Anne Applebaum
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first heard Dec 2024
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So they are using the tools of American diplomacy to fund or aid or help.
people with whom they agree.
And very often, again, in Europe, these are far-right political parties and groups and movements.
Sometimes they're, as I said, they use libertarian language.
I'm not sure they're true libertarians, whatever that means, but they're people who are
allied with companies that want deregulation.
A great example of that is in the UK, where they're very close to Nigel Farage.
He's the leader of the Reform Party, which is the British far right, and has recently been involved in a series of scandals to do with him being funded basically by cryptocurrency companies.
moguls, some of whom live outside the country.
But the U.S.
is using tools that in the past were used to promote democracy, to promote human rights, to encourage, you know, future leaders of potentially democratic governments around the world to come and visit the United States, to study at American universities, Fulbright scholarships, for example.
And all these tools that have been, you know, part of the U.S.
kind of soft power arsenal for
decades are being reverted.
I mean, I'm not sure it's happened yet entirely.
These things take time and there are some restrictions on how much can be done.
But the idea is to revert them and to make them tools of this kind of MAGA nationalist international.
And I think that's the deep goal of some of the ideologues at the State Department.
Greenland is really interesting because in Greenland, you see how, you know, it's not U.S.
diplomats necessarily doing American foreign policy.
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