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Daniel Fried

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Daniel Fried

@AmbDanFried

Veteran diplomat now @AtlanticCouncil. America's interests & values advance together! (Views expressed are solely my own.)

Washington, D.C. (mostly)

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Joined April 2020

Daniel Fried
@AmbDanFried
Mar 22, 2022
Everywhere in Warsaw are signs of support for Ukrainians & Ukrainians. Flags. Food & clothing collection points. Poles are taking in Ukrainians. All just happening. As a Polish friend put it, “Poland is the world’s largest humanitarian NGO.”
Daniel Fried
@AmbDanFried
Mar 9, 2025
Poland is a big customer for US defense articles and tech products. And pro-American. So the Trump Administration (and Elon Musk) will alienate one of our best friends and a big customer. Where’s the US interest here? @TomRoseIndy
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Daniel Fried
@AmbDanFried
Mar 2, 2022
Polish friends tell me they have taken in Ukrainian refugees who arrived in Warsaw. "Of course we did," they said, "It used to be us."
Daniel Fried
@AmbDanFried
Mar 23, 2025
Denmark was a good enough ally to send troops to Afghanistan and Iraq to help the US.
Carl Bildt
@carlbildt
Mar 23, 2025
Truly remarkable with Vice President JD Vance 🇺🇸 saying that 🇩🇰 “is not a good ally” and indicates 🇺🇸 will do whatever with 🇬🇱 in spite of “the screaming of the Europeans”.
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Daniel Fried
@AmbDanFried
Oct 29, 2025
Sigh... Ukraine was neutral in 2013. Putin invaded anyway.
Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil
@ivan_8848
Oct 28, 2025
🚨The Ukrainian conflict could end right now in the shortest possible time if Kiev chose a position of neutrality instead of joining NATO, said Jeffrey Sachs. However, instead, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and other “warmongers,” including French President Emmanuel Macron
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Daniel Fried
@AmbDanFried
Mar 9, 2025
Good response from the Polish FM @sikorskiradek to @SecRubio. Musk appeared to threaten Ukraine’s access to Starlink. Rubio denied any such threat. So the Poles, who help pay for it, pocket the denial.
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Daniel Fried
@AmbDanFried
Dec 11, 2023
A new government. And a new start for Poland.
Donald Tusk
@donaldtusk
Dec 11, 2023
Dziękuję Polsko!
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Daniel Fried
@AmbDanFried
Apr 22, 2022
Given US, French, and many others' decision to send serious weapons to help Ukraine, this statement of reticence by Chancellor Scholz seems...out of place.
Scholz says top priority is avoiding NATO confrontation with Russia
From reuters.com
Daniel Fried
@AmbDanFried
Sep 30, 2022
In his “annexation” speech, Putin groused about the rules-based order, asking plaintively, “Who agreed to these rules?” Well: you did. 1/3
Daniel Fried
@AmbDanFried
Feb 26, 2022
Going after the Russian Central Bank is huge. Bigger even than SWIFT. Administration didn't want to go there but is moving fast in response to the gravity of Putin's war on Ukraine. Getting G7 to move on this package shows depth of West's anger.
Daniel Fried
@AmbDanFried
Feb 26, 2022
Big new sanctions from the G7: removing selected Russian banks from SWIFT, restrictions on Russian Central Bank, preventing Russian oligarchs from buying European citizenship (about time), & hunting for assets of Putin's cronies. A hammer. @ACGeoEcon whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/…
Daniel Fried
@AmbDanFried
Feb 16, 2024
Let Putin's fans and apologists in the US use the death of Navalny as a chance to reconsider their position. They look like the American Hitler apologists and Nazi sympathizers in the late 1930's. 1/2
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Daniel Fried
@AmbDanFried
Oct 8, 2020
“Rank democracy.” This from a US Senator. Authoritarianism on the right is now explicit.
Mike Lee
@SenMikeLee
Oct 8, 2020
Democracy isn’t the objective; liberty, peace, and prospefity are. We want the human condition to flourish. Rank democracy can thwart that.
Daniel Fried
@AmbDanFried
Feb 24, 2022
At the end of the 2008 Russo-Georgian War, one of my colleagues said that we must turn Putin's successful tactical into his strategic defeat. We did not do so then. We must do so now.
Daniel Fried
@AmbDanFried
Oct 9, 2025
Polish advice about Russia ought to be taken seriously, given the track record. Germans and others who used to dismiss warnings from Poland and the Baltic countries about Russia have discovered their error.
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