Our latest podcast is now available. In this podcast, John Bruni and SIA Associate David Olney discuss Vladimir Putin and Russia.

Topics and issues discussed include:

• What does Russian President Vladimir Putin want?
• Is Russia a power that knows its limits?
• The significance of Russian military deployments to Crimea, eastern Ukraine and Syria.
• The state of Russia’s military modernisation.
• The possible emergence of an autocratic alliance between Russia, Turkey and Iran, (akin to the 1815 Holy Alliance between Prussia, Austria and Russia).
• Putin’s indispensability to Russia’s contemporary body politic.
• The West’s reactions to Russia and Sino-Russian military cooperation.

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