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20 Jun, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Putin got what he wanted the moment the summit with Biden was announced. We still don't know what Biden wanted. My op-ed on Geneva for @CNNOpinion. edition.cnn.com/2021/06/19/opi…
To change Putin's behavior, target things that affect his calculus of staying in power. Threats to his money & his mafia gang will work. Threats to national interests and the Russian people do not, because he doesn't care.
The summit was shorter than expected, and it's a blessing when bad food comes in small portions. Biden was fine, but it's irrelevant unless followed by action. Putin will know he's yet another American paper tiger and the next attack will prove it.
Before leaving for Geneva to meet Gorbachev in 1985, Reagan addressed the nation, "People don't start wars, governments do." Putin is the government in Russia, and he started a war on the free world. Summits don't help, but Biden can still act. edition.cnn.com/2021/06/19/opi…

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16 Jun
EU keeps caving in to Putin without American leadership. Biden was supposed to stop that, even campaigned on it. He called Putin a killer—correctly. But looking tough in Geneva or using strong words doesn’t matter. Action matters, and so far Biden is failing that test.
We know the summit is good for Putin, or he wouldn’t do it. And everything Trump did was about Trump. But Biden? It’s not about him. To give such a gift to a killer who attacked the US, you have to make the case to the American people and he hasn’t tried.
The Russian hacks against the US are recent! You don’t normalize that behavior. When someone robs your house, you don’t ask him for a nice meeting in Geneva. You want him arrested, you want your stuff back. And if he does it again? And again?
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15 Jun
Mike, is this tweet from 2007?! This is what the West has been saying for 14 years. "If Putin keeps doing all these terrible things, THEN.." and he keeps doing them. It's 2021, everyone knows what Putin is.
Every new US administration doesn't press the reset button, they press the snooze button. Putin doesn't reset, he doesn't change, and he won't until someone stands up to him.
Putin goes through the same motions with every new democratic leader. They get to act tough for a moment; he gets to stay in power and keep looting Russia, attacking the world order, and his mafia pals live like tsars--in the free world of course.
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9 Jun
Biden calls climate change the most dangerous threat to US security right before sitting down with Putin, the actual most dangerous clear and present threat to US security. foxnews.com/politics/biden…
One, you can do both. You can fight climate change and stand up to dictators at the same time. The commander and chief calling the climate the #1 threat is another unforced error. And for what? To impress whom?
Two, who is running the show? Is John Kerry, who never met a dictator he couldn't appease, swapping vital security issues for absurd climate talks with authoritarian regimes that will never honor them?
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8 Jun
I hope it's true and that there are people in the Biden admin who see Putin clearly, and how to deal with him. But that still wouldn't mean they will be listened to enough at the top, which is all that matters. cnn.com/2021/06/08/pol…
The American people should know why President Biden is meeting with a man he correctly called "a killer." What is on the table? Ukraine? Hacking? How will we know if it's a success or not? Putin already got what he wanted, and may get more; what about the US?
The Biden admin's talking points about a "show of strength" in person are absurd. No matter how tough Biden acts in Geneva, he already gave Putin the status he craves and depends for his power and money. Even a win-win with a hostile dictator is a defeat.
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3 Jun
Great headline the NYT gave my new piece on misinformation & intellectual orthodoxy. Those of us who grew up in authoritarian states are used to being told that what we see isn't reality. nytimes.com/2021/06/02/spe…
America failed to cope with Trump's assault on truth, from the media and GOP officials who refused to call his lies lies to his supporters who embraced him not despite the lies, but because of them. Groupthink is empowering, a partisan loyalty pledge.
Unfortunately, the equal and opposite reaction from the other side was as predictable as the laws of physics. Reflexive contradiction, a chilling of free speech; it's not the right way to respond to the threat.
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25 May
And I'll keep saying it. You don't get what you want from dictators like Putin by giving them what they want. That only shows them you aren't strong enough to stand up to their aggression.
The US doesn't need anything from Putin. This summit is a huge gift to him, conferring credibility that no dictator earns by elections. Normalizing relations with a dictatorship only normalizes dictatorship.
Who is running the show in the Biden State Department? Blinken talking tough, Biden offering summits impromptu to "a killer", Sullivan talking normalization with Patrushev, caving on Nord Stream 2. Now the RyanAir hijacking, obv coordinated with Russia, and what?
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