The Putin Files: Daniel Fried

[JayJay-ooqi]

Frontline one on one interviews are my new obsession. ☝️ Very well produced and good journalistic format. IMO. Very easy listening for the most important amount of information. Very soft well spoken thoughtful interviewees, excluding Bannon. Good watch though. 👍

[thomasbernecky]

Frontline: My thanks to you taking the time to speak with the adults here.

[JullianChavez]

This series is endlessly fascinating, and prophetic given current events in 2022

[kathycaldwell]

Mr. Fried is the best historian I’ve seen in this series and beyond. He is philosophical, smart, and has amassed a well of wisdom regarding Russian history and society that informs his current observations.
This is a must see episode of Frontline’s “Putin Files.”

[CentralParkHusky]

Mr Fried has a fascinating way of talking. The story about Stalin asking who organized the spontaneous applause is amazing. Makes me wish I was privy to daily national intelligence reports for the rest of my life.

[dmatej]

Democracy is always ill with corruption, but not so ill as totalitarian regimes with instituted unreachable corruption. That makes great difference. In a democracy is always some tendency to confront the corruption, to throw it down immediately after it tries to concrete itself in some position. Totalitarian systems are stable just for a while, as he said in 51:00, it always means hostility and downward spiral with increasing repression until it fails and collapses like communist regimes in the eastern block.
So now we can say that Putin's regime is on the path to collapse. But we still don't know how painful it will be, how many lives it can destroy as a side effect. And we don't have any control over it as the regime is perfectly institutionalized unreachable stupidity.

[drgeorgek]

A prescient series… watched in full several years ago and again now (2022) only to learn heaps more that relevant to the here and now. Bravo frontline and interviewees.

[manatee]

Very interesting interview, again. I commend Daniel Fried for participating.

[johnbblezer]

This guy is really good, need more content from him

[kevkeary]

The meaning of the reset button was over-charge as in pay too much. Ironic.

[adamfrazer]

The fact that I'm watching this of my own volition (and belated interest) surprises me - but what surprises me more, maybe even scares me a little, is that Frontline has such a small subscriber base.

Prank videos, pet videos and videos of people falling down have the attention.

Mike Judge's 'Idiocracy' is coming rapidly true. I need to move off this planet...

[ryanmalloy]

Should you trust a spy when he tells you: “never trust a spy?”

[viktoriagrafinvonherzenste]

I love hearing this insider view on this fascinating piece of international relations. Wunderschön.

[guillaumecds]

I am speechless before his mastery of English language and éloquence

[edgardocartagena]

Mr.fried is 1, 000, 000%rite...He knows alot....

[dancraig]

Ex Soviets said "a group of drunks wouldn't trust Putin to buy the bottle".

[nikclinton]

Wow, this was good, informing & most fair assessment of Putin Russia. What a difference; professional politician with a first hand experience so dissimilar from disgruntled journalists with their disproportional over dramatization of their often too liberal takes on reality.

[ytkel]

Really wish more political interviews were as interesting and enthralling as this one! Fascinating insight into US-Russia relations and the complexity of foreign policy making.

[jk-qejj]

This man has some good insights and communicates them well. It's too bad he is unable to admit that Bush or anyone in his administration ever made a wrong choice.He even attempts to smear some shit on politicians who opposed their disastrous decision to invade Iraq at the time, which is pretty low.

[danasandlin]

At the moment, the best thing I can say about a free democracy system is that I can ask the question that I put below: that's it...that I have the freedom to ask that question without going to jail...but nothing else is so terrific...nothing...in a country of people who are basically morally bankrupt because of their free choice...dts/usa