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Daniel Fried

@AmbDanFried

2 years

Everywhere in Warsaw are signs of support for Ukrainians & Ukrainians. Flags. Food & clothing collection points. Poles are taking in Ukrainians. All just happening. As a Polish friend put it, “Poland is the world’s largest humanitarian NGO.”

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Polish friends tell me they have taken in Ukrainian refugees who arrived in Warsaw. "Of course we did," they said, "It used to be us."

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@AmbDanFried

5 months

A new government. And a new start for Poland.

Donald Tusk

@donaldtusk

5 months

Dziękuję Polsko!

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2 years

Given US, French, and many others' decision to send serious weapons to help Ukraine, this statement of reticence by Chancellor Scholz seems...out of place.

Scholz says top priority is avoiding NATO confrontation with Russia

NATO must avoid a direct military confrontation with Russia that could lead to a third world war, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said in an interview with Der Spiegel when asked about Germany's...

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Daniel Fried

@AmbDanFried

2 years

In his “annexation” speech, Putin groused about the rules-based order, asking plaintively, “Who agreed to these rules?” Well: you did. 1/3

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2 years

Going after the Russian Central Bank is huge. Bigger even than SWIFT. Administration didn't want to go there but is moving fast in response to the gravity of Putin's war on Ukraine. Getting G7 to move on this package shows depth of West's anger.

Daniel Fried

@AmbDanFried

2 years

Big new sanctions from the G7: removing selected Russian banks from SWIFT, restrictions on Russian Central Bank, preventing Russian oligarchs from buying European citizenship (about time), & hunting for assets of Putin's cronies. A hammer. @ACGeoEcon

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Daniel Fried

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3 months

Let Putin's fans and apologists in the US use the death of Navalny as a chance to reconsider their position. They look like the American Hitler apologists and Nazi sympathizers in the late 1930's. 1/2

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@AmbDanFried

4 years

“Rank democracy.” This from a US Senator. Authoritarianism on the right is now explicit.

Mike Lee

@SenMikeLee

4 years

Democracy isn’t the objective; liberty, peace, and prospefity are. We want the human condition to flourish. Rank democracy can thwart that.

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2 years

At the end of the 2008 Russo-Georgian War, one of my colleagues said that we must turn Putin's successful tactical into his strategic defeat. We did not do so then. We must do so now.

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Daniel Fried

@AmbDanFried

2 years

Russia is advancing in the Donbas. Ukraine is fighting for its life. Europe & US need to intensify weapons flows to Ukraine & economic pressure on Russia. We know what Russian conquest of Ukrainian territory means. Our task is to prevent it. 1/2

U.S. Ambassador to the OSCE

@USAmbOSCE

2 years

I think we all know what would happen if Russia were to achieve “success” in Ukraine. There would be more horrific reports from filtration camps, more forcibly displaced people, more summary executions, more torture, more rape, and more looting.

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2 years

Open dissent within the Russian government against Putin's war.

Russian official apologises for war in Ukraine at UN climate meet

The Russian head of delegation at a major UN climate conference apologised for his country's invasion of Ukraine on Sunday, which he said lacked justification, according to several sources who heard…

www.france24.com

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Daniel Fried

@AmbDanFried

2 years

The Charter of Paris lays out principles for a post-Cold War order, including democracy at home and refraining from the use of force against the territorial integrity of other states. Look it up, Mr. Putin.

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Daniel Fried

@AmbDanFried

2 years

Just arrived in Warsaw to learn and listen as the free world grapples with Russia’s war of aggression. Always stuck when I return how much the Poles achieved in a generation of freedom. What the Ukrainians could achieve and Putin wants to destroy.

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Daniel Fried

@AmbDanFried

1 year

Russia is in a bad and brutal way. Someday, Russians will deal with this period the way the Germans dealt with the Third Reich. Possibly with less success.

Julia Davis

@JuliaDavisNews

1 year

Meanwhile in Russia: in all seriousness, pundits and experts on Russian state TV argue whether President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky is the Antichrist or just a small demon.

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@AmbDanFried

2 years

It’s not just Putin’s war. Many Russians now support the Kremlin’s campaign of national extermination of Ukraine. Some Russians now, and I hope more in the future, will look upon this descent into evil with horror and shame.

Sergej Sumlenny, LL.M

@sumlenny

2 years

This is this week speech by a Russian film director (and an Oscar Prize winner) Nikita Mikhalkov who says, Ukrainian language must be exterminated in Ukraine /2

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Daniel Fried

@AmbDanFried

2 years

Those calling for “off ramps” and not humiliating Putin are using the logic of good-faith diplomacy. The Kremlin is using the logic of violence. Military and economic pressure on Russia, not good will gestures, will improve chances of a better outcome.

