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Section Editor @AtlanticCouncil | “I'm an optimist who worries a lot.” - Madeleine Albright

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John Richard Cookson
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“Members of Congress, in their sixth month of debating whether to approve aid to Ukraine, are at this moment rightly being reminded of the urgency with which Russia must be stopped,” writes ⁦ @DougKlain ⁩.
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John Richard Cookson
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As Biden starts retaliation for the killing of US troops, read this by ⁦ @AtlanticCouncil ⁩’s Kirsten Fontenrose, former senior director for the Gulf on the National Security Council:
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John Richard Cookson
8 months
Go see the @heurichhouse just off of Dupont Circle.
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John Richard Cookson
8 months
Having never played before, I joined an adult hockey league in January. It’s probably the best thing ever. 🏒👽
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John Richard Cookson
10 months
Read this:
@alexplitsas
Alex Plitsas 🇺🇸
10 months
The story of our mission ‘Inside the daring plot to rescue an American soldier’s mother from Gaza: The operation, executed deep within the war-ravaged enclave, required days of negotiation between the U.S. and Israel — & volunteers willing to risk it all’
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John Richard Cookson
9 months
ATTN: Journalists If you need info about this ICJ order tomorrow, talk to @SLPJustice ’s @lisandranovo . And read more here: ➡️
@CIJ_ICJ
CIJ_ICJ
9 months
PRESS RELEASE: the #ICJ will deliver its Order on the request for the indication of provisional measures submitted by South Africa in the case #SouthAfrica v. #Israel this Friday, 26 January 2024, at 1 p.m. (The Hague). Watch live on @UNWebTV
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John Richard Cookson
8 months
Stopped by @PoliticsProse to pick up @JacobHeilbrunn ’s latest opus. Get your own copy here:
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John Richard Cookson
8 months
Looking forward to reading @alexbward ’s new book. Picking up a copy at @kramerbooks now. Get yours here:
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John Richard Cookson
9 months
Russia is being cosmo-naughty.
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John Richard Cookson
9 months
@JapanEmbDC
Japan Embassy DC🌸
9 months
🇯🇵 Statement from the Embassy of Japan on Taylor Swift’s Reported Travel from Japan to the United States ✈️🏈 Are you ready for it?
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“Helping Ukraine is not only a good deed. It’s also a good deal.”
@AtlanticCouncil
Atlantic Council
8 months
“American investment in Ukraine’s capacity to defend itself is a literal proof that by helping others, you help yourself,” says Minister of Foreign Affairs of 🇵🇱 Poland @sikorskiradek at the Atlantic Council. “Helping Ukraine is not only a good deed. It’s also a good deal.”
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John Richard Cookson
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“which the Atlantic Council’s John Cookson suggested could be a ‘Sputnuke’ moment.” 😳
@AtlanticCouncil
Atlantic Council
8 months
The lesson of Munich is that the cost of countering a despot will only grow the longer democracies wait to do so, writes @FredKempe in #InflectionPoints . Read more in his dispatch from Munich. ⬇️
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John Richard Cookson
8 months
🇺🇦🇺🇸
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John Richard Cookson
9 months
A good hire by @BrookingsFP . ⛄️
@BrookingsFP
Brookings Foreign Policy
9 months
We are pleased to announce the hiring of Frosty Snow who will be leading our newly established Center on Arctic Relations. Dr. Snow’s primary research interests include pan-Polar tensions and improving intra penguin relations.
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John Richard Cookson
9 months
@Kate_OKeeffe Here's an opportunity in the think tank space:
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John Richard Cookson
10 months
Welcome, @elisabethbraw !
@ACScowcroft
Scowcroft Center
10 months
The @ACScowcroft ’s Transatlantic Security Initiative is thrilled to welcome our newest senior fellow: @elisabethbraw ! Braw joins us as a senior associate fellow with @theELN and a columnist with @foreignpolicy and @politicoeurope .
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John Richard Cookson
10 months
We published a lot at the @AtlanticCouncil this week. In no particular order, here is some of that work. Read @ACLatAm ’s @IsabelMariaCM on the violence in Ecuador and the Noboa administration’s declaration of ‘internal armed conflict’ against gangs.
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John Richard Cookson
10 months
A US soldier’s mother was stuck in northern Gaza. @alexplitsas and his team helped get her out. Read this first-hand account of the daring rescue:
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John Richard Cookson
9 months
Nice.
@UKinUSA
British Embassy Washington
9 months
Happy Valentine's Day! 🇬🇧❤️🇺🇸
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John Richard Cookson
9 months
What are the best movies about space-based nuclear weapons? Goldeneye (1995)
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John Richard Cookson
9 months
It looks nothing like him.
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John Richard Cookson
9 months
This is a very dumb joke. Don’t laugh at it.
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John Richard Cookson
8 months
Bond . . . James Bond. @IntlSpyMuseum
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John Richard Cookson
9 months
As we wait for results from Indonesia’s election, a source tells me that the country is at a crossroads. 🇮🇩
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John Richard Cookson
10 months
New reports that the US is going to redesignate the Houthi rebels as a specially designated terrorist group. @AtlanticCouncil ’s R. Clarke Cooper made that case in December. ➡️
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John Richard Cookson
10 months
This was last week, but I still want to highlight this by @sarahbauerle : Japan’s Nippon Steel wants to buy US Steel. 🇯🇵🇺🇸 If DC won’t allow this transaction—involving a buyer from a G7 country—then what foreign buyer would it see as a permissible owner?
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John Richard Cookson
8 months
Read this, and not just because they let me use “Swe-done” in the title. 🇸🇪 It’s Swe-done: What’s next for NATO now that Hungary has approved Sweden’s bid to join
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John Richard Cookson
10 months
Snow!
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John Richard Cookson
10 months
Seven @AtlanticCouncil experts share their insights on the US and UK strikes in Yemen against the Houthis. The descriptions of how Iran might respond and how Saudi Arabia likely views the strikes I found most interesting.
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John Richard Cookson
9 months
Do yourself a favor and read this by Kirsten Fontenrose, former senior director for the Gulf on the National Security Council: The hard truth about Biden’s coming retaliation for the killing of US troops
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