AUK Talks with Kurt Volker, Anne Applebaum and Radosław Sikorski _ September 8, 2023

[@MorphologicalGeek]

Still some very relevant comments and observations here, 1 year on. Based on a casual listening, the only obviously outdated comments seemed to be those concerning Alexei Navalny, given his subsequent murder.

[@jim2376]

Past behaviour reaching into the present? ". . . [Tsar] Alexei granted noble tyranny over the peasantry, 90% of the population. Nobility would be defined by the privilege of owning other human beings, setting a Russian pattern of behaviour: servility to those above, tyranny to those below." Simon Montefiore, "The Romanovs", Vintage Books, 2016, p. 48. Fortunately, there are courageous Russians who are not servile. See Kura-Murza, Navalny, Kasparov, Nemtsov. May they be the future of Russia.