Leon Aron

Author of Riding the Tiger, Roads to the Temple, Russia’s Revolution, and Yeltsin. tweeting from @AronRTTT; website:

[Leon Aron @AronRTTT]

Immensely rich decadent Europe is standing by while a proto-fascist dictatorship systematically grinds down its peaceful pro-European neighbor. Well, then, it deserves what that dictatorship has in store for it, Europe, next.

[Leon Aron @AronRTTT]

Touching down In Beijing, Putin was met not by the president, nor even the prime minster but the foreign minister. In the symbols-obsessed China, can there be a clearer message (or a more poignant insult)?

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

Zelenskyy did not start a war!

Putin invaded his country!

So embarrassing when the president of my country says such things.

[Leon Aron @AronRTTT]

“Enough is enough!” President Trump tells Israel to stop bombing South Lebanon. When will enough become enough in Russia’s bombing Ukrainian cities, Mr. President?

[Mikhail Tsypkin @MikhailTsypkin]

The Takeaways from a 2026 Trump Deep Dive, by @dandrezner https://t.co/nYWDqV4joO

[Mark Galeotti @MarkGaleotti]

My copies of SIEGE OF KAZAN 1552. IVAN THE TERRIBLE BREAKS THE KAZAN KHANATE have finally arrived! Thanks to @OspreyBooks for indulging my desire to cover this little known but, I think, fascinating campaign

[Dalibor Roháč 🇺🇦 @DaliborRohac]

Happy to be quoted in this @guardian story this fine evening! https://t.co/dJPufJX7VZ

[Leon Aron @AronRTTT]

@vkaramurza @ekaramurza And every single one of these rubber-stamping “parliamentarians” voted to approve of the invasion of Ukraine.

[S Sebag Montefiore @simonmontefiore]

How to read about Stalin

(Oleg Khlevniuk’s Stalin is excellent)

[Mikhail Tsypkin @MikhailTsypkin]

Kari Lake's dismantling of VOA is a full-blown fiasco https://t.co/dZkUvEnABj

[S Sebag Montefiore @simonmontefiore]

Stay safe mr zelensky

[Mikhail Tsypkin @MikhailTsypkin]

Russia’s military recruitment numbers remain steady, but how long can the regions foot the bill? Meduza asks researcher Janis Kluge. https://t.co/F6oBImWTXY via @meduza_en

[Leon Aron @AronRTTT]

Now that the snow will be gone soon, I’m beginning to miss it. (Пастернак: «На свете нет тоски такой какой которой снег бы не ��злечивал.»)

[Leon Aron @AronRTTT]

As Russia systematically grinds Ukraine into the stone age, the EU, with a combined GDP of $20 trillion (and 8 times Russia’s), apparently is too poor to supply Ukraine with anti-drone defenses and to give Ukraine electricity generators. Shameful, outrageous, immoral. Suicidal.

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

С новым годом!

[Leon Aron @AronRTTT]

What a gift to Putin, Trump's “peace plan”! While pretending to “work on it" and whisper sweet nothings into Trump’s ear in 2.5-hour phone heart-to-hearts, Putin will continue bombing Ukraine’s energy installations condemning hundreds of thousands Ukrainians to freezing.

[Leon Aron @AronRTTT]

“1984” in 2025:
Putin: “We did not start this war”
Trump: “President Putin was very generous toward Ukraine succeeding"
Orwell: “War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength”

[Leon Aron @AronRTTT]

Putin wants the entire Donbass, especially the heavily fortified parts. So slim are the chances of his accepting a “demilitarized zone” that Zelensky’s offer looks like a clever maneuver to expose to Trump Russia’s unwillingness for any compromise.

[Leon Aron @AronRTTT]

But even if Putin agreed, who will enforce the demilitarization? Russian would never allow troops from the NATO countries. Remember, the “demilitarized” Rhineland into which Hitler marched in 1936?...

[Leon Aron @AronRTTT]

The Ushakov-Dmitriev-Witkoff-Kushner-Trump "peace plan" is not only operationally flawed. It is profoundly immoral: https://t.co/ZzT3E1apK5