Anne Applebaum

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

You know, there hasn't been one that caused mass casualties yet.

But there have been several that tried.

There was an attack

passenger train inside Poland that was thwarted and didn't go off.

But had it done what it was supposed to do, there would have been a lot of deaths.

So there's beginning to be, as I said, this kind of real attempt to do violence inside Europe.

You know, Poland, Germany, the UK, Spain.

I mean, there have been assassination squads.

There have been targets in all of those countries.

associate member, yeah.

so those two trends i mean that is the drama of politics in europe right now and to be clear

Not all the populist parties, but most of them are pro-Russian.

And the AFD is very pro-Russian.

It has people in it who've been paid by the Russians.

Its leader openly says if she were to win an election, which she won't anytime soon, she would end funding for Ukraine.

You have, on the one hand, European leaders seeking to hedge.

Mostly they're thinking about Trump.

How do we build stronger alliances between countries that believe in liberal democracy and share values?

And you have them directly in conflict with people who are both pro-Russian and pro-MAGA.

I mean,

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