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000 coventry direct redefining insurance >> why you ran hits america tonight at eight on cnn this is gps, the global public square. welcome to all of you in the united states and around the world. i'm fareed zakaria coming to you from new york today on the program >> it has been two years since the russian invasion of ukraine two weeks since donald trump threatened to leave european nations exposed to russia's aggression would encourage them to do whatever the hell they want >> i talk to radek sikorski foreign minister of poland, ukraine's neighbor to the northwest, and a frontline state that moscow has invaded several times also not longer el salvador was the most dangerous place on all right now it is one of the safest countries in latin america will
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tell you about the charismatic and controversial precedent who brought about that sweeping change then as israel continues to wage a ferocious war in gaza in the wake of hamas's attack anti-semitism is rising in many corners of the world >> is this >> about the war or something? much deeper? >> we will begin >> but first, here's my take. looking at the crisis proliferating around the world. it's clear that we are an, in an age of geopolitical tension that resembles the cold war a time of constant continual threats to international order. but this time the west is treating each of these threats as one-offs to be dealt with separately in the hope that soon normalcy will return but conflict is the new normal. look around.
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>> the war is >> going badly for ukraine, which is critically outgunned and outmanned by its much larger adversary. its key advantage, access to western arms and money is in peril. the us congress seems unwilling to pass legislation to send more arms and money. the european union is stepping in and filling parts of the gap. but europe does not have the military industrial complex to send ukraine the level of armaments it needs to fight russia ukraine's army has held out heroically against russia's onslaught. but as a senior european diplomat said to me, recently, ukrainians are brave and bold, but they are not supermen. they will not be able to hold on if they don't have weapons and supplies putin is making sure that he can keep the war going, getting arms from north korea and recruiting men from as far as cuba he continues to benefit from the fact that many of the world's major economies from china and india to turkey and the gulf states are trading freely with
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russia they've, russia's aggression works. it tears up a norm that has largely stood for 80 years no change of borders by force. >> meanwhile, in >> the middle east, many believed when the gaza war began that it would be short and the prime minister netanyahu's government would fall neither is likely. the israel defense forces humiliated by the surprise attack of october 7 are determined to completely eradicate hamas from gaza. that means months more bombing, fighting and bulldozing the tensions and internal debates that israel's actions will produce in other countries will only rise bibi netanyahu is going nowhere. most israelis may dislike him, but they approve of his war policies this weekend, appointed rebuke to international calls to pursue a two-state solution, including from the us and britain. israel's knesset approved a resolution declaring that it was opposed to any unilateral recognition of a
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palestinian state with 99 out of 100 votes bibi's coalition remember, has only 64 members. so many opposition parliamentarians joined it. one less notice, theatre has been in the north. israel has been striking and killing hezbollah militants to the point that by one account, they have killed over 200 of them this campaign will continue and might even accelerate the idf's goal is to weaken hezbollah to the point that the roughly 80,000 israelis who fled their homes in northern israel can return but at some point, hezbollah might respond forcefully, which could trigger an israeli incursion into lebanon, truly widening the war >> and then we >> have the houthis who have managed to assert themselves through a series of pinprick strikes that according to one consulting firm, have reduced the number of container vessels through the suez canal by about 72% since they began in december. american efforts to organize an effective coalition
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to keep trade flowing through the red sea have failed its efforts to respond to houthi attacks have not stopped the houthis. this failure is a blow to the credibility of the united states, guaranteeing the freedom of the seas. a key component of the open global economy. that's been built over two centuries for us to the british navy and then the american and more threats to maritime underpinnings of that order, or on the horizon russia and china have both been building up the capacity to cut undersea cables, which are now an integral part of the cloud on which data is stored across the globe if the us can't deter a sub-state actor, like the houthis from its disruptive behavior in the red sea. what chance does that have against powers like china and russia? there are ways to address all these problems, but it requires a paradigm shift in the western world. we are now in a high security age that means governments have to spend
