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Since he took office, Donald Trump has made a lot of decisions that fly in the face of traditional US foreign policy.

He’s left Ukraine high and dry, he’s abandoning Europe, he’s slapped tariffs on America’s allies, and he’s floated the idea of seizing new territory in Greenland, Canada and the Panama canal.

And the big one: President Trump seems to have a great deal of time and respect for Russian president Vladimir Putin.

So what’s the deal with Putin and Trump - is what we’re witnessing now just the beginning of their grand plans for a new world order? And what hints can we get on how things might unfold from a conference that happened 80 years ago between US president Franklin Roosevelt, UK prime minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin in a little town called Yalta?

This week on If You’re Listening, will Putin’s dream of an emboldened Soviet sphere come true?

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Putin debunks his own propaganda by disarming Russia’s NATO borders
By Peter Dickinson November 28, 2023
[...]If Putin genuinely believed NATO posed a threat to Russia, would he voluntarily disarm his entire front line?
[...]In other words, NATO presents no danger whatsoever to Russian national security, but it does pose a very serious threat to Russian imperialism.
[...][Insert: Att: B402 - What John Mearsheimer gets wrong about Ukraine
[...]Equally perplexing is Mearsheimer’s tendency to conflate Putin’s obsessions with Russian interests as a whole. Mearsheimer’s assertion that “Russian leaders” viewed the invasion as “just” ignores the fact that much of the Russian foreign policy establishment was blindsided by the start of the war. Within the Kremlin elite, it was not a settled matter that conflict with Ukraine was inevitable or desirable. In fact, according to the Financial Times .. https://www.ft.com/content/80002564-33e8-48fb-b734-44810afb7a49 , Putin did not even consult his own foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, ahead of the attack. “He has three advisers,” Lavrov reportedly complained to an oligarch later: “Ivan the Terrible. Peter the Great. And Catherine the Great.”
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P - The Kremlin knows very well that it has nothing to fear from NATO...
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