Simon Shuster

@shustry

2 years

The target of the Russian missile attacked in Kyiv this morning was a facility that works on railway cars to transport grain. Officials let us in to have a look. The place is gutted

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2 years

In the later stages of WWII, Nazi Germany, losing the war, resorted to sending cruise and ballistic missiles to kill civilians in London. Didn’t help Nazi Germany. (Since Putin brought up “Nazis.”)

The New York Times

@nytimes

2 years

Russia attacked Kyiv with Iranian-made drones during Monday's rush hour, killing at least four people. Unlike previous strikes, which hit with intense speed, Monday's attack was different: Residents were aware of the drones overhead, seeking their targets.

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@AmbDanFried

2 years

The USSR, whose demise Putin regrets and in whose many crimes he seems to revel, at the end of its life, under Gorbachev, tried to remake itself and in 1990 signed the Charter of Paris. 2/3

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@AmbDanFried

1 year

Asking all US citizens to leave Russia is a blow that leaves Russian society more isolated. But it's the right call: Americans in Russia are potential hostages. Relations are at levels not witnessed since Stalinist times. It's Putin's doing.

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Daniel Fried

@AmbDanFried

1 year

China also accepted the strong condemnation of Russia in the G-20 statement. Looks like there are limits to that partnership after all.

Daniel Fried

@AmbDanFried

1 year

G-20 condemnation of Russia’s war against Ukraine was strong, demonstrating Moscow’s isolation, even from major players in the global South.

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Daniel Fried

@AmbDanFried

2 years

EU leadership ( @vonderleyen and @JosepBorrellF ) showed courage and class going to Kyiv. And Bucha.

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Daniel Fried

@AmbDanFried

3 months

In the old days, useful idiots would parade to Moscow, gush over the Metro, and proclaim that the Soviet Union "worked." New times but same kind of suckers.

Ron Filipkowski

@RonFilipkowski

3 months

Speaking in Dubai after his interview with Putin, Tucker Carlson says Moscow is much better than any city in the US.

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Daniel Fried

@AmbDanFried

2 years

Anne, Putin started this war to serve his imperial pretensions. We now see atrocities on a Stalinist level. It is Putin, not the US or Europe, who seeks to “redraw” lines in Europe.

Anne-Marie Slaughter🇺🇦

@SlaughterAM

2 years

read the piece before you respond; headlines and pull quotes are designed to be as provocative as possible. I'm not saying NOT to admit them; I AM arguing to slow down and make sure we don't redraw 20th century lines in ways that preclude peace and security for ALL of Europe

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Daniel Fried

@AmbDanFried

1 year

Time for a serious look at NATO membership for Ukraine. It's the best way to lock in security in Europe; experience shows that gray zones or uncertain "guarantees" are a temptation for Russia. I make the case. @ACEurasia @ACEurope @ARVershbow @steven_pifer

To Secure Peace in Europe, Bring Ukraine into NATO

Contrary to much either-or handwringing, diplomatic history points to myriad ways and conditions to accomplish this goal.

www.justsecurity.org

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Daniel Fried

@AmbDanFried

4 years

@James_Barr The Statue of Liberty comes to mind.

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Daniel Fried

@AmbDanFried

5 months

The Polish Parliament acted swiftly and appropriately against the actions of a single anti-Semitic deputy.

Notes from Poland 🇵🇱

@notesfrompoland

5 months

A far-right MP has been expelled from parliament after using a fire extinguisher to put out Hanukkah candles lit during a ceremony involving Polish-Jewish leaders and Israel’s ambassador. His actions have been condemned across the political spectrum

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Daniel Fried

@AmbDanFried

2 years

Kremlin sanctions list against US persons now out. Proud to be in such good company. Secretary of State Blinken, CIA Director Burns. And Morgan Freeman....

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@AmbDanFried

2 years

Biden’s Warsaw speech made the stakes clear: democracy v autocracy, rules based order v brute force; a long struggle against Putin’s aggression. And, at the end, what sounded like, “This man (Putin) cannot remain in power.”

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Daniel Fried

@AmbDanFried

8 months

Ukraine funding stripped from short-term funding bill. The funding is likely to be restored but the posturing & strategic blindness demonstrated by House extremist Republicans damages the country and the cause of freedom.

Government shutdown averted after Senate passes bill with just hours to spare

Just hours before a potential government shutdown, Republicans and Democrats in the Senate passed a roughly 45-day continuing resolution.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Daniel Fried

@AmbDanFried

2 years

My colleagues @ARVershbow , @steven_pifer , & I make the case that NATO should suspend the NATO-Russia Founding Act and renounce its assurance regarding the stationing of conventional forces on the territory of new members.

