Kurt Mills
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686 appearances
10 recordings
2 series
first heard Oct 2025
last heard 11 Jul
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I think that's an interesting comparison you made with World War I. In a lot of ways, the situation has reversed because
I was in meetings in Brussels in June, and to hear some of these, and these are not low ranking people that I was talking to, hear some of these Europeans, they were just one more armed shipment away from taking out Putin in Moscow.
That's the cast of mind in Europe.
And versus the Russians think that this war is going just fine.
To an extent, parts of Russia, Russian society fears demobilization, fears the end of the war.
So these sides are very far apart.
As to Russia's orientation to the rest of the world, I mean, A, they have a lot of strong relations within the global south.
But in general, I would say geopolitically, they are a lone wolf.
Lone Wolf can be good or bad, but they have nuclear weapons, they're a proud civilization, 11 time zones, and I think it's incumbent upon the United States to work pragmatically with them.
They're not going anywhere.
And I think what was very interesting about Putin, it's been well observed in interviews with Carlson,
etc., is how sort of melancholic and preoccupied with history he is.
He talked again this week about the collapse after the Cold War, and he sort of signaled, you know, all this thinking in the early 90s, none of it came to anything, this sort of Fukuyamist fantasy about the nations getting along.
It didn't happen.
This is a realist.
This is a stone-cold-hearted man, no doubt.
But it's somebody, I think, fundamentally the United States—
can do business with if it prioritizes his own national interests as opposed to the endless indulgence of histrionic Europeans.
Well, the Secretary doesn't appear to be able to give up the old religion.
As you are well aware, in the first term, the now Secretary of State was the key interlocutor with the administration selling the new President Trump back in 17, 18, 19 on some of the most harebrained schemes for Latin America.
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