FYI, Vladimir Pozner was an admitted Soviet agent while he did those joint TV talk shows with him and Phil Donahue back in the 80s.
Vlad Posner’s background is well known but he’s pretty much retired nowadays and offers his observations about what Russian leadership is thinking even though he is no longer part of the official propaganda machine of the Soviet era.
Why this need to go to war with Russia and blame Russia in the West?
Why this war in Syria that created the Islamic State?
The oil pipeline for the Saudis and Gulf Arabs to replace Russian energy supplies to Europe?