This new episode of The Glazov Gang features Dr. Andrei Illarionov, a former senior policy advisor to Vladimir Putin and now a Senior Fellow at the Center for Security Policy.
Dr. Illarionov takes us Inside the Mind of Putin, unveiling the plans and psychology of a ruthless tyrant.
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George says
Jamie why didn’t you ask Andrei who the person was who may have changed Putin’s mind about joining Nato ? He even asked you at one point, do you know the name of this person, and you didn’t answer, instead you decided to show an advert selling pillows !!
gravenimage says
Russia never wanted to meet NATO’s standards for joining.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Which are… what exactly? How does Turkey meet those standards? I know you agree that Turkey shouldn’t be in NATO, but NATO doesn’t seem to have any standards for membership: it’s just interested in growing its club.
As someone put it on Twitter, NATO stands for “Need Americans To Operate”
Jim says
Why didn’t you ask the name of the person who changed Putin’s mind in 2008?
Gamaliel says
One thing that wasn’t mentioned in this talk was why the GDP of Russia has increased. It is America and Europe’s war on fossil fuels while Russia builds oil pipelines towards China. When America and Europe destroy their production of fossil fuel they become dependent on laundered Russian oil. That means that although they stopped buying oil directly from Russia they buy it from other countries that refine it. The war on domestic production of fossil fuels enriches Russia. China and India buy Russian fuel. Brazil is increasing it’s purchases of Russian oil. America that had become an oil exporter under Trump is now importing it. The Western war on fossil fuels helps Russia fight Ukraine. The war on fossil fuels empowers Russia to become an increasing menace to Europe and the United States and Ukraine.
It’s very likely that Putin was never pro-NATO, he probably saw joining NATO as a way of undermining NATO. He probably thought that he could get the West more hooked on Russian oil which has happened. Russia funds anti-fossil fuel groups in the United States.
gravenimage says
The Ruble basically has no worth outside Russia.
You wrote:
It’s very likely that Putin was never pro-NATO, he probably saw joining NATO as a way of undermining NATO.
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I very much agree with you on this point, Gamaliel.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
On the contrary, it’s our sanctions on Russia which have backfired, as Tucker Carlson described in detail about a year ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t9Cr88sAbk
As Tucker pointed out above, Russia’s economy runs by selling products that are useful to other countries, be it grain, oil, fertilizer, metals… All that real estate that they have gives them enough raw materials to even run their economy on barter, if they wanted. The Ruble is now worth a lot more since the war started and the sanctions were imposed: Russia started telling its partners, particularly in Europe, that they’d have to pay them in Rubles if they wanted to buy anything
In addition to that, Russia now has an agreement w/ India that allows for a direct Ruble ⇆ Rupee exchange. In addition, a whole lot of countries, that previously used to hoard dollars so that they could buy anything they wanted internationally, are now fleeing the dollar b’cos of the things that Tucker mentioned above. Like India has so far gotten 18 countries to agree to trade w/ them in Rupees, including the likes of Israel, Singapore and even Britain & Germany. Somehow, the last 2 don’t seem to be in a position to force them to transact in Sterling or Euros, and even Japan looks like they’ll make such a deal
The only way we can get the dollar back as a reserve currency that anyone else is interested in is to start making things here that others might wanna buy. Right now, the bulk of it is make in China, & if it’s moving, it’s moving to Vietnam, Thailand, Philippines, et al. Keep at it, and the dollar will one day be about as useful as the currencies of Uzbekistan or Zimbabwe
gravenimage says
Glazov Gang: Andrei Illarionov on ‘Inside the Mind of Putin’
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Excellent stuff from Jaime Glazov and his guest Dr. Andrei Illarionov. This reminds me again of why I was so optimistic about Russia in the 1990s–and how much that has dimmed in the years since.