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What is the meaning of President Elect trump's announcement of territorial Ambitions?
How does that relate to simultaneous recognition of Russia's security interests and expansion of NATO? What does it all mean for the war in Ukraine, trade with Chia and the world order? I discuss these issues in this installment of Issues of Contemporary Politics.
Dr.Brovkin is an American historian of Russia, now retired he used to serve as an Associate Professor of Soviet History at Harvard University. He is the author of many books on Russian Soviet History and Politics, featured here at the end. His latest book From Vladimir Lenin to Vladimir Putin. Russia in Search of Its identity (London: Routledge 2023) as well as others is available at Routledge. com. Amazon, Barnes and Noble and other platform