@AlanCullison

Staff Writer for The Wall Street Journal, covering national security from Washington, DC. email: [email protected]

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Joined April 2010
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Seva@SevaUT15 Nov 2025
the thing about predicting russia's collapse is eventually you'll be right you just have to wait anywhere from a few weeks to seventy years
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Riddle Russia — Political Analogies and Wartime Russia ridl.io/political-analogies-…

Political Analogies and Wartime Russia – Riddle Russia

Julian G. Waller examines the use and misuse of interwar analogies to better understand wartime Russia

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A Russian deal-maker who has made furtive advances to Trump in the past reappears at Ukraine peace talks in Riyadh. wsj.com/world/russia/meet-pu…

Meet Putin’s U.S.-Educated Dealmaker in Talks With Trump Administration

The former banker—with stints at McKinsey & Co. and Goldman Sachs—has long cultivated a quiet role as a Kremlin emissary to President Trump’s team.

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This is how we arrive at secret police and gulags and killing fields.
Mike Figueredo@HumanistReport5 Dec 2024
Fuck his family too.
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Ben Rhodes
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Be wary of the credulous takes about a new Middle East being forged through war.
Robert Mackey@RobertMackey2 Oct 2024
Here is Netanyahu *22 years ago* arguing that a US invasion of Iraq "will have, I guarantee you, enormous positive reverberations on the region."
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The death of Alexei Navalny crowns a long-running campaign against Kremlin critics so that Russians see no alternative to Putin wsj.com/world/russia/navalny… via @WSJ

Navalny’s Death Crowns a Long-Running Campaign Against Kremlin Critics

The Kremlin has killed or exiled a long list of opponents so that Russians see no alternative to Putin.

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Vladimir Putin is dead, and Tucker Carlson interviewed his body double. How conspiracy theories work these days: wsj.com/world/russia/putin-d… via @WSJ

Reports of Putin’s Death Were Greatly Exaggerated. But That Doesn’t Stop This Rumormonger.

Tucker Carlson interviewed a doppelgänger, claims Valery Solovei, who has attracted a huge following by speculating that the Kremlin leader’s real body is in a freezer.

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We are clear in the piece that there is no justification for Hamas's heinous rampage on 10/7. But our analysis suggests Biden was wrong to question the MoH figures, which are credible and provide crucial insight into the deeply troubling consequences of Israel's response. /Fin
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The threat to the personal safety of Jews in the west of Europe, a recipient of mass migration, is starkly different to that in the east: Jews in the latter live safely while in parts of the west they are advised by authorities to conceal their identity wsj.com/world/europe/israel-…

Wave of Antisemitism Has European Jews Wondering if They Will Ever Be Safe

European Jews have taken a double blow: The shock from Hamas’s attack on Israel and a rise in antisemitic incidents since.

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Will Mauldin@willmauldin23 Aug 2023
Prigozhin’s background helped him rise in Putin’s Russia. His downfall was swift. Obituary with @AlanCullison: wsj.com/articles/yevgeny-pri… – at Fairland, MD

Wagner Chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, Who Clashed With Russian Military, Dies

After leading paramilitary units in Africa, Syria and Ukraine, he led an uprising that sparked mutiny charges.

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Will Mauldin@willmauldin30 Jul 2023
As melting ice opens up the Arctic, U.S. military officers want more assets to counter Russia and its partnership with China. Story w/ @AlanCullison and photos by @AngelaXOwens wsj.com/articles/americas-mi…

America’s Military Trails Russia and China in Race for the Melting Arctic

The U.S. is competing with a partnership between the two countries but has fewer icebreakers and ports, and less experience. This article is part of a series examining the problems confronting...

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Recriminations and finger-pointing could create a power vacuum in the Kremlin following the Wagner paramilitary group’s revolt, Russia experts say wsj.com/articles/after-wagne… via @WSJ

After Wagner Revolt, Questions of Blame in Vladimir Putin’s Inner Circle

Long-simmering resentment about the war, along with finger-pointing and recriminations inside the Kremlin, could open a power vacuum that disgruntled advisers could exploit.

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Max Abrahms
@MaxAbrahms24 Jun 2023
The coup was an elaborate plot to evoke the worst punditry.
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American Communists from the 1930s might have a word of advice
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Russia May Build a Village for American Conservatives newsweek.com/russia-may-buil…

Russia may build a village for American conservatives

A Kremlin-backed outlet reported on plans for a community designed for Western ex-pats looking to escape "radical values."

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Nathan Ruser
@Nrg80004 May 2023
OK, ISW is becoming a major problem in the media ecosystem. This assessment is just a hunch from their mapping team (one that I disagree with), and yet their role in providing maps will see this (bad) opinion laundered as fact by many journalists who print what they say verbatim.
Institute for the Study of War
@TheStudyofWar3 May 2023
NEW: #Russia accused #Ukraine of conducting a drone strike against the #Kremlin on May 3. Russia likely staged this attack in an attempt to bring the war home to a Russian domestic audience & set conditions for a wider societal mobilization.🧵1/7 Latest: isw.pub/UkrWar050323
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Adam Kelsey@adamkelsey24 Aug 2022
Fun fact: You can be refunded any federal student loan payments you've made since the March 2020 pause.
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First 3 images: what @TheAtlantic said when Trump announced that the US/Saudi partnership must continue despite the murder of Jamal Khashoggi Last image: what @TheAtlantic said when Biden announced that the US/Saudi partnership must continue despite the murder of Jamal Khashoggi
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Bari Weiss
@bariweiss19 May 2022
Just amazing reporting here by @SnoozyWeiss. One of the most important stories we have published. bariweiss.substack.com/p/he-…
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