I think with Putin, the problem is not emotional acting, it's being a bad actor. As all opportunists are and as Hitler was and many other leads in history, is an opportunist. And you can see why he thought things would play out in a different way. He thought we were weak. It starts with all the intelligence reports from Ukraine with it. But beyond that, he looked at Europe, post-pandemic, economically stressed. No one can argue that we have had strong and stable leadership in the last three or four years. We cannot rely on the Americans always failing us out. By gosh, they have bailed us out this time around. What if Donald
On this episode of the podcast we look back on one year of Russia’s war in Ukraine by revisiting 10 Intelligence Squared conversations over the past 12 months with historians, politicians, journalists, military, security, and defence experts. From questioning the effectiveness of economic sanctions and the likelihood of nuclear weapon use, to analysing the rise of Vladimir Putin in modern Russia, join us on this retrospective Intelligence Squared episode with producers Hannah Kaye, Conor Boyle, and Catharine Hughes.
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