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#301 — The Politics of Unreality: Ukraine and Nuclear Risk

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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Putin's Stage Two Is a Dysfunctional State

Timothy Stanley's new book is Road to Unfreedom. He looks at the evolution of Vladimir Putin over his two presidencies. In stage one, he tried to centralize power and did away with other oligarchs. But in stage two when he comes back, he recognizes that he can't make the Russian state function. And so he moves to a politics of spectacle where Russia is always right.

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