Anne Applebaum
@anneapplebaum
staff writer @theatlantic.com and senior fellow @snfagora.bsky.social. author of GULAG, IRON CURTAIN, RED FAMINE, TWILIGHT OF DEMOCRACY and AUTOCRACY INC
"The Beacon of Democracy Goes Dark". A gift link here: lnkd.in/dAYq6ydz
In 2023, Jeffrey Goldberg and I wrote, among other things, about Ukrainian plans to liberate Crimea in @theatlantic.com. With road and ferry connections to the peninsula now cut off, they seem suddenly more plausible www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
From Catherine Belton, on why Vance is going to Budapest www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...
A transformational shift in public opinion is happening in Germany, France, Canada and the UK, away from the US and towards China www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
A Distric Court judge has ruled that Kari Lake was not legally in charge of the US Agency for Global Media, and that actions she took while claiming to be in that role are also not legal, including her attempts to fire people
Translation: he didn't have enough weapons to fight his war of choice and so he is blaming Ukraine
Russian embassy, Washington DC. To mark the fourth anniversary of the full scale invasion
On the one hand, the Trump administration is telling Europeans to take care of their own defense. On the other hand, they are supporting leaders and parties who are pro-Russian, opposed to European unity and don't want Europe to defend Ukraine or anything else. Which is the policy?
There is no reason to believe Trump's foreign policy is designed to benefit America or Americans www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
Instead, Kari Lake has badly damaged America's international broadcasters and wasted millions of dollars of taxpayers money www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Yes, this was predictable. From October, 2024: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
"A place of leisurely afternoons, exquisite paintings, and long conversations in shabby Baroque rooms...." From my essay on Henry James's Venice in @theatlantic.com