Michael McFaul

Michael McFaul @McFaul

Another important and much discussed issue is European missile defence... everyone realises now that overall, only universal missile defence systems offer any real value, and not systems built to protect particular countries only, or covering particular military theatres only.10/ — PolitiTweet.org

Michael McFaul @McFaul

They cover our cooperation in a range of areas: fighting terrorism, which is one of the biggest threats humanity faces today, drug trafficking, piracy, and proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. We have practically no differences on any of these issues. 9/ — PolitiTweet.org

Michael McFaul @McFaul

There are, however, some key areas that are equally important for NATO and its individual member states, and for Russia. 8/ — PolitiTweet.org

Michael McFaul @McFaul

"We view the future with optimism and will work on developing relations between Russia and NATO in all areas." 7/ — PolitiTweet.org

Michael McFaul @McFaul

The documents set out the specific results achieved at this [NATO] summit, but I will say a few words on the main points. First, we noted that the period of distance in our relations and claims against each other is over now. 6/ — PolitiTweet.org

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"Incidentally, even the [NATO] declaration approved at the end of our talks states that we seek to develop a strategic partnership. This is not a chance choice of words, but signals that we have succeeded in putting the difficult period in our relations behind us now." 5/ — PolitiTweet.org

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"Now we are starting to build up our cooperation, and so I would agree overall that this is indeed an important stage in building a full and productive partnership between Russia and NATO." 4/ — PolitiTweet.org

Michael McFaul @McFaul

, shedding some of the illusions we perhaps had back in the 1990s, and entering the period of productive construction that the start of this decade ushered in. 3/ — PolitiTweet.org

Michael McFaul @McFaul

"My colleagues were not short of words to describe this [NATO] summit today, and this is probably no bad thing. I too used the term ‘historic’ to describe it, referring to the long way we have come... 2/ — PolitiTweet.org

Michael McFaul @McFaul

Read this thread. Guess who said all these nice, cooperative things about NATO? Guess when they were said? 1/. THREAD. — PolitiTweet.org

Michael McFaul @McFaul

When you defend Putin's concerns about NATO legitimate, please remind your readers that you also consider annexation, recognition of other countries' regions as independent countries & military interventions of neighbors illegitimate. Please. Easy day. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @LarryDiamond: How to deal with the Kremlin-created crisis in Europe - Atlantic Council. “The most important thing the West can do now i… — PolitiTweet.org

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@stephenwertheim But didn't a big event happen between 1/1950 and this shift? On June 25, 1950. What is the equivalent event in the Russia-NATO drama today? Honest, not rhetorical, question. I'm curious how you see it. — PolitiTweet.org

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@stephenwertheim good point. — PolitiTweet.org

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@WillRuger @Journal_IS The punch line is power matters, but regimes and individuals & and their ideas matter. — PolitiTweet.org

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@TIdalWaves11 stay tuned. — PolitiTweet.org

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@savedemocracy18 good point. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Conniepae stay tuned. more info in the new year. — PolitiTweet.org

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@KevinRothrock stay tuned. — PolitiTweet.org

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@treemunsh stay tuned. — PolitiTweet.org

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@becky_ganzhorn stay tuned. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ACEurasia: BREAKING | Just after President Biden and President Putin talk by phone, a distinguished group of 24 experts and former seni… — PolitiTweet.org

Michael McFaul @McFaul

To those complaining about my long threads, I hear you. I'll be moving those to another platform in the new year for those longer thoughts, and try to keep my missives here shorter & punchier. — PolitiTweet.org

Michael McFaul @McFaul

How to deal with the Kremlin-created crisis in Europe https://t.co/kY6LCs1KC1 (Happy to have signed.) — PolitiTweet.org

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@KvanOosterom yep. — PolitiTweet.org

Michael McFaul @McFaul

PS @WillRuger, I write about these issues in more detail in FROM COLD WAR TO HOT PEACE and more academically in Putin, Putinism, and the Domestic Determinants of Russian Foreign Policy in @Journal_IS . https://t.co/7DMHVRJcOP. Eager for feedback! Writing a new book on GPC. — PolitiTweet.org

Michael McFaul @McFaul

Thousands of Russian soldiers occupy Ukraine today. Russian-backed separatists continue to fight & undermine Ukrainian sovereignty. If Putin orders more soldiers to invade Ukraine, it will be an escalation of on ongoing conflict, not a new war. — PolitiTweet.org

Michael McFaul @McFaul

In 2022, the US needs to up its game regarding public diplomacy, strategic communications, fighting disinformation, supporting the dissemination of actual news/facts/evidence, etc. https://t.co/hgJgWiRzdq — PolitiTweet.org

Michael McFaul @McFaul

Kremlin public diplomacy team is talented. Notice that everyone is talking about "NATO expansion" and hardly anyone mentions Crimean annexation, Donbas separatists/criminals (Confederates were called traitors when they tried to leave the USA), South Ossetia, Abkhazia, etc. 1/ — PolitiTweet.org

Michael McFaul @McFaul

But we actually know from history - not theory - that different Russian leaders have had varying, not constant, attitudes about NATO. Look at what Yeltsin said about NATO in the 1990s. Putin in 2000. Read Medvedev's speech at the NATO summit in 2010. Nothing like Putin today. — PolitiTweet.org