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Glenn Diesen – Greater Eurasia Podcast

Russian foreign policy, Geoeconomics & Eurasian integration
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Gideon Levy: Gaza Burns & Israel Turns On Itself May 15, 2025

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Gideon Levy is an Israeli journalist, author and columnist at Haaretz. Levy describes how genocide has become normalised and the internal problems that are building within Israel.

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Sergey Karaganov: Russia's Eurasian Future & Spiritual Revival May 14, 2025

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Professor Sergey Karaganov wrote speeches for Brezhnev and advised Gorbachev, Yeltsin and Putin. Professor Karaganov has become a leading voice for Russia to pivot to the East to develop an alternative international economic architecture and to revive Russia's roots and spirituality.

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Gilbert Doctorow: Trump's Ukraine Peace Plan or Deception? May 14, 2025

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The Europeans present an ultimatum of unconditional ceasefire, yet still refuse to speak with Moscow. Trump is pushing two contradictory peace plans. Zelensky puts on a political PR stunt in Istanbul. What can we make of the strange push for negotiations after three years of diplomatic boycott?

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Ian Proud: Ukraine Peace Talks or Political Theatre? May 13, 2025

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Ian Proud was a member of His Majesty's Diplomatic Service from 1999 to 2023. Ian was a senior officer at the British Embassy in Moscow from July 2014 to February 2019, at a time when UK-Russia relations were particularly tense. He performed a number of roles in Moscow, including as Head of Chancery, Economic Counsellor - in charge of advising UK Ministers on economic sanctions - Chair of the Crisis Committee, Director of the Diplomatic Academy for Eastern Europe and Central Asia and Vice Chair of the Board at the Anglo-American School.

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Lord Robert Skidelsky: Russophobia & the Politics of Fear May 13, 2025

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Lord Robert Skidelsky is a member of the British House of Lords, Professor Emeritus of Political Economy, and the author of a prize-winning three-volume biography of John Maynard Keynes. He began his political career in the Labour Party, was a founding member of the Social Democratic Party, and served as the Conservative Party’s spokesman for Treasury affairs in the House of Lords until he was sacked for his opposition to NATO’s 1999 bombing of Kosovo. Since 2001, he has sat in the House of Lords as an independent.

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Chas Freeman: The Lies We Tell Ourselves About China May 12, 2025

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Chas Freeman argues that the US tells itself lies about China, which results in self-harm as opportunities for cooperation are wasted and conflicts are unnecessarily pursued. Ambassador Freeman was Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs from 1993-94, earning the highest public service awards of the Department of Defense for his roles in designing a NATO-centered post-Cold War European security system and in reestablishing defense and military relations with China. He served as U. S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia (during operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm). He was Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs during the historic U.S. mediation of Namibian independence from South Africa and Cuban troop withdrawal from Angola. Ambassador Freeman worked as Deputy Chief of Mission and Chargé d’Affaires in the American embassies at both Bangkok (1984-1986) and Beijing (1981-1984). He was Director for Chinese Affairs at the U.S. Department of State from 1979-1981. He was the principal American interpreter during the late President Nixon’s path-breaking visit to China in 1972. In addition to his Middle Eastern, African, East Asian and European diplomatic experience, he had a tour of duty in India.

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Yanis Varoufakis: New Economic World Order & Europe's Suicide May 12, 2025

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Yanis Varoufakis is an economist, the former Finance Minister of Greece, and the author of numerous bestselling books. Varoufakis argues that the former US-centric economic model has exhausted itself, and the US is pushing to restructure the international economic architecture to gain a favourable position. China is the main rival in this new system, while the Europeans are becoming an impoverished appendage to the US. The Europeans can chart a more favourable path forward, but there is a lack of economic understanding, political imagination, and leadership.

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Major General BK Sharma: India's War with Pakistan & Eurasian Pivot May 11, 2025

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Major General BK Sharma of the Indian Armed Forces is the Director General of United Service Institution of India (USI), and has received three military awards by the President of India for rendering exceptional distinguished national service and for displaying courage. Maj. General Sharma outlines India's approach to the war with Pakistan, and also outlines the geoeconomic considerations as India adjusts to a multipolar Eurasia.

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Seyed Marandi & Alastair Crooke: Trump's Negotiations Fail May 10, 2025

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Broadcasting from Iran, I ask Marandi and Crooke why Trump's negotiations seemingly go nowhere.

Seyed Marandi is a professor at Tehran University and an advisor to Iran's nuclear negotiation team. Alastair Crooke has several decades of experience from British and EU diplomacy and negotiations.

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Dmitry Polyanskiy: Victory Day & Politics of Historical Revisionism May 10, 2025

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Dmitry Polyanskiy is the First Deputy Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations. Polyanskiy outlines why Russia believes the West is engaging in historical revisionism of the Second World War. Russia is blamed for starting the war, and is also gradually being edited out of the victory.

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