Autocracy in America Ep. 8: Why the West Failed the "Putin Test"
A Nobel Peace Prize winner on Ukraine's resilience.
It’s easy to take democracy for granted. Americans are aware of the repression in faraway lands, but autocracy is a word: not a threat, not a way of life. If you are born in an unfree state—like my guest, Oleksandra Matviichuk, and I were—it is a different story.
Oleksandra is from Ukraine. We understand Ukraine is a test, the front line of a war on the Western world order once led by the United States. It’s also a teacher of how to fight, to not be complacent against rising autocracy.
Nobel Prize winner Oleksandra Matviichuk tells us about both aspects.
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