Geopolitics Decanted by Silverado

No Way Out: Why Negotiations Won’t End the War Soon


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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
- Th 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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