Fiona Hill: Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump | Lex Fridman Podcast #335

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November 4, 2022

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3h 19m

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Lex Fridman Podcast

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Fiona Hill is a presidential advisor and foreign policy expert specializing in Russia. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:

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EPISODE LINKS: Fiona's Books: There Is Nothing for You Here: https://amzn.to/3TR0nN9 Mr. Putin: Operative in the Kremlin: https://amzn.to/3WiGU9F PODCAST INFO: Podcast website: https://lexfridman.com/podcast Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2lwqZIr Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2nEwCF8 RSS: https://lexfridman.com/feed/podcast/ Full episodes playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrAXtmErZgOdP_8GztsuKi9nrraNbKKp4 Clips playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrAXtmErZgOeciFP3CBCIEElOJeitOr41 OUTLINE: 0:00 - Introduction 1:19 - Education and career 12:05 - Donbas in the 20th century 20:23 - Soviet Union 30:58 - Donald Trump's foreign policy 42:58 - Testifying against Donald Trump 49:49 - US administrations 1:11:23 - Impeachment of Donald Trump 1:31:39 - Why people like Donald Trump 1:40:44 - Vladimir Putin 2:00:53 - Invasion of Ukraine 2:15:58 - NATO implication in Ukraine war 2:28:49 - Interviewing Vladimir Putin 2:41:17 - 2024 elections 2:44:25 - Alexei Navalny 2:48:58 - Nuclear war 3:00:49 - How Ukraine war will end 3:07:35 - Hope for the future 3:10:43 - Advice for young people SOCIAL:

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🧾 EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Lex Fridman Podcast, featuring Fiona Hill and Lex Fridman, Fiona Hill: Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump | Lex Fridman Podcast #335 explores fiona Hill Dissects Putin, Trump, Ukraine, And America’s Fractured Politics Fiona Hill traces her journey from a coal-mining town in Northern England to the White House, using her life story to frame how class, education, and industrial decline shape political worldviews. She analyzes Vladimir Putin’s evolution from a pragmatic stabilizer of post-Soviet Russia to an increasingly isolated, historically obsessed, and risk‑acceptant autocrat who launched the war in Ukraine. Hill connects U.S. domestic dysfunction—Trump’s first impeachment, partisan warfare, and erosion of institutional integrity—to how Putin misread American resolve and Ukrainian agency. Throughout, she argues for “strategic empathy” toward adversaries, deep reform of U.S. governance, and a clear-eyed, non-partisan approach to ending the war in Ukraine while deterring nuclear escalation and future proliferation.

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