Michael Weiss
@michaeldweiss.bsky.social
Editor @insidereng, host @foreignoffpod, https://substack.com/@macspaunday, ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror: http://goo.gl/Jb6uEA. Next book on the GRU for @vikingbooks. macspaunday@protonmail.com
Went on @thebulwark.com's Shield of the Republic podcast to discuss Venezuela, Iran, Ukraine, and AHI. Much of the discussion focused on why Europe and Ukraine have a difficult time accepting that the US won't always be on side. open.substack.com/pub/macspaun...
January 19, 2026 at 7:19 PM
Went on @thebulwark.com's Shield of the Republic podcast to discuss Venezuela, Iran, Ukraine, and AHI. Much of the discussion focused on why Europe and Ukraine have a difficult time accepting that the US won't always be on side. open.substack.com/pub/macspaun...
Michael Weiss joins The Trump Report with Fergus Macphee to discuss anomalous health incidents (AHIs), better known as Havana Syndrome.: open.substack.com/pub/macspaun...
Havana Syndrome: US Govt Bought Mystery Weapon Linked to Symptoms
Michael Weiss on Havana Syndrome and recent CNN report.
open.substack.com
January 18, 2026 at 3:39 AM
Michael Weiss joins The Trump Report with Fergus Macphee to discuss anomalous health incidents (AHIs), better known as Havana Syndrome.: open.substack.com/pub/macspaun...
New: We published another translated KGB training manual, this one about Moscow's use of 'compatriots' abroad. A highly relevant topic. Expertly introduced by my friend Dr. Kevin Riehle. You can subscribe to Foreign Office here: macspaunday.substack.com/p/moscows-co...
Inside Moscow's Compatriots Policy
How the KGB instrumentalized the Soviet diaspora for intelligence work
macspaunday.substack.com
January 10, 2026 at 7:19 PM
New: We published another translated KGB training manual, this one about Moscow's use of 'compatriots' abroad. A highly relevant topic. Expertly introduced by my friend Dr. Kevin Riehle. You can subscribe to Foreign Office here: macspaunday.substack.com/p/moscows-co...
Cuban intelligence has a reputation for being one of the most formidable in the Western Hem. Yet they were seemingly caught off guard by an elaborate and long-planned Maduro op, in spite of controlling Venezuela’s security. I have questions: open.substack.com/pub/macspaun...
The Dog That Didn't Bark in the Maduro Op
Cuban intelligence runs Venezuela's security apparatus. Where was it when the U.S. snatched the Venezuelan strongman?
open.substack.com
January 5, 2026 at 3:17 AM
Cuban intelligence has a reputation for being one of the most formidable in the Western Hem. Yet they were seemingly caught off guard by an elaborate and long-planned Maduro op, in spite of controlling Venezuela’s security. I have questions: open.substack.com/pub/macspaun...
What to make of the Mar-a-Lago meeting: open.substack.com/pub/macspaun...
December 30, 2025 at 3:01 AM
What to make of the Mar-a-Lago meeting: open.substack.com/pub/macspaun...
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@michaeldweiss.bsky.social Excellent interview with Michael Weiss regarding #Ukraine & Trump‘s dodgy negotiations with the Kremlin… youtu.be/QX1T0nmb6bU?...
Russia: Trump has ‘promised us Ukrainian territory’ | Ukraine: The Latest
YouTube video by The Telegraph
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December 18, 2025 at 10:41 AM
@michaeldweiss.bsky.social Excellent interview with Michael Weiss regarding #Ukraine & Trump‘s dodgy negotiations with the Kremlin… youtu.be/QX1T0nmb6bU?...
I chatted with the great Maddie Hale at
Times Radio on the latest in U.S.-Ukraine talks, Europe's responsibility, and how Zelensky is performing a bit of tactical jujitsu on Trump's (and Putin's) demands of him. www.youtube.com/watch?time_c...
Times Radio on the latest in U.S.-Ukraine talks, Europe's responsibility, and how Zelensky is performing a bit of tactical jujitsu on Trump's (and Putin's) demands of him. www.youtube.com/watch?time_c...
December 15, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I chatted with the great Maddie Hale at
Times Radio on the latest in U.S.-Ukraine talks, Europe's responsibility, and how Zelensky is performing a bit of tactical jujitsu on Trump's (and Putin's) demands of him. www.youtube.com/watch?time_c...
Times Radio on the latest in U.S.-Ukraine talks, Europe's responsibility, and how Zelensky is performing a bit of tactical jujitsu on Trump's (and Putin's) demands of him. www.youtube.com/watch?time_c...
