France 24’s François Picard spoke with historian Anne Applebaum, staff writer at The Atlantic and author of Autocracy, Inc.
According to Anne Applebaum, the upheaval in US diplomacy and foreign policy transcends any one administration. She describes a full-fledged transformation in the way the US exerts power, pivoting away from leadership of a democratic alliance and toward a transactional, mafia-style politics that fuses ideology, private economic interests, personal relationships and geopolitical leverage.
Also: Anne Applebaum, writing in The Atlantic: MAGA Is Making the World Safe for Corruption