Michael McFaul

Professor of Political Science, Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute & Hoover Institution, all at Stanford University. U.S. Ambassador to Russia, 2012-2014.

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OUT TODAY!

My new book, Autocrats vs. Democrats, looks at the challenges posed by autocratic Russia and China and explains how/why the U.S. must lead the democratic world in response.

Available in stores or online: https://t.co/FIAaP05r5o

@HooverInst @FSIStanford @MarinerBooks @HarperCollins

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@gonglei89 @przidnt254593 That prediction was a little premature

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@elonmusk Awesome.

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Putin is afraid of Zelenskyy.

Thats why he won’t meet him.

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@Varentor Unless you are a former student , you have no idea how I teach.

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That’s a wrap! Taught my last session of my great power politics class over dinner at our a home, a tradition. So thankful for having the opportunity to interact with curious, smart, engaged @Stanford students from all over the world!

[Fei-Fei Li @drfeifei]

https://t.co/Kt50ttQRMJ

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@kiraincongress Agreed.

[Алёна Попова @alyonapopova]

Путин призвал жителей западных стран «бороться за повышение зарплат».

Минимальная зарплата:
Люксембург - €2 704
Ирландия - €2 391
Германия - €2 343
Нидерланды - €2 295
Бельгия - €2 112
Франция - €1 823
Испания - €1 381
Словения - €1 278
Литва - €1 153
Россия - €317

[WSJ Tech @WSJTech]

Anthropic Urges Global Pause in AI Development, Flags ‘Self-Improvement’ Risk https://t.co/NRvGFK7zQC

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Putin hasn’t changed his war objectives at all. He is not interested in ending his barbaric invasion.

And yet some naive people in the West continue to blame Zelenskyy for not negotiating.

[KyivPost @KyivPost]

“Russia will pursue the ‘denazification’ of Ukraine,” Putin said.

He added that military operations will continue until “all stated objectives are achieved.”

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Wow.

Why this does not concern more Americans is so strange to me.

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

The President of the United States is asleep at his desk. Again.

Behind him stand seven grown adults in expensive suits, and not one of them is doing anything about it. One is mid-sentence. Another is gazing sideways with the haunted look of a man whose pension depends on never acknowledging what he can see in his peripheral vision.

The rest of the world is watching, and the rest of the world has noticed something. Americans are terrified of authority. That fear has settled over this administration like a fog, and it turns otherwise functional adults into warm furniture. Nobody moves. Nobody speaks. The paralysis is total.

In any European parliament, in any boardroom from Oslo to Ljubljana, someone would have leaned over by now. Tapped a shoulder. Said, quietly but clearly, that perhaps this isn’t the moment. Somebody would have done something, because the alternative, pretending a sleeping man is running a meeting, would have been too absurd to sustain.

Not here. Here, seven men have collectively decided that the correct professional response to the President losing consciousness in the Oval Office is to carry on as though he were a particularly demanding houseplant.

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

The President of the United States is asleep at his desk. Again.

Behind him stand seven grown adults in expensive suits, and not one of them is doing anything about it. One is mid-sentence. Another is gazing sideways with the haunted look of a man whose pension depends on never acknowledging what he can see in his peripheral vision.

The rest of the world is watching, and the rest of the world has noticed something. Americans are terrified of authority. That fear has settled over this administration like a fog, and it turns otherwise functional adults into warm furniture. Nobody moves. Nobody speaks. The paralysis is total.

In any European parliament, in any boardroom from Oslo to Ljubljana, someone would have leaned over by now. Tapped a shoulder. Said, quietly but clearly, that perhaps this isn’t the moment. Somebody would have done something, because the alternative, pretending a sleeping man is running a meeting, would have been too absurd to sustain.

Not here. Here, seven men have collectively decided that the correct professional response to the President losing consciousness in the Oval Office is to carry on as though he were a particularly demanding houseplant.

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

@ianbremmer @ezraklein Agree. That metaphor has been deeply distorting.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Open Letter to the President of the Russian Federation: https://t.co/mEvYqYiqus

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@Varentor You obviously have never been in a seminar with Stanford students if you think they can be indoctrinated.

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@tophatmichaels @Stanford Appreciate your note

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@ConnieM86820487 @Stanford We are lucky

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That’s a wrap! Taught my last session of my great power politics class over dinner at our a home, a tradition. So thankful for having the opportunity to interact with curious, smart, engaged @Stanford students from all over the world!

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@pevchikh Nicely stated.

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@edgarsrinkevics @ralexdc @ZelenskyyUa Exactly.

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@markomihkelson @ralexdc Bravo.