The State Department is evidently going all in defending a meeting with a known Russian asset from a far-right party in Germany. Helluva look, even for this administration. x.com/michaeldweis...
Michael Weiss on X: "Surely one can be anti-censorship without being under the "absolute control" of the Russian Presidential Administration, as Markus Fronhmaier is described as being in two separate documents obtained by @derspiegel. You just returned from Europe where you spent much of your time https://t.co/sa6Vva56u6" / X
Surely one can be anti-censorship without being under the "absolute control" of the Russian Presidential Administration, as Markus Fronhmaier is described as being in two separate documents obtained by @derspiegel. You just returned from Europe where you spent much of your time https://t.co/sa6Vva56u6
x.com
December 14, 2025 at 5:35 PM
The State Department is evidently going all in defending a meeting with a known Russian asset from a far-right party in Germany. Helluva look, even for this administration. x.com/michaeldweis...
Sarah Rogers, the State Department official who hectored Europeans about free speech, is seen here with a far-right German AfD deputy, Markus Frohnmaier, whom two Kremlin documents obtained by @spiegel.de described as "a parliamentarian under our absolute control."
spiegel.de/politik/ausl...
spiegel.de/politik/ausl...
December 14, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Sarah Rogers, the State Department official who hectored Europeans about free speech, is seen here with a far-right German AfD deputy, Markus Frohnmaier, whom two Kremlin documents obtained by @spiegel.de described as "a parliamentarian under our absolute control."
spiegel.de/politik/ausl...
spiegel.de/politik/ausl...
New: Read the translated KGB training manual on how the Soviets categorized white Westerners they looked to recruit, according to four basic personality types. Some unintentionally hilarious stuff in here, all analyzed by Mike Miller, a recent retiree from the CIA and a cognitive psychologist.
December 11, 2025 at 9:04 PM
New: Read the translated KGB training manual on how the Soviets categorized white Westerners they looked to recruit, according to four basic personality types. Some unintentionally hilarious stuff in here, all analyzed by Mike Miller, a recent retiree from the CIA and a cognitive psychologist.
Happy to have contributed to this week's @spiegel.de cover story. www.spiegel.de/ausland/wie-...
December 11, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Happy to have contributed to this week's @spiegel.de cover story. www.spiegel.de/ausland/wie-...
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A wonderful post about Tom Stoppard!
Beyond reading R&G in high school in the 60's, I have had almost no conscious exposure to Stoppard.
I have been gob-smacked by two appreciations--this one and one by Greg Olear.
Beyond reading R&G in high school in the 60's, I have had almost no conscious exposure to Stoppard.
I have been gob-smacked by two appreciations--this one and one by Greg Olear.
December 7, 2025 at 10:13 PM
A wonderful post about Tom Stoppard!
Beyond reading R&G in high school in the 60's, I have had almost no conscious exposure to Stoppard.
I have been gob-smacked by two appreciations--this one and one by Greg Olear.
Beyond reading R&G in high school in the 60's, I have had almost no conscious exposure to Stoppard.
I have been gob-smacked by two appreciations--this one and one by Greg Olear.
Twitter in the past 48 hours has been like watching a remedial version of SPECTRE convene a meeting in real time.
December 7, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Twitter in the past 48 hours has been like watching a remedial version of SPECTRE convene a meeting in real time.
New at @spiegel.de: We obtained the transcript of a conference call of top European leaders and Zelensky, warning of American dirty tricks to the end war. "We mustn't leave Ukraine and Volodymyr alone with these guys." spiegel.de/politik/ukra...
Eng. derspiegel.substack.com/p/we-must-no...
Eng. derspiegel.substack.com/p/we-must-no...
(S+) Wie sehr der Kanzler und Macron den USA bei den Ukraine-Verhandlungen misstrauen
Hören Trumps Unterhändler vor allem auf Russland? Dem SPIEGEL liegt die Mitschrift einer Krisenschalte vor, die zeigt, wie tief das Misstrauen bei den Europäern sitzt – auch bei Kanzler Merz und Präsi...
spiegel.de
December 4, 2025 at 12:57 PM
New at @spiegel.de: We obtained the transcript of a conference call of top European leaders and Zelensky, warning of American dirty tricks to the end war. "We mustn't leave Ukraine and Volodymyr alone with these guys." spiegel.de/politik/ukra...
Eng. derspiegel.substack.com/p/we-must-no...
Eng. derspiegel.substack.com/p/we-must-no...
Big story dropping tomorrow.
December 4, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Big story dropping tomorrow.
