Behind The Lines Ep 10 - Trumps Dirty Roubles With Greg Olear

<p><br></p><p>In this episode I wanted to go back to something that Paul Mason said in an earlier episode which struck a chord. He identified that the weakest link in International democratic politics is the world’s greatest democracy, the United States.</p><br><p>Here’s Paul’s line “the key to the international situation is America. we could wake up in November 2024 with Trump as president that is a legitimation of insurrectionary politics.” (Have a listen to that episode - number 7 - if you’ve not yet had the chance)</p><br><p>That challenge led me to this week’s interview. Greg Olear, whose name sounds Irish but is in fact Slovakian in origin is an American novelist, podcaster and commentator on political affairs. He has a <a href="https://gregolear.substack.com/p/europes-war-with-arthur-snell?nthPub=191" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">substack</a> and his <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/prevail-with-greg-olear/id1553506699" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">podcast</a>, Prevail, can be found in all the usual places.</p><br><p>Greg has focused heavily on the current crisis in American politics, as well as the complicated history of President Trump’s links to Russia and the degree to which that still matters. I hope you get as much from the discussion as I did.</p><br><p><br></p><p><a href="https://bsky.app/profile/snellarthur.bsky.social" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><img src="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0?ui=2&ik=763cd0fc5d&attid=0.1.1&permmsgid=msg-f:1780266340717995279&th=18b4c6cdfc14a50f&view=fimg&fur=ip&sz=s0-l75-ft&attbid=ANGjdJ-LgwwelAFhDmP8Udx95ujymcsHoOOUUU7D2-I7AE30EgXhErPNbvdN7vkHfYbVDsUsds4jamc2tMemnJUgEqvwLA-ZavYJtukdfwkaI89vnSz8cspiJ2bc5c0&disp=emb">Arthur Snell (@snellarthur.bsky.social)</a></p><p>bsky.app</p><br><p><a href="https://twitter.com/SnellArthur" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Arthur Snell (@SnellArthur) / X</a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/SnellArthur" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">twitter.com</a></p><br><p><a href="https://arthursnell.substack.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><img src="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0?ui=2&ik=763cd0fc5d&attid=0.1.2&permmsgid=msg-f:1780266340717995279&th=18b4c6cdfc14a50f&view=fimg&fur=ip&sz=s0-l75-ft&attbid=ANGjdJ_Y0nkCzEhlhSFK8CzMWu0BH26XCkkwmT5UGsX4vj72VXb_ANyHEYtxzmFPHqXsqV_eEmXg2e7KDvNI2wbj8W2h0_MPjoHzG5YWF7160VvbBi_3cqADl42oNss&disp=emb">Not all doom | Arthur Snell | Substack</a></p><p>arthursnell.substack.com</p><br><p>Check out our Bookshop.org affiliate site <a href="https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/behindthelines" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">behindthelines</a> and please sign up for my substack at <a href="https://arthursnell.substack.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">arthursnell.substack.com</a> and/or follow me on Bluesky</p><p><a href="https://bsky.app/profile/snellarthur.bsky.social" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@snellarthur.bsky.social</a>. You can sometimes find me on other podcasts - most often <a href="https://disordershow.com/home" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Disorder</a> which I am involved with in partnership with RUSI, the <a href="https://www.rusi.org" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Royal United Services Institute</a>, the world's oldest think tank.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>

Behind The Lines with Arthur Snell