🤝 At today's #URC2025 side event on Ukraine's reconstruction, GMF's newly-announced Marshall Plan Initiative and Agency for restoration signed a Memorandum of Understanding, under which GMF will support the Agency in the areas of transparency, accountability, and civic engagement. The goal:

Solid statement in this issue, which is a big deal. But you’d only know it if you speak diplomatic language. Out of the 1,128 times this account has posted since 2018, they have never said they have “serious concerns” about anything.

Recent attacks in Ukraine against anticorruption activists and governmental bodies culminating in today's vote in its parliament, are a “brazen campaign to undermine the entire ecosystem constructed to root out corruption," GMF's @joshrudes told the New York Times. Read his full

🇺🇦 Europe must call Zelensky’s bluff on new anti-corruption law, writes GMF's @joshrudes, in a new piece for EUobserver. Read now: buff.ly/VQZagJp

Nobody in or out of Ukraine will ever be able to steal democracy and the rule of law from Ukrainians. Heart-warming to see the young generation so eagerly pick up where their fellow Ukrainians left off in 2013-2014. Europe is so lucky to have this civic eastern stronghold. 🇪🇺🇺🇦

Clear opening to potentially resolve the crisis over Ukrainian anti-corruption, with AntAC calling Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський's bill an important step. The draft law looks decent, repealing all the Tuesday affronts to NABU/SAPO independence. Need swift Rada passage in the first hearing.

🇺🇦 "Ukrainian rule of law was tested this week, and although the parliamentary process bears close watching over the next week, Ukraine may well be on track to survive the test," writes GMF's Josh Rudolph. 🔗 gmfus.org/news/ukrainian…

I wrote with German Marshall Fund about how Ukraine's young activists organized nationwide protests for their anti-corruption institutions over the past two weeks. Ukraine's future is already leading🇺🇦🇺🇦

Starmer, Macron, Merz, Meloni, Stubb, von der Leyen, and Rutte were all having normal Saturday afternoons when news broke that Trump took Putin’s side in Alaska. By Monday morning, they were all in Washington. That’s a big deal. The Coalition of the Willing will win WWIII.

🇺🇸 🇺🇦 GMF Experts Josh Rudolph, Kristine Berzina, and David Salvo share their takes on the Trump Zelenskyy meeting. Rudolph: "Putin remains the obstacle to peace." Berzina: "The United States is not signaling a retreat from the European stage." Salvo: "Trump did little to dispel

Eliminating the longstanding requirement that FBI agents have a college degree (more MAGA) and shifting from national security threats and corruption to street crime and urgent orders around DC, immigration, & Epstein. Sounds like the road to Brownshirts.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/us/…

This isn’t about the White House versus the Pentagon per se. It’s about Trump vs. Hegseth. One will never face his MAGA voters again, and wants to win a Nobel Peace Prize. The other is plotting to convince MAGA voters to elect him governor of Tennessee. wsj.com/politics/natio…

Blaming “the radical left,” linking them to “terrorism,” pledging retribution against “those who contributed” and “orgs that fund” them. This is how Erdogan, Putin, Chavez, and other autocrats exploit coups or other threats and violent acts to repress opposition & civil society.

LEFT: At Trump's Fort Bragg speech, soldiers in the audience picked for political affiliation pump fists & chant "USA." RIGHT: Generals & admirals at Quantico today show how it's done, upholding the oath by sitting silently & seriously. Proud & grateful for their leadership. 🫡

My take on today’s Trump-Zelenskyy meeting, which felt like a scene from Waiting for Godot. No decision on Tomahawks, as Putin continues to successfully play Trump to buy time. gmfus.org/news/waiting-t…

👀 The NYTimes reports that the reason why Ukraine didn’t get Tomahawk missiles today is that Trump literally asked Putin for PERMISSION to do so yesterday, and Putin said no. nytimes.com/2025/10/17/us/…

Turns out they aren’t even Venezuelans or nationals of another country that exports drugs like Mexico. This move appears designed to avoid giving US courts a chance to discover whether this spree of extrajudicial killing truly involves drug smuggling. nytimes.com/2025/10/18/us/…

Finally… Fire away, friends. 🚀