Anne Applebaum

Staff writer at The Atlantic. Author of GULAG, IRON CURTAIN, RED FAMINE and TWILIGHT OF DEMOCRACY

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2026-02-28 18:59:52 GMT

The American bombardment of Iran has been launched without explanation, without Congress, without public support. Above all it has been launched without a coherent strategy for the Iranian people, and without a plan to let them build a legitimate Iranian state.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/trump-has-no-plan-iranian-people/686194/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK39POyonwPE2yyusxSA7Qtyk&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

2026-01-06 15:58:46 GMT

Venezuela’s government is arresting journalists and sending paramilitary forces to suppress anyone who is too happy about Maduro's removal
https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/db53b592-55b4-4ec4-8c73-39a0f73b2d8b

2026-01-04 08:25:26 GMT

With David Frum, discussing Venezuela, spheres of influence and what Trump's actions mean for America and the world
https://youtu.be/5oSRcLWxzYA?si=GfI0-SiIP867UpgU

2025-12-16 23:13:25 GMT

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/12/national-security-strategy-democracy/685270/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3ws_RC4Aaob-Nw76Fh2AJk0
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2025-12-16 14:00:15 GMT

If we can't even identify our enemies then how can we fight them?
Trump's National Security Strategy is the longest suicide note in American history
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/12/national-security-strategy-democracy/685270/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK35ibcb27LjcQKIf6tB8WqQM

2025-12-10 12:54:58 GMT

An earlier version of Trump's National Security Strategy specifically said that the US should try to break up the EU, to get Italy, Austria, Hungary and Poland to leave
https://www.defenseone.com/policy/2025/12/make-europe-great-again-and-more-longer-version-national-security-strategy/410038/
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2025-12-08 10:59:28 GMT

In Ukraine, the state itself is investigating the government, the cabinet, the president’s closest advisers. By contrast, it is impossible to imagine Kash Patel’s FBI investigating anyone in Trump’s White House. Any Russian who investigates Putin goes to jail"
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/2025/12/ukraine-fighting-corruption-trump/685162/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK33X0lgpfLuVN_3VQ2IrzF5k

2025-12-06 15:56:13 GMT

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2025-11-29 05:34:18 GMT

"By dangling multibillion-dollar rare-earth and energy deals, Moscow could reshape the economic map of Europe—while driving a wedge between America and its traditional allies"
Read this excellent @wsj.com account of the business deals behind the "peace"negotiations
https://www.wsj.com/world/russia/russia-u-s-peace-business-ties-4db9b290?st=V4zco4&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

2025-11-22 21:45:58 GMT

This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/11/trumps-war-peace/685024/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3x5H8-x30wTOq6lDtv0xjW4&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

2025-11-08 19:42:47 GMT

“These are people who did everything by the book, paid taxes, had no criminal records, opened businesses and contributed to their communities...now they have become collateral damage in this cruel, unjust and inhumane political game.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/11/08/venezuelans-begin-fleeing-us-protections-end-threat-war-looms/

2025-11-05 04:47:20 GMT

Abby Spanberger will now be governor of Virginia, Mikie Sherrill governor of NJ. I wrote about both of them, and their friend group, last year. Sometimes called NatSec Democrats, they can also be called Service Democrats, since they come from organizations that asked them to swear oaths to serve Americans
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/09/national-security-democrats-patriotism/679697/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK35_VMty72u1gocPwsFwfZO8&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

2025-10-27 20:18:14 GMT

At a time of multiple international crises, the Pentagon’s official positions will be relayed by Timcast, The Epoch Times, LindellTV and the Gateway Pundit...which means that many people simply won’t believe Pentagon statements at all.
And that might be the point
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/10/pentagon-press-restrictions-new-media-propaganda/684706/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK33XJXeQPf0zAn-u1f40jN3g

2025-10-20 21:17:59 GMT

Trump's AI video, showing himself as a pilot dumping shit on Americans, fits right into a long authoritarian tradition
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/10/trump-no-kings-day-protest-ai-poop/684621/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK35delNKCGndW27iEDyVzf-o

2025-10-10 12:44:07 GMT

Nobel Peace Prizes have often been awarded to people who fight autocracy. Maria Corina Machado fits right into that tradition
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/10/maria-machado-nobel-peace-prize/684510/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3wbq1QoVCkMhawJWbnT-zJw

