![]() “I’ve been doing cybersecurity since I was 18, since I joined the army in 1982,” Minin told me after we’d ducked out into the hallway so as not to distract the young contestants. In April, hundreds of young hackers participated in one of them. ![]() ARSIB runs Capture the Flag competitions at schools all over Russia, as well as massive, multiday hackathons in which one team defends its server as another team attacks it. Minin was there to oversee the competition, called Capture the Flag, which had been put on by his organization, the Association of Chief Information Security Officers, or ARSIB in Russian. But if he does, Putin won’t be pleased for long.To hear more feature stories, see our full list or get the Audm iPhone app.Ĭlustered in seven teams from universities across Russia, they were almost halfway into an eight-hour hacking competition, trying to solve forensic problems that ranged from identifying a computer virus’s origins to finding secret messages embedded in images. I still find it difficult to believe that Sanders can pull it off. If enough Americans unite across racial lines to replace Trump with a Jewish socialist, it might mean that our country is figuring out how to transcend the illiberalism of our age. Putin has exploited this difficulty, stoking tribal fears in countries with changing demographics to make liberalism look like a form of social dissolution. Few nations on Earth have figured out how to create, in heterogenous populations, the solidarity needed to sustain a robust public sphere. To young idealists around the world, America would look - dare I say it - great again.īuilding a multiracial social democracy is one of the great political challenges of our time. America would be the country where young people of all races powered a campaign that proved stronger than plutocracy, stronger than nationalist demagogy, stronger than any of the tools that men like Putin have used to bring liberalism to its knees. His unlikely ascendance would be a blow against the corrosive cynicism in which authoritarianism thrives. If Sanders was elected president, that could change. ![]() The horror of this era isn’t just the emergence of an axis of authoritarianism, but the fact that there are so few allies to counter it. has abandoned the pretense of backing democracy and human rights, meaning there are no longer any great powers that even pretend to put morality at the center of foreign affairs. In this project, Trump couldn’t better serve Putin’s interests if he were a conscious Russian asset. He aims to paint liberal democracy as nothing but an empty slogan papering over zero-sum contests for power. By most accounts, he’s less interested in cultivating faith in his own system than in destroying belief in alternatives. Putin, of course, is bent on subverting the rules-based international order. “As the wealthiest and most powerful nation on Earth, we have got to help lead the struggle to defend and expand a rules-based international order in which law, not might, makes right,” he said in 2017. But in a race with Trump, he would represent American exceptionalism. ![]() ![]() It’s ironic: Throughout his career, Sanders has repeatedly excoriated American foreign policy, refusing to accede to the myth of America’s fundamental innocence. “If he was in office, and he actually pursued that foreign policy, that would be much to the detriment of Vladimir Putin,” said Max Bergmann, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and an Elizabeth Warren supporter who considers himself a Russia hawk. Sanders isn’t a militarist, but he’s no isolationist, either. On the other side, we see a movement toward strengthening democracy, egalitarianism and economic, social, racial and environmental justice.” On one hand, we see a growing worldwide movement toward authoritarianism, oligarchy and kleptocracy. “There is currently a struggle of enormous consequence taking place in the United States and throughout the world,” Sanders said in a 2018 speech. ![]()
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