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# ![@McFaul Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::454099919.png) @McFaul Michael McFaul

Michael McFaul posts on X about russia, ukraine, china, united states the most. They currently have XXXXXXX followers and XXX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.

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### Top Social Posts
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"Business deals between Americans and Russians should not be a part of negotiations to end the Russian invasion of Ukraine"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McFaul/status/1996041415273709889)  2025-12-03T02:18Z 876.7K followers, 72.1K engagements


"When I worked for Obama I advised him on how to talk to Russian leaders. I never gave the Kremlin advice on how to talk to Obama (and I talked to Ushakov many times)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McFaul/status/1993477807184527826)  2025-11-26T00:32Z 876.7K followers, 2.7M engagements


"American critics of European democratic shortcomings would have more credibility if they also criticized democratic shortcomings in the US and autocratic repression in Russia China and Saudi Arabia. Otherwise they just sound like businessmen trying to make money"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McFaul/status/1997377885787783263)  2025-12-06T18:49Z 876.7K followers, 40.3K engagements


"@kisslove Why should Russians want to travel to enemy lands"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McFaul/status/1986180697921671276)  2025-11-05T21:15Z 876.7K followers, 806.9K engagements


"So were telling Ukraine to accept limits on its sovereignty cede territory & weaken its military. Whose interests does that serve Not Ukraines Americas or those of our democratic allies. Undermining Ukraine & dividing NATO will empower Putin & embolden autocrats worldwide"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McFaul/status/1992148636692607033)  2025-11-22T08:30Z 876.7K followers, 314.4K engagements


"Back in the Cold War nobody dreamed about moving to Moscow or Beijing they wanted to come to America. That openness powered U.S. innovation. Will we keep that competitive advantage in the 21st century From my conversation with @batchelorshow"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McFaul/status/1996584102770712776)  2025-12-04T14:15Z 876.7K followers, 31.2K engagements


"Strong allies proved essential in our victory in the Cold War. They will be equally essential in helping American prevail in this new era of great power competition with China and Russia in the 21st century. That the Trump administration does not seem to understand this basic fact is deeply disturbing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McFaul/status/1997048809164296198)  2025-12-05T21:01Z 876.7K followers, 33.4K engagements


"Many National Security Strategies have been written that subsequently had minimal to no causal impact on actual U.S. foreign policy. I hope the NSS published by the Trump administration will be one of those"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McFaul/status/1997118703670862088)  2025-12-06T01:39Z 876.7K followers, 18.3K engagements


"I genuinely do not understand how CEOs of American social media companies and their supporters can express so much passion about free speech infringements in Europe but not say a word about censorship in Russia where many of their companies are banned. Some say its all about money but these companies arent making any money in Russia. Is it just loyalty to Trump Admiration of autocracy What are your theories I honestly dont get it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McFaul/status/1997563503859638435)  2025-12-07T07:07Z 876.7K followers, 306.9K engagements


"Fantastic @StanfordMBB win"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McFaul/status/1994592211363942848)  2025-11-29T02:20Z 876.4K followers, 13.4K engagements


"Tree is up We are ready for the holidays"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McFaul/status/1995366182573203472)  2025-12-01T05:35Z 876.4K followers, 30.6K engagements


"Agree with Sam. Both fascinating and bizarre"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McFaul/status/1995531344861167626)  2025-12-01T16:32Z 876.4K followers, 134.4K engagements


"To be clear Im flying out of San Francisco to Spokane to speak at Washington State University in Pullman today"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McFaul/status/1996268413417914734)  2025-12-03T17:20Z 876.4K followers, 12.7K engagements


"OUT TODAY My new book Autocrats vs. Democrats looks at the challenges posed by autocratic Russia and China and explains how/why the U.S. must lead the democratic world in response. Available in stores or online: @HooverInst @FSIStanford @MarinerBooks @HarperCollins"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McFaul/status/1983157668236673443)  2025-10-28T13:03Z 876.7K followers, 568.7K engagements


"Ive been in the room with Putin. He calls Ukrainians Russians with accents. His real fear isnt NATO expansion its democracy expansion. It shatters his entire argument for dictatorship at home. Because if Ukrainians embrace freedom Russians may demand the same. Clip from this weekend's talk with @AVindman at the 2025 @TexasTribune Festival"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McFaul/status/1991950441475961315)  2025-11-21T19:22Z 876.7K followers, 967K engagements


"This is insane. Putin is a bad guy. He kills innocent Ukrainians every night. He started the largest war in Europe since World War II for no reason. He has killed his political opponents. Diplomats have to engage with dictators but they dont have to check their values at the door to do so"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McFaul/status/1992980522952441949)  2025-11-24T15:35Z 876.7K followers, 781.1K engagements


"Heres my plan: Russian soldiers go home. They leave Ukraine Georgia and Moldova. Russia honors the many international treaties they have signed to recognize the sovereignty of their neighbors. Russia stops making long-range missiles and caps its army at 500000. For the first time in X decades Russia holds free and fair elections. Ukraine agrees to respect the territorial integrity of the Russian empire and will not push for independence of Russian republics"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McFaul/status/1993438662693118456)  2025-11-25T21:56Z 876.7K followers, 1.2M engagements


