Daniel Fried
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@AmbDanFried
Veteran diplomat now @AtlanticCouncil. America's interests & values advance together! (Views expressed are solely my own.)
.@ambdanfried. Why is there a conflict in Ukraine at all? In 1991, Ukraine was a united nation, a successful if sometimes turbulent democracy. After 2014, and the shameful lawless putsch your government rapidly condoned, it was fiercely & violently divided. The 'west' did this.
.@ambdanfried . You said here you hoped for a 'lively debate' but refused to take points of information. Your side in the debate largely relied on emotion rather than reason. That's not what .@oxfordunion is for.
Hey I didn’t pick the title —but just maybe this is it nationalinterest.org/feature/donald…
Tonight's @OxfordUnion debate: 'This House would rather go to war with Russia than lose Ukraine'. Featuring me, @AmbDanFried (@AtlanticCouncil) & @OKhromeychuk (@Ukr_Institute) VS Former Slovak PM Ján Čarnogurský, Peter Hitchens (@ClarkeMicah) & @scotthortonshow. Wish us luck!
New post out!: The two Europes: why the security shock is deepening Europe's economic divide. Europe is divided in two: the chart shows a positive convergence story and a divergence story. Poland went from 34% of US per capita GDP in 2000 to a projected 67% by 2030. Romania from 27% to 60%. France dropped from 86% to 71%. Italy from 93% to 68%. The EU is not one economy moving slowly. It is two economies moving in opposite directions. The hope after Draghi was that the Russian threat would supply the political urgency the rear of Europe lacks. The correlation is the wrong one. Our analysis shows the shock is mobilising the countries where the Draghi problem is not most severe, and leaving the rest largely untouched. War is reforming Europe's frontier. It is not reforming its rear. New post with @OlivierKooi. siliconcontinent.com/p/the-two-euro…
An upcoming debate at The Oxford Union.
I didn't know we (and who's we in this case?) *had* Ukraine in the first place - a neutral, independent country. Might be an interesting debate. Oxford Union, tomorrow night. 8.30.
.@Peston: [Does Israel] have a right to exist? @ZackPolanski: I don’t believe any country has a right to exist The Green Party leader says getting caught up in semantics about countries’ right to exist results in “gatekeeping” #Peston
Danny Brandt, a taxi driver in Nuuk, shared an experience today on his own Facebook profile involving a passenger from the United States. According to Danny, the American passenger asked him during the ride if he would accept $200,000 in exchange for signing a petition. When Danny asked what the petition was about, the man allegedly replied that he was in Greenland to collect signatures in support of Greenland becoming part of the United States. Danny Brandt naturally declined the offer and later contacted the police. According to Danny, the case has now been reported, and the police are currently investigating the individual further. This post has been approved by Danny Brandt.
For the first time since the aftermath of World War II, the US national debt now exceeds 100% of the country’s GDP. “What worries me more than the debt numbers themselves is the complacency around them,” writes @FredKempe in #InflectionPoints. atlanticcouncil.org/content-series…
Each time I write about the breathtaking Polish economic wonder, someone tries to argue that it is all driven by EU subsidies. It’s not. Many EU countries benefit more from EU subsidies yet have much lower growth rates than Poland, the growth champion in Europe.
BREAKING: Trump praises Zelensky and Ukraine’s Armed Forces: “I like Zelenskyy. I've always sort of gotten along with him, other than the one moment in the White House, which I thought was a little aggressive on his behalf. The Ukrainians fight. Because whether the equipment is great or less than great, they are able to fight. They're better than any of our NATO allies. They've held it back for a long time”
Today, we announced $270 million of new military support to Ukraine. Ukraine’s fight is our fight. Their cause — freedom, democracy, sovereignty — is our cause. Good to see President @ZelenskyyUa today in Yerevan. 🇨🇦🇺🇦
Imagine if we had spent 25-50 billion on supporting democratic regime change in Iran through peaceful means instead of war? A democratic Iran is the only long-term guarantee for stopping Irans nuclear weapons program or funding terrorists or threatening Israel.
.@SenDanSullivan and @SecWar are absolutely right: Our NATO and Asian allies must do more to meet President Trump’s global standard of spending 5% of GDP on defense—3.5% on core military spending and 1.5% on security-related investments—as outlined in the National Security Strategy.
