Deranged Russia Hawk Michael McFaul Gets Exposed for Sending Spam Messages Boasting about His Lavish Lifestyle

On August 1, 2021, Stanford International Studies professor and former ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul apologized for making a private Twitter message to various users in which he bragged about his wealth and “giant house in paradise.”

In the message he sent out to numerous critics of American foreign policy with regards to Russia, McFaul said “I have a job for life at the best university in the world. I live in a giant house in paradise. I make close to a million dollars a year. I have adoring fans on tv and half million followers on twitter, 99% who also admire me. Im [sp] doing just fine without a damn visa from Russia. And I am not afraid to tweet under my own name. I feel sorry for people like you who aren’t brave enough to do so.”

McFaul is now the director of Stanford’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and insisted that his spam message was a mistake. 

“I apologize,” McFaul tweeted. “It was arrogant and idiotic. A swarm of Russian trolls was accusing me of failure, and I responded in a most unprofessional way. Explanation, not excuse.”

According to Edmund DeMarche of Fox News, journalist Glenn Greenwald picked up on McFaul’s spam message. Greenwald claims that McFaul was responding to an anonymous critic and boasted about “what a lavish and wealthy life he leads and how he has adoring fans around the world.”

According to a Los Angeles Times report in 2018, McFaul claims that he was denied a Russian visa and has been banned from entering the country.

McFaul has been one of the most vocal neocon voices in the foreign policy blob over the last few decades. His particular fetish is saber-rattling against Russia. In the foreign policy space, every hawk has his or her fetish with regards to which country the US should deploy its vast resources to harass. For McFaul, getting into spats with Russia or individuals who question DC’s policies towards Russia in the last three decades is his particular obsession.

McFaul’s time under the Obama administration was instrumental in derailing any form of rapprochement between the US and Russia. Ever since he left his ambassador post in 2014, McFaul has intensified his anti-Russian stances. 

McFaul’s esteemed position in the foreign policy establishment is a sign of decay when it comes to the quality of people that enter that field. Hence, the lack of a serious foreign policy of restraint and realism. In a much saner political environment, people like McFaul would not be occupying serious diplomatic positions that deal with great powers like Russia.