| 单词 | strongman |
| 例句 | Gina sets her arms into a strongman pose and shouts, “Bring it!” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Others pulled him off and held him, though he was a strongman. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z I hadn’t seen it while they were sitting, but now that they were moving it was painfully obvious they were church strongmen. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z In Africa he’s just another strongman from the history books. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z She couldn’t see Papa, but Mama was feverishly digging, flinging big bags around like she was a strongman. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The latter by this time had already had an eventful career: a Macedonian-leaning social conservative, he was already a prolific author when Cassander, the strongman in Pella, installed him as dictator of Athens. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z It’s a network of roads each charted by a Conquistador or strongman. King of the banana republic 2012-06-03T21:00:00Z The publicity stunt worked when the strongman, who once compared himself to the best Roman emperors, was ousted with 55 percent of people voting "no." Garcia Bernal feels Chile's pain in latest film 2012-07-31T03:32:11Z This one-on-one fight pits the proud spear-wielding, acrobatic Viper against an armored colossal strongman. “Game of Thrones” in combat: How realistic are the show’s epic fight scenes? 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z At one point, Isteev remarks if such atrocities can happen in Chechnya, why not in Russia, whose government props up the authoritarian strongman oppressing the Chechen people? HBO's chilling "Welcome to Chechnya" depicts the heroism of ordinary people caught in an LGBTQ purge 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z Branches of British military intelligence and the secret services clamoured for a strongman such as Pinochet, who might impose order through a monetarist budget and capitalist rigour. Strange Rebels: 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century by Christian Caryl – review 2013-07-07T07:01:13Z They shout that the people voted for the fair-haired strongman, and now they expect him to save them from bloodthirsty terrorists sneaking into America from Muslim nations. Ban Trump’s sad view of America 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z When a startlingly docile population is succumbing to the often treacherous locutions of a so-called strongman, this study of our essential moral pliability takes on a fresh urgency. If You Could Add One Book to the High School Curriculum, What Would It Be? 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z Circus strongmen and actors playing Tarzan or cave dwellers have typically sported skimpy leopard garments. Dressed to Kill: The Power of Leopard Prints 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z There was one highly dramatic event the writer regrets missing: the recent Cairo protests and overthrow of Egypt's strongman leader, Hosni Mubarak. 'Pilgrims' by Seattle playwright is a comedy of cultures 2011-06-16T20:12:04Z He intersperses all this with stories from a mad old pirate, a former circus strongman and, by my count, 28 imaginary books. Generations of Exiles Collide in Post-Katrina New Orleans 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z The group played swing and bebop until a directive from Argentinian strongman Juan Perón forced them to focus on more traditional styles like the tango. Gato Barbieri, Grammy-winning saxophonist heard on ‘Last Tango in Paris’ score, dies at 83 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z Trump encourages violence with his Right-wing strongman professional wrestling routine. This is your Republican Party: The establishment is as racist as Donald Trump — and created him 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z If Leonid Brezhnev had left office before he died, he would be remembered more as a Communist strongman than as a comatose one. The TV Watch: Larry King Goes Gently From CNN 2010-06-30T20:55:00Z The Actors’ Gang is currently populated by conjurers, strongmen, snake charmers, fat ladies and headless wonders associated with a sideshow known as “Captain Greedy’s Carnival” — or, to use its more conventional name: capitalism. Capitalism as a sideshow fleece: That's 'Captain Greedy's Carnival' by the Actors' Gang 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z Fear actually short-circuits rational thought and gets the rally-goer to accept the strongman as the only way to avoid the perceived threat. Unraveling the cult of Trump: American people must once again take power into their own hands 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z It’s the kind of thing that an aspiring strongman like Trump himself would never say—he just blusters, pretending, or maybe even believing, that the things he says are the real facts, the only facts. The Kind of Comedy That Can Hurt Trump 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z He exposes the lies of a strongman and shrinks him into the artist’s own pliable creation. Stories of Then That Still Hold Up Now 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z It simply fails to exploit its assets: an amusing, revisionist take on the mythological strongman, and the charisma of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. Brett Ratner’s ‘Hercules’ is actually entertaining in places If global politics had left you in any doubt, the commotion caused by Mark Wahlberg last week confirmed that we are truly in the age of the strongman. Brawn again: why Hollywood's muscle heroes are bigger than ever 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z But Mr. McDermott was taking special care with Titano’s part, noting that modern musclemen, with their V-shaped torsos, bear little resemblance to strongmen of yore. A Toothy Strongman Gets a Role at the Met Opera 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z The dead included a lion tamer, strongmen, a trapeze artist and clowns, along with workers who set up and broke down the traveling Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus, one of the biggest... A Century Later, a Train Wreck Brings a Fraternal Order Together 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z In Serbia, connections count for everything - a hangover from socialist Yugoslavia and the rule of late Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic, whose regime rewarded corruption and favored party apparatchiks over professionals. The minister, his mentor and the fight against a suspect system in Serbia 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z “Polls indicate,” Mr. Feifer writes, “that rather than a Western form of government, many of the disgruntled probably still want a strongman in the Kremlin — just a better one.” Books of The Times: ‘Russians,’ by Gregory Feifer, Portrays the Putin Era 2014-02-17T23:06:32Z In the age of the strongman, it’s revitalizing to see a powerful man explore emotional vulnerability as a martial art. The Best Video Games of 2018 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z A former South Korean military strongman who seized power in a 1979 coup and brutally crushed pro-democracy protests before going to prison for misdeeds while in office. Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2021 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z But the real reason, I knew, was the Jasmine Revolution of January 2011, when Tunisians rose up against an authoritarian regime and forced the flight of the longtime strongman Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali. Tunisia After the Revolution 2012-04-06T18:10:20Z A world run by strongmen and kleptocrats is nothing compared with a world run by robot overlords. Review: ‘Homo Deus’ Foresees a Godlike Future. (Ignore the Techno-Overlords.) 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z Goldberg drew the genie -- a big blue strongman with a tiny topknot and Williams' face -- growing a second head so he could argue with himself. How Robin Williams became 'Aladdin's' Genie 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z In the show, young lovers carouse, deceive each other and give into seduction amid sword swallowers, a strongman, a fire eater and a contortionist. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘Così Fan Tutte’ and ‘Power’ 2018-07-29T04:00:00Z McCord, best known for playing the heel on the "90210" reboot, is chalking up the Russian strongman's impulse to take over a neighboring nation by military force to poor parenting. Dear Hollywood: In times of international crisis, speechlessness is always preferable to stupidity 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z The Man of Steel first appeared in 1938, when he resembled a circus strongman. Costume Drama: The Highs and Lows of Superhero Uniforms 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z The Met has hired a 12-member ensemble that includes sword swallowers, a strongman, a fire eater, a contortionist and a bearded lady to help make this setting seem a place where disbelief can be suspended. Review: As James Levine Sues, the Met Opera Opens a New ‘Così’ 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z Mr. Colbert replied, “I don’t have anything to compare it to. We haven’t flirted with strongmen before.” Just a Friendly Chat Between 2 Worried Late-Night Hosts 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z It’s tempting to consider the very prevalence of superhero movies, with their apocalyptic dangers thwarted by cults of personality, to be evidence of the widespread craving for a strongman. What the Movies Miss About Trump’s America 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z There, he captured subjects like Eugene Sandow, circus strongman and exotic serpentine dancers. "Jackass 3D": The ultimate action spectacle 2010-10-15T18:50:00Z When strongmen of iron principle held inhuman appeal, Ophüls showed what true principle is made of—and showed that it’s deeply human, and that it’s equally feminine and masculine. Max Ophüls’s “From Mayerling to Sarajevo” 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z Rick is saying that history’s highest-status human leaders are not ruthless strongmen like Hitler, Stalin and Mao. Twenty-one was “the perfect wolf”: He was a legend — he never lost a fight, and he never killed a vanquished rival 2015-07-04T04:00:00Z A bigoted, ignorant would-be strongman as one of the main contenders for president? Dystopias are fantastic in fiction. But do you really want to live in one? 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z Tyrant, the Middle East drama that premiered last month on FX, was immediately ridiculous in all the wrong ways: its caricatures of Arab strongmen and their victims, its strained seriousness, its Homeland-meets-Dynasty family dynamics. REVIEW: The Strain on FX 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z Most of those buried here worked for circuses or carnivals; they were circus owners, talent bookers, stunt pilots, high-wire acts, magicians, strongmen, animal trainers. A circus tragedy lost to history 2011-05-02T21:49:00Z Noah could have compared Trump to a range of other global strongmen who have said crazy things—including ones from Europe like Mussolini or Franco—but he held his comparisons to Africa. This is Larry Wilmore’s brilliant moment: It’s not all about Trevor Noah on Comedy Central 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z At the same time, Stone has been drawn to meeting and documenting some of the world’s dictators and strongmen. Oliver Stone revisits JFK assassination in new documentary 2021-07-12T04:00:00Z Her husband hasn’t a clue what a privilege it is to lead a life unburdened by politics, unbent by the strongmen of history. Dina Nayeri’s ‘Refuge’ Follows the Reinvention of an Exile 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z You hope that’s the outcome, rather than that it makes psychotic strongman politicians more secure.” Expecting the worst helped me prepare for it, says Charlie Brooker 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z In the UN-sponsored elections, Mr Hun Sen failed to win a majority, yet the chain-smoking strongman forced a power-sharing agreement with the winning party. Miracle or mirage? 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z That includes the public upbraiding she endured for what some saw as her racist impersonation of the North Korean strongman Kim Jong-un at the Golden Globes in January. For Margaret Cho, Nothing Is Too Private for a Punch Line 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z Mr Ginsborg also explores the family lives of the strongmen and their henchmen. Behind closed doors 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z The version he offers is the strongman’s revolution, executed from the top in the name of those on the bottom. Viet Thanh Nguyen on the Democrats' failure and our future 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z It is a grim reminder that once again, as in the 1930s, all over the world authoritarian strongmen are riding high. Illuminating the Dark World of the Soviet Gulag, in Photos and Text 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z Never mind that the country in question is currently ruled by a vicious strongman – the point being is that there were better days, and let's not forget, Chernobyl. "The Great" is the cheeky post-enlightment balm we've been waiting for 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z His generation of writers, including Colombia's Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Peru's Mario Vargas Llosa, drew global readership and attention to Latin American culture during a period when strongmen ruled much of the region. Mexican novelist, essayist Carlos Fuentes dies 2012-05-15T19:31:10Z In 2019, with the world in the grip of nostalgic strongmen, it makes sense that cinema would offer us the twin returns of Rambo and the Terminator, musclebound relics of the cold war 1980s. Rambo and the Terminator: the cold war warriors are back 2019-10-12T04:00:00Z We already know Spencer is weak, and thus the sort who’d be willing to kneel to a strongman in exchange for some security and a few fresh vegetables at dinner. ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 7, Episode 7: Dictatorship 101 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z In the finals, the strongmen can expect to pull lorries and heave ornate masonry spheres on to Greek pillars. World's Strongest Man – it's still massive 2012-11-29T12:49:50Z A hundred years later, the South Korea’s strongman Park Chung-hee used the same term to inspire his development drive in the 1960s. ArtsBeat: Q. and A.: Orville Schell and John Delury on China’s Quest for Rejuvenation 2013-07-16T18:46:30Z A giant of man, he pursued disparate occupations — barber, hydraulic engineer, would-be monk, antiques dealer and circus strongman — wandering through Britain and Europe until he fetched up in Egypt. Exhibition Review: Venice's Love Affair With Egypt 2011-11-08T13:30:07Z The saxophone strongman has generated piles of impressive recordings over the past decade, many of them made with a circular breathing technique that allows him to spray continuous information from his horn. Perspective | Is ‘Hereditary’ really the best horror movie in years? Sure sounds like it. 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z Athletic competitions were also a form of hero worship, linked to Hercules and other strongmen. Art Review: Those Greek Heroes, Sometimes Behaving Badly 2010-10-21T20:45:00Z He sees the president-elect as dangerous — with some of the same authoritarian behaviors as the dictatorial strongmen whose reigns he saw in his posts around the world. Sick of the news? This is no time to tune out. 