MSSR 2023 | Thomas Graham: Imagining Future US-Russian Relations

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Monterey Initiative in Russian Studies

10 ай бұрын

Thomas E. Graham, a distinguished fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, delivered a keynote speech at the Monterey Summer Symposium in Armenia & Georgia from July 2 to July 18, 2023. The Symposium is organized by the Monterey Initiative in Russian Studies, Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey.
Among other positions, Thomas E. Graham served as special assistant to the US president and senior director for Russia on the National Security Council staff from 2004 to 2007, during which he managed a White House-Kremlin strategic dialogue. He was director for Russian affairs on the staff from 2002 to 2004. Dr. Graham is a co-founder of the Russian, East European, and Eurasian studies program at Yale University and sits on its faculty steering committee.
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@stavroskarageorgis4804 10 ай бұрын

As we know, my foot!

@akifmaharramov2966 10 ай бұрын

If you are interested in what kind of Russia you will face, why didn't you interest in what kind of West Russia was interested in facing?

@MarsBorg 10 ай бұрын

Unipolar delusions.

@stavroskarageorgis4804 10 ай бұрын

Blah, blah, blah! A bunch of rehashed malarkey.

@JamesWilliams-se3vr 10 ай бұрын

Attempt at logic and common sense, but totally deluded. The world has moved on.

@RIannello 10 ай бұрын

This guy appears to have sold out. He's talking about an effective way of dismantling Russia and doing so casually. He's bought and paid for. "What kind of Russia does the United States need?" smacks of an hegemonic attitude whereby its understood the the US must safeguard the entire world when the truth is, it has savaged the entire world to satisfy its own (capitalist) interests. This fellow has bought into this view.

@encomunismo 10 ай бұрын

DC stablishment

@paulharrington2747 10 ай бұрын

Where are people like this çomin from uUSA wont be here long dont contol any country

@user-te6jq1hz2c 10 ай бұрын

i knew he was going to say climate change !!!!!!! and he seems so nice.same shit different day

@user-te6jq1hz2c 10 ай бұрын

bafoon, total bafoonery !!!

@katarinakrasinsk6520 10 ай бұрын

Now I understand better not Russia, but brits and americans, much better and for the worst. They are assure of their position, but you are a little minority in this vast world.

@katarinakrasinsk6520 10 ай бұрын

@@elenabistiu arrogance is the preclude of the fall

@katarinakrasinsk6520 10 ай бұрын

@@elenabistiu when the time comes for you to open your eyes and simple see the reality, because the fall just happened, and we are in the first decade now.

@katarinakrasinsk6520 10 ай бұрын

@@elenabistiu your arrogance blinds you

@vulgarisopinio 10 ай бұрын

@@elenabistiu How many times and how many countries has the West invaded over the last 50 years?

@jossiesh7649 10 ай бұрын

@@elenabistiu, Russophobia is a sickness.

@dimitrioskantakouzinos8590 10 ай бұрын

I was very impressed by this guy's other talk (during the discussion), but he seems to have some blind spots. While he acknowledges what Iraq was, he says that he blames Russians who are in senior government positions and do not resign, when his position in the US government was between 2004 and 2007. By his own standard, he should not have done that, because of the "barbarity" of the invasion of Iraq - but it's always other people who are barbaric.

@mishagofman1706 10 ай бұрын

This dude is delusional - listen to John Mearsheimer, Douglas MacGregor, Scott Ritter, Jeffrey Sachs.

@user-vr6io5xb9e 10 ай бұрын

That’s a common syndrome Anglophones suffer most.

@albertogimenez986 10 ай бұрын

The ones you mention are the real delusional people. Think for a moment about all the ridiculous statements and all the "news" coming from those individuals. They kept saying that Ukraine was going to colapse "next week"... for how long? A year and a half?... Ukraine is still there and now even advancing. Nevertheless some self-hating absolutely brainwashed people are still thinking that they are telling the truth. I am sorry for you...

@mryouben 10 ай бұрын

The russian sheels

@allanvodicka8352 10 ай бұрын

Better than all of these Kremlin agents is to listen directly to Putin.

@joseloayza4825 10 ай бұрын

Bring him back in a few weeks, when he’d have to deal with the fact of NATO and the collective West’s humiliating defeat in their Ukraine proxy war against Russia.

@davidmacdonald1695 10 ай бұрын

Yeah right, do you believe the Earth is flat as well.

@user-tc4th4cx9x 10 ай бұрын

What a silly analysis based on false ideology.

@alexgoler7617 10 ай бұрын

The mere fact that he chooses to compare the Russian and Chinese economies in relation to where they were in the early nineties is laughable. Hmm I wonder what pertinent facts of that time he might be ignoring. 🤔

@alexheigl8721 10 ай бұрын

Kotkin better

@oleglaska7197 10 ай бұрын

Kotkin is more fundamental and has much more arguments

@MrSlim325 10 ай бұрын

@@oleglaska7197 he proposed war against russia before ukraine

@mryouben 10 ай бұрын

@@MrSlim325No he did not

@MrSlim325 10 ай бұрын

@@mryouben Obviously you did not watch all of his materials on KZfaq

@stavroskarageorgis4804 10 ай бұрын

Hardly. Both are delusional.

@waynethorpe1341 10 ай бұрын

Talk is Cheap

@davidmacdonald1695 10 ай бұрын

Too sympathetic and naive about russia

@aachoocrony5754 10 ай бұрын

Too much living in the past, which is why my country is using your naivete. Happened so many times and you still don't learn. \_0_/ Don't you remember ww2????? No? Look at your country now. See any similar patterns? Russia will run over your country in a daynand the US won't and can't protect you. The US also never wanted to protect you. 💵💵💵💵💵💵💵 Russia can take East Europe in 3 days versus NATO. -Pentagon Maybe wake up? Stop turning your nightmares into reality by listening to lies. Lies like 'd/security guarantees'. Look at Ukraine. Not very secure. Belgium in ww1. Poland before ww2. They never stop believing that lie. Meanwhile your buying US weapons while the US military presence is minimal. Read the writing in the wall. History looks like it will repeat...because Russia is the Soviet Union and Putin is Stalin. 🤓🤪🙃

@stavroskarageorgis4804 10 ай бұрын

Wait, what?