Crash Course: Francis Fukuyama on Putin, Trump and why Ukraine is key to saving liberal democracy

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Terrorism researcher Michael Jensen documented at least 700 relationships between the defendants and both well-known far-right groups as well as more diffuse movements, including white nationalists, anti-vaccination activists, militias, militant anti-abortion groups, QAnon adherents and more. "This is like a virus: It will adapt and evolve to stay alive and keep infecting people," [Jensen explains to Salon's Kathryn Joyce](~/AASU4wA~/RgRkP8m9P0R7aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuc2Fsb24uY29tLzIwMjIvMDQvMTgvdGhpbmstY2FwaXRvbC1yaW90ZXJzLXdlcmUtb3JkaW5hcnktcGVvcGxlLW5ldy1yZXNlYXJjaC1jb25uZWN0cy1tYW55LXRvLWZhci1yaWdodC1ncm91cHMvVwNzcGNCCmJLvURdYmBT3EZSG3RyaXN0cmFtYmFsZHdpbjg1QGdtYWlsLmNvbVgEAAAAKA~~). "This is a big, well-connected movement and defeating it will be difficult." "The fact that you've got some 100 individuals linked to QAnon running for public office in the midterm elections is just astounding," Jensen continued. "And what's going to be even more astounding is that some of them are going to win. So that cohort in Congress is going to grow." Read the full interview [here](~/AASU4wA~/RgRkP8m9P0R7aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuc2Fsb24uY29tLzIwMjIvMDQvMTgvdGhpbmstY2FwaXRvbC1yaW90ZXJzLXdlcmUtb3JkaW5hcnktcGVvcGxlLW5ldy1yZXNlYXJjaC1jb25uZWN0cy1tYW55LXRvLWZhci1yaWdodC1ncm91cHMvVwNzcGNCCmJLvURdYmBT3EZSG3RyaXN0cmFtYmFsZHdpbjg1QGdtYWlsLmNvbVgEAAAAKA~~). Salon/Getty Images Francis Fukuyama on Putin, Trump and why Ukraine is key to saving liberal democracy "If Vladimir Putin succeeds in Ukraine, then anti-democratic forces will succeed here as well and we could be facing a serious constitutional crisis in 2024. It is all connected." Speaking with Salon's Chauncey DeVega, famed political scientist Francis Fukuyama explains why he remains hopeful about a "rebirth around the world of belief in liberal democracy." 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Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images Putin can't take much more of this With the sinking of the guided-missile cruiser the Moskva, the most important warship in Russia's Black Sea fleet, Vladimir Putin's war has become an almost unthinkable disaster, Lucian Truscott [writes](~/AASU4wA~/RgRkP8m9P0RoaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuc2Fsb24uY29tLzIwMjIvMDQvMTYvcHV0aW4tY2FudC10YWtlLW11Y2gtbW9yZS1vZi10aGlzLXdoYXQtbGllcy1haGVhZC1kZWZlYXQtb3ItYXBvY2FseXBzZS9XA3NwY0IKYku9RF1iYFPcRlIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo). The Ukrainian military, operating with small units in well-coordinated maneuvers, has handed humiliation after humiliation to the Russian president. "Has Putin learned any lessons over the last 50-plus days?" Truscott asks. "His offensive in eastern Ukraine looks to be a carbon copy of the one that failed to take Kyiv and Kharkiv in March." 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