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z Together they form a triumvirate of stereotypes: the lawful strongman, the cunning jester and the femme fatale. ‘Red Notice’ Review: When the Stars Don’t Shine 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z Among deeds weighing heavily on Butler in his later years was how he helped create domestic praetorian “guardias nacionales” in countries including Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic later used by ruthless strongmen as shock troops. Review: An imperialist repents in ‘Gangsters of Capitalism’ 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z But the reform-era strongman Deng Xiaoping advised China to “hide our capacities and bide our time” on this and many other issues. America’s Collision Course With China 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z The Oscar-winning director hopes his documentary will help people better understand a leader who Stone said is wrongly ridiculed "as a strongman, as a buffoon, as a clown." Stone: Film an intro to Chavez and his movement 2010-05-29T03:20:00Z But in this case, Mr. McDermott was not looking for a strong voice, but a strongman. A Toothy Strongman Gets a Role at the Met Opera 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z Now, 12 years after he died during his trial for war crimes, the onetime Serbian strongman is set to divide them again - this time as a character in a play. Milosevic the musical - play set to divide Balkans anew 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z An analytical framework would allow us to understand how strongmen differ from one another, rather than lumping them into a single amorphous category. Authoritarians From Mussolini to Trump 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z Crime fiction, which often connects low-level crime to high-level corruption, can help us understand the operations and effects of a Trump presidency that unabashedly favors strongmen of all kinds. Viet Thanh Nguyen: By the Book 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z Two interconnected problems have confronted Latin American writers since the end of European colonialism — the often malign influence of the United States and the system of rule by authoritarian strongmen known as caudillismo. Mario Vargas Llosa and the Age of the Strongman 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z At their best, these have anthropomorphic appeal: the human lap from grandpa to baby, acrobats standing upon each other's shoulders with the strongman at the base. Martin Creed: Down Over Up; Richard Wright: The Stairwell Project; Joan Mitchell 2010-08-07T23:05:00Z A woman, held horizontally by two men, is walked up a wall, then carried overhead by the strongman. Review: Pina Bausch’s ‘On the Mountain’ in Paris 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z Which left the white working-class guy and gal up for grabs — open to right-wing populists, maybe even strongmen. Richard Rorty’s 1998 Book Suggested Election 2016 Was Coming 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z She produced many enduring shots of strongmen like Castro, the Cuban president; Gen. Augusto Pinochet of Chile; and the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev. Lisl Steiner, Colorful Creator of Black-and-White Photographs, Dies at 95 2023-06-18T04:00:00Z Adam Rayner plays a Middle Eastern strongman’s estranged son who’s living a quiet life in the United States but goes home for a wedding. Some Big Names Help Make Summer TV Less Silly 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z They get the inside joke: These performers are reincarnations of the beloved local circus strongman, Louis Cyr, who personified the Victorian beef-and-barbells physique. How circus-loving Montreal has persisted as the big top of the world 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z Now, 12 years after he died during his trial for war crimes, the onetime Serbian strongman is set to divide them again - this time as a character in a play. Milosevic the musical - play set to divide Balkans anew 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z Others, we learned last week, joined Negan because they were terrified of a dangerous world or were just won over by his charisma, only to eventually be repulsed by his brutality and strongman tactics. ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 7, Episode 4: Negan Takes Over 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z This joyful Public Theater program, which pairs more than 100 local volunteers with professional actors, presents a live version of the 1997 Disney film about the strongman of myth. 8 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z The strongmen, dressed as Edwardian bathers, bring a touch of camp to their absurd manliness; the trapeze artists hangs on as if her life depended on it. Smoke and Mirrors 2010-08-18T20:30:00Z For example, freak shows — where bearded ladies, strongmen, obese people and racial minorities were put on display as objects of curiosity — were once part and parcel for many shows. Ringling Circus Is Returning. Lions, Tigers and Dumbo Are Not. 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z Rebels allied with a young Fidel Castro burst into the street outside Havana's Government Palace as soldiers loyal to strongman Fulgencio Batista rain gunfire from above. Hemingway pic a rare Hollywood moment in Cuba 2014-05-07T13:05:19Z The desire for a strongman ruler to cut through the gridlock of establishment politics has been percolating in the minds of fringe conservatives for some time. Kong: Skull Island – why do Hollywood blockbusters have such Trump-like politics? 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z They wish for a return to an imaginary time when government was just so many Gordian knots waiting for a strongman to slice through. Kong: Skull Island – why do Hollywood blockbusters have such Trump-like politics? 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z In fact, it could even backslide under the draconian social tone being set by strongman President Xi Jinping. Watch The Trailer For China's 'First Gay-Themed Film' 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z But when teenager Flora arrives at the theatre and joins forces with strongman Svaty Václav, it looks as if revolution might finally bloom in the dark backstage world. David Leddy's Sub Rosa 2010-08-10T20:31:00Z It has set up a sort of Munich on the East River, complete with Lederhosen-clad staff, strongman competitions, live music and liter steins. Spare Times for Oct. 9-15 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z The weaselly counselor seeks to ingratiate himself with first the bandit, then the strongman in hopes of glomming onto the ill-gotten gains of one or both. 'Let the Bullets Fly': Chinese actioner is a propulsive blast 2012-03-08T22:00:06Z So infamous are Mr. Weinstein’s ploys that awards watchers all but expect them of him, though his days of strongman campaigning might be behind him. The Oscar Season Sizzles, Strictly by Design 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z There were still posters celebrating sword-swallowers and spiritualists and strongmen able to withstand a cannonball blast to the stomach. The Curious, Astounding Collection of the Magician Ricky Jay 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z The narrative is rich in memorable characters, including Albert “Baby” Bell, the notorious criminal strongman who served as Beck’s mentor, and No Thumbs Helen, the gifted pickpocket who became Beck’s first common-law wife. ‘Street Poison’ review: Why rappers owe a debt to writer Iceberg Slim 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z There are "Star Wars" fans who crave autocracy and would love to vote a strongman into office. "The Mandalorian" shows how a naive reliance on the goodness of democracy can lead the dark side 2023-04-13T04:00:00Z Newcomers to the troupe include Michael Chiklis, playing strongman Dell Toledo–someone had a lot of fun with the names this season–who emerges in the second episode as Elsa’s business rival. REVIEW: Freaks and Shrieks on American Horror Story: Freak Show 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z Most strongmen are ruthlessly efficient and Machiavellian; Trump demonstrated incredible incompetence in failing to build his border wall, repeal Obamacare or expand his voter base. Authoritarians From Mussolini to Trump 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z Our reviewer, James Shapiro, praised the adaptation, calling the book “a dark but ultimately hopeful ‘Macbeth,’ one suited to our own troubled times, in which ‘the slowness of democracy’ is no match for power-hungry strongmen.” New in Paperback: ‘Elastic,’ ‘Brass’ 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z It was built to withstand nuclear war, a secret bunker to shelter communist Yugoslavia's strongman and his inside circle. Bosnia turns Tito nuclear bunker into art gallery 2010-06-16T13:31:00Z “His entire tone on the campaign trail was of an unapologetic strongman,” he said. John Oliver on rise of authoritarianism: 'America needs to be careful' 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z As Frank Rich observed earlier this week in New York magazine, the would-be strongman of the GOP field apparently hadn’t noticed until now that this isn’t his father’s Republican Party anymore. Jeb! Agonistes: Being the sad and gruesome history of a frontrunner who never was and the GOP’s zombie apocalypse 2015-10-31T04:00:00Z He is Rocket’s bounty hunter partner and cellulose strongman. 10 Things You Need to Know Before Watching Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z Despite the efforts of its new strongman, Xi Jinping, China cannot develop fully without greater freedoms. America and China’s long embrace 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z His head is filled with fantasies of an attractive young girlfriend, a gig setting off fireworks for a South American strongman and chaos on the streets during the Republican National Convention. Review | What is Sean Penn thinking? His debut novel is a mess, again. 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z “I’m considering asking him to dress up like an old-school 1920s circus performer, or as a strongman with a mustache, whatever he’s cool with,” Ms. DuLong said. More Couples Ask Friends or Family Members to Marry Them 2012-03-09T16:42:04Z Once the strongman takes office, no one can predict what will happen. Richard Rorty’s Philosophical Argument for National Pride 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z Chaplin’s movie ends with the barber replacing the strongman and pleading fervently for peace. Sacha Baron Cohen's The Dictator: He Has Ways of Making You Laugh 2012-05-14T14:30:51Z Russian state television Rossiya on Wednesday broadcast the first episode of "The Team" — modeled on Trump's "The Apprentice" — in which 16 contestants are competing to become an assistant to the Chechen strongman. Chechen leader Kadyrov hosts "The Apprentice"-style TV show 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z Decades later, Schwarzenegger met Vlasov again and the older strongman gave the younger strongman a coffee cup as a token of friendship. Perspective | Arnold Schwarzenegger tries to show Russians a different kind of strongman 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z He’s like a man wielding the hammer at a carnival’s strongman attraction; the bell nearly always gets to the top. The Kings of Summer: Boys N the Woods 2013-05-31T09:45:46Z Generals Alcazar and Tapioca from Tintin and the Picaros, however, are as interchangeable with any Latin strongman as they are with one another. Culture flash: fallen dictators 2011-08-24T21:31:01Z In 1986 she talked her way into the compound of the Libyan strongman Muammar el-Qaddafi in Tripoli. She Reported From the World’s Combat Zones, at the Cost of Her Life 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z The new “Macbeth” takes place circa 1970, not in a kingdom but in a nominal democracy with a tendency to elect strongmen. Review | Jo Nesbo puts a Nordic chill on ‘Macbeth’ 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z If the courts stand in his way, he will, like strongmen in other countries, turn on them and seek to bend them to his will. Building the mandate for MAGA: Why Trump is choosing a harm offensive over a charm offensive 2023-11-15T05:00:00Z Haley, in a speech last month to the Republican Jewish Coalition, slammed Trump’s compliments of foreign strongmen and described his style of “chaos, vendettas and drama” as dangerous. Third GOP debate will focus on Israel and foreign policy, but also on who could beat Donald Trump 2023-11-07T05:00:00Z Modi, who heads a Hindu-nationalist party and cultivates a strongman image, is unlikely to be seen backing down, especially before the elections. India-Canada diplomatic thaw remains remote despite visa easing 2023-11-06T05:00:00Z The Trump years are a little bit different in that he becomes a strongman very quickly and turns that intellectual and rhetorical strategy into a movement. "We have been here before": Heather Cox Richardson on how to save our republic 2023-11-02T04:00:00Z Whatever the Israeli prime minister hoped to gain from the Hamas-led massacre, he is not getting the uncritical submission to his strongman play-acting that he seems to have expected. From 9/11 to Netanyahu: The world is learning that toxic masculinity won't keep us safe 2023-11-02T04:00:00Z If the courts stand in his way, he will, like strongmen in other countries, turn on them and seek to bend them to his will. Building the mandate for MAGA: Why Trump is choosing a harm offensive over a charm offensive 2023-11-15T05:00:00Z The war in Ukraine has further dented that strongman image. Putin is expected to seek reelection in Russia, but who would run if he doesn’t? 2023-11-01T04:00:00Z Now, General Li has been dismissed after nearly two months out of public view — the latest example of China’s capricious rules of power under the strongman leader Xi Jinping. China Dismisses Defense Minister Amid Swirl of Speculation 2023-10-24T04:00:00Z As a historian, Richardson says saw warning signs early in Trump’s first presidential campaign as he adopted the "strongman" persona. "We have been here before": Heather Cox Richardson on how to save our republic 2023-11-02T04:00:00Z The former son-in-law of late strongman president Suharto, Prabowo is accused of involvement in the kidnapping of student activists in 1998 and rights abuses in Papua and East Timor. Once disgraced, Indonesian ex-general tipped for presidency after makeover 2023-10-23T04:00:00Z Increasingly, Republican politicians and elite thinkers are calling for a "Red Caesar" — a strongman dictator who can take control of America and whip us into shape — to replace our elected office of president. The right's "Red Caesar" plan: GOP's new order marches onward — only voters can stop it 2023-10-09T04:00:00Z "Or temporarily call off the elections, because there's no one else who could defend our country today," added the Chechen strongman, a Putin protege who has raised his public profile since the war began. Putin ally suggests postponing March presidential election, or excluding rivals 2023-10-07T04:00:00Z Mr Sisi was once seen as a guarantor of stability after years of turmoil in Egypt, and he successfully projected a strongman image. Egypt's early presidential election campaign off to eventful start 2023-10-05T04:00:00Z Trump lied, bragged about his crimes, acted like a political strongman and a bully, and wallowed in conspiracy theories. "Meet the Press" deserves the backlash 2023-09-20T04:00:00Z It would make Putin the strongman of Eastern Europe, empowered to intimidate his neighbors with threats of more invasions. Column: Zelensky is coming to Washington to ask for more Ukraine aid. Congress should say yes 2023-09-17T04:00:00Z “Within six or eight hours of Putin’s speech, they announced the deal. But what type of strongman makes a deal with a guy he’s accused of treason?” he said. Putin’s revenge: Brutal crackdown on bloggers, critics of Ukraine war follows a familiar pattern 2023-09-12T04:00:00Z Experts on authoritarianism often argue that would-be strongmen learn what a polity will except, in part, based on the level of resistance their power-grabs face. Time for Judge Chutkan to put a stop to Trump's antics 2023-09-12T04:00:00Z Another defining feature of fake right-wing populist and other authoritarian and fascist movements is that the followers want a leader, i.e. a strongman, who will break the law "to get things done". Under Trump, GOP is a complete crime mob 2023-09-01T04:00:00Z Activists and opponents called it a “watershed moment” in international justice that could trigger prosecutions abroad of other Belarus officials — including its strongman leader. Ex-official under Belarus President Lukashenko to face Swiss trial over enforced disappearances 2023-08-30T04:00:00Z Algeria was spiraling into chaos and extremist violence, and Nezzar emerged as the strongman in the junta. Switzerland indicts Algerian ex-minister for alleged crimes against humanity during 1990s insurgency 2023-08-29T04:00:00Z Donald Trump immediately monetized the image of his mug shot, with it now becoming part of his fascist strongman aesthetic and another way for his cult members to signal their loyalty to him. If Trump falls, will MAGA vanish? It won't be that easy 2023-08-29T04:00:00Z He boasted again of his relationships with those strongmen last week in his interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson. Column: Republicans are divided over foreign policy. That's good for the country — and for the GOP 2023-08-27T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, the wannabe fascist strongman's opponent Biden looks more and more like a sitting duck with each passing day that the venomous, hate-spitting reptile Trump dominates the news. Democratic wishcasting: The one argument that might persuade GOP voters against Trump 2023-08-23T04:00:00Z Will Hun Manet continue his father's strongman style of leadership or offer Cambodia democratic reforms and improve ties with the West? Explainer: Cambodia's new leader Hun Manet, strongman or reformer? 