I might have posted this before, but I finished watching it last night and it was excellent. Highly recommend you watch. You’ll learn so much. I did.
Oliver Stone: Vladimir Putin and War in Ukraine | Lex Fridman Podcast #286
OUTLINE:
0:00 – Introduction
2:54 – Nuclear power
15:52 – Russia and US relations
21:07 – JFK and the Cold War
26:24 – Interviewing Putin
50:02 – Invasion of Ukraine
59:20 – Why Putin invaded Ukraine
1:13:44 – Propaganda
1:21:02 – Interviewing Putin in 2022
1:28:17 – Nuclear war
1:34:28 – Advice on interviewing
1:38:09 – Interviewing Hitler
1:41:30 – Putin interview language barrier
1:42:41 – Love
1:44:36 – Advice to young people
1:47:42 – Mortality
1:48:44 – Regrets
1:50:41 – Meaning of life
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I haven’t listened to this 👇 yet, but if it is as interesting as the Oliver Stone conversation, I look forward to hearing this one.
Niall Ferguson: History of Money, Power, War, and Truth | Lex Fridman Podcast #239
Niall Ferguson is a historian at Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He is the author of 16 books on the history of money, war, power, and catastrophe.
The Soviet Union still exists. They had gulags and treated citizens as slaves and cattle. We are currently becoming the Soviet Union. Stone won’t agree. I wonder why?
He spoke to Putin.