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Authoritarian Resilience
11mins
“We've engineered a volatile world where Starbucks is completely unchanging from year to year, but democracies are collapsing and rivers are drying up.”
Modern autocracies operate "not like a bloc but rather like an agglomeration of companies," says journalist and historian Anne Applebaum.
For a time, Francis Fukuyama looked like a prophet.
As the demonstrations grew, so did the internet service disruptions.