2023-08-22T04:00:00Z “We are hiring real strongmen and continuing to fulfill the tasks which were set and which we promised to handle,” the speaker in the video says, toting an assault rifle and wearing military fatigues. Russian mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin said to be recruiting Wagner ‘strongmen’ for Africa 2023-08-21T04:00:00Z Like other political strongmen and demagogues, Donald Trump is using his power and authority over his followers to extract more money from them. If Trump falls, will MAGA vanish? It won't be that easy 2023-08-29T04:00:00Z When Trump talks like a strongman, it just shows how weak he actually is. Trump rolls out his last line of defense: "Transactional antisemitism" 2023-08-21T04:00:00Z But for three months, the strongman leader was largely silent on the conflict in Manipur. Modi says India’s economy will be among the top three in the world within five years 2023-08-14T04:00:00Z “This existential, expanding and global scourge is manifesting in tyrants and strongmen who commit crimes against humanity, suppress essential freedoms, subvert democracies and murder the truth with lies,” she said. A throng of interfaith leaders to focus on combating authoritarianism at global gathering in Chicago 2023-08-14T04:00:00Z The country’s bolder foreign policy began to emerge a decade ago, when the Arab Spring revolutions toppled regional strongmen around the same time that President Barack Obama declared a pivot to Asia. An Oil-Rich Ally Tests Its Relationship With the U.S. 2023-08-08T04:00:00Z For three months, the strongman leader has been absent on arguably the worst ethnic violence ever seen in the remote state, where Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party is in power. India’s Modi faces a no-confidence vote over silence on ethnic violence tearing at remote Manipur 2023-08-06T04:00:00Z “I think he really likes strongmen,” Mr. Christie said of Mr. Trump in an interview late Thursday aboard a train to Kyiv. Chris Christie Meets With Ukrainian President in Surprise Trip to Kyiv 2023-08-04T04:00:00Z Vladimir V. Putin, Russia’s leader, has constantly belittled Ukrainian independence and taken the same dim view of Ukraine as Soviet strongmen like Stalin and the czars before him. ‘It’s Crazy’: The Scramble for Ancient Treasures After Ukraine’s Dam Disaster 2023-08-04T04:00:00Z As a military strongman, he was seen as ideally placed to strike a rapport with the coup leaders and to urge them to step down. Niger coup: A litmus test for democracy in West Africa 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z Hell hath no fury like a strongman scorned. MAGA longs to impeach Joe Biden — and un-impeach Donald Trump. It won't work 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z He also argues that President George W. Bush’s invasion of Iraq was an inspiration for Putin’s subsequent strongman behavior in Ukraine. This Russian exile fights Putin's imperialism. If you don't want to hear from him, he gets it 2023-07-25T04:00:00Z Because illnesses can damage a ruler’s carefully maintained veneer of invincibility, strongmen around the world often obfuscate their medical history. Israeli doctors reveal Netanyahu’s heart problem only after implanting pacemaker 2023-07-24T04:00:00Z But Cambodia's brand is closely tied to Hun Manet's father, who has been a strongman ruler for nearly four decades, and some doubt the son will be any different. Like strongman, like son? Cambodia's Hun Manet makes political debut 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z At 77, he's facing real accountability for the first time in his life, and he's playing the victim instead of the Putinesque strongman. How the GOP got "devoured by their own Frankenstein monster" 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z The angry reaction from officials and Kremlin-connected lawmakers who called for a tough response could signal authorities’ intentions to cut the Chechen strongman down to size. Russian journalist sustained a brain injury and fractures during a brutal beating in Chechnya 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z Orlando Figes, whose most recent book is “The Story of Russia,” on the country’s love of strongmen, the fate of dissenters and how the war will end. This Russian exile fights Putin's imperialism. If you don't want to hear from him, he gets it 2023-07-25T04:00:00Z The Kremlin has relied on Chechnya’s strongman leader, Ramzan Kadyrov, to keep the North Caucasus region stable after two devastating separatist wars. Masked assailants attack journalist and lawyer in Russia’s Chechnya province 2023-07-04T04:00:00Z And Mr. Putin’s decision to grant sanctuary in Belarus to Yevgeny V. Prigozhin, the leader of the uprising, smacked of a compromise rather than the act of a strongman with consolidated power. Wagner Uprising Highlights China’s Risks With Russia 2023-07-01T04:00:00Z The 70-year-old strongman, who has ruled the Southeast Asian nation of 16 million for four decades, spoke before a crowd in the capital of Phnom Penh. Cambodia's Hun Sen kicks off campaign for virtually unopposed election 2023-07-01T04:00:00Z But the damage to Putin's strongman image and possibly his plans to subjugate Ukraine by force had been done. Expert: Putin’s Ukraine war keeps yielding dividends – but not for him 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z Prigozhin's abortive insurrection has punctured the "strongman" image of Putin, both for world leaders and for ordinary Russians. Expert: Wagner’s mutiny punctured Putin’s "strongman" image and exposed cracks in his rule 2023-06-26T04:00:00Z For example, Ramzan Kadyrov, the strongman leader of the Chechnya region who also has taken direct aim at Russian military leadership, made clear Saturday he sides with Mr. Putin. Chaos in Russia: Government troops fire on Wagner rebels moving toward Moscow, Putin condemns ‘trea 2023-06-24T04:00:00Z “What strongmen do is, if you are corrupt, you need to get back into power to shut down all the institutions that can harm you.” Trump’s promise of payback for prosecution follows years of attacking democratic traditions 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z How do we treat candidates who thrive on the kind of cruelty and strongman talk that DeSantis and others continue to engage in? Essay: Is racism making us too tired to fight it? 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z He had a penchant for strongmen politicians, such as Vladimir Putin, who he was great friends with. Silvio Berlusconi's big footprint in Europe 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z Here was the strongman’s daughter standing next to an Ixil interpreter and speaking about how villagers needed agricultural fertilizers and schools with running water. A Guatemalan dictator's daughter runs for president, illuminating the country's dark past 2023-06-12T04:00:00Z The fighting derailed the launch of a transition towards civilian rule four years after a popular uprising ousted strongman President Omar al-Bashir. Sudanese capital quiet as 24-hour ceasefire takes hold 2023-06-10T04:00:00Z The conflict in Sudan derailed the launch of a transition towards civilian rule four years after a popular uprising ousted strongman President Omar al-Bashir. Rebel mobilisation in southern Sudan raises fears of conflict spreading 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z The fighting derailed the launch a transition towards civilian rule four years after a popular uprising ousted strongman president Omar al-Bashir. Sudan military factions battle over weapons and fuel depots 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z But observers predicted that the country’s longtime strongman leader is unlikely to depart from his policy of engaging with both Russia and the West. With new mandate secured, Turkey’s Erdogan likely to continue engaging with both West and Russia 2023-05-28T04:00:00Z TALLINN, Estonia — Belarus and Russia have no plans to adopt a joint currency in the near future, Belarus’ strongman leader announced on Monday. Belarus has no immediate plans to adopt Russian currency, its strongman leader Lukashenko says 2023-05-29T04:00:00Z Similar big rallies were held in Serbia in the early 1990s when strongman Slobodan Milosevic delivered fiery speeches that heralded the violent breakup of Yugoslavia and rallied the masses for the wars that followed. Pro-government rally planned in Serbia amid growing discontent after mass shootings 2023-05-26T04:00:00Z At the heart of strongman rule is the claim that he and his agents are above the law, above judgment, and not beholden to the truth," I wrote in Strongmen in 2020. " The GOP's criminality goes international 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z Despite his popularity and strongman image, Modi is a divisive figure at home and abroad. Overseas Indians flock to Modi's rally in Sydney 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z Stability only began to return because of a new political strongman. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z “Our experience shows that these strongmen learn from each other,” Mr. Suárez said. A Newspaper’s Closing Deals a Blow to a Nation’s Democracy 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z But Mr. Erdogan’s grip on the country could also contribute to his undoing, if voters drop him because of his strongman ways and persistently high inflation that has left Turks feeling poorer. Turkey’s President Amassed Power. He Could Still Lose This Election. 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z The 69-year-old strongman politician, who has been in office for the past two decades as prime minister and president having easily won five elections, is seeking a third consecutive presidential term. A look at the candidates in Turkey’s presidential elections 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z Such is the allure and power of the strongman leader and demagogue fake right-wing populist. Trump's CNN town hall is rigged. So Why is no one protesting? 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z The son and namesake of the late Philippines strongman had seemed intent on following the path of his predecessor, Rodrigo Duterte, who pursued closer ties with China. Biden, Marcos set to meet as tensions grow with China 2023-04-30T04:00:00Z Musk has made past comments suggesting he sees little difference between state-funded propaganda agencies operated by authoritarian strongmen and independent news outlets in the west. Twitter changes stoke Russian, Chinese propaganda surge 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z Today, the hope and promise of that day have been shattered by the senseless slaughter taking place in Khartoum as two rival military strongmen, both part of that initial ruling council, battle for supremacy. Opinion | In Sudan bloodbath, neither warring general should win 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z But other states may prefer to back another strongman, and to thwart the will of the Sudanese people, who have waited decades for one of Africa's struggling giants to fulfil its potential. Sudan fighting: Why it matters to countries worldwide 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z Powell and Giuliani, presented as Trump-aligned attorneys, joined Fox broadcasts to share baseless conspiracy theories, such as one tying Dominion to Venezuelan socialist strongman Hugo Chávez. The Dominion vs. Fox defamation case is finally going to trial 2023-04-16T04:00:00Z Former Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic, a driving force behind the Balkan wars of the 1990s, went on trial for war crimes, including genocide, at a United Nations tribunal in The Hague after he lost power. War-crimes warrant for Putin could complicate Ukraine peace 2023-04-01T04:00:00Z We have all the hallmarks — support for “strongmen” with questionable ethics, rabid exaltation of our “dear leader,” turning a blind eye to corrupt motives plus rising violence and racism. The Getty has comfy benches, but food and drink in the galleries won't sit well 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z The early promise of the Arab Spring in 2011 led to civil war and strife in Libya and the return of an authoritarian strongman in Egypt. Opinion | In Sudan bloodbath, neither warring general should win 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z For the first time in years, India's splintered opposition is sinking its differences to take on strongman Prime Minister Narendra Modi, which could extend to a substantial challenge in national elections due in 2024. Israel is 'on rampage' against human rights, new HRW chief says 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z For the first time in years, India's splintered opposition is sinking its differences to take on strongman Prime Minister Narendra Modi, which could extend to a substantial challenge in national elections due in 2024. Lebanon has 'no other way out' than IMF deal, U.S. official says 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z What is certain, some foreign diplomats say, is that whatever deals are thrashed out by the two strongmen, Xi now has the upper hand in the relationship. Analysis: China's Xi takes 'diplomatic dance' to Russia 2023-03-18T04:00:00Z But others in a party that not that long ago revered the anti-Soviet posture of President Ronald Reagan have been less inclined to confront Putin, with some even expressing admiration for the authoritarian strongman. DeSantis dismisses Russian invasion of Ukraine as a ‘territorial dispute’ 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z That kind of speechifying echoes the strongman rhetoric favored by fascist dictators, but it also has an Old Testament resonance; the vengeful, God-anointed king raised up to battle the forces of worldly wickedness. Trump and DeSantis go biblical 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z Under strongman leader Xi Jinping, Chinese diplomacy has become known for angry outbursts against the West, threats against Taiwan, aggressive moves in the South China Sea and a refusal to condemn Russia over Ukraine. Iran-Saudi Arabia deal casts China in unfamiliar global role 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z Erdogan is seeking to extend his two decades in power, and the voting will determine whether Turkey continues on the increasingly authoritarian course set by the strongman politician. Turkish president sets May 14 election date as he seeks to extend rule 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z It will determine whether the country will take a more democratic path or continue on the increasingly authoritarian course set by the strongman politician. Erdogan sets Turkey election date for May 14 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z They also feature a collection of strongmen with whom Trump has kept in touch since leaving office and as he wages a third White House run. New Trump book features letters from foreign leaders, celebs 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z But the emergence of a united opposition, even after a delay in picking its candidate, could prove a bigger challenge for the strongman, analysts say. Turkey's opposition leader looks to emerge from Erdogan's shadow 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z The restriction was born of the country's experience of martial law under his namesake father, the late strongman Ferdinand Marcos, who ruled the country for more than two decades. Philippines' lower house opens door to amending charter 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z Trump surrogates also falsely suggested Dominion’s software was developed by a Venezuelan company with ties to strongman Hugo Chavez to help him tilt elections. Murdoch has survived scandal after scandal. Will Dominion-Fox News lawsuit be different? 