💥Join us on our Journey to 1 Million Subscribers💥 Mark Galeotti is a British historian, lecturer and writer on transnational crime and Russian security affairs. He is an intelligence consultant to various governments and well-known international bodies. He is an honorary professor at the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies, a senior associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute and an associate fellow in Euro-Atlantic geopolitics at the Council on Geostrategy. His books include, We Need To Talk About Putin, Russian Political War, The Vory: Russia’s Super Mafia, and A Short History of Russia - available here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B084HN5TSB/ #history #putin #russia SPONSOR: https://GETSUPERBEETS.aCOM Use Promo Code: TRIG to get a free 30-day supply + 15% off your first order We are proud partners with GiveSendGo - a world-leading crowdfunding platform that believes in free speech. Go to givesendgo.com and raise money for anything important to you. OR Support TRIGGERnometry Here: Bitcoin: bc1qm6vvhduc6s3rvy8u76sllmrfpynfv94qw8p8d5 Music by: Music by: Xentric | info@xentricapc.com | https://www.xentricapc.com/ YouTube: @xentricapc Advertise on TRIGGERnometry: marketing@triggerpod.co.uk Join the Mailing List: https://www.triggerpod.co.uk/ Find TRIGGERnometry on Social Media: https://twitter.com/triggerpod https://www.facebook.com/triggerpod/ https://www.instagram.com/triggerpod/ About TRIGGERnometry: Stand-up comedians Konstantin Kisin (@konstantinkisin) and Francis Foster (@francisjfoster) make sense of politics, economics, free speech, AI, drug policy and WW3 with the help of presidential advisors, renowned economists, award-winning journalists, controversial writers, leading scientists and notorious comedians. 00:00 Introduction 00:32 What Are We Missing With Vladimir Putin? 05:23 Was the Invasion a Calculated Reaction to NATO Threats? 10:03 Is Putin a Once Successful Paranoid Dictator? 15:26 Has Putin Trashed His War Machine in Ukraine? 18:02 Sponsor Message: SuperBeets 19:22 Has Russia & Putin's Position Been Strengthened? 21:40 What is Putin Thinking? 29:50 Does Putin See Himself as Successor to the Great Tsars? 32:28 Comparisons Between Putin & Ivan the Terrible 37:54 Russia’s Relationship With China 42:24 Sponsor Message: GiveSendGo 43:36 The Precarious Position of Russians 45:21 The Future Generations of Russia 48:32 Who Are Putin’s Potential Successors? 52:25 How Likely is a Putin Assassination? 54:33 What's the One Thing We're Not Talking About? Join our exclusive TRIGGERnometry community on Substack! https://triggernometry.substack.com/