Members Only #283 - Putin on the Fritz (w/ Ambassador Michael McFaul)
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Michael McFaul, former US ambassador to Russia, has a new book…
- The disaster of Russia
- Trump’s evolving views on Putin (and Nigel’s…and Georgia’s…)
- When McFaul met Putin…in 1991
- Was the Maidan uprising an American-sponsored coup?
- It’s not about NATO
- From boring technocrat to a nationalist, imperialist ideologue
- What does Putin believe?
- Vlad the flat taxer
- He’s not a Bolshevik
- A crook, sure. But an ideological crook
- Does no one care about 200,000 dead Russians?
- Liberation or surveillance
- Elite fatigue in Putin’s Russia
- The documentary Moynihan mentioned
- Mike McFaul, Soviet bootlegger
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