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Dr. Benjamin L. Schmitt🇺🇸🇺🇦🇪🇺🇹🇼
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Senior Fellow @Penn Physics & @KleinmanEnergy; Also @CEPA @DukeU @HURI_Harvard; Affiliate @CenterForAstro; Term Member @CFR_Org; Former @StateDept | views mine
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    Dr. Benjamin L. Schmitt🇺🇸🇺🇦🇪🇺🇹🇼
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    Sep 25, 2024
    🇺🇸🇪🇺🇺🇦 I had the honor to provide Congressional testimony to U.S. Senate & House Members of the @HelsinkiComm. It’s time for @NATO leaders to turn the tables on Putin’s shadow war & move from Russia’s Summer of Sabotage, to NATO’s Autumn of Action. My opening statement:
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    Dr. Benjamin L. Schmitt🇺🇸🇺🇦🇪🇺🇹🇼
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    Feb 23, 2025
    🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 Philly knows: Ukraine will never be Russia. Not now. Not ever. 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
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    Dr. Benjamin L. Schmitt🇺🇸🇺🇦🇪🇺🇹🇼
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    Mar 20, 2022
    End Nord Stream 1
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    Dr. Benjamin L. Schmitt🇺🇸🇺🇦🇪🇺🇹🇼
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    Jul 13, 2022
    🇺🇦REMINDER: Crimea is Ukraine🇺🇦
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    Dr. Benjamin L. Schmitt🇺🇸🇺🇦🇪🇺🇹🇼
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    Jun 24, 2022
    🚨BREAKING🚨 Berlin looking to expropriate the section of #NordStream2 in German waters, *CUT IT APART* from rest of pipeline & use it to import non-Russian LNG‼️ A smart move signaling to Putin that there won’t be a return to business as usual with NS2, as I told @HelsinkiComm:
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    Dr. Benjamin L. Schmitt🇺🇸🇺🇦🇪🇺🇹🇼
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    Jul 11, 2022
    There can’t be any Russian ownership of European critical energy infrastructure anymore. Period.
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    Dr. Benjamin L. Schmitt🇺🇸🇺🇦🇪🇺🇹🇼
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    May 4, 2022
    End Nord Stream 1
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    Dr. Benjamin L. Schmitt🇺🇸🇺🇦🇪🇺🇹🇼
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    Dec 26, 2023
    More ATACMS for Ukraine‼️
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    Dr. Benjamin L. Schmitt🇺🇸🇺🇦🇪🇺🇹🇼
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    Feb 28, 2022
    🚨BREAKING🚨 Russian oil & gas firm Surgutneftegaz has failed to attract any bidders for two cargoes of 100,000 tonnes of Russian Urals crude from Russian Baltic Sea ports. 👏👏Private sector, keep it up! #SayNoToRussianUralsOil #NotJustACommercialDeal
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    Surgutneftegaz fails to award spot tender for March Urals oil in Baltic - traders
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    Dr. Benjamin L. Schmitt🇺🇸🇺🇦🇪🇺🇹🇼
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    Aug 19, 2022
    🇺🇦REMINDER: Crimea is Ukraine🇺🇦
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    Dr. Benjamin L. Schmitt🇺🇸🇺🇦🇪🇺🇹🇼
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    Mar 22, 2022
    Stop Nord Stream 1 #NotJustACommercialDeal
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    Dr. Benjamin L. Schmitt🇺🇸🇺🇦🇪🇺🇹🇼
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    Dec 28, 2023
    Dear 🇺🇸 and 🇪🇺 Lawmakers: Time to get off holiday break and back up the heroic #Ukrainian defenders who for nearly two years have been defending the democratic world from #Putin’s authoritarian aggression! Signed, #ArmUkraineNow
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    Dr. Benjamin L. Schmitt🇺🇸🇺🇦🇪🇺🇹🇼
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    Aug 4, 2022
    🇺🇦REMINDER: Crimea is Ukraine🇺🇦
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    Dr. Benjamin L. Schmitt🇺🇸🇺🇦🇪🇺🇹🇼
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    Aug 17, 2024
    There can be no return to energy “business as usual” with Putin’s Kremlin. Ever. Europe’s Gazprom Era is Over.
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