Welcome dear friends to America first one on one the Russians want to negotiate can you trust the former KGB?

Well, that's gonna be the topic of one on one today with somebody who knows better than anyone else

What's really going on in a communist or post communist state and within the Kremlin?

He is Grove City College's director of the Faith and Freedom Center an author of numerous

Seminal works such as the most recent the devil and Karl Marx professor Paul Kengel welcome back to America first one on one

Well, thank you said it is always good to be with you sir

Let's start with an article you sent me yesterday from the American spectator that kind of helps us there

There's a concept in national security

Called strategic culture. I learned of it from one of the best of the best the late great Colin Gray a

British American dual national who served in the Reagan administration in the National Security Council and the theory goes

Thusley Paul that every nation every elite has a different strategic culture

Belgium thinks differently about war than Vanuatu

The Soviet Union thought differently about war than Americans did that strategic culture

Will you explain why the concept of death and human suffering or the cost and value of human life is a little bit different in Russia?

Yeah, that's exactly what I wrote about in that piece for American spectator yesterday, right?

The Russians know death unlike any other people and I mean depends on how long or how

Quickly you want to walk through this and of course, there's no laughing matter

It's quite tragic, but going back the last 100 years said a little over a hundred years

I guess but back to World War one the Russians from 1914 and 1917

Lost more men in World War one than any other country and and that in fact

They didn't even finish the war right were actually on the winning side

But they pulled out in 1917 after Zarnicolis the second abdicated in March 1917

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