Michael McFaul

Michael McFaul @McFaul

@Rasputinish "Mickey"? Really? So tired. Im not in second grade anymore. Im going to assume you aren't either, though of course I dont know. Bye. — PolitiTweet.org

Michael McFaul @McFaul

To repeat, I wrote "force posture" within NATO. I did not say those who joined after 1997 had to be kicked out. (Cmon folks! You know me. Don't accuse me of things you know I'd never say.) — PolitiTweet.org

Michael McFaul @McFaul

@Bershidsky @janvonheiroth PS When I took my first trip abroad to Leningrad in 1983, I was blown away at how European, cultured, and safe the city was. We could walk around at 2 am! I felt like an uncultured peasant from the sticks. I was. (& yes, I also met refusniks, musicians, etc who did not feel safe) — PolitiTweet.org

Michael McFaul @McFaul

@Bershidsky @janvonheiroth I grew up in a rough mining town, Butte, MT, in a poor family. (Google "Butte") Got the shit kicked out of me just walking to school. Was suspended from school for fighting (defending myself). Drives me nuts when Americans make sweeping assumptions about "Russians." & vice versa. — PolitiTweet.org

Michael McFaul @McFaul

@rajan_menon_ @LawDavF @EdmundLevin @PatPorter76 Raj, I think one can disentangle, or at least more causal weight to one factor of the other. I wrote about all these issues in detail here: https://t.co/rxksoWaph4 (PS Nice to "see" you here!) — PolitiTweet.org

Michael McFaul @McFaul

@rajan_menon_ @LawDavF @EdmundLevin @PatPorter76 Obama and Medvedev discussed in detail "privileged spheres of influence" at their first meeting in April 2009. After that, we began expanding NDN through Central Asia. When Bakiev was overthrown, US and Russia cooperated; did not confront each other. Manas only closed under VVP. — PolitiTweet.org

Michael McFaul @McFaul

@rajan_menon_ Obama of course was fully briefed. But it wasn't an "issue" because no one was seriously discussing the issue, not in Brussels, not in Washington, not in Kyiv, or Tbilisi. — PolitiTweet.org

Michael McFaul @McFaul

@Bershidsky My apologies. We should try a different platform to actually talk, exchange views, agree to disagree but hopefully agreeably! Im ready to host any time. — PolitiTweet.org

Michael McFaul @McFaul

Very useful review of European security treaties and issues: — PolitiTweet.org

Michael McFaul @McFaul

By NATO's "force posture," I was referring to commitments in the NATO-Russia Founding Act, not of course the removal of any NATO members. Russia violated the NATO-Russia Founding Act, so NATO was no longer committed to limits in it. — PolitiTweet.org

Michael McFaul @McFaul

I agree. — PolitiTweet.org

Michael McFaul @McFaul

RT @Tsihanouskaya: Throughout 2021, the regime attacked many independent media in Belarus to create an information vacuum: @tutby, @nashani… — PolitiTweet.org

Michael McFaul @McFaul

Putin is on ty with Orban: "Уважаемый господин Премьер-министр, дорогой Виктор, очень рад видеть тебя!" — PolitiTweet.org

Michael McFaul @McFaul

Let me clarify. I of course would never agree to that! I wrote about NATO "force postures," not NATO membership, the ones that were agreed to in the NATO-Russia Founding Act in 1997. Putin complains we violated it, but that was in response to his violations first. — PolitiTweet.org

Michael McFaul @McFaul

Serious diplomacy can only be conducted on a reciprocal basis. Putin's demand that NATO return to its force posture in 1997 can only be entertained if Russia agrees to do the same -- i.e. withdrawal from Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Crimea, and Donbas as a start. — PolitiTweet.org

Michael McFaul @McFaul

RT @kylieatwood: President Putin says Russian proposals were ignored in the responses the US gave the Kremlin last week. He says there has… — PolitiTweet.org

Michael McFaul @McFaul

RT @FSIStanford: "There is still room for negotiation if Putin wants to negotiate." @McFaul and @ninakhrushcheva recap the latest on #Russ… — PolitiTweet.org

Michael McFaul @McFaul

PS I personally have NEVER said that Putin is hell-bent on invading. Not once. When asked that question, be it by senior USG officials or tv anchors, I always answer, "I don't know." I've literally said that 100 times. 3/ — PolitiTweet.org

Michael McFaul @McFaul

And I don't have time to read everything. If you have written about Putin's pro-war, rogue behavior and I missed it, I'll correct myself. Definitely not the focus on your Twitter feed. 2/ — PolitiTweet.org

Michael McFaul @McFaul

So Churchill's warnings about Hitler before 1939 was "pro-war"? & is it not alarmist and escalatory to send 130,000 troops to your neighbor's borders? Your singular focus on Biden and near silence on Putin's belligerent, destabilizing, hostage-taking behavior is striking. 1/ — PolitiTweet.org

Michael McFaul @McFaul

I hope you are not suggesting that I am parroting talking points. I have been a Stanford professor for thirty years. I have published peer-reviewed books and articles where "opinions" and "talking points" play no role. — PolitiTweet.org

Michael McFaul @McFaul

RT @SamRamani2: @McFaul This adds more info too @McFaul https://t.co/DAvF2Aq8sO — PolitiTweet.org

Michael McFaul @McFaul

@SamRamani2 thanks for posting. — PolitiTweet.org

Michael McFaul @McFaul

RT @McFaul: I am pro-Russian. I am not pro-Putin. True Russophiles understand that it would be absolutely horrific for Russians if Putin de… — PolitiTweet.org

Michael McFaul @McFaul

Russian messaging these days is a little confusing. The standard Moscow line is that all countries all the time are guided by selfish interests. Realism. Now they want us to believe that Russia champions a rules-based international order? Putin is a “liberal institutionalist”? — PolitiTweet.org

Michael McFaul @McFaul

If it really happens, would be a major @JoeBiden foreign policy achievement. — PolitiTweet.org

Michael McFaul @McFaul

RT @EchoMskNews: Алексей Венедиктов назвал «политической цензурой» требование Генпрокуратуры удалить расследования Навального с сайта «Эха… — PolitiTweet.org

Michael McFaul @McFaul

Glad you’re there @rachelnpr ! — PolitiTweet.org

Michael McFaul @McFaul

Hope Orban gives his NATO ally Biden a confidential readout of this meeting. — PolitiTweet.org

Michael McFaul @McFaul

RT @McFaul: Can you provide any data to support this claim that the “population of Crimea was threatened with extermination”? Any? Was anyo… — PolitiTweet.org