GoodFellows: Conversations from the Hoover Institution

A Soviet Reunion: Michael McFaul On What Putin Wants

Apr 5, 2022

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Strategic Nuclear Weapons - Is That Really a Threat?

04:38

What Is Winning in War?

01:45

Do You Think the Ukranians Are Ready to A, Declare Neutrality?

04:32

Introduction

2min

Puton's Not Getting the Information That He Wants From His Associates

4min

I Think He's Pretty Frustrated Right Now

2min

I'm Cherry Picking Now, Neil

2min

Puton, He Was a Complete Opportunist in the Nineties, Right?

5min

The Appeal of Unconstitutional Fruit in Russia

1min

Isn't It a Hypernationalist Class?

2min

Is Puton Anatonis Agent?

5min

Eager Section, He Redistributed Property, Right?

3min

10.

Is It a Short War or a Long War?

3min

11.

Do You Know What's Going on in Russia?

4min

12.

Do We Need a Long War or Short War?

4min

13.

Do We Let the Ukranians Win?

4min

14.

Do You Think the Ukranians Are Ready to A, Declare Neutrality?

5min

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What Is Winning in War?

2min

16.

I Think It's Time to Give Him Everything to Hell We Can Give Him

2min

17.

The Russians and the People Around Them Have to Concludeh T, They've Been Defeated

3min

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Foreign Policy to End the War in Moscow

2min

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Strategic Nuclear Weapons - Is That Really a Threat?

5min

20.

Is It a Regime Change in Russia?

2min

21.

What's Next for the Ucranians?

2min

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Do You Think It's Duable?

3min

The war continues in Ukraine while peace talks go forward in Istanbul – the outcome of both endeavors anyone’s guess. Michael McFaul, a Hoover senior fellow and former U.S. Ambassador to Russia, joins Hoover senior fellows Niall Ferguson, H.R. McMaster and John Cochrane to discuss the chances of a settlement that’s mutually beneficial to the two warring parties and the West, Vladimir Putin, plus the possibility of hostilities escalating.

Recorded April 4, 2022

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