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Chief Foreign-Affairs Correspondent of The Wall Street Journal. Author of Siege of Mecca. Endorsing nothing. Email me yarotrof at gmail. Instagram

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  1. 48 minutes ago

    Basically the US persuaded the SDF Kurds to dismantle defensive positions that deterred Turkey, promising security guarantees in exchange. Then once the SDF Kurds became defenseless, Trump gave Erdogan the green light to invade. Hard to imagine a more sinister sequence of events.

    says that agreement with US to drawdown from key positions in N. means that, with 's threat to launch an imminent offensive, it's become "a mechanism of death" that will "displace our people& change the stable & secure region into a zone of... permanent war." …
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    6 hours ago

    An important story: China is using its economic power to censor speech by Americans in the US. And the , which (correctly) has no problem with players/employees criticizing our gov't, is now apologizing for criticizing the Chinese gov't. This is shameful and cannot stand.

    NEW: the NBA has released a statement on Daryl Morey:
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    1 hour ago

    Throwback

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    Trump: “Kurds are great people, great fighters, I like them a lot. We are trying to help them a lot. Don’t forget that’s their territory.They fought with us, they died with us, we lost tens of thousands of Kurds fighting ISIS. They’re…
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  4. 1 hour ago

    President Zelensky was elected by a landslide with a mandate to fight corruption in Ukraine. Don’t think he expected that his biggest challenge will be corruption in America.

    Perry and Giuliani’s clients tried to force Ukraine to reshuffle the national gas company, advancing private deals.
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  5. 1 hour ago

    🔥Thread from the former coordinator of the campaign against ISIS 🔥

    Donald Trump is not a Commander-in-Chief. He makes impulsive decisions with no knowledge or deliberation. He sends military personnel into harm’s way with no backing. He blusters and then leaves our allies exposed when adversaries call his bluff or he confronts a hard phone call.
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  6. 1 hour ago

    “Defeat of the territorial ‘Caliphate’ by the United States.” The thousands and thousands of SDF Kurdish troops who died fighting ISIS in Syria, and whose forces did the overwhelming majority of the actual fighting, have turned into non-persons. Extraordinary.

    BREAKING: In an extraordinary Sunday night statement, the White House announces that the US "will no longer be in the immediate area" of Northern Syria, allow Turkey to launch an invasion in the region and give Turkey…
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  7. 1 hour ago

    The casualness with which the US abandons its allies.

    : SDF forces in issue a press release, “We will not hesitate for a moment to defend ourselves and call upon our people of all sects, Arabs, Kurds and Syriacs, Assyrians to join forces and defend our…
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  8. 2 hours ago

    Perry and Giuliani’s clients tried to force Ukraine to reshuffle the national gas company, advancing private deals.

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    15 hours ago

    The Russian government using the President of the United States as a fact witness against the United Kingdom.

    Best evidence that no evidence of Russian involvement exists.
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    20 hours ago

    Omg an Iraqi protester is shot on camera while being interviewed by a journalist. It’s day 6, death toll around 90 but human rights groups and hospitals say it’s much higher.

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  11. Oct 5

    Some triumphalism from Russian state media.

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    Oct 4

    What's interesting about this is Trump effectively broke this promise... Since that call took place he has explicitly linked the trade talks and what is happening in Hong Kong a number of times.

    Scoop: Trump promised Xi US silence on Hong Kong democracy protests as trade talks stalled - with my colleagues ⁦⁩ ⁦⁩
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    Oct 4

    Shocked SHOCKED this was staged 🙄

    Viral video about eating babies at AOC town hall was staged by pro-Trump group
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    Oct 4

    Ukrainian journalist Pavlo Sharoyko, sentenced in Belarus to 8 years in prison, has been pardoned and returned back home to Ukraine.

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  15. Oct 4

    A “deliverable?” 🇺🇦 Ukraine says it is auditing a slew of previously closed cases, including those relating to Burisma, where Hunter Biden was a board member.

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  16. Oct 4

    Two of the four no longer in the job.

    Great dinner last night in with Volker, Ambassador Taylor, and Secretary of Oleksandr Danylyuk! We reiterated U.S. 🇺🇸 commitment to 🇺🇦 and our support for its sovereignty.
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  17. Oct 3

    Someone in Zhongnanhai needs to watch Winter on Fire.

    Jailed activist Edward Leung, on anti-mask law, 2016 election campaign: “A few years ago, Ukraine passed an anti-mask law. Do you know what happened in Ukraine? A revolution started in Ukraine. You want to do…
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  18. Oct 3

    🔥Text by US ambassador to Ukraine: “The nightmare is they [Zelensky] give the interview [on Biden and 2016] and don’t get [US] security assistance. The Russians love it and I quit.”

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    Oct 3

    Given a choice, Ukrainians would probably rather you got their continent right, (h/t )

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  20. Oct 3

    “Partisan tribalism”

    Poll: GOP doesn't believe Trump talked about Biden to Ukrainians
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