1. Michael McFaul has a hell of an impressive CV: former ambassador to Russia, current professor at Stanford. But in recent weeks he's achieved a new height as frequent Twitter Main Character of the Daypic.twitter.com/Q3ayhr0LN9
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3. If McFaul were just a former diplomat who says goofy things, that would be one thing. But he is also a pundit with access to large platforms (cable news & top newspapers) and is also, in his goofiness, emblematic of ideas & attitudes that have done tremendous harm.
4. Long-time McFaul watcher @DavidKlion & I talked about this embarrassing ambassador, his decades of being at the forefront of Russia/USA relations, and the illusions that fed into the current crisis.https://jeetheer.substack.com/p/podcast-michael-mcfaul-the-embarrassing?r=bh54&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email …
Thing is, this kind of bluster, urging others to take huge personal risks, uttered from a comfortable space thousands of miles away is redolent of the National Lampoon parody of a Joan Baez song supporting the Black Panthers “just across the bay.”
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