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Anne Applebaum

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The Bulwark Podcast
Anne Applebaum: Planning for a Techno-Oligarchic Regime

Water is mystical, and we have a special connection to water, and carbonated water is like pollution. And when you drink carbonated water, I don't know if it's literally or metaphorically, it's like you're ingesting nanochips that will change your brain or something like that.

The Bulwark Podcast
Anne Applebaum: Planning for a Techno-Oligarchic Regime

Water is mystical, and we have a special connection to water, and carbonated water is like pollution. And when you drink carbonated water, I don't know if it's literally or metaphorically, it's like you're ingesting nanochips that will change your brain or something like that.

The Bulwark Podcast
Anne Applebaum: Planning for a Techno-Oligarchic Regime

Yes, right. So anyway, that's who he is. He's also very pro-Russian and very anti-war. And he and his wife, who's also a health kind of mystic healer kind of person, have this whole thing about peace. We need peace. We mustn't, you know, contributing weapons to the war, you know, just continues the war.

The Bulwark Podcast
Anne Applebaum: Planning for a Techno-Oligarchic Regime

Yes, right. So anyway, that's who he is. He's also very pro-Russian and very anti-war. And he and his wife, who's also a health kind of mystic healer kind of person, have this whole thing about peace. We need peace. We mustn't, you know, contributing weapons to the war, you know, just continues the war.

The Bulwark Podcast
Anne Applebaum: Planning for a Techno-Oligarchic Regime

Yes, right. So anyway, that's who he is. He's also very pro-Russian and very anti-war. And he and his wife, who's also a health kind of mystic healer kind of person, have this whole thing about peace. We need peace. We mustn't, you know, contributing weapons to the war, you know, just continues the war.

The Bulwark Podcast
Anne Applebaum: Planning for a Techno-Oligarchic Regime

And of course, the truth is that if they're, if Romania and the rest of Europe stopped contributing wars to Ukraine, then Ukraine would fall Russia would be on their border. And actually, it would cost Romania more. It would be more difficult to stay secure. And the price of weapons would be higher. So anyway, it's a lie on many levels.

The Bulwark Podcast
Anne Applebaum: Planning for a Techno-Oligarchic Regime

And of course, the truth is that if they're, if Romania and the rest of Europe stopped contributing wars to Ukraine, then Ukraine would fall Russia would be on their border. And actually, it would cost Romania more. It would be more difficult to stay secure. And the price of weapons would be higher. So anyway, it's a lie on many levels.

The Bulwark Podcast
Anne Applebaum: Planning for a Techno-Oligarchic Regime

And of course, the truth is that if they're, if Romania and the rest of Europe stopped contributing wars to Ukraine, then Ukraine would fall Russia would be on their border. And actually, it would cost Romania more. It would be more difficult to stay secure. And the price of weapons would be higher. So anyway, it's a lie on many levels.

The Bulwark Podcast
Anne Applebaum: Planning for a Techno-Oligarchic Regime

Anyway, this is the guy who wound up with 22% and in a field with many candidates in it. He came first. There was supposed to be a runoff between him and the second best candidate. And the Romanian High Court, kind of constitutional court, annulled the election on the grounds that electoral rules had been broken.

The Bulwark Podcast
Anne Applebaum: Planning for a Techno-Oligarchic Regime

Anyway, this is the guy who wound up with 22% and in a field with many candidates in it. He came first. There was supposed to be a runoff between him and the second best candidate. And the Romanian High Court, kind of constitutional court, annulled the election on the grounds that electoral rules had been broken.

The Bulwark Podcast
Anne Applebaum: Planning for a Techno-Oligarchic Regime

Anyway, this is the guy who wound up with 22% and in a field with many candidates in it. He came first. There was supposed to be a runoff between him and the second best candidate. And the Romanian High Court, kind of constitutional court, annulled the election on the grounds that electoral rules had been broken.

The Bulwark Podcast
Anne Applebaum: Planning for a Techno-Oligarchic Regime

In addition, they found 85,000 supposedly separate evidence of different kinds of Russian cyber attacks on the campaign and on election infrastructure as well. There have been a lot of weird stories in Romania in the last couple of weeks connected to it. There was a group of armed people arrested. There were some odd links between Georgescu and some Moldovans have been found and so on.

The Bulwark Podcast
Anne Applebaum: Planning for a Techno-Oligarchic Regime

In addition, they found 85,000 supposedly separate evidence of different kinds of Russian cyber attacks on the campaign and on election infrastructure as well. There have been a lot of weird stories in Romania in the last couple of weeks connected to it. There was a group of armed people arrested. There were some odd links between Georgescu and some Moldovans have been found and so on.

The Bulwark Podcast
Anne Applebaum: Planning for a Techno-Oligarchic Regime

In addition, they found 85,000 supposedly separate evidence of different kinds of Russian cyber attacks on the campaign and on election infrastructure as well. There have been a lot of weird stories in Romania in the last couple of weeks connected to it. There was a group of armed people arrested. There were some odd links between Georgescu and some Moldovans have been found and so on.

The Bulwark Podcast
Anne Applebaum: Planning for a Techno-Oligarchic Regime

I mean, I can't speak to whether any of that is true or how it's related. The deep question here is whether Romania gets to decide what its electoral laws are. Like, does Romania have the right to... decide how what its electoral funding laws are or does tick tock decide you know does bite dance the owner the chinese owners of tick tock do they decide

The Bulwark Podcast
Anne Applebaum: Planning for a Techno-Oligarchic Regime

I mean, I can't speak to whether any of that is true or how it's related. The deep question here is whether Romania gets to decide what its electoral laws are. Like, does Romania have the right to... decide how what its electoral funding laws are or does tick tock decide you know does bite dance the owner the chinese owners of tick tock do they decide

The Bulwark Podcast
Anne Applebaum: Planning for a Techno-Oligarchic Regime

I mean, I can't speak to whether any of that is true or how it's related. The deep question here is whether Romania gets to decide what its electoral laws are. Like, does Romania have the right to... decide how what its electoral funding laws are or does tick tock decide you know does bite dance the owner the chinese owners of tick tock do they decide

The Bulwark Podcast
Anne Applebaum: Planning for a Techno-Oligarchic Regime

I mean, there are other countries that are facing a version of that question, too. I mean, you can you can create laws about I mean, Germany has laws about hate speech, you know, that other countries have laws about electoral campaigning and what kind of how much you can spend and what you can do. And, you know, we here in America have no electoral laws anymore, really.

The Bulwark Podcast
Anne Applebaum: Planning for a Techno-Oligarchic Regime

I mean, there are other countries that are facing a version of that question, too. I mean, you can you can create laws about I mean, Germany has laws about hate speech, you know, that other countries have laws about electoral campaigning and what kind of how much you can spend and what you can do. And, you know, we here in America have no electoral laws anymore, really.

The Bulwark Podcast
Anne Applebaum: Planning for a Techno-Oligarchic Regime

I mean, there are other countries that are facing a version of that question, too. I mean, you can you can create laws about I mean, Germany has laws about hate speech, you know, that other countries have laws about electoral campaigning and what kind of how much you can spend and what you can do. And, you know, we here in America have no electoral laws anymore, really.