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Ian Bremmer on Putin and Tucker

Ian Bremmer on Putin and Tucker

What happened when Tucker Carlson met Vladimir Putin? Was it news, propaganda, theatre, or all three? Ian Bremmer breaks down what you need to know now in his latest Quick Take. Ian weighs in on Carlson's highly-anticipated interview with Putin and why it revealed what he and all other megalomaniacs have in common. The two-hour sit-down dropped to much fanfare from all sides of the political spectrum. Will there be any fallout from Putin’s first interview with an American since the start of the “special military operation” in Ukraine?

El Salvador's Bukele: The posterboy for popular authoritarianism

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El Salvador's Bukele: The posterboy for popular authoritarianism

Nayib Bukele became El Salvador's president at 37, as LatAm's youngest elected head of state. He was an outspoken candidate on social media with an affinity for cryptocurrency but has since unraveled as a raging authoritarian.

Francis Fukuyama: Americans should be very worried about failing democracy

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Francis Fukuyama: Americans should be very worried about failing democracy

The prospect of another Trump presidency can be hard to imagine. Still, before we even get there, we must confront the possibility of political violence in the months leading up to November 5.

Democracy is resilient - but so is authoritarianism around the world

Democracy is resilient - but so is authoritarianism around the world

Ian Bremmer's Quick Take: I thought I would talk about the state of democracy. Of course, over the course of the last 10 years, there's been so much discussion of the world becoming more illiberal, lower case, that more people in the world are living under authoritarian regimes or mixed governments, hybrid governments than living under pure democracy. Is that now changing?

Can there be capitalism without freedom? No, says Iván Duque

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Can there be capitalism without freedom? No, says Iván Duque

Should the US still try to engage with countries run by regimes antithetical to its own? For former Colombian President Iván Duque, the democratic consensus in the Western Hemisphere means that "there's no space for autocracies or for dictatorships." That means not imposing democracy on everyone but defending democratic values everywhere, he tells Ian Bremmer in a GZERO World interview.

The self-identification trap: how populists exploit emotions to gain support

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The self-identification trap: how populists exploit emotions to gain support

Soon after Russia attacked Ukraine, the West proclaimed: we've united the world against Russia. Wrong. Countries representing more than half of the world's population — including China and India — have not condemned the invasion. Why? For one thing, US hypocrisy after the war in Iraq, says Gideon Rachman, chief foreign affairs columnist at the Financial Times tells Ian Bremmer on GZERO World.

The case against Trump's big lie

The case against Trump's big lie

Ian Bremmer's Quick Take: I wanted to talk about the January 6th committee with its televised hearings starting last Thursday and proceeding throughout the week and showing just how incredibly divided and dysfunctional the American political system is. It's very clear to me that the impact of the January 6th committee politically in the United States will be next to zero, that the process is broken and is functionally partisan in a way that both of the impeachments of Trump, unprecedented two impeachments of President Trump, and of course, no convictions, have also become politically broken and polarized.