Michael McFaul

Michael McFaul @McFaul

RT @EchoMskRu: «Давайте делать нормальные переговоры» В «Утреннем развороте» бывший посол США в России Майкл Макфол прокомментировал конфл… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @McFaul: Lots of people in my feed recently keep referencing Professor Mearsheimer as the great explainer of the current Russia-Ukraine… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @McFaul: From 2014. Tragically, all still true today. "Confronting Putin’s Russia." https://t.co/9oQPXmWkBT — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @McFaul: If Putin invades Ukraine again, let's be very clear -- there was an alternative, peaceful path to enhancing security of all Eur… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @McFaul: Not a good sign when the head of RT is tweeting, 'and now, it looks like, it's started.' (Im paraphrasing; Im not a translat… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @McFaul: "Bandit" Pushilin. That's a better adjective than "separatist" for the so-called leader of the so-called Donetsk People's Repub… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @EuromaidanPR: Not a good signal at all! In 2014, when #Russia annexed #Crimea and partly occupied #Donetsk and #Luhansk regions, this M… — PolitiTweet.org

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значит война? — PolitiTweet.org

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"For as long as he rules Russia, Putin will continue to normalize annexation, deny sovereignty to neighbors, undermine democratic regimes, ideas, and societies, and undo the liberal international order." 16/ END THREAD. — PolitiTweet.org

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"Of course, Putin wants to prevent Ukraine from joining NATO and interrupt current military cooperation between Ukraine and NATO countries. But his revisionist agenda is much larger than that." 15/ — PolitiTweet.org

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"Putin understands well that the fight today between autocracy and democracy is not only between countries but within countries, including our own." 14/ — PolitiTweet.org

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"Putin personally, as well as Russian state-controlled media, Russian money, and Russian non-governmental and religious actors, have cultivated ties with European and American leaders, groups, and media who share Putin’s populist, orthodox, nationalist ideology." 13/ — PolitiTweet.org

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"Fifth, more broadly, Putin aspires to first weaken and ideally destroy European multilateral institutions and continental norms about democracy and human rights." 12/ — PolitiTweet.org

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Fourth...Putin seeks to unite a single Slavic nation of Russia, Ukraine & Belarus which he thinks was unjustly divided after the collapse of the Soviet Union. In a recent long historical article, Putin explained why Ukrainians and Russians are from one nation or one people." 11/ — PolitiTweet.org

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"Putin’s massive military buildup on Ukraine’s borders is just the latest tactic in this long-term campaign. Already, the threat of invasion has profoundly stressed the Ukrainian economy." 10/ — PolitiTweet.org

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"Since so-called color revolutions in Georgia in 2003 and Ukraine in 2004, Putin has deployed multiple instruments of power to undermine democracy and sovereignty in these countries." 9/ — PolitiTweet.org

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"Democratic expansion, not NATO expansion, threaten Putin and his autocratic regime. He has said so very explicitly many times, including most recently in his joint statement with Chinese leader Xi Jinping..." 8/ — PolitiTweet.org

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"Third, while Putin has distracted the West with the shiny object of NATO expansion, he has continued to march forward on a much larger, destabilizing agenda of undermining democracy in his neighborhood." 7/ — PolitiTweet.org

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"Putin of course knows fully well that NATO will not accept new members that have Russian soldiers occupying parts of their territory. That’s why Putin invaded Georgia in 2008 and Ukraine in 2014 and now occupies parts of both countries. It’s a tragic fact." 6/ — PolitiTweet.org

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"Second, Putin understands perfectly well that he has invented from scratch this alleged threat of Ukrainian membership in NATO. Give Putin credit; he has framed this crisis as one about NATO expansion, and unfortunately, many ... have accepted Putin’s narrative." 5/ — PolitiTweet.org

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"..., including most germane to this current crisis, the 1994 Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances for Ukraine. Why should anyone in Kyiv, Brussels, or Washington believe Putin will be more sincere this time around? " 4/ — PolitiTweet.org

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"First, this argument assumes that Putin would credibly commit to a new agreement and stop threatening Ukraine’s sovereignty. Why? He already has violated numerous European treaties and agreements that Moscow signed in the past..." 3/ — PolitiTweet.org

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"Some political leaders, elected officials, and analysts have argued that we could end this conflict overnight by just ending NATO’s open-door policy. That analysis is wrong." 2/ — PolitiTweet.org

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In testimony for the US Congress this week, I outlined what I thought were Putin's aims in threatening war against Ukraine. https://t.co/DFHfJho60t Let me summarize in a thread. 1/ THREAD — PolitiTweet.org

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Vladimir Putin does not think like we do https://t.co/vrGCbZMQyS — PolitiTweet.org

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So it will be Russia and Belarus together invading their single Slavic "nation"? (Putin's framing, not mine.) — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @markmackinnon: Luakshenko: "We don't want war, but if somebody is eager they will get an absolutely asymmetric response." — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @samagreene: As a comparative political scientist/sociologist, I’ve always found IR a problematic discipline: IR theories involve a lot… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ForeignAffairs: Negotiations will not solve every issue bedeviling relations between Russia and the West, but reviving the discussions… — PolitiTweet.org

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"balance of power" (Twitter word limits sometimes hard!) — PolitiTweet.org