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Casey Michel Profile picture
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Sep 3, 2020 • 13 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
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Very much looking forward to seeing how the White House spins today's Kosovo-Serbia meeting in Washington as some great, historic peace deal.
'Rather than grasp reality and create a pathway for Kosovo’s recognition, the Trump administration clings to the same religious belief in “economic normalization” that undergirded its failed so-called deal of the century.' foreignpolicy.com/2020/09/03/tru…
Welp.
Worth noting that Richard Grenell denied this (not that there’s any reason to believe Grenell at this point)—what a day.
lol
"Photo op without anyone knowing what's being signed while still claiming historic progress" does seem like an especially Trumpian move. ht @CrisLeeMaza
Some worthwhile technical stuff in the Serbia-Kosovo agreement (recognizing diplomas, efforts to work to extend LGBT rights) but all those worried about today's signing being completely hyped out of proportion look like they were right.
Didn't expect "Kosovo is now in the Middle East" to be the main thrust of the White House's spin today.
This was always going to be the White House’s spin, regardless of what was signed last week.
Great read from @majda_ruge on how the White House's effort to spin the Serbia-Kosovo meeting last week was as empty as it appeared: 'This is amateur-hour diplomacy, and the damage done dwarfs any gains.' politico.eu/article/trump-…
Richard Grenell, who helped author this “deal,” really is one of the worst diplomats the U.S. has produced in years.
The White House’s “historic” Kosovo-Serbia agreement is already falling apart: nytimes.com/2020/09/12/us/… Image
Richard Grenell has decided to claim Trump brokered a “historic peace deal” between Serbia and Kosovo, all facts and reality be damned. Image

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Oct 23, 2025
Now that my beloved Mariners have been bounced from the baseball playoffs, it's time for some good news: my new book cover! Image
Coming next summer from @StMartinsPress, UNITED STATES OF OLIGARCHY will investigate how the US's wealthiest figures have entrenched an oligarchy in America and opened the door to despot after despot in the process, from China to Russia to Saudi Arabia and beyond.
UNITED STATES OF OLIGARCHY will reveal how the US's rampaging wealth inequality is now a national security threat.

And it will reveal how these oligarchs are at the center of a resurgence of US imperialism, eyeing new lands and even new nations for themselves.
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Sep 26, 2024
The Eric Adams indictment has now been unsealed - the first time in American history a sitting mayor has ever been formally accused of being an effective foreign agent. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/2517…
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Adams allegedly liaised directly with a "senior" Turkish official, who organized "many straw donations" to Adams - as well as provided "free or discounted" travel on Turkish Airlines, taking Adams and his friends around the world, with free stays at "opulent hotels." Image
And here's what Turkey received in return: fast-track approval for the biggest Turkish consulate anywhere in the world, in New York City.

"In exchange for free travel and other travel-related bribes in 2021 and 2022 arranged by the Turkish Official, ADAMS did as instructed." Image
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Oct 27, 2023
What do you know about Russia's colonization of Alaska? What do you know of what Russian colonizers did to Alaska Natives?

And why is it still so ignored by so many Americans?

My essay in @POLITICOMag on this ongoing blank spot, and Russian colonialism: politico.com/news/magazine/…
Spending decades ignoring Russian brutality against Alaska Natives is bad enough.

But overlooking the topic meant Americans missed an opportunity to understand more about Russian colonialism—and the outright imperialism still driving Russia.
politico.com/news/magazine/…
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Enslavement. Massacres. Hostage-taking and sexual violence—and clear signs of genocide. All in the name of stripping Alaska Natives of their wealth.

Russia’s conquest of Alaska was as colonial as it comes. And it was no better, or worse, than other European colonialism.

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Apr 2, 2023
I'd forgotten that Jim Mattis was a military advisor to the UAE *before* he was appointed Defense Secretary—and never publicly disclosed that relationship.

Wild that that wasn't a bigger scandal.

cnn.com/2017/08/02/pol…
'The most prominent American cheerleader of the Emirati armed forces is former defense secretary Jim Mattis... [Mattis] again extolled Sheikh Mohamed and downplayed concerns about human rights in the UAE' washingtonpost.com/investigations…
The UAE's operations in DC is one of the—maybe *the*—most successful foreign influence and infiltration operation of the past decade.

An adviser as defense secretary, and another Trump insider as an agent. Millions saturating think tanks and universities. An army of lobbyists.
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Feb 24, 2023
We're starting to see the contours of how the Russian elite is going to pin this (ongoing, eventual) loss in Ukraine on Putin. (See: ft.com/content/800025…)

It is, to pick a term, bullshit. They were all fully on board with Russia's initial invasion, and moves to carve Ukraine.
The only reason gullible Westerners may buy this line—"It was Putin, it wasn't us!"—is because there's still a failure to recognize this invasion began not a year ago, but in 2014.

Russia's invasion began when troops rolled into southern Ukraine, and first stole Ukrainian land.
And guess what? The Kremlin's invasion was **insanely popular in Russia**. Putin's new social contract laid its cornerstone on this invasion (the "Crimean Consensus").

Beginning to carve up Ukraine was arguably the single most popular thing Putin ever did.
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Feb 22, 2023
A year into this war, Western policymakers are finally realizing one thing: for Ukraine—and Europe—to be at peace, Kyiv must regain control of Crimea.

My latest for @POLITICOMag on how things have shifted, and why Crimea is now in play.

politico.com/news/magazine/…
There are three major reasons Western views have shifted on Ukraine retaking Crimea:

1) Military necessity. So long as Russia retains Crimea, it will be a forward operating base for Russian troops to rest and resupply—a dagger aimed directly at the rest of Ukraine.
2) Economic reconstruction. So long as Russia retains Crimea, it can effectively suffocate a rebuilding Ukrainian economy—all while destabilizing Black Sea maritime security.

As @general_ben told me, “Crimea is decisive for this war.”
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