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Sep 4, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
My interview with Peter Strzok, the FBI agent who led investigations into Clinton's email and the Trump campaign's links to Russia. His book, COMPROMISED, is published next week. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
Among other things, Strzok explains why the FBI launched a counterintelligence investigation of Trump - and why he is worried that it was never finished
We also talked about the changing nature of Russian espionage - that was Strzok's area of expertise at the FBI and why counterintelligence has become so much more difficult...
Also about the FBI's commitment to political neutrality, and whether it can be sustained in hyper-politicized Washington

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Sep 25
In which @sikorskiradek notes that the Russians are now kidnapping Ukrainian children just as the Nazis once abducted Polish and Soviet children
If you want to know more: Here is the ICC arrest warrant for Putin "for the war crime of unlawful deportation of population (children) and that of unlawful transfer of population (children) from occupied areas of Ukraine to the Russian Federation"
icc-cpi.int/news/situation…
Here is the Ukrainian ombudsman's report on the deportations: ombudsman.gov.ua/storage/app/me…
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Jul 23
AUTOCRACY INC
published today!
amazon.com/gp/product/038…
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Here's a review in the Guardian

theguardian.com/books/article/…
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Jun 18
Five weeks from now, my new book will be published: Autocracy, Inc: The Dictators Who Want to Rule the World. It’s a short book, an argument, really, about the way the world now works...Read the introduction here:
anneapplebaum.substack.com/p/autocracy-inc
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At the center of the book is a network (not an axis, alliance or bloc) of dictatorships. They are not united ideologically. They do not meet either openly or secretly to make policy. They have many conflicts with one another.
The only thing that brings them together is their dislike of the democratic world, whose language and ideals are a threat to their power. The book focuses on what they have in common: kleptocracy, information war tactics, diplomatic/military ties and a common approach to dissent.
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Mar 28
Czech intelligence services have uncovered a Russian influence operation, based in Prague, designed to influence elections across Europe. They have placed sanctions on "Voice of Europe," a website that promoted far-right politicians and parties.

denikn.cz/1388000/odhale…
Voice of Europe was a heavy promoter of Viktor Orban and Orban's own influence operations
Here's a Reuters article in English on the subject. Also sanctioned are Viktor Medvedchuk, a pro-Russian Ukrainian, friend of Putin and funder of this operation and others. (Ukrainians arrested him at the beginning of the war and then traded him for POWs) reuters.com/world/europe/c…
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Mar 14
The US now squarely facing the security threat posed by Hungary.
US ambassador notes that HU foreign minister made 6 trips to Russia since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine; Orban met Putin in China.
"Hungary’s allies are warning Hungary"
theguardian.com/us-news/2024/m…
"The choice to issue, on a daily basis, dangerously unhinged anti-American messaging is a policy choice, and it risks changing Hungary’s relationship with America,” he said
“We can neither understand nor accept the prime minister identifying the United States as a ‘top adversary’ of our ally Hungary. Or his assertion that the United States government is trying to overthrow the Hungarian government – literally, to ‘defeat’ him.”
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Mar 11
Americans don't seem to realize that Trump's policy - "Let Russia Win" - is slowly becoming America's policy. For more than 6 months, at his bidding, a minority in the House has blocked aid to Ukraine.
Depriving Ukraine of weapons means that Russia can occupy Ukraine, set up concentration camps, carry out mass murders and deport children to Russia, which is what they have done on all of the occupied territory. It also means Russia can prepare to invade other countries.
Here is an account of what happens in Russian-occupied Ukraine: torture, random violence, mass theft

theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
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