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Max Fisher @Max_Fisher
Guns are now the leading cause of death for American children https://t.co/FDOOZJvL57 — PolitiTweet.org
Max Fisher @Max_Fisher
RT @ABarnardNYT: “They put the tactical stack together in a very orderly way.” The tactical stack. That’s when they line up along a wall t… — PolitiTweet.org
Max Fisher @Max_Fisher
RT @JaxAlemany: Jan. 6 panel is told that Trump indicated support for hanging Pence during insurrection — confirming @maggieNYT & @lukeb… — PolitiTweet.org
Max Fisher @Max_Fisher
A Land Without Guns: How Japan Virtually Eliminated Shooting Deaths https://t.co/3zGoXdpWzG — PolitiTweet.org
Max Fisher @Max_Fisher
“The cell phones in the pockets of the dead students were still ringing when we were told that it was wrong to ask why.” https://t.co/qdhlT5kh2t — PolitiTweet.org
Max Fisher @Max_Fisher
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Max Fisher @Max_Fisher
RT @Max_Fisher: The only variable that can explain the high rate of mass shootings in America is its astronomical number of guns. https://t… — PolitiTweet.org
Max Fisher @Max_Fisher
RT @Max_Fisher: News: A major U.S. company is, through a factory in owns in Russia, quietly supplying vital materials used by Russia’s air… — PolitiTweet.org
Max Fisher @Max_Fisher
RT @Max_Fisher: News: A major U.S. company is, through a factory in owns in Russia, quietly supplying vital materials used by Russia’s air… — PolitiTweet.org
Max Fisher @Max_Fisher
RT @Max_Fisher: News: A major U.S. company is, through a factory in owns in Russia, quietly supplying vital materials used by Russia’s air… — PolitiTweet.org
Max Fisher @Max_Fisher
RT @Max_Fisher: News: A major U.S. company is, through a factory in owns in Russia, quietly supplying vital materials used by Russia’s air… — PolitiTweet.org
Max Fisher @Max_Fisher
On Tuesday, The Times alerted Arconic to our forthcoming story. The next day, Arconic's board voted to approve a press release announcing that the company would be seeking to sell its plant and exit Russia for good. It does not yet have a buyer. — PolitiTweet.org
Max Fisher @Max_Fisher
Why didn't Arconic just shut down production? It had a good reason: under Russian law, plant managers who disrupt strategic production can face up to 10 years in jailtime. Arconic is stuck with a plant whose profits it can't access, that it can't close, and maybe can't sell. — PolitiTweet.org
Max Fisher @Max_Fisher
Still, any buyer would need to meet the approval of U.S. regulators (including at the State and Defense Departments), not to mention the Kremlin – as well as a Kremlin-linked firm with which Arconic has a joint partnership at the plant. Selling remained hypothetical at best. — PolitiTweet.org
Max Fisher @Max_Fisher
But Arconic was caught in rising geopolitical tensions. Western sanctions, and Russian restrictions on their business, narrowed their ability to operate. They began exploring options to sell the plant entirely. — PolitiTweet.org
Max Fisher @Max_Fisher
When Putin's invasion triggered sweeping sanctions, Arconic scrambled to keep the plant running. Because US/EU employees could not resupply it without potentially violating sanctions, this was shifted to China-based teams. The plant soon reported multiple production records. — PolitiTweet.org
Max Fisher @Max_Fisher
Amid Putin's build-up to war with Ukraine, in late 2021, production soared at Arconic's plant. An internal presentation boasted that aerospace forgings at the plant had nearly doubled – a factory record. Still, Arconic stayed. — PolitiTweet.org
Max Fisher @Max_Fisher
In 2020, Moscow froze Arconic's ability to access its profits from Russia. Zeroed them out. This was likely intended to coerce the company into selling the plant to a Kremlin-linked oligarch, industry analysts told me. Still, Arconic held on. — PolitiTweet.org
Max Fisher @Max_Fisher
The overwhelming majority of Arconic's profits in Russia come from non-military production, which last year alone brought the company $1 billion in sale. Its military sales aren't really a profit-center – but they are Moscow's price of admission. — PolitiTweet.org
Max Fisher @Max_Fisher
The trouble began soon after Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea. Sanctions constrained companies' ability to operate. Moscow began coercing foreign companies into selling off factories with strategic value. But Alcoa (later Arconic) held on. — PolitiTweet.org
Max Fisher @Max_Fisher
Russian contracts acquired by The Times show that Alcoa agreed to supply what Moscow deemed critical projects. A supplemental page lists contracts with Russia's largest military contractors, which make its ICBMs, fighter jets, strategic bombers, missiles, and attack helicopters. — PolitiTweet.org
Max Fisher @Max_Fisher
But Alcoa's plant came with machines that constitute "critical defense infrastructure," industry analysts told me, by making essential aerospace materials. Like it or not, a major U.S. company now owned an essential node in Russia's military production – and that came with terms. — PolitiTweet.org
Max Fisher @Max_Fisher
Important context is that, in 2004, Bush saw Putin as a likeminded ally in the war on terror. His administration encouraged hundreds of companies to buy up Russian assets and factories, believing economic integration would cement peace. Alcoa was one such company. — PolitiTweet.org
Max Fisher @Max_Fisher
The company didn't seek out Russian military work. Rather, this was Moscow's condition for it to, in 2004, purchase a massive factory in Russia, which mostly produces basic commercial/industrial goods. The plant also had some machines that can make advanced aerospace materials. — PolitiTweet.org
Max Fisher @Max_Fisher
We reconstructed the history of Alcoa/Arconic's involvement in Russia through financial filings, archival reports, and, chiefly, internal company documents provided by a whistleblower who had a moral objection to the company continuing this work amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine. — PolitiTweet.org
Max Fisher @Max_Fisher
News: A major U.S. company is, through a factory in owns in Russia, quietly supplying vital materials used by Russia’s air and missile forces in Ukraine Our investigation reveals the company’s terms with Moscow – and its struggle to keep its plant running https://t.co/7wR3uzlUEp — PolitiTweet.org
Max Fisher @Max_Fisher
RT @letsgomathias: New: My dispatch from Idaho's Christian nationalist insurgency, where extremists are seizing power, in part, by targetin… — PolitiTweet.org
Max Fisher @Max_Fisher
Gonna be a whole lot of passive voice headlines today — PolitiTweet.org
Max Fisher @Max_Fisher
RT @glcarlstrom: Shireen Abu Aqleh, a veteran Al Jazeera journalist, was shot in the head and killed by Israeli soldiers this morning while… — PolitiTweet.org
Max Fisher @Max_Fisher
RT @BarakRavid: BREAKING: Palestinian ministry of health says Aljazeera veteran reporter Shireen Abu Akleh was shot dead by Israeli soldier… — PolitiTweet.org
