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Podcast: The Bunker – News without the nonsense
Episode: How the West lost Russia
Description: After the Cold War ended, the West thought of Russia as a potential ally, a protégé nation ripe for liberal democracy. How wrong we were. Western ignorance, short-termism, and a catastrophic failure to understand how humiliation grips the Russian psyche – plus the suspicious and resentful mindset of eventual supreme leader Vladimir Putin – have led Russia to a dark place of vengeance, neofascism and the horrors of Ukraine.
How did we get here? And can we get out? Former BBC and Reuters Moscow Correspondent James Rodgers, author of The Return Of Russia, walks Andrew Harrison through a quarte...