🇺🇸 🤖 How will AI impact the 2024 US elections?
In a new
@DFRLab
#BigStory
, experts share their insights on AI-borne election threats and what policymakers must do to mitigate risks.
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🧵 🇵🇰 Independent candidates aligned with Pakistan’s
@PTIofficial
party won a plurality of national assembly seats in elections on Thursday.
What does this mean for the next Pakistani government?
Atlantic Council experts share their insights:
“Give the Ukrainians the tools to finish the job,” says
@BorisJohnson
at the
@AtlanticCouncil
. 🇺🇦🇬🇧
“The faster they win, the greater the savings in treasure and in lives.”
Watch more: ➡️
“I am told they need planes,” says
@BorisJohnson
about Ukraine. 🇺🇦✈️
“I don't think it would take the Ukrainians very long to work out how to use F-16s or Typhoons or whatever we have to give them,” he adds.
Watch more: ➡️
Finland has officially joined
@NATO
.
The Alliance now has 31 members:
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#StrongerWithAllies
Can Ukraine regain control of Crimea?
“The answer is absolutely yes,” says
@GeneralClark
.
Does it have what it needs to do that?
“Not yet.”
Watch more from today’s
@ACEurasia
event about
#Crimea
: 🇺🇦➡️
History teaches that if Putin could get Ukraine, it won’t end there, says
@MinPres
Mark Rutte.
“I'm not going to say there are analogies between him and Hitler... But there is one analogy, and that is with Munich ‘38.”
“For me, that analogy is absolutely there.”
#ACFrontPage
“We need to support Ukraine up to the end. That’s a fact,” Admiral Giuseppe Cavo Dragone, Italy’s chief of defense, said at the
@AtlanticCouncil
today.
Watch more: 🇮🇹🇺🇦➡️
Ukraine wants German-made Leopard 2 tanks.
The Netherlands has German-made Leopard 2 tanks.
Watch Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte (
@MinPres
) respond to
@ak_mack
’s question about his government sending tanks to Ukraine.
🇳🇱➡️
#ACFrontPage
@georgetownsfs
“It is not enough to say that Ukraine must win—Russia also has to lose,” says Prime Minister of Estonia
@kajakallas
at the
@AtlanticCouncil
.
“This means being military defeated in Ukraine.”
Watch more: ➡️
#EUDFF23
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“The Russians are actively seeking to divide our Alliance, and we must not allow that to happen.”
@ODNIgov
Coats, speaking in France
#toquevilleconversations
"Wouldn’t it be fitting if Kosovo could take its place within that peaceful union, thrive economically alongside our neighbors, and heal the hurt of conflict? With that vision in mind, I accept this award with gratitude for all the young people of Kosovo." -
@DUALIPA
#ACawards
❝Russia has attacked not just us, not just our land, not just our cities, it went on a brutal offensive against our values, against our right to live freely in our own country, against our national dreams. Just like the same dreams you Americans have.❞ –
@ZelenskyyUa
“Your money is not charity,” says President
@ZelenskyyUa
to Congress about financial assistance to Ukraine.
“It’s an investment in the global security and democracy that we handle in the most responsible way,” he adds.
🇺🇦➡️
“We are staring at a humanitarian catastrophe of barely imaginable proportions,” writes Daniel Bilak.
“Putin’s bombing campaign has plunged the country into darkness and left tens of millions of Ukrainians without heat, electricity, and water.”
“Belarus more and more is a vassal state of Russia. It’s very difficult to look at them as a separate state,” says Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte (
@MinPres
).
“They are very much under Russian control.”
Watch today’s
#ACFrontPage
with
@georgetownsfs
: ➡️
THREAD – In 1969, we at the Atlantic Council ran an ad campaign promoting
@NATO
's role in "Waging peace". Here's a scan of one from a magazine.
"Wage peace"—it's a great idea, but what does that actually look like in practice? 1/18
🇺🇦
@AndriyYermak
, head of Ukraine’s Office of the President, writes:
“The democratic world cannot afford to lose this war. If Russian dictator Vladimir Putin succeeds in Ukraine, he will inevitably wage further wars of aggression.”
