@k_leyton_cooper #CharlieSykes and #AnneApplebaum also wrestle with the #Cruelty of #Tump and the #GOP in what #TimothySnyder calls #Sadopopulism
@k_leyton_cooper #CharlieSykes and #AnneApplebaum also wrestle with the #Cruelty of #Tump and the #GOP in what #TimothySnyder calls #Sadopopulism
"Vladimir Putin is not looking for a cease-fire, and he does not want to negotiate. Why? Because he believes that he can win. Thanks to the actions of the U.S. government, he still thinks that he can conquer all of Ukraine"
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/07/putin-trump-russia-ukraine/683414/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK38jq6vvO2FygkuCulUcodbA&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
#anneapplebaum #trump #putin #usa #ukraine #russia #EU #geopolitics @geopolitics
Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism by Anne Applebaum, 2020
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author, professor, and historian offers an expert guide to understanding the appeal of the strongman as a leader and an explanation for why authoritarianism is back with a menacing twenty-first century twist.
@bookstodon
#books
#nonfiction
#AnneApplebaum
#authoritarianism
In total, he sought communications about 16 organizations, including #Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center & DHS’s’s #Cybersecurity & Infrastructure #Security Agency (#CISA), as well as…about 39 individuals.
Notably, this includes several #journalists: In addition to #Bellingcat & #AnneApplebaum, the document also asks for communications w/ #NBCNews senior reporter #BrandyZadrozny.
The document, originally shared in person w/roughly a dozen #State Dept employees in early March, requested staff emails & other records with or about a host of individuals & organizations that track or write about foreign #disinformation — including #Atlantic #journalist #AnneApplebaum @anneapplebaum, fmr US #cybersecurity official #ChrisKrebs, & the #StanfordInternetObservatory — or have criticized #Trump & his allies, such as the conservative anti-Trump commentator #BillKristol.
Trump and Vance Shattered Europe’s Illusions About America - #TheAtlantic #anneapplebaum
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/03/trump-and-vance-shattered-europes-illusions-about-america/681925/
Eine Sternstunde: Anne Applebaum im Gespräch mit Wolfram Eilenberger zum Thema: Die westlichen Demokratien und ihre neuen Feinde
#anneapplebaum
https://www.srf.ch/play/tv/sternstunde-philosophie/video/anne-applebaum---die-westlichen-demokratien-und-ihre-neuen-feinde?urn=urn:srf:video:e2d2c1d6-5a1f-4829-baff-8211ddf1036f
Why Europe’s Security Strategy Is Failing & How the War in Ukraine Will End #AnneApplebaum
by #DominikPresl
29:13
Interview with @anneapplebaum , journalist writing on Russia and Eastern Europe for decades.
How #Europe should respond to the new foreign policy of the US.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLDTHTIkhFg
Dominik Presl is research fellow at the Czech Association for International Affairs and studies international disinformation and propaganda
Trump and Musk Are Pushing for Regime Change - #TheAtlantic #AnneApplebaum #DonaldTrump #Elon Musk https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/doge-civil-servant-purge/681671/
Great article and must-read by @anneapplebaum
"Despite its name, the Department of Government Efficiency is not, so far, primarily interested in efficiency. DOGE and its boss, Elon Musk, have instead focused their activity on the eradication of the federal civil service, along with its culture and values, and its replacement with something different. In other words: regime change."
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/doge-civil-servant-purge/681671/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK31RSmXtcM-PiWNw1o3vgGUs&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
#USA #Trump #Musk #Doge #Government #regimechange #anneapplebaum
WOW! I didn't know this about these historians! A #MustListenEpisode
#CitationsNeeded
#Episode213: The Shallow, Power-Flattering appeal of high Status #Resistance #Historians
#AnneApplebaum , #TimothySnyder, #RuthBenGhiat , etc. have become liberal-friendly experts on #authoritarianism.
Citations Needed looks at the advent and influence of MSNBC-approved #historians dissecting their SELECTIVE #antiauthoritarian posture and discussing how their work does little more than polish their careers and provide cover for U.S. and U.S.-allied #militarism.
Later on, is guest #GregGrandin (upcoming #book in April 2025)
Suggests another possibility to try at The Hague in 203x.
"I stayed on performing my duties so I could try to moderate his actions."
(Make sure you send this in a memo to your biographer now so that a future journalist can quote it when #ReputationLaundering is needed.
See #AnneApplebaum's piece on Musk, RU and switching off navigation data for an example.)
"With five days to go before the election, take the time to listen to my five-part podcast series, #Autocracy in #America. There are authoritarian tactics already at work in the #UnitedStates - and we can stop them.
Also on Spotify, Apple, YouTube"
by #AnneApplebaum
@KamalaHarrisWin
https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/autocracy-in-america/
US-Historikerin Anne Applebaum mit Friedenspreis ausgezeichnet
Die amerikanisch-polnische Historikerin Anne Applebaum hat den renomierten Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels erhalten. In ihrer Dankesrede sprach sie sich für die weitere militärische Unterstützung der Ukraine aus.
Today's dictators are united — but not by ideology
https://bigthink.com/the-present/autocracy-cold-war/
#AnneApplebaum
Anne Applebaum’s Advice “These are not normal times. Be Prepared.”
Time to get prepared for what comes after the election. #politics #AnneApplebaum
http://warnercrocker.com/2024/10/16/anne-applebaums-advice-these-are-not-normal-times-be-prepared/
They will take the whole planet down, and all of us with it, to preserve and extend their already grossly engorged pocketbooks, and their dominative, exploitative power.
"Applebaum emphasizes that rather than operating as a bloc—as during the Cold War—today’s dictatorial regimes create alliances that mirror the networks among large corporations (hence the book’s title, “Autocracy, Inc.”). To maintain control, the members of Applebaum’s Autocracy, Inc., use new digital technologies to surveil citizens, spread propaganda, and carry out smear campaigns about their opponents."
"Applebaum’s account highlights the key role of kleptocratic financial institutions in buttressing autocratic rule by providing the autocratic leadership class with vast sources of illicit wealth.
This system has created a web of autocracies linked together through corrupt practices that work together to help prop each other up.