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Julia Ioffe
@juliaioffe
Founding Partner and Washington Correspondent, . All views my own. Void where prohibited.
Washington, DCpuck.news/author/julia-i…Joined September 2009

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Asked a former Navy fighter jet pilot about targeting a balloon at 60k feet: "I’ve never been above 50k and it was hard for a Navy jet to get that high. F-22 could get there. That high we used to call “the moron-isphere.” It’s scary to fly that high, it starts to get dark."
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Because on the far right, there is a tacit—and not-so-tacit—agreement with Putin, whom they see as fighting for a white Christian nationalist cause. Whereas China is full of…non-white people.
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Paradox. When Russia invades a neighbor-smashes cities, kills tens of thousands- your social media and mine fill with voices from far left and far right warning against over-reaction and escalation. Russia is a nuclear power, they remind us, and so nobody should resist. BUT ...
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as I mention here 'meteorological research' was a favorite Cold War excuse - foreignpolicy.com/2023/02/03/hin
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The airship is from China. It is a civilian airship used for research, mainly meteorological, purposes. Affected by the Westerlies and with limited self-steering capability, the airship deviated far from its planned course. The Chinese side regrets the unintended entry of the
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As we approach the one-year marker of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the toll in the war surges toward half a million dead and wounded on both sides, including some 30,000 killed Ukrainian civilians. In just one year. And for what?
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"So I imagine - I don't have any proof of this, but I imagine that Putin watching January 6 happening was basically a green light to, you know, start planning things in Europe." -, from Putin and the Presidents.
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My latest. Black journalists knew from the jump that the end game of the CRT panic was to justify legalizing anti-Black efforts. Florida and DeSantis are showing us what was under their *ahem* hoods this entire time.
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Just having it as an option—and AP classes *are* optional—signifies the subject’s importance, it is a signal that maybe once you get to college, you should pursue this, too, instead of, like me, having to teach yourself in your 30s. But that is obviously the point.
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Outstanding from in . Glad to contribute several comments on potential for future Russian hybrid warfare tactics.
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There is a growing fear in Washington that Russia will resort to hybrid tactics to inflict pain on Western powers in ways that it can no longer achieve through conventional warfare alone. New, from @juliaioffe puck.news/putins-plot-ag
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SCOOP : Chris Licht has approached his old colleague Gayle King to pitch her on hosting a prime time interview show that would still allow her to host ‘CBS Mornings.’ It could be just the sort of narrative-changing move he needs. Will she take it?
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According to my colleague, , and are sending correspondents on Trump's campaign plane, "a possible return to the old status quo, c. 2015, and a decision by most mainstream news organizations to cover Trump as a conventional candidate."
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In less than a year, Putin, the master strategist, went from having Europe by the throat in terms of energy to completely losing a market Russia had spent three generations building. "People will never want to rely on Russia again," says .
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And totally sold out of copies of "The Last Year," which even this adult reader could *not* put down.
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Amazing standing room only crowd for The Lost Year launch @KidsandProse yesterday with @juliaioffe. Book sold out completely even with my fellow journo @realBobWoodward speaking upstairs. @MacKidsBooks
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