Notices by Anne Applebaum (anneapplebaum@journa.host), page 2

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

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...

Russia kidnaps Ukrainian children, changes their identities and their names. The Polish foreign minister asks: How does that differ from the Nazis who kidnapped Russian and Polish children for the same purpose?

https://www.threads.net/@polandmfa/post/DAVqCpRug4B?xmt=AQGzYBrGsY48nUagk_qkrZv0VT6GBuaYrDDX9FnO5XKjhA

I watched what happened in Poland when a legitimate, democratically elected government tried to curb judicial independence. Could it happen in the US too?

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/10/judicial-independence-judge-aileen-cannon-trump/679561/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3wT8mMlv9SBR61mcCYYk8O0&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

The Russians who pay to launder and promote authoritarian narratives in America succeed because there is already an audience for them. We inspire them, not vice versa
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/09/right-wing-influencers-working-autocracy-inc/679793/

Truly ominous account of how Musk, just by himself, has created false hysteria about the reliability of the US electoral system - hysteria that could well be used by Trump if he loses https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/09/10/elon-musk-illegal-immigrant-voting-misinformation/

Let Ukraine strike back

https://www.letukrainestrikeback.com/

From me and Peter Pomerantsev, a new narrative podcast drops today: AUTOCRACY IN AMERICA

the first episode is here:
https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2024/09/start-with-a-lie/679625/

On the "pro-Constitution, no-nonsense backlash in the Democratic Party, a movement in favor of patriotism, concerned about national security, and convinced that only a democracy that delivers practical results can stay safe"

gift link:
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/09/national-security-democrats-patriotism/679697/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3-QeodXAQ9Z7_pzxS8JTjLM&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

On the Kursk offensive
https://youtu.be/wc_TudS0nko?feature=shared

The brilliant Ethan Zuckerman wants you to be able to control what you see on social media, and he's found legal arguments to help make that happen:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/20/technology/meta-section-230-lawsuit.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Fk4.ELZ_.lmsONXHeKVEz&smid=url-share

"Power is power, and if getting the right judges and cutting the right taxes has to include stomping on the rule of law and endangering American national security, well, that’s a price that stoic right-wingers of the greater D.C. and NYC metropolitan areas were willing to pay."

https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2024/08/the-conservatives-who-sold-their-souls-for-trump/679623/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK38nWdgGJEJDaAV_aOdhRDAM&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

"The confiscation of a few yachts is no solution. What if, instead, we shut it all down?"

my pitch to fight kleptocracy, in the Financial Times
themes taken from AUTOCRACY INC
https://www.ft.com/content/0876ef7a-bf88-463e-b8ca-bd9b4a11665c

Please read Nataliya Gumenyuk on Ukraine's Kursk offensive, on Russian intentions (they still want to conquer Ukraine, not trade 'land for peace') and on the Western weapons that continue to save Ukrainians from the horrors of occupation
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/ukraine-offensive

As Ukrainian soldiers take more Russian territory, as Russian soldiers loot their compatriots' evacuated homes, as paranoid Russian authorities finally block YouTube...this is the week the NYT runs an op-ed entitled "Putin has Victory in his Grasp"?

The first invasion of Russia since WW2 enters its second week. So far, the Ukrainians have taken more territory than the Russians have taken in all of 2024.

True-life spy story of the "Spanish journalist" who was arrested in Poland, defended by his far-left friends - and then turned out actually to be a GRU agent

https://vsquare.org/pablo-gonzalez-pavel-rubtsov-gru-spy-women-russia-poland-spain-putin/

If Trump doesn't win, he will try to cheat. The time to prepare is now. From The Bulwark https://open.substack.com/pub/thebulwark/p/republicans-will-refuse-certify-harris-election?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=177tk

“Dude I won’t even take calls from Ukraine”
[can confirm that Vance does not take calls from many people with whom he disagrees]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/07/jd-vance-charles-johnson-texts/

"Nowadays, autocracies are run not by one bad guy but by sophisticated networks relying on kleptocratic financial structures, a complex of security services — military, paramilitary, police — and experts in surveillance, propaganda, and disinformation.”
https://on.ft.com/3WRLWfT