"Once people set out to destroy the state, once there’s a determined group of armed people who want to end the political system as it exists, they can. They can do it very fast."
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Anne Applebaum
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"And it’s perfectly plausible that the Sudanese war could somehow spill over into one of the neighbouring countries, and then you could have a breakdown in one of those places as well. So, you know, civilisation is a lot more fragile than we like to think ... the people who are determined to wreck your state, or wreck your system, and who are armed and able to do it … it can go quickly."
Anne Applebaum
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