Read more: ⤵️
“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.”
Wow—did you catch this inspiring thought for young people from
@CanadianPM
Justin Trudeau at
#NATOEngages
in London?
"You're not leaders of tomorrow, you're leaders TODAY."
🚨 BREAKING: Turkey’s Grand National Assembly has just voted unanimously to ratify Finland’s accession to
@NATO
.
Once ratification instruments are deposited,
@NATO
will have 31 members:
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➡️
Ukraine’s invasion of Russia has erased the last of Vladimir Putin’s red lines and made a complete mockery of the West’s frequently voiced escalation fears, writes Peter Dickinson (
@Biz_Ukraine_Mag
) in
#UkraineAlert
.
Read more. ⬇️
“We need to equip 🇺🇦 Ukraine with the tools to win, not just enough to avoid losing,” says
@LeaderMcConnell
at an
@ACEurasia
event about the authoritarian challenge posed by Russia and its allies to
@NATO
and the US.
Watch more: ➡️
A visit to Kyiv?
Having just returned from a two-week trip to the Ukrainian capital, I can recommend wartime Kyiv as an unforgettable destination for anyone who has an interest in history and is prepared to leave their comfort zone, writes
@UmlandAndreas
.
"I come from a place most of you will have heard of but perhaps not in the way I am about to describe. I want to share with you a bit about my Kosovo."
@DUALIPA
accepts the Distinguished Artistic Leadership Award from the
@AtlanticCouncil
.
#ACawards
#Kosovo
#DuaLipa
Madame Lagarde is among a rare class of leaders who embody the best paradox of humanity: she is relatable, yet cerebral. She has a heart big enough to serve the world—and the intellect to make it better,
@IvankaTrump
says as she calls on Christine
@Lagarde
to stage. 6/
#ACawards
“Together, we are much stronger than the enemy,” says Minister of Foreign Affairs of 🇵🇱 Poland
@sikorskiradek
at the Atlantic Council.
“We have the drones, we can have the ammo, we have the money too. All that is needed to win is our will to act.”
"Lukashenka is directly responsible for the deaths of thousands of innocent Ukrainian civilians. Like Putin and others in the Russian chain of command, he should be held accountable," writes
@PowerVertical
.
"We have decided that a cyber attack can trigger Article 5...It doesn't matter if an attack is kinetic or cyber, we will assess as allies when it meets the threshold...and it sends a message that we are cyber allies."
@jensstoltenberg
at
#ACFrontPage
#NATO2030
🇨🇿
@prezidentpavel
: “We want Russia to fail in Ukraine.”
Otherwise, Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea would be encouraged in their understanding that Western democracies are not as strong as they used to be, he tells
@FredKempe
at an
#ACFrontPage
conversation.
“We know what great, great things we’ve managed to achieve together when Pakistan and the United States have worked together.”
Watch Foreign Minister
@BBhuttoZardari
share his insights on US-Pakistan relations and more at the
@AtlanticCouncil
.
🇺🇸-🇵🇰➡️
#ACFrontPage
EVENT- THURSDAY, 9:00 am EDT / 15:00 hrs CEST
The conversation between President Vučić,
@Maja_Piscevic
, and
@DamonMacWilson
will include post-pandemic recovery, domestic political developments, and foreign policy.
REGISTER HERE ⬇️
A new international report has identified evidence that Russia’s campaign of genocide in Ukraine is escalating, writes
@Kristina__Hook
in
#UkraineAlert
.
Read more. ⬇️
A Russian court in Rostov has accidentally issued a guilty verdict on Putin’s Ukraine war by publishing official documents confirming the presence of Russian military units in Kremlin-occupied eastern Ukraine.
🇵🇱
@sikorskiradek
: Putin “seeks to oppress an entire country with a pre-war population exceeding 40 million people and the territory the size of Utah, Nebraska, and Missouri combined.”
“Unless he is stopped, he will continue his march of cruelty.”
