Our guest, journalist and analyst Pepe Escobar, speaks to us from Bangkok about the new Great Game in Eurasia and why the critical military and geopolitical situation requires that the US resume relations with Russia despite the massive forces working against that.

Escobar is the correspondent-at-large for Asia Times and a frequent contributor to websites, TV and radio shows ranging from the US to East Asia. Born in Brazil, he's been a foreign correspondent since 1985, and has lived in London, Paris, Milan, Los Angeles, Washington, Bangkok and Hong Kong.

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Recorded on July 26, 2018. Music by Fluorescent Grey.

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Here’s the real reason the US must talk to Russia, Pepe Escobar, Asia Times Losing Military Supremacy: The Myopia of American Strategic Planning, Andrei Martyanov

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