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Obama Sounds the Alarm: "America Dangerously Close to Autocracy" as Surveillance State Targets Substack Journalists
Barack Obama delivered his starkest warning yet this week: America is "dangerously close to normalizing autocratic behavior" and democracy is "probably as weak as it's been since I've been alive." The former president's urgent alarm comes as authoritarian consolidation accelerates on multiple fronts, from surveillance targeting journalists to health questions about the man with nuclear codes.
5️⃣ PUTIN'S HUNGARIAN PUPPET FACES POLITICAL EXTINCTION
Viktor Orbán, Putin's most reliable EU ally, is staring down a devastating 15-point polling deficit to opposition leader Péter Magyar (51% to 36%)…
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