2025-10-02 13:11:14 GMT

Rather remarkable that the Trump administration response to a government shutdown is "let's inflict as much pain as possible on as many Americans as possible"

2025-09-26 10:55:05 GMT

Essential reading
https://www.wired.com/story/oral-history-doge-federal-workers/?utm_source=threads&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_brand=wired&utm_social-type=owned

2025-09-25 18:15:01 GMT

Negotiations have stalled. Trump keeps changing his policies. Ukrainians, backed by Europeans, are taking matters into their own hands.
On Ukraine's campaign against Russian oil:
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/09/ukraines-strategy-to-win-the-war/684356/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3xoWkP29Du3xcPHNncGcN3E

2025-09-18 11:23:56 GMT

Good moment to remember that US foreign policy is also being reoriented to enable foreign censors and authoritarian propaganda around the world
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/09/unilateral-disarmament/684086/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK31TvZdPRROtC2z6emx3zg20&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

2025-08-29 13:01:06 GMT

https://assets.journa.host/media_attachments/files/115/112/179/505/697/520/original/2f5cbdb47c840b46.jpg

2025-08-27 22:19:24 GMT

The fire sale at the end of the empire https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/08/usaid-fire-sale-donation-auction/684012/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK333KEytRa46TNZSowZhJ_q4

2025-08-27 08:39:57 GMT

US accused of conducting hostile campaign designed to destabilize Denmark, a close democratic ally
https://amp.dw.com/en/denmark-summons-us-envoy-over-greenland-reports/a-73777456

2025-08-22 22:11:22 GMT

The war is over when the Russians understand that they can't win. Last week's summits did not help us reach that point
Listen to Radio Atlantic:
https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2025/08/peace-ukraine-not-real-estate-deal/683935/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3-t2Vye_YlM2t5JWRPpEvIk

2025-08-20 11:34:40 GMT

Fictitious conspiracies are easier to pursue since there's no chance that reality will intervene https://apnews.com/article/trump-security-clearances-revoked-ad7f95a222ad9277452d2de995b70619

2025-08-18 11:14:21 GMT

From the Telegram channel of RT, Russian state media. A Russian assault vehicle, now flying two flags
https://assets.journa.host/media_attachments/files/115/049/474/239/720/503/original/bfca2b5e6ed1723e.mp4

2025-08-16 15:31:56 GMT

Trump has no cards https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/08/trump-putin-ukraine-talks/683899/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3zcQc9j5aDXFzHySIE703JY

2025-08-14 05:34:21 GMT

On the State Department reports that portray Germany as more oppressive than El Salvador.
"Original reporting from embassies has been removed, replaced with language clearly—and in a few cases ludicrously—manipulated by political appointees"
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/08/trump-state-department-human-rights-report/683852/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK39dZ53TrurT1b0wzN5h-LdU&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

2025-08-11 19:39:12 GMT

With Sam Harris, talking about the new world order, or lack thereof
https://samharris.org/episode/SECB5253720

2025-08-07 07:04:46 GMT

On NPR, talking about war, nihilism and what it means for the world to abandon Sudan https://www.npr.org/2025/08/06/nx-s1-5493499/journalist-says-greed-nihilism-and-transnationalism-are-fueling-sudans-conflict

2025-08-06 11:48:40 GMT

Earlier this year, I made two trips to Sudan, where a terrible civil war has displaced 14 million people. The state is absent, international institutions are weak. Outside powers, motivated by greed and nihilism, have stepped into the vacuum, amplifying the conflict. In Sudan, the liberal world order has ended, and nothing has replaced it.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/09/sudan-civil-war-humanitarian-crisis/683563/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK376-XkgknNwkyNXgTPjso0U&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
https://assets.journa.host/media_attachments/files/114/981/659/859/456/435/original/9e08e2fcbc8f482c.jpg

2025-07-15 11:58:07 GMT

Russia relieved by unserious US tariff threat. Moscow stock exchange rose 2.7%.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62g6e8zvd4o

2025-07-10 19:09:32 GMT

"Americans have never witnessed anything like the corruption that President Donald Trump and his inner circle have perpetrated in recent months. Its brazenness, volume, and variety defy historical comparison"
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/07/trump-corruption-foreign-regimes/683487/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3xSta40_DslDm1uSm0fgwF0&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

2025-07-05 13:10:12 GMT

A senior FBI officer resigns
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/goodbye-to-all-that