2023-03-04T05:00:00Z Some worry that the sharp erosion of checks on government power under the strongman rule of Mr. Modi could open the door to abuses of the central identity database. Where Digital Payments, Even for a 10-Cent Chai, Are Colossal in Scale 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z There are Russian oligarchs and business titans, strongmen, burner phones, janky bars and SROs, and dubious, shadowy figures with dirty hands. Review | Walter Mosley’s new mystery reminds us why he’s a master of noir 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z He was arrested in 2017 over accusations he was conspiring with the United States to overthrow self-styled strongman Hun Sen, who has ruled Cambodia for nearly four decades. Cambodian opposition figure Kem Sokha sentenced to 27 years for treason 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z They reject democracy for that reason and are subsequently attracted to strongman leaders and autocratic regimes because they incorrectly believe that they are simple, orderly and efficient. The science behind why conservatives are so easily triggered 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z In Warsaw, Poland, Mr. Biden framed the ongoing war as a test of the world’s democracies to stand up to autocratic strongmen. In dueling speeches, Putin and Biden offer radically different visions of the fight to come 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z And yet, almost a year after the invasion of Ukraine, Russians continue to support strongman Putin and the war. Opinion: How long will Russians tolerate Putin's costly war? 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z The Kremlin strongman, who started the war on Feb. 24, 2022, and could end it in a minute, appears to be determined to prevail, ruthlessly and at all costs. Putin’s Ukraine gamble seen as biggest threat to his rule 2023-02-19T05:00:00Z But the widening of state authority in the name of security, for some analysts, is in-step with other strongman moves Bukele has made to centralize power. El Salvador vows gang crackdown will go on as citizens cheer safer streets 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z “Yet as a strongman Musharraf had a fatal flaw: He wanted to be liked.” Pervez Musharraf, Pakistani general turned autocrat, dies at 79 2023-02-05T05:00:00Z Mr. Biden, meanwhile, took a much more personal line of attack, condemning his Russian counterpart as an autocratic strongman and a brutal dictator bent on crushing the human spirit. In dueling speeches, Putin and Biden offer radically different visions of the fight to come 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z Once, he was at an amusement park playing the strongman game, in which the goal is to hit a lever with a hammer firmly enough to ring a bell. ‘My Watch Think’s I’m Dead’ 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z Former Putin speechwriter Abbas Gallyamov said the Russian president doesn’t admit mistakes or defeats, and “desperately needs a victory just to prove the point that he’s a strongman.” Putin’s Ukraine gamble seen as biggest threat to his rule 2023-02-19T05:00:00Z In Sudan, it was originally associated with former strongman Omar al-Bashir and now works with the military leaders who replaced him. US seeks to expel Russian mercenaries from Sudan, Libya 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z Steele exudes personality with his long blond hair and strongman persona as a freakishly brutish ballcarrier, probably making him an instant fan favorite. UCLA and USC fans should feel good about their recruiting haul despite their rankings 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z "We started to see coups d'etat, which we thought was something in the past. We started to see this phenomenon of the strongman ... It's something we need to fight back against." Africa must fight 'strongman' backslide, billionaire Ibrahim says 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z Robust judicial constraints on would-be strongmen are crucial to a democracy's resilience, according to a team of political scientists who studied 59 examples of autocratization in the last 30 years. A federal court holds Trump accountable for his abuse of the law: Here's why that matters 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z It was particularly striking to see a leader voluntarily relinquish power at a moment when the world’s strongmen — and even some elected presidents — are clinging ferociously to theirs. Which Leaders Resign, Like Jacinda Ardern? Often, the System Decides. 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z Here’s one possibility – his “president,” Russian strongman Vladimir Putin – who President Biden has referred to as a “butcher” for the war crimes committed in his invasion of Ukraine – certainly wouldn’t approve. LOVERRO: Silence on Ovechkin skipping Pride night activities speaks volumes on Russian relations 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z Many prefer, however, to cherry-pick their allegiances, declining the binary choice offered by Mr. Biden in his depiction of a world at a tipping point between Western democratic openness and the strongman’s repression. Davos Confronts a New World Order 2023-01-14T05:00:00Z The question of succession has taken center stage in Uganda, one of many African countries ruled by aging strongmen. ‘A Wild Card’: Son of Uganda’s President Jostles to Succeed His Father 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z Here are some facts that opened my eyes and that were missing from the Dec. 31 news article “Viktor Orban: Ukraine’s other problematic strongman neighbor”: Opinion | Ethnic minorities have a place in Ukraine 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z But the deterrents to stepping down in a presidential democracy pale in comparison to those in an autocracy — especially one in which power is concentrated around a single strongman leader. Which Leaders Resign, Like Jacinda Ardern? Often, the System Decides. 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z The majorities rejecting military regimes and strongman rule by one person is even greater. Opinion | The U.S. should think of Africa as a partner, not a pawn 2023-01-02T05:00:00Z “I’m the opposite of a strongman — I believe in democracies and obviously in the balance between the three branches of government,” Mr. Netanyahu said in a recent interview with Honestly, an American podcast. Coalition Deal Puts Netanyahu on Brink of Power in Israel 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z Six days of turmoil over Fiji’s general election ended with the ousting of a 16-year strongman leader. Your Wednesday Briefing 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z Turnout in Tunisia’s parliamentary elections was low, around 11 percent, prompting calls from the opposition for Kais Saied, the strongman president, to step down. Your Wednesday Briefing: Zelensky Visits Bakhmut 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z Six days of turmoil over Fiji’s general election ended on Tuesday with the ousting of a 16-year strongman leader who had embraced China and eroded democratic norms in the country. In Fiji’s Election, One Former Coup Leader Displaces Another 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z He is a longtime critic of the Rwandan leader, who was himself once hailed as a peacemaker — but has more recently been criticized widely as a repressive strongman. Rwanda’s president says the United States can’t ‘bully’ him into releasing a political opponent. 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z The move breaks with a tradition that started in the early years of Putin’s presidency, and the cancellation, which had been widely expected, was the latest indication that Russia’s strongman leader is becoming increasingly remote. Kremlin says no peace for Ukraine by Christmas (or New Year’s) 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z With strongman leaders and nationalism surging around the world, Russia’s war against Ukraine has shifted the locus of Boeing’s overseas hiring. Ditching Russia, Boeing’s engineer search intensifies in India, Brazil 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z Bout has been accused of supplying weapons to South America, the Middle East and Africa, including Liberian warlord Charles Taylor and Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi, according to an Associated Press rundown of his exploits. Brittney Griner release comes with doubts about swap for ‘merchant of death,’ plight of Paul Whelan 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z Embassy comparing the mustachioed strongman to mafia bosses in “The Godfather.” Fearing scandal, Air Force blocked generals’ foreign consulting deals Xi Jinping, the country’s strongman leader, is expanding the Chinese Communist Party’s grip over its people beyond what even Mao Zedong attained. The Chinese Dream, Denied 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z The country’s criminal code was last updated in 1981 by the strongman Suharto, with some liberalization occurring after the fall of his New Order government in 1998. New Indonesian criminal code would ban extramarital relations, cohabitation before marriage 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z Demagogues and strongmen feed on moments like this of darkness and despair. Former Obama lawyer Ian Bassin: The coming indictment of Donald Trump will break his power 2022-11-28T05:00:00Z But he added that the current war provided an opportunity for a younger generation, including those fighting in Ukraine, to explore their culture separately from the Chechen strongman. Chechens fighting for Ukraine see chance to 'free' their homeland 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z But after several years, he followed with his own turn to strongman rule. Bio of Polish statesman holds lessons on today’s Ukraine 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z Trump himself, as much as he likes to act like a strongman, has the same mentality. Trump's announcement proves it, again: Republicans aren't tough — they're a bunch of weenies 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z During Mr. Trump’s time in office, his style differed sharply, aligning America with strongmen and dictators at the expense of traditional democratic allies. Amid Crises, Biden Offers the World a Choice: My Way, or Trump’s 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z People are attracted to these strongman demagogue figures because they take advantage of people's grievances and fears. Former Obama lawyer Ian Bassin: The coming indictment of Donald Trump will break his power 2022-11-28T05:00:00Z Prize money for winners is rare if available at all, and though the international profile of Australian athletes is increasing, it’s still not enough to be consistently competitive against American or European strongmen. The Australian Teacher Fighting to Be the World’s Strongest Woman 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z He has joined the strongman leader of the Russian republic of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, in publicly criticizing Moscow’s military brass over its conduct of the war. What’s ‘Putin’s chef’ cooking up with talk on US meddling? 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z Ramzan Kadyrov, the strongman ruler of the Russian republic of Chechnya, described it as a “difficult but right choice between senseless sacrifices for the sake of high-profile statements and saving the priceless lives of soldiers.” Is Putin laying the groundwork for a cease-fire with the Kherson withdrawal order? 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z General Lapin’s fate had been the subject of increasing speculation since Ramzan Kadyrov, the strongman leader of the southern Russian republic of Chechnya, slammed him as “incompetent” in a Telegram post last month. Russian state media confirms that a top general is no longer in his post. 2022-11-06T04:00:00Z Mr. Modi seems to enjoy a good rapport with Russia’s leader, Vladimir V. Putin, with whom he shares certain strongman characteristics. Could India Help Broker Peace in Ukraine? 2022-11-06T04:00:00Z Before qualifying for World’s Strongest Woman, Ms. Smith had been participating in strongman tournaments for three years. The Australian Teacher Fighting to Be the World’s Strongest Woman 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z The aide said that Mr. Richardson, a former New Mexico politician known for striking deals with foreign strongmen to free American prisoners, was headed to Moscow to negotiate Trevor’s release. Can Bill Richardson Free Brittney Griner and Paul Whelan? 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z The authorities today place less emphasis on the darker chapters of the Stalin years, while Stalin himself is often portrayed as a strongman who defeated Nazi Germany and turned the Soviet Union into a superpower. Ukraine war: Russia's uncertain future a product of its past 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z Xi’s strongman approach is a drag on China’s economy, which grew at an annual rate of 3 percent for the first nine months of this year, down from more than 8 percent last year. Economic ties with China take a backseat to national security 2022-10-29T04:00:00Z It was a history of authoritarian strongmen, starting with Mussolini. Column: Is Arizona paving 'the road to authoritarianism' with its slate of GOP election deniers? 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z The limited prize money in strongman means Ms. Smith — given her modest teacher’s salary — relies on sponsorships to subsidize her costs. The Australian Teacher Fighting to Be the World’s Strongest Woman 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z In their vision, they are part of a new world order, two countries led by strongmen ideologically opposed to democracy. Shunned by the West, Russia and Myanmar Form a Partnership of Unequals 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z It is clear that Donald Trump still aspires to be an authoritarian strongman and fascist, looking to some of the worst such leaders in history as his role models. Adam Hochschild on history and the orange man: "We haven't had a figure exactly like him before" 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z Turkey’s strongman ruler, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has criticized Western sanctions against Russia, said in March that Turkey could not impose sanctions because of its energy needs and industry deals. Russian Superyachts Find Safe Haven in Turkey, Raising Concerns in Washington 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z Trump’s long obsessions with strongmen leaders — and Kim in particular — comes through in the interviews. New Woodward audiobook shows Trump knew Kim letters were classified 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z “The people that make up strongman are incredible,” she said. The Australian Teacher Fighting to Be the World’s Strongest Woman 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z He was more a consensus builder, less a strongman, and by his time, the era of collective leadership which Deng Xiaoping had ushered in was considered a norm - or so people thought. What these buzzwords say about Xi's China 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z For one thing, it’s not clear what happens to the fading strongmen. Leaders of democracies increasingly echo Putin in authoritarian tilt 2022-10-16T04:00:00Z Successful pro-democracy uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt were diverted by strongman presidents, Yemen collapsed into civil war and Syria illustrated the vast carnage that a regime can inflict on its people to ensure its survival. Iran’s Loyal Security Forces Protect Ruling System That Protesters Want to Topple 2022-10-16T04:00:00Z “Mao publicly demonstrated an image of a strongman who was not afraid of nuclear war,” said Tong Zhao, senior fellow in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Russian nuclear fears loom in the geopolitical background for China. 