Glossary
Used for the zone around a major power that it treats as core to sovereignty and strategic security, here especially Russia's objection to NATO expansion.
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sphere of influence
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...wants to become independent. It wants to create its own sphere of influence. Okay? And that's why Iran is very, very important. So a..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...wants to become independent. It wants to create its own sphere of influence. Okay? And that's why Iran is very, very important. So a..."
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diagnosis
The host says the existing diplomatic rules no longer make sense in a multipolar world because the United States still claims rights in the neighborhoods of Russia and China that it denies to them in its own hemisphere.
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He says NATO spent roughly twenty years expanding into Russia's sphere of influence despite repeated Russian warnings, and frames the Russia response as a sovereignty defense provoked by Western arrogance.
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"I mean, this changes absolutely everything. The rules of the games change, as you suggested. I mean, why did the USS... Now China and..."
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"...world. So for 20 years, NATO was expanding into Russian sphere of influence. And for 20 years, Putin has been warning NATO, you have..."
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"...wants to become independent. It wants to create its own sphere of influence. Okay? And that's why Iran is very, very important. So a..."
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"...being a hegemon. It's not even interested in controlling a sphere of influence in Southeast Asia. China is first and foremost interested in maintaining..."
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"...make any play whatsoever to infringe on China in its sphere of influence. But you're the first person I've heard say that China doesn't..."
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"...central asia but central asia traditionally has been uh russian sphere of influence okay so so catholicism is is a point of tension as..."
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"...military conflict. I think they will financially resolve what regions of influence and what sphere of influence and what resources they get to use..."
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