ways, quite literally in online communities with the example of like GameStop or some of these cryptocurrencies, people looking for communities and fusing them with financial markets, also with the election of Donald Trump and increasingly Rand Paul and Anthony Fauci, and everything becomes increasingly a drama, everything becomes increasingly a form of entertainment. So actually, this, one, love your thoughts on that. And then I want to ask that question when maybe we'll move this to the second half of our conversation and I'll ask it, we'll keep it for there, but when did you first begin to see some of the characteristics of this sort of post-Soviet Russian culture emerge in the West? So, well, the revolutionary year of 2016 is obviously the one that is the inflection point. Both Trump and Brexit happening, but we already saw elements of it on the fringes. But without a doubt, the Trump moment is huge. Then you see the emergence of Duterte in the Philippines, who's 2015, very, very (49/57)
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