2022-10-16T04:00:00Z Mason Dannatt, whose company, Australia’s Strongest, holds strongman competitions in Australia, described the tournaments as laid-back affairs. The Australian Teacher Fighting to Be the World’s Strongest Woman 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z And Mr. Xi’s fellow strongman, Vladimir V. Putin, has been mired in the floundering Ukraine invasion, forcing Beijing into diplomatic contortions. ‘Uncle Xi’ to Exalted Ruler: China’s Leader Embodies His Authoritarian Era 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z In the Philippines this year, voters chose the son of their former dictator Ferdinand Marcos as president, electing to stick with strongman politics. Leaders of democracies increasingly echo Putin in authoritarian tilt 2022-10-16T04:00:00Z Yet, as Castro consolidated control, Mr. Cubela became increasingly dismayed by his embrace of communism and strongman rule. Rolando Cubela, who plotted with CIA to kill Cuba’s Castro, dies at 89 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z He also instituted term and age limits for party leaders, meant to prevent the rise of another strongman like Mao. Observer: No matter who climbs Beijing’s ranks, Xi rules 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z In 2022, Mr. Dannatt’s company ran 22 strongman competitions; in 2023, it is running 24, including a new series of competitions for middleweight athletes, junior strongmen and women, and athletes of all abilities. The Australian Teacher Fighting to Be the World’s Strongest Woman 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z Ramzan Kadyrov, the strongman leader of Chechnya, a Russian region in the North Caucasus, said he was now “100% happy” with the course of the Kremlin’s “special military operation” in Ukraine. Kremlin war hawks demand more devastating strikes on Ukraine 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z Trump’s definition of American greatness has long included open admiration of strongmen around the world. Leaders of democracies increasingly echo Putin in authoritarian tilt 2022-10-16T04:00:00Z The strongman leader of the Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov — who recently excoriated the army’s “incompetent” leadership — said in a Telegram post that he was now “100 percent happy” with the war effort. With Attacks on Ukraine, Putin Gives Hard-Liners What They Wanted 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z The Belarusian strongman, who has so far resisted pressure from Moscow to send in his own troops, accused Ukraine, which shares a long border with Belarus, of planning attacks from the south, without citing evidence. Russian troops will return to Belarus in large numbers, Lukashenko says. 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z She competes in a sport called strongman, where participants attempt to lift, hold, pull or carry everything from dumbbells to cars to planes. The Australian Teacher Fighting to Be the World’s Strongest Woman 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z In countries such as Hungary, Turkey and Egypt, he said, we see voters choosing strongmen who dismantle the democratic process and minority rights. Opinion | A Washington foreign policy legend issues a dire warning 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z More Republicans are adopting the kind of strongman rhetoric that seemed to play so well for Trump. Leaders of democracies increasingly echo Putin in authoritarian tilt 2022-10-16T04:00:00Z It comes on the heels of a tirade against the military leadership published over the weekend by Ramzan Kadyrov, the strongman ruler of the southern Russian republic of Chechnya and an ally of Mr. Putin. Blunt Criticism of Russian Army Signals New Challenge for Putin 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z On Saturday, the crowd cheered enthusiastically as Trump touted plans to use the death penalty to kill drug dealers and traffickers if he returns to the White House, emulating the strongman leaders he’s often admired. Trump rallies drift to fringe ahead of potential 2024 bid 2022-10-03T04:00:00Z Awarded by one of strongman’s leading event organizers, Train Strongman, it is the highest honor for female-identifying strongman athletes. The Australian Teacher Fighting to Be the World’s Strongest Woman 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z Citizen uprisings still sometimes force significant change, for example in Sri Lanka, where protests played a role in removing a strongman president this year. Even as Iranians Rise Up, Protests Worldwide Are Failing at Record Rates 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z The vote — Sunday is the first round — is pitting Bolsonaro’s supporters, the most radical of whom want a strongman in office, against Brazilians eager to end his Trumpian run. Bolsonaro vs. Lula: A referendum on Brazil’s young democracy 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z These are politicians like, say, Slobodan Milosevic, the former Serbian strongman, who recognize an opportunity in appealing to the fears of a particular group. Expert: US has a "terrible system that’s ripe to be exploited" by Republicans seeking minority rule 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z Putin is the ultimate strongman in today's world and wants to get the old Soviet Union band back together. It's a scary time in America — but know this: Donald Trump is finished 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z In Australia, the sport of strongman occupies a particular niche. The Australian Teacher Fighting to Be the World’s Strongest Woman 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z Rising illiberal attitudes, which often see strongman rule as desirable and protests as lawlessness, sometimes manifest as popular support for government suppression of those movements. Even as Iranians Rise Up, Protests Worldwide Are Failing at Record Rates 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z Hundreds of Filipino activists on Wednesday took to the streets to mark the 50th anniversary of the late strongman Ferdinand Marcos Sr's declaration of martial law. South Korean, Japanese leaders meet, agree on need to improve ties -Yonhap 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z She has of late tried to distance herself from prior support for the strongmen of Russia and China and to reemphasize her willingness to patriotically serve her country. Giorgia Meloni: Political provocateur set to become Italy’s first far-right leader since Mussolini 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z Yes, she has expressed admiration for Italy’s World War II strongman leader Benito Mussolini, but he’d be no model for her government. Meloni’s surge has far-right on the brink of power in Rome 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z Most competitions take place in a handful of strength-sports-focused gyms, with audiences mostly comprising other strongman athletes, industry professionals and people new to strength sports. The Australian Teacher Fighting to Be the World’s Strongest Woman 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z The rare reproach showed the 69-year-old Russian strongman coming under extraordinary pressure from all sides. Modi rebukes Putin over war in Ukraine 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z For nearly three decades, Kazakhstan was ruled by a Soviet-era strongman. Xinjiang Kazakh plans political party to counter China’s Xi 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z For a second-rate strongman, Mr. Orban, prime minister of a landlocked country with a population on par with that of Honduras, has punched way above his weight. Opinion | The E.U. must punish Viktor Orban, Hungary’s authoritarian leader 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z Some might call MBS a strongman, but his actions against innocent women reflect pathetic weakness. Opinion | Saudi Arabia’s crackdown shows MBS duped Biden 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z The factors that have empowered right-wing populism in the U.S. and across the West, he says, include a deep public yearning for authoritarian and "strongman" leaders and the simple solutions they offer for complex problems. Scholar who saw all this coming: Americans "do not really understand liberal democracy" 2022-09-12T04:00:00Z Russian strongman Vladimir Putin spent Saturday opening a new Ferris wheel in Moscow. Vladimir Putin celebrates huge new Ferris wheel in Moscow 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z Her wartime service, and her dignified stewardship, contrasted with Britain’s often-fractious politics, not to mention the foreign strongmen she sometimes had to entertain. Queen’s Death Leaves U.K. Grappling With Its Sense of National Identity 2022-09-10T04:00:00Z Some analysts note that several African nations with strongman rulers were excluded from Mr. Biden’s democracy summit in December, including Rwanda and Uganda, to the potential detriment of U.S. policy on the continent. Biden Puts Support of Democracy at Center of Agenda, at Home and Abroad 2022-09-06T04:00:00Z Mr. Xi has styled himself as a strongman, eschewing the consensus-style leadership of his recent predecessors as head of the Chinese Communist Party, and establishing direct control of the People’s Liberation Army. For China’s Xi and Other Strongmen, Gorbachev Showed Exactly What Not to Do 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z Still, Gorbachev’s daring moves proved to be a double-edged sword in a country that has historically valued strongmen. How Gorbachev’s Pizza Hut ad came to be — and why it still reflects his legacy 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z Like other fascists and political strongmen, Trump believes he is above the law. Now CNN wants to be less "partisan": Will the media never learn its lesson? 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z You have a political strongman making the decisions. Rep. Adam Schiff on Jan. 6, Trump's coup and the "worst-case scenario" for America's future 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z It explains why some in the country see little difference between the "strongmen" of the previous government and the Taliban's forces now. Afghanistan: Peace at a price in the Taliban’s heartlands 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z Still, even as rights groups and international monitors raise alarms, Mr. Bukele has grown wildly popular, a reminder that, in today’s world, would-be strongmen are often cheered while on the rise. How Democracy Is Under Threat Across the Globe 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z “I say peaceful because his followers are not carrying guns. Sadr is stronger than guns. He is now the strongman on the street and he is imposing his will on others.” A Power Struggle in Iraq Intensifies, Raising Fears of New Violence 2022-08-16T04:00:00Z He shot to prominence as a youth organizer for former strongman President Daniel arap Moi, becoming one of Kenya's youngest lawmakers and ministers. Kenya's Ruto: From village chicken seller to president 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z Like many strongman dictators, Lukashenko’s political career had genuine populist origins. In Lukashenko’s dictatorship, enemies are shamed and the West is shunned 2022-08-13T04:00:00Z BELGRADE, Serbia — Serbia’s strongman leader, Aleksandar Vucic, is fed up with being reviled as a “little Putin” intent on aggression against his country’s fragile neighbors in the Balkans. Serbia’s Leader Rejects ‘Little Putin’ Label Amid Fears of Russian Meddling 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z Traditional U.S. allies like Botswana and Zambia are likely to embrace the American strategy, but strongman leaders in Uganda and even Rwanda are likely to be more resistant, he added. Your Friday Briefing: U.S. to Unseal Trump Warrant 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z But the two leaders remain first-order frenemies, each a prickly strongman who has gathered up extraordinary powers to himself and keeps his own counsel. Erdogan and Putin: Complicated Relations With Mutual Benefits 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z Prabowo, 70, once a son in law of the late Indonesian strongman Suharto, registered his Gerindra party on Monday and said he would run if nominated by its members. Indonesia defence minister Prabowo signals another run for presidency 2022-08-09T04:00:00Z “I can already see tomorrow’s headlines: Far-right European racist, anti-Semite strongman — the Trojan horse of Putin — holds speech at the conservative conference,” Orban said. Amid ‘mixed race’ speech blowback, Orban echoes Trump in Dallas 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z “I can already see tomorrow’s headlines: ‘Far Right, European racist and anti-Semite strongman, the Trojan horse of Putin gives speech at conservative conference.’” Hungary’s Orban calls for American conservatives to unite with him against progressive liberalism 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z Under the former strongman president, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, the judiciary lacked independence and was largely controlled by the executive branch of the government. ‘There is no other way’: Tunisian judges on hunger strike for democracy 2022-07-30T04:00:00Z To the Kremlin’s strongman, the refugees are of a piece with the flow of Russian gas and oil, which he seems likely to impede as a way to break Europe’s unity and resolve. Opinion | The U.S. has admitted 100,000 Ukrainian migrants. It must keep going. 2022-07-30T04:00:00Z After the unrest forced the resignation of strongman Gen. Ne Win that July, student groups set plans for a major demonstration calling for greater freedoms under the brutal one-party state. Kyaw Min Yu, Myanmar activist known as Ko Jimmy, executed at 53 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z In mainland China, such displays of devotion to the country’s powerful leader are common, particularly under Mr. Xi, who moved early in his tenure to revive strongman politics and a cult of personality around him. For Hong Kong’s Beijing-Backed Officials, Xi’s All That 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z The Philippines is beset with numerous challenges, from soaring prices, food shortages, poverty and inequities in education, but Marcos, the son of the strongman overthrown in a 1986 revolt, said he was optimistic. Philippines' Marcos lays out ambitious policy agenda with farm sector in focus 2022-07-25T04:00:00Z But Marcos Jr., a former governor, congressman and senator, has refused to acknowledge the massive human rights abuses and corruption that marked his father’s strongman rule. Facing headwinds and history, Marcos to make policy speech 2022-07-24T04:00:00Z In the 2000s, the rise of a strongman — Putin — in the Kremlin was seen in pragmatic terms in Austria. After invasion of Ukraine, a reckoning on Russian influence in Austria 2022-07-05T04:00:00Z Biden framed his meetings with Prince Mohammed and other Arab strongmen as an effort to contain Russia and outmaneuver China. Your Monday Briefing 2022-07-18T04:00:00Z In a series of encounters with Arab strongmen in Saudi Arabia this weekend, President Biden emphasized why he was strengthening ties with allies he had previously criticized for anti-democratic behavior. Your Monday Briefing: In Mideast, Biden Eyes China and Russia 2022-07-17T04:00:00Z International sanctions have restricted sales of Russia’s enormous stocks of oil and natural gas in an effort to pressure the country’s strongman leader, Vladimir V. Putin, to relent. The World Economy Is Imperiled by a Force Hiding in Plain Sight 2022-07-16T04:00:00Z Mr. Dahlan, the Palestinian strongman in exile, gave an interview to The New York Times in 2016 in his Abu Dhabi home, which had vaulted ceilings, chandeliers and an infinity pool. The Maldives may not be the Sri Lankan leader’s last stop. 