➡️
What should happen to Vladimir Putin?
“We should not be talking about regime change in Moscow. We should not be interested in that,” says
@BorisJohnson
at the
@AtlanticCouncil
.
Watch more: ➡️
🇺🇦
@AndriyYermak
: “Now we are approaching the point of no return.”
“If Ukraine stands, Europe stands,” he adds.
“If Ukraine falls, the Kremlin will choose its next victim.”
Should Ukraine join
@NATO
?
“I believe that once this war is done and once the Ukrainians have won, then, yes, they should begin the process of induction both to NATO and, of course, to the EU,” says
@BorisJohnson
at the
@AtlanticCouncil
.
Watch more: 🇺🇦➡️
"For me, having this dual identity has actually been really positive. I’m always flattered when people comment on what they call my ‘immigrant work ethic’. It’s true, and it’s a gift that has been passed down the generations." -
@DUALIPA
#ACawards
“I address this award to all our sweet children who have been killed by Russian terrorists.”
Ukrainian President
@ZelenskyyUa
accepts the
@AtlanticCouncil
’s 2023 Global Citizen Award.
Sign up to watch the exclusive 9/28 broadcast. ➡️
#ACAwards
“The first step to defeating Russia is to immediately supply Ukraine with the ammo they urgently need,” says 🇵🇱
@sikorskiradek
at the Atlantic Council.
“Many Americans are asking—at what price? Well, actually, quite low.”
Watch more: ➡️
While global policymakers race to contain the new coronavirus strain, the outbreak has already disrupted world travel and supply chains. The crisis is challenging the strength of the Chinese state and could imperil economic growth throughout the world.
🇸🇻The youngest president in Latin America, President Nayib Bukele has been an early symbol of hope and optimism for El Salvador.
@ACLatAm
explores his main challenges.
Russian leaders talk about racism in the United States, and the irony is that they have done the same exact things to their own people much longer, explains
@terrelljstarr
.
Watch more from Black trailblazers in foreign policy: ➡️
#ACFrontPage
During the financial crisis of 2008, she guided the French economy with a steady hand and fresh thinking,
@IvankaTrump
says. As
@Lagarde
often reminds us, "If it had been Lehman Sisters rather than Lehman Brothers, the world might well look a lot different today." 3/
#ACawards
“Putin isn’t just grabbing territory—he’s trying to literally rewrite Ukrainian identity,” says
@IanBrzezinski
at the
@AtlanticCouncil
.
“We haven’t seen an action like that since World War II, and it is genocidal,” he adds.
Watch more: ➡️
“Putin succeeded in bluffing the world for almost two-and-a-half years, but Ukraine has now called his bluff in the most emphatic manner,” writes Peter Dickinson (
@Biz_Ukraine_Mag
) in
#UkraineAlert
.
Why should Americans care about the freedom of far-off Ukraine?
“Because it’s not a war for Ukrainian territory,” 🇨🇿
@prezidentpavel
tells
@FredKempe
at an
#ACFrontPage
event.
It’s a war for the principles of a rules-based international order.
Our trucks wait at internal borders for 26 million hours annually,”
@avucic
explained, arguing that “we can save up to 7 percent of operational costs if we can cut all of these bureaucratic procedures and everything else.”
#BalkansForward
"7-year-old Varya gave her money saved for a smartphone to buy bulletproof vests."
"Borys Romanchenko passed through the hell of Buchenwald and died at the age of 96 at home, during the shelling of Kharkiv by Russia."
Watch
@ZelenskyyUa
's powerful tribute to Ukraine's people.
A compromise peace that rewards Vladimir Putin with around 20 percent of Ukraine would only embolden Moscow and set the stage for further Russian aggression in Ukraine and beyond, writes
@MBielieskov
in
#UkraineAlert
.
Read more. ⬇️
“Russia wants to redraw the map of Europe,” says Prime Minister of Estonia
@kajakallas
at the
@AtlanticCouncil
.
“In Ukraine, it occupies the area that would span over the state of Virginia or Tennessee,” she explains.
