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Members Only #283 - Putin on the Fritz (w/ Ambassador Michael McFaul)

20 min•28 oktober 2025
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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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