When Power Starts Speaking | Anne Applebaum | History of Power & Contr...

Democracies rarely collapse through coups or tanks.
They unravel through language.

In this video, we examine how tariffs—once technical economic tools—are increasingly used as moral accusations and instruments of pressure against allies. The dispute over Greenland reveals something deeper than trade or territory: a transformation in how alliances are spoken about, justified, and ultimately weakened.

When cooperation is reframed as charity, allies as debtors, and treaties as negotiable assets, the moral foundation of democratic institutions begins to erode. NATO becomes transactional. Security becomes leverage. History shows that when language shifts, behavior follows.

This is not just a story about Greenland, tariffs, or NATO.
It is a warning about how democracies decay quietly—through rhetoric, impatience, and the normalization of coercion—while insisting that nothing fundamental has changed.

Watch carefully.
The danger is not what is imposed, but what is said.

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