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Ruth Deyermond

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Ruth Deyermond

@ruth_deyermond

Senior Lecturer, Dept of War Studies, King's College London. Russian and US foreign & security policy, US-Russia relations, European security. Views my own.

Joined October 2014

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Jan 1
It's New Year, so time to look back and forward. These are 10 things I think we need to recognise in 2026. It’s a response to what I think are profoundly damaging mistaken assumptions I’ve heard and read from practitioners, journalists, and analysts in 2025. Warning: very long🧵
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Ruth Deyermond
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Feb 24, 2025
Anyone who's had any dealings with members of the French elite or any level of French bureaucracy will recognise that look. Good luck to any member of the Trump family getting anything they want, however small, from the French state ever again.
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Ruth Deyermond
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Apr 26, 2025
It takes some brass neck to have your administration attack another president for being disrespectfully dressed for a meeting and then turn up to the pope's funeral in a blue suit.
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Ruth Deyermond
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Mar 4, 2022
I wonder if what looks ever more like a huge military, economic, and strategic disaster for Russia is a product of a category error by Putin, who failed to appreciate what type of Russian military action he was starting. (A thread – apologies for the length.)
Ruth Deyermond
@ruth_deyermond
Jul 7, 2024
A really peculiar framing by the BBC. The French far right aren't entitled to an election victory and nor is one inevitable. The French electorate have been saying no to the far right for decades; there's no reason to think this will necessarily change in the future.
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Ruth Deyermond
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Feb 24, 2025
Replying to @ruth_deyermond
In 30 years' time, Barron's daughter will find the French police curiously slow to help after her handbag gets stolen in Cap Ferrat.
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Ruth Deyermond
@ruth_deyermond
Aug 23, 2022
Tomorrow marks six months since Russia launched its unprovoked attack on Ukraine, so this seems like a good moment to take a look at how things have turned out for Russia so far. Apologies, even more than usual, for the length of this thread.
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@ruth_deyermond
Sep 2, 2022
A lot of (normal) people (not analysts) seem to think that the coming winter will force the UK/EU to cut support for Ukraine to restore their pre-Feb energy relationship with Russia. This would be a very serious mistake - one that govts need to start addressing more clearly. 🧵
Ruth Deyermond
@ruth_deyermond
Dec 31, 2023
Since it’s that time of year again, 12 end-of-year and start-of-new-year thoughts about Russia’s war against Ukraine and its implications. A long 🧵
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Ruth Deyermond
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Mar 4, 2022
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In assuming (and I have no idea why he did this, if he did) that he was involving Russia in a type of conflict that had worked for it before, Putin has dragged Russia into a war with devastating costs and which it cannot, in the long term, win. It’s a staggering mistake.
Ruth Deyermond
@ruth_deyermond
Dec 31, 2023
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Whether states like France or Germany want to be Russia’s enemy is irrelevant. As long as the Russian govt has existential reasons to frame the West as the enemy, there’s nothing the West can do about it except decide whether to resist or capitulate to Russian aggression.
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Ruth Deyermond
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Oct 30, 2024
Spoke to @KyivIndependent about the Musk-Russia story. Hard to over-estimate the size of the danger Musk poses to the West as a US defence contractor, Trump booster, and social media mogul who seems to have been flattered into asset status by Putin.
Who is Sergei Kiriyenko, Russian hawk reportedly in touch with Elon Musk?
From kyivindependent.com
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Ruth Deyermond
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Aug 8, 2025
Since the end of the Cold War, summits have been used by US presidents as a mark of approval and withheld when they disapprove of Russian actions. Trump is, once again, signalling the value he places on Putin's friendship. It's a profound humiliation for the US.
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Ruth Deyermond
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Nov 15, 2024
Many analysts and journalists are still framing what's coming as roughly like a traditional presidency: led by the president, filled with appointees that have real roles, aiming to produce workable policy that serves US interests. I don’t think any of this is looking correct.
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