Anne Applebaum
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2,775 appearances
25 recordings
9 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 18 Sep
Anne Applebaum’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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tech world and all that stuff that wouldn't have happened before.
So there is this kind of reordering.
I mean, whether it's efficient or whether it's working or whether it's fast enough is hard to say right now.
But definitely, I mean, there is no leader of any longstanding American ally who doesn't right now spend a lot of time thinking about how to put a break or how to distance himself or herself from the United States.
I was going to make a joke about, you know, what to wear next week.
But I, you know, since we're a serious podcast here, I won't do that.
Do you want a full escape?
Like a complete
No.
Well, so I read a nice novel by Ann Patchett, her new novel, which is called Whistler.
And it's a very elegantly written story that has a satisfying conclusion.
I mean, as somebody said, as a criticism, it's a nice story about nice people, but and which was meant to be negative.
But if you want to read something a little bit uplifting and that's extremely well written and insightful, there you go.
There's some dark moments in
say.
But they resolve themselves.
So...
The real interesting part of this story is not so much that Ukraine has gone from defense to offense, is that Ukraine has changed completely the way this war is being fought.
And so what you have to understand about the Ukrainian front line is that it's a kind of 20-mile-wide zone.
It's not like a line that people are fighting against.
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