Michael McFaul
former U.S. ambassador to Russia
Michael McFaul is the director of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. He is the author of “From Cold War to Hot Peace: An American Ambassador in Putin’s Russia.” He served as special assistant to the president at the National Security Council and as U.S. ambassador to Russia in the Obama administration.
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Michael McFaul
To defeat authoritarian ideologies, U.S. leaders must devote more attention to improving our democratic system of government at home.
The president and vice president’s performance was a distraction from the intended goal of Friday’s meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Vladimir Putin finds himself needing to invent new arguments to rally the public’s support for the country’s war on Ukraine.
The good news is that Ukraine won the first year of this war. The bad news is that the war continues.
