russia is heading not only ideologically but also geopolitically and demographically is something that i ve spent a lot of time looking at both professionally and personally. my personal history is that i am the child of a soviet so i sort of have a culture in my blood. i have the language in my head most of the time. so i ve spent quite a bit of time in russia so it really sort of allows you to get a different a bit of a sense. and what i am struck by is that historically and by historic we i don t mean by decades but certainly in recent years, we americans whether we are republican or democrat, we tend to look at russia as one that is striving very well on the world s stage and you just have to crack open a newspaper in the last couple of weeks and you will understand exactly why we do that. we have seen russian president vladimir putin cut quite a striking geopolitical the image of strong warming us into the field of the syrian field strong farming is the wrong word becaus
festival of books in the barnacle gives a history of the civil war battle. visit booktv.org for this weekend s television schedule. now on booktv, ilan berman predicts the collapse of russia due to internal social and demographic decline and external challenges from china. it is about an hour. [applause] thank you. i love that john is making his way off the stage so when you throw things at me you have an unimpeded view. thank you as always for your interest and thank you to the heritage foundation for hosting me. always nice to come out and talk about issues i work a lot on in the privacy of my office and share it with a broader audience. let me start sort of where john ended which is to talk about the external first and then focus on the internal. the question of russia and where russia is heading not only ideologically but geopolitically and demographically, i spent a lot of time looking at both professionally and personally. my personal history is i am the child of sovi
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