@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
Drove to Aleppo in a Syrian rebel convoy in 2012. Interviewed an ISIS defector in Istanbul in 2015. Going to Boston for a source meeting in 2025? Yeah, this New Yorker is not taking any fucking chances, thank you very much.
03.07.2025 19:01 — 👍 76 🔁 8 💬 6 📌 0"What if it wasn't accomplished, at least to the satisfaction of what he believes is necessary? Does that mean you're gonna do it again? And thus contradict everything you've just said? And it puts the Israelis in a bind too."
@michaeldweiss.bsky.social talks Iran with @timmiller.bsky.social:
NEW: Great, great, great conversation with the always-interesting @michaeldweiss.bsky.social — starting off with a little bit of news about "Havana Syndrome."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GClR...
Had CIA's very own @michaeldweiss.bsky.social down to the bunker to discuss 🕷️🕸️ and a lot more.
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@morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social hit on Ukraine's "kill the archer" strategy and Russia's terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GcU...
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My segment on @anacabrera.bsky.social's show on
MSNBC today about Ukraine's stunning operation against Russian strategic bombers and why Ukraine's kinetic intelligence capability has traditionally been fettered by U.S. fears of escalation. And that's changing now: www.msnbc.com/ana-cabrera-...
Latest with @jimmyrushton.bsky.social: Ukraine didn’t just humiliate Vladimir Putin with its stunning FPV drone assault on Russia’s strategic bombers—it also embarrassed Donald Trump, who repeatedly dismissed Kyiv’s ability to fight without U.S. help t.co/9SqbwxSa35
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Our latest investigation…
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Valuable summary from @michaeldweiss.bsky.social
newlinesmag.com/reportage/tr...
“There was a darkly comic aspect to watching Europe try to flatter, persuade and finesse Donald Trump into being three things he is not: reliable, constructive and pro-Ukraine.”
@michaeldweiss.bsky.social on the geopolitics of ending the war @newlinesmag.bsky.social
newlinesmag.com/reportage/tr...
New from me. What's next after Trump's incredibly shrinking peace plan? Believe it or not, things aren't all bad for Ukraine: newlinesmag.com/reportage/tr...
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President Trump continues his trip to the Middle East as he tries to strike deals for the U.S.
NBC News' Richard Engel reports from Iran. @ravireports.bsky.social and @michaeldweiss.bsky.social join Katy Tur to share their expertise on Trump's diplomacy.
www.msnbc.com/katy-tur/wat...
I go to Estonia, Humphrey gets neutered. Yet somehow he looks like he’s the one in Estonia.
16.05.2025 14:29 — 👍 89 🔁 3 💬 5 📌 0Trump is on a tour of the Middle East and he's doing one of his favorite things: Sucking up to strongmen!
@michaeldweiss.bsky.social joins @timmiller.bsky.social on the latest Bulwark Podcast. Check the links below to listen and watch!
Russia’s intelligence services are recruiting Ukrainian civilians, including teenagers and children, to act as unwitting “suicide bombers,” report @michaeldweiss.bsky.social and James Rushton for @newlinesmag.bsky.social
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Russia’s intelligence services are recruiting Ukrainian civilians, including teenagers and children, to act as unwitting suicide bombers, report @michaeldweiss.bsky.social and James Rushton for @newlinesmag.bsky.social
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NEW: Russia’s intelligence services are recruiting Ukrainian civilians, including teenagers and children, to act as suicide bombers, a tactic reminiscent of the Islamic State group, report @michaeldweiss.bsky.social and James Rushton for @newlinesmag.bsky.social.
newlinesmag.com/reportage/ru...
As the U.S. realigns with Russia, it falls on Europe to back Ukraine — and itself, write @michaeldweiss.bsky.social and James Rushton for @newlinesmag
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This is really, really bad.
@michaeldweiss.bsky.social joins @timmiller.bsky.social to discuss the now released war plans texts and why it's such a big deal
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Nope. You didn’t.
06.03.2025 04:38 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0French Senator Claude Malhuret:
"Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."
"The reality is that the Russian military is far from the unstoppable colossus the Trump administration seems to believe it’s -or wants the American people to believe it is"-a good overview of the situation in article by
@michaeldweiss.bsky.social&@jimmyrushton.bsky.social
newlinesmag.com/argument
Nobody puts Lil Marco in the corner.
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My proposed German neologism: Weltmerz. Noun. "The feeling that reality might turn out slightly better than Europeans are accustomed to, which creates a strange mood of cautious optimism on security and defense."
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