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Background Briefing with Ian MastersAugust 13, 2024 - Nicholas Heras | John Lawrence | Anastasia EdelWith War Between Israel and Iran Inevitable, a Strategic Analysis of How Much It Could Escalate | Kamala Harris and Donald Trump's Competing Tax Proposals on Tips Aimed at Winning Nevada | Putin's Long Game Counters the Current Optimism as Ukraine Takes Russian Territory
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Foreign Policy LiveAssessing Kyiv’s CounteroffensiveIt’s been a mixed summer for Ukraine. Kyiv’s counteroffensive is progressing slowly, and the country was stymied in its bid to join NATO. But Russia has suffered military setbacks, and the West continues to offer Ukraine important security guarantees. Andrea Kendall-Taylor joins FP Live host Ravi Agrawal to discuss the latest in the war and assess where things might head next. Kendall-Taylor is the director of the Transatlantic Security Program at the Center for New American Security.Suggested reading:Simon Sebag Montefiore: Putin’s Fear of Strong Generals Is as Old as Russia Itself...2023-07-2144 min
Silicon CurtainAnastasia Edel - Once Again Western World Entirely Failed to Predict or Understand Russia’s Actions.GUEST: Anastasia Edel - writer and social historian.
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Until February 2022, the war in Ukraine could be dismissed by some as a
“quarrel in a faraway country, between people of whom we know nothing”,
especially if they had been influenced by aggressive Russian propaganda
and the techniques of hybrid information warfare. But in 2022 the war
became full scale, and the propagandistic subterfuge far less effective.
The West had believed that mutually beneficial commercial activity
created a guarantee against a full-scale war in Europe, that would see
hundreds of thousands of dead and wounded; that a Russian elite with
financial, prop...2023-03-211h 12
ASPI Podcast: Policy, Guns & MoneyUS-China tensions, reflections on the ASPI conference and gender and terrorismThis week, Kelsey Munro speaks to Charles Edel, Senior Fellow and Visiting Scholar at Sydney University’s United States Studies Centre about US-China tensions and the US policy approaches towards China. They discuss how the strong rhetoric on China coming out of Washington offers a distraction from US domestic political failings ahead of the upcoming elections.
Brendan Nicholson and The Strategist’s new National Security Editor Anastasia Kapetas offer their thoughts on the ASPI conference thus far, and some of the key takeaways from the discussions on the United States and China and where the world might be headed.
Leanne Clos...2020-08-0743 min
The Open Mind, Hosted by Alexander HeffnerMother of ExilesOn this episode of The Open Mind, we're delighted to welcome Russian-American writer Anastasia Edel. She is author of the powerful New York TimesOp-Ed The Tired and Poor Who Make America Great, which contends that as long as the Statue of Liberty stands, it renders Donald Trump an impostor; as well as author of Lightning Guides edition “Russia: Putin's playground: Empire, Revolution, and the new Tsar.” “Like many things in Russian history, privatization was started with good intentions. It ended in rig bids, bribes, violence, and dubious interpretations of the law.” Edel writes. “The dizzying rate at which Russian oligarchs...2019-11-1427 min
skeptischerchristFolge 65Noch ein weiterer
skeptischer Wissenschafts,Technik,Literatur und Gesellschaftspodcast.
Und ein bischen Reise.
Hier geht’s um
meine Reise nach Russland im Sommer dieses Jahres (2015), der Plan
ist diesmal anders, ich wollte Russland mal im Abstand von einem Jahr
vorstellen,was hat sich im letzten Jahr verändert, neu ist nur das
wir diesmal vorhatten nach Moskau zu fahren, der Anfang der
„Reportage“ spielt im Kreuzviertel, der Plan wird erläutert,
leichte Änderungen im Plan sind vorgenommen worden um das ganze
narrensicher zu machen, als ich das erzählt habe habe ich das auch
noch geglaubt...2015-08-081h 43