Bonus: Ukrainian Politics Deep Dive feat. Peter Korotaev

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🗓️ 2 April 2025

⏱️ 122 minutes

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Felix sits down with writer & journalist Peter Korotaev for a wide ranging conversation on the state of the Russo-Ukranian War in the wake of the Trump administration’s spat with Zelensky & attempts at a peace deal, and loads of context on the politics of Ukraine, Russia, various oligarchs, the Atlantic Council, and other non-state actors that have led to this point. You can find Peter’s writing on Ukraine here: https://substack.com/@eventsinukraine And some other writing of note: For al Jazeera: https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/1/23/why-is-ukraine-struggling-to-mobilise-its-citizens-to-fight Jacobin: https://jacobin.com/2022/07/ukraine-neoliberalism-war-russia-eu-imf Canada Files: https://www.thecanadafiles.com/articles?author=645e6f082224bb01e8f3f37c Arena https://arena.org.au/ukraines-borderline-disorder/

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0:00.0	Hello, everybody.
0:03.3	We have not done one of these in a while.
0:07.4	And I think this is one of our only episode, certainly our first interview expressly about Ukraine.
0:16.8	Today we're joined by pretty much the perfect guest for this topic. Peter is joining us today.
0:23.7	He's behind the substack events in Ukraine that I'm sure a lot of people who are listening to
0:29.5	this read. Peter, thank you so much for joining us today. Thanks enough having me on. Yeah,
0:34.5	I'm very excited to talk about Ukraine today. Yeah, no, I've really been looking forward to this.
0:40.4	And I've been reading your substack.
0:43.3	I don't think I have quite the mental capacity to follow everything.
0:48.5	It is the most, there are so many fucking people involved.
0:53.8	So, well, I'm going to try to, you know, from my perspective as a mildly impaired adult, we're going to try to get people who are like me and want to understand this better.
1:07.3	We're going to try to get them on the right track today.
1:10.9	So just to get us rolling, I guess, from my outside perspective of everything leading up to 2022 and where we're at now, something I've always wondered is it seemed like when Zelensky won years back, he had this gigantic mandate.
1:31.6	Like he won by a really unbelievable margin.
1:36.4	And he was pretty expressly, you know, pro-peace, like pro-Minsk, enforcing the Minsk agreement and implementing it
1:45.9	candidate, much to the chagrin of, like, Western institutions.
1:50.7	What accounts for his inability to do that and everything that happened after?
1:57.6	You hit me with the most, uh, interesting question.
2:00.3	It's super broad.
2:00.7	It's super broad. It's super broad.
2:01.6	No, no.
2:02.6	I mean, it's a fascinating question.
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