For Spotlight, FRANCE 24 François Picard is pleased to welcome Anne Applebaum, staff writer at The Atlantic and author of Autocracy, Inc. According to Applebaum, the upheaval in American diplomacy and foreign policy transcends any one administration. She describes a full-fledged transformation in the way the United States exerts power, pivoting away from leadership of a democratic alliance and toward a transactional, mafia-style politics that fuses ideology, private economic interests, personal relationships and geopolitical leverage.
The consequences are already extending beyond Washington. Canada, for example, has begun taking a far more proactive approach to strengthening its economic and political ties with the EU, India and China, as Carney actively seeks to reduce the country’s dependence on its once-cozy, decades-long relationship with the United States.
