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Union flut tered down on a freezing moscow wind christmas night. nothing will ever be the same. >> when the soviet union was teetering on the edge of collapse -- >> gorbachev has destroyed the whole country. >> -- many of its republics demanded independence. >> the delicate fabric holding together the variety of ethnics in the soviet union is unravrl i -- unraveling. >> one by one, the soviets, each dominated by a different ethnic group, declared themselves free. >> the ukraine became the ninth ...

Its advantage. george h. w. bush, you know, wanted not only to reunite germany, but he also realize that there were countries in eastern europe, in the baltic states, that had historical reasons for wanting to be in nato. security reasons. russia, obviously, was in a position of weakness. and right now, putin seeks to reverse what he sees us the disastrous negotiations by gorbachev, and then boris jansen. yes, political reasons for wanting to do this to. what is the new real legacy of putin if a...

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>> mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall. >> chinas bold new attitude became known as wolf warrior diplomacy. and its real life champion is xi jinping. she has made a big departure from decades of a very different chinese foreign policy. to understand how, we need to remember chinas first leader, mau tse dung. mau was hell bent on destroying capitalism, inciting aiding insurgencies all over the globe.

Because remember putin is telling the whole world that his people, and its people inside ukraine that all this is about nato expansion. when in fact nato expansion, he completely invented this as a crisis. it wasnt a change of policies about ukraine joining nato and brussels. there wasnt a change in policy in washington under president biden. president zelensky hasnt changed his views. he said today when hes been saying for a long-time. hes a long term drain that he aspires to. but putin was the...

Shaping his thinking. i think you have western leaders, macron and others, president biden, who have tried to reiterate for putin that it may not be quite as easy as he thinks it could be. >> and youre also professor mcfall. so, put on the professor hat for a moment. because i was reading some of the history some of us may have forgotten, if we ever knew it, which is how ukraine won its independence. in 1991, from boris yeltsin as a move to exacerbate the soviet union and gorbachev and awarding ...

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Of a military buildup, and knowing with ladder putin is capable of. >> how interesting is that, stuart stevens? >> look, i think were in a very interesting moment, you know, since reagan ran against carter. republicans pretty much own foreign policy, and so, donald trump came along. and what weve seen is a complete collapse of the republican party, as a strong on russia, strong on standing up to autocrats and bully guards. the party now is really a party of trump, and you cant take back these wo...

That happened under gorbachev in 1991. when he was out of moscow, thats when they had the coup détat, the soviet officials around him, to try to cease power. i dont to speculate whether its a good or bad decision. i know that its his decision. i would also remind people that putin himself is escalating his rhetoric, right? so just a few days ago, they were saying, hey, were not interested in war. this is all hype. biden is hyping this. their messaging has changed, in moscow, and if that continu...