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Julia Ioffe

One of America’s foremost voices on Russia-U.S. relations, covering national security, foreign relations, and domestic politics from Washington and Europe.

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Ambassador Dennis Ross was Bill Clinton’s Middle East envoy, and the chief U.S. negotiator in the 2000 Camp David Summit.
Julia Ioffe • October 25, 2023
Memories of the Two-State Solution
A conversation with Dennis Ross, the chief U.S. negotiator in the 2000 peace talks, about why they fell apart, how Israelis came to believe that the Palestinian problem could be managed, and how Oct. 7 exploded that fiction.
In response to would-be speaker Jim Jordan’s reported openness to linking Ukraine and Israel aid, Matt Gaetz jumped in to say the two should be considered separately.
Julia Ioffe • October 18, 2023
The Israel-Ukraine Funding Conundrum
Why is aid to Ukraine and aid to Israel different in the minds of Republicans?
Julia Ioffe • October 11, 2023
Tragedy in Israel
Those who talk about a two-state solution are living in a world that hasn’t existed for a decade. Both sides have hardened to an exclusionary extreme that precludes compromise or coexistence. The events of the last week will ensure that even the embers of those hopes are doused cold.
Robert Fico
Julia Ioffe • October 4, 2023
Ukraine’s Darth Vader & The Pentagon’s Voodoo Economics
On one level, it’s been a terrible week for Ukraine: the House passed a CR that doesn’t include aid and Slovakia, its neighbor, elected a pro-Russian madman. But actually, believe it or not, things aren’t quite as bad as they seem—at least not yet.
Julia Ioffe • September 28, 2023
What Happens if the U.S. Stops Aiding Ukraine?
Determined to answer the unspoken question hanging over the looming government shutdown, I reached out to my best sources in Washington and Moscow to conduct an explosive thought experiment.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 19: President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky addresses world leaders during the United Nations (UN) General Assembly on September 19, 2023 in New York City. Dignitaries and their delegations from across the globe have descended on New York for the annual event. This year marks the 78th session of the General Debate at the UN Headquarters and will focus on the crisis of global warming. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
Julia Ioffe • September 20, 2023
Mr. Zelensky Goes to Washington
The Ukrainian leader returns to pitch Congress just as the political mood turns chilly, and a near-universal supposition takes hold that voters are “getting tired” of aiding his defense. Supporters and allies say they need a plan to change the narrative… But maybe this isn’t it.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken rarely veers off script in public, or with the press, and sticks religiously to his office’s talking points.
Julia Ioffe • September 12, 2023
Just Spoke to Blinken…
A candid conversation with the Secretary of State about the war in Ukraine, the U.S.’s commitment, oligarch asset seizure, the G20, China, and more.
President Ali Bongo Ondimba of Gabon was locked in his palace last week after his cousin, General Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema, announced that his soldiers had taken over the oil rich country.
Julia Ioffe • September 7, 2023
The “Coup Belt” & A New Cold War
As the U.S., China, Russia, and the Gulf states compete for power across the continent, Africa’s fragile semi-democracies have grown more and more cynical about the real value of democracy.
Though Prigozhin had been a Hero of Russia, the country’s highest military honor, there was no honor guard, no military salute. State television largely skipped over his burial.
Julia Ioffe • August 30, 2023
Wagner After Prigozhin & The Next Putsch Attempt
Life in Moscow after the falling plane: the anxieties of the elite, oligarch objectives, the future of Wagner, and the Russian rump state in Africa.
Prigozhin was an insider, somebody who existed entirely within the system of power that Putin built.
Julia Ioffe • August 23, 2023
Prigozhin’s Treason & The Price of Betrayal
Putin’s inner circle has always abided by an unwritten code—“ponyatie,” or understandings—about the rewards of loyalty and the fate of traitors. Prigozhin, lured into thinking that he might be special, was never an exception.
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