NATO-Russia: It’s time to suspend the Founding Act

Putin’s actions have destroyed the basis for cooperation.

thehill.com

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Daniel Fried

@AmbDanFried

2 years

Future historians will study Russia’s descent into violent and delusional nationalism as my generation studied the Great Terror and Nazi Germany.

Julia Davis

@JuliaDavisNews

2 years

Kremlin propagandists are trying to convince their audiences that Ukrainians will somehow forgive and forget Putin's atrocities, making comparisons to Chechnya and ludicrously predicting that someday, shoulder to shoulder with Russians, Ukrainians will invade Poland and Germany.

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Daniel Fried

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10 months

Those who blithely suggest Ukraine give up land and people to Russia should consider the consequences.

Anne Applebaum

@anneapplebaum

10 months

A new Gulag is emerging

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@AmbDanFried

2 years

Polish experts recalled Putin’s “article” on Ukraine. Prelude to attack. Medvedev now writes about Poland, also filled w/resentment & nationalism. Signal of attack? Not if NATO/EU/Biden trip to Poland show solidarity & determination toward Ukraine & themselves.

Max Fras

@maxfras

2 years

This morning, 🇷🇺Dmitry Medvedev decided to post a lengthy letter 🇵🇱"On Poland" - it is a curious mix of Soviet and pan-Slavic mythology with mockery, dire criticism and veiled threats against Poland - here are the key points 🧵

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Daniel Fried

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2 years

Biden is right: SWIFT overrated as a sanctions tool. The blocking sanctions on Russia’s big banks hit harder. Sanctions now aren’t about changing Putin’s mind. They’re about hitting Russia’s economy so he has fewer resources. @brianoftoole @edwardfishman

Dr Alina Polyakova

@apolyakova

2 years

Biden on SWIFT: the sanctions the US has imposed on Russian banks go beyond SWIFT

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Daniel Fried

@AmbDanFried

10 months

Last week, Administration sources hint at progress at getting ATACMS to Ukraine. Now different sources say not so fast. This suggests infighting. Time to make the right decision and send what Ukraine needs, the better to advance US interests and values.

U.S. in no hurry to provide Ukraine with long-range missiles

The Biden administration is refusing to send long-range missiles to Ukraine despite mounting pressure from U.S. lawmakers and pleas from the government in Kyiv.

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Daniel Fried

@AmbDanFried

2 years

"Russia's economy is collapsing," reports @Newsweek . The data, based on Russian official statistics, doesn't quite show that but is bad enough. Inconsistent with Putin's breezy confidence. @anders_aslund @ACGeoEcon @ACEurasia

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Daniel Fried

@AmbDanFried

2 years

Poland has come through for Ukraine. Not a surprise. Among other things, Poles remember what it's like to e attacked by a powerful country led by a dictator.

Denys Shmyhal

@Denys_Shmyhal

2 years

Everyday we receive powerful support not in words, but in deeds from our Polish friends. My deepest gratitude to @AndrzejDuda and PM @MorawieckiM , as well as to all the Polish people. 🇺🇦🤝🇵🇱

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Daniel Fried

@AmbDanFried

4 years

USG has sanctioned Andrii Derkach, Putin agent, for interfering in the US elections. Derkach has been working with Rudy Guiliani and other pro-Trump figures to damage Joe Biden. So this is a big deal.

Treasury Sanctions Russia-Linked Election Interference Actors

Washington – Today, the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated four Russia-linked individuals for attempting to influence the U.S. electoral process. Russia...

home.treasury.gov

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Daniel Fried

@AmbDanFried

1 year

The ⁦Russo-Ukraine War is a war of Russia’s aggression. ⁦⁦⁦ @nytimes ⁩ shouldn’t portray Russia’s demand for Ukrainian land they don’t even control as equivalent to Ukraine’s demand to get all of their country back.

Hard-Line Positions by Russia and Ukraine Dim Hope for Peace Talks (Published 2022)

Both Moscow and Kyiv say they are ready to talk, but their terms for sitting down at a negotiating table suggest otherwise.

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Daniel Fried

@AmbDanFried

2 years

Big new sanctions from the G7: removing selected Russian banks from SWIFT, restrictions on Russian Central Bank, preventing Russian oligarchs from buying European citizenship (about time), & hunting for assets of Putin's cronies. A hammer. @ACGeoEcon

Joint Statement on Further Restrictive Economic Measures | The White House

We, the leaders of the European Commission, France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States condemn Putin’s war of choice and attacks on the sovereign nation and people of...

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Daniel Fried

@AmbDanFried

28 days

No, President Trump is not right, precisely or otherwise. Europe (EU & European countries) have spent more than the US on aid to Ukraine. Europe has stepped up. It's our turn to do the same. Peace through strength requires us to support and not abandon those resisting aggression.

