Michael McFaul

Michael McFaul @McFaul

"Such an announcement would dispel the absurd Russian claim that Washington and Kyiv are scheming to restore Ukrainian sovereignty over Donbas by military force and..." 3/ — PolitiTweet.org

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"... and insisting that the United States formally join Ukraine, Russia, Germany and France to reinvigorate the now moribund Normandy talks tasked with ending the war in eastern Ukraine." 2/ — PolitiTweet.org

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"Biden should state publicly his desire to reinvigorate diplomacy to end the war in eastern Ukraine, including naming a senior envoy to represent the United States in these negotiations..." 1/ — PolitiTweet.org

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"Since 1939, the specter of an all-out conventional war in Europe between two major militaries has never been greater." 2/ END THREAD https://t.co/scK6G0z1wB — PolitiTweet.org

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"We don’t know Putin’s ultimate plans; he remains his usual unpredictable self. But his recent threatening statements about Ukraine — including a claim that Ukrainians and Russians are actually one nation — have rattled leaders in Kyiv, Brussels and Washington." 1/ THREAD — PolitiTweet.org

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Judging from my @Twitter feed, Putin is winning the PR battle on European security. Lots of talk about NATO expansion. Nearly nothing on real threats to European security -- Russian military interventions, annexation, occupations, cyber attacks, assassinations, energy blackmail. — PolitiTweet.org

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Putin wants us to endlessly debate the "sins" of NATO expansion and forget about this: https://t.co/HoNgxtL1t6 — PolitiTweet.org

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Russia suffered a major blow when a tech tycoon landed in U.S. custody. From 2016 election-meddling info to military intel, here's what he could share https://t.co/O4l5YZiOBS via @bpolitics — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @polinaivanovva: absolutely rockstar reporting here by @meyerhenry4 @IrinaReznik4 what a story https://t.co/wG98H3dAbX — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @McFaul: Biden is executing a 4-point plan for dealing with Putin: (1) engage in diplomacy on European security (2) arm Ukraine (3) thre… — PolitiTweet.org

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If you emailed me in 2021 (or the last decade) and I didn't respond, and it's still urgent, bump it up. I pledge in 2022 to try to keep up. #HNY2022! — PolitiTweet.org

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Sunday night before the first day of the new school year, and I'm working through 15,000 unread emails, hoping to start the new year 'all caught up'! That's not gonna happen. Ideas? Declare email bankruptcy? — PolitiTweet.org

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If you live in Chicago: https://t.co/FordebikY2 — PolitiTweet.org

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Sanctions over pipelines is an old story in East-West relations: "President Lifts Sanctions on Soviet Pipeline" https://t.co/dRYdZsXw9S — PolitiTweet.org

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@RepRoKhanna Agreed — PolitiTweet.org

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@LeoStrauss3rd Pretty well — PolitiTweet.org

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@devbolles On a few issues , no. Means i@ capable of learning! — PolitiTweet.org

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Biden is executing a 4-point plan for dealing with Putin: (1) engage in diplomacy on European security (2) arm Ukraine (3) threaten sanctions if Putin invades & (4) support Ukrainian democracy & market reforms. Keep at it! Go deeper. Our recs: https://t.co/scK6G0z1wB — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @McFaul: A new Russian invasion of Ukraine will make Russians less secure, not more secure. The days of annexation, occupation, buffer z… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @McFaul: I am pro-Russian. I am pro-Ukrainian. And therefore, I am anti-war. — PolitiTweet.org

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Awesome! What was the class? (I used to teach a class called, Revolutions. After reading Skocpol, Tilly, etc, we dove deep into case studies -- 1776, 1789, 1917, 1949, and sometimes 1979 (Iran), 1989 (eastern Europe), and 1991 (USSR). — PolitiTweet.org

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In trying to obtain "Finlandization" in Ukraine, Putin is undermining "Finlandization" in Finland. ("Finlandization" is in quotes because it's not a word I like or use, but one often deployed by Russian security analysts.) 4/ END THREAD. — PolitiTweet.org

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"NATO’s business is the so-called Open Door policy, the continuance of which has been repeatedly confirmed to Finland, also publicly." 3/ — PolitiTweet.org

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Money line: "And let it be stated once again: Finland’s room to manoeuvre and freedom of choice also include the possibility of military alignment and of applying for NATO membership, should we ourselves so decide." 2/ — PolitiTweet.org

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Extraordinary statement by "President of the Republic of Finland Sauli Niinistö’s New Year’s Speech on 1 January 2022" https://t.co/faPOyvWFHx 1/ THREAD — PolitiTweet.org

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Rereading today a book that I first read over 20 years and assigned in class for several years , and am amazed how little I remember! Even rereading my scribblings in the margins seem like they were written by someone else. https://t.co/ZJiMWHsvjw — PolitiTweet.org

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It's striking to me that the same Russian foreign policy officials with whom I used to work in 2009 as part of the Obama team -- Lavrov, Ryabkov, Ushakov, Patrushev -- are all still doing their same jobs today. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @McFaul: Have you ever heard an American president complain about the Collective Security Treaty Organization? No. CSTO expansion? No. C… — PolitiTweet.org

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US and Russia face deep differences ahead of talks on Ukraine https://t.co/0MQz73GdAr via @presstittle — PolitiTweet.org

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Only 4% of Russian respondents in a @levada_ru last month thought that increased tensions with Ukraine was a major event. Concern about COVID was much higher. https://t.co/XcKJYPvO9Q — PolitiTweet.org