Michael McFaul
@McFaul
Professor of Political Science, Director of Freeman Spogli Institute & Hoover Senior Fellow all at Stanford University. U.S. Ambassador to Russia, 2012-2014.
My new book -- Autocrats vs. Democrats: China, Russia, America and the New Global Disorder -- comes out on October 28, 2025. You can preorder now: harpercollins.com/products/autoc…
Europe gets tougher on Putin. It slashed the oil price cap to $47.60, kicked 22 Russian banks out of SWIFT, sanctioned Chinese and Indian entities for helping Putin, and permanently blocked Nord Stream revival WSJ: Trump must follow with 500% oil tariffs, $300B in asset 1/
Back to my old stopping grounds! Love the message here from Bozeman Senior High School.
A complete disaster. This will only fuel all those in Europe who think helping Ukraine is pointless, not to mention the whole Russian narrative of Ukrainians just stealing the West’s assistance for private enrichment, a narrative we have fought for years. politico.eu/article/ukrain…
Read @OTregub on new law in Ukraine:
linkedin.com/posts/olenatre…
Zelenskyy should veto this law.
Did you know that Ukraine Parliament moves to grant FULL AMNESTY for arms‑procurement crimes during Wartime? Did you know that the draft law stipulates that the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO) will…
Why? How will we compete with China if we abandon these organizations? China is not quitting.
The United States is withdrawing from UNESCO. state.gov/releases/offic…
The Nobel Laureate Center for Civil Liberties calls on the President of Ukraine to veto Draft Law No. 12414, which destroys Ukraine's anticorruption reform ccl.org.ua/en/claims/the-…
Finally, Trump Seems to Get Putin time.com/7302683/trump-…
Threats to Democracy in the United States and Around the World My conversation with Larry Diamond, one of the world's leading experts on democracy. open.substack.com/pub/michaelmcf…
The Bozeman Public Library has books from local authors . Love it!
"Shame!" shouted many Ukrainian lawmakers as a majority formed from Zelensky's ruling party, pro-Russian oppo bloc & Yulia Tymoshenko's Batkivshchyna voted to, in effect, dismantle Ukraine's independent anticorruption institutions. My story on a grim day: ft.com/content/21cf3d…
Zelenskyy should not sign this bill. “Ukrainian lawmakers vote to scuttle independence of anti-corruption agencies “ politico.eu/article/ukrain…
Listen to my conversation with @FukuyamaFrancis about the new global disorder here. persuasion.community/p/michael-mcfa…
Oops: On Joe Rogan’s podcast in September 2018, Tulsi Gabbard acknowledged that Russia interfered in the 2016 election. Rogan called it “amazing” that it took until 2016 for foreign election influence to become a major issue in the U.S.
Spent a good chuck of the day at the fabulous Bozeman Public Library.
