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Putin and the long game against the West

The David McWilliams Podcast

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The Russians Believe That They Are the Inheritors of Christianity

There was a movement in russia when i was there in the early nineties called bagnem, which means god is with us. So that's o, this tension between slavic russia and western russia has always been going on. And then you talk about so s the soul of russia is complicated, complex, absolutely legitimate. It's an absolutely timate perspective. Is a mafia don like a tony soprano for slavic people? Yes, not like that, right? He may well also be that this idea of interestsing ut the west, on the proximity of the west, whele the russian nationalists will always say, we've only

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