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230. Russia, Ukraine, and the West | Frederick Kagan

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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Is There Inertia in the Russians?

I don't think that there was a huge amount of inertia along those lines among Russians themselves. I'm willing to believe that Putin was never a committed communist, per se. But it is apparent that Putin accepted the special destiny of the Soviet Union or Russia in the world to be a superpower and to have influence beyond the norm.

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