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Bret Stephens: Joe Bidenâs foreign policy should put dissidents first
A dissident is to a dictatorship what a bald fact is to an edifice of lies.
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In a Jan. 23 photo, a man holds a poster with a portrait Alexei Navalny and reads: One for all and all for one , during a protest rally against the jailing of opposition leader Alexei Navalny in St. Petersburg, Russia. Allies of Navalny are calling for new protests next weekend to demand his release, following a wave of demonstrations across the country that brought out tens of thousands in a defiant challenge to President Vladimir Putin.
Dissidents first: A proposed foreign policy doctrine for the Biden administration Force adversaries to choose between their material interests and their habits of repression.
By Bret Stephens, New York Times January 26, 2021 11:15am Text size Copy shortlink:
Thirty years from now, what will historians consider the most consequential event of January 2021 the storming of the U.S. Capitol by an insurrectionist mob, or Alexei Navalny s heroic return to Moscow, followed by his immediate arrest?
In a broad sense, the two events are about the same thing: the future of freedom. In one version of the future, the assault on the Capitol marks the point at which the forces of illiberalism, mob violence and disinformation, much of it stoked and financed by the Russian government, reached critical mass in the West. In another version, the assault will be remembered as a historical anomaly when compared with the recovery o