Porcast talks to yasha, a staff writer at the atlantic and author of several important books. Yasha: We know exactly what was expected four weeks ago by the russians. She says that most american analists also thought it would not happen. What broader strategy might be that democracies should pursue against global autocratic reserchs an aplebum.
Anne Applebaum is a staff writer for The Atlantic and a Senior Fellow of the Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University. In her books - most notably Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine and Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe she has chronicled the terrible human costs of past attempts by Russia to dominate countries in Central and Eastern Europe.
In this week’s conversation, Anne Applebaum and Yascha Mounk discuss the developing ideology of "Putinism," what it would look like for Ukraine to win the war, and how democracies can defend their values in a world of resurgent authoritarianism.
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