and richard, finally, one more thing, remind mess what we re talking about autocracy, you all put out on your cover several years ago, great article, rise of auto crates. it s not been a good year for auto crates. 2022 has been a devastating year for the au to crates if you look at putin and xi. they are stel struggling to get out of the covid crisis, struggling to restart their economy, they re still shutting down major cities. look at the problems they ve been having over the past year, it s this has been history seems to be turning quickly against the auto crates right now. that can, of course, change again, just as quickly as it turned in this direction. talk about how autocracy is back
didn t think donald trump was aware of the administration policy toward russia because of what he would say and nbc published a report that he told aides when he approved of the opening up of to ukraine, don t tell anybody and i don t want to anger putin. so he is aware and that it could frustrate his by lateral relationship with putin and i think he wants to preserve that. even though they are going very far out to coercively signal to the kremlin that you have a box in which you are constrained. i think your point is very interesting one. and that is what happens we know that auto crates owe kind of metastasizing across the world and bullies as head of states are beginning to kind of metastasize again. what does it mean for the head of the free world, the leader of the free world to kind of occupy that kind of position. bully in relationship to bully in relati in relation to bully.
fake news to dismiss damaging reports about them. and myanmar and said rohingya doesn t exist and fake news. is the whousz concerned at all about authoritarian regimes adopting this phrase fake news to try to delegitimize the president? i think the white house is concerned about false and inaccurate information being pushed out and to miss lead the american people. i think i made that clear yesterday. in terms of other leaders, i d have to look at their comments to be more specific on what they ve said. but our concern is making sure that the information that the people receive in this country is fair and accurate. and when it isn t, that it s corrected and corrected in the same fashion in which it was first presented when it was wrong, which is rarely the case. fake news sorry? when you hear auto crates
egypt is standing by the people of gaza in their pain. that radically changes the u.s. calculus in the region or how much we can actually do. yeah. i don t think it changes our objectives but i think it changes what we can accomplish. the united states doesn t talk to hamas. so in the past, the way we ve been able to promote potential cease-fires or agreements between the israelis and hamas is through the good offices of the egyptian president mubarak and his top intelligence officer mr. soul manny who s now passed from the scene. this traditional methods prior to the arab spring with the so-called dictators and auto crates, we knew how to operate. we knew what levers to pull, who would have the most influence on which players. but as you correctly point out, the muslim brotherhood and hamas come from the same ideological tradition, hamas is an offshoot
willing to take to oust qaddafi. that is not precisely true, juan. he has spoken on what he calls the range of other measures that are in place to try to oust qaddafi. these are nonmilitary matters. i don t know what kind of effect it will have. freezing the assets. freezing the assets and trade embargo. the more benevolent of the auto crates have been easier to topple and that sort of has become the logic of the whole arab spring which is this is going be tough on the more moderate autocrats and less so on the brutes. this libya situation provides a potential example of the idea that it might be just as tough on the brutes because the world led by the united states is ready to step in.