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Look, I can do this.

I can invade Ukraine.

I can bomb civilians.

I can kidnap children.

He's kidnapped 20,000 children taking them from occupied Ukraine to Russia.

I can torture people.

I can defy the Geneva Conventions, the UN Charter, all kinds of institutional language on human rights.

I can do all of this, and you can't stop me.

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Today, historian, author, and journalist Anne Applebaum joins us to discuss dictators and autocratic regimes,

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