Martin Wolf and Fiona Hill on democracy’s year of peril
FT News Briefing
Forhecz Topher
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🗓️ 23 June 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Across the world, billions of citizens are being asked to cast their vote in elections taking place in more than 50 countries, and in many places, populist, illiberal and far-right parties are either growing in support or consolidating gains they have already made. Fiona Hill, who served as senior director for European and Russian affairs on the National Security Council in the Trump White House from 2017 to 2019, tells Martin Wolf about the parallels she sees between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, why she believes the US Congress has failed and how she will not be breathing a sigh of relief if President Joe Biden wins in the November polls. Clips: The Times, The Sunday Times, CSpan
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| 0:00.0 | The UK's energy partner. |
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| 0:09.8 | Good morning from the Financial Times. |
| 0:11.5 | It's Mark Filipino here. |
| 0:12.8 | Regular listeners will know that for every Sunday this month, |
| 0:16.4 | the news briefing is going to do something a little bit different. |
| 0:18.9 | We're running a series about the outlook for democracy, |
| 0:22.0 | hosted by the F.T.'s chief economics |
| 0:24.0 | commentator Martin Wolf. He's been talking to leading political thinkers about |
| 0:28.0 | what this year, a pivotal year for democracy, has in store for the liberal democratic system. So here goes, Martin |
| 0:35.8 | Wolf, Democracy's Year of Peril. |
| 0:39.4 | I'm Martin Wolf, Chief Economics Commentator at the Financial Times, and you're listening to episode 4 of Democracy's |
| 0:47.4 | Year of Peril. |
| 0:49.3 | My last guest in the series is one of the world's leading experts on Russian geopolitics. |
| 0:55.0 | In this year of elections, Russia too held a presidential contest, |
| 1:00.0 | but it was far from what we would regard as a democratic exercise. |
| 1:05.0 | There are a dragi drusia |
| 1:07.0 | i had to chef sce a previous |
| 1:10.0 | Vladimir Putin was returned to office after brutally eliminating all his |
| 1:16.1 | competition with 88% of the vote. And Russian interference in the other elections around the world, |
| 1:28.0 | obscuring political fact from fiction is a growing danger facing democracies. |
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