Speaker 1: Bloomberg Audio Studios, podcasts, radio news. Single best idea, the
Speaker 1: herd and heritage of what we've been doing for years
Speaker 1: is to keep track of our good guests and understand
Speaker 1: we have levels of guests and people just coming up,
Speaker 1: kids right out of school they've never been on radio
Speaker 1: or TV before, and grizzled veterans and all, and of
Speaker 1: course people that you know, they just get older and
Speaker 1: move on. And the answer is, in times like this
Speaker 1: you try to go to experts. The first call that
Speaker 1: we made yesterday was to Angela's Stent of the Brookings Institution.
Speaker 1: Her book Putin's World was my book of the year,
Speaker 1: I think three years ago. I selected my book of
Speaker 1: the year that year. In late February, when there was
Speaker 1: an invasion of here is Angela's Stent on the shocking
Speaker 1: headline that the United States of America joined Russia at
Speaker 1: the United Nations.
Speaker 2: This was truly shocking. I mean, who did we veto
Speaker 2: the resolution condemning Russia with our good friends North Korea, Russia, Yelorus, Syria,
Speaker 2: the Central African Republic Nicaragua. I won't go on. Even
Speaker 2: China and Iran abstained from that vote. So Ronald Reagan
Speaker 2: would be turning in his grave, as would many others.
Speaker 2: It's really quite remarkable. And if you think of what
Speaker 2: the US has stood for, you know, for the past
Speaker 2: eighty years, since the end of World War Two, through
Speaker 2: the Cold War, through the post Soviet era, it's quite
Speaker 2: remarkable that we veto a resolution that condemns the Russian
Speaker 2: invasion of Ukraine.
Speaker 1: Angela's stent of the Brookings Institution, we continued on with
Speaker 1: their many different as to take here a movable feast
Speaker 1: of news. By the time you hear single best idea,
Speaker 1: you know what, the news may have changed more with
Speaker 1: Angela's stent.
Speaker 2: I think that the Trump administration is still believing, for instance,
Speaker 2: that if we have this for Approshmaile with Russia, Russia
Speaker 2: will decide to distance itself from China and will reverse course.
Speaker 2: I think that's highly unlikely, but I think that's one
Speaker 2: thing that's going on here. And I think it's also
Speaker 2: the US trying to show to those countries that supported US,
Speaker 2: and I guess those who have stained that you know,
Speaker 2: we're not necessarily taking sides in this. We recognize that
Speaker 2: Russia is a great power, and we're going to try
Speaker 2: and do something.
Speaker 1: Different Angela's stint. I'm sure we'll be speaking to her
Speaker 1: in the coming weeks. This is a heritage of the
Speaker 1: program that goes back to the late Marshall Goldman of
Speaker 1: Wellesley and Harvard, all the work we've done over the
Speaker 1: years on Russia, and to see where we are now,
Speaker 1: we can only call upon Henry Winter and the rest
Speaker 1: of Bloomberg News where their expertise are Moscow, and of
Speaker 1: course these experts like doctor Stent Again. Her book is
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