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   Tim Mak (timkmak@journa.host)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jul-2024 12:11:43 JST Tim Mak

   Good morning to readers; #Kyiv remains in #Ukrainian hands.

   As we read the news, we find ourselves asking: is this Cold War 2.0?

   I spoke to #Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist #Anneapplebaum about today’s autocracies and why she thinks they are more like corrupt corporations.

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     Tim Mak (timkmak@journa.host)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jul-2024 12:11:40 JST Tim Mak

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     #Applebaum:...And yet...through civic activism...they [Ukrainians] created a democracy. Sometimes...a pretty rocky democracy, but it's a democracy, nevertheless.

     They, even during the war in #ukraine have a sense of freedom of speech and ease of conversation that you don't have in #russia

     Minoru Saba repeated this.
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     Applebaum: [what #Ukraine presents] a country that's aiming to be integrated into Europe that would like to be part of the democratic world, is...the scenario that he [Putin] has been most afraid of...He's afraid of civic activism organizing to somehow overthrow or threaten him.

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     Tim Mak (timkmak@journa.host)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jul-2024 12:11:41 JST Tim Mak

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     Applebaum: We might not want to care about them or think about them, but I didn't think that we have a choice anymore...

     Why did #Russia invade #Ukraine?...because Ukraine felt to him [Putin] like...an ideological challenge. It was heading very much in the direction that Russia went...

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     Tim Mak (timkmak@journa.host)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jul-2024 12:11:42 JST Tim Mak

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     Applebaum: The relationship between modern #autocracies – they are not an alliance...What they are more like is a huge international #conglomerate within which there are separate companies that cooperate when it suits them, but otherwise do their own thing…

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     Applebaum: …You have these actually quite different styles of leadership and different ways of claiming legitimacy, but they do have a few things in common. One of them is the way in which they use the international financial system.

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     Tim Mak (timkmak@journa.host)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jul-2024 12:11:42 JST Tim Mak

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     Applebaum: There are people in #NorthKorea Korea who wake up every morning and think about people, us. They're interested in affecting our politics. They're interested in challenging the weaker democratic states.

     I think that's what the war in #Ukraine is.