Laura Rozen ✓

@lrozen · Washington, D.C. · joined 15 Jun 2009

Reporting on foreign policy. Current: Diplomatic Substack, Just Security ed bd. Al-Monitor Politico Foreign Policy alum. lkrozen threads, lkrozen.bsky, at gmail

184 568Followers

11 890Following

619 746Posts total

571.1KViews on collected posts

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Laura Rozen ✓@lrozen9 Sep

🧵 5.6K views · 38 likes · 15 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →

Laura Rozen ✓@lrozen9 Sep

NEW: Trump gave Natalie Harp, Chamberlain Harris and Margo Martin $45,000 each in cash for the holidays, their financial disclosures show. This is on top of their $150,00 tax-payer funded salaries. @politico story up shortly. https://t.co/2OtrvqfTnr

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Laura Rozen ✓@lrozen6 Sep

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Laura Rozen ✓@lrozen6 Sep

Latest on Ukraine talks: People familiar with the talks in Kyiv tell @FT Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner brought updated versions of earlier documents, revised to reflect the changed circumstances since peace negotiations stalled in February, at the outset of the US war with 133.7K views · 530 likes · 180 reposts · 33 replies Open on X →

Laura Rozen ✓@lrozen6 Sep

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Laura Rozen ✓@lrozen6 Sep

More of the same: Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov says Putin told Witkoff and Kushner that Russia is confident it can achieve its war aims and insisted any settlement address what Moscow calls the conflict’s “root causes.” The talks lasted 3 hrs, 10 min. https://t.co/yhDV0oYwhR 13.2K views · 20 likes · 8 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Laura Rozen ✓@lrozen5 Sep

“A major theme of Bergen’s book is the repeated failure of American leaders to plan for ‘the day after’ a military action is taken, but in Iran, he makes clear, Trump didn’t even plan for ‘the day of.’ As a result, it is now all but certain that the United States is headed for 14.4K views · 131 likes · 51 reposts · 5 replies Open on X →

Laura Rozen ✓@lrozen5 Sep

"the reader is likely to conclude that the groups of American officials who have presided over the past two and a half decades of conflict in the Middle East consist of idiots, fools or knaves." https://t.co/wSpbsYU62w 18.7K views · 55 likes · 17 reposts · 5 replies Open on X →

Laura Rozen ✓@lrozen14 Apr

@lrozen I can assure you that if you walk the streets of Iran, you won’t find even 10 people who consider uranium enrichment part of a “national scientific identity.” The regime didn’t pursue enrichment because people wanted it, it did so to preserve a pathway to a nuclear weapon 432 views · 2 likes · 1 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Laura Rozen ✓@lrozen13 Apr

@lrozen empathy for your interlocutors' position and constraints can also be a handicap if not properly calibrated 604 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Laura Rozen ✓@lrozen13 Apr

@lrozen Well Witkoff, Kushner, Vance have no diplomatic experience between them … Imho Vance is being thrown under the bus by Trump, so he has someone to blame!!! 474 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Laura Rozen ✓@lrozen13 Apr

“The delegations who conducted these [JCPOA] talks also understood Iranian politics. For example, they knew that enrichment had become a matter of national scientific identity in the country—not merely a technical program—and that any agreement demanding its total elimination 82.2K views · 145 likes · 41 reposts · 6 replies Open on X →

Laura Rozen ✓@lrozen8 May 2018

Plan B? https://t.co/mmrmbzOHNR

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8 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views13 799this account4 635median for 100K–1M

Reach, %7.48%this account1.76%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %0.54%this account1.35%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	13 799	4 635	2.98×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	7.48%	1.76%	4.25×
Engagement rate	0.54%	1.35%	0.40×

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82.2K13 Apr

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43214 Apr

18.7K5 Sep

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13.2K6 Sep

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Engagement rate per post

0.24%13 Apr

0.21%

0.17%

1.16%14 Apr

0.42%5 Sep

1.31%

0.23%6 Sep

0.69%

0.58%

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0.50%9 Sep

1.02%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.35%.

What the audience does

Likes62.7%1 819 in total

Reposts20.0%580 in total

Replies12.5%362 in total

Quotes2.6%75 in total

Bookmarks2.2%65 in total

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7 Sep

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