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Syria, Ukraine, and parallels between autocrats - with Jean-Pierre Filiu - Thinking in Dark Times #8

Explaining Ukraine

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Putin's Expansion to the Middle East

The Russian invasion of Ukraine is seen as an attempt to undo the results of the Cold War. Putin understands that this backing of Obama is a golden opportunity for him, he says. It is in the Middle East that George Erbert Bush established the New World Order after the war for liberation of Kuwait in 1991 and it is there America led the foundation of its world hegemony during three decades.

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