Eddie Fishman
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753 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 11 Jun
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Oh, I'm sorry.
Which, by the way, I appreciate that.
When I was sanctioned in 2022, a lot of people sent me these, like, congratulatory notes.
I was like, hold on a second.
Like, this is upsetting.
You know, it's, like, weird when a place where you've had friends, where you've spent good times... Is taken away from you.
Is taken away from you.
So, look, I do think that U.S.
policy toward Russia in the 90s could have been significantly better, right?
We could have...
given Russia more of a bear hug than we did, right?
If you look at, you sort of juxtapose Russia with some of the other former communist countries like Poland or Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Hungary.
I mean, all of those countries have generally become successful free societies.
You know, liberal democracies, even Hungary, right?
Where we were sort of going in the wrong direction for a long time.
They now got rid of Orban and they're sort of back in the fold.
I do think we could have done a better job in the 1990s.
But look, I think there's also an element of just bad luck and historical contingency.
You know, sort of the main successful Russian politician that a lot of people thought was going to succeed Boris Yeltsin, who, you know, sort of famously kind of a drunk, not a particularly effective leader, was this guy Boris Nemtsov.
Well,
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