Michael Carpenter (mikercarpenter.bsky.social)
@mikercarpenter
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Senior Fellow at IISS. Former Ambassador to the OSCE, NSC Senior Director for Europe, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense. Personal views only.
Washington, DC
Joined January 2017
Appalled to learn that new heavy criminal charges have been filed against 8 leading opposition figures in Georgia. @coe must act now.
BREAKING ‼️ Virtually all democratic leaders in Georgia are now prosecuted over "sabotaging the state." As a result of a joint investigation conducted by the State Security Service, the Prosecutor's Office of Georgia and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, criminal prosecution
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Commissioner @MartaKosEU is right - Georgia is an EU candidate only in name. Under Georgian Dream, it will not return to the European path. My reflections on enlargement prospects for the South Caucasus after the presentation of @EU_Commission 2025 Enlargement Package today:
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Withdrawing troops from a frontline state during the largest land war in Europe since WWII is a terrible signal of weakness. Especially since Romania has been targeted with hybrid measures and has had numerous Russian drones impacting on its territory. Bad move.
The SECDEF’s decision to pull U.S. troops from Romania sends a terrible message to NATO and Ukraine...and a welcome one to Putin. Deterrence matters. Weak signals from this Administration only embolden our adversaries.
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Is Wagner marching on Moscow again, or starting with St. Petersburg this time? Hard to tell. From our side it looks like they’ve already annexed the Russian border guards. Who knows… @mfa_russia?
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Entirely predictable and predicted.
I just spoke to President Trump, and we agree — the relationship between the United States and China has never been better. Following President Trump’s historic meeting with Chairman Xi in South Korea, I had an equally positive meeting with my counterpart, China’s Minister of
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Russia’s ever present information operations.
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Intelligence notes seen by POLITICO point to organized nature of stunt targeting Holocaust memorial.
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Inside the Senate GOP lunch with Vice President Vance Vance was bombarded with questions about the Argentinian beef issue, per multiple attendees. GOP senators told him it was an “insult” to farmers/ranchers Vance at one point joked, “does anyone have questions NOT about beef?”
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BREAKING: Flights to and from Vilnius Airport are suspended again after radar detected unknown airborne objects, likely smuggling or weather balloons from Belarus. It’s the third shutdown this week, disrupting over 10,000 passengers and 70 flights across Lithuania.
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“You don’t need to learn to code to ship an app.” — Riley Brown AI can turn ideas into working apps, straight from your phone. I sat with Riley Brown, Co-founder of Vibe Code, and we built a voice-notes app live on iPhone Here’s what we did: Generated the UI with prompts
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India's largest oil and gas company, Reliance Industries, confirmed its refusal to purchase russian oil. The Indian company has issued an official statement announcing its compliance with the new EU, UK, and US restrictions on importing russian oil. We have taken into account
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If that’s the case, then they won’t be meeting anytime soon.
NEW!! Trump was just asked how Putin can get meeting rescheduled, "I'm going to have to know we're going to have a deal." “Not going to waste my time,” he added
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NEW!! Trump was just asked how Putin can get meeting rescheduled, "I'm going to have to know we're going to have a deal." “Not going to waste my time,” he added
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A lying world shattered into pieces—just as in 1956, so too yesterday. For 170 more days, the increasingly embarrassing lies and absurdities of propaganda can be repeated, but yesterday, Hungarians not only saw but showed themselves that we are the majority, that we want peace
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Hydrate. Hustle. GO! CELSIUS HYDRATION - The ultimate hydration for every move. CELSIUS. LIVE. FIT. GO!
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❗️U.S. @SenateForeign advanced three key bills to the floor: 1️⃣ Designate Russia a state sponsor of terrorism 2️⃣ REPO Implementation Act - use frozen Russian assets for Ukraine 3️⃣ STOP China & Russia Act - sanction Chinese companies for providing Moscow with dual-use items.
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Both inspiring individuals and well deserving honorees. May Belarus and Georgia one day be free.
The 2025 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought goes to Belarus’ Andrzej Poczobut and Georgia’s Mzia Amaglobeli. The courage of these journalists in speaking out against injustice, even behind bars, stands as a powerful symbol of freedom and democracy.
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Long overdue and very welcome news. Kudos to Secretary Bessent.
home.treasury.gov
WASHINGTON — Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is imposing further sanctions as a result of Russia’s lack of serious commitment to a peace process...
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The new iron rule of geopolitics: when countries turn authoritarian domestically, they align with authoritarians geopolitically. (The reverse is also true).
Georgia now refines Russian oil. Another proof that the Russian takeover of Georgia must be addressed simultaneously with assisting Ukraine, not after. It’s too urgent to wait — and it’s not even costly to pressure the Georgian Dream. @vonderleyen @MartaKosEU @kajakallas
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This is not US taxpayer money. It’s money owed to the Ukrainian victims of countless war crimes.
The US has refused to support the "Big Seven" plan to transfer €140 billion in frozen russian assets to Ukraine, — Bloomberg Trump is no longer hiding his betrayal of Ukraine, and thus Europe.
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😤 Zelensky: It was Witkoff who pushed the idea of giving Donbas to Putin The President of Ukraine revealed that it was U.S. Special Envoy Witkoff who brought up the idea of Ukraine giving up Donbas during their meeting in Washington. Zelensky responded firmly, saying that
Trump defends himself: Donbas was never offered to Russia Donald Trump said that during his talks with Volodymyr Zelensky, the idea of handing over Donbas to Russia was “never discussed.” According to him, the talks were only about freezing hostilities along the current front
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Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. Dutch intelligence is smart
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THIS IS THE MOST UNDERVALUED COMPANY ON NASDAQ, according to Warren Buffett’s analysis of price vs. value. Buffett always said, “Price is what you pay, value is what you get.” Right now, NextNRG Inc. ($NXXT) is a textbook example of that logic. Facts: how the hell a company
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