Elbridge Colby

@ElbridgeColby

28 days

I think President Trump is precisely right: The key issue is Europe stepping up to take primary responsibility for Ukraine, based on Europe’s greater interest in it and capacity for it. The truth is we are overstretched. Peace through strength requires we focus on China. 1/

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Daniel Fried

@AmbDanFried

1 year

Biden’s Kyiv trip stands with Kennedy’s (“Ich bin ein Berliner!”) and Reagan’s (Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!) Berlin speeches as iconic moments of commitment and leadership.

President Biden

@POTUS

1 year

As we approach the anniversary of Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine, I'm in Kyiv today to meet with President Zelenskyy and reaffirm our unwavering commitment to Ukraine’s democracy, sovereignty, and territorial integrity.

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Daniel Fried

@AmbDanFried

2 years

It's not about Ukraine in NATO. Or "NATO in Ukraine." It's about democracy in Ukraine and why Putin hates it. @anneapplebaum 's essay worth reading.

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Daniel Fried

@AmbDanFried

3 months

The first “America First” movement had a soft spot for Hitler. The current “America First” movement has a soft spot for Putin. Dark parallels. Spot-on observation by @JacobHeilbrunn

Tucker Carlson and the Right's Love Affair with Dictators

There's nothing surprising about the GOP's embrace of Putin. The right has been enamored with dictators since the days of Mussolini.

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Daniel Fried

@AmbDanFried

3 months

Let Navalny's death focus thinking. Hitler murdered opponents at home & started aggressive wars. Putin does the same. Hitler's US sympathizers resisted helping Britain & France. Putin's US sympathizers resist helping Ukraine. Inexact analogy, but close enough for discomfort. 2/2

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Daniel Fried

@AmbDanFried

10 months

On “Face the Nation” today, ⁦ @JakeSullivan46 ⁩ affirmed that Ukraine’s future is in NATO, that all 31 NATO members agree, and that this is not up for negotiation, i.e., with Russia. Good. Vilnius moved the needle.

Transcript: National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan on "Face the Nation," July 16, 2023

The following is a transcript of an interview with National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan that aired on "Face the Nation" on July 16, 2023.

www.cbsnews.com

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Daniel Fried

@AmbDanFried

5 months

Biden knows strategic lessons of the 20th century: don't let dictators rampage over Europe or Asia. Reagan knew them, too. Must Americans learn them all over again the hard way? Supporting Ukraine advances American values. And hard interests.

Michael McFaul

@McFaul

5 months

When Italy invaded Ethiopia, many Americans said not our problem. When the Japanese invaded China, many said not our problem. When Germany & USSR invaded Poland, many still said not our problem. Then in 1941, they all became our problem. Let’s not repeat those mistakes today.

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Daniel Fried

@AmbDanFried

2 years

NATO is a military alliance. It is on the frontier of Putin’s war against Ukraine. The German Mission can do better than this. So can the German Chancellor.

Germany at NATO

@GermanyNATO

2 years

The war raises many questions. Can violence be fought with violence? Can peace only be established without weapons? We should discuss both questions with respect. But one thing is clear: we support Ukraine so that violence does not become the norm. - @Bundeskanzler Scholz

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@AmbDanFried

2 years

Some West European countries once believed that Kremlin aggression had nothing to do with them. They have since discovered their error.

Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project

@OCCRP

2 years

NEW: On the eve of Catalonia's 2017 vote for independence, mysterious Russians reportedly offered 10,000 troops to help the territory break from Spain. Now OCCRP and partners reveal new details about this #RussianOffer , how it was made — and by whom. 1/

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Daniel Fried

@AmbDanFried

2 years

Listening to the complete CNN clip, it is clear that @juliaioffe was not expressing racist attitudes.

Julia Ioffe

@juliaioffe

2 years

Hi Rep. Omar, this is an incomplete clip. As you can see, it picks up mid-segment. What I was saying was that the approach of the American and European governments has been informed by this kind of racist and xenophobic logic. I have asked CNN for the full clip.

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@AmbDanFried

2 years

@eugene_finkel Don't beat yourself up, @eugene_finkel . Your job description does not include vetting your students to determine who is a Russian intelligence officer. I suspect, however, that you will teach your future students about Putin's Russia with new zeal.

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Daniel Fried

@AmbDanFried

3 months

@radeksikorski Putin was enabled not by a US journalist but a “MAGA” activist who played the useful idiot for the Kremlin.

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@AmbDanFried

1 year

Today is the anniversary of Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox. As US Grant later wrote, the Confederate cause was “one of the worst for which a people ever fought, and one for which there was the least excuse.”