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significantly more on defense and spend more efficiently the us took on the role as guarantor of the freedom of the seas. and 1945 and has been master of the seas ever since the 1980s. it had almost 600 ships but today it has fewer than 300 europe has lost its military industrial complex, which allowed it to produce munitions on a near constant basis. in these new dangerous times congressional republicans have decided to return to isolationism, hoping that they can bury their heads in the sand and the problems will somehow go away it should be noted that contrary to popular belief, ostrich's do not bury their heads in the sand to escape threats in fact, it would lead to their asphyxiation maybe the birds understand something congressional republicans don't go to cnn.com slash opinions for link to my column this week. and let's get started
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>> two years ago this weekend, russia stunned the world by invading ukraine with a plan to seize the country in a matter of days ukraine can be proud of its response as david to russia's goliath, it's stopped the invaders from taking kyiv in the early days and has kept about 80% of its territory but today, as i mentioned, the tide appears to be in moscow's favor as it's heavily armed, troops make gains on the battlefield and us aid for kyiv dries up one country that has stayed fiercely loyal to ukraine is neighboring poland, a country that sits on nato eastern flank, hard up against russian territory. joining me to discuss the war's future is the polish foreign minister radek sikorski >> welcome roddick. >> hello. >> i have to ask you that the
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question on all of our minds. what did you as somebody who is a senior european diplomat? what did you make of that comment that trump made? i would tell putin, do whatever you have to let you get to those nato countries that are not paying what he defines as their fair share well, we hope this is just a former president trump's flamboyant style that what he meant was that he really, >> really wants us to spend at least 2% of gdp on defense and on substances right? poland has been spending 2% for 15 years. we've now gone on to oblique good three, 3% of gdp. in fact, we'll be spending close to four of gdp. and i'll tell you more if needs be, if putin really threatens us, will double-edged because we will not be a russian colony again but when you hear that, does it say to you you know, radek that america's promise to defend
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europe. it's a psychological, its goodness, trying to figure out when he makes his moves, how likely is it that the americans are going to come? >> and >> sacrifice? their soldiers for some european capital or some small european stuck country like estonia, latvia, lithuania, has what trump said already changed the dynamic in the sense of putting doubt in the minds of europeans that america will come to its aid. and emboldening the russians to think, yeah, maybe the americans won't. >> you? all right, that the real strength of nature is not the parchments. it's not the seals is not the signatures. it's not even the laws it is the uncertainty in the minds of our adversaries about what will happen if they attack, or rather the likelihood that the united states will come to the assistance of its allies. and
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this is what president biden calls the sacred pledge and what we have said to these comments is that an alliance is not a contract with a neighborhood security company you pay and therefore, you protect me the article five of the washington treated, which established nato has only been invoked once so far after 911 in defense of the united states and after the appeal from the united states, we sent troops to afghanistan, poland, center brigades to ghazni, a tough province. before that, we sent a brigade to iraq where we were responsible for protecting five-million the rockies. when that mission was accomplished, we did not send an invoice to washington. alliance's helped the united states, not just the allies >> do you feel as though
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americans are losing, losing an understanding of that reality that the world, the united states had built is a win-win. it's not just a europe benefits, but the united states benefits as well >> yes, it does. so since >> the russian invasion of ukraine, europe has ordered $90 billion worth of american military equipment poland through on a longer timescale, has ordered 50 billion. we are buying a patches, we are buying high masses, we are buying abram tax, we are buying f 30. we are buying this because your equipment is good, but also because we want to be in good graces with our important, most important ally. if america's credibility where a shaken, if countries not just in europe, also in the far east started to think that perhaps the us president can't deliver even
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when he wants to help your ally much of that would be lost. >> tell me about ukraine, you know it well, you were before your foreign minister. you've been privately as a private citizen, you actually helped the ukrainian army sending supplies in there what does it look to you like on the battlefield >> the ukrainians have fought like lions these victories in bakhmut, in avdiivka have come at a huge cost in material and men for russia the ukrainians are now in the defense mode and they are outgunned. i was in kyiv in december and i talked to my ukrainian counterparts all the time around avdiivka. they were outgunned in artillery 8-to-1 so they're doing close quarter combat, which is why people are dying in greater numbers that they
