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Rob Person 🇺🇸🇺🇦

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Rob Person 🇺🇸🇺🇦

@RTPerson3

Prof. of International Relations & @FPRI Senior Fellow. Specialist on Russian/post-Soviet politics and tweed. Proudly banned from Russia. Personal views.

New York, USA

Joined July 2016

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Rob Person 🇺🇸🇺🇦
@RTPerson3
Mar 29, 2024
“Why Putin Invaded Ukraine” - In this piece, @McFaul and I argue that a permissive balance of power, Putin’s personalist autocracy, and his anti-democratic & anti-Ukrainian ideology led him to launch his disastrous war - not NATO enlargement. Read it for free here:
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Rob Person 🇺🇸🇺🇦
@RTPerson3
Feb 28, 2025
I have studied Vladimir Putin’s regime for my entire scholarly career. If there’s one thing I know, it’s that you cannot trust him as far as you can spit. Which is what you should do whenever you think of him. He is the very embodiment of evil and should be treated accordingly.
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Rob Person 🇺🇸🇺🇦
@RTPerson3
Dec 28, 2022
Disappointed that @nytimes has declared that “both sides have hard line positions.” There is nothing “hard line” about Ukraine wanting to be whole, free, and at peace. It is their right under international law.
nytimes.com
Russia-Ukraine War: Ukraine Steps Up Efforts to Evacuate Kherson Residents (Published 2022)
The government is offering free train rides and cash payments to those who choose to leave the embattled city.
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Rob Person 🇺🇸🇺🇦
@RTPerson3
Dec 18, 2023
Let me be clear: if Ukraine loses its war to Russia, it will be because we - the United States of America - made a deliberate choice to abandon them to the armies of a bloodthirsty tyrant. This is unacceptable - this is not who we are. #StandWithUkraine
US says it will run out of funds for Ukraine this month
From politico.com
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Rob Person 🇺🇸🇺🇦
@RTPerson3
Jan 2, 2025
Peace negotiations to settle Russia’s war against Ukraine are doomed to fail. Pressuring Kyiv to bargain with the devil in Moscow is misguided, misinformed, and downright dangerous. I explain why in my latest @JoDemocracy article. THREAD 1/
journalofdemocracy.org
Why Ukraine Shouldn’t Negotiate with Putin | Journal of Democracy
Many pundits cry for a negotiated settlement to end the war between Russia and Ukraine. But they misunderstand Vladimir Putin’s motives. The only just end to the war will be in the trenches…
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Rob Person 🇺🇸🇺🇦
@RTPerson3
Feb 25, 2022
How long can Russia endure Western sanctions? A THREAD based on my research on the political economy of Russian grand strategy. Data from @WorldBank, @IMFNews and Russian Ministry of Finance. 1/
Rob Person 🇺🇸🇺🇦
@RTPerson3
Apr 28, 2022
I'm puzzled by those who continue to call for restraint in our support of Ukraine, urging caution out of fear that this is developing into a "proxy war." Don't they realize that Russia has been waging a multi-domain war against us, our allies, and partners for years now?
Rob Person 🇺🇸🇺🇦
@RTPerson3
Feb 27, 2022
THREAD: Here's why sanctioning the Central Bank of Russia could prove devastating - the true "nuclear" option in the West's financial arsenal. Russia currently holds about $640 billion in reserves. About 32% held in euros, 22% in gold, 16% in dollars, and 13% in Yuan. 1/
Rob Person 🇺🇸🇺🇦
@RTPerson3
Feb 25, 2022
Replying to @RTPerson3
This chart shows the inflation-adjusted Russia's total reserves (monetary gold, special drawing rights, IMF reserves, and foreign exchange reserves held by central bank). Though they've risen in recent years, they also decline during recessions 10/
Rob Person 🇺🇸🇺🇦
@RTPerson3
Dec 5, 2023
The Crimean Bridge is the key to unlocking Ukraine's victory, but destroying it is harder than you might realize. @general_ben and I joined two West Point engineering profs to analyze the challenges Ukraine faces in disabling it permanently 🧵1/
Putin’s Weak Link to Crimea
From foreignaffairs.com
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Rob Person 🇺🇸🇺🇦
@RTPerson3
Apr 24, 2022
Misleading headline - Putin has never been interested in a “peace deal.” Since day 1 of this war he has demanded nothing less than unconditional surrender and complete subjugation of Ukraine. Don’t pretend otherwise.
Vladimir Putin abandons hopes of Ukraine deal and shifts to land-grab strategy
From ft.com
Rob Person 🇺🇸🇺🇦
@RTPerson3
Dec 22, 2022
“Your money is not charity. It's an investment in the global security and democracy that we handle in the most responsible way.” -@ZelenskyyUa 🇺🇦
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Rob Person 🇺🇸🇺🇦
@RTPerson3
Jun 23, 2022
“The time has come to understand that Russia cannot be stopped by persuasion, cooperation, appeasement or concessions. Russia takes such gestures as a sign of weakness, as permission to expand and intensify its onslaught.” ⁦- @GitanasNauseda⁩
Opinion | Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda: Now is the time to make NATO even stronger
From washingtonpost.com
Rob Person 🇺🇸🇺🇦
@RTPerson3
Jul 29, 2022
The genocide deniers have been turning a blind eye since the Bucha massacre was revealed. Will Russia’s castration of Ukrainian POWs - literally sterilizing a nationality - finally convince them that Moscow is attempting the undeniable ethnic cleansing of Ukrainians? Horrifying.
Rob Person 🇺🇸🇺🇦
@RTPerson3
Feb 25, 2022
Replying to @RTPerson3
But now we can also see his long-run strategy. Putin knows he can't compete by lifting Russia up to the level of his "peer" great powers. So he will do everything he can to tear down his top geopolitical rival - the United States - and its partners and allies globally. 25/END