Sudan is no stranger to foreign interference as ishaantharoor notes in the washington post, burhan and hamad, these interim government was boosted by billions of dollars of aid from saudi arabia and the u. a. e. russia s mercenary wagner group reportedly has a close relationship with him, eddie providing his rapid support forces with weapons and training . neighboring egypt backs burhan and college, higher based analysts wrote last month that egypt s most consequential contribution is that it has catalyzed renewed tensions between the generals. all these boats poorly for sudan. whose people continue to be trapped in cycles of brutal violence and sudan. maybe just one of the places that suffers from the disorder produced by a post american world, thanks to all of you for being part of my program this week, i will see you next week. businesses nationwide or
Information, unbiased objective reported information from on the ground from places like russia that are so pivotal to world world events right now is so important, and evan was doing that he was on the ground for the wall street journal at a time when there were very few western journalists working in russia. and he was getting us reports of what was actually happening. what was the mood in moscow in border cities in military families? he was talking to people who were both pro war and anti war he was giving us this nuanced view, which is so important and when he got arrested, as you say, it s really an unprecedented situation for modern russia. and it, uh, creates this enormous chilling effect for journalists. trying to work there, and this is why i think it s so important to really push for his release. do you think this is a sign that you know, basically, we are back
Go to cnn .com/ fareed for a link to my washington post column this week. and let s get started. on tuesday, american journalist ivan gorshkov. it appeared in a glass cage in the moscow courtroom. this was his first public appearance since being arrested by russian authorities last month. his case marks the first time that a western journalist has been charged with espionage in russia since the cold war. and while gorshkov itches, arrest falls in line with the broader campaign by the kremlin to quash dissent , many see it as a new warning sign to foreign journalists, who until now had typically been spared from the government s harsh laws criminalizing what it views as fake news. to talk about the view from russia. we re lucky to have the new york times, says moscow bureau chief anton train of ski with us in
Movement in germany for years. reason is that they want the germans to get to phase out their nuclear capacity so that they have to buy russian gas. this was the old strategy to make germany depends so sometimes it s a it s a little complicated, but there is a method to why they are interfering in a lot. sometimes it is as in that case for a strategic objective, specific strategic objective. sometimes it s just too disorder to sow disorder within a country because they don t want the united states to function well, keeping us off balance. keeping us polarized is very strongly in the interest of russia would when. when you ve watched this over the years, who s better? ah the chinese i, you know. it depends on what? uh the chinese are really very pragmatic and does it pose a threat to their
Meant in some places that regional powers like russia, iran, saudi arabia and the u. a. e have expanded their reach, often by waging proxy wars. indeed foreign involvement in wars has risen dramatically, according to the data reference in the economist in 1991, only 4% of civil wars involves significant foreign forces in 2021 48% of them did and foreign involvement in wars is one of the factors that allows them to drag on. partly because foreign governments are inured to the conflicts, immediate effects. sudan is no stranger to foreign interference as ishaantharoor notes in the washington post burhan and commodities interim government was boosted by billions of dollars of aid from saudi arabia and the u. a. e. russia s mercenary wagner group reportedly has a close relationship with him, eddie providing his rapid support forces with weapons and training
He got arrested, as you say, it s really an unprecedented situation for modern russia. and it, uh, creates this enormous chilling effect for journalists. trying to work there, and this is why i think it s so important to really push for his release. do you think this is a sign that you know, basically, we are back to something like the old soviet union. frankly in the soviet union, you know this happened as you mentioned there was a journalist, an american journalist who was arrested and charged with espionage in the 19 eighties in the soviet union, but he was released three weeks later in a in a prisoner exchange. nicholas daniel, exactly exactly. this is something very different. um there is no we re not seeing publicly at least any signals from the kremlin that they re ready to release him, putin spokesman said right after evan was arrested that he had was
World. i m fareed zakaria coming to you from new york. today we ll devote most of the program to the global power struggles. we are witnessing. america versus china. america versus russia. we ll give you a republican roadmap for how to compete with china, with david mccormick, former top treasury official funds ceo and republican politicians. i ll also ask him about whether the gop four more years. needs to get beyond donald trump. but first a look deep inside russia. just what is vladimir putin s in . i ll talk to the new york times spirit chief anton troyanovsky. also. both beijing and moscow have spies and operatives in america that is a given. but revelations this week