From Cold War to Hot Peace: An American Ambassador in Putin’s Russia

In 2008, when Michael McFaul was asked to leave his perch at Stanford and join an unlikely presidential campaign, he had no idea that he would find himself at the beating heart of one of today’s most contentious and consequential international relationships… From the first days of McFaul’s ambassadorship, the Kremlin actively sought to discredit and undermine him, hassling him with tactics that included dispatching protesters to his front gates, slandering him on state media, and tightly surveilling him, his staff, and his family. From Cold War to Hot Peace is an essential account of the most consequential global confrontation of our time.

• FYI –>
  • twitter .com/McFaul/status/1540762327372312576 (‘  Prof. Michael McFaul  : Political systems eventually break down when their institutions produce outcomes in favor of a minority group at odds with the will of the majority. 25-06-2022  ‘)
  • twitter .com/Billbrowder/status/1536661391658172422  (‘  Bill Browder : New Canadian legislation will make it easier for human rights violators to be sanctioned under the Canadian Magnitsky Act. Now MP’s will be able to demand that the government adds villains to the Magnitsky list through something called “the parliamentary trigger.”    @DFisman   ‘)
  • twitter .com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1536624474920992768 (‘  Few scenarios are more alarming than a continuation of Russia’s current descent into full-scale fascism under an increasingly isolated and unhinged Putin. He is already the greatest single threat to global security and will likely remain so until he loses power. “, @anders_aslund : https://t.co/yi91s0PuuU ‘)
  • twitter .com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1536438933134909446 (‘🎶🧑‍⚕️ video, When combat medics don’t have any work to do its a good thing, – this is how Taras Topolya, leader of “Antytila” band signed this video. He is currently defending #Ukraine. Huge respect!🇺🇦 ‘)
  • twitter .com/McFaul (‘ Professor. Michael McFaul : https://t.co/dRaV2lko50 , Stanford, California, https://t.co/gjVbfjzb0f ‘)
  • michaelmcfaul .com (‘ Michael McFaul is a leading expert on Russia, American foreign policy, and democratic development around the world. A former U.S. ambassador to Russia, McFaul is currently a professor of political science at Stanford University, the director of Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and the Peter and Helen Bing Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution… ‘)
  • michaelmcfaul .com/node (‘ video June 6, 2022, Amb. Michael McFaul: Putin ‘will end the war when his forces on the battlefield can no longer advance’ ‘)
  • twitter .com(‘ Noted. I should have clarified that I was wondering about post-1945 cases. Vietnam is an interesting case, although some would call that a case of post-colonial reunification, not annexation. But was more peaceful after 1975. ‘)
  • twitter .com(‘ Realists need to get real. Putin will only engage in negotiations with Zelensky when his army is no longer capturing (and later annexing) territory. The only way to stop Putin’s army is to better arm the Ukrainians. That’s the way the real world works. #ArmUkraineNow ‘)
  • twitter .com/Barking52731887/status/1536444758054391812 (‘ Dame Kerrin: Give them everything they need! Glory to the brave people of Ukraine. ‘)
  • marchehua .com/product/thumbs-down-classroom-voting-paddles-teacher-classroom-supplies (‘ @Gerashchenko_en, @anders_aslund, @Kasparov63, ⁦@AVindman, @Billbrowder, @SergiyKyslytsya, @trudyrubin, @PhillyInquirer, @IAPonomarenko, @ZelenskyyUa,  @MelnykAndrij,  @Podolyak_M , @KyivIndependent , @oleksiireznikov, @olya_rudenko, @DmytroKuleba, @lapatina_, @Ukraine, etc… ‘)
  • twitter .com/RaviHVJ/status/1536075406985547776 (‘ Today, I’m meant to be in California attending my graduation from Stanford University. However, I am too ill to go. I’m just 23 and have now been seriously ill with #LongCovid for 15 months. I have to spend upwards of 16 hours a day in bed and have completely lost my old life. 1/  https://t.co/wcIhVA0hQJ , 12-06-2022 `)
  • twitter .com/OrlaGuerin/status/1536583278999781377 (‘ video, Civilians try to flee as Russia pounds the city of Lysychansk. All bridges to neighbouring Severodonetsk now destroyed. Our latest from the Donbas region on what looks like a loosing battle for Ukraine. Huge thanks to the team – @Colmonews @wburema +Artem Bilov + Andy Eley , via @Gerashchenko_en ‘)