Staff writer @TheAtlantic covering armed conflict and national security. Author of The Showman: https://xitter.cf/t.co/DJ9mn0Ps5N
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During a trip to Venezuela in September, I found people hoping for change, but shocked and surprised by US policy. The system looks, one economist told me, like “a coalition of two kleptocracies"
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Control of the Donbas gas-pipeline network could give Russia a decisive advantage in the winter campaign
That would allow an attempt to punch a hole through the kill zone and seize eastern Ukraine, which Russia could use to stage another push toward Kyiv theatlantic.com/national-sec…
NEW: Russia pioneered the use of gas pipelines to sneak under Ukraine's defenses and ambush them.
Now Ukrainian troops are going down there to fight them back, inside the pipes.
Our exclusive report today @TheAtlantic about this new subterranean front
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Our worry is that they are looking at this as a new Yalta Conference, to divide the world into spheres of influence,” another Ukrainian official told us. theatlantic.com/national-sec…
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Three upcoming events taking place far from Ukraine could determine the country’s future, @JonLemire and @shustry report. theatlantic.com/national-sec…
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Spannendes Stück von @shustry über die Frage, ob sich Taiwan in einer mehr und mehr multipolaren Welt, angesichts schwindender Unterstützung der USA, am Ende aus pragmatischen Gründen einfach China unterwerfen könnte. theatlantic.com/magazine/202…
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Donald Trump recently struck a deal to import Russian diesel fuel into the U.S. and exempted Russia from a sanctions bill passed by Congress. On Radio Atlantic, @JonLemire and @shustry discuss what’s behind the moves: theatlantic.com/podcasts/202…
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“Ukrainians have gotten used to awful news. But even by their standards, the past several days have felt dismal.” @shustry
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Might work through Starshield, but I can't see @elonmusk doing this with Starlink. People who communicate with him about Ukraine have told me that his position has hardened in recent months. Seems immovable on the question of allowing Starlink for strikes inside Russia.
A new Ukraine proposal, pitched to @ZelenskyyUa by US Republican senators (per @WSJopinion, strangely):
Ukraine stops bombing Russia refineries for 100 days.
In exchange, US expands Starlink satellite coverage up to 300 kms into Russia (so Ukraine can target missile launchers)
Here's the scene at Moscow airports yesterday as Ukraine steps up effort to close Russian air space. Almost 200 flights cancelled or delayed in one day.
As we reported yesterday @TheAtlantic, Ukraine spent months preparing this campaign. Now it's started
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Обстановка в аэропортах Москвы и Петербурга. Задержаны или отменены почти 200 рейсов
С вечера 15 октября ограничения на прием и отправку рейсов вводились в московских аэропортах Шереметьево, Внуково, Домодедово и Жуковский, следует из сообщений Росавиации. Их сняли только рано утром 16 октября. Задержано или отменено почти 160 рейсов.
Закрывался также петербургский аэропорт Пулково. Ограничения в нем сняли только в 9 утра. Отменены или задержаны на вылет 37 рейсов, на посадку — девять, передает «Фонтанка».
Журналист The Atlantic Саймон Шустер со ссылкой на источники писал накануне, что кампания Украины, цель которой — парализовать работу аэропортов в РФ, «только начинается».
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“At this stage in the war, the escalations cut both ways. No matter what new weapons and tactics Ukraine deploys, Russia can always answer with more brutality. Trump no longer seems interested in stopping that cycle of violence” theatlantic.com/national-sec…
President @ZelenskyyUa's office responds to our reporting from today @TheAtlantic, about Ukraine's plans to strike Russian airports 👇
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From the moment he walked into the room for our interview it was clear Zelenskyy was done with equivocating & was determined to speak his mind. His allies will fret but this was a bravura display of speaking truth to power
With @hallbenjamin
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SCOOP: Some of Zelensky's advisers, and even a few European officials, have called for him to get more aggressive in striking Russian airports.
There are signs his cautious view on such attacks is shifting, especially as Trump starts giving Russia cover.
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NEW: With Trump shielding Russian refineries, Ukraine has hit other targets, like airports. Last week, drones got in the way of Putin's flight to Moscow.
“Purely coincidental,” a military officer told me.
But for Ukrainians, it tasted briefly of revenge.
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Recent attacks on Russian data centers and airports prove that Ukraine still has plenty of ways to make life miserable in Russia—but it will likely take more than that to force Putin to accept a truce, @shustry writes. theatlantic.com/national-sec…
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Trump has been looking for a scapegoat ahead of the midterm elections—and appears to have settled on Ukraine, @JonLemire and @shustry report. They spoke to people in the president’s orbit about his thinking: theatlantic.com/politics/202…
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New: The first US-bound shipment of Belarusian potash in four years is expected to arrive at a New Orleans port within weeks as Washington pursues a diplomatic opening with Minsk. W/@alicemhancock
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Today Trump touted the promotion of his envoy John Coale to a new diplomatic post.
As reported last week @TheAtlantic, Coale has a plan to improve ties with Moscow despite the war in Ukraine.
Details of the plan are, to put it mildly, controversial:
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