#EUDFF23
🇪🇺 🇺🇸
Watch more: ➡️
🇺🇦 Ukraine now has a Jewish president and a Muslim minister of defense, underlining the diversity of the country’s leadership while exposing the absurdity of Russia’s “Nazi Ukraine” propaganda, writes Peter Dickinson (
@Biz_Ukraine_Mag
) in
#UkraineAlert
.
“Extreme heat has to be viewed as one of the most dangerous results of the changing climate,” said
@HillaryClinton
today at
#COP28
.
Watch her discussion on extreme heat and gender with
@leniomyrivili
and Reema Nanavaty, and learn more from
@ArshtRock
: ➡️
The West has given Ukraine enough to survive, but not enough to win, writes
@andrewmichta
.
In effect, he adds, with each ‘red line’ that Washington, Berlin, and Paris agonize over, they are only deterring themselves.
Putin won't use nuclear weapons, says
@BorisJohnson
at the
@AtlanticCouncil
.
“He would plunge Russia into such a cryogenic freeze of economic isolation as to make the present sanctions regimes seem like a blessing. And it would not even work.”
Watch:➡️
When Ukraine wins, says
@BorisJohnson
at the
@AtlanticCouncil
:
“We will lift the threat of further Russian aggression in Georgia, in Moldova, in the Baltic states, across the whole of eastern Europe.”
Watch more: ➡️
One year after his country fell to the Taliban, leader of the
@NRFafg
,
@AhmadMassoud01
, is not giving up his fight.
There is "no other option" but to fight on against the Taliban, he tells
@AtlanticCouncil
in a new interview.
Watch here:
#Afghanistan
Will Hong Kong remain a global financial center? New laws and revocation of special status put the future of Hong Kong in question. The Atlantic Council’s
@jfrieldlanderdc
and
@joshualipsky
give a quick take on the latest developments.
Do you believe, like we do, that America is better off with friends and allies who help support our common defense? Join our campaign
#StrongerWithAllies
to speak out in favor of a strong NATO alliance at
If Putin is allowed to maintain control over any Ukrainian territory, it will significantly weaken the rules and norms of expanding international peace and prosperity, says
@IanBrzezinski
.
Read the memo to NATO leaders:
Watch more:
Dutch Prime Minister
@MinPres
Mark Rutte is set to become
@NATO
’s next secretary general.
If we accept for one moment that Putin could be successful in Ukraine, it won’t end there, he said at an
#ACFrontPage
event in January 2023.
“More than 20 years ago, I immigrated to the US,” says
@Google
and Alphabet CEO
@sundarpichai
at the 2022 Global Citizen Awards.
“When I arrived, I was met with open-mindedness, tolerance, and acceptance, all of which helped ease my path.”
#ACAwards
➡️
🇨🇿
@prezidentpavel
: “Ukraine has the most experienced military in Europe at this point.”
“Leaving Ukraine in a shadow zone will only create conditions for new conflict,” he tells
@FredKempe
at an
#ACFrontPage
conversation.
We should facilitate its integration into
@NATO
.
❝This is a terror that Europe has not seen for 80 years… Is this a lot to ask for to create a no-fly zone over Ukraine to save people? Is this too much to ask? If this is too much to ask, we offer an alternative. You know what kind of defense systems we need.❞ –
@ZelenskyyUa
If confirmed as Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin inherits a Pentagon that has lost its technological edge. But it isn’t too late to fight back. By David H. McCormick, chairman of our Intl. Adv. Board, & Bridgewater CEO, and
@Cunningham_JMC
“If Western leaders choose not to adequately arm Ukraine, future generations will view their decision as one of the great geopolitical turning points of the twenty-first century,” writes Peter Dickinson (
@Biz_Ukraine_Mag
) in
#UkraineAlert
.
Read more. ⬇️
President and CEO
@FredKempe
welcomes
@SriSri
to the Atlantic Council. “We are here today for a special event—a conversation with a remarkable world leader and a true humanitarian, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar.”