Bill Kristol

@BillKristol

1 year

"Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery...a blow at slavery is a blow at commerce and civilization." -- Mississippi Declaration of Secession, 1861

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Daniel Fried

@AmbDanFried

2 years

Poland & Ukraine have a complicated history. Much good. Some bad. But since communism's overthrow, both nations have chosen to live according to their better angels. Bravo.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський

@ZelenskyyUa

2 years

I just talked with a real friend of Ukraine - President of Poland @AndrzejDuda . I am personally grateful to him, to the Polish people, for their effective concrete help in such a difficult time. Together 🇺🇦 🇵🇱 stronger. Thank you

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@AmbDanFried

2 years

Putin’s problem w/Ukraine is not its NATO membership (which hasn’t moved since 2008). It’s Ukraine’s desire become a normal European democracy. Anathema for the Kremlin.

Michael McFaul

@McFaul

2 years

The last major expansion of NATO occurred 2 decades ago. Putin does not fear NATO expansion today. He fears Ukrainian democracy. & as we focus on the "sins" of NATO expansion from decades ago, Putin has been making real gains in undermining Ukrainian (& Georgian) democracy.

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@AmbDanFried

2 years

Poland’s Baltic Pipe, open today, brings Norwegian gas to Poland and onward to its neighbors. The result of years of work and good energy diversification policy by many Polish governments.

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Daniel Fried

@AmbDanFried

3 years

This is the right approach to #Navalny ’s arrest: targeted individual sanctions focused on Putin’s circle of corruption. Working with Europe and UK. Fitting tribute to Navalny’s work. Use GloMag. @brianoftoole @anders_aslund @JohnEdHerbst @AKendallTaylor @petereharrell

Edward Lucas

@edwardlucas

3 years

I’m about to talk on @talkRADIO about #navalny . Crack down on the Western enablers of the corruption he exposes. Freeze and seize assets. Tell everyone involved in his persecution they are not welcome in the West. Families too.

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@AmbDanFried

4 months

And @radeksikorski is right.

Christiane Amanpour

@amanpour

4 months

“The consequences of Putin conquering Ukraine would be catastrophic.” Poland’s Foreign Minister @radeksikorski tells me “the cost of deterring Putin after he conquers Ukraine would be much much higher than the cost of keeping the Ukrainians supplied now,” urging additional US aid

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Two of Europe’s best foreign ministers. The right people at a critical time

GermanForeignOffice

@GermanyDiplo

4 months

Welcome, @SikorskiRadek ! A strong #Europe needs German-Polish friendship & creative power - and we need our Europe more than ever. We want to seize the opportunity to work closer & better together, also in the #WeimarTriangle with France. @ABaerbock 1/3

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1 year

“Ukraine is a sovereign, independent nation state and it will choose its own path to peace and security,” declared Mr Putin [at the 2002 NATO-Russia Summit, recalls George Robertson in "The Economist."] 1/

Julia Davis

@JuliaDavisNews

1 year

Meanwhile in Russia: the host and his guest concur that Ukraine should be erased off the map and even the memory that it existed should be destroyed. The host says that Russia will always be an empire and being in a state of war is only natural for any empire of Russia's size.

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@AmbDanFried

2 years

Those who call for Ukraine to give up to Russia its people and land need to be honest about the consequences, which are ugly. The time for negotiations may come, as the Biden Administration has recognized. But not on Putin’s terms.

Dmytro Kuleba

@DmytroKuleba

2 years

Those who propose Ukraine to give up on its people and land — presumably not to hurt Putin’s bruised ego or to save Ukraine from suffering — must stop using word “peace” as an euphemism to “let Russians murder and rape thousands more innocent Ukrainians, and grab more land”.

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@AmbDanFried

2 years

Ukraine's President Zelensky speaks. What a contrast with Putin's nationalist rant. What a shame that Russia, a great nation, has fallen so low.

max seddon

@maxseddon

2 years

@PentagonPresSec "Lots of you have relatives in Ukraine, you studied in Ukrainian universities, you have Ukrainian friends. You know our character, our principles, what matters to us. Listen to yourselves, to the voice of reason. The people of Ukraine want peace."

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@AmbDanFried

26 days

At last! Now the US and Europe need to move fast: send the right weapons fast so Ukraine can stop Russia’s advances and reverse battlefield fortunes. So Ukraine can win.

Laura Rozen

@lrozen

26 days

210 House Dems—100%— voted for $60.8 billion Ukraine aid package. 101 House Rs out of 214 voting today — 47%— voted for it. 112 House Rs—52%— voted against. 1 voted present.

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Daniel Fried

@AmbDanFried

10 months

The Polish military and its NATO Allies, including US forces (some in Poland), would make short work of Wagner. Putin and Lukashenka know this and are reduced to trolling.

