Susan Glasser
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11 recordings
6 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 7 Aug
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You know, you have one country that's fighting for its existence, that's trying to target military targets, that's trying to shut down the Russian economy.
And then you have basically random violence against individual Ukrainian citizens.
Yeah, well, it is fascinating, by the way.
Sergei Ivanov was a former KGB official like Vladimir Putin, although he was a high-ranking general, unlike Putin, who never made it past lieutenant colonel in the KGB.
And Ivanov, interestingly, was initially pegged as,
potentially Putin's successor.
And I think the world would have been a different place had Putin gone for him instead of Dmitry Medvedev, this sort of insignificant loyalist that he chose essentially as a placeholder.
And then remember, he returned to the presidency after sitting out a term under Medvedev.
Ivanov
was a much stronger potential figure than Medvedev.
And it's interesting that Putin chose not to have him be there.
It's one of the many, many paths not taken.
And it's a reminder that it's not all inevitable.
Vladimir Putin was a very unlikely person when Peter and I were there in Moscow and in the first few years of Putin's tenure, if you had said to anyone,
That this guy, this unknown 40-something obscure former mid-ranking KGB guy is going to be the longest serving Russian leader since Joseph Stalin, going to unleash the deadliest war in Europe since World War II.
By the way, it's now surpassed in terms of casualties.
Even the Napoleonic Wars for Russia, the only deadlier wars in Russia's history were World War I and World War II.
It's a catastrophe for the human capital in that society.
Going back to your question about what does it mean for the stability of Putin's government, for the possibility of Russia fighting onwards, there is inherent instability in this level of murderousness.
I believe the latest estimates I saw were that Russia has suffered more
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