Yaroslav Trofimov ✓
@yarotrof · joined 09 Apr 2009
Chief Foreign-Affairs Correspondent of WSJ. Author of 📚No Country for Love 📚 and 📕Our Enemies Will Vanish📕 and 📘Siege of Mecca 📘Insta @yarotrof
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@yarotrof So, he wants the benefits of NATO membership but not the obligations.
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@yarotrof NATO’s whole purpose is collective defense. If Slovakia isn’t even willing to fulfill its most basic obligations, then kick it out.
Hungary, Slovakia, and the other former Soviet-bloc countries need to be reassessed. It may be time to establish a new military alliance.
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Slovakia’s prime minister Fico says he won’t go to war to defend NATO allies “because of some Article 5.”
Why are Slovak troops deployed to the Baltics then? For fresh air? https://t.co/zrS3V0VA7K
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@yarotrof The Cheese Eating Surrender Monkeys?
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Finland joins France’s forward nuclear deterrence program.
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Let Russians play because sport is outside politics, they say…
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The appropriate response to this, it has been decided, is to welcome Russia back into international sports and culture events.
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🤯 SVITO Padel Club in Kyiv was damaged during Russia’s overnight attack on the Ukrainian capital
The club, founded by 🇺🇦 Elina Svitolina and 🇺🇦 Sergiy Stakhovsky, was hit by the blast wave during the attack overnight on September 8.
“SVITO was damaged by the blast wave as a htt
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Remember the Mecca alliance, the “Middle East NATO,” the agreement signed a month ago under which an attack on one is an attack on all?
Let’s see how eagerly Turkey and Pakistan will rush to help their ally Saudi Arabia fight the Houthis.
Don’t hold your breath.
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Saudi Arabia says operations at several energy facilities in the kingdom’s south were halted after attacks https://t.co/VHKfdcsv4j
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This is heartbreaking and infuriating. A mother and her child spent the night hiding from russian missiles and drones. In the morning, they walk out of the shelter and this is what the child sees.
And somehow, after years of this, we are still discussing what russia “wants” and h
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Who you gonna believe, Putin or your own goddamn eyes.
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Several days ago, Putin claimed that Russian troops have captured Svyatohirsk in Donetsk region (footage included in video).
Andrii Biletskyi, Brigadier General, Commander of the 3rd Army Corps recorded a video in the center of Svyatohirsk, right by the Holy Dormition https://t.
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On whose side is time in the Iran-US war? For now, it looks like the trend is moving against Tehran as its grip over the Strait of Hormuz slips. This means that Iran will soon face a choice: cave in or escalate? “The Iranian blockade is more leaky than the U.S. blockade.” My
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@yarotrof Most likely Ukrainian security forces infighting. Considering where it originated from. https://t.co/3ZIJF1G8u2
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@yarotrof Ffs, pretty sure Ukraine crossed all those red lines when they started car bombing the friends and family of Russian military and political leadership. You guys are disgusting.
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Against accounts of the same size
17 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. shown far beyond its own audience, and the audience reacts.
Median views25 872this account5 983median for 100K–1M
Reach, %15.50%this account1.49%median for 100K–1M
Engagement, %1.80%this account0.93%median for 100K–1M
| Metric | This account | Median for 100K–1M | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median views per post | 25 872 | 5 983 | 4.32× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 15.50% | 1.49% | 10.4× |
| Engagement rate | 1.80% | 0.93% | 1.94× |
Others in this range → Compare with another account → How these benchmarks are built →
Growth & engagement
How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.
Views per post
72.7K7 Sep
25.9K
67.2K8 Sep
77.8K
22.9K
176K
34K
9.8K
27.1K14 Sep
35
458.9K18 Sep
5.8K
4.1K
4.8K
Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
3.71%7 Sep
1.80%
2.15%8 Sep
0.30%
1.52%
0.35%
3.08%
2.38%
1.32%14 Sep
0.00%
0.66%18 Sep
4.59%
5.05%
7.90%
Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 0.93%.
What the audience does
Likes74.7%9 064 in total
Reposts16.3%1 978 in total
Replies5.1%616 in total
Quotes1.8%213 in total
Bookmarks2.2%264 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.
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