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The Dictators’ Cartel and What It Wants – Anne Applebaum talks to Gavin Esler

The Dictators’ Cartel and What It Wants – Anne Applebaum talks to Gavin Esler

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This Is Not A Drill with Gavin Esler

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From the crisis in American democracy to the collapse of the Middle East’s petrochemical oligarchies, this is your guide to the dangers that mass media isn’t covering.

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The existential threats to world stability are working together.
Autocrats in Moscow, Beijing, Tehran and Pyongyang are moving in
concert with both their clients and fellow travellers in Zimbabwe,
Venezuela, Myanmar, Belarus and other despotisms. United not by
ideology but by a love of repression, wealth and power, these new
tyrants strike deals to consolidate their control and threaten
their shared enemy: us. What does this League Against The Nations
want? And how can we combat it? Pulitzer-winning author and
historian Anne Applebaum talks to Gavin Esler about her new book
Autocracy, Inc: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World.
• “Putin began his career by stealing money from St
Petersburg, laundering it and bringing it back… His path to
power came through Western financial institutions.” • “It’s
one thing to fight a dictator with a bunch of soldiers in his
palace. It’s another to fight one who has billions to buy the
latest technology – or just bribe people.” • “Putin
developed a scorn for the West. ‘You let me steal, you’re corrupt.’
And the conviction that the West is corrupt feeds into modern
autocracy.” • “The kleptocracy comes first. The autocracy
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continue by backing us on Patreon. You’ll get early, ad-free
editions, merchandise and more. Written and presented by
Gavin Esler. Produced by Robin Leeburn. Original theme music by
Paul Hartnoll – https://www.orbitalofficial.com. Executive
Producer Martin Bojtos. Group Editor Andrew Harrison. This Is Not A
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