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Podcast: Putin's Big Fat Greek Chinese Wedding

Putin's new best buddies
Putin's new best buddies

July 10, 2015

As Greece negotiates with the European Union and its creditors to avoid an exit from the eurozone, and as the talks go down to the wire, Russia seems to be waiting in the wings with a big smile.

On the latest Power Vertical Podcast, we discuss whether Moscow is willing and able to make a play for Greece.

Joining me are co-host Mark Galeotti, a professor at NYU, an expert on Russia's security services, and author of the recently published book Spetsnaz: Russia's Special Forces; and Daniel Drezner, a professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and author of the books Theories Of International Politics And Zombies and The System Worked: How The World Stopped Another Great Depression.

Also on the podcast, Mark, Daniel, and I discuss Russia's fledgling alliance with China, which was on display at the BRICS summit in Ufa this week.

Enjoy...

Podcast: Putin's Big Fat Greek Chinese Wedding
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by: Yoshua
July 11, 2015 13:22
I believe that America's paranoia towards Russia and European relations with Russia, comes down to geopolitics, to the fact that America is isolated behind the Atlantic ocean from the Old World. (The Old World Order)

I also believe that Europe's paranoia towards China (with bad memories from the Huns, Turks and Mongols) and Sino-Russo relationships, makes Europe turn away from Russia towards America, across the Atlantic ocean, towards the New World. (The New World Order)
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by: Stanley King from: Chico, California
July 11, 2015 22:42
You have a points but then wasn't Adolph Hitler's rallying cry "The Mongol Bolsheviks are coming".
by: jojnjo from: Dublin
July 12, 2015 18:32
I am worried that Tsipras is double dealing both with EU & Russia, energy & maybe more from Russia & billions from EU (again). & So with the double dealing Russia must be getting something back from Greece, maybe using Greece to trade to Europe etc, or even getting a military base for the future from them. It's all very shady...but then Putin & Co are no strangers to the word, "Shady"!
by: Anon from: Sydney
July 16, 2015 01:45
The pretentious laughter throughout the podcast just kills this for me and attributing the developments to some political alignment to a soviet legacy is just pseudointellectual rubbish.

First time listening to the podcast and probably the last

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