"This is insane. Ukrainian soldiers are not occupying land. They are defending UKRAINIAN territory"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McFaul/status/1994102976496193623)  2025-11-27T17:56Z 876.7K followers, 363.7K engagements


"The United States never recognized the Soviet Unions annexation of Estonia Latvia and Lithuania. Recognizing Putins imperial conquests now would be a colossal mistake"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McFaul/status/1994453961760542779)  2025-11-28T17:10Z 876.7K followers, 337.9K engagements


"@berlin_bridge @SCS_Disputes Well said"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McFaul/status/1995213031954157947)  2025-11-30T19:27Z 876.7K followers, 1719 engagements


".@SecRubio is our chief diplomat. Just as he did today in Miami with the Ukrainian delegation Rubio should be leading the U.S. delegation traveling to Moscow next week"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McFaul/status/1995218389506429147)  2025-11-30T19:48Z 876.7K followers, 74.2K engagements


"If were blowing ships out of the water in the Caribbean with no care for the rule of law how can we call out others for doing the same Actions like this give autocrats like Putin an excuse to justify their own actions. I don't want to return to that sort of dog-eat-dog world do you"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McFaul/status/1995629035670376928)  2025-12-01T23:00Z 876.7K followers, 113.7K engagements


"The strategy of trying to change Putins mind has not worked. Time to shift to a new strategy focused on changing Putins capabilities. That means more and better weapons for Ukraine and more and better sanctions for Russia"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McFaul/status/1996258534649114699)  2025-12-03T16:41Z 876.7K followers, 52.4K engagements


"I used to think of Americans as a people who supported self defense. I think I still do. But it is shocking how many people on this platform (& I dont know of they are actually Americans or Russians pretending to be them) want to disarm Ukrainians so more of them can be slaughtered with greater ease by Putin"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McFaul/status/1996581523689210241)  2025-12-04T14:05Z 876.7K followers, 43K engagements


"Scaling back U.S. instruments of soft power like USAID is unilateral disarmament. It reduces our ability to compete for influence globally and creates vacuums for Russia and China to fill"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McFaul/status/1996946521640571255)  2025-12-05T14:15Z 876.7K followers, 36.2K engagements


"I hope everyone appreciates the bald hypocrisy of Russian government officials tweeting on the platform about censorship in Europe when @X is banned inside Russia. Just amazing. They have no shame at all"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McFaul/status/1997564866509631523)  2025-12-07T07:12Z 876.7K followers, 651.1K engagements


"At a moment in American politics in which Trump has very low approval ratings Democrats are winning elections many predict a blue wave in 2026 & a Democratic president in 2028 and a solid majority of Americans support NATO it would be imprudent to get too fatalistic about the death of Transatlantic relations because of an incoherent National Security Strategy written by a small group in the Trump administration. Play the long game"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McFaul/status/1997577473656045858)  2025-12-07T08:02Z 876.7K followers, 128.1K engagements


"Trumps National Security Strategy in 2025 is radically different from Trumps National Security Strategy in 2015. What changed The world Trump Or the staffs who drafted the X documents Whats your view"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McFaul/status/1997856040839483447)  2025-12-08T02:29Z 876.7K followers, 34.6K engagements


"I wish the United States had as robust and effective anti-corruption institutions and organizations as Ukraine"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McFaul/status/1990102970663342290)  2025-11-16T17:01Z 876.7K followers, 198.5K engagements


"Why has Trump suddenly sided again with Putin Forcing Ukraine to accept this horrible deal does not serve US interests. It makes our country look weak. It makes it look like we dont understand the difference between aggressor and victim democrats vs autocrats or good vs evil"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McFaul/status/1992030027047973253)  2025-11-22T00:39Z 876.7K followers, 498.4K engagements


"Andrew Luck is fired up #GoStanford"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McFaul/status/1992436607698477459)  2025-11-23T03:34Z 876.7K followers, 18.2K engagements


"DOGE was a colossal failure. By destroying instruments of American soft power such as USAID Voice of America Radio Free Europe and Radio Free Asia DOGE only helped our autocratic adversaries without advancing a single American national interest"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McFaul/status/1993155594023584224)  2025-11-25T03:11Z 876.7K followers, 399.1K engagements


"This Ukrainians are facing tough times in part because the US is not providing them with the weapons they need. But The Armed Forces of Ukraine are not on the verge of collapse. That is Kremlin propaganda"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McFaul/status/1994102053355049103)  2025-11-27T17:52Z 876.7K followers, 177K engagements


"The Russian army is exhausted too. Russia is taking far higher casualties than Ukraine and after XXX years has barely moved the front line. The idea that Russia is winning is simply not supported by the evidence. As I told @dwnews"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McFaul/status/1994202134393360525)  2025-11-28T00:30Z 876.7K followers, 377.9K engagements


