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Putin’s Empire, the West’s Game: Revisiting Bill Browder’s Insight on Russia

Putin’s Empire, the West’s Game: Revisiting Bill Browder’s Insight on Russia

Update: 2024-12-261
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As the war in Ukraine drags on, how do we untangle the web of money, power, and manipulation at the heart of Vladimir Putin’s regime? In this Christmas special, we revisit one of our most revealing episodes with financier and political activist Bill Browder, recorded in May 2022.From the origins of Putin’s rise to power to the oligarchs’ uneasy pact and the enduring corruption within Russia, Browder offers an insider’s perspective on the forces driving this geopolitical chess game. With haunting parallels to today’s events, we explore the enduring dynamics of Russia’s kleptocracy, the Western response to the war in Ukraine, and the grim calculus of prolonging conflict to pursue regime change. What’s the West’s real endgame? Can sanctions and military aid shift the balance, or are we destined for years of grinding stalemate? And what does it say about global power when wars are dictated not just by ideology, but by who controls the money?

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Putin’s Empire, the West’s Game: Revisiting Bill Browder’s Insight on Russia

Putin’s Empire, the West’s Game: Revisiting Bill Browder’s Insight on Russia