Anne Applebaum

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The Bulwark Daily · Anne Applebaum: Globalized MAGA Kleptocracy · 18 Sep 2026 podcast

It's so unprecedented that I know that Europeans who've met with them or have been in the room with them are kind of in shock.

Somebody said to me, I couldn't even believe I was in the room with them while they were saying this stuff.

I mean, it's very hard for people to wrap their minds around who aren't Americans.

It's extraordinary, actually.

I wasn't clear whether the refusal to help the Saudis was because of the Houthi connection or whether it was because the U.S.

is running out of weaponry and the ability to help the Saudis.

you know, imagine if after all this, if the U.S.

turns out to be a bad ally, even to the people who've paid.

you know, even, I mean, forget about

But it would really roil the Middle East.

I mean, it would be a, you know, that the U.S.

proves to be an untrustworthy partner, even to the Gulf states.

Yeah.

Then that will change the way people think about the U.S.

and the region forever.

So what's changed in the last couple of months is that the Russians now have a kind of drone that is jet-powered and is much faster and is harder to hit than previous drones.

And they've been using them in – instead of doing nighttime raids, they're now –

very, very frequent.

So there are these constant drone attacks, and they're not really hiding anymore that these are on civilian targets.

So they hit school buses, they hit passenger trains, they hit a passenger train that was very close to another one that was carrying a lot of European and some American officials.

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