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Anne Applebaum

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Anne Applebaum

@anneapplebaum

@TheAtlantic and @SNFAgoraJHU Author of Gulag, Iron Curtain, Red Famine, Twilight of Democracy and now AUTOCRACY INC find me more often on wsocial.eu

Warsaw, London, Washington

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Joined May 2011

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Anne Applebaum
@anneapplebaum
Aug 26, 2025
Paperback, with a new preface, available TODAY penguinrandomhouse.com/books/725302/a…
Anne Applebaum
@anneapplebaum
Sep 11, 2024
Landed in Warsaw this morning - mass celebrations of this line in particular
Headquarters
@HQNewsNow
Sep 11, 2024
Vice President Harris: Why don't you tell the 800,000 Polish Americans right here in Pennsylvania how quickly you would give up for the sake of favor, and what you think is a friendship with a dictator who would eat you for lunch?
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Anne Applebaum
@anneapplebaum
Feb 16, 2017
After this is all over, I never, ever want to hear again about how businessmen would run the government better than politicians.
Anne Applebaum
@anneapplebaum
Feb 13, 2025
A reminder: Vladimir Putin could end the war in Ukraine right now, just by ordering his soldiers to go home. No need for treaties or negotiations.
Anne Applebaum
@anneapplebaum
Oct 3, 2020
Do a thought experiment: if Biden were sick, what would happen? Here's my guess: Trump would be openly gloating, Republicans would be loudly celebrating, their campaigns would put out ads trying to raise money on the back of his illness.
Anne Applebaum
@anneapplebaum
Feb 24, 2022
Be very, very careful over the next few days with military information. The Russians want to persuade Ukraine to surrender and they will use disinformation, fake video, fake photos.
Anne Applebaum
@anneapplebaum
Apr 3, 2022
Everyone who now calls for Zelensky to make "territorial concessions' in exchange for a cease fire should remember what this will actually mean: tens or hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians will die.
Anne Applebaum
@anneapplebaum
May 9, 2022
Hungary now blocks all further EU sanctions on Ukraine. Remind me why they are in NATO?
Anne Applebaum
@anneapplebaum
Mar 12, 2020
China has reacted to the outbreak of coronavirus in Italy by sending aid. The US has reacted by suspending flights. Who is the superpower?
First Squawk
@FirstSquawk
Mar 12, 2020
CORONAVIRUS UPDATE: CHINA EASTERN AIRLINES' A350 DEPARTED FOR ROME, ITALY FROM SHANGHAI, BRINGING 9 CHINESE MEDICAL EXPERTS AND 31 TONS OF MEDICAL SUPPLIES, INCLUDING PLASMA OF RECOVERED CORONAVIRUS PATIENTS, TO HELP ITALY FIGHT AGAINST THE VIRUS - GT
Anne Applebaum
@anneapplebaum
May 23, 2022
Putin does not need an "off-ramp." He needs to lose. And only when he loses - only when he is humiliated - will Russia's wars of imperial conquest finally come to an end
The War Won’t End Until Putin Loses
From theatlantic.com
Anne Applebaum
@anneapplebaum
Dec 21, 2022
Imagine reading about Ukraine, a country where people are living without heat and light, where incredibly brave men endure bombardment and artillery fire every day, where the whole nation has pulled together to stop barbarism of a kind we haven't seen in Europe since 1944...
Anne Applebaum
@anneapplebaum
Jan 19, 2021
Nothing was stopping Barr or McConnell from standing in front of a camera on November 7th, the day the election was called, and congratulating Joe Biden. That's what would have happened after any other election in any other year. Why didn't they do it?
Anne Applebaum
@anneapplebaum
Jan 4, 2023
A former aide to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) was convicted Thursday after being found guilty of helping funnel illegal foreign campaign contributions from a Russian national into former President Trump's 2016 campaign
GOP operative convicted in scheme to funnel Russian money into Trump campaign
From axios.com
Anne Applebaum
@anneapplebaum
Jan 6, 2021
Trump should be impeached and removed before the end of the day