Ukrainians have already made huge advances in tactical and strategic-depth UAVs. Now we’re seeing the new operational depth drones (100-300km range) being deployed, designed to destroy Russian supply lines. apple.news/ANEGWCDCVSF2wK…
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Michael Carpenter
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Michael Carpenter
@mikercarpenter
Former Ambassador to OSCE, NSC Senior Director for Europe, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Russia/Ukraine/Eurasia. Retweets ≠ endorsements.
Washington, DC Katılım Ocak 2017
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Ukraine has withstood US-Russian pressure to give up the land it controls in the Donbas. Perhaps Europe can now take over the negotiations. But first, Europeans should turn over the frozen Russian assets in their jurisdictions to Ukraine.
NEXTA@nexta_tv
⚡️ BREAKING: US halts Ukraine peace talks “We were the only ones both Russians and Ukrainians were willing to talk to. So we got involved. Unfortunately, it didn’t yield results. That’s the point,” — said Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Rubio added that Washington will return to negotiations only if the dynamics change, and noted: “If someone else wants to take this on — please, be my guest.”
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First Ukraine, now Taiwan. This really shouldn’t surprise anyone.
aje.news/l23umk
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Austrian ex-intelligence officer found guilty of Russia spying charges bbc.in/4v0ws7k
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UPCOMING BRIEFING—Armenia’s Election: Peace, Pressure, and What Comes Next
📅May 20
🕕1 pm
🏛️Rayburn 2118
Join us to discuss the stakes of upcoming elections in Armenia, including for regional stability, democracy & Western integration. (1/2)
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Panelists @mikercarpenter, Michael Cecire & Laura Linderman @CaucasusAsia will also assess Russia’s ability to manipulate the information environment & weaponize unresolved security questions to influence political outcomes.
More information: csce.gov/press-releases… (2/2)
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BREAKING | Reports circulating in the past few hours say the Russian Ambassador to the UN told the Security Council that Ukraine intends to launch drones from Latvia and other Baltic states.
Moscow has been publicly building the narrative for weeks that the Baltic states allow drone attacks from their soil against Russia.
Pattern fits how Moscow builds pretexts, first the internal narrative, then the diplomatic move, then the operational one.
What could follow: continued political destabilization, hybrid provocations on the border, or in more extreme scenarios something more direct.
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This can’t possibly be true….can it?
Mark Mazzetti@MarkMazzettiNYT
NEW: The regime change plan at the beginning of the Iran War called for installing Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran's former hard line president known for accelerating the nuclear program and denying the Holocaust, as the country's new. leader.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/us/…
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More proof China is posing a direct threat to European security. reuters.com/business/aeros…
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At a time of war in the Middle East, the US has no ambassador in Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Iraq or Kuwait. At a time of war in Europe, there is no US ambassador in Russia or Ukraine. Altogether some 115 of 195 ambassador posts are vacant. @RobbieGramer wsj.com/politics/polic…
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"Transatlantic relations are caught in a dangerous downward spiral… What should be a win-win equilibrium instead devolves into a lose-lose cycle of action and reaction." More below ⬇️
justsecurity.org/139028/transat…
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RUSSIA’S SEASON OF DISCONTENT, by @PowerVertical open.substack.com/pub/brianwhitm…
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🇺🇸🇨🇳Ahead of the May 14-15 Trump-Xi summit, analysts say the meeting could become a major test of power, leverage and personality between the leaders of the United States and China.
🇺🇸🇨🇳 The talks are expected to touch on Iran, Taiwan, trade negotiations and the shifting geopolitical balance between Washington and Beijing.
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@jimsciutto @JuliaDavisNews Lots of untapped opportunities for US defense industry too. Too many companies are focused on selling to Ukraine rather than learning and co-producing.
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The sharp reversal in who is helping whom is one of the most remarkable stories of the Ukraine war:
Jennifer Jacobs@JenniferJJacobs
Scoop via @CBSNews: A memo between US and Ukraine outlines the terms of a defense deal between the two countries. It would allow Ukraine to export its military tech to the US and manufacture drones in joint ventures with American companies, @aidan_stretch reports.
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He did NOT cut US support for Ukraine — he’s doing more for Ukraine than Biden ever did — and his goal from the beginning was to save Ukraine as a sovereign independent nation.
Josh Rogin@joshrogin
By cutting US support for Ukraine, Trump forced them to become the most resilient self sufficient and effective defense industrial power in Europe, which is great for Ukraine but the opposite of what Trump intended.
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I personally believe it would have made an enormous difference, as I argued in the piece below. Ukraine needed modern weapons to better match Russia’s capabilities, especially at the start of the war, before China, North Korea and Iran got involved.
reader.foreignaffairs.com/2025/07/01/ukr…
Colby Badhwar@ColbyBadhwar
🇺🇸🇺🇦 Biden Admin alums like Jake Sullivan continue to argue that giving more weapons, more quickly, such as ATACMS, wouldn't have made a difference. A talking point debunked by General Cavoli. Panetta is correct and Sullivan is wrong, unsurprisingly.
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On this week’s episode of the Power Vertical Podcast, Brian Whitmore speaks with Michael Carpenter (@mikercarpenter) and Casey Michel (@cjcmichel) about whether mounting pressures have pushed Russia’s war on Ukraine to a decisive turning point.
websites.uta.edu/whitmoreb/2026…
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And the US is doing what about this?
The Economist@TheEconomist
Until now, Vladimir Putin’s government is thought to have provided intelligence that enabled Iran to target American forces in the Middle East. Our exclusive reporting shows it also offered to send fibre-optic drones of the sort used in the Ukraine war economist.com/europe/2026/05…
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