Yana Gorokhovskaia and Nate Schenkkan, Freedom House’s research director for strategy and senior research director, respectively, argue that democratic countries' naiveté makes them complicit in "transnational repression" as dictators target dissidents abroad. Certainly, there are good cases of transnational repression: Russia’s poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko in London or, as Gorokhovskaia and Schenkkan cite, Belarusian dissident journalist Raman Pratasevich. They go wrong, though, when they fail to differentiate between peaceful dissidents and terrorists who peddle ethnic hate. DEI'S NEW BATTLEGROUND: THE U.S. MILITARY Facts matter. The Freedom House scholars embrace a Hollywood narrative of Paul Rusesabagina, the hotelier made famous by...
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