The
@AtlanticCouncil
will honor President
@niinisto
of Finland at the 2022 Global Citizen Awards.
Finland’s historic decision to join NATO serves as a significant contribution to the alliance and to transatlantic unity.
Watch
#ACAwards
on September 19:
“Putin reckoned he could roll over Biden. He miscalculated. He thought he could sweep over Ukraine in a week. He was wrong. He thought the Western alliance would crack up. Wrong again.”
Read more from
@ACEurasia
’s
@JacobHeilbrunn
. ⤵️
The fierce Ukrainian resistance to Russia’s invasion is getting inside the heads of Belarusian military leaders and causing them to question the wisdom of joining Vladimir Putin’s war.
A coalition without Khan’s PTI will lack legitimacy
What is going on right now was entirely predictable. Five years after Khan was given a leg up in the 2018 election, his party has been stonewalled in moves completely lacking the finesse that could sow doubt in the electorate’s
"China's goal is simple: to replace the US as the world's leading super power," says Amy Hess of the
@FBI
, "and they did and will continue to break societal laws and norms to get there. In fact, we have seen an increasing level of [cyber] sophistication."
#ICCE
#ACcyber
4/
Vladimir Putin’s efforts to downplay Ukraine’s invasion of Russia have severely dented his strongman image and made a mockery of the West’s escalation fears, writes Peter Dickinson (
@Biz_Ukraine_Mag
).
Read more. ⬇️
🇵🇱
@sikorskiradek
: “Putin isn’t working alone.”
“Today, many bombs falling on Ukrainian schools, churches, and apartment blocks, come in the form of Iranian drones and hypersonic missiles with microchips smuggled through other countries.”
Watch more:
🇺🇦 “Just 8 percent of surveyed Ukrainians said they would be prepared to accept the ongoing Russian occupation of Crimea in order to end the war,” writes
@Mariia_Zolkina
in
#UkraineAlert
.
Read more: ⤵️
THREAD
US and European politicians, led by Senators
@MarkWarner
and
@MarcoRubio
, came together to call for tough measures to fight foreign interference in our democratic elections.
Read their communiqué in full at
#RussiaFactor
@ACEurasia
1/
“It is not only the battlefield success that will decide the outcome of the war,” says
@kajakallas
at the
@AtlanticCouncil
.
“Ukraine’s victory also depends on our ability to dry up the Kremlin’s income to finance its aggression.”
➡️
#EUDFF23
🇪🇺 🇺🇸
The problem is not “war in Ukraine.”
The problem is “Russian aggression against Ukraine.”
Recognizing this difference is a next essential step, explains Ambassador of Ukraine to the Republic of Indonesia
@VHamianin
.
Tune in live from Bali: ➡️
“Don’t forget the message that Putin’s success would send to China,” says
@BorisJohnson
at the
@AtlanticCouncil
.
“This is a dry run for Xi Jinping.”
Watch more: ➡️
“For us, it’s a cold war. For Ukraine, it’s a hot war. But we’re back in 1989 and going backwards,” says Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs
@GLandsbergis
about the current geopolitical landscape. 🇱🇹
Watch more from the
@NATO
Public Forum: ➡️
🇺🇦 Ukrainian President
@ZelenskyyUa
accepted an Atlantic Council 2023 Global Citizen Award tonight.
Read a transcript of his moving address to the
#GCA2023
gala dinner in New York:
“I couldn’t be more proud to represent a people who possess so much compassion, so much talent, potential and resilience." - President
@VjosaOsmaniPRKS
on the her hopes for
#Kosovo
's future.
#ACawards
Delivering technology into the hands of women improves lives—in Ukraine and all over the world, explains
@DenelleDixon
, chief executive officer and executive director of the Stellar Development Foundation
@stellarorg
.
Watch more: ➡️
There must be accountability for Russia’s war in Ukraine, says 🇳🇱
@MinPres
Mark Rutte at
#ACFrontPage
:
“I am coming from The Hague and The Hague is the international city for peace and justice. I could not accept that we would let this go by unpunished.”