2025-07-04 17:36:19 GMT

"Sanctions are disappearing, weapons are diminishing, counterpropaganda is harder to hear. All of that will encourage Putin to go further—not just to try to defeat Ukraine but to divide Europe, mortally damage NATO, and reduce the power and influence of the United States around the world"
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

2025-06-27 15:11:25 GMT

New season of AUTOCRACY IN AMERICA coming soon! This time hosted by Garry Kasparov
https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2025/06/coming-soon-a-new-season-of-autocracy-in-america/683336/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3-y6I2AoghNWkjNRP4-YNxE&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

2025-05-30 17:20:26 GMT

Musk destroyed the US civil service, abruptly cancelled aid programs around the world, killing people and damaging US soft power. His teams stole data, harmed science, broke the law. "I was on drugs and had family issues" is not an excuse
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/us/elon-musk-drugs-children-trump.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

2025-05-20 02:46:00 GMT

Nobody in Ukraine thinks the war will end soon.
But neither are they frightened
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/05/ukraine-war-russia-trump-putin/682843/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3xoA-EFwGVpd2fTD9CUeeWs&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

2025-05-01 22:40:50 GMT

"American officials have now been explicitly asked to make lists of their contacts with other Americans, for no practical, legal, or national-security reason"
Read The Atlantic, on a State Dept witch hunt
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/05/trump-diplomacy-darren-beattie/682665/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3795gR3HAw9XxokDydJo51U&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

2025-04-14 14:17:29 GMT

"We are living through a revolutionary change, a broad shift away from the transparency and accountability mandated by most modern democracies, and toward the opaque habits and corrupt practices of the autocratic world"
On Kleptocracy Inc, in the Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/04/trump-kleptocracy-autocracy-inc/682281/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK31IaZ6rKrlSr_YVHIOs-fHQ&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

2025-04-07 16:09:37 GMT

Last week, I wrote about how authoritarianism leads to poverty and corruption. Feels like an appropriate moment to post it again.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/05/viktor-orban-hungary-maga-corruption/682111/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK32-nUUL00S0iJYV6XMGPBZo&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

2025-04-07 01:07:48 GMT

Trump has done the same damage to our health, environment and security as to our markets, it's just that there isn't a stock ticker that measures the impact so clearly

2025-03-31 10:47:14 GMT

Hungary shows us the endgame of autocratic populism: poverty and corruption
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/05/viktor-orban-hungary-maga-corruption/682111/

2025-03-26 20:37:58 GMT

In other news, Der Spiegel
found private phone numbers, email addresses and some passwords for Waltz, Gabbard and Hegseth online
https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/hegseth-waltz-gabbard-private-data-and-passwords-of-senior-u-s-security-officials-found-online-a-14221f90-e5c2-48e5-bc63-10b705521fb7

2025-03-26 13:29:05 GMT

Now you can read the Signal group chat texts and decide for yourself whether this is information that should have been classified
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/signal-group-chat-attack-plans-hegseth-goldberg/682176/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3_X2K7ulsnjDWC1R1jDQds4&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

2025-03-21 23:41:22 GMT

More than five years ago, I wrote about the American conservatives who admire Russia dictatorship. Now they run America https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/12/false-romance-russia/603433/

2025-03-21 08:43:25 GMT

I talked to Scott Dworkin about patterns of autocratic takeover
https://www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/anne-applebaum-on-democracys-tipping

2025-03-16 06:47:53 GMT

Here we go: the rewriting of history has formally begun
"Oklahoma proposes teaching standards suggesting 2020 election ‘discrepancies’"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/03/15/oklahoma-social-studies-2020-election/

2025-03-15 21:13:15 GMT

China spends billions on broadcasting around the world. Meanwhile, Trump and Musk have just begun to destroy US broadcasting around the world. https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/trump-signs-order-gut-voice-america-other-agencies-2025-03-15/

2025-03-13 00:01:20 GMT

Read my former colleague Ruth Marcus, explaining why she left the Washington Post
https://www.newyorker.com/news/essay/why-ruth-marcus-left-the-washington-post

2025-02-27 19:18:32 GMT

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I have never "written for AEI" and not sure what that means. I was on their list as an unpaid associate fellow there 20 years ago, maybe more. There have been good scholars there in the past.
If that bothers you, don't listen to the interview.

