Anne Applebaum
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Sep 24, 2026
Brandon WeichertSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Mm-hmm.
Tim MillerHOST
And, you know, I, and I think I just talked to Anne Applebaum, who was in Venezuela, who says obviously the situation on the ground isn't as good as maybe it might look from, you know, 1,000 miles away.
Tim MillerHOST
But, like, I think the people looked at it and they're like, "This is kind of stable.
Tim MillerHOST
You know, Trump's doing the thing he promised in 2016.
Matt GallowayHOST
That is something that Canadians don't need to be told.
Matt GallowayHOST
Many people have been trying to wrap their heads around this rapid and radical shift, including Anne Applebaum.
Matt GallowayHOST
She is a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and the author of several books on autocracy and authoritarianism.
Matt GallowayHOST
She's also a staff writer at The Atlantic, and her cover story for that magazine's October issue is called Empire of Grift.
Matt GallowayHOST
Anne Applebaum, good morning.
Anne ApplebaumGUEST
Good morning.
Matt GallowayHOST
How would you characterize how America has changed as an actor on the world stage since Do- since Donald Trump went back to the Oval Office?
18 MINS LATER
Matt GallowayHOST
Thank you very much.
Katty KayPANELIST
I mean, people have investigated.
Katty KayPANELIST
Anne Applebaum has a great piece in The Atlantic at the moment, kind of pulling it all together.
Katty KayPANELIST
But lo- a lot of it is financial, a lot of it is around crypto.
Katty KayPANELIST
It's, it's pretty complicated.
Simon MarksCORRESPONDENT
So is Norway.
Simon MarksCORRESPONDENT
Anne Applebaum is a staff writer with The Atlantic magazine.
Anne ApplebaumSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
My impression is that the Russians are certainly planning an escalation.
Anne ApplebaumSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Uh, they're making preparations for what could be a m- mass mobilization.
Andrew EggerHOST
He went about an hour last year at the UN, so, you know, hopefully he will err even a little on the short side of that.
Andrew EggerHOST
To your, to your point about just the, the crazy cronyism that has been on display around the world, I assume you read that, that Anne Applebaum piece in The Atlantic a few weeks ago, that Empire of Grift piece.
Andrew EggerHOST
It's just front of mind for me 'cause it showed up in my mailbox yesterday.
Andrew EggerHOST
I was glancing through it again.
Anne ApplebaumSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So you've destroyed the normal ways of doing diplomacy and all kinds of people have piled up.
Pete DominickHOST
Interesting historical perspective by Anne Applebaum there.
Pete DominickHOST
And now I want to go to a guy named Steve Eisman, who is telling us we don't need to be as worried about AI.
Pete DominickHOST
And I don't know who he is or if I believe him, but I do know that he saw the housing crisis in 2008 where a lot of people didn't see it.
Nicolle WallaceHOST
It's where we begin the hour.
Nicolle WallaceHOST
Some of our most favorite experts and friends, former federal judge Michael Luttig is here with me at the table, staff writer at The Atlantic, Anne Applebaum is here, and Princeton University professor and political analyst Eddie Glaude is here.
Nicolle WallaceHOST
Um, an honor to be with all of you.
Nicolle WallaceHOST
Anne, and to have you at the table, um, sort of experiencing this moment both as a journalist covering it, but also with, um, an incredible depth of, of sources and knowledge of how the world sees America.
31 MINS LATER
Nicolle WallaceHOST
Mm-hmm
Laura Barrón-LopezCORRESPONDENT
... talking to a former administration official recently about this transactional nature and them essentially saying that the president likes it when people bring things to him, and in return he may ask how he can help them as well, Nicolle.
Nicolle WallaceHOST
I mean, Mary, it leaves us with the portrait that Anne Applebaum writes in her latest piece in The Atlantic, with a country that is suddenly for sale to the highest bidder.
Nicolle WallaceHOST
Um, the AI example in the reporting I just read, just one example, but as, as Laura's pointing out, Don Jr.'s wedding being paid for by a Russian oligarch in such good standing with Vladimir Putin that he left Putin's entourage to travel to Don Jr.'s wedding.
Lindsey GrangerHOST
But some pushed back on the idea that the U.S. gained anything new from the deal.
Lindsey GrangerHOST
The Atlantic's Ann Applebaum writing in her own post on X, quote, this is more or less the same deal that has been in place in Greenland for eight decades.
Lindsey GrangerHOST
Any new nuances could have been added without the threats, drama, clumsy covert campaigns, and overt attempts to buy influence.
Lindsey GrangerHOST
Okay.
Jen WhiteHOST
Let's meet our guests.
Jen WhiteHOST
Anne Applebaum is a senior fellow at the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University.
Jen WhiteHOST
She's also the author of Autocracy, Inc., The Dictators Who Want to Run the World.
Jen WhiteHOST
Anne, it's great to have you back.
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Casey MichelGUEST
We saw just a few days ago the announcement of some kind of impending conversations, potentially even a deal of some new arrangement between Canada and the European Union.
Casey MichelGUEST
What that structure exactly looks like remains to be determined, but I have no doubt that whether it's the EU, the UK, Canada, or even further afield, the Australias, New Zealands, and Japans of the world, there will be new arrangements that leave the United States of America to the side and will be ultimately to the detriment of American interests.
Todd ZwillichHOST
Anne Applebaum, some of this is about money, as you detail.
Todd ZwillichHOST
Some of it's about ideology.
Matthew BrowneHOST
So just noting the striking lability there, you know, how much she's moved around or this kind of thing we sometimes see in our gurus.
Matthew BrowneHOST
And I got to mention Anne Applebaum, who notices the same kind of thing amongst the apparatchiks, you'd call them, this kind of new wave of apparatchiks in Eastern Europe that are attaching themselves to like authoritarian right-wing movements there, but who previously were, when the zeitgeist was communist, either the same people or the same kind of people who would be aligning themselves with that, essentially self-interested careerists.
Matthew BrowneHOST
And I think that's a dynamic that dovetails pretty nicely with our podcast and gurus, right? Who, yes, they have their stances, they have their labels, and at the time they believed them wholeheartedly.
Matthew BrowneHOST
But underneath that somehow is this, you know, very deep undercurrent of pure self-interest, self-promotion.
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