Anne Applebaum
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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So I think all those things are possible.
In the Middle East, I would find it very hard to predict what would happen.
I mean, I can tell you what I hope would happen, which is that I do hope there will be
A regime change or some evolution inside Iran.
And it seems to me that has to happen sooner or later.
It's unsustainable for the country to go on being this poor and to be this dominated by a small group of people.
But that's my wishful thinking rather than a prediction.
Thank you.
Thank you.
And congratulations on your 400th birthday.
Yeah, we should have had champagne.
I hope someone's going to celebrate with you afterwards, right?
Thank you.
Thanks a lot.
What's gerrymandering?
Yeah.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
I'm Anne Applebaum.
Over the past year, as I watched Donald Trump demand unprecedented new powers, I wondered, don't he and his team fear that these same powers could one day be used by a different administration and a different president to achieve very different goals?