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should be because of the shortage of arms and the shortage of arms is because the supplemental hasn't yet passed what would you say that mike johnson, if you had a chance to dr. >> i would say as a former speaker to a current speaker, i would say mr. speaker it is the fate of ukraine. it is the tortured people of ukraine that big you but it is also the credibility of your country that is at stake. the president of the united states in war time went to kyiv on his historic visit planted the standard of the united states in downtown kyiv saying, you are an ally, we will do whatever it takes and for however long it takes to help you. the word of the united states has been spoken. it needs to be followed up with action, with deliveries stay with us when we come back
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polish democracy for most of the last decade, poland was a poster child for the backsliding of democracy but just a few months ago, power chain hands. and this week, warsaw presented plans to restore rule of law and other such norms. i will discuss is this remarkable turnaround and the troubles in restoring democracy with the country's foreign minister. rather slow sikorski fareed zakaria gps brought to you by fisher investments. clearly different money management in this market, you'll find fisher investments is different than other money managers. different. how are we all just looking for the hottest stocks? >> nope, we use diversified strategies to position our clients portfolios for their long-term goals. >> she's still sell investments in january, high commissions for you i know we don't sell commission products were a fiduciary obligated to act in our client's best
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course by electing a broad centrist coalition with donald tusk as prime minister back with me to discuss the country's new direction and the challenges ahead is radek sikorski, who serves as foreign minister. so rather tell us a little bit of what it was like to come back to power after this populist government had been in power, what had changed >> there was a vote, a general election in which 75% of the nation unprecedent turnout voted to end populist rule and to have a pro european pro democracy proceed. government, which is to say that in historical perspective, the vote that took place to vote communism out for 64%, 64% turnout. so people were more worried about the drift of the country in the last few years, then even under communism, and there were reasons for it you didn't mention the security services were used to target the opposition the pegasus
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anti-terrorist software was used against journalists, against opposition figures. the head of our election campaign was targeted and there were, there was also widespread corruption. so this needs to be addressed as we need to bring back the norms, which is to say competitive examinations in the civil service, fair professional, public media that tell the truth or not. the arm of one party propaganda. judges that have free to adjudicate fairly rather than being told to go after the enemies of the ruling party and so on. >> is this, how difficult is this? because as i understand, competitive examinations in polish bureaucracies were eliminated. >> this was one of the first things they did so in my own ministry. the foreign ministry, i have a number of unqualified people who would not have been allowed to join the diplomatic service because they don't
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speak the languages. for example some of these people, when we say, well look, you don't meet the criteria will then say that this is persecution, but, but no, we just need we've had a period of a rebellion against meritocracy. we are bringing meritocracy back >> what do you think is the key to understanding how to combat this guy, these kind of, this kind of anti-democratic movements that say what's more important is that your faith? for to us than you are faithful to the norms. >> do you need to i mean, i look at january 6 and wonder should they have been big congressional investigations are kind of truth and justice like in the investigations right after are you doing things like that? >> well, i won't interfere in the interval another fors of a friendly allied country. but i will say this you need to give a lesson to a whole generation
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of politicians that breaking the constitution, breaking the law is not without consequences. constitution's are only as good as the integrity of the people in key positions to uphold the rules. and when they don't uphold the rules, they need to see that it is detrimental to their careers. and worse constitution's don't defend themselves so, yes, you have to have to renew your vows with democracy >> i knew you when you're anti-communist agitator in your '20s. and now here you are. second time formed when a stroke poland and really one of the anchors of democracy in europe, it's been, it's been quite a transformation of this country. >> well, look, i lend my anti-communism because in living in it communist state in provincial town in poland, i was able to listen to voice of
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america to learn the truth about what was going on in my own country and we struggled for democracy against communism. and we're still upholding democracy because we want poland to be a normal, regular western country with all the benefits of free enterprise, of freedom to worship but we live in, in, in an age in which some of our compatriots have lost faith in these ideas. you know, it's the ukrainians who should be inspiring us because they're fighting for the right to a be a nation and b, to be a pro-west than democratic nation. that the as far as to prosperity, if they are willing to die for those values, we should value them too. >> and all you're saying is you still want to hear the voice of america that's right radek sikorski. >> thank you >> next on gps el salvador was
