Ep 79: Mark Galeotti on Russia’s Military

Mark Galeotti, director of Mayak Intelligence, host of the In Moscows’s Shadow podcast, and author of Putin's Wars: From Chechnya to Ukraine, joins the show to talk about the post-Cold War Russian Armed Forces.
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Times 
    •    02:13 Introduction 
    •    04:26 The peak 
    •    10:04 In decline
    •    13:04 A day in the life of a ’90s Russian soldier
    •    16:23 The First Chechen War 
    •    21:17 Putin and Chechnya
    •    24:42 Russia’s claims
    •    35:10 Modernization
    •    40:49 Historical karma in Ukraine
    •    46:10 Big picture 
    •    48:20 Ukraine’s counter-offensive
    •    51:49 Wagner and Prigozhin

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