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Strobe Talbott at Occidental College
Date: 2014-04-28 12:02
Subject: Strobe Talbott at Occidental College
Strobe's talk at Occidental last week.
Vladimir Putin vs. the 21st Century
Strobe Talbott
President of the Brookings Institution
Occidental College
April 22, 2014
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/1138
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The formatting helps but your mileage may vary. PDF attached.
The highlighted sections grabbed my attention.
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"How long Putinism lasts is overwhelmingly up to the Russian people themselves, of course. But it
will pass more quickly if there's a forceful voice, backed by national and international resolve, to
oppose it. The obvious - and perhaps the only - candidate for that role is Oxy's most famous alumnus,
and our 44th president. Barack Obama is a personification of globalization of the world - and the
globalization of America itself."
"With nearly three years to go in his presidency, Obama is positioned to lay out - for his own citizens
and our allies and friends abroad – the contours of the post-post-cold war world -a world that we
will, for some time, have to share with a post-glasnost, post-perestroika, and post-partnership Russia."
"Given what's happened in the last month and the stakes for the U.S. and the world, given the
spreading doubts that West can't do anything to rein in Putinism, this is a moment that cries
out for Obama to tell us, "Yes we can…. and here's how." Let's hope he seizes that moment- and
that he does so soon. Come to think of it, why not invite him to do it right here? This is as good a
Bully Pulpit as any."