Anne Applebaum har skrivit böcker som Autokrati AB – diktatorerna som vill styra världen (2024), Demokratins skymning (2020) och Gulag – de sovjetiska lägrens historia (2003), och har idag, the 4th of July, publicerat en artikel på The Atlantic: The U.S. is switching sides.
”The American president wrote, ‘Vladimir, STOP!’ on his Truth Social account in April, but the Russian president did not halt his offensive in eastern Ukraine. The Ukrainian president called for an unconditional cease-fire in May, but the Russians did not agree to stop attacking Ukrainian civilians from the air. Donald Trump repeatedly promised, during his campaign, that he would end the war ‘in one day,’ but the war is not over. He spoke to Vladimir Putin yesterday, and Putin responded with more drones and missiles than ever before. This morning, parts of Kyiv are burning.
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Putin sees what everyone else sees: Slowly, the U.S. is switching sides.”
Och, såklart: Happy Independence Day.
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