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EPISODE · Feb 6, 2026 · 1H 3M

THE DARK ART OF GEOPOLITICAL EXTORTION

from The Power Vertical Podcast by Brian Whitmore · host The Charles T. McDowell Center for Global Studies and Atlantic Council's Eurasia Center

On The Power Vertical Podcast this week, host Brian Whitmore speaks with Craig Kennedy, an associate at Harvard University's Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, author of the must-read Substack newsletter Navigating Russia, where he published the recent reports "The Mystery of the Bella 1: Why Did Moscow Mount a ‘Spetsoperatsiia' to Save a Stateless Shadow Tanker?" and "Restraining Russian Oil."

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