Luke Harding
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461 appearances
6 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 24 Aug
Luke Harding’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Well, Dmitriev, he speaks fluent English.
He studied in the US.
Ironically enough, he grew up in Kiev and then moved to Moscow.
And he is ambitious.
He is ruthless.
He is not actually from the sort of traditional Russian culture.
diplomatic institutional background.
He's not from the foreign ministry.
He's more of a kind of commerce guy, a kind of business guy.
And he's also a really prolific tweeter and user of X. And he's got one ultimate reader in mind, and that's Donald Trump.
And it's all about globalists stopping peace, how...
Russia and America are working together to end this conflict and so on.
I mean, so he's very much kind of leaning into Trumpian rhetoric about getting a deal and so on.
But I mean, what's interesting about it is it's right in the sweet spot from a Russian point of view where sort of
MAGA ideology and Russian ideology overlaps.
There's a sort of pitch that, you know, these two countries are natural allies rather than adversaries, that they are conservative, they are Christian, they hate woke, they hate gay people, trans people, etc.
That there's a sort of civilizational element, that they're strong, sovereign countries, great powers with spheres of influence,
Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
I mean, there was an absolutely fascinating investigation by the Wall Street Journal a few days ago laying this bare and showing that some of the beneficiaries or the possible beneficiaries of a reset with Russia are people close to Trump.
friends, donors, and so on, that there've been secret meetings, back channels between, for example, ExxonMobil and Russian oil majors, which are run by friends of Vladimir Putin's, people like Gennady Timchenko, Arkady Rotenberg.
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