From Cold War To Hot Peace, Michael McFaul

… as US ambassador to Russia from 2012 to 2014, he had a front-row seat when this fleeting, hopeful moment crumbled with Vladimir Putin’s return to the presidency.
This riveting inside account combines history and memoir to tell the full story of US-Russia relations from the fall of the Soviet Union to the new rise of the hostile, paranoid Russian president. 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.
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• twitter .com/McFaul/status/1611914625834168322 (‘ Michael McFaul : 2022 Was the Year of Victory for Ukraine and Defeat for Russia: But the outcome of 2023 will depend in part on us ‘)
• inquirer .com/opinion/zelensky-congress-biden-patriots-putin-atacms-trump-jr-20221222.html (‘ Trudy Rubin : What Zelensky worried about when he addressed a cheering Congress. Ukraine is grateful to the United States but needs even more key weapons, sooner, to win, even as a GOP-led House may try to halt vital aid. @trudyrubin, Dec 22  ‘)
• twitter .com/FiringLineShow/status/1498328006154235907 (‘ Chess champ and democracy activist @Kasparov63 talked to @MargaretHoover in May 2021 about how a failed invasion of #Ukraine could undercut #Putin.“The moment dictatorship shows its weakness in the eyes of its subjects, that’s the end.”. FULL EPISODE: https://bit.ly/3M6yyNp ‘)
• twitter .com/itvpeston/status/1498328387886411776 (‘ Joining @Peston & @AnushkaAsthana is former world chess champion ♟️ and Chair of the @HRF @Kasparov63 We’ll discuss ⬇️ 🪧Protests in Russia, 🇷🇺Vladimir Putin, 🇺🇦Ukrainian resistance 𝗟𝗜𝗩𝗘 on 💻 @itvpeston & 📺 @itv 𝟭𝟬𝟱𝟱 𝗣𝗠 #Peston   , 28-02-2022 ‘)
• twitter .com/McFaul (‘  Professor. Michael McFaul : Stanford, California,  https://t.co/dRaV2lko50, https://t.co/gjVbfjzb0f ‘)
• twitter .com/anders_aslund/status/1498098155652583433 (`  Anders Åslund : The weakest link remains the sanctioning of oligarchs close to the Kremlin and their families. They are too wealthy & powerful. My favorite sanction goals remain Roman Abramovich, Alisher Usmanov & Leonid Mikhelson, but also Putin’s mistress Kabaeva & daughters. Sanction them! `)
• twitter .com/LatestAnonPress/status/1497901714917134338 (‘  Anonymous : Putin is a small man with Napoleon complex, increasingly isolated. The Russian state speaks only in Orwellian doublespeak. This will be the beginning of the end for Putin. ‘)
• twitter .com/McFaul/status/1497853413912027144 (‘  Professor. Michael McFaul : “Я не знаю, как долго это займёт, но уверен в своём прогнозе, что это злостное вторжение Путина в Украину означает начало конца диктатуры Путина и путинизма в России. Ни один нравственный человек не может поддержать эту отвратительную войну, а в России миллионы нравственных людей.“; I do not know how long this will take, but I am confident in my prediction that this vicious Putin invasion of Ukraine marks the beginning of the end of Putin’s dictatorship and Putinism in Russia. Not a single moral person can support this disgusting war, and there are millions of moral people in Russia. ‘)
• twitter .com/McFaul/status/1497834937168191494 (‘  Professor. Michael McFaul : I make pennies off of these book sales. Im trying to spread knowledge (& rebut Twitter trolls). To anyone who wants a copy of my book, but cant afford the $9 to buy it, DM me. I will buy you a copy.  ‘)
• 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.  ‘)
• twitter .com/lapatina_/status/1497512828906848262 (‘ Last night, Russia hit another residential building in Ukraine.  ‘)
• twitter .com/AyokiNews/status/1497409491813416962 (‘ Massive Protests Throughout Moscow, Russia. Protesters Chant “Slava Ukraini” (Glory to Ukraine)… 25-02-2022 ‘)
• twitter .com/ZelenskyyUa (‘ Володимир Зеленський : Президент України, Слава Україні!  https://t.co/4K07rd4dnT ‘)
• twitter .com/donwinslow/status/1496979016326148097 (‘ video, Don Winslow : This is really heartbreaking to watch. @WUTangKids : Father saying goodbye to his daughter as he puts her on a bus to safety and he stays behind to fight for Ukraine. #StandWithUkraine  via @BigMedicine  ‘)
• twitter .com/WUTangKids/status/1496950737762684928 (‘  Wu-Tang Is For The Children : Father saying goodbye to his daughter as he puts her on a bus to safety and he stays behind to fight for Ukraine. #StandWithUkraine via  @donwinslow  ‘)
• marchehua .com (‘ Aujourd’hui nous avons 2 cris : les cris du covid-19 et les cris de l’invasion comme les russes envahissant l’Ukraine et les chinois envahissant Hong Kong, pire avec l’aide de terroristes domestiques comme ce que vous avez vu en Canada et aux États-Unis le 6- 01-2021. Pour l’amour de vos enfants, informez-vous pour lutter contre la désinformation et pour protéger la démocratie. Alors ne manquez pas le rendez-vous demain avec TRudy sur l’envahisseur russe , 24-02-2022 ‘)
• twitter .com/oleksiireznikov/status/1497803817877913601 (‘  Oleksii Reznikov : 72 hours of resistance! The world didn’t believe. The world doubted. But we did not just stand, we confidently continue to fight with russian occupant!We showed the world – don’t be afraid 🇷🇺, be strong & repel it! Support of 🇺🇦 must be more stronger! Your safety depends on us! ‘)
• twitter .com/Kasparov63 (‘  Garry Kasparov , 📘Winter Is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin …Be Stopped via @lenapatsa ‘)