Anne Applebaum: Autocracy Inc (2024, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group)
English language
Published 2024 by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.
Summary of the book….
Russia, China, Iran, a list of African and South American countries…..BAD USA, Western Europe….GOOD.
Little to no mention of the US and its foreign policy interventions over the decades. Oh….and between 2022 to 2024, there was only one war. Ukraine. Apparently nothing else happening. And the Middle East was all peace, love and mung beans.
Mercifully short and deeply flawed.
I found it an interesting read but a bit one-sided leaving out the involvement of the "western democraties". Which for decades had (and have) no problem other toppling democratic governments, selling weapons to autocrats and stifling change and democratic progress by insisting the depth made by autocrats (for eg. weapons) have to be paid back even after a regime change. As well as e.g mentioning the torture of US soldiers during and following the war in Vietnam but leaving out torture committed et the time by US forces.
This leave me with questions and the feeling that the story is too straight
