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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There's also a story about the U.S.
may have possibly having hit a water disaster.
Those are real stories.
I mean, I actually, when I read about what's happening to Iranians and I read people who are trying to do reporting from Iran and to get information from inside the country, which some people can do, that's stuff I believe.
It's strange how that piece of the war, you know, what the population is feeling is almost of no interest to the people who are running the war, which is very strange given that the original justification for the war was regime change.
In other words, we're doing this in order to
change the government of Iran so that Iranians have a better life and so that the protesters who've periodically trying to shift the government can have some success.
I mean, that was the first justification.
And it's almost as if that just dripped away.
We don't even speak about them as real people.
I mean, Trump talks about destroying them as a civilization, whereas actually these are mostly pretty ordinary people.
I'm guessing most of them not religious fanatics, most of them probably not supporting the government.
except for a small faction just trying to get through this.
And there seems to be no interest in them or no curiosity about them on the part of the Trump administration at all, which, by the way, is a big difference from Iraq.
Right.
Forget about all the justifications pro and con for the Iraq war.
There was never a moment when the Bush administration wasn't talking about Iraqis and, you know, trying to shake them for Iraqi women and women in Afghanistan.
Yeah, and they were talking to Iraqis all the time and they were, you know, trying to build a government in Iraq and try to build justification for something new in Iraq and so on.
So it was part of what the U.S.
seemed to be doing or trying to do.
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