Visegrád 24

@visegrad24

10 months

BREAKING: Lukashenko tells Putin: "The Wagner soldiers have started harassing us, they say they want to go to the West, on a trip to Warsaw” 🇵🇱

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Daniel Fried

@AmbDanFried

2 years

Today we mark 23 years of Poland, Czechia, and Hungary joining NATO. And thank God for that.

Marek Magierowski

@mmagierowski

2 years

🇵🇱 25th Air Cavalry Brigade. Don’t mess with them. They can kill you with their voice. #NATO #StrongerTogether

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Daniel Fried

@AmbDanFried

2 years

We are witness to Putinism’s descent into a cult of violence and nationalism. Years in the making. Foretold by many but dismissed by more. Now upon us.

Julia Davis

@JuliaDavisNews

2 years

Putin's propagandists on state TV casually discuss terrorist acts against Americans and murdering liberal opposition, all of whom they suspect of working with Western intelligence agencies. They openly advocate murdering Ilya Ponomarev, who lives in Kyiv.

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Daniel Fried

@AmbDanFried

4 years

This is good news.

Jesse Rodriguez

@JesseRodriguez

4 years

REUTERS/IPSOS POLL: About 80% of Americans, including more than half of Republicans, say Biden won presidential race

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Given reports that Russia is retreating from Kherson, another major defeat, a push for negotiations w/Moscow on Putin's terms, assuming that Ukraine will lose the war, seem...ill advised.

Daniel Fried

@AmbDanFried

2 years

Some call for pushing Ukraine into negotiations with Russia. To borrow from Obama, I’m not against all negotiations, just dumb ones. My take:

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@AmbDanFried

2 years

Putin may calculate that his threats and escalation will intimidate the US & Europe into pushing Ukraine to surrender territory. But he has consistently underestimated Western willingness to support Ukraine and Ukraine's fighting ability. 1/3

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@AmbDanFried

2 years

Putin’s argument that “We’re fighting this war with one hand tied behind our backs” is a standard argument of governments fighting losing wars.

Samuel Ramani

@SamRamani2

2 years

Vladimir Putin emphasizes that Russia is only using a small fraction of its combat potential in Ukraine The narrative that Russia is fighting the war with one tied behind its back has been mainstream in the state media for months and is now the Kremlin’s official line

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@AmbDanFried

2 years

The “this man cannot remain in power” recalls Reagan’s “evil empire” remark about the Soviet Union: triggered an uproar but looks solid in retrospect, and even at the time.

Natasha Bertrand

@NatashaBertrand

2 years

“For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power,” Biden says, referring to Putin, as he closes out major speech in Poland.

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3 years

Putin suggests an “accident” may befall Ukraine’s gas pipeline. Experience suggests Putin’s threats, esp. against Ukraine, tend to foreshadow action. Now would be a good time for US & Germany to caution the Kremlin re new aggression. @UnderSecStateP @ACEurasia @amoshochstein

AgataLoskotStrachota

@agata_loskot

3 years

Putin says Ukraine gas pipeline system can ‘burst’ at any time

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Daniel Fried

@AmbDanFried

2 years

While the battle hangs in the balance, let's think less about territory Ukraine must surrender to Putin and more about how to put Ukraine in the best possible position. 2/2

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@AmbDanFried

10 months

This is a rare article on the Russo-Ukraine War w/Russian intel sources. It covers background to the Progozhin Mutiny and discontent among Russian security officers re the war’s course. ⁦⁦ @michaeldweiss ⁩ ⁦ @christogrozev ⁩ ⁦ @Dobrokhotov ⁩

Exclusive: Russia’s Spies Say Putin Faces More Coups

Yevgeny Prigozhin's coup attempt in June left everyone in the world stunned - except Russian intelligence officials, some of whom tacitly supported the catering magnate's efforts. In this exclusive...

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Daniel Fried

@AmbDanFried

2 years

The "escalatory" argument against MiGs to Ukraine is weak. If the Kremlin says more anti-air or anti-armor weapons are "escalatory," will we stop? If there is a better way than MiGs to help Ukraine, let's do it.

Eliot A Cohen

@EliotACohen

2 years

This is pathetic: the intelligence community does not dictate strategy — the executive agencies do. And again, it makes no sense: we’re killing lots of Russians indirectly, and this is one more way. And the psychological/political issue is more important than the technical one.

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@AmbDanFried

5 months

On the one hand, it’s only process. But this story, largely accurate I gather, means that the G7, finally, may decide to take the aggressor’s resources to help the victim. Let there be action by the 2nd anniversary of Russia’s full invasion of Ukraine.

Financial Times

@FT

5 months

Backed by the UK, Japan and Canada, the US has proposed G7 working groups start preparatory work to be ready in time for the second anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine

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Daniel Fried

@AmbDanFried

2 years

Ukraine's president @ZelenskyyUa is courageous. In this clip, he says that Ukraine's leaders are in place, and is Ukraine's army.

