Borderline Post-Soviet Disorder

In the last episode we talked about how the American half of the
Cold War was established in Saudi Arabia. Today, we’re shifting our
focus to the other half of that epic conflict: the Soviet Union.
What were the Soviet Union’s designs on the Middle East? Or were
their forays into Middle Eastern geopolitics simply countermoves in
a Cold War chess game, attempts to wrongfoot their American
opponent? And now, as the spectre of war between Russia and Ukraine
hangs over Europe, to what extent can Soviet history, and indeed
the earlier history of imperial Russia, help us to understand
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