"The European Union will add three GRU officers from Russia’s military unit 29155 to its sanctions lists...The officers, all of whom specialize in cyber operations...were featured in The Insider’s investigation Hidden Bear: The GRU hackers of Russia’s most notorious kill squad." t.co/8vdZPrjzem
December 3, 2025 at 7:16 PM
"The European Union will add three GRU officers from Russia’s military unit 29155 to its sanctions lists...The officers, all of whom specialize in cyber operations...were featured in The Insider’s investigation Hidden Bear: The GRU hackers of Russia’s most notorious kill squad." t.co/8vdZPrjzem
I talked to former Lithuanian Foreign Minister
@glandsbergis.bsky.social about the future of Europe without the United States, and what Europe should do to prepare for that contingency: t.co/srZWfxn7MJ
@glandsbergis.bsky.social about the future of Europe without the United States, and what Europe should do to prepare for that contingency: t.co/srZWfxn7MJ
December 2, 2025 at 5:27 PM
I talked to former Lithuanian Foreign Minister
@glandsbergis.bsky.social about the future of Europe without the United States, and what Europe should do to prepare for that contingency: t.co/srZWfxn7MJ
@glandsbergis.bsky.social about the future of Europe without the United States, and what Europe should do to prepare for that contingency: t.co/srZWfxn7MJ
On Tom Stoppard: open.substack.com/pub/macspaun...
On Tom Stoppard
The great playwright was great in another respect most artists aren't.
open.substack.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:17 PM
On Tom Stoppard: open.substack.com/pub/macspaun...
Stoppard’s plays stuck with you long after you left the theatre, to the extent that you ended up stacking your shelves with all the source material. He made A.E. Housman interesting. www.the-american-interest.com/2020/06/14/t...
The Poet of Social Distancing - The American Interest
Why the work of A.E. Housman resonates in a time of enforced isolation.
www.the-american-interest.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Stoppard’s plays stuck with you long after you left the theatre, to the extent that you ended up stacking your shelves with all the source material. He made A.E. Housman interesting. www.the-american-interest.com/2020/06/14/t...
Dear Europe: If you read this and still think the United States is with you, you deserve everything you fear is coming your way. This is Russian-style corruption incorporated into the American system. www.wsj.com/world/russia...
www.wsj.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Dear Europe: If you read this and still think the United States is with you, you deserve everything you fear is coming your way. This is Russian-style corruption incorporated into the American system. www.wsj.com/world/russia...
Next week we will publish a newly translated KGB training manual on how the Soviets worked up psych profiles for recruiting prospective agents. Another piece of relevant Cold War history… open.substack.com/pub/macspaun...
November 29, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Next week we will publish a newly translated KGB training manual on how the Soviets worked up psych profiles for recruiting prospective agents. Another piece of relevant Cold War history… open.substack.com/pub/macspaun...
Reposted by Michael Weiss
Russia writing US policy. For discussion of the implications of this please listen to my conversation with Michael Weiss on Thinking Live:
snyder.substack.com/p/oligarchs-...
snyder.substack.com/p/oligarchs-...
New: @theins.press saw the Witkoff-Dmitriev plan six months ago in draft form—except it was all Dmitriev. Bloomberg reports now Dmitriev told Ushakov he’d pass along a Russian plan and the Americans “can present it as their own”: theins.press/en/politics/...
Made in Moscow: The “U.S. peace plan” for Ukraine was substantially formulated months ago by Kremlin operative Kirill Dmitriev
Since it was first published on Nov. 20, the much-discussed 28-point plan for ending the war in Ukraine has borne all the signs of a Kremlin information operation. In fact, many of its most controvers...
theins.press
November 28, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Russia writing US policy. For discussion of the implications of this please listen to my conversation with Michael Weiss on Thinking Live:
snyder.substack.com/p/oligarchs-...
snyder.substack.com/p/oligarchs-...
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Polish cartoon
“The peace talks were attended by Ushakov and Witkoff.”
“And from the American side?”
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Polish cartoon
“The peace talks were attended by Ushakov and Witkoff.”
“And from the American side?”
November 27, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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Polish cartoon
“The peace talks were attended by Ushakov and Witkoff.”
“And from the American side?”
Via @michaeldweiss.bsky.social
Polish cartoon
“The peace talks were attended by Ushakov and Witkoff.”
“And from the American side?”
Reposted by Michael Weiss
Do yourself a favor and listen to Weiss and Snyder:
My chat with the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social on Ukraine and the United States. Was meant to be 30 minutes and ended up going for an hour. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p/o…
November 27, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Do yourself a favor and listen to Weiss and Snyder: