The Dictators Who Want To Run The World - Pulitzer winner Anne Applebaum on Modern Autocracies
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- How different are modern autocracies to the 20th century totalitarian blocs? How complicit is the West in these new networks of corruption and repression? And - with the UN at a low ebb - what can be done to take on these nimble and nasty states? Don’t miss this conversation with one of the most important writers in the world today: Pulitzer-winning author and journalist @anneapplebaumYT
Autocracy, Inc: The Dictators Who Want To Run The World is available to buy now
One of the better interviews and very important to hear here in the United States.
I love that Applebaum is making more public appearances again. Her message is so important.
She is a Neo-con propagandist. She is making more appearances because she is trying to drum up sales for her new book.
This is my first time listening to these two guys are (The Two Matts) but this is the kind of interview in which the interviewers are so well versed in the topic and so intelligent that it feels like I'm listening in on a really great conversation! I love smart people! I love people who inspire me to learn and grow and become a better person as much as possible.
What about the dictators who are our allies in the Middle East?
Working to reduce the number of dictators on a scientific level doesn´t have anything to do with (limited) partnering with dictatorships on a country-level to reach certain political goals.
@@Norbert2470 Reducing dictators on a scientific level? What does that even mean? What limited parterning? Do you even know what you are saying. Sound like mumbly gook.
But your gist is you really support dictators when you want to.
And what right does the US have to overthrow other countries which only throws them into chaos. This has been the result of US interference in other countries. And always for some kind of material or political advantage for western corporations like they are doing in Ukraine.
And the US calls countries dictatorships even when they aren't like Hungary and Russia in order to cause trouble for them and make people hate them. Very sick stuff.
@@Norbert2470 Reducing dictators on a scientific level? What does that even mean?
@@Norbert2470 What limited parterning? Do you even know what you are saying. Sound like mumbly gook.
@@Norbert2470 And what right does the US have to overthrow other countries which only throws them into chaos. This has been the result of US interference in other countries
I'll have to buy her book!
FYI: Anne Applebaum has worked at The Economist and The Spectator, and was a member of the editorial board of The Washington Post. She is a staff writer for The Atlantic and a senior fellow at The Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.
Also, she is married to Radosław Sikorski, Poland's former Minister of Foreign Affairs, who wrote "Thank you, USA" after the Nord Stream pipelines were sabotaged.
Sikorski is not Poland's former FM. He is Poland's current FM (once again in the office since december 2023). The best FM Poland has ever had. They are both great.
Very interesting comments. Lots of Whataboutism. Anne Applebaum thoughts are so unique, she lays the finger on stuff, we haven´t noticed so far. That she is so targeted by bots here proves how revealing and to the point her work is for authoritarian leaders.
I only disagree with the statement that we are not in a cold war with this alliance of autocracies, we already are in such a war in Ukraine, Lebanon, and Venezuela.
Very good programm!
Where’s the bit about “how we fight back”? 😮
She is complaining and condemning all autocracies in accordance with her definition of autocracy in that case, then PM Lee Kuan Yew would be considered as an autocrat. Those who knew what PM Lee had done for Singapore would consider him as an outstanding leader. Not ALL autocrats are BadAss., e.g. PM Orban is NOT a Badass. To me he is a normal Strong leader.
She should seriously consider the currently leadership, incl Pred and Sec of State, etc in the White House, are they doing a good job? e.g. what has Ukraine turning to with Whitehouse's advice and what has leadership from Israel done to the Palestinians. She is talking a lot of crap.
ANNE APPLEBAUM
How they sold the invasion of Iraq: Applebaum was a member of The Washington Post editorial board that loudly championed the invasion of Iraq. Their most infamously and colossally wrong editorial, “Irrefutable,” from Feb. 6, 2003, read:
“After Secretary of State Colin L. Powell’s presentation to the United Nations Security Council yesterday, it is hard to imagine how anyone could doubt that Iraq possesses weapons of mass destruction. Mr. Powell left no room to argue seriously that Iraq has accepted the Security Council’s offer of a “final opportunity” to disarm. And he offered a powerful new case that Saddam Hussein’s regime is cooperating with a branch of the al Qaeda organization that is trying to acquire chemical weapons and stage attacks in Europe.”
Needless to say, every word of this was a lie. And an incredibly smug lie, to say the least.
How their career blossomed after being horribly wrong: Applebaum remained a Washington Post opinion writer for years. Her most dubious contribution to the discourse was her cruel defense of Roman Polanski from critics who thought he should be held legally accountable for raping a 13-year-old, rather than living in a villa in France and continuing to make movies. In “The Outrageous Arrest of Roman Polanski” from 2009, Applebaum feigned outrage over the fact that some people would want child rape to be prosecuted. (The article appears to have been scrubbed from The Washington Post’s website, but it remains on webarchive for those interested in reading…)
Undisclosed in Applebaum’s defense of Polanski: her husband Radosław Sikorski, then-Polish foreign minister, intervened on Polanksi’s behalf, lobbying then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to send Polanski back to France (Clinton, understandably, blew him off).
What they’re up to now: Applebaum is now a staff writer at-where else?-The Atlantic. And she’s a senior fellow at The Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies-another neoconservative mainstay whose reputation has been wiped clean by her rebranding as an anti-authorarian liberal hero standing up to Putin.
Are we talking about the alliance of dictators or about a growing network of countries trying to assert their power at the expense of the American global empire?
As a Pole - it's irrelevant for majority of people in the free world whether the world is ruled by Americans or whomevere else. It is the most important that people can live in free, democratic countries that respect personal liberty and humanitarian rights. China, Iran, Russia, North Korea are not that. Russia needs to be defeated not because America should rule the world or whatever. Russia needs to be defeated because it murders and imprisons innocent people by the hundreds of thousands, rapes civilians, kidnaps kids, starts wars, persecutes minorities, and props up other dictators that falsify elections (like in Belarusia and Venezuela) and finances terrorism.
@@ajuc005 If it’s really irrelevant, let’s watch America stop defending freedom worldwide, including in Poland - I’d love to see for how long Poland will remain a “liberal democracy”.
@@Yasen99 Poland + France + Germany = bigger population, 10x bigger economy, and better army than Russia. Not to mention adding the other 20 sth countries in EU. We do like USA here, and it's a big help, but it's not the only possibility. USA is only a small part of The West. And in any case - the fight against dictatorships is not about USA. It's about freedom.
I'm intrigued. What do you mean specifically and who is that directed at? Tell me more. What about "What about whataboutism?"
Ppffff. She uses the word "democratic" as someone use Tp. Like USA is anything close to a democracy.
Hey Ann talk about the invasion and the murder of the Creoles of New Orleans in 1935.
Whataboutism?
@@Norbert2470 War crimes in the US that are still hidden is hardly whataboutism. And bringing up relevant issues is not whataboutism what that is. Define whataboutism?
@@NewOrleansSeptemberDefinition whataboutism:
The act or practice of responding to an accusation of wrongdoing by claiming that an offense committed by another is similar or worse.
@@Norbert2470 If the wrongdoing is relevant to the wrongdoing mentioned then that is relevant. I'm not talking about ancient history. I'm talking about something Anne Applebaum knows about and covers up. That is not bringing up some irrelevant wrongdoing. It's totally relevant. To deny wrongdoing by claiming it is whataboutism is propaganda to hide the truth.
@@Norbert2470 If the wrongdoing is relevant to the wrongdoing mentioned then that is relevant.
So they work like G7 countries, the EU or the WEF ?
What an unbearable cow.
Insults instead of arguments?
Insults are fine for shorthand & yes Ms Applebaum is a typically insufferable feminist Rothschild Zionist for empire, whose words cannot be taken at face value
Anne Applebaum is a propagandist.
Yeah. She makes propaganda against dictatorships who plunder their countries.
Try to look up the net worth of Ann Applebaum. It says somewhere between 100,000 and 1,000,000. LOL Look at her house. That is wealth.
That’s why we should be taxing the super rich more and distributing those taxes to maintain lower wealth inequality, invest into people and the national assets. Otherwise we then have fake far right who tap into the resentment from the populus and climb to power, but don’t change anything for the very poor people who got them to that power through democratic process in the first place.
Small potatoes compared to tech billionaires
1,000,000 is not wealthy....
@@dandilion62 Yes it is.
@@henriikkak2091 It's a lot considering 70% of the working people in the US make less than 50K. Average home mortgage in the US today is $2850. 34K annually. 70% of the working people in the US can't make a 34K annual payment. They will never own ANY home. Look at Ann's.
Secret police in other countries? We have the same thing only we call it the FBI and the CIA.
Did anyone say we don't? Sounds as if you're learning though. Good.
A guy with a YT channel I learn a lot from, who goes by Beau of the Fifth Column (maybe you know of him), puts it something like this: "There are no friends among nations. It's more like an international poker game in which everyone is cheating."
I know why I support my nation and I know we are nowhere near perfect. I want to promote more humanitarian approaches and so do some of our leaders and public servants. And some nations fight against that. I see no perfect good in the world but I see some people leaning hard in the humanitarian direction. That's a good thing. Maybe that's as good as it gets.
What about Whataboutism?
@@thinktwice-me7ie LOL. Pointing out the hypocrisy of this woman is hardly whataboutism.
@@Mr22thou I know more about what goes on in the US than you or this guy. Do you know about the murder of the Creoles of New Orleans? Then you don't know much.
@@Mr22thou I know more about the US then you or this guy whoever he is.
The "mutual idea" is Capitalism.
Scary stuff....
Do you have any arguments to support your claim?
She's German.
Nazi.
She's American
@@henriikkak2091 See murder of the Creoles of New Orleans. Ann is a part of that.,
@@henriikkak2091 Jens Stoltenberg is Norwegian, right? His father wasn't killed during the Nazi occupation because he was German. And his son became Prime Minister. US Senate both majority leader and minority leader are German. There was a takeover. That's what they call it.
@@henriikkak2091 See murder of the Creoles of New Orleans 1935.