Michael McFaul

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Love that my feed right now is filled with yellow and blue, Warriors fans and Ukrainian fans! — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @warriors: WESTERN CONFERENCE CHAMPS https://t.co/ypDbhq8XPa — PolitiTweet.org

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#Warriors!!! — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @TheEconomist: Giving Vladimir Putin an “off-ramp” will not make the world safer. It it is naive to imagine that he is ready to make pea… — PolitiTweet.org

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At a most pivotal moment in Ukraine's history, honored to be hosting @ZelenskyyUa (virtually) @Stanford tomorrow. — PolitiTweet.org

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As we prepare form @ZelenskyyUa address @Stanford tomorrow, reupping-- "A History of Unity: A Look at @FSI’s Special Relationship with Ukraine" https://t.co/Zc8c4qmqFE — PolitiTweet.org

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Our lawmakers have proven incapable of taking legislative action to protect our children from slaughter. So the focus instead should be on the gunmakers directly - litigation, protests at their plants, boycotts, shaming lists, and other acts of non-violent civic resistance. — PolitiTweet.org

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Dear CEOS of gun manufacturers, please stop making and selling AR-15s. Just do the right thing. — PolitiTweet.org

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Awesome. — PolitiTweet.org

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If you want to hasten the end of Putin's war in Ukraine, stop financing it. We have some very concrete ideas -- "Energy Sanctions Roadmap: Recommendations for Sanctions against the Russian Federation" https://t.co/47bQUIl009 — PolitiTweet.org

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Agreed. But the principle matters. Western leaders and analysts keep focusing on what Zelensky needs to do to end the war, and rarely discuss what Putin needs to do. — PolitiTweet.org

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The problem, as I see it, is that Putin will only be ready to negotiate once he has annexed all of "Novorossiya." So the diplomatic challenge is how do outsiders get him to start negotiating before then. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @munkschool: Are the West's sanctions against Russia working? On June 1, @kovaliv_y, @McFaul, @Mylovanov, @MarkManger, and @Nataliia_S… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @DatoSiharulidze: Putin’s Mariupol Massacre is one of the 21st century’s worst war crimes https://t.co/dS5GbNciht — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Cirincione: @McFaul Exactly. Those who claim the US should be pushing harder on diplomacy have an obligation to show how Putin would be… — PolitiTweet.org

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Imagine writing long "realpolitik" treatises in November 1939 about what Poles need to do to end German and Soviet invasions/annexations of their country. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @McFaul: The normalization of annexation is very dangerous and will have consequences well beyond Donbas. I hope those de facto legitimi… — PolitiTweet.org

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But how? Please spell out the diplomatic strategy for getting Putin to negotiate? — PolitiTweet.org

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"Indeed, appeasement is likely to whet, not shrink, an aggressor’s appetite for conquest. In short, appeasement is likely to make a dangerous rival state more, not less, dangerous.” John Mearsheimer, The Tragedy of Great Power Politics, 2014 p. 164. 3/ END THREAD. — PolitiTweet.org

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“Appeasement contradicts the dictates of offensive realism and therefore it is a fanciful and dangerous strategy. It is unlikely to transform a dangerous foe into a kinder, nicer, opponent, much less a peace-loving state." 2/ — PolitiTweet.org

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PS, you of all people should know the dangers of appeasement. When has acquiescence to annexation ever delivered peace? But don't believe me. Read what the author of "The Tragedy of Great Power Politics" wrote. 1/ THREAD — PolitiTweet.org

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Agreed. And that's why I, echoing what I know Biden administration also was proposing, made a plea for a Helsinki 2.0 negotiation before Putin invaded. Putin, however, was not interested. "How to Make a Deal With Putin" https://t.co/NUIjhupHEN — PolitiTweet.org

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"Great" European powers just redrawing borders when they have the power to do so and killing those in the way? That's the world you want to return to? Not me. 3/ — PolitiTweet.org

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We all (well, most of us) fought together in World War II to stop annexation. We set up the UN to try to end that way of life. Even during the Cold War, major annexation in Europe did not occur. You really want to go back to that Hobbesian world? Really? 2/ — PolitiTweet.org

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Ambassador, please have a little self-dignity in retirement and stop with your haughty, arrogant taunts. Yes, I know my history, and I know a little about yours too. 1/ THREAD — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @McFaul: .@AndriyYermak is right-- "Now is the time to help Ukraine by stepping up sanctions on Russia" https://t.co/4ju3WRD5bi — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Stahl4Congress: This. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Christine_ScD: more cops/more guns is never the answer. research looking at the last 40 years of school shootings found: "controlling f… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @n_jaresko: Opinion | Ukraine needs weapons, not lectures, from the West - The Washington Post #UkraineWillPrevail https://t.co/wz6eeG9… — PolitiTweet.org

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Shocking. — PolitiTweet.org