Ian Bremmer
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4,435 appearances
19 recordings
12 series
first heard Jun 2025
last heard 1 Aug
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And then the big question, and they're also, they're now hitting the Black Sea, they're hitting all these Ukrainian ships because they're trying to create, again, a greater food shortage where the Ukrainians are not able to export food and 90% of the ships are unwilling to travel out.
Even though Odessa is still functional, you can't get the insurance, you can't get the cruise if the Russian will hit you.
Now, the big question, and you asked me this about Iran, is might the Russians use a tactical nuke?
The answer there for me is still no, because I think the Chinese would strongly oppose it.
The Indians, Kazakhstan, I mean, countries that matter to Russia, I don't think they want to take that risk.
I don't think Putin feels that desperate, but I do recognize
that at the end of the day, there are no checks and balances on Putin.
He does not get great information.
He is getting much older.
He looks more infirm.
And his situation feels like he's circling the drain.
I mean, you look at the mistakes Trump has made in Iran, that's rookie numbers compared to what Putin is doing
in Ukraine and what Putin is doing to his own country, to his own people, to his own economy.
And I do worry a lot that in another year or two years of this, if Putin refuses to accept the pushing and the nudging from friends,
that he really should engage in a ceasefire, that we could end up in a situation where Putin could take some calamitous decisions, that he'd be willing to go down with the ship the way that a US or a Chinese leader would not, but the head of ISIS would.
the head of Hamas would.
I worry that Putin right now is in between those two sorts of leaders and he's trending towards the latter.
I think it will help.
that the Chinese are starting to make that case.
I thought it was good that President Tokayev from Kazakhstan met with him earlier this week and said directly, I really think you should do a ceasefire here.
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