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z The speaker of the National Assembly, Mr Jatta, is even still talking about the former strongman returning as a free man, Mr Njie said. Gambia after Yahya Jammeh: 'I'll never get justice' 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z Consider the rise of strongman rule in Hungary, the Philippines or Russia, attacks on the courts in Poland, Hindu extremism in India, fears of a power grab in Brazil. Is the World Really Falling Apart, or Does It Just Feel That Way? 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z Worse, we've seen authoritarian strongmen increasingly take the reins of power. The Supreme Court, the fate of women — and Birgitte Nyborg of "Borgen" 2022-07-10T04:00:00Z But as an immigrant from Vietnam, where he recalled violence and strongman politics as the norm, he said he was appalled by the events of Jan. 6. Liz Cheney’s Latest Fans: Democratic Donors 2022-07-09T04:00:00Z Indonesia, once touted as an “Asian Tiger’’ economy, endured Depression-level deprivation in the late 1990s that led to riots and political unrest and swept away a strongman who had held power for three decades. Gas lines and scuffles: Sri Lanka faces humanitarian crisis 2022-07-09T04:00:00Z Compaore, the longtime military strongman ousted by a popular insurrection in 2014, returned to Burkina Faso on Thursday to attend the unprecedented meeting with other former leaders. World Digest: July 8, 2022 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z Perhaps persuaded by our 45th president, they have instead become infatuated with foreign leaders of the “strongman” kind — in Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America and other places. Opinion | This 1972 speech is more relevant than ever this Fourth of July 2022-07-03T04:00:00Z Russia is not a state governed by rule of law; it is run by a strongman and his clans, including a powerful security service. Opinion | Brittney Griner is a hostage, plain and simple 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z The Russian strongman means what he says about retaking Ukrainian territory and wiping the Ukrainian nation off the map. Op-Ed: The West has no business pushing Ukraine to compromise with Putin 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z In May, Mr. Marcos won a landslide victory, in part by promising to continue some of the policies introduced by Mr. Duterte, whose strongman rule remains overwhelmingly popular. ‘We Can Trust No One’: Marcos Becomes President in the Philippines 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z The strongman praised the martial law era and in some ways emulated it with his bloody six-year war on drugs. As a dictator’s son rises to power, disinformation fractures Filipino families 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z Mr Duterte is a controversial "strongman" figure who came to power in 2016 promising to reduce crime and fix the country's drug crisis. Philippines: Sara Duterte sworn in as vice-president 2022-06-19T04:00:00Z You have strongmen leaders who see these territories as key to their nations. A Looming Threat 2022-06-19T04:00:00Z Donald Trump is a political cult leader, an apparent sociopath and an incipient fascist strongman who commands the loyalty of tens of millions of Americans. Cult expert Steven Hassan sees 95% chance of worsening pro-Trump violence 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z Bush held off supporting an uprising against Saddam Hussein as his advisers warned Iraq would plunge into civil war without the strongman. Biden juggles principles, pragmatism in stance on autocrats 2022-06-11T04:00:00Z Sanctions on Belarus were the result of strongman Alexander Lukashenko stealing the 2020 presidential election and his repression of his nation’s democracy movement. Opinion | It’s time to confront Putin’s destructive war on grain. 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z Mr. Trump himself publicly asked Russia to hack Ms. Clinton’s emails and displayed bizarre affection for Russian strongman Vladimir Putin. Opinion | John Durham’s probe of the Trump investigations has flopped 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z Within an alliance that operates by consensus, the Turkish strongman has come to be seen as something of a stickup artist. For NATO, Turkey Is a Disruptive Ally 2022-05-30T04:00:00Z With Mahinda Rajapaksa, the president, then at the peak of his powers, he did what many nationalist strongmen do: erect tributes to himself. Lavish Projects and Meager Lives: The Two Faces of a Ruined Sri Lanka 2022-05-29T04:00:00Z Amplifying his strongman image by focusing on international disputes also could resonate domestically as Turkey gears up for a general election next year. EXPLAINER: What Turkey’s Erdogan could gain in NATO debate 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z Street performers, musicians, singers, comedians, hip-hop stars, a Brazilian strongman and, by the way, the craziest acrobatics you’ve ever seen. Brad Williams brings comedy to (gigantic) center stage of Cirque du Soleil's 'Mad Apple' 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z Marcos Jr., a 64-year-old former governor, congressman and senator, has refused to acknowledge or apologize for massive human rights violations and plunder under his father’s strongman rule and has defended his legacy. Marcos Jr proclaimed next Philippine president with huge win 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z Sudan has been in turmoil since an October military coup upended its short-lived transition to democracy after three decades of repressive rule by strongman Omar al-Bashir. US threatens sanctions on Sudanese blocking democracy return 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z In the aftermath of the Arab Spring uprisings that spread across the region in 2011, Sheikh Mohammed worked behind the scenes to support strongmen and undermine political Islamists in Egypt and Tunisia. Mohammed bin Zayed, an Ambitious U.S. Partner, Rises to Lead the U.A.E. 2022-05-14T04:00:00Z Such overtures to rivals are rare for the self-styled strongman, who has ruled Cambodia for 37 years and has gained notoriety for his harsh treatment of his opponents, most of which are now in exile. Cambodia PM says rival indicted for treason should be allowed medical care abroad 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z So when I returned to the country a decade later, it was with a bit of shock that I found a kind of rekindled nostalgia for the old strongman. Opinion | Philippines election sends warning about authoritarian nostalgia 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z Marcos Jr. will take over a deeply divided country with many reminders of the resistance against his strongman father. Marcos Jr proclaimed next Philippine president with huge win 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z “The idea of strongman rule is again very popular, including with young people”. Fall and rise: Marcos family back in power in the Philippines 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z Voters in the Philippines have long shown a partiality to strongman rule, to roguish characters who promise to dispense with the messy compromises of democracy and get things done. What the Marcos' return to power means for the Philippines 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z Marcos Jr. has defended the legacy of his father and steadfastly refused to acknowledge and apologize for the massive human rights violations and plunder under his father’s strongman rule. Marcos Jr. won Philippine presidency, unofficial count shows 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z Marcos, 64, has presented no real policy platform but his presidency is expected to provide continuity from outgoing leader Rodrigo Duterte, whose ruthless, strongman approach proved popular and helped him to consolidate power rapidly. Prospect of Marcos revival looms as Philippines votes for new president 2022-05-08T04:00:00Z The BBC's Howard Johnson in Manila says it was an ambitious choice, given many Filipinos are enamoured by "strongman, machismo" politics, and winning their vote will be essential for victory. Leni Robredo: The woman leading the Philippines' 'pink revolution' 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z In the coming years, shifts in far-right tactics intended to normalize extremism and the aging of the current strongman cohort will likely produce a new wave of illiberal female leaders. Global forecaster on "another bad year for democracy": Is the world near a dire tipping point? 2022-05-02T04:00:00Z Bongbong Marcos does not have that kind of charisma, but he has run largely on refashioned memories of the strongman rule of his father. What the Marcos' return to power means for the Philippines 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z In almost a decade as president, Mr. el-Sisi has transformed Egypt from a country that tolerated some political debate and artistic license, even under the rule of strongmen, into one where fear compels silence. In Egypt’s Big Ramadan TV Drama, the President Is the Hero 2022-05-01T04:00:00Z Some of their peers are swayed by YouTube videos that portray Mr. Marcos as a cool parent, while some among an older generation are nostalgic for strongman rule. ‘We Want Change’: In the Philippines, Young People Aim to Upend an Election 2022-05-01T04:00:00Z “He’s cultivated a strongman image for decades, yet not only is he unable to stop the cyberattacks and leaks hitting his government and key industries, he’s the one causing it to happen.” Hacking Russia was off-limits. The Ukraine war made it a free-for-all. 2022-05-01T04:00:00Z He has sunk further and further into heavy-handed strongman tactics, with wholesale jailing of civil society activists, judges and journalists, among others. Opinion | Turkey reaches a new low of despotism 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z Turkey largely threw its weight behind the protest movements and Islamist groups, while Saudi Arabia sought to subvert them and actively supported some of the region’s strongmen. Turkey’s Leader Lands in Saudi Arabia, Seeking to Ease Tensions 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z The fear is that rule by two children of strongmen would reinforce a system of patronage, weaken democratic institutions and emphasize that only a candidate’s last name matters. Is the Philippines ready for another Duterte? 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z But the image he continues to use in the profile for his Instagram account is a photo of the most hated and despised man in the world today — Russian strongman Vladimir Putin. LOVERRO: Cheers for Ovechkin have taken a sinister turn since Ukraine 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z When an independent Ukrainian culture persisted, Russian strongman Joseph Stalin moved to destroy the nation’s identity. Opinion | Xi’s and Putin’s sick twist on ‘peace’ and ‘security’ 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z A man from Kidderminster who lost his leg in a motorcycle accident has said competing in a disabled strongman competition saved him from a life of drugs and alcohol. 'I was saved from a life of drugs and alcohol' 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z That has a great deal to do with the perception that he is a type of political strongman. Francis Fukuyama on Putin, Trump and why Ukraine is key to saving liberal democracy 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z “We often think of China’s political system as adaptive and decentralized, but under Xi’s strongman politics it’s neither of those things,” Susan Shirk, a China expert at UC San Diego, told me. Column: The cost of China’s harsh 'zero COVID' policy? Human suffering and economic damage 2022-04-17T04:00:00Z Political revolts and murderous strongmen come and go — with requisite tragic results. Russia’s Jamestown in America — and the oligarch who has helped fund it 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z Trump and Johnson are not strongmen at all but carny politicians who occasionally talk about themselves in the third person. Perspective | Boris Johnson is a master of distraction. What if that stops working? 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z When Mr. Duterte came to power, he promised radical change, ushering in a new era of strongman politics that has been embraced by many across the country. The Philippines Toppled One Marcos. Now His Son May Become President. 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z On his part, there's certainly this hankering after the ability to act like a strongman. Francis Fukuyama on Putin, Trump and why Ukraine is key to saving liberal democracy 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z Student demonstrations in 1998 triggered events that led longtime strongman President Suharto to step down. Indonesian students protest rumored delay of 2024 election 2022-04-11T04:00:00Z Students have traditionally been at the forefront of efforts to protect Indonesia's democratic gains, after taking to the streets in 1998 during huge protests that helped topple former strongman President Suharto. Indonesia students rally against mooted move to extend president's term 2022-04-11T04:00:00Z Yet all strongman states are inherently vulnerable to the unforeseen — especially when they become deaf to the society around them. Analysis: War, economy could weaken Putin’s place as leader 2022-04-10T04:00:00Z Schröder’s access to strongmen in Eastern Europe and Western Asia has at times proved useful to his government. Embracing military power, Olaf Scholz tries to lead Germany into a new era 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z A strongman who became famous for balancing a Mini on his head, has reached 100 world records by putting on a huge crown for his 75th birthday. Strongman John Evans reaches 100 world records 2022-04-09T04:00:00Z As expert in authoritarianism Brian Klaas explained last month in The Atlantic, the "stubborn myth" of "the savvy strongman, the rational, calculating despot who can play the long game" doesn't hold up to reality. Putin's war crimes — and his military failures — are making his GOP apologists squirm 2022-04-05T04:00:00Z The right-wing nationalist strongman who runs Hungary has prevailed in an election so blatantly slanted that the vote can hardly be considered fully democratic, let alone free and fair. Opinion | Europe has tools to stop Hungary’s toxic ruler. It’s time to use them. 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z But under the two strongmen leaders, both countries have over the past decade drastically reduced the space for critical media voices, turning television stations with national reach into propaganda bullhorns and moving toward authoritarian rule. Pro-Putin Leaders in Hungary and Serbia Set to Win Re-election 2022-04-03T04:00:00Z That would allow Orban to maintain his position as Europe’s anti-immigration strongman provocateur, while deepening the sense among his critics that he can survive almost anything. Despite Putin ties, Hungary’s Orban gains popularity before election 2022-04-02T04:00:00Z Since seizing power, Taliban officials say they have driven out those strongmen and “nationalized” the mining industry. Desperate for Cash, Afghans Toil in Mines That Are Deadlier Than Ever 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z She concluded her piece referring to Khrushchev as a Soviet strongman. Opinion | Readers critique The Post: There’s no need to belittle Biden 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z “The world’s strongmen are watching like crocodiles…We have to show tyrants around the world that rule of law is stronger than rule of gun.” How would those accused of Ukraine war crimes be prosecuted? 