Eric Terzuolo
@terzuolo
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Diplomat, educator, researcher. Interests include US-European relations, international security policy, and the future of higher education in the US and Europe
Washington, DC
Joined October 2009
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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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An important example of our current lack of strategic thinking. US leadership in the postwar period benefited greatly from our ability to attract the best brains and provide optimal working conditions. The great poaching: America's brain drain begins
axios.com
China and Europe are recruiting heavily from U.S. labs.
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Trump Administration looking both ridiculous and reckless to our allies. See this French take on the executive order re. showers. https://t.co/bW8SFkbKVo.
@ericneri06 @Nice_Matin
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Precisely!
Wars are not caused by the build up of weapons. They are caused when an aggressor believes he can achieve his objectives at an acceptable price. The war of 1939 was not caused by an arms race. It sprang from a tyrant's belief that other countries lacked the means and the will to
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An excellent piece. From the elephant in the room to the rhinoceroses in Congress https://t.co/4JgBD32kqJ via @NCRonline
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Dan Horan proposes that it's time for Republicans to ditch the elephant and adopt the rhinoceros as mascot.
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Domani (venerdì) pomeriggio alle 17 con @VadymVietrov @sharonnizza @ElisaGarfagna @terzuolo
@NewseCommenti. https://t.co/iFbZsrB7Sw
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An excellent statement from the McCain Institute, full or moral but also political clarity.
A statement by McCain Institute Executive Director @EvelynNFarkas on the 3rd anniversary of Russia’s War in Ukraine: “We can choose to tell the truth about the war & stand up for our American values... or we can turn a blind eye to injustice.” Read here:
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NEW: Ukraine Fact Sheet - February 21, 2025 Link to PDF w/ full details and references⬇️
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I'm glad the Biden Administration told the Italians that releasing Iranian high-tech trafficker Abedini was not okay. Releasing people complicit in killing Americans does not really win friends in Washington
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President-elect already calling the foreign policy shots, seemingly blessing Italian "release" of Iran high-tech trafficker arrested at US request. Not your usual presidential transition
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Raises once more the issue of what responsibility political figures, and parents generally, have for the actions of their adult children. U.S. Senator’s Son Gets 28 Years for Car Chase That Killed Sheriff’s Deputy
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Ian Cramer, the 43-year-old son of Senator Kevin Cramer, Republican of North Dakota, led the police on a highway pursuit that killed a sheriff’s deputy.
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The metaphor of the fox -- who knows many things -- and the hedgehog -- who knows one big thing -- may help explain the November 5 election outcome. Republican hedgehogs 1, Democratic foxes 0. https://t.co/6ZMI5XMyND
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Great piece on Lebanon by veteran journalist and Middle East hand Charles Glass in December 19 New York Review of Books. Having served in Beirut in 1983-84, I appreciate how Glass stresses the agency of the Lebanese themselves. Continuities are striking. https://t.co/Yo3RCng6lN
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I am the master of my fate. I am the captain of my soul. We should take to heart these words of the Victorian poet William Ernest Henley as we face a crucial test in coming days.
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🇮🇱 New White House doubts on Gaza deal https://t.co/9HmNOmHjFQ
#axiosam Some White House realism about Hamas? Overdue, I’d say.
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Encrypted app used in campus protest planning deployed for DNC demonstrations - POLITICO
politico.com
Telegram has been a tool for organizing. One widely-followed channel also shares pro-Hamas content.
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There was a voter purge in Georgia. Apparently over 150,000 people. I don’t normally ask for retweets, but please make sure you check your voter registration, not just in GA, but every state! This is the way they will try and cheat. Your vote matters, make sure it counts.
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Guess I’m just not up to date. Didn’t realize that “dolphin porn” was a thing. But the Republican vice presidential candidate seemingly is much more on top of the issue than I. What planet am I on?
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