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  1. I am coming in at 13:43 in this excellent interview with Anne Applebaum, because it is so appalling and actually frightening to hear her analysis of what is happening in Hugary with Victor Orban as Prime Minister. I mean, what Ms Applebaum is saying is that Orban is actually downsizing Putin's autocratic style of rule and re-branding it as a sort of faux-democractic smoke and mirrors governing set-up that is in reality what should be called an authoritarian democracy. The thing I find frightening is how anyone in western society would find this appealing. How can this be? Why on Earth would people want to install 'Orban' puppets in their countries? And for Americans to see the Orban governing style as something that could be a good path for its citizens is beyond comprehension. All of the leaders of the autocratic nations evolve into quacks who become super-rich and then go on to break international law--as Ms Applebaum aptly stated--with complete impunity. She is right in that we in the west have just kept putting notches in the pistol grip so-to-speak with each atrocious example of transnational repression. I remember the blatant execution of Chechnian rebels in a middle-eastern country where the Russian assassins deliberately left their Russian-made guns with silencers at the crime scene, which was at a hotel in a foreign city, to show who did it. The thing that I see is that autocratic regimes and democratic countries cannot co-exist on the same planet. They are two opposing forces and authoritarian regimes are stronger because they rely on fear to make people fall in line whereas deomocratic countries only offer freedom and hard work and a lot of pain, because let's be honest: it is not easy to keep all the moving parts in democracies well-oiled and functioning.
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