GUEST: William Felix Browder - financier and political activist.
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From 2007-08 Putin came to believe that the West would offer no resistance to his expansionist aims. It’s at that moment he pronounced a more assertive Russia, and started to act accordingly on the world stage, and in relations to neighbouring countries, with the invasion of Georgia in 2008, and Crimea in 2014. NATO provocation is one excuse given for Russian aggression but it’s unlikely he saw NATO as a threat and must have known they had neither the intent nor capability to directly threaten Russian territory. This series of miscalculations have led Russia into a disastrous war and may have led Putin’s kleptocratic system to the edge of collapse.
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SPEAKER:
William Felix Browder is an American-born British financier and political activist. He is the CEO and co-founder of Hermitage Capital Management, which at one time was the largest foreign portfolio investor in Russia. The Hermitage Fund was the best-performing fund in the world, and the primary investment strategy of Browder was shareholder rights activism. Browder took on large Russian companies such as Gazprom, Surgutneftegaz, Unified Energy Systems, and Sidanco, but this led to retaliation, and eventually he was refused entry to Russia, deported to the UK, and declared a threat to Russian national security.
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BOOKS:
Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice (2015)
Freezing Order: A True Story of Russian Money Laundering, Murder,and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath (2022)
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CHAPTERS:
01:50 Yeltsin's second term - total chaos and anarchy with no rights or rules
06:26 The targeting of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, and taking control of the oligarchs
08:43 How western shareholder capitalism came into conflict with Putin's kleptocracy
12:29 Magnitsky act - a strong legacy that enraged Putin to mark a terrible crime
15:07 Putin has succeeded in punishing and killing many of his main opponents
18:42 The messages Putin sends to the elite through killing his rivals
20:55 Pulling out the FSB / Siloviki system root and branch - how can it be done?
24:18 Putin always found a way to intimidate and manipulate other heads of state
27:32 Watch out Putin will never deescalate, if there is a chance to gain victory
31:15 Putin is relying on Western hesitancy, disunity and reluctance for 'total war'
39:05 Ukrainian issues with Russian 'liberals and should we fear ultra-nationalists
42:13 All political voices that are tolerated are not independent in Russian system
46:12 Is the West doing enough to bring victory in the war, and change in Russia?
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