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From: Don Green9/23/2025 10:34:22 AM
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A Warning for Those Ready to Capitulate to Trump

A former U.S. ambassador to Russia says powerful Russians were too eager to go along with Vladimir Putin.


Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Kaniuka Ruslan / Ukrinform / Sipa USA / Reuters.

theatlantic.com

The similarities between what is happening today and what I witnessed in Vladimir Putin’s Russia are frightening: the creation of an oligarchy, the proclamation of a one-party system, and, perhaps most troubling, a promised crackdown on free speech. We are seeing Donald Trump and those around him pick targets to go after, and make them obey the administration’s wishes.

My guest today, Michael McFaul, witnessed such moves when he was the U.S. ambassador to Russia from 2012 to 2014, and he has a warning for Americans today.
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