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Single Best Idea with Tom Keene: Richard Portes & Angela Stent

Mar 18, 20254 min
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Tom Keene breaks down the Single Best Idea from the latest edition of Bloomberg Surveillance Radio.

In this episode, we feature conversations with Richard Portes & Angela Stent.

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Speaker 1

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Speaker 2

Best idea and a little bit of history here what we've done at Bloomberg surveillance and a zillion years ago Bloomberg on the economy. When we started this effort, we didn't do politics, we didn't do international relations, and some of our statistical people said there was a real interest in it, and so I very carefully tested years and years ago doing what in America we call international relations over in foreign policy would be another phrase over in Europe.

And I was thunderstruck by the response. It's really become a heritage of the program. And when you have Trump Putin Trump, you want to call up people that you know with experience on this relationship. I started with the wonderful Marshall Goldman of Wellesley and Harvard years ago, otherworthies, but no one has been more effective than Angeli's stent will get to her in a moment. Here is Richard Portis of the London Business School, with all of his expertise on Russia.

Speaker 3

Putin's got the cards, partly because Trump is willing to let him play them, and he's playing Trump. But Trump seems to think that's just fine, and that maybe he'll get a Nobel Peace Prize out of this. But as I say, I think the Europeans are not going to play ball with that kind but a kind of a deal that Putin has in mind, and that's going to be a big area of conflict between the europe and the United States potentially if Trump tries to pursue it.

Speaker 2

Richard portis there of the United Kingdom of Great Britain of the London Business School. Angelos Stent was my first call the day of the invasion of Ukraine. Her book Putin's World was my book of the year. I made my book of the year in February, that's how important her book is. It's just a great one volume read of the foundational beliefs of Vladimir Putin. Angelus Stent of the Brookings Institute of Georgetown University.

Speaker 4

On this historic day, I would say, we're more or less all living in Putin's world at the moment, right we're waiting to see what he will say. I think you have to understand that Putin is not interested in a ceasefire. Now he said that in principle he's interested in it, but he still believes that Russia is winning and he wants more concessions from Ukraine. President Trump obviously would like Putin to accept a ceasefire. He has said that what they're going to talk about is territories, land,

the nuclear power plant. I'm assuming he means the biggest one in Europe in Upprarisia, which the Russians now occupied, and then.

Speaker 2

He takes ACCTS.

Speaker 5

Now. I don't really know what he means by assets, but I would think that Putin's going to string him along on the ceasefire. What Putin's interested in is the restoration or hes Russian relations.

Speaker 2

Angel's stent of the Brookings Institute, and then Richard portis before as well. Again, look to all of Bloomberg's coverage here with the Henry Winter and others here, decades of experience in Moscow and of course in Eastern Europe. Now on Ukraine, on Russia, on the United States, on your

community across the nation. We're on Apple, CarPlay, Android, Auto, Sirius XM Special Good Morning in ninety nine one FM in Angelo's stents at Washington, Bloomberg eleven three to zero in New York in ninety two nine FM in Boston. We're on YouTube and on YouTube podcasts. This is a single best idea seven

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