In the late 1970s as a refugee from russia. He also did his undergraduate at moscow state university, but slumming it at columbia for his graduate work, which is in political sociology, which i feel like thats plum line running through your work because, even when you are writing biography, be like your outstanding book. Yeltsin it really is more about the culture, sociology of russia thats producing these of leaders. So with that, tell us about particular political sociology. Well, thank you very much for being here, finding the time to be here and also for all your support while i was i was writing this book. It is not only my pleasure, its my actual job. Well, its its i think each of chapters of this book could be could be a separate book. But i wanted to give the readers. A kind of a but memorable tour of the house that putin built. And and, you know, if you think of the key concepts, ideas ideas, the policies as as colorful tiles, i tried to line them up and then cohere them in in
Hawk. This years proposal just reversed it and wants to retire the u2 and keep the global hawk. When you flipflop completely within one year it doesnt give you a lot of confidence these poem proposals have been thought out. If you talk to commanders in korea they want to keep them both with the volatile young leader now in charge in the north. But the other reason im not willing to accept many of the administrations proposals is that im not willing that we have to accept that we have to have a smaller military or a smaller role in the world. Most republicans and Many Democrats are not willing to throw up our hands in retreat and resign ourselves to a smaller military and smaller role. Because we know as the United States retreats others will fill that void and those others will not move the world towards greater freedom and greater prosperity. The United States is exceptional and it is exceptional in a way that no other country in the world is. President also accuses republicans of wan