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once the most dangerous place he's in the world. >> today. >> it boasts one of the lowest murder rates in the entire western hemisphere. >> what >> or who is responsible for? this transformation will tell you after the break >> backroom deals, cia sequence of fares, bribery, corruption prostitution there's so much more to the store. >> united states of scandal with jake tapper tonight at nine on seat >> everything i do this for my health is ana outlets meant concerns of getting screened faded away to last on my dark, gave me a script. >> i got it done without >> a delay. >> i screen my cologuard is one-of-a-kind way to screen for colon cancer. that's effective and non-invasive is for people 45 plus at average risk on high-risk false positive the negative results may occur. ask
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proven extremely effective but added a grave costs to civil liberties. earlier this month, bukele was reelected in a landslide. and other countries have looked to emulate his model here to discuss is brian winter, editor-in-chief of americas quarterly brian, in a nutshell, what explains bukele is enormous popularity. >> he has fareed as you noted overseen a dramatic not only decline in homicides in el salvador down more than 80% in the last couple of years, but also declines in extortion robberies and other crimes. salvadorans feel like they can go out on the street again. they had lost the ability to do that in recent years. he's also tremendously effective on social media. he speaks well. he has leaned into that title that you noted semi a ironically, of the world's coolest dictator. but it has all come at considerable cost
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>> tell us a little bit more about him because he is a very colorful, charismatic character >> he's 42 years old. he's a millennial he sometimes appears in public with a backwards baseball cap very colorful figure speaks, well. i mean, he, if you listen to him in interviews, he's articulate. he turns things around and says, well, i'm people say that i'm not being democratic, but what was democratic about the lives that salvadorans we're living through before when essentially they're the civil liberties of the majority's were restricted, not being able to go out, said, i'm not being able to live their lives in peace, not being able to open businesses without paying off the gangs and so on. so he is quite cleverly played on the many problems that this country had in the past. remembering that only ten years ago, this was a country that had a homicide rate of over 100 per 100,000 people. and if you know
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those figures i mean, that's those are terrible numbers. it was one of the world's most violent countries >> in a sense, sooner he represents it seems to me this sense in certain places that democracy hasn't delivered, that it hasn't delivered with people well then in this case, in the most stark sense, which is the simple act of the government keeping you safe. is it possible that other central american countries and latin american countries will look at this as a kind of example to be followed many of them already are in other countries around latin america, such as ecuador night, bukele >> routinely shows up as being more popular, having a higher approval rating than any national politician. there have been other politicians and other places that have said that they want to follow his example in argentina, where javier milei recently took office, his security minister recently met with the security the justice minister of el salvador extensively to learn things that might work in
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argentina, which has also faced a security challenge in relative terms in recent here's but for all of this has made us ask questions about a difficult questions sometimes about the nature of democracy, because on the one hand, those of us who consider ourselves advocates for democracy and human rights can stand on the outside very upset by these maps that's arrests, which at times seem arbitrary. the suspension of due process, the state of exception that has existed now and el salvador for more than a year. but the fact is the overwhelming support for what bukele is doing within el salvador. it cannot be ignored this was someone who was just reelected. again with a huge majority of the vote. >> tell me how this plays into the immigration debate in the united states. what is, what
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does it mean and what does he talk about that? >> what has happened over the last year-and-a-half or so with the security crackdown that bukele has done, is that the rate at which migrants are leaving all salvador has fallen by about a third. and in recent months, we've seen it has to be said, a change. it seems from the biden ministration in terms of how they handle bukele they recently as a year ago, were quite publicly calling on him to respect the constitution, to respect human rights but starting in late 2023, they seem to adopt a different posture recognizing perhaps that immigration and as the number one challenge that they face now, in polls as president biden attempts to get reelected and the atmospherics around that relationship have now become more positive. a state department official was in was incense salvador in october, shaking hands publicly with
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bukele. we hadn't really seen that before. and the rhetoric in public has changed. i'm told that in private us officials are still pressing those concerns with bukele. but there seems to have been a decision to work with this guy, in part because they need him on immigration. and also in part because it doesn't seem like he's going anywhere biden. >> thank you so much. that was fascinating insight into a small but important country close-by. >> thank you for it >> next on gps, the war in the middle east has been accompanied by a rapid rise of anti-semitism around the globe. i asked the author their horn, what is behind the stubborn persistence of anti-jewish myths? when we come back? >> vegas, the story of sin city in 98 ten on cnn >> your ancestry is so much more than names and dates it's
