Daniel Fried
@AmbDanFried
Veteran diplomat now @AtlanticCouncil. America's interests & values advance together! (Views expressed are solely my own.)
Large protest in Kyiv tonight, the first signs of public dissent against Zelenskyy’s government since the full scale invasion, as demonstrators rally against the passing of a bill stripping anti-corruption bodies of their powers
How @NEDemocracy advances US interests (& universal values). miamiherald.com/opinion/us-vie…
EU’s latest sanctions package goes after Russia’s oil trade (hitting the shadow fleet & lowering the price cap). Missing are moves against third country purchasers of Russian oil, something the US is considering. That’s not an easy step but could prove effective. @ACGeoEcon
For the first time, we're designating a flag registry and the biggest Rosneft refinery in India. Our sanctions also hit those indoctrinating Ukrainian children. We will keep raising the costs, so stopping the aggression becomes the only path forward for Moscow. (3/3)
“If you want to make America great again, don’t pull the plug on what has served it so well.” — Daniel Fried, former U.S. diplomat VOA helped win the Cold War. Silencing it only strengthens our adversaries. #SaveVOA #DanielFried #PressFreedom
Ukraine’s leaders cannot afford such mistakes. time.com/7305230/zelens…
Excellent, straightforward debunker of the nonsensical Russiagate claims Trump and his allies are circulating to distract from Epstein apnews.com/article/gabbar…
Indeed. Karl Marx comes to mind: "Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the 1st time as tragedy, the 2d time as farce." Seems we are now living through the USSR as farce. This too will pass.
Should be a parody account...😂
The Welles Doctrine (non recognition of Soviet annexation of the Baltic States) marked a big step in the US turn away from “America First” isolationism & toward leadership of the free world. A great legacy & precedent (see Pompeo Declaration re Ukraine).
#OTD 85 years ago Sumner Welles announced the United States🇺🇸 refusal to recognise the illegal Soviet occupation of the Baltic states. Nonrecognition of illegal occupation is as relevant today. We will never recognise Russia’s illegal annexation of any part of #Ukraine 🇺🇦.
NEW #UkraineAlert | "Ukrainians have been fighting a two-front war: against Russian aggression and against high-level political corruption," writes @andrew_danieri. "It's puzzling then to now see Kyiv move to gut independent anti-corruption agencies." atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainea…
In the midst of war, Ukrainians protest Bankova’s push to dismantle anti-corruption agencies.
Happening now: The largest protest of wartime Ukraine is underway in central Kyiv over President Zelensky’s push to dismantle the country’s independent anticorruption agencies. Thousands of protesters and more pouring in. Chants of “Shame!” among others. They demand Zelensky veto…
The US may find that extolling nationalism as everybody’s best option has its downsides.
"Japanese First": A right-wing populist who says he learned emotional button-pushing themes and norm-breaking language from Trump is leading his surging party into elections that will test his appeal. @martfack nytimes.com/2025/07/19/wor…
EU hits the Russian economy. UK hits Russian espionage networks. Let's hope that when (& if) the Trump team acts, we do the old American thing of blowing past our allies in hitting the Russian bad actors. @ACGeoEcon gov.uk/government/new…
The EU’s latest sanctions package against Russia is solid, targeting Russian oil revenues by hitting the shadow fleet & lowering the oil price cap. Note the EU’s use of secondary sanctions, something the EU opposed for years. @ACGeoEcon consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press…
UK exposes malign Russian info ops. Good. Why did the Trump administration dismantle State’s capacity to do the same?
Russian military intelligence routinely uses cyber and information operations to sow chaos, division and disorder in Ukraine and across the world. Today, the UK is exposing this activity and sanctioning those responsible ⬇️
‼️🇺🇲🇺🇦 BREAKING - U.S. European Command and NATO Allied Forces Commander in Europe, General Alexus Grynkewich: ▪️ “My directive is clear — to ensure that the Ukrainians receive everything they need to defend themselves. Obviously, this includes offensive weapons as well, so many…
And, yes, Orban is setting up a Hungarian claim to Ukrainian territory.
Ukraine's borders were well defined in 1991 and confirmed by the Russo-Ukrainian border treaty of 2004. When I knew Viktor Orban, he was sharper than this.
Właściwa delegacja Polska we właściwym czasie.
🇵🇱🇺🇸Ilu żołnierzy amerykańskich będzie w przyszłości w Europie? W Kongresie USA trwają dyskusje nad planami redukcji amerykańskiej obecności wojskowej w Europie, w tym na wschodniej flance. W tym kontekście odbywają się rozmowy z przewodniczącym Komisji Spraw Zagranicznych Senatu…
When the news came of Russia's shootdown of MH17, I was entering the WH for a meeting on Ukraine. I left with instructions to fly to Europe to increase sanctions. Europeans were ready. Now, faced with more Russian killing of innocents, the US should up the pressure on Russia.
Today, Ukraine and the rest of the world remember the victims of Flight MH17. 11 years ago on this day, Russia shot down a civilian airliner by a deadly BUK missile, killing all 298 people onboard. Moscow worked hard to escape responsibility. Instead of admitting guilt and…
Sigh... The US has plenty of ways to squeeze Russia's economy: secondary sanctions against buyers of Russian oil (unless countries reduce purchases); sanction & restrict all the shadow fleet; full financial embargo (w/specified carveouts). @ACGeoEcon @edwardfishman
“There was only $3 billion in trade between the US and Russia last year and it's going down this year. Why would tariffs make them cave?” - Question “$3 billion is still a lot of money.” - Leavitt Karoline is truly a world class idiot.