Paul Fritch 🇺🇦

Foreign affairs professional, multilateral diplomat.

[MEIS | Middle East Institute Switzerland @meiswitzerland]

While the #Trump-#Xi meeting is coming to an end, check out our @meiswitzerland Senior Fellows' exclusive takes.

@AliR_Ahmadi @IgorDelanoe @PaulFritch and Chuchu Zhang examined the meeting from the different perspectives: Beijing, Moscow, Tehran and Washington.
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[MEIS | Middle East Institute Switzerland @meiswitzerland]

➡️ The #Iran war has weakened #Trump’s negotiating leverage significantly vis-à-vis #China, by diminishing his political standing at home, weakening US military posture in the Asia-Pacific region, depleting stocks of key munitions, and raising questions about the reliability of the United States as a political and security partner.

Read our Senior Fellow @PaulFritch take on the #Trump-#Xi meeting 👇
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@juliaioffe Доверяй, не проверяй.
(Trust, and don’t bother to verify.)

[MEIS | Middle East Institute Switzerland @meiswitzerland]

The Trump administration’s large-scale military strikes against Iran are the product of a largely uncoordinated strategic decision-making process, concentrated in the hands of a President whose decisions have surprised allies and adversaries, writes fmr US diplomat @PaulFritch in his exclusive commentary for @meiswitzerland 👇

https://t.co/7LpHJVlZFe

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.@PaulFritch fmr State Department career officer examines #Trump war’s contradictions in Washington’s strategy, how it risks escalating regional instability, weakening U.S. ability to manage global security challenges from Europe to the Indo-Pacific.

https://t.co/RpKLmlmYWb

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@karaswisher Kendall Roymaswamy

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@WHCOS Young Americans, obviously.

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@Yankees 5

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Take down the #ConfederateFlag at the SC Capitol. To many, it is a symbol of racial hatred. Remove it now to honor #Charleston victims.

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The #OSCE in Ukraine: “First Responder” or Last Resort? by @PaulFritch http://t.co/CwA9MpBPLB via @theELN

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My piece for @theELN on how the Ukraine crisis demonstrates the need for a stronger @OSCE. https://t.co/wZXllRzc8p

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The OSCE in Ukraine: “First Responder” or Last Resort? @PaulFritch for the ELN. http://t.co/RvVaoRQkIG

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@joshuafoust If POTUS says NSA needs to stop doing things "just because it can," can't we assume that's been happening?

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@joshuafoust Haven't seen anything to suggest otherwise & "collect-all" mentality for sigint predates NSA.

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@joshuafoust Maybe, just not an operational one. Aren't you the one who warned of the hacker values of "gen-Snowden"? Problem is structural.

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@joshuafoust And back to original question, getting caught is getting caught, whether the catcher is inside or outside the agency.

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@joshuafoust Difference is between errors of discretion & a system on auto-pilot that permits no discretion.

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@joshuafoust Not a question of who's more cautious. NSA seems to have no culture of cost/benefit. Collection limited only by technology.

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@joshuafoust Right, but it's a question of cost/benefit analysis. The CIA does it. The NSA, apparently, does not.

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@joshuafoust Consequences not mitigated by means of disclosure. Risk should have been foreseen, weighed against value of intel.