Tag Michael McFaul

Michael McFaul’s easy, broken parallel

Michael McFaul, the former US ambassador to Russia, has a blog on the site of Ekho Moskvy, the independent radio station based in Moscow. Commenting on the appointment of Steve Bannon to the National Security Council, he wrote: It’s the equivalent…

Impossible – believable – but so what?

Smart and sophisticated? Paranoid and deluded? Incompetent and occasionally dumb? Looking at Team Kremlin, I can never be sure. I suppose that’s one of their strong sides: you can lose your mind trying to pin them down. Now on to…

The Post vs. The Times

It’s unusual to read an article “bullish“ on Russia in a conservative US newspaper. No, I don’t think Putin is to Khodorkovsky what Theodore Roosevelt was to J.P. Morgan. Too much wishful thinking in this picture. Still, John B. Roberts…