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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...was what I started I studied American history and I studied Soviet history and Russian history and I always retained an interest in this..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...was what I started I studied American history and I studied Soviet history and Russian history and I always retained an interest in this..."
He contrasts Lenin and Trotsky as atheist Marxist intellectuals hostile to Orthodoxy with Stalin as a seminary-formed figure whose World War II mobilization relied on Orthodox religious and nationalist sentiment.
"because of his rapprochement with the Orthodox Church starting with Lenin there was massive persecution of the Orthodox Church because Lenin Trotsky they were..."
"...was what I started I studied American history and I studied Soviet history and Russian history and I always retained an interest in this..."
Mercouris opens by asking for predictive geopolitics rather than another issue-by-issue panel, and Jiang answers by folding Ukraine, Europe, Iran, China, and domestic American disorder into one machine.
The episode begins with two escalations: Ukraine expands, Iran heats up.
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