Anne Applebaum and Fiona Hill: Are the Autocrats Winning?
Fiona Hill and Anne Applebaum join Scott Galloway to discuss why autocracies may be gaining ground and how the U.S. has weakened its own global influence.
The gist
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Nations fighting for survival, like Ukraine, show near-unlimited commitment, while wars of choice struggle to sustain public support.
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Ukraine's crowdsourced drone industry, built by hundreds of small companies, has made Russia's thousand-daily casualties strategically irrelevant.
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Hill argues the U.S. lost influence not through military weakness but by abandoning values-based alliances and institutions like NATO.
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Putin has no clear successor or replacement mechanism, making his system fragile despite his tight control.
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