"In 3+ years of war you have never seen a photo of Muscovites sleeping in metro stations because Ukraine does not target civilians"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McFaul/status/1994679234024100296)  2025-11-29T08:06Z 876.7K followers, 264.2K engagements


"Maduro is an illegitimate leader. He lost the last election. He needs to go"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McFaul/status/1994838654678900847)  2025-11-29T18:39Z 876.7K followers, 1.7M engagements


"I radically disagree"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McFaul/status/1995234942964609307)  2025-11-30T20:54Z 876.7K followers, 233.7K engagements


"Can someone explain to me why Special Envoy Witkoff and the presidents son-in-law participate in negotiations with both the Ukrainians and Russians but our Secretary of State only talks to the Ukrainians and is not leading the delegation to talk to Putin I dont get it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McFaul/status/1995557737166766510)  2025-12-01T18:16Z 876.7K followers, 601.9K engagements


"Remembering this data especially in eastern regions is important to counter Russian claims that Ukrainian citizens in the east have always yearned to be part of Russia"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McFaul/status/1995609259451818463)  2025-12-01T21:41Z 876.7K followers, 116.1K engagements


"John McCain did not lead a color revolution in Ukraine. Putin kills Ukrainians & sends his own soldiers to be slaughtered for no reason. Ukraine has never threatened to attack Russia. The democratically elected U.S. Congress and the democratically elected U.S. president approved the transfer of support to Ukraine. No one "raided America.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/McFaul/status/1995728190472683673)  2025-12-02T05:34Z 876.7K followers, 87.5K engagements


"This is insane. Russia needs to pay reparations. Transferring these Russian assets for Ukrainian reconstruction is the right and legal thing to do"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McFaul/status/1995903468008271954)  2025-12-02T17:10Z 876.7K followers, 119.2K engagements


"Note that X of X people participating in this meeting are businesspeople. US-Russia business deals should NOT be on the agenda of a negotiation to end Putin's invasion of Ukraine"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McFaul/status/1995911571890209239)  2025-12-02T17:42Z 876.7K followers, 77.2K engagements


"Putin fears democracy consolidating in Ukraine because it shows a different future is possible for the Russian people too. A free democratic Ukraine exposes the lie at the heart of his worldview. From my conversation with @batchelorshow"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McFaul/status/1995999367048864126)  2025-12-02T23:31Z 876.7K followers, 79.1K engagements


"There you have it:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McFaul/status/1996138162654257653)  2025-12-03T08:43Z 876.7K followers, 25.2K engagements


"Back at SFO to continue the book tour. Next stop @WSUPullman tonight And glad to see Autocrats vs Democrats still on sale here at the airport"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McFaul/status/1996262502414590039)  2025-12-03T16:57Z 876.7K followers, 20.2K engagements


"During the latest USRussia talks the head of Russia's sovereign wealth fund joined Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff in the Kremlin. Their presence at the talks underscores how Moscow is leveraging business channels to draw the Trump administration toward its position as I told @TheWorld:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McFaul/status/1996332417271926966)  2025-12-03T21:35Z 876.7K followers, 268.3K engagements


"From my days as a high-school athlete in Montana to my time working on Moscows black market during the Soviet era this Commonwealth Club World Affairs podcast covers it all Plus a deep dive into the ideas behind my new book Autocrats vs. Democrats. Listen in full here:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McFaul/status/1996686164049244341)  2025-12-04T21:00Z 876.7K followers, 11.5K engagements


"Are we in a new Cold War I explored this and other insights from my new book Autocrats vs. Democrats with @NextBigIdeaClub"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McFaul/status/1997012079296020552)  2025-12-05T18:35Z 876.7K followers, 15.4K engagements


"Trump is out of step with the American people on Ukraine & Russia"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McFaul/status/1997119289678352652)  2025-12-06T01:41Z 876.7K followers, 204.5K engagements


"The only time Article X of the NATO Treaty was invoked was to defend us not for us to defend Europe. European soldiers and civilians died fighting with us and working next to us in Afghanistan. Europe was not attacked on September XX 2001"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McFaul/status/1997347836795752597)  2025-12-06T16:50Z 876.7K followers, 402.6K engagements


"Trump and his aides may not value our NATO allies. But I do. So do millions of Americans. On this issue the Trump team is out of step with the American people"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McFaul/status/1997362042064306416)  2025-12-06T17:46Z 876.7K followers, 139.1K engagements


"Americas strength isnt rooted in power alone but in our allies across Europe and around the world. Weakening those ties weakens us. In a world of rising authoritarianism partnerships remain one of our greatest strategic advantages"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McFaul/status/1997393566277009610)  2025-12-06T19:51Z 876.7K followers, 67.5K engagements


"Trump Needs a New Ukraine Strategy TIME -"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McFaul/status/1997735574007128318)  2025-12-07T18:30Z 876.7K followers, 29.6K engagements


"The new Trump National Security Strategy grossly underestimates the threats to American interests from autocratic China and Russia"  
[X Link](https://x.com/McFaul/status/1997877555731525705)  2025-12-08T03:55Z 876.7K followers, 33K engagements