2025-02-26 06:14:38 GMT

I talked to Bill Kristol about Germany, Europe, Ukraine, Russia and...the US
Listen here:
https://conversationswithbillkristol.org/conversation/anne-applebaum-on-ukraine-europe-and-the-us/

2025-02-24 20:36:55 GMT

If America has different allies, are we the same kind of country?
I made a podcast episode discussing exactly this last summer
https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2024/09/kleptocracy-club/680022/

2025-02-24 19:43:11 GMT

On Putin's three years of humiliation
He can't win unless we let him
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2025/02/putins-three-years-of-humiliation/681810/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK39jxnhFDI3bKrjUti3Al60U&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

2025-02-24 19:40:56 GMT

"Ukraine is not, as the Russian ambassador said, a "project."
The Polish foreign minister, at the UN today
https://assets.journa.host/media_attachments/files/114/060/557/287/748/104/original/576f6a05aed9fce1.mp4

2025-02-20 19:02:11 GMT

George Packer on the meaning of the death of USAID
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/04/trump-maga-national-interest-usaid-destruction/681735/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3wFgqpYRlen_JuccWRu-iJA&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

2025-02-20 17:24:23 GMT

The end of the postwar era
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2025/02/trump-ukraine-postwar-world/681745/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK31RhLcP-tNiCRWkRZwfyq10&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

2025-02-14 08:52:29 GMT

"Suddenly, and not accidentally, people who work for the American federal government are having the same experience as people who find themselves living under foreign occupation"
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

2025-02-11 13:39:27 GMT

How did Putin become a dictator? Mikhail Zygar lists ten steps
https://open.substack.com/pub/zygaro/p/putins-authoritarian-playbook?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=177tk

2025-02-06 20:29:51 GMT

Kleptocracy is back in business
https://assets.journa.host/media_attachments/files/113/958/831/111/442/970/original/1d84860648c0c210.jpg

2025-02-05 06:38:25 GMT

From @npub1psa…j5uh : some of the government's top tech experts are being asked to do things that are "clearly illegal"
https://www.404media.co/things-are-going-to-get-intense-how-a-musk-ally-plans-to-push-ai-on-the-government/

2025-02-03 02:44:32 GMT

Official US government policy is now to destroy the Canadian economy, remove Canadian sovereignty and annex Canada
https://assets.journa.host/media_attachments/files/113/937/652/563/012/085/original/fafa283366c9b74a.jpeg

2025-01-28 15:39:47 GMT

Americans who think they might be targets for retribution are "bracing for criminal investigations, tax audits, congressional or state legislative scrutiny, arrests, online harassment and physical threats"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/01/28/trump-retribution-preparation-election-officials/

2025-01-27 21:33:06 GMT

American social media companies write the algorithms that determine what voters read; moderation systems are opaque; political advertising cannot always be tracked. Do European democracies, or any democracies, really have sovereign elections anymore?
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/03/musk-tech-oligarch-european-election-influence/681453/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3zd9JdZYQ1qXmZ-Tzbyq_Go&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

2025-01-07 13:59:58 GMT

Forget the division of left and right. We now live in the grip of a completely different kind of politics. This is the age of Obscurantism: politics fused with magical solutions, superstition and the cultivation of fear https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/02/trump-populist-conspiracism-autocracy-rfk-jr/681088/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3zko9x4JRKwzJUHDjeYMn24&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

2025-01-02 01:52:30 GMT

If you missed it - start your new year with this excellent Wall Street Journal description of the Russian sleeper agents unmasked last year https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/sleeper-agents-putin-global-hunt-a7978f84?st=BBMjiw&reflink=share_mobilewebshare

2024-12-23 08:44:03 GMT

Maria Corina Machado is in hiding. Although her movement won the election, Venezuela's dictatorial president has not left office. Still, she told me, she's an optimist:
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2024/12/venezuela-opposition-machado-optimism/681148/

2024-12-22 09:47:37 GMT

Did Musk tank a spending bill because it would have harmed his business in China?
From The American Prospect
https://prospect.org/politics/2024-12-20-government-shutting-down-elon-musk-factories-china/
https://assets.journa.host/media_attachments/files/113/695/840/633/207/208/original/9aceb0b1e6701fd9.jpg

2024-12-10 07:36:22 GMT

"As Hemingway once wrote of bankruptcy, the collapse of autocratic regimes tends to happen gradually and then suddenly—slowly, and then all at once." https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2024/12/sudden-collapse-bashar-assad/680917/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3ztZ_XKRcZaOT8cFQEZBbLw