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the us soared in the first three months following hamas is attacks on israel on october 7, that's according to the anti-defamation league representing a 360% increase when compared to the same period in 2022. anti-semitism continues to rear its ugly head as tensions remain high especially on college campuses where the adl tracked at least 500 anti-semitic incidents in that period. what is going on? the rider, darryl horned, lays it out in a new piece in the atlantic why the most educated people in america, for, for anti-semitic lives. and now she joins me. >> pleasure. so first, answer that question. why do you think it is that the most educated people in america in one might say possibly in europe as well. why is this something that they fall prey to? >> well, i think that there's a problem with anti-semitism which makes it a little bit
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different from other bigotries and that it's not just a social prejudice, it's a conspiracy theory. and i think if you look at a long history of antisemitism which goes back to ancient times what you really see as the through line is denial. it's the denial of truth, the promotion of lies, the denial of jewish experience and do you see this in many forums? conspiracy theories holocaust denial, the medieval blood libel. this goes back to ancient times and what you really find though, is that all of those lies are really part of what i call the big lie, which is this idea that anti-semitism is somehow a form of justice because jews are assumed to be collectively evil and have no right to exist and it's that assumption that anti-semitism is somehow an act of resistance to evil, that makes intellectuals fall prey to it >> so what about the argument that these roses that you're
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seeing now that's really not about jews and anti-semitism that is about the state of israel, about a particular set of policies that the state of israel has been using toward palestinians that by, i think it's a fair argument to say there have been denying palestinian rights. they've been appropriating land that it's all it's it's a it's an opposition movement about against those policies. >> well, unfortunately that its sort of fell apart on october 7 because what you saw was these mass movements and protests and outbreaks of anti-semitic violence that weren't in response to israel's actions. what we're now seeing in terms of the war in gaza, this was the day of the attack. you already had student groups that were coming out and saying that this was an act of resistance. this was but the most violent act, the most violent attack on
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jewish community since the holocaust and the response was, i'm not saying i agree with the response was this is justified because of 56 years of occupation, 56 years of denial of about singular it in others, again, i'm not justifying, but i'm saying it strikes me is about is it about that particular dynamic between israel and the palestinians rather than jewishness? >> i mean unfortunately freed, i wish it had something to do with what was going on in the middle east. and i don't see that because but when people are talking about anti-semitism here in the united states and other parts of places around the world. we're not talking about what i would call criticism of israel, which absolutely you're correct. there's all kinds of conversations we could have about politics in the middle east israelis palate, stoic palette israelis and palestinians what i'm, what i'm talking about is people assaulting jews on the street. what i'm talking about is people attacking jews vandalism, violence, murders. i
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don't think that someone spray painting a synagogue is a criticism of israel. i don't think people someone shooting at jews, walking the synagogue is a criticism of israel and that's what we're talking about here. i want to be clear when people talk about and including on college campuses, as you mentioned earlier when we talk about anti-semitism on college campuses, what's become really clear is that it isn't about, oh, i disagree three with what slogan someone shouting on the quad what i found i found this in my work at harvard on the advisory group to the president of harvard is that we're really talking about harassment of jewish students harassment, assault intimidation in some cases, what are probably civil rights violations and coming not just from fellow students, but also from faculty. in some cases. and that's been really terrifying so one of the tropes that has often been used in anti-semitism is the jews are too powerful, right? i mean that if you go back to the
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protocol of the elders of zion me was laughable in those days because jews were week persecuted minority but if you look at a place like america today jewish americans have done amazingly well, you look at the number of pulitzer prizes they, when the number of people who are in high positions of power, i think of that as a sign of jewish achievers we have a lot largely meritocratic system and jews have done amazingly well but does that feed this old prejudice? >> well, here's what i will say. there's many groups in united states that are overrepresented in all kinds of different fields. one, i'll give you one random example, mormons are overrepresented at the cia does anyone think that mormons are nefariously manipulating us foreign policy because there are over-represented at the cia. no, of course not is even americans do well. yeah, so there are many, many groups that are over representing all different kinds of fields. i don't think there's any sector of american society that's a
