#289 – Stephen Kotkin: Putin, Zelenskyy, and War in Ukraine
Lex Fridman Podcast
Russia's Grand Strategy is to Weaken the West
"You live in a western dominated world, that the multi polar world doesn't exist. Your goal is to make that multi polar world exist," he says. "And you're going to do everything you can to try to attain that world - which is a russian centric world or a chinese centric world." 'It's not going to be easy, lex just for the reasons that we're we enumerated before,' he adds.
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