"They should have been sanctioned long ago" Anne Applebaum on Russia invasion of Ukraine

An interview with writer, historian, journalist Ann Applebaum, who won the Pulitzer Prize. Anne has been studying the societies in Central and Eastern Europe for over 30 years. We talked about how the war could have been prevented, when it ends, what will happen to Putin’s dictatorship, and if Russia could join NATO.

00:00 “I do wish that we’d all prepared more” Troops in Poland, the Baltic States, and Romania after 2014. How the Ukrainian army prepared for war. Why did no one except the military believe that there would be a war. Is Russia dangerous? Why was this thought was inconvenient for the West?
05:00 How could the war have been prevented? Sanctions should have been implemented 8 years ago.
06:22 “The Myth of Russian Humiliation”: who made mistakes in the 90s? How does the special relationship between the US and Russian presidents necessitate conflict? Imperial rights of Russia. We need to start thinking differently about the collapse of the Soviet Union
15:10 More mistakes of the 1990s: The West refused to help because it thought there is no Soviet Union anymore. Why was there no Marshall Plan for Russia? “I think this was a big Western mistake.”
19:15 What would happen if the Communist Party won the 1996 elections? Yeltsin's victory is also a mistake.
21:19 Sincere Putin looks like Tony Blair, and Russia needs to join NATO
25:10 To censor technology companies operating in Russia is to offer a changed view of the world, help the state strengthen its system and wage an information war.
30:36 Has the approach to Russia changed in the West? We really need an alternative Russia, non-Putin or anti-Putin.
33:00 “Bad Guys are still Winning”: " “autocracy incorporated”, how the regimes support each other and why we’re at the beginning of this story. How Russia is turning into a vassal state that will be completely dependent on China
37:17 “The Twilight of Democracy”: the trend towards autocracy in the countries of the world. Will the war show the dangers of autocracy? The optimism of Francis Fukuyama and the revival of the idea of ​​democracy
40:35 How thousands of sources of information ruin the truth, and social networks make it difficult to democratic conversation. How did Hitler and Stalin use the radio?
47:44 GULAG, Holodomor in Ukraine and the crimes in Bucha - what can be the explanation for the terrible crimes? The behavior of Russians in Berlin in 1945 is similar to what we observe in Ukraine
53:49 What should Russia be like and what should we be after the war? The kind of future you’d want for Crimea

How Anne’s article about the war was called anti-Russian in 2014. Why NATO put troops in Europe. Sanctions towards Vladimir Putin should have been introduced long ago. Why there was no Marshall Plan for Soviet Union, why IMF didn’t work for Russia. What if Communist Party won elections in 1996. How Putin was behaving like Blair and wanted Russia in NATO. How censorship of Russia affect Apple and Google in Russia, Youtube in Russia. How China and Russia help each other, and how the was makes Russia a servant state of China. Why authoritarian practices become more popular in the world and how Putin’s dictatorship works. Why Hitler and Stalin loved radio. What Holodomor in Ukraine and Butcha have in common. Why FSB acts like NKVD in 40s in Ukraine occupation. Which state is Crimea?

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