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z The comments helped seed a favorable view of Putin’s strongman style of governance among some Americans. How Russia and right-wing Americans converged on war in Ukraine 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z As I wrote a couple of weeks ago, the advantages of having a strongman who can tell everyone what to do are more than offset by the absence of free discussion and independent thought. Another dictator is having a bad year 2022-03-20T04:00:00Z For strongmen, the consequences of losing power can be extreme — prison, exile, or death — and so they tend to surround themselves by sycophants. Putin's massive miscalculation: Echoes of George W. Bush — and a lesson for America's elites 2022-03-20T04:00:00Z According to reports, he has even sent his Chechnya strongman, Ramzan Kadyrov, to Ukraine to rally the troops to the task of wholesale slaughter. Opinion | Putin should know: Rain hell on Ukraine and it still may not fall 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z It is not adequate simply to say that Donald Trump idolizes authoritarians, demagogues, political strongmen and tyrants. Don’t be fooled: The GOP love affair with Putin is worse than it looks 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z The country’s Supreme Court had overturned the medical pardon in 2018 and ordered the former strongman returned to prison to serve out his sentence for human rights abuses. World Digest: March 17, 2022 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z Yet China, like Russia, is now giving us an object lesson in the usefulness of having an open society, where strongmen don’t get to invent their own reality. Another dictator is having a bad year 2022-03-20T04:00:00Z The country’s Supreme Court had overturned the medical pardon in 2018 and ordered the former strongman returned to jail to serve out his sentence for human rights abuses. Peruvian court OKs prison release for ex-President Fujimori 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z The country is led by Hun Sen, a strongman who after 37 years in power is the world’s longest-serving prime minister. ‘They don’t know about war’: Cambodia’s legacy of forgotten horrors 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z “The old order is swiftly disintegrating, and strongman politics is again ascendant among the world’s great powers,” wrote Mr. Zheng of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen. China Sees at Least One Winner Emerging From Ukraine War: China 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z There, Putin backed Belarus strongman Alexander Lukashenko in crushing the democratic opposition after he had rigged the 2020 elections, and so making Minsk a virtual client state. The geopolitics of the Ukraine war 2022-03-13T05:00:00Z Everything seems at risk, even a future in which a great-granddaughter of a Soviet strongman becomes an American citizen and pens his biography with eyes wide open. Opinion | Why Russia won’t soon recover from Putin’s Ukraine blunder 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z But despite domestic woes stemming from the invasion, Putin retains, for many Russians, a strongman’s aura of invincibility. Cold War-style chill settles over Russia as world ponders Putin's endgame 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z Mr. Adityanath, who always wears his saffron monk’s robe in public, has furthered Mr. Modi’s vision of India as a “Hindu first” nation with his own brand of strongman politics. Modi’s Party Wins the Biggest Prize in India’s State Elections 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z When Modi first made a bid for power in 2014, he tempered his Hindu nationalist strongman image, focusing instead on heralding “good days,” but Adityanath has only sharpened his rhetoric while in power. Narendra Modi’s BJP wins key Indian state elections 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z But Mr. Putin belongs to a particular club of authoritarians — individual strongmen, rather than military or party dictatorships — for whom popular support is a secondary concern. Russia’s Other Contest With the West: Economic Endurance 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z Egypt and the UAE have cooperated with Russia for several years in Libya, where all three have backed the same strongman in Eastern Libya in his conflict with the U.N.-backed government. Playground for the rich could undermine sanctions on oligarchs 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z “While we might not have strongmen literally waging war in our country, we are plagued by agents of a national anger machine, fueling division, weaponizing grievance,” he said. Newsom wants tax rebate, touts ‘California Way’ of governing 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z While we may not have a strongman, quite literally, waging war in our country, we are plagued by agents of a national anger machine, fueling division, weaponizing grievance. Full transcript of Gov. Newsom's prepared remarks for his State of the State address 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z “Culturally, I think Trump‘s strongman leadership style won new Black support in 2020. History in the making: More Black Republicans running for Congress than ever before 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z They also tend to give leaders wide latitude in wartime, which may be why strongmen rarely lose power because of battlefield losses, research has shown. Russia’s Other Contest With the West: Economic Endurance 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z Putin is a projection of Trump's deepest fantasies and wish fulfillment, Frank argues, a killer, warrior and political strongman who has the power to act with impunity against his personal and political foes. Dr. Justin Frank: Trump sees Putin as a superhero, loves "the power of his paranoid thinking" 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z The former president’s analysis: His strongman idol would merely have taken over two regions in eastern Ukraine but went further because “he sees the weakness and the incompetence and the stupidity” of the Biden administration. Perspective | Putin’s full-scale information war got a key assist from Donald Trump and right-wing media 2022-03-06T05:00:00Z For years, right-wing nationalist politicians pronounced a dewy-eyed admiration for Russia’s Vladimir Putin, a strongman they couldn’t resist. Opinion | Right-wing nationalists backpedal as Putin’s Ukraine war worsens 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z The only threat that Ukraine poses to Putin’s Russia is the example of a nearby Slavic people rejecting traditional regional strongman dictatorship. Ukraine: Help preserve young democracy 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z Nonetheless, it does appear that Republicans have finally recognized that their admiration for the Russian strongman Vladimir Putin may have been a bit of a bad look. Ignore the GOP's sudden pivot, Republicans have a long worked to undermine Ukraine 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z Political strongmen also provide a type of illusory protection for feelings of hatred and violence. Dr. Justin Frank: Trump sees Putin as a superhero, loves "the power of his paranoid thinking" 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z When she isn’t promoting screw-loose conspiracy theories, the Flagstaff Republican pals around with Holocaust deniers and cheers for Russia and its strongman, Vladimir Putin. Column: Dealing with extremists, some Republican leaders find sorry is the hardest word 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z Many of the admirers of the world's strongmen on the American right appear to believe that the countries each of these men lead are beacons of whiteness, Christianity and conservative values. How white supremacy fuels the Republican love affair with Vladimir Putin 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z But he seemed to acknowledge on Tuesday evening that the weak response had only encouraged Russia’s strongman. Unity in a Foreign Policy Crisis, but Questions Still to be Answered 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z But the collapse of Communism and the rise of Mr. Putin as a strongman shifted Russia’s support base in Italy to the right. Joining Sanctions on Russia, Italy Risks More Than Most 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z Even Europe’s far-right leaders and strongmen in Central and Eastern European balked. Putin’s war on Ukraine is drawing battle lines within Russia 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z Algorithms built to identify and promote the angriest and most outrageous sentiments would, over time, polarize populations and pave the way for their countries to be taken over by strongmen. The internet is a force multiplier for Ukraine 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z “Many people admire Putin because of nationalism or belief in ‘strongmen’ leaders, and this is what is most scary. Amid the roar of nationalism, a few antiwar voices in China emerge over Ukraine crisis 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z And his public image is that of a strongman, with the power to direct the Russian state as he pleases. Putin Seems to Sideline Advisers on Ukraine, Taking a Political Risk 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z In addition, a new foreign policy is needed to combat the rise of authoritarian strongmen like Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping. Opinion | A World Moving Toward Autocracy 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z They looked up to the Russian strongman as a defender of closed borders, Christian conservatism and bare-chested machismo in an era of liberal identity politics and Western globalization. Putin’s Aggression Leaves His Right-Wing Fan Club Squirming 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z So, too, does using Russian arms to defend regional strongmen — Alexander Lukashenko in Belarus and Kassym-Jomart Tokayev in Kazakhstan — against popular protest portrayed by Russian state television as instigated by the United States and Europe. Perspective | Putin’s rule depends on creating foreign enemies — and domestic ‘traitors’ 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z He downplayed it for months — thereby provoking even more criticism of his administration — until it became clear a few weeks ago that Russia’s strongman president, Vladimir Putin, had set his sights on invading Ukraine. Op-Ed: Is Zelensky Ukraine's George Washington? 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z In some of these circles, Mr. Putin carries a strongman appeal, viewed as someone who gets his way and does not let political correctness stop him. ‘I’ll Stand on the Side of Russia’: Pro-Putin Sentiment Spreads Online 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z I may disagree that this will be the century of the strongman, as the current crop of autocrats do not compare with the deadly trio of the last century — Hitler, Stalin and Mao. Opinion | A World Moving Toward Autocracy 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z Even among far-right groups that have in the past been sympathetic toward Putin — a strongman leader whom former U.S. The other front in Putin's Ukraine invasion: online disinformation 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z “He is a strongman, and that is very inspiring to Bolsonaro. He would like to be someone who concentrates as much power.” The global right has lionized Putin. The Ukraine attack leaves many leaders on awkward footing. 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z On conservative radio on Tuesday, the former president praised Mr. Putin as “savvy” and “genius,” echoing the Russian strongman’s description of his invading troops as peacekeepers. Once a Foreign Policy Partner, Congress Struggles for Unity on Ukraine 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z It’s the same model that authoritarian strongman states use. Thom Hartmann reveals how Big Brother is watching you 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z Among the people listed as holding amounts worth millions of dollars in Credit Suisse accounts were King Abdullah II of Jordan and the two sons of the former Egyptian strongman Hosni Mubarak. Vast Leak Exposes How Credit Suisse Served Strongmen and Spies 2022-02-20T05:00:00Z He would hardly be alone in this: research finds that strongmen leaders like him are, for just this reason, likelier to start wars and likelier to lose them. On Ukraine, U.S. and Russia Wage Signaling War to Avert Actual War 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z He spoke to Daniel Ortega, Nicaragua’s strongman president, for the first time since 2014. A World Away From Ukraine, Russia Is Courting Latin America 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z Among the rivals to his right there is significant support for Mr. Putin’s strongman image and his denunciation of Western “decadence,” so engagement with the Russian leader also serves Mr. Macron politically. Emmanuel Macron in His Labyrinth 2022-02-12T05:00:00Z Mr. Putin, another strongman leader bristling against the United States’ demands, appeared with him in a calculated display of solidarity while Moscow’s tensions with Ukraine could tip into war. In Beijing, Olympic Spectacle and Global Power Games 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z The Chinese president, hosting a Winter Olympics beleaguered by complaints about human rights abuses, has upended tradition to restore strongman rule in China and tighten Communist Party control over the economy and society. President Xi Jinping, China’s ‘chairman of everything’ 2022-02-02T05:00:00Z Marcos, also known as Bongbong and BBM, is the son and namesake of the late Philippines strongman Ferdinand Sr. He has emerged as a clear favourite in the May 9 presidential elections. Philippines orders law enforcers to probe online 'assassination' threat against Marcos Jr 2022-01-30T05:00:00Z Mr. Macron’s approach to Mr. Putin is consistent with his relations with other strongmen. Emmanuel Macron Walks a Fine Line on Ukraine 2022-01-29T05:00:00Z Is the long-forgotten era of the military strongman making a comeback? Burkina Faso coup: Return of the military strongmen to West Africa 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z I do understand that, as they think, I turned out to be a strongman — a hard nut, a nut that is hard to crack, as they say in Ukraine. Perspective | Volodymyr Zelensky: ‘Everyone will lose’ if Russia invades Ukraine 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z Few members of Congress on either side of the aisle were more blood-thirsty in their zeal to launch a war against Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein back in 2002. Look! Over there! War in Ukraine! 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z The treason charges stem from accusations he was conspiring with the United States to overthrow self-style strongman Hun Sen, who has ruled Cambodia for nearly four decades. Cambodia to resume treason trial of opposition leader 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z That image began to fracture after the 2011 collapse of Libyan strongman Moammar Gaddafi’s regime, which led militants to stream across the border with weapons. Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta, Malian president deposed in coup, dies at 76 2022-01-16T05:00:00Z Mr. Putin’s reliance on fellow strongmen has proved nearly as risky. For Putin, Propping Up Allies Is Turning Into a Perilous Bargain 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z Truth has its own authority, an authority a strongman must defeat, at least in the minds of his followers, persuading them to abandon fact, the standards of verification, critical thinking and all the rest. Opinion | Why Republicans Keep Falling for Trump’s Lies 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z He served as a key adviser to the strongman who ruled the oil-rich Central Asian country as a fief for nearly three decades — and then, in 2019, became his heir. Amid Crisis, Kazakhstan’s Leader Chose His Path: Embrace Russia 2022-01-08T05:00:00Z It casts doubt on Mr. Nazarbayev’s supposed solution and suggests that the problem of strongman succession may be, on some level, irresolvable. Behind Kazakhstan Unrest, the ‘Strongman’s Dilemma’ 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z Their mutual admiration is such that this week, Mr. Trump expressed his “complete support” for the Hungarian strongman, who is grappling with his toughest electoral challenge in his lengthy tenure in power. Opinion | Former president Trump embraces a kindred spirit in Hungary 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z As a result, Mr. Putin came to believe that only leaders who look like him — autocratic strongmen — could be trusted to keep the dangers of democracy and Western influence at bay. For Putin, Propping Up Allies Is Turning Into a Perilous Bargain 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z Biden said the leaders of Russia and China, two prominent American rivals, are betting that “America is a place for the autocrat, the dictator, the strongman.” Biden condemns Trump and his allies as a danger to democracy on the anniversary of the Capitol insurrection 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z They’re betting that America is a place for the autocrat, the dictator, the strongman. Text of President Joe Biden’s speech marking Jan. 6 anniversary 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z When strongman rule works, the leader is the keystone holding it all together. Behind Kazakhstan Unrest, the ‘Strongman’s Dilemma’ 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z She is the daughter of the late dictator Park Chung-hee, a controversial military strongman who ruled South Korea for nearly two decades. South Korea pardons ex-president Park Geun-hye, ousted in massive corruption scandal 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z The result is a circle of pro-Moscow strongmen who frequently struggle to persuade their citizens why it is necessary to accept fewer freedoms than those in neighboring countries. For Putin, Propping Up Allies Is Turning Into a Perilous Bargain 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z DAKAR, Senegal — She would have been the first female presidential candidate for a major political party in Benin, where analysts predicted she had the best shot at dethroning the incumbent strongman. She could have been Benin’s first female president. Now she faces 20 years in prison. 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z “He is not listening to the economists, which is typical of strongmen,” said Ozgur Unluhisarcikli, the director of the Ankara office of the German Marshall Fund of the United States. Turkey’s president follows his own advice even as economy slips 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z This dilemma has especially hung over the former Soviet world, where autocrats have held on two or three times the average strongman’s tenure, which is about a decade. Behind Kazakhstan Unrest, the ‘Strongman’s Dilemma’ 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z They included countries led by noted strongmen — China, Russia and Turkey — and Hungary, the only member of the European Union that didn’t get an invitation. Biden says democracy needs champions, holds virtual summit to promote democracies over autocracies 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z To Mr. Kruglanski, strongman authoritarians like Mr. Putin are motivated by a sense of their own significance, and threats are more likely to stiffen opposition rather than encourage compromise. U.S. Threat to Squeeze Russia’s Economy Is a Tactic With a Mixed Record 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z He arrived to Qatar from the United Arab Emirates, where he shook hands with Abu Dhabi’s crown prince and strongman before their meeting. Saudi crown prince in 1st visit to Qatar after embargo ended 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z For if the most prominent threat to democracy during the Cold War came from communism, the central danger now, as in the 1930s, arises from a far-right preaching nationalism, intolerance and strongman rule. Opinion | The Summit for Democracy’s challenge for Biden 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z This is much more than a problem for strongmen. Behind Kazakhstan Unrest, the ‘Strongman’s Dilemma’ 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, the left will need to find a better way to talk to men; half of the population is far too many people to abandon to the would-be strongmen of the far right. Opinion | Josh Hawley and the Republican Obsession With Manliness 2021-12-04T05:00:00Z A strongman who became famous for balancing a Mini on his head has said he wants to reach 100 world records before retiring. 'I balanced a Mini on my head' 2021-12-04T05:00:00Z Taliban leaders have long persecuted and antagonized the Hazaras, a mostly Shiite minority, and in recent months, the new government has watched as local strongmen evicted hundreds of families. In Afghanistan, ‘Who Has the Guns Gets the Land’ 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z His OVP is one of the main traditional parties in Austria but under Kurz it has largely been built around him, leaving no obvious choice to succeed him as its strongman. Austria's Kurz quits politics, leaving ruling conservatives in disarray 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z Since the Cold War’s end, a staggering 70 percent of governments headed by strongmen collapsed after the ruler departed, according to one data set. Behind Kazakhstan Unrest, the ‘Strongman’s Dilemma’ 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z He has been involved in strength sports for years, having previously competed in strongman, powerlifting, bodybuilding and even the Highland games. Arm-wrestling: The woman at the centre of sport's UK rise 2021-11-14T05:00:00Z From Iraq to Sudan to North Korea, Richardson has repeatedly proven willing to talk with dictators, military juntas and reclusive strongmen — forging relationships with notorious regimes outside formal diplomatic channels. Richardson adds to diplomatic wins with journalist’s release 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z Then, in 2011, 18 days of Arab Spring street protests forced strongman Hosni Mubarak, who had ruled Egypt since 1981, to step down. How a Cairo bookshop beat the odds to write its own story 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z It was not yet clear who Duterte-Carpio will run with, but presidential aspirant and son of late strongman, Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has said he wants her to be his running mate. Philippines on edge as deadline for presidential candidates looms 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z Kazakhstan’s explosion into unrest this week presents a stark warning to the strongman autocrats of the world: Leaving office is perilous. Behind Kazakhstan Unrest, the ‘Strongman’s Dilemma’ 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z Like his main supporter, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Lukashenko is a long-time hockey fan and has used it to project a strongman image at home. Lukashenko plays ice hockey as crisis sharpens on Belarus-EU border 2021-11-13T05:00:00Z Mr Duterte, a controversial "strongman" figure, came to power in 2016 promising to reduce crime and fix the country's drug crisis. Sara Duterte: Daughter of Philippines leader runs for vice-president 2021-11-13T05:00:00Z Aides said he was kidding — which, given the former president’s known admiration for the world’s strongmen, merely demonstrated Sigmund Freud’s theory about the relationship between jokes and the unconscious mind. Opinion | Biden fails to deliver his promised hard line on Egypt’s abuses 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z Now the Emirates’ embrace of Syria is a test for whether re-engaging Syria’s strongman could possibly lead to some concessions that years of sanctions and boycott have failed to realize. UAE’s embrace of Syria could lead to more Arab overtures 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z But the unrest, the government’s failure to maintain support and now its flailing response are typical of the divided, disoriented bureaucracies that often falter after a strongman’s departure. Behind Kazakhstan Unrest, the ‘Strongman’s Dilemma’ 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z Only two previous leaders of China have similarly adjudicated on party history: Mao Zedong, the founder of the People’s Republic, and Deng Xiaoping, the strongman leader who unleashed market reforms in 1978. China’s Xi Jinping, preparing for a third term, shuts the door on the past 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z He represented the United Nations at the funeral of Ethiopian strongman Meles Zenawi, who led the country for more than 20 years, promoting economic growth while clamping down on dissent. 'Sense of duty' puts veteran U.S. envoy in middle of Ethiopia conflict 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z Gangs led by strongmen might continue to fill the power vacuum. Opinion | Haiti descends into chaos, yet the world continues to look away 2021-10-31T04:00:00Z Thrust into the public eye following a popular uprising against the strongman ruler, he proved a reluctant leader, unaccustomed to the international stage. ‘They Lied.’ Inside the Frantic Days Leading to Sudan’s Coup 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z The lesson, experts stress, is hardly that strongmen bring stability. Behind Kazakhstan Unrest, the ‘Strongman’s Dilemma’ 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z For decades, the country was ruled by political strongmen supported by armed gangs; with Moise’s killing, the state collapsed and the gangs were unbound. In Haiti, the difficult relationship of gangs and business 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z Local media dubbed it the "trial of the century" as it dug up many of the dirtiest secrets from South Korea's era of strongman rule. South Korea's former president Roh Tae-woo dies at 88 - hospital 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z Officials said Mr. Blinken was not expected to focus on Mr. Maduro, nor on other strongmen in Cuba and Nicaragua, during a speech on Wednesday to promote human rights and civil liberties in the region. U.S.-Venezuela Tensions Heat Up Again After Extradition of Maduro Ally 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z Too often white evangelicals have looked to strongman political saviors to restore their dominant place. The triumph of the scorned 2021-10-17T04:00:00Z Mishra, who revels in his reputation as a no-nonsense strongman, was one of the politicians who talked tough. A deadly clash at India’s farmer protests points to a growing challenge for Modi’s BJP 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z For the past decade, populists like Mr. Babis have often seemed politically invincible, rising to power across Central and Eastern Europe as part of a global trend of strongman leaders disdainful of democratic norms. Czechs Defeat a Populist, Offering a Road Map for Toppling Strongmen 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z As long as Britain actively seeks these roles, no strongman in Russia or central Asia need worry overmuch about being accountable to his citizens. EU blacklist on tax havens branded ‘a joke’ after Pandora papers leak – live 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z More should be done to harness technology to enable citizens to speak out and expose the ruinous, kleptocratic ways of strongmen. Opinion | To honor Jamal Khashoggi, pursue his dream 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z But Mr. Sarkozy is still dogged by accusations that his campaign received illegal financing from the government of the Libyan strongman Col. Ex-President Sarkozy Convicted for Campaign Spending Violations 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z “When people are scared,” he said, “they turn back to a strongman.” In Atlanta, Fear of Violent Crime Creates Opportunity for a Polarizing Politician 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z But Trump, during his four years in office, made clear that he wished he had the powers of a monarch or a strongman, repeatedly flouting the nation’s long-held rules and norms. As Trump hints at 2024 comeback, democracy advocates fear a ‘worst-case scenario’ for the country 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z And it would counteract a dominant trend of the past decade: the rise in ethno-nationalism and strongman politics of the new populist right. As Populists Decline, the Center-Left Sees Hints of a Comeback 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z In Chechnya, the challengers to the region’s strongman ruler seemed to be trying to get as few votes as possible. As Russians Vote, Resignation, Anger and Fear of a Post-Putin Unknown 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z After years of his weakening of democratic institutions, the far-right strongman has prepared for coming elections in Catholic-majority Hungary by strengthening his links to Catholic traditionalists in Europe and the United States. Meeting Hungary’s Strongman, Pope Treads a Fine Line With an Embattled Leader 2021-09-11T04:00:00Z But Iraq’s strongman had helped to keep militant strains of Islam in check. Algeria to Afghanistan: Our reporter’s dispatches from the front lines of the 9/11 wars 2021-09-11T04:00:00Z For if the U.S. showed people in the Middle East that strongmen can be toppled, the insurgency demonstrated that what comes next may not be a season of renewal. From 9/11’s ashes, a new world took shape. It did not last. 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein had been deposed a year earlier, when the Marines of the 2nd Battalion, 4th Regiment, deployed to Ramadi in March 2004. A deadly month: The lives and stories of 22 Californians who died in one brutal month in the war on terror 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z Chechnya is a testament to the power of money and of memory in priming people to accept strongman rule. As Russians Vote, Resignation, Anger and Fear of a Post-Putin Unknown 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z Accounts of the Taliban’s advance toward Kabul have included such scenes: local leaders or strongmen greeting the group in a show of acceptance. How Will the Taliban Govern? A History of Rebel Rule Offers Clues. 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z The Republican Party of 2021 is very much the party that McCarthy envisioned, centered on a supposed strongman's personality, viciously seeking to destroy any outsiders seen as threats and rooted in blatant bigotry. Joe McCarthy was never defeated — and Donald Trump now leads the movement he created 2021-08-29T04:00:00Z However, the backroom discussions are a sign of the country’s traditional strongmen coming back to life after the Taliban’s stunning military campaign. Veteran Afghan strongmen to form new front for negotiating with Taliban 2021-08-29T04:00:00Z The moral ambiguity inherent in such technology makes it difficult to refute the familiar strongman claim that they are only doing what leaders of democracies routinely do. Opinion | Repression Without Borders 2021-08-28T04:00:00Z The former strongman initially received backing from France and the United States but that stopped as support at home drained away. Habre, disgraced former president of Chad, buried in Senegal 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z But under the surface, opposition activists are working assiduously to keep the revolt alive, and they firmly believe it is only a matter of time before the strongman loses his grip. ‘Our Goal Is to Keep the Regime on Its Toes’: Inside Belarus’s Underground Opposition 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z Instead, we will almost certainly follow the path that Russia and Hungary have trod, embracing Friedman's economic policies and the authoritarian strongman politics of oligarchy necessary to enforce them. The crisis of neoliberalism: America arrives at one of history’s great crossroads 2021-08-15T04:00:00Z But another, less-discussed aspect of the plan includes empowering former strongmen, including figures with a dark record in Afghan’s conflict-filled history. Why is the Taliban on such a winning streak, and can the tide be turned? 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z He demonized his political foes and the free press, spread lies and lauded strongmen. Opinion | Repression Without Borders 2021-08-28T04:00:00Z President Ashraf Ghani called on regional strongmen to support his embattled government after a stunning string of Taliban gains and as the United States said it was up to Ghani's forces to defend themselves. Taliban tighten control of Afghan north as residents weigh options 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z |
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