In-depth conversations on the conflicts and rivalries shaping our world, explored in the detail the subject deserves. Dmitri Alperovitch speaks with the military commanders, intelligence officials, diplomats, historians, and strategists who shape events and study them closely — on the war in Ukraine, strategic competition with China and the future of Taiwan, nuclear deterrence, sanctions and semiconductors, and the changing character of warfare. Throughout, the aim is to understand not merely what has happened, but why — and what is likely to follow.
Geopolitics Decanted is hosted by Dmitri Alperovitch — chairman of the Silverado Policy Accelerator in Washington, D.C., national bestselling author of World on the Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race for the Twenty-First Century, and co-founder of CrowdStrike.
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Friday Dec 02, 2022
Friday Dec 02, 2022
In this episode, Dmitri Alperovitch talks with historian and Russia expert Mark Galeotti about:
- Whether Putin is capable of compromising his war aims in any potential future negotiations with Ukraine
- The real reason for why he chose to invade Ukraine
- Why he went ahead and annexed territories he didn't even have full control over
- The similarities between Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 and Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022
- Why Prigozhin and Kadyrov are no threat to Putin's hold on power
- Whether the sanctions and export controls are having much of an effect on the Russian economy and society
- How the people in Russia's intelligence services are reacting to the war (and what happened to SVR's Naryshkin)
- Why Putin is incapable of holding incompetent leaders accountable
- Why the bombastic rhetoric from Russian nationalist shock jocks on state television is not a portal into Kremlin's policy
- And much more!
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