Nicholas Danforth

@NicholasDanfort

Senior Policy Analyst, Bipartisan Policy Center. Mideast Politics. Turkey. Maps. Historical Randomness. Retweets are not endorsements nor necessarily sarcastic.

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    30 Nov 2017

    basically anything i say or write about turkey these days i end up desperately hoping turns out to be wrong

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  2. 36 minutes ago

    For God, For Turkey and For Yale!

    Sabah Columnists Club, SETA and THO hosting panel “Turkey Today” at Yale Club.
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  3. 2 hours ago

    Couldnt agree more, although I'd also suggest that progressives seem more interested in bashing Bush, Kagan & co than doing any soul searching about, say, how Obama's non-intervention in Syria turned out.

    When Americans reject your ideology of aggressive interventionism, one option is to honestly examine the bad outcomes that ideology produced. A second option is to just bash everyone as an isolationist. Guess which one Bob Kagan chooses? …
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  4. 2 hours ago

    "It turns out the case for enlightened despotism can be persuasive for self-styled liberals, too, especially when the despotism is in someone else’s country."

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    4 hours ago

    Have US- relations reached a breaking point? What does it mean for future NATO/trade/security cooperation? Join us tmrw to hear top experts , , , .

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  6. 4 hours ago

    Interesting. It almost seems like Turkish officials could have achieved the exact outcome they're pushing for by not jailing Brunson in the first place

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    24 hours ago

    They did not receive a fair trial and this verdict is a grave injustice. (And I say this as one who believes they did much damage to innocent people.)

    A Turkish court in an appeal hearing on Friday rejected the release three well-known Turkish journalists, Ahmet Altan, Mehmet Altan and Nazlı Ilıcak, who were sentenced to life imprisonment in February …
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  8. 18 hours ago

    Nothing more ominous than when Amtrak announces a train will be 3 minutes late

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  9. Sep 22

    Someone should publish a compilation of disparaging descriptions of rose water from the past two centuries

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  10. Sep 22

    And of course we must prioritize our values and principles, recognizing that they fundamentally reinforce each other but will also at times inevitably come into conflict

    Also, for people who havent been following the debate over what the Democratic Party's foreign policy should be, here's a quick summary:
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  11. Retweeted
    Sep 21

    Reading a summer’s worth of takes on the future of US foreign policy has thoroughly convinced me that both trying to maintain US primacy and abandoning it will lead to serious problems. Also if there’s a middle ground no one knows what it is and the public won’t support it.

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    Sep 22

    ‘The glory and heroism of cartography is that it attempts the impossible. Reality is unmappable’ || Wizards, Moomins and pirates: the magic and mystery of literary maps

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  13. Sep 21

    Also, for people who havent been following the debate over what the Democratic Party's foreign policy should be, here's a quick summary:

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  14. Sep 21

    Also for the left wing alternatives to 1, 3 and 4 just flip the clauses around.

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  15. Sep 21

    5. We must rebuild the liberal international order without ever mentioning the liberal international order

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  16. Sep 21

    4. We must forcefully resist Russian and Chinese aggression without risking armed conflict with Russia or China.

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  17. Sep 21

    3. We must maintain the benefits of global trade while protecting Americans from the disruptions of global trade.

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  18. Sep 21

    2. We must defend our ideals, which complement our interests, while also recognizing that we will sometimes have to compromise our ideals in defense of our interests.

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    Sep 21

    It's pretty well established that US officials have tried to work with Ankara Gulen's extradition. According to reports, the quality/admissibility of the evidence has been deemed lacking. More over, there have been reports of ongoing FBI investigations into Gulenist funding.

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  20. Sep 21

    I think the American people would be on board with a policy of giving all countries control of bodies of water that share their name. with one notable exception obviously.

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  21. Sep 21

    I just reread this piece and i cant figure out what the author thinks about the south china sea either. i assume "let china have it," but he doesnt really say

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