Notices by Anne Applebaum (anneapplebaum@journa.host), page 4

How Russia, China and other dictatorships around the world have coalesced to promote autocracy - and how some Americans and Europeans help them
Excerpt from my forthcoming book, on the cover of The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/06/china-russia-republican-party-relations/678271/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3xgKh4wbI9WqxWEqzvYfefo&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

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today and tomorrow.
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Heads up! My new book, AUTOCRACY, INC, will be published in July. It describes the network of dictators who work together - to keep themselves in power and to undermine the democratic world. Now that it’s in galleys I think you can pre-order with confidence: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/725302/autocracy-inc-by-anne-applebaum/

Orban has successfully hidden his corruption behind the veil of a culture war. At least some Hungarians are seeing through it

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/tens-thousands-march-budapest-against-orban-2024-04-06/

The upshot of this scientific paper, published in Nature, is, as one of the authors, Walter Quattrochiocchi told me, that “different social media with different business models, on different topics, at different times (and so different social norms) produce similar interaction patterns. Such a configuration supports the hypothesis that the main driver of toxicity is human behavior more than social media platforms”

Discuss

nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07229-y

From Hal Brands at SAIS, Johns Hopkins: a wide-ranging collection of essays on the war in Ukraine. I wrote one, as did Mike McFaul, Michael Kofman, Dan Drezner, Steve Kotkin and many others. You can buy a hard copy or download for free:

https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/53897/war-ukraine

Comprehensive, terrifying account of the Russian agents and technology behind Havana syndrome, a brain disease caused deliberately by acoustic/pulsed microwave radiation attacks

https://theins.ru/en/politics/270425

On Russia, Ukraine, Trump and Autocracy - with Al Franken

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pulitzer-prize-winning-historian-anne-applebaum-of/id1462195742?i=1000650959321

Don't call it an election. What happened in Russia last weekend was staged political theater, designed to give legitimacy to an unconstitutional presidency

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/03/russias-non-election/677808/

It wasn't an "election" in Russia; stop using that word.
It was an orchestrated propaganda exercise designed to convince Russians, and the rest of us, to ignore the catastrophe Putin has inflicted on his nation. 300,000+ Russian men are dead and wounded for no reason at all.

Donald Trump, who is not the president, is using a minority of Republicans to hand a victory to Russia, and to weaken American power and credibility. Why?
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/02/one-global-issue-trump-cares-about/677592/

On the second anniversary of the outbreak of the war

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2024/02/what-two-years-war-did-ukraine/677515/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK33y0y4qDFBZYDb1JMn8ciYE&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

Imagine a country where putting flowers beside a memorial is dangerous https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/17/world/europe/russia-detentions-navalny-memorials.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

Navalny stood for civic courage
That's why Putin had to destroy him: to show courage is useless https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/02/navalny-death-russia-prison/677485/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3wKEsvMRS2snpMP9qzIx2dM&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

Why Russia killed Navalny
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/02/navalny-death-russia-prison/677485/

“We use ammunition now only if the situation is critical"
“The lives of our boys depend on” U.S. funding
https://www.wsj.com/world/ukrainian-soldiers-forced-to-tune-in-to-washington-politics-922e3dd7

Trump still doesn't understand how NATO works, he still thinks allies "owe us money" and he's now sending a signal to Russia to attack them while the crowd cheers. This is an invitation to Putin to broaden the war.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/11/donald-trump-says-he-would-encourage-russia-to-attack-nato-countries-who-dont-pay-bills

The definitive report from Protect Democracy:
How American democracy could be dismantled, and what you can do to stop it

https://www.authoritarianplaybook2025.org/

In Ukraine, writes Natalia Gumenyuk, "ruminating about giving up feels like a luxury. If the Ukrainian army lays down arms, more people could be harmed. For us, that simple fact drives us forward in this war."

The killling won't end if Ukraine starts to lose, it will just be a different kind of killings. Mass arrests, mass murder, torture and the kidnapping of children always follow Russian occupation.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/16/opinion/putin-ukraine-war.html

Still marvelous to think that 110,000 people voted in the Iowa Republican caucus, yet it will be interpreted as sending a significant message about America. That's less than a third of the population of Bydgoszcz. (if your response is "where?" then you are making my point)