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Michael McFaul
@McFaul
Professor of Political Science, Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute & Hoover Institution, all at Stanford University. U.S. Ambassador to Russia, 2012-2014.
Stanford, California
michaelmcfaul.substack.com
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    Michael McFaul
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    Oct 28, 2025
    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: harpercollins.com/products/autoc… @HooverInst @FSIStanford
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    Michael McFaul
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    Mar 23, 2021
    You cannot be pro-life and pro-AR15 at the same time.
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    Michael McFaul
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    Feb 28, 2025
    Zelensky has thanked Trump, Congress, and the American people many times. But let's be clear: when Trump and Vance said that THEY are trying to help Ukraine right now, and need to be thanked for the work personally, there are reasons to wonder. 1/ THREAD
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    Michael McFaul
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    Apr 24, 2022
    LePen in France and Jansa in Slovenia losing on the same day is a giant victory for the renewal of democratic values in Europe and a huge setback for populist nationalism! Maybe the global tide is turning?
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    Michael McFaul
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    Nov 13, 2020
    Remember four years ago when people called 306 a landslide, a blowout, a historic mandate, and urged everyone to stop being sore losers? I do.
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    Michael McFaul
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    Mar 2, 2025
    Trump, Vance & others either have forgotten or never knew that Zelensky signed a ceasefire agreement with Putin in 2019. Three years later, Putin launched his full-scale invasion. So, signing another ceasefire with no security guarantees feels like suicide for Ukrainians.
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    Michael McFaul
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    Jul 4, 2020
    Trump obviously has no idea what words like facism and totalitarianism mean. To those who wrote that speech, shame on you. To those that cleared on this speech, shame on you. Perhaps the most un- American speech ever delivered by an American president, on the eve of July 4th.
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    Michael McFaul
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    Feb 26, 2022
    I have no idea how long it will take. But I am confident in predicting that Putin's evil invasion of Ukraine marks the beginning of the end of Putin's dictatorship and Putinism in Russia. No moral person can support this heinous war. There are millions of moral people in Russia.
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    Michael McFaul
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    Jan 7, 2021
    I am dumfounded by how poorly we were prepared to defend our Capitol today. We need an independent investigation.
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    Michael McFaul
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    Feb 18, 2025
    Ukraine did not invade Russia. Russia invaded Ukraine! As an American, this is so embarrassing. To all Ukrainians, especially the families who have lost loved ones due to Putin's barbaric invasion and terrorism, I apologize.
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    Ostap Yarysh
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    Feb 18, 2025
    Donald Trump about Ukraine not being invited to Saudi Arabia talks: "I heard, we weren't invited. Well, you've been there for three years. You should have ended it three years ago. You should have never started it. You could have made a deal. I could have made a deal for Ukraine
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    Michael McFaul
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    Feb 28, 2025
    Zelenskyy has said to the American people thank you a 1000 times
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    Michael McFaul
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    Oct 2, 2020
    I hope all those who mocked Vice President Biden for wearing a mask and holding small campaign events will now apologize to him.
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    Michael McFaul
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    Sep 18, 2024
    This is just shocking. Mr. Vance is blatantly calling a legal action illegal. I’ve studied my whole life how democracies break down. This is how it happens folks. I hope he really doesn’t believe this. Politicians say a lot of crazy things during elections. I fear he might.
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    Aaron Rupar
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    Sep 18, 2024
    "I'm still gonna call them an illegal alien" -- JD Vance on Haitian migrants who are in Ohio legally
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    Michael McFaul
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    Jul 19, 2018
    Thanks @twitter world for all your support today. I really appreciate it.