“Is the West the new U.S.S.R.?” | Niall Ferguson

 

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Brezhnev and Andropov, elderly leaders. Like Trump and Biden. 

Loss of faith by “the people” in “the system”: then in the Soviet Union, now in the United States. 

Life expectancy falling in the United States, especially amongst men. As happened in the Soviet Union. 

The “far right” in the west is just populist. The fascists get around in uniforms and rather like war. The “far right” is just a movement to bring some control to issues like immigration. 

Niall Ferguson is now Sir Niall. He talks to Freddie Sayers. Covers the world.