Putin's World and the Age of Impunity

We now live in a world where a Belarusian dictator can hijack a European commercial aircraft, torture his political opponents, and orchestrate a migrant crisis on his neighbors' borders -- and suffer no meaningful consequences.

We've long lived in a world where an autocratic Kremlin leader can get away with assassinating his opponents with nerve agents and radioactive isotopes in Europe, invading his neighbors, and annexing their territory.

We're living in a world where cyberattacks are the norm - not the exception; where political assassinations are no longer shocking; and where it is a given that autocrats are going to meddle in democratic elections across the world.

We now live in a world of impunity. We now live in a world where might makes right and the rules are increasingly optional. In many ways, we now live in Vladimir Putin's world. So how do we get out of it?

On The Power Vertical Podcast this week, host Brian Whitmore speaks with Peter Pomerantsev - a Senior Fellow at the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University and author of the books Nothing is True and Everything is Possible: Inside the Surreal Heart of the New Russia and This Is Not Propaganda - about the causes and consequences of this age of impunity.