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Teaching Russia & International Security/NATO/Eurasia at the ElliottSchoolGW - Retired Marine Corps Officer (Armor & Eurasian Foreign Area Officer)
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What a tragedy to have traded your integrity for favor and ambition only to face a man who traded his security and comfort for a chance to keep his nation whole…VP Vance seems deeply threatened by everything that Zelensky stands for, it must be a crushing realization

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Just your daily remind that Putin could end the war in Ukraine by withdrawing his troops from Ukrainian territory. That would do it.

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

I need people to play attention to this 👇 and to what I said on Thursday www.marketplace.org/2025/02/13/t... The destruction of politics is coming for the economy

submitted 11 days ago • 148 comments

i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country

submitted 28 days ago • 2305 comments

Georgian civil society deserves our attention…excellent analysis here of how Russia is and isn’t involved

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

Can we consider the CCP lecturing the US on the merits of free trade good news on some level?

submitted 93 days ago • 1 comment

As promised so many times in his National Security Strategy, it seems Putin has successfully defended and promoted “Russian values” both at home and abroad…fitting as the war hits a 1000 days of entirely wasteful destruction on every level and direction apple.news/Au7GyhEdTTNu...

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

This Soviet-theater act makes it seem like a consequence of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has been an incremental demonstration of how nuclear weapons aren’t very fungible…great for existential deterrence but not so much for coercion or extracting serious concession www.nytimes.com/2024/11/19/w...

submitted 100 days ago • 0 comments

Feels late but this is now undeniably a response to Russian escalation…a deserved physical and moral boost earned by Ukrainian tactical persistence…consequences won’t be immediately obvious but the change to battlefield geometry will put a drag on Russian operations

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

Military shorthand for how to bin this conduct…“Conduct Unbecoming an Officer”, Article 133 of the Uniformed Code of Military Justice…intentionally vague charge but a professional officer knows it when they see it…more importantly, so do the Soldiers they are charged with leading

submitted 103 days ago • 0 comments