Drinking Cocktails With Ian Bremmer Part II: Leaders Who Imbibed Too Much (But Maybe Trump Could Use A Drink)

In the second part of my interview with Ian Bremmer (read Part I here) at The Flatiron Room in New York we discuss one Russian leader who drank too much and one American president who perhaps could use a good cocktail. And for more from Ian Bremmer watch his latest TED talk on why ‘The next global superpower isn’t who you think.’

Name a time when drinks affected world politics.

Yeltsin was drunk a lot. (Laughs) That’s part of the reason why his country imploded, the leader of Russia was frequently not compos mentis. There were times that Clinton covered for him when

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