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#316 – Noam Chomsky: Putin, Ukraine, China, and Nuclear War

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Vladimir Putin - What Motivates Him?

Putin's first task was to try to overcome the chaos and disarray of the 1990s. He "didn't reconstruct the Russian economy" under his tight control, he says. Putin himself was organized a major kleptocracy with him in the middle, barely became very wealthy. On the international front, he pretty much continued former policies as U.S. diplomats warned from the 90s that what Clinton was doing, expanded by Bush.

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