Konstantin Eggert MBE

@kvoneggert

2 years

Cвежее видео от @ZelenskyyUa из правительственного квартала.

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@AmbDanFried

11 months

US officials knew @radeksikorski as a skilled and insightful diplomat, fierce in defense of Poland’s interests and our common values.

Radosław Sikorski 🇵🇱🇪🇺

@sikorskiradek

11 months

Amerykańscy dyplomaci w ujawnionej przez Wikileaks depeszy nadanej z Moskwy w listopadzie 2009 roku i zatytułowanej „Sikorski wraca do starych sporów", odnotowali zaniepokojenie, jakie wzbudziły w Rosji słowa, które wypowiedziałem wówczas podczas pobytu w Waszyngtonie. W stolicy

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Daniel Fried

@AmbDanFried

2 years

The Kremlin may or may not be serious about negotiations. (I think not, at least not yet.) In either case, the US/European play now is to keep sending Ukraine weapons, the more the better, and to intensify sanctions pressure. And no pushing Ukraine into a bad deal.

Samuel Charap

@scharap

2 years

Seems like Russia is preparing to publicly reframe “victory” as neutrality plus its territorial demands. No more demilitarization and de-whatever. Still not viable for Kyiv but getting closer.

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Daniel Fried

@AmbDanFried

1 year

Today in Warsaw, I was honored to receive the Medal of the Courier from Warsaw, Jan Nowak-Jezioranski, WWII Polish resistance soldier; fighter for a free, democratic, and secure Poland; advisor to US administrations; and my friend. 1/2

MuzeumPowstania1944

@1944pl

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🏅Pierwszym laureatem MEDALU KURIERA Z WARSZAWY, wyróżnienia przyznawanego w hołdzie Janowi Nowakowi-Jeziorańskiemu, został DANIEL FRIED @AmbDanFried amerykański polityk i dyplomata, który odegrał kluczową rolę w przyjęciu do NATO nowych członków, w tym Polski.

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Daniel Fried

@AmbDanFried

2 years

This is a special flight to pick up Russian diplomats whom the US PNG’d (kicked out), I’m told.

Ilya Lozovsky

@ichbinilya

2 years

The airline designation “RSD” indicates a special Russian flight that carries top officials. This one took off from St Petersburg, made a big curve around the closed airspace in Europe, and is headed for Washington 👀 (first spotted by @mwpotocki )

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1 year

In the forefront of resistance to Russian aggression, Poland is poised to assume a leadership role in Europe. ⁦⁦ @AaronKorewa ⁩ & I look at its strategy as expressed by ⁦ @RauZbigniew ⁩, promise & potential pitfalls.⁦⁦ ⁦ @ACEurope ⁩

Poland makes its case for European leadership

A close read of Polish Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau's comprehensive foreign policy statement reveals a country that stands on the side of freedom, even as it faces difficulties with European...

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@AmbDanFried

7 months

Biden’s Oval Office address lays out the case for US support of Israel & Ukraine. A powerful case befitting American power & responsibility. “American leadership is what holds the world together.”

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Daniel Fried

@AmbDanFried

2 years

. @SecBlinken (on @MSNBC ) keeps up pressure on Putin to pull back. No rush to embrace flimsy Kremlin signals of deescalation. Stresses allied unity. Notes danger of other forms of Kremlin aggression. Steady & solid.

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Daniel Fried

@AmbDanFried

2 years

Warsaw's Royal Castle was also the seat of the Polish Parliament, the place where the liberal Constitution of May 3, 1791 was adopted, inspired by the US Constitution. In response to that act of political reform, Russia invaded Poland. Apt venue for Biden's speech today. 1/2

Marek Matraszek

@matraszek

2 years

Grounds of Royal Castle Warsaw, guests gathering for President Biden speech. Due in one hour

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Daniel Fried

@AmbDanFried

2 years

“Never” is a long time: - the Baltic States will never be independent - Germany will never be reunited - “Eastern Europe” will never be free - the Soviet Union will never end

Dmitri Alperovitch

@DAlperovitch

2 years

So much of the intractability of current crisis is rooted in denial of reality: - Ukraine will never join NATO/EU - Crimea will never return to Ukraine - Weapons sales to Ukraine will not thwart Russian aggression - Sanctions will not deter Putin - NATO will not fight for Ukraine

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Daniel Fried

@AmbDanFried

10 months

Moscow Times story has been updated to clarify that the US “official” involved in talks with the Russian government about Ukraine (who wants Russia to play a “creative role” in European security) is an ex-official. W/o standing, I’m told.

Daniel Fried

@AmbDanFried

10 months

I am told that this story of US negotiating with Russia about Ukraine is garbage. Indeed, the story feels like a set up.

