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Andrew S. Weiss
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Vice President for Studies & James Family Chair @CarnegieEndow. Graphic novel out now! ACCIDENTAL CZAR: THE LIFE AND LIES OF VLADIMIR PUTIN bit.ly/3DrClmy
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    Andrew S. Weiss
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    Mar 20
    Big news - our team at the Carnegie Endowment has launched a multi-year effort to examine The Future of Russia Power. The first paper is an in-depth look by @eugene_rumer at how the war in Ukraine will transform Kremlin threat perceptions in profoundly destablizing ways. 1/x
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    Andrew S. Weiss
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    Jan 14, 2019
    THREAD: Has anyone noticed the very disturbing overlap between Trump’s insistence on preventing his own staff from learning about discussions with Putin at the Hamburg G20 meeting in July 2017 and how he handled initial revelations about the infamous Trump Tower meeting? 1/
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    Andrew S. Weiss
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    Mar 23, 2022
    THREAD: Things are not going well for Putin in Ukraine war. But slew of news today should remind everyone that Putin definitely knows how to build and exploit leverage. 1/x
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    Andrew S. Weiss
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    Apr 22, 2019
    THREAD: The Mueller Report is conspicuously silent on the harm to US national security from the Trump team’s dalliances w Russian emissaries during 2015-2017, but a little-noticed DoJ filing last Friday sheds light on Mueller’s ongoing counter-intelligence (CI) investigation. 1/
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    Andrew S. Weiss
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    Aug 4, 2018
    Hmm, is this a good time to remind folks that the Trump foreign policy aide who took Maria Butina to a Styx concert in Oct16 also engineered the change in GOP platform on arming #Ukraine? 🤔 ⁦@NatashaBertrand⁩
    It looks like another Trump adviser has significantly changed his story about the GOP's dramatic...
    From businessinsider.com
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    Andrew S. Weiss
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    Oct 11, 2019
    I don't say this lightly: every American should take the time to read these two paragraphs from Amb Yovanovitch's testimony to understand how corrupt interests have captured and poisoned our government and destroyed institutions like the State Department along the way.
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    Andrew S. Weiss
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    Nov 17, 2023
    1/ My colleague @eugene_rumer and I have published a new essay in @WSJ calling for Western leaders to abandon magical thinking about Russia and to develop a credible, long-term strategy for supporting Ukraine and containing an emboldened, revisionist Russia.
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    Andrew S. Weiss
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    Jan 14, 2019
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    Put another way, shortly after the New York Times reached out to the White House to ask about a secret meeting with the Russians, Trump himself sought a secret meeting with the Russians. 18/
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    Andrew S. Weiss
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    Aug 28, 2017
    1/ Stunning: Trump failed to disclose a large pending deal in Moscow while he ran for White House via @CarolLeonnig
    Trump’s business sought deal on a Trump Tower in Moscow while he ran for president
    From washingtonpost.com
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    Andrew S. Weiss
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    Oct 17, 2019
    The Kremlin twists the knife on collapse of US/Turkey relationship, mocks Trump/Erdogan "letter". Kremlin spokesman Peskov: “You don’t often encounter such language in correspondence between heads of state. It’s a highly unusual letter,”
    An October 9 letter from U.S. President Donald Trump to Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan warning Erdogan about Turkish military policy and the Kurdish people in Syria is seen after being released by the White House in Washington, U.S. October 16, 2019. REUTERS/Jim Bourg
    Russia questions language of 'unusual' Trump letter to Erdogan
    From reuters.com
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    Andrew S. Weiss
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    Jan 14, 2019
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    h/t Former federal prosecutor who helped compile this timeline and series of as-yet unanswered questions END
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    Andrew S. Weiss
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    Jan 14, 2019
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    As Bremmer points out, Trump oddly doesn’t even inform his own staff afterwards that he’s had this second conversation with Putin. x.com/ianbremmer/sta… 9/
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    ian bremmer
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    Jan 13, 2019
    Most unusual thing about Trump’s nearly hour long private dinner conversation with Putin at the G20 in Hamburg is that he didn’t tell any of his advisors about it afterwards.
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    Andrew S. Weiss
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    Apr 13, 2017
    Seven (!) foreign intel services spotted Russian spies' contacts w Trump team.: UK, Germany, France, Netherlands, Estonia, Australia, Poland
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    Andrew S. Weiss
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    Feb 8, 2020
    Holy smokes. These Trump-inspired divergences in attitudes about Putin and Russia between GOP and Democratic voters are stunning: 31% of GOP respondents now "have confidence in Putin to do the right thing concerning world affairs." 1/2
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    Pew Research Center
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    Feb 7, 2020
    Americans consistently have expressed little confidence in Russian President Vladimir Putin. But Republicans are now 21 points more likely than Democrats to express confidence him (31% vs. 10%), the widest partisan gap in our polling. pewrsr.ch/375lQsC