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Michael McFaul
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Professor of Political Science, Director of Freeman Spogli Institute & Hoover Senior Fellow all at Stanford University. U.S. Ambassador to Russia, 2012-2014.

Michael Anthony McFaul is an American academic and diplomat who served as the United States ambassador to Russia from 2012 to 2014. McFaul became the Ken Olivier and Angela Nomellini Professor in International Studies in the Department of Political Science at Stanford University in 1995, where he is the Director of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. He is also a Peter and Helen Bing Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is also a contributing columnist at The Washington Post. Prior to his nomination to the ambassadorial position, McFaul worked for the U.S. National Security Council as Special Assistant to the President and senior director of Russian and Eurasian affairs, where he was the architect of U.S. President Barack Obama's Russian reset policy. .. more

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A new era of great power competition has begun.

I explore what America must do next in my book Autocrats vs. Democrats: China, Russia, America, and the New Global Disorder. www.amazon.com/dp/0358677874

My NPR interview on how
How Trump's 'America First' is upending the world order."
www.npr.org/2026/01/14/n...
How Trump's 'America First' is upending the world order
President Trump is dismantling the global system the U.S. built in the 20th century. Foreign policy experts say he wants a world that looks more like the 19th century.
www.npr.org

Trump's desire to annex Greenland is a vanity project. We can accomplish all our security and economic needs in Greenland without annexation.

Denmark is in NATO. That alone makes the idea of “invading” Greenland absurd. We already have military access and can secure rare earths through agreements. An invasion would be unnecessary, expensive, and destroy U.S. credibility. With @katiecouric.bsky.social
One has to admit that Trump is brilliant at driving the news. We are now wasting attention on a ridiculous and unnecessary debate about invading Greenland, eclipsing attention on more important issues, foreign and domestic.

Invading Greenland – Trump’s Worst Idea Ever.
It’s time to end this discussion now.

michaelmcfaul.substack.com/p/invading-g...
Invading Greenland – Trump’s Worst Idea Ever.
It’s time to end this discussion now.
michaelmcfaul.substack.com

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If President Trump ordered the annexation of Greenland, it would end NATO. He would be destroying the system that has reinforced American security for 80 years—and all for a vanity project, as I told @katiecouric.bsky.social

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The U.S. does not need to annex Greenland to protect its security or economic interests. Doing so would weaken NATO, alienate us from Europe, and hand advantages to our adversaries. Read more in my latest Substack: michaelmcfaul.substack.com/p/invading-g...

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