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China's global propaganda and disinformation operations are actively promoting pro-Russian narratives about the invasion of Ukraine, supporting Moscow's positions and blaming the United States for the conflict, according to the State Department center involved in trying to counter the operations. ....
Is he a kind of putin s oligarch. and live a life like other oligarchs lead. chap nin worked with him in a orthodox church. once he rose to the highest rank of patriarch 13 years ago he restructured the church to be more autocratic and in line with putin s vision to recreate imperial russia. is he using religious language for political reasons. after the soviet collapse, the church gained power by promoting conservative values like traditional marriage and gender roles. critics say he justifies supporting the invasion by calling it a pushback against western decadence and liberalism. so the violence that putin is unleashing in ukraine is designed to protect russian speakers from the godless west. church observers sees himself ....
the dyeing cast is the soviet system. always in the back of his minds was the subject of the soviet collapse. why did it happen? for xi, the fall of the soviet union became an obsession. xi jinping often talks about the fall of the soviet union as a lesson for china. what accounted for it? what were the stresses? why did the soviet union collapse? xi s answer don t try to be too american. even though china has emulated america, china still is after all a socialist country. whatever economic reforms they engage in, you cannot allow political liberalization to accompany it. he would point to the soviet example as a sign that that s the risk we face. and that means the party must be seen as strong, clean and ....
Control. putin s only real leverage is those 100,000 troops on the border. that s why he manufactured this crisis. hoping to pressure even blackmail the u.s. into providing the security guarantees that he wanted. second biden call earlier on the program suggest to me is looking for diplomatic off ramp to get the u.s. to agree to the security guarantees that he wants without having to pay a price and without being able to avoid the threaten u.s. european sanctions that could really damage the fragile russian economy. the problem for the administration is, as we learned seven years ago with the crimean invasion putin can t be trusted. we don t know whether he is bluffing and he doesn t seem inclined to go along with president biden s demand that he first engage in military deescalation. bret: kevin, here is how foreign affairs magazine writes up about moscow. what putin learned from the soviet collapse, moscow has managed to fortify itself for a sustained competition with the united ....