Michael Weiss

(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...

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...

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

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

On Tom Stoppard The great playwright was great in another respect most artists aren't.

On Tom Stoppard: open.substack.com/pub/macspaun...

I wrote a whole essay on him!

The Poet of Social Distancing - The American Interest Why the work of A.E. Housman resonates in a time of enforced isolation.

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...

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...

Russia writing US policy. For discussion of the implications of this please listen to my conversation with Michael Weiss on Thinking Live:
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Polish cartoon depicting a press conference The spox, US flag at the side, says in Polish: “The peace talks were attended by Ushakov and Witkoff.” A reporter rises the hand and ask: “And from the American side?”

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Via @michaeldweiss.bsky.social

Polish cartoon

“The peace talks were attended by Ushakov and Witkoff.”

“And from the American side?”

Do yourself a favor and listen to Weiss and Snyder:

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...

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/...

Stay tuned for the @theins.press story, in collaboration with @spiegel.de, about how we knew Kirill Dmitriev was the architect of this “peace plan.” Drops tomorrow at 5am EST.

"Outer borough boys stick together... 'you're a fascist, you're a communist'... that's about at 1 a.m. at the bar, you say that," @michaeldweiss.bsky.social says of the lovefest between Trump and Mamdani. "By 3 a.m. you got arms around each other, you're like smoking a J on Queens Boulevard."

A dead pedophile, a Kremlin bagman, Jared Kushner, Steve Witkoff, JD Vance, Marco Rubio, and the future of NATO. @michaeldweiss.bsky.social joins @timmiller.bsky.social to discuss the chaotic “peace plan” for Ukraine and what it says about Trump’s collapsing grip on power.

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…

Graphic card reading: Thinking Live with Michael Weiss, "U.S. Promotion of Russian interests in Ukraine," 11/24 at 2:00 p.m. ET. snyder.substack.com. The card includes photos of Michael Weiss and Timothy Snyder

With the U.S. continuing to advance Russian interests over Ukraine’s, join @michaeldweiss.bsky.social and me on Thinking Live today, Nov. 24, at 2:00pm ET, as we break down what’s really happening.
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Tomorrow at 2pm EST I’ll be joining @timothysnyder.bsky.social on his Substack Live to discuss Ukraine, focusing on what we believe Americans need to know. Do join.

On MS NOW tomorrow at 10am EST with Ana Cabrera to talk Ukraine.

“He Must Have Got This From K.” How a Russian operative used the American media to force a risible “peace deal” into existence

Amidst the Putin-Witkoff nonsense on handing Ukraine to Moscow, clear reporting as always from @michaeldweiss.bsky.social
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“He must have got this from K.”: How a Russian operative used the American media to bring a risible “peace deal” into existence Rhetoric around Russia’s war in Ukraine has once again shifted to discussions about a potential “diplomatic solution.” However, the “deal” on the table — a 28-point plan that contains many of Moscow’s...

“He must have got this from K.”: How a Russian operative used the American media to bring a risible “peace deal” into existence

The 28-point plan looks like a Russian information op, not a serious diplomatic effort, Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss.bsky.social argues.

“He Must Have Got This From K.” How a Russian operative used the American media to force a risible “peace deal” into existence

Here is my read of the "peace plan" and how Kirill Dmitriev played the American media to force this thing into being -- with an incompetent White House scrambling to make it seem like this was somehow coordinated and well-planned. open.substack.com/pub/macspaun...

The Accidental Revelations of a Russian Spy’s Memoir Alexander Zorin’s desire to make himself larger than life inadvertently exposes Moscow’s lies about how the war in Syria was waged

“Zorin loses track of his lies … and the lies of his government, because he’s indifferent to both in pursuit of his own delusions of grandeur.”

@michaeldweiss.bsky.social covers the fictionalized career of Russian spy-diplomat Gen. Alexander Zorin.

How Russian Spies Infiltrate U.S. Institutions Read a 1988 KGB textbook on how to recruit agents working for the U.S. government abroad.

We know the familiar pattern: “Moscow still loves a loser: failed journalists, has-beens, also-rans, sex pests and disgruntled narcissists end up going to work for the Kremlin.”

More essential reading from @michaeldweiss.bsky.social.

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How Russian Spies Infiltrate U.S. Institutions Read a 1988 KGB textbook on how to recruit agents working for the U.S. government abroad.

New: We've translated in full a 1988 KGB training manual on how to infiltrate U.S. government facilities in the Middle East and North Africa. Something of a Russian growth industry these days, you might say. open.substack.com/pub/macspaun...

On New York Exceptionalism Zohran Mamdani’s election has been turned into a broader comment on American politics. But it’s as local as it gets.

My friend @michaeldweiss.bsky.social weighs in on the recent New York City mayoral election and...whew open.substack.com/pub/macspaun...

On New York Exceptionalism Zohran Mamdani’s election has been turned into a broader comment on American politics. But it’s as local as it gets.

Everyone loves or hates New York now. No thanks, says this New Yorker: open.substack.com/pub/macspaun...

New on Foreign Office, I talked to two of my favorite missile junkies, Fabian Hoffmann and Colby Badhwar, about Tomahawks, Flamingos, Ukraine's deep strike needs, Alabuga, and "A House of Dynamite": open.substack.com/pub/macspaun...