Marcus Stanley (@MarcusMStanley) / X

Marcus Stanley

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Marcus Stanley

@MarcusMStanley

Foreign policy mostly, also anything else I feel like. Currently @quincyinst, but views are entirely my own.

Washington DC

Joined May 2013

Marcus Stanley
@MarcusMStanley
Jul 4, 2024
This week the NY Times just casually dropped that the official U.S. intelligence assessment has always been that Putin didn't want to expand the Ukraine conflict beyond Ukraine. But in public, Biden and other U.S officials have been pushing a domino theory that if we negotiated
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Marcus Stanley
@MarcusMStanley
Dec 3, 2024
The idea that you would look at the current state of Ukraine and think that repeating the Maidan is just an awesome fun idea is kind of mind-boggling to me.
Vatnik Soup
@P_Kallioniemi
Dec 3, 2024
Georgian protests are looking more and more like Euromaidan, and I absolutely love it! Also, it's fun watching Kremlin bots fuming about "CIA" and "color revolutions".
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Marcus Stanley
@MarcusMStanley
May 13, 2020
Nice work if you can get it -- Blackrock employees managing the Fed's $750 billion corporate credit facility apparently get to trade on whatever they've learned after just two weeks of "cooling off". newyorkfed.org/medialibrary/m…
Marcus Stanley
@MarcusMStanley
Oct 29, 2024
So here we have a new report from CNAS, one of the most respected DC foreign policy think tanks, which calls for the U.S. to lead the world on human rights and "recommit to a values-based foreign policy", but doesn't once mention Israel, Gaza, or the Middle East. Amazing.
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Marcus Stanley
@MarcusMStanley
Jul 4, 2024
Replying to @callmegiorgie
I think the same factors which have led U.S. intelligence to consistently assess that it didn't make sense for Russia to expand the war beyond Ukraine would also apply if the war reached a negotiated settlement. The Quincy Institute is putting out research soon on Russian intent
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Marcus Stanley
@MarcusMStanley
Mar 27, 2020
There’s an outrageous lack of controls on the huge amount of corporate assistance provided in Section 4003 of the just passed stimulus bill. (1/9)
Marcus Stanley
@MarcusMStanley
Jul 4, 2024
The always excellent @kenklippenstein with a great July 4th column about the need to win back our independence from the national security state. Comes with the excellent list of questions for our government below. (Link in replies).
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Marcus Stanley
@MarcusMStanley
Apr 13, 2020
Late to the party here, but let’s discuss some of the massive lending facilities the Federal Reserve announced last week. Focus on upport for corporate capital markets, for “Main Street” bank lending to businesses, and for securitizations
federalreserve.gov
Federal Reserve takes additional actions to provide up to $2.3 trillion in loans to support the...
The Federal Reserve on Thursday took additional actions to provide up to $2.3 trillion in loans to support the economy. This funding will assist households and
Marcus Stanley
@MarcusMStanley
Mar 27, 2020
Replying to @MarcusMStanley
Big corporations benefiting from the $454 billion in public equity investment (likely leveraged to over $4 trillion in funding by the Fed) don’t even have to maintain their payrolls. They can actually lay off workers while receiving public assistance (2/9)
Marcus Stanley
@MarcusMStanley
Sep 11, 2024
I wrote about the contrast between the outraged reaction when foreign adversary government messaging appears in American media, as compared to the U.S. government willingness to mount massive influence operations abroad responsiblestatecraft.org/china-cold-war…
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Marcus Stanley
@MarcusMStanley
Jun 3, 2022
My interview in Jacobin about the costs and risks of a long bloody war in Ukraine, how we cannot evade our role in the diplomatic process as a co-belligerent, and why the U.S. can and should make an effort for peace. jacobin.com/2022/06/us-rus…
Marcus Stanley
@MarcusMStanley
Jul 25, 2024
Fantastic Washington Post piece documenting thousands of U.S. sanctions targeting one-third of countries on the planet. Economic warfare feels low cost to us but it is of doubtful utility and has devastating impacts on millions of civilians in poorer countries. You also have
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Marcus Stanley
@MarcusMStanley
Dec 4, 2024
Replying to @HansGutbrod
How is the ruling party a tiny clique when they just apparently won an election and have won several before? The OSCE election monitors did not contest the vote tally.
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Marcus Stanley
@MarcusMStanley
May 13, 2020
Replying to @MarcusMStanley
Also cool -- even during those two weeks you can provide "general market views" to clients.