2024-12-08 18:06:40 GMT

And there it is: Assad in Moscow.
Maybe he can move in next to Yanukovych
https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/syria-civil-war-12-08-2024/index.html#cm4fwaag2001u3b6uizxnlgs8

2024-12-08 17:36:55 GMT

In my book, Twilight of Democracy, I described how autocratic regimes use conspiracy theories as loyalty tests...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/07/us/politics/trump-administration-loyalty-test.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

2024-12-08 14:50:25 GMT

Why dictatorships fail gradually, and then suddenly, all at once
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2024/12/sudden-collapse-bashar-assad/680917/

2024-11-23 06:50:32 GMT

In which I discuss patterns of "state capture" with Ezra Klein
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/19/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-anne-applebaum.html

2024-11-15 02:16:53 GMT

Yes. He's a crank.
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2024/11/rfk-jr-hhs-sanewashing/680663/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3-z8QcWNs4NTh20aH6uhb2U&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

2024-11-12 17:07:00 GMT

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And until then? Biden should send all of the allocated weapons, let the Ukrainians hit targets in Russia with American and European missiles, and above all pressure the Europeans, finally, to release the $300 billion in frozen Russian assets. No time to lose. Gift link, from the Atlantic:
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2024/11/biden-trump-ukraine/680632/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3-1_K7E1RdOWOBSJN46wpFA&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

2024-11-12 17:06:37 GMT

“Land for peace” sounds nice, but the president of Russia isn’t fighting for land. Putin is fighting to destroy Ukraine as a nation. When the next U.S. president takes office he will therefore face the same choices : help Putin win, or help him lose.
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2024/11/biden-trump-ukraine/680632/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3-1_K7E1RdOWOBSJN46wpFA&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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2024-11-05 22:24:51 GMT

OK, this is funny
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qI0LTmSr38

2024-11-05 13:05:30 GMT

One final thing to read today, from @npub1n5c…mpqj: why we are going into this election ill-prepared to counter bogus narratives about voter fraud
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/the-maga-propaganda-machine-has-successfully

2024-11-03 13:14:59 GMT

On Vermin. Some closing thoughts
https://anneapplebaum.substack.com/p/on-vermin?r=177tk

2024-11-01 10:11:23 GMT

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 United States - and we can stop them.
Also on Spotify, Apple, YouTube
https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/autocracy-in-america/
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2024-10-29 17:28:34 GMT

"People need to decide if they want to live in a U.S. version of an oligarchy, whether they want us to go down the same kind of path as Russia. They’ll make that decision at the ballot box."
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/10/28/fiona-hill-explains-trump-musk-putin-00185820

2024-10-28 20:34:36 GMT

There are two Republican campaigns. One is ugly and angry but normal, seeking to get people to vote.
The other one preparing people to accept an assault on the electoral system, if Trump loses, or on the political system, if he wins. Read more:
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/10/maidison-square-garden-election-fraud/680429/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK36Ka554OqzSbHzHo9_Vj1FE&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

2024-10-26 18:16:06 GMT

Ten days before the election, take the time to listen to my five part podcast,, Autocracy in America. It describes the autocratic behaviors already visible in America - which we still have the power to stop.
https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/autocracy-in-america/

2024-10-23 18:16:39 GMT

On Trump, his extreme rhetoric, his thing for Hitler and why so many people want to pretend it really isn't that bad. With Jeff Goldberg and Morning Joe
https://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/watch/jeffrey-goldberg-reflects-on-trump-s-comprehensive-ignorance-of-history-222459461880

2024-10-22 08:16:53 GMT

In Washington DC October 29, a week from today? Come hear me and Peter Pomerantsev discuss "Autocracy in America" our podcast that talks about the autocratic behaviors and practices already flourishing in America...
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/autocracy-in-america-live-tickets-1043028003837
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2024-10-21 12:40:53 GMT

Moldova votes for the EU, despite a huge Russian influence and vote-buying campaign. It was not subtle. A BBC producer "heard a woman who had just dropped her ballot in the transparent box ask an election monitor where she would get paid."
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1wnr5qdxe7o

2024-10-21 07:53:05 GMT

Against Pessimism
my German Peace Prize lecture, reprinted in the Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/10/russia-ukraine-democracy-applebaum/680318/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK36JMCw9mt_Sil3JbsZzR6Dc&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

2024-10-19 15:28:45 GMT

South Korean news agency confirms that 10k North Korean soldiers will be fighting against Ukraine https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20241018006856315

