Michael McFaul
Professor of Political Science, Director of Freeman Spogli Institute & Hoover Senior Fellow all at Stanford University. U.S. Ambassador to Russia, 2012-2014.
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"rather than limiting NATO expansion Putinβs invasion provoked it. Sweden and Finland will soon join. Even during the Cold War, these countries stayed neutral. No more. And without...
"After ten months of fighting, however, democratic Ukraine is winning. Putin has not achieved any of his initial military objectives." THREAD 1/
"... populists in more established democracies did not advance, and their most anti-democratic ideas failed to gain traction. Most importantly for global democracy, the United Stat...
.@ZelenskyyUa's three attributes of great leadership from my piece on Substack, "Zelenskyy Is a Badass." THREAD 1/
Can tv commentators please stop using words like "off ramps" and "saving face" for Putin, or reporting on alleged "peace plans" pushed by mysterious, unnamed European officials, or...
NATO has sent an amazing quantity of weapons to Ukraine to help stop Putin's invasion of Ukraine. But Russia's war continues. So NATO must send more and better weapons. 1/ THREAD.
My Twitter feed today is filled with hot takes denouncing Russian opposition liberals. I share many of these sentiments. I have the scars from the "visa ban" debate from last summe...
Which country benefits the most from a prolonged war in Ukraine? The PRC. Which country benefits the least? Ukraine. But which country benefits the second least? Russia. 2/
I'm not as well-versed in IR theories as I should be, but couldn't the U.S. strategy in thwarting Russia in Europe be described as classic realpolitik "off-shore balancing"? What a...
On whether we should give Putin what he wants, I think this American grand strategist has written something wise. THREAD/1
If leaders of the free world are looking for some new and bolder responses to Putin's massive terrorist attacks against Ukrainian and Polish civilians, our international working gr...
I dont disagree with this oped. But I was struck by the title. Why doesn't anyone ever write, "Xi Must Ensure Ethiopia Does Not Return to War?' Why is it always the US that must do...