies, Frida Ghitis is in Kiev to teach at Kiyev-Mihil Academy. She says there are a lot of parallels between the war which Russia is waging against Ukraine and the fact how it helped Syrian regime of Assad to oppress the opposition. Both inherited absolute power from Yeltsin and his father; they don't know how to negotiate or have any decent dialogue with others. They just know how to liquidate and eliminate. And both run and ruling mafia systems that we project on them strategic ideas,. While in fact they are just handling some kind of syndicator of organized crime.
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