Terry: You were a Rhodes Scholar, right?
McFaul: Yes.
Terry: That must have been amazing!
McFaul: It was, Terry. I learned so much.
Terry: Where are you now?
McFaul: Stanford.
Terry: That's wonderful for you, Michael.
McFaul: Thank you, Terry.
Terry: Are you happy there?
McFaul: Yes, Terry.
Terry: Well it was a pleasure to speak with you.
McFaul: You didn't ask me about Russia.
Terry: Oh, I forgot! It doesn't matter, Michael. My listeners can't understand it anyway!
Michael McFaul: That's a better job than Russian Ambassador!
Terry: Thank you for that Michael. Best of luck at Stanford.
He wrote his thesis on U.S. and Soviet intervention in revolutionary movements in southern Africa.
It would be hard to imagine a more useless, puerile, or obscure, topic for a dissertation. You would have to look long and hard to find something more irrelevant in international relations going forward.
Sergei Markov, his close friend... say no more....
McFaul is a kind of Russian version of Michael Pillsbury.
He wrote his thesis on U.S. and Soviet intervention in revolutionary movements in southern Africa.
It would be hard to imagine a more useless, puerile, or obscure, topic for a dissertation. You would have to look long and hard to find something more irrelevant in international relations going forward.
Sergei Markov, his close friend... say no more....
McFaul is a kind of Russian version of Michael Pillsbury.
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