Inside the mind of Vladimir Putin | A Fareed Zakaria special

As Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine rages on, Fareed Zakaria takes viewers inside the mind of the man behind the conflict: Vladimir Putin. How did Putin come to fear and hate the West? Zakaria reveals what drives the notorious strongman.

Originally broadcast on May 15, 2022.

0:00 Fareed Zakaria on Putin’s standoff against a mob in Dresden in 1989
4:09 Yeltsin’s shock resignation and Putin assuming the presidency
7:18 Putin’s childhood, the KGB, and the Soviet collapse that shaped him
16:37 Putin courts the West after 9/11, then turns against it at Munich
22:31 Georgia, Crimea, and the road to war in Ukraine
27:41 Protests, assassinations, and Putin’s crackdown on dissent
36:09 Zakaria reflects on meeting Putin in Davos

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