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\"PictureI was shocked back into geopolitics today (thank god!) with another cheery call from London. I appeared on the BBC World Service today in the wake of President Obama’s trip to Moscow to ink a new nuclear disarmament dea<\/a>l with Russian President (and some might say Putin puppet) Dmitry Medvedyev<\/a>. I particularly love when I’m jarred out of sleep or some other do-nothing activity and forced to turn my brain on at warp speed. It seems the times I’m most often asked to appear are the odd moments when I have yet to scan the days news which forces me to put my foreign policy hat on with little or in today’s case, no, perparation. I was mortified when I listened to the podcast that I flubbed Putin’s name in place of poor old Boris Yeltsin. Oh well, I’ll have to be more en pointe<\/em> next time around. Keep those calls coming Beeb producers! I thoroughly enjoy the challenge.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Here is the podcast.<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>I come in at the very beginning. Forgive my mistake with the name flub. Oh the humanity! Who among us is without fault?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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