The Strategist
The long view, patient, analytical, playing several moves ahead.
Anne Applebaum is a prominent writer and historian known for her insights into autocracy and democracy. This interview reveals her strategic thinking as she navigates complex political landscapes and emphasizes the need for clarity in foreign policy.
“So they've told us both particularly China and Russia have become very clear about the need to defeat what they see as the ideas coming from our part of the world. There's a marvelous document that was produced in China in 2013 by the Chinese Communist Party and it has this great name and it's called document number nine.”
“Georgia and maybe Arizona is really too hard to say. I mean, it may be a matter of a few votes either way. So I don't think at this moment I can predict it. I will just say that, as I said, the previous example, the Polish election of last October also looked very, very close.”
“It up by saying they don't necessarily have the same goal, but they have the same enemy. And the enemy is us, you. Pretty much everybody in this room, people who live in the democratic world. I try not to use the word West in the book because I think it's broader than that.”
“There's even actually too much detail to go into. There's even a theory in political science if you've had a certain number of free elections, then you'll be a democracy forever and ever.”
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