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Daniel Fried

@AmbDanFried

2 years

@OlgaNYC1211 Peak 2022 perhaps, @OlgaNYC1211 , but in the '90's Ben & Jerry's also opposed entry into NATO by Poland, Czechia, and Hungary.

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Significant new US sanctions against Russia out today. Targets include Russian Arctic LNG-2 project; CBW facilities; PRC companies supplying hi-tech; evaders from Turkiye, Kyrgyz, and Malaysia; a Hong Kong firm sending hi-tech to Russia; & more. 1/2 @ACGeoEcon

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@AmbDanFried

1 year

US drops new Russia sanctions focusing on evaders and their networks. Includes a bank based in Hungary.

Treasury Targets Russian Financial Facilitators and Sanctions Evaders Around the World

WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is further curbing Russia’s access to the international financial system through facilitators and...

home.treasury.gov

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Daniel Fried

@AmbDanFried

1 year

Henry Kissinger supports Ukrainian NATO membership. That is a big deal.

Henry Kissinger Says Russia War Validates Ukraine's NATO Bid

U.S. elder statesman Henry Kissinger on January 17 said Russia's invasion shows there is no longer a point to keeping Ukraine out of NATO, the long-held aspiration of Kyiv that he once opposed.

www.rferl.org

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Daniel Fried

@AmbDanFried

2 years

The threat of more sanctions seems to have gotten the Kremlin’s attention. Good. Don’t want more sanctions? Then don’t launch new attacks on your neighbors. @brianoftoole

Anders Åslund

@anders_aslund

2 years

Reuters: "In a 50-minute call, their second conversation this month, Biden said he needed to see Russia de-escalate its military build-up near Ukraine, while Putin said sanctions threatened by Washington and allies could lead to a rupture in ties."

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@AmbDanFried

2 years

Taiwan signs on to US chip export block. Important.

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@AmbDanFried

3 months

If there had been no NATO enlargement, it is likely that Ukraine would be under Russian control, the Baltic countries under Russian occupation, and Poland either under threat or partly occupied as the Russians would have driven a corridor from Belarus to Kaliningrad. But you

Ambassador Jonatan Vseviov

@vseviov

3 months

🇪🇪 joined 🇪🇺 and NATO 20 years ago. Since then, Estonia’s GDP per capita has increased 4 times. Where would we be if enlargement had not taken place? Where would Europe be if the zone of peace and stability had not enlarged to include the 100M Central and Eastern Europeans?

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Daniel Fried

@AmbDanFried

2 years

"Dangerous escalation" in Ukraine is a passive construction implying that Russia's aggression & Ukraine's defense w/US/European help are the same. To end the war, first help Ukraine turn back Russia assault.

Jan Eliasson

@JanKEliasson

2 years

Dangerous escalation underway in Ukraine with massive Russian offensive and heavy military assistance on its way from US, UK and others. Brinkmanship could lead to NATO/Russia confrontation. Time to focus on de-escalation and diplomacy. This nightmare is getting worse for all.

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Daniel Fried

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1 year

Lavrov's demand that negotiations start with Ukraine's capitulation shows that the Kremlin is not interested in ending its war against Ukraine except on its terms. Not yet.

Russia's Lavrov: Either Ukraine fulfils Moscow's proposals or our army will decide

Moscow's proposals for settlement in Ukraine are well known to Kyiv and either Ukraine fulfils them for their own good or the Russian army will decide the issue, TASS agency quoted Russian Foreign...

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Daniel Fried

@AmbDanFried

2 years

Exactly! The Ukrainians believe in Europe, sometimes more than Europeans themselves.

Benjamin Haddad

@benjaminhaddad

2 years

I was in Kyiv on Maïdan in 2014. I never saw so many EU flags. You could feel the future of Europe was being played there, not in the offices of Brussels. Days after Maïdan’s success, Russia was invading. This isn’t about NATO.

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Daniel Fried

@AmbDanFried

2 years

Excellent news! Mark Brzezinski is the right person at the right time for US Ambassador to Poland!

Senate Cloakroom

@SenateCloakroom

2 years

Confirmed by voice vote: Exec. Cal. #618 Mark Brzezinski to be Ambassador of the United States to the Republic of Poland.

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Daniel Fried

@AmbDanFried

2 years

Those eager to push Ukraine into surrender its land and people to the Kremlin need to consider the consequences for those they dispose of so lightly.

Daniel Fried

@AmbDanFried

2 years

. @hrw is preparing a report on Putin’s mass deportation of Ukrainians. Stalinist methods in Russia’s war against Ukraine.

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Daniel Fried

@AmbDanFried

1 year

“Russian tyranny has lost control over us.” From @ZelenskyyUa to the Joint Session.

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