I asked Der Spiegel to share this important interview with Robert Kagan in English.

Jeff Jarvis

I asked Der Spiegel to share this important interview with Robert Kagan in English. @bredow made it happen. This is how American media should be talking:
"We Are Watching a Country Fall Under Dictatorship Almost Without Resistance"
https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/u-s-historian-robert-kagan-we-are-watching-a-country-fall-under-dictatorship-almost-without-resistance-a-d262290b-cca0-4c2f-945d-2ef3b64c574f?sara_ref=re-so-app-sh

Joachim Heistinger 🌶️

ping @benroyce

itchy@mastodon.sdf.org

@jeffjarvis @bredow

Do nothing GOP

oscarfalcon

@jeffjarvis @bredow

The word "almost" in that sentence should be removed, because it is falling without resistance.

Jeff Jarvis

Sorry that there's a paywall on this. I was hoping Der Spiegel would share it openly.

Joachim Heistinger 🌶️

@jeffjarvis https://archive.is/kEcyB

sortius :Fire_Bisexual:

@jeffjarvis @bredow this is what I've been screaming for months. Resistance isn't pithy signs and frog suits

Thomas H Jones

@jeffjarvis@mastodon.social @bredow@troet.cafe

It's not that people like me don't want to resist, it's that, outside of "go commit random acts of mayhem", what can we do that meaningfully stops it? I, and at least those I've broached the subject with, are all pretty much resigned to "when they come for us, try to make them pay for it in as much blood as we can". Given the power of the state, that's probably a lot less blood of the state's representatives than our individual own.

f*cking b*tch club

@carbon_compound @jeffjarvis thank you for posting this link

Thomas H Jones

@jeffjarvis@mastodon.social

When I clicked, there was no paywall (if you don't count the "let us advertise at you" type button)?

Lord HeeHaw II

@jeffjarvis @bredow I'm sure your intentions were good, but the Spiegel im English isn't really playing the game, keeping what must be the larger part of the article behind a paywall. Even if the 'Obelus' isn't much, asking Americans to pay in Euros will not produce a broad readership.

Tattered

@jeffjarvis @bredow “Almost without resistance”.

verbalprimate

@jeffjarvis @bredow

You can also hear Kagan talking to gross on Fresh Air. This discussion was chilling. https://www.npr.org/2026/02/04/nx-s1-5699388/is-the-u-s-heading-into-a-dictatorship