Michael McFaul

Michael McFaul @McFaul

@NinaByzantina Have not seen that book. Ill check it out . Certainly not the way I learned that history. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @McFaul: Putin has amassed 100,00+ soldiers and a massive amount of hardware on Ukraine's borders, but I am the "warmonger" for supporti… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @thereidout: Coming up tonight on @thereidout: @BeschlossDC @ProfMMurray @spamfriedrice @RepTedLieu @MattMcBradley @McFaul @Wajah… — PolitiTweet.org

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I also find it odd that many (rightly) see the Iraq war as a major strategic mistake for the US, but dont even entertain the hypothesis that the same might be true for Putin's preemptive war today. Creating spheres of influence or allies through invasion doesn't always work 5/ — PolitiTweet.org

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But you cant argue that Bush's 2003 war was immoral but Putin's planned war in 2022 is 'just the way the world is.' That makes no logical sense. 4/ — PolitiTweet.org

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You also can explain both 2003 and 2022 as the "world as it is" -- great powers doing what they do. We may not like it, but that's the nasty Hobbesian world we live in. Classic realism. 3/ — PolitiTweet.org

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You can argue that 2003 and 2022 were/are strategically imprudent and geopolitical blunders. 2/ — PolitiTweet.org

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You can argue that Bush's preemptive war in 2003 and Putin's preemptive planned war in 2022 were/are both immoral. 1/ THREAD — PolitiTweet.org

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How the west went public to stop a war in Ukraine | Financial Times - https://t.co/tFHbMuaawS — PolitiTweet.org

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Putin has amassed 100,00+ soldiers and a massive amount of hardware on Ukraine's borders, but I am the "warmonger" for supporting Biden's decision to send more military assistance to Ukraine. Strange logic sometimes one finds on Twitter! — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @MassDara: In addition to the Russian SAMs moving to Belarus for an “exercise”, I assume more are moving as well further south. Russian… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @AmyZegart: Sneak peak at Spies, Lies, & Algorithms Ch 4: Intelligence Basics-Knowns and Unknowns. I examine what intel is and isn't, an… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @McFaul: It's clear from reporting that the Biden administration has offered to Putin a comprehensive set of ideas about how to enhance… — PolitiTweet.org

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@LouiseMensch noted. — PolitiTweet.org

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I disagree. Prudent foreign policy requires separating out vital security interests from peripheral ones. Acquiescing to annexation is very dangerous to American vital national security interests. (And, to be clear, I'm not calling for invading any country!) — PolitiTweet.org

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I see no circumstances under which the U.S. or any NATO ally would deliberately shoot down a Russian aircraft. The real worry should be about accidents (as was the worry in 2015 in Syria.) — PolitiTweet.org

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Thank you. I've been crystal clear in my written and broadcast commentary. When critics have to roll out the word, "imply", you know its thin gruel. — PolitiTweet.org

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If more military assistance won't help Ukraine deter Russia, why is Biden sending it? Why do his most senior military advisors support sending it? Why does Zelensky want it? Why is Putin's team making such a fuss about it? Maybe a little more than "moral signaling" going on. — PolitiTweet.org

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Great piece from @HenryJFoy today. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @CooleyOnEurasia: Key insight from ⁦⁦@HenryJFoy⁩: “While the strategy has shifted the initial calculus for Russia and negated Moscow’s a… — PolitiTweet.org

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They ended up having to "travel" to Germany in 1945 because many Americans made arguments about the irrelevance of "insignificant" countries in eastern Europe to our national interests in the 1930s, especially in 1938 and 1939. Instructive to read American pundits back then. — PolitiTweet.org

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Could not agree more! That's why pre-COVID, I used to travel to Ukraine all the time. (And before I was sanctioned, I used to travel to Russia all the time.) — PolitiTweet.org

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By the way, I had the chance to discuss this issue directly with Zelensky last summer. I repeated the arguments of the piece I just posted. 4/ END https://t.co/llFcQIprfK — PolitiTweet.org

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The whole essay is here: 3/ https://t.co/I6PXWdqqaF — PolitiTweet.org

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"MAPs do not provide security guarantees, and the hard reality is that Ukraine today is not qualified to join NATO. Zelensky should focus instead on implementing necessary domestic reforms to prepare Ukraine for NATO membership without formally signing a MAP." 2/ — PolitiTweet.org

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The word "implying" is doing a lot of work in your tweet. Why don't you just read what I've written? "In return, Zelensky should stop asking — for now — to sign a NATO Membership Action Plan (MAP)." 1/ — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @McFaul: Please do not assign false equivalency to Russia and the United States in this crisis. One side is threatening to invade Ukrain… — PolitiTweet.org

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I used to know well several CEOs of these companies. I am pretty sure I can predict their private views of these senseless war preparations let alone war. Their views expressed in public, of course, will be different. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @jason_corcoran: Absolute carnage across Russian stock market. Gazprom and Sberbank, the two benchmark stocks, are falling over a cliff… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @carlbildt: The massive buildup of 🇷🇺 forces towards 🇺🇦 continues. Here it’s older T72 tanks on their way to the confrontation zone. Eur… — PolitiTweet.org