Anne Applebaum

@anneapplebaum.bsky.social

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staff writer @theatlantic.com and senior fellow @snfagora.bsky.social. author of GULAG, IRON CURTAIN, RED FAMINE, TWILIGHT OF DEMOCRACY and AUTOCRACY INC
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Anne Elizabeth Applebaum is an American journalist and historian. She has written about the history of Communism and the development of civil society in Central and Eastern Europe. She became a Polish citizen in 2013. .. more

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · Aug 26

Paperback, with new preface, available TODAY
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/725302...

Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 2h

You don't have to make a moral argument, a pragmatic argument will do

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 2h

The war will end when Russia stops fighting. Therefore, pressure has to be put on Russia, so that they stop believing that they will win. Why is that so hard to understand?

Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 2h

Thank you, but I do have some great colleagues

Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 4h

what is the Atlantic, chopped liver? We don't count as MSM?

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 6h

Steve Witkoff isn’t promoting peace. His interventions are helping Vladimir Putin and prolonging the war
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

What Is Steve Witkoff Trying to Do?

Trump’s envoy isn’t promoting peace. His interventions are helping Vladimir Putin and prolonging the war.

www.theatlantic.com

Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 8h

incidentally: If you want @theatlantic.com to email you my stories when they appear...Find my name on the website, click follow and sign up....

Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 9h

also they mostly aren't "peace talks," they are talks about how to re-open US/Russia business deals

Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 9h

OF COURSE the leaked transcript was an attempt to disrupt damaging US-Russian peace talks, which are extremely dangerous for Europe and Ukraine

www.nbcnews.com/world/russia...

Kremlin says leaked U.S. call is an attempt to disrupt Ukraine peace talks

President Donald Trump, whose envoy Steve Witkoff will visit Moscow next week, said he had no deadline for a deal after earlier pressuring Kyiv to endorse a proposal by Thanksgiving.

www.nbcnews.com

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 12h

In a more sensible and serious world, Mark Kelly would take Pete Hegseth’s job as secretary of defense, @radiofreetom.bsky.social argues:

Senator Mark Kelly Is in the Wrong Job

He should be secretary of defense.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 15h

same

Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 16h

Still have yet to see AI make my life better in any way

Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 15h

this kind of thing also happens every day

Euromaidan Press @euromaidanpress.bsky.social · 16h

Ukrainian drone operators wiped out a Russian assault group in Zaporizhzhia after spotting a tank-led column forming in fog

Russia attacked with tanks, MT-LBs, and six Ulan vehicles near Verbove but was caught completely off guard by Ukrainian FPVs euromaidanpress.com/2025/11/26/r...

Russian media claimed Mala Tokmachka “secured forever.” Ukrainian FPV drones destroyed entire column hours later

A small drone unit stops Russian tanks, Ulans, MT-LBs.

euromaidanpress.com

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 15h

There is never any daylight between the positions of Russia and JD Vance.

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Euromaidan Press @euromaidanpress.bsky.social · 16h

Russian media claimed Mala Tokmachka “secured forever.” Ukrainian FPV drones destroyed entire column hours later

A small drone unit stops Russian tanks, Ulans, MT-LBs.

euromaidanpress.com

Reposted by Anne Applebaum

Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 16h

Still have yet to see AI make my life better in any way

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 1d

Being among the first interrogated and ultimately fired by DOGE, I certainly felt we were facing the business end of a right-wing conspiracy theory 🧵

Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 1d

DOGE was not a money-saving effort. It was an effort to chase down and prove right-wing conspiracy theories. They went after USAID to prove conspiracy theories about foreign aid. Then they went after SSA to, again, pursue conspiracy theories about Dems paying "illegals" to vote. 1/2

Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 1d

All DOGE accomplished was purging critical government staff, handing private data to outsiders, and sentencing thousands in developing countries to death by gutting USAID.

I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail

Reposted by Iikka Korhonen, Gerald Friedman, Paolo Beria

Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 1d

Witkoff advised the Russians on how to pitch their Ukraine plan to Trump www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 1d

At least one insurrectionist goes to jail
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/w...

Bolsonaro to Start Serving 27-Year Sentence Over Coup Plot

www.nytimes.com

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 1d

the price of populism

Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 1d

"By 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact accumulating gradually over time. We estimate that investment was reduced by between 12% and 18%, employment by 3% to 4% and productivity by 3% to 4%"

Read the Stanford report:
siepr.stanford.edu/publications...

The Economic Impact of Brexit

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