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Feb 26, 2020 • 3 tweets • 3 min read
This is what grotesque disinformation on @twitter looks like "We have an insight (can be manufactured des info) about
@McFaul helping Browder to transfer huge amount of money from Russia, I’m not sensationalist and don’t believe to any fake news easily, but words is spreading"
I dont believe that @Twitter should be a platform for people like @lopatonok to spread false, slanderous lies about me or anyone else. What do you think? Discuss. And take action. Let's all work to clean up this platform for rational, fact-based discussion.
And if anyone has an information about who pays/sponsors Mr. @lopatonok to published these lies, please send me information. I've had enough. Im fighting back. cc: @CIA @FBI @StateDept .

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Feb 20
To add, "verbal commitments" mean next to nothing in diplomacy. During the New START treaty negotiations, Russians heard a verbal commitment from our side to limit missile defenses. Obama personally had to walk it back. 1/ THREAD
He told Medvedev that we would never commit to that in a written agreement. I was there with him during the call. It was a very tough call. 2/
When the treaty was signed, none of these "verbal commitments" showed up in the final text. A real, credible commitment not to expand NATO would have been codified in a treaty. Or at least a joint statement. It was not. 3/
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Feb 20
On why negotiating with Putin is so difficult. From my Congressional testimony last week on "Defending U.S. Allies and Interests Against Russian Aggression in Eastern Europe." shar.es/aWQuPZ THREAD 1/
"It is hard to negotiate with an autocratic leader driven by ideological aims. Putin is worried about what the Russian history books fifty years from now will say about his efforts to reunite the Slavic nation and revise the post-Cold War order." 2/
"He is not that concerned about Sberbank stock prices next month. Putin also has been in power for over two decades. He no longer listens to advisors; he thinks he knows everything." 3/
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Feb 18
In testimony for the US Congress this week, I outlined what I thought were Putin's aims in threatening war against Ukraine. fsi-live.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/mc… Let me summarize in a thread. 1/ THREAD
"Some political leaders, elected officials, and analysts have argued that we could end this conflict overnight by just ending NATO’s open-door policy. That analysis is wrong." 2/
"First, this argument assumes that Putin would credibly commit to a new agreement and stop threatening Ukraine’s sovereignty. Why? He already has violated numerous European treaties and agreements that Moscow signed in the past..." 3/
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Feb 18
Lots of people in my feed recently keep referencing Professor Mearsheimer as the great explainer of the current Russia-Ukraine conflict. I have some thoughts. THREAD 1/
I respect John as one of the clearest, most logical realist theorists out here. Unlike some, he also admits/understands that realism is both an explanatory theory and a normative perspective, or what Id call an ideology. (Liberalism also is a theory & an ideology.) 2/
Whenever I teach IR courses, I assign big chunks of Mearsheimer all the time (Walt too). 3/
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Feb 15
We are all looking for signs of Putin pivoting towards negotiations, not war, because we all want to avoid war. But we should be careful about cherry-picking the tea leaves. 1/ THREAD
He told Lavrov to pursue negotiations, yes. That's good news. 2/
But Putin also called Donbas a genocide. How can Putin stand by and watch a genocide of ethnic Russians (his frame not mine)? That quip from Putin scared me. 3/
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Feb 9
"Not without reason, Putin believes that U.S. support for democracy abroad threatens his autocratic rule." 1/ THREAD.
"During Putin’s reign, most crises in relations with the United States have been triggered not by NATO expansion, but by democratic mobilizations — Putin calls them “color revolutions” — within countries, be it Georgia in 2003, Ukraine in 2004, the Arab Spring in 2011,..." 2/
"Russia in 2011 and Ukraine in 2014. On this contentious issue, there is no deal to be had between the United States and Russia as long as Putin is in power. U.S. leaders cannot command other societies to stop wanting democracy." 3/
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