The End of Europe Quotes

“One astute observer of Russian disinformation operations describes its information strategy as comprising four “d’s”—“dismiss the critic, distort the facts, distract from the main issue, and dismay the audience”—creating “a moral quagmire in which everyone is wrong, and therefore wrong actions become normal.”
― James Kirchick, The End of Europe: Dictators, Demagogues, and the Coming Dark Age

“Second to Russia, no European country is manipulating its history for political purposes more egregiously than Hungary. In both places, rewriting the past is done with an eye to the future, as governments inculcate their citizenries with nationalism, irredentism, and intolerance and then marshal these attitudes in service of the state.”
― James Kirchick, The End of Europe: Dictators, Demagogues, and the Coming Dark Age