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. [email protected]
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...
November 4, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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...
A new GRU investigation dropping tomorrow. And later this week: a translated KGB trainining manual about infiltrating U.S. institutions. Oh, and cruise missile talk with two special guests. Subscribe to and follow Foreign Office: open.substack.com/pub/macspaun...
November 4, 2025 at 2:46 AM
A new GRU investigation dropping tomorrow. And later this week: a translated KGB trainining manual about infiltrating U.S. institutions. Oh, and cruