Matthew Bryza
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Matthew Bryza
@BryzaMatthew
Ex-White House & State Dept. Eurasia, Ambassador to Azerbaijan; Jamestown Fdtn. Board; Managing Partner in Istanbul for Straife (pol. risk and corp. strategy)
Istanbul, Turkey Katılım Aralık 2012
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@BryzaMatthew #Turkey positioning itself as a potential mediator in the #IranWar is ambitious but not implausible. Despite Ankara–Israel tensions, Donald Trump may see value in leveraging Turkey’s prior engagement channels with Hamas to test diplomatic off-ramps.
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#Turkey aspires to help deliver an end to the #IranWar. Yes, a tall order, given Turkey-Israel tensions. But President Trump may see value in the effort, given Turkey's track record with Hamas on Gaza.
atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/turkeyso…
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@RickSanchezTV Thanks for the lively chat @RickSanchezTV!
But neocons support using military force for regime change and Ambassador Coskun and I criticized it.
I guess you blame your looseness with the facts on your years at CNN…?
And your comparing the Pope to Khamanei was painful.
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Ex-Turkish envoy Alper Coskun and former US ambassador Matthew Bryza didn’t look thrilled with my alternative takes on Iran.
Do you believe that sometimes neocons just need a perspective beyond CNN and NBC?
Great conversation with TRT World’s Yusuf Erim.
Rick Sanchez@RickSanchezTV
War in Iran is in full swing. What is the Kremlin thinking? I feel that Russians are angry at the US. It’s like negotiating in good faith only for the other side to change the rules. When I spoke with Iran’s FM Araghchi, he said Tehran was ready to give Washington whatever it wanted. My US sources say Washington never planned to negotiate. The Saudis even knew an attack was coming.
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@ElinSuleymanov Thank you Excellency, for exploring ways to advance peace right now between #Azerbaijan and #Armenia, building on the momentum of #VicePresident Vance's visit to the region and the presence of U.S. investors and companies as strategic catalysts of peace through prosperity.
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Always a pleasure to see Ambassador @BryzaMatthew, a steadfast supporter of stronger Azerbaijan-U.S. partnership and a lasting peace in the Caucasus.
Elin Suleymanov@ElinSuleymanov
Just as America's Catholic @VP @JDVance is visiting Baku, Azerbaijan’s religious leaders are meeting with @Pontifex in Rome highlighting the nation's centuries-long traditions of diversity and inclusivity.
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@asliaydintasbas @ragipsoylu Exactly!
Turkey seems eager to restore normal trade and investment relations with Israel if access to Gaza for humanitarian aid can be resumed.
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@ragipsoylu Access to Gaza for humanitarian aid was always critical for Turkey— going back to post-Mavi Marmara normalization process. Am surprised that Israelis are surprised.
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Israel was “quite surprised” by Fidan’s statement saying bilateral trade could resume when Ankara’s conditions are met, Ynet reports, citing sources
“In Jerusalem, people are having difficulty interpreting Fidan's statement, and are not sure what it indicates.”
Ragıp Soylu@ragipsoylu
Turkey’s Fidan reiterates that Turkey will restart its trade relations with Israel once the Gaza war totally ends and humanitarian assistance is allowed in. “The rupture isn’t structural, but conditional” he says
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@CBJ_GVA Fair enough.
But maybe chromatic signs above a cathedral are divine and worth both attention and a brief return to X.
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@BryzaMatthew A striking image and a clever 𝘤𝘭𝘪𝘯 𝘥’œ𝘪𝘭.
After a six-month interval on X, it feels as though karma would speak through something more divine than chromatic signs.🤞🏼
#SlavaUkraïni
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A friend in Moscow sent me this beautiful photo today on Orthodox Christmas. (Merry Christmas!)
St. Basil’s was built by Ivan the Terrible to commemorate Russia's conquering of the Tatars in Kazan in 1552.
Note those blue and yellowish cloud streaks.
Karma?
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Savor the historical wisdom and diplomatic insights of Ambassador Farid Shafiyev on the Eye on Eurasia podcast by @GlenHoward_GH, President of the Saratoga Foundation. I also share my own views on recent tensions in Azerbaijan-Russia relations.
open.substack.com/pub/glenhoward…
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@BryzaMatthew @carlbildt The Armenian constitution does not contain a passage claiming that Nagorno-Karabakh is Armenian territory. Were you really the US ambassador to Azerbaijan? Or are you rather a clown working in a circus?
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@carlbildt Also, simultaneously with finalization of the peace treaty's text, the Witkoff visit seems to be wrapped up in SOCAR’s plan to invest in Israeli natural gas fields, and maybe add Azerbaijan to the Abraham Accords.
forbes.com/sites/wesleyhi…
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#CNN's brilliant #NickPatonWalsh just made a rare mistake, claiming #Russia withdrew after its invasion of #Georgia in August 2008 to its prior positions, when in fact Russia still occupies the territory into which it invaded in #Georgia's #Abkhazia and #SouthOssetia.
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@realZalmayMK @POTUS @elonmusk Other countries defined as “adversaries” under this policy include #Russia, #Maduro’s #Venezuela, #NorthKorea, and #Iran
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@GregCrawford I hummed it the whole time, dear Greg, meaning, the one that goes like this:
Hill Street Blues...
Hill Street Blues...
Hill Street Blues, the Theme from Hill Street Blues.
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@BryzaMatthew Thank you for posting this. I sat down in front of the TV on Sunday just as you were signing off. Hopefully you sang the Hill Street Blues theme during your appearance!?
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So pleased to have appeared on February 9, with my dear old friend from our Moscow days, Dan Hoffman, on Fox News Sunday, when we explored President Trump's approaches to Gaza, Panama, and Russia's war on Ukraine.
foxnews.com/video/63685616…
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(Beginning at around 33:00) I discuss President Trump’s ideas for a deal Zelensky can accept. This will initially involve economic pressure on Russia but exclude Ukraine’s NATO membership & near-term recovery of all its territory occupied by Russia.
📷youtube.com/watch?v=pDanM9…
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The writing was on the wall for #Russia's invasions of #Ukraine when it invaded #Georgia in 2008, and even 18 months earlier during #Putin's speech at the February 2024 Munich Security Conference. It's beyond time to stop worrying about "provoking" Putin. youtube.com/watch?v=iKdD_A…
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Superb analysis by @GlenHoward_GH on the objectives of #Ukraine's incursion into #Russia, which may aim to threaten Russia's key logistics lines into Ukraine and be a more strategically consequential version of Prigozhin's misadventure of June 2023. glenhoward.substack.com/p/ukraines-kur…
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My view in the FT: EU’s quest to banish natural gas eventually is undercutting investments required to secure gas supplies tomorrow.
Clash of ideology and practicality....
ft.com/content/99772c… via @ft
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@KyivIndependent And yet, #Biden could have gone even further to recall it was #Stalin's Moscow that allied with #Hitler's Berlin to attack #Poland simultaneously in September 1939, a fact conveniently ignored in #Russia's invocation of its glorious victory over Nazi Germany to save the world.
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⚡️’A tyrant bent on domination,’ Biden says of Putin during D-Day speech.
U.S. President Joe Biden used his speech at the 80th anniversary of D-Day in Normandy on June 6 to reaffirm support for Ukraine in its fight against a "tyrant bent on domination."
kyivindependent.com/a-tyrant-bent-…
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