2024-10-18 14:20:52 GMT

Blood poison, vermin, the 'enemy within': The language of the the 1930s has not been used successfully in modern American politics. But maybe that's because no one, before now, has tried
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/10/trump-authoritarian-rhetoric-hitler-mussolini/680296/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3_BAdwxgTnhDQOES_Ka50h0&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

2024-10-18 11:34:18 GMT

Why does Trump sound like Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini? Because he thinks it will work
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/10/trump-authoritarian-rhetoric-hitler-mussolini/680296/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK34vU4G4QMrQTKJxena1OKFY&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

2024-10-15 19:47:11 GMT

No doubts this time: We can be absolutely certain that an attempt will be made to steal the 2024 election if Kamala Harris wins.
What can you do?
Start preparing now: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/10/citizens-guide-defending-2024-election/680254/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3_lC0p-VEgLvKuv9V1to9dw&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

2024-10-13 08:51:24 GMT

“He’s been taking Americans and his followers on a journey since really 2015 conditioning them … step by step instilling hatred in a group, and then escalating”
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/12/trump-racist-rhetoric-immigrants-00183537

2024-10-12 09:55:40 GMT

just because you aren't on X anymore doesn't mean that it isn't shaping the reality of the far right. from @npub1n5c…mpqj
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/10/rumors-x-twitter-musk/680219/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3y-aDgCNw7R-gBYPDA5570Y&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

2024-10-11 20:44:11 GMT

If you enjoyed the Autocracy in America podcast...come hear me and @peterpomeranzev talk about it, with our producer and maybe some extra audio...
October 29, 6.15pm, Washington DC
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/autocracy-in-america-live-tickets-1043028003837?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdsshcopyurl

2024-10-09 10:46:29 GMT

"If Putin succeeds in Ukraine, the Germans will also feel the consequences"
https://www.stern.de/applebaum--drohnen-aus-dem-iran-fuer-russland-sah-sie-nicht-kommen-35125906.html

2024-10-08 15:19:25 GMT

Trump isn't the president, but even so he is working from the authoritarian playbook. The harassment of companies, including the denial of government contracts, because of the private political views of their employees is a classic.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/07/vance-messages-deloitte-retaliation/

2024-10-04 18:53:52 GMT

"He spoke of “a million Rambos.” “Turnarounds” and “gotaways” and “dead-head spending.” He mixed up Iran with North Korea and strained to pronounce United Arab Emirates. He marveled at Hurricane Helene coming so late in the storm season, which typically runs through November. He falsely claimed government agencies can’t name the U.S. population, and he compared the conflict between Israel and Iran to “two kids fighting in the schoolyard.”
how is this not dementia?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/01/trump-wisconsin-swerves-subjects/

2024-10-04 11:17:40 GMT

The fifth and final episode of AUTOCRACY IN AMERICA has dropped! The subject: Freedom, a word that is fundamental to democracy - but which also, in American history, has sometimes meant freedom for some people and the repression of others.
Apple podcasts:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/autocracy-in-america/id1763234285
Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/show/0ujIGO5bvCO6NkevvgsWTL
The Atlantic:
https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2024/10/the-danger-of-politicizing-freedom/680117/
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2024-10-02 12:27:29 GMT

Meet the Ukrainians who want to win the war - a war that cannot end until the *Russians* stop fighting.
Putin, not Zelensky, must be persuaded that the war was a mistake, the price is too high and Ukraine is not Russia.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/10/ukraine-war-negotiated-peace/680100/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK33lUCee9tAv7KdPmZPneEjM&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

2024-09-30 09:12:03 GMT

What constitutes an autocratic state? How did populism come to dominate global politics from 2012-2014? When and how will the war in Ukraine end?
Answers here
https://therestispolitics.supportingcast.fm/listen

2024-09-27 13:52:48 GMT

Dark money, anonymous companies, and secretive elites with hidden wealth aren’t limited to distant dictatorships on palm-fringed islands. They’re here in America, already.
Episode 4 of AUTOCRACY IN AMERICA, my podcast with Peter Pomerantsev, explains
listen here, via the Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2024/09/kleptocracy-club/680022/
or here, on Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5KVYfujQpYFOOZhlHSCpNS?si=pFexTY-ASsqYA1urSLjQMw
or here, on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/join-the-kleptocracy/id1763234285?i=1000670920978
or anywhere else you get your podcasts...
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