In this thread I'll be collecting podcasts and broadcasts where I have presented my position on the current war. I'm including here both English and Russian language talks in a chronological order, so they will be easier to navigate through🧵
On Noah Smith's podcast we discussed why Putin's Russia is *way* more personalist than the USSR ever was. I argued that sanctions are efficient, and that Putin can't back off in Ukraine or he is done (= and thus appeasement strategy won't work out) podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pod…
On Yulia Latynina's program (Rus) we discussed the Russian army. The main rationale behind the Russian army organisation is not maximising its fighting ability, but rather preventing a scenario when it could challenge or question the political leadership
Brief commentary for Navalny Live (Rus). Russian army wasn't prepared for a conventional war. It was prepared for the 1) nuclear war 2) picking potatoes 3) pacifications of satellite states. They wanted to pacify Ukraine too but faced unexpected resistance
Commentary for Mikhail Svetov (Rus). Public opinion overrated the Russian army, underrated the Ukrainian one and misinterpreted political goals of Z-operation. Once Russia declared a total war, it can't take anything less than the destruction of Ukraine
I gave a short commentary on the current war to the Wall St Tv - a US-based Chinese-language media outlet. Russian-Chinese economic cooperation had been heavily advertised but little work had been done before this war started. And now it may be too late
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