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Sirish Pulusani
EP1: Ukraine/Russia, Putin's psychology, and risk of global nuclear conflict - Dr. Paul D'Anieri
1 hour 3 minutes Posted Mar 9, 2022 at 12:04 am.
Intro 
Latest developments and increasing escalation in the war 
Has Russia turned into a totalitarian state? 
What are the chances Putin will be taken out?  
Putin's psychology what will he do when backed into a corner with no other choices? 
Mutually assured destruction and risk of nuclear war 
Does the language the West is using have the potential to escalate this conflict into global war? 
Oligarch influence, Roman Ambramovich and the sale of Chelsea Football Club. Is Putin's Russia the largest organized crime syndicate in the world?  
What ends this conflict? Does regime change happen without Putin being taken out? 
Does Regime Change ever work? 
Other conflicts in the world deserve attention as well, Trevor Noah's comments
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In this wide-ranging conversation, Sirish Pulusani and Professor Paul D'Anieri discuss the latest developments in the ongoing war in Ukraine, Putin's end game, the chances of nuclear war and the likelihood of global conflict, and potential resolutions to the war.    
Watch us on Youtube. 
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Dr. Paul  D'Anieri is a  Professor of Public Policy and Political Science at the University of California, Riverside.  Paul is a political scientist specializing in politics and international relations in the former Soviet Union, focusing on Ukraine and Russia. He has been called “one of the leading scholars of the study of contemporary Ukraine," and has written a number of books and articles about the politics of Ukraine.  In 2017, he was the Eugene and Daymel Sklar Research Fellow at Harvard University, where he conducted research and wrote the book, Ukraine and Russia: From Civilized Divorce to Uncivil War, which was published in December 2019 by Cambridge University Press.
Watch my previous interview with Paul as this invasion first started here.   
Ukraine and Russia: From Civilized Divorce to Uncivil War by Dr. Paul D'Anieri.  
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