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perfect picture of the demographics of the united states and there's all sorts of interesting reasons for that. but the difference is that it's only when you look at this from when you say like, oh juicer in these positions that suddenly there's this idea that that must be something nefarious, right? and the reason for that is because of this very, very old idea that people have been marinating in this conspiracy theory for thousands of years that somehow jews are collectively evil and have no right to exist. that's honestly what it comes down to, and that's what's really terrifying. >> thank you for helping us think this to. >> thank you. >> next on gps voters in the world's third largest democracy, just elected a man with ties to the country's darkest days of dictatorship >> why? i'll explain when we come back tibi, a headliner launch vegas. that's what i want to do >> it's unlike anywhere else in
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imagine if in the run-up to the 2016 election president barack obama had endorsed donald trump it sounds ridiculous but a somewhat similar scenario happened earlier this month and the world's third largest democracy, indonesia, the reformist outgoing president joko widodo tacitly endorsed as his successor. prabowo subianto, a strong man with a historic antipathy toward democracy in part thanks to that endorsement, prabowo has likely won the election. >> ballots are still being counted when he lost the last two elections and drink and if 14.20, 19, prabowo, falsely claimed voter fraud he wrote into rallies in 2014 on a portuguese pure bred and floated a bertha like conspiracy theory about the ethnic origins of his rival widodo, known popularly as jokowi was seen at the time of his election in 2014 as a
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democratic reformer. he was a common man who worked his way out of the slums and rode to victory. not on corrupt machine politics but on a network of impassioned grassroots volunteers. in 2014, he made the cover of time which called him a force for democracy. and he ruled as a pragmatic, technocratic, delivering governance to a country that desperately needed both it's hard to overstate the significance of gioco is election. he was indonesia's first president who didn't come from it's entrenched political class. his rise made indonesia of fortunate exception, among other large middle-income nations from turkey to brazil, to india in those countries, right-wing populists have won elections and undermine democratic institutions and norms so does the strong man propose election signify that indonesia is joining their ranks fallen prey to democracies, news threat
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actually know, propose election is evidence of the countries are coming to democracies. all this threat the nepotistic elite establishment prabowo is a blue-blood, a member of indonesia as old guard, his father was a finance minister in newly independent indonesia in the 1950s. >> and >> prabowo himself was a general under suharto's. indonesia is brutal and corrupt dictator who ruled the country for with 30 years. the ambitious young general was even married to one of so hartsell's daughters a family has a vast wealth with interests in palm oil, coal, gas, mining, and fisheries propose special forces will link to the worst human rights abuses during indonesia's two decades occupation of east timor as the economist notes, in 1998, during the protests that led to suharto's ouster. pro organized the kidnapping of 20 pro-democracy protesters. third 14 of whom are still
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missing until 2020. he was barred from entering the united states so why would giokos endorse such a man? the answer may lie and propose choice of running mate the new vice president of indonesia will be zhukova's 36 year-old son. good brand, rakabuming raka, quite a name indonesia's constitution bars anyone under 40 from holding the presidency of vice-presidency the constitutional court exempted gabe brown from that rule in october with gioco is brother-in-law, then it's chief justice, casting the deciding vote. this all has understandably earned joko week criticism that he has sacrificed indonesia's political future to preserve his own but if he's done so, it may not be for the first time in the past, joko we when faced with a choice between
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political survival and success and democratic reform, often chose success in 2019 after a bitter presidential campaign jacoby appointed prabowo as his defense minister over his tenure as president, joko, he became a master of co-opting our position and building alliances to strengthen his own power there's been little pushback in indonesia. a majority of the country's voters are under 40, many of them don't remember the harsh days of suharto's rule. the media barely talks about it. and as the economist notes, prabowo has defanged his image using tiktok and instagram to present himself as a benign grandfather rather than a ruthless general. whatever his instincts prabowo will not be able to run in the initial, like a dictator. the country has evolved since suharto's time. presidential power is now limited but his election shows us democracy's fragility it's tempting to see democratic reform within a narrative of
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