Anne Applebaum
speaker
2,775 appearances
25 recordings
9 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 6d ago
Anne Applebaum’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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he changed his name and he has become wealthy, not because of great business talent, but because he became friendly with Putin's bodyguards.
They gave him control essentially of their sports betting industry and then a kind of car
And he's someone who's quite well known in Russia.
He posts frequently on social
head of the International Boxing Association, which allegedly is how he met Don Jr.
But he's someone very close to the Russian security services and close to Putin.
He was in China with Putin, according to the reports, recently, and is very much part of the hard side of the inner circle.
So it's not the diplomats.
He's not involved in the sovereign wealth fund.
He's involved with the security guys.
And somehow he's, you know, he's sidled up to the president's son, ingratiated himself with him.
Apparently he doesn't speak a lot of English, but he brought a group of friends to the wedding.
Anyway, it's I mean, in any other administration, any other country, this would be a huge scandal and the FBI would be investigating.
But will that happen in this administration?
I don't think so.
So this is basically the same deal we've been talking about for many months.
And, you know, the strange part of it is, I mean, looks like what Russia has been trying to do is persuade Jared to get the Ukrainians to surrender territory.
And I should remind everybody that territory means people.
It means defensive positions.
You know, it's not something you could just give up.
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