#Karaganov “has been Presidential Advisor to both Boris Yeltsin and Vladimir Putin. He is considered close to Putin and Sergey Lavrov. (...) has been a member of the Trilateral Commission since 1998, and served on the International Advisory Board of the Council on Foreign Relations. He has also been Deputy Director of the Institute of Europe at the USSR (now Russian) Academy of Sciences since 1983.” I guess that means he’s been a major architect of Russian foreign policy since literally Andropov. #politics #Russia #Ukraine
on 02024-11-22#TRT #news says Erdogan calls for “restraint”, seeming “very, very concerned” and saying NATO “needs to prepare”, and “opposes #Ukraine’s use of US long-range missiles”, which #Turkey calls a “mistake”. Also an interview with Sergey #Karaganov, advisor to Putin. He also says that under [circumstances I didn’t understand] the #USA and Western Europe would “get a nuclear response”. Former Turkish diplomat Gulru Gezer says she’s getting “chills on my spine” from the US and Russian rhetoric from the other panelists. Karaganov: “The problem is two-pronged. One is to win the victory in Ukraine over the West, not over Ukraine. [The] West has to be defeated. Second, the third world war could be avoided.” He accidentally called Putin “president Yeltsin” at one point. #video #politics
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