Anne Applebaum
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25 recordings
9 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 5d ago
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But the idea that we would intervene in Brazilian politics in such an overt way that we would use, again, we're using visa sanctions of a kind that were created to deal with criminals and repressive monsters.
And we're applying them to judges in a fellow democracy because we in this case, it was because either the judges restricting Twitter or the same judge was also involved in indicting and trying the previous president, Bolsonaro, for having tried to overthrow the results of their election in sort of their version of January the 6th.
Anyway, we're involved there in a in a in multiple ugly ways.
What?
Right.
So you had no way of knowing this, but I just got back from that as well a couple of days ago.
They aren't happy.
I'm in the course of writing about it right now.
That's what I was doing before we started talking today.
But actually, what Scott Besson said was not entirely accurate.
Actually, even before Trump's oil deal was announced, we have set up a system by which
Venezuelan oil and gas and other assets.
The U.S.
is controlling the sale of those things, and the money is going into a bank account.
It was originally in Qatar.
It's been moved to the U.S.
I was told Citibank, but, I mean, that's less important.
so Citibank.
Yeah.
But what's important about it is there is so far, and as far as I'm aware, I'm just going to check this now, there is no audit of how much money is going in.
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