Press Play with Madeleine Brand
The Mind of Putin
The tensions have escalated on the Crimean Peninsula in eastern Ukraine, with a major Russian military presence strengthening in numbers and occupying the region’s capital over the weekend. But how does Vladimir Putin rationalize his occupation of Ukraine?
By Madeleine Brand • • 1 min readThe tensions have escalated on the Crimean Peninsula in eastern Ukraine, with a major Russian military presence strengthening in numbers and occupying the region’s capital over the weekend. But how does Vladimir Putin rationalize his occupation of Ukraine? To get inside Putin’s head, we called up Kathyrn Stoner, a political scientist at Stanford University and expert in Russian leadership.
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The full episode
1 of 6Ukrainian Identity, The Mind of Putin, and Peak Car- 0:00The Mind of PutinYou’re reading this
- 8:17Ukrainian Identity
- 16:41The Death of Sarah Jones
- 26:04California Dems Lose Supermajority
- 32:18Peak Car
- 41:13Pseudoscience at the Grocery Store