‘What I Saw With Putin Is Happening With Trump’ | Martin Sixsmith

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“I saw it happen in Russia and I can see it happening in America” The direction of Trump’s presidency “needs to be a wake-up call” for an American society that “doesn’t realise the danger it’s in” of falling to Putin’s authoritarian playbook, warns Martin Sixsmith. Former BBC Moscow correspondent and author of Despots: How Trump Is Turning America Into Putin’s Russia Martin Sixsmith was speaking to Hugo Rifkind on Times Radio. Listen live every Monday-Thursday, 10am-1pm. Read the best of our journalism: https://www.thetimes.com/ Listen live to Times Radio: https://www.thetimes.com/radio/live Subscribe to The Times and The Sunday Times YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=timesonlinevideo Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/timesandsundaytimes/ Find us on X: https://x.com/thetimes Find us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thetimes/

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