Hello and welcome to Politics War Room with James Carville and I'm Al Hunt.

This week our guest is Pulitzer Prize winning historian, journalist and the expert on the

former Soviet Union in the politics of Central Europe and Applebaum.

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James, no one has written more in sightfully or eloquently about the perilous facing democracy

or the threat of authoritarianism than an Applebaum.

Remember last year she'd read an article in our friend Walter Dillon should explain that's

the most important piece of the year.

She'd read another and say that's the most important.

He was right on all occasions.

And we can't thank you enough for being with us.

I know you've just gotten back from Europe.

What you expected feared, Putin invaded.

You were at the Munich Security Conference and you wrote for all the talk about Western

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