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Jul 4 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Many challenges remain including the yet unrealized promise of liberty and justice for all.
But I still believe in the promise of America and sense the long arc of history still bends towards a more perfect union. Watch this short vid doc with @YVindman created by @UNUMKenBurns
Best wishes for Happy Independence Day! 🎆
Everyday Americans are already stepping up to be part of the solution by sponsoring Ukrainians seeking refuge here like my family did 40 years ago.

nytimes.com/2022/07/04/opi….

Join them @welcomeus’ Welcome Connect.
Register at @welcomeus
Connect to sponsor a Ukrainian newcomer in need! connect.welcome.us #BeAWelcomer #4thOfJuly

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Jun 28
#CassidyHutchinson has more guts than @MarkMeadows and the rest Trump’s henchmen combined!
#CassidyHutchinson is 25 years old and frightened, but she’s there at Congress’s request and there to defend democracy!!
#CassidyHutchinson has settled in to the testimony. I remember that sensation. It gets easier because you just need to remember the facts. She’s laser-focused and doing great.
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Jun 1
Thank you, ⁦@POTUS⁩

“America’s goal is straightforward: We want to see a democratic, independent, sovereign and prosperous Ukraine with the means to deter and defend itself against further aggression.”

via @NYTOpinion nytimes.com/2022/05/31/opi…
“Standing by Ukraine in its hour of need is not just the right thing to do. It is in our vital national interests to ensure a peaceful and stable Europe and to make it clear that might does not make right.”
“If Russia does not pay a heavy price for its actions, it will send a message to other would-be aggressors that they too can seize territory and subjugate other countries. It will put the survival of other peaceful democracies at risk.”
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May 20
Pretty disappointed with this @nytimes editorial board opinion. It's shoddy on the analysis of the Russia-Ukraine war. 1/ nytimes.com/2022/05/19/opi…
The conclusion they drew after @ODNIgov testimony (growing dangers from protracted war)... appeasement? Seems to me that Russia has reduced its appetite at every defeat & arming Ukraine would be better than delivering, through negotiations what couldn't be obtained through force.
The board tries to rationalize a break from it's March advocacy for a free Ukraine, saying U.S. aims have become hard to discern. Seems to me that "degrading" Russia's ability to war, as stated by @SecDef, is pretty clear & moving in the right direct.
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May 19
Very good article.

Biden resists Ukrainian demands for long-range rocket launchers - POLITICO politico.com/news/2022/05/1…
Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines told the Senate Armed Services Committee last week that Putin could slide into “a more unpredictable and potentially escalatory trajectory” if the war drags on “or if he perceives Russia is losing in Ukraine.”
Terribly misguided strategy from National Security Council & @JakeSullivan46. Let’s play this out. Ukraine & Russia keep fighting it out for many months with a disastrous human toll & Russia gets frustrated, incrementally escalating setting conditions for spillover => Bad for US.
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May 12
🧵… Ukraine... “You won’t let us drown, but you won’t let us swim.” 🇺🇦 can't understand why the 🇺🇸 privileged relations with Russia—an irredentist & revanchist authoritarian—over support for 🇺🇦, for so long. In the 2 months since 🇷🇺 attacked 🇺🇦, the 🇺🇸…

foreignaffairs.com/articles/ukrai…
…has lived up to this reputation. It has aided 🇺🇦 in fits & starts... at the expense of more uncompromising support. It needs to discard the desire—which shapes NSC views—to see 🇺🇦 compromise with 🇷🇺 for the sake of a negotiated peace & give 🇺🇦 the support to end the war ASAP.
The U.S. can shore up regional stability, global security, & the international order by working to ensure a Ukrainian victory. To achieve this goal, D.C. must finally abandon a policy that has prioritized trying to build a stable relationship with Russia (🇷🇺 isn’t interested).
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Apr 7
Ukraine has been winning. They are likely to keep winning. But there is great cause for concern. In the next phase of war, Russia will focus its combat power on more limited objectives. Russia will leverage its overwhelming fires to break the UAF. Ukraine needs help to win.
Ukraine needs air power, artillery, armor, & ammunitions. This equipment needs to be in Ukraine now, not next week.

The U.S. is failing in two areas, imagination & implementation. First, there's resistance to sufficiently arming Ukraine, due to misplaced fears of escalation.
There's handwringing that winning undermines compromise and fruitful negotiations. Thus, Ukraine can't win too much. The reality is, if Russia starts to win, it will press the advantage, seek more gains, & inflict more Buchas. The only way this war ends is if Russia loses.
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