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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It's, you know, we're going to take these Iranian women who've obviously left the country because they would be persecuted for political or religious reasons.
You know, we can't send them back to Iran.
And so we're going to send them to an equally dangerous country where they have no means of making a living and where, who knows, they might be kidnapped or taken by Iranians who do do that sort of thing and taken home.
Right.
And we would bar from our country a World Cup referee who's qualified to be refereeing matches.
And here's the strange part for me was that I didn't see FIFA, you know, the organization that runs the World Cup.
You see barely any objections.
Right.
I mean, there was no real commentary, no condemnation.
Oh, the United States has the right to do what it wants.
I mean, it's just a form of bribery and sucking up.
Maybe it's about avoiding corruption charges, notoriously corrupt organization.
Maybe it's about
Maybe they have other reasons for it.
Maybe they want to get through the World Cup without something terrible happening.
Or why didn't they have the referee do the games in Canada and Mexico?
I was mystified by that story, actually.
I didn't fully understand it.
I thought it was really profoundly offensive.
You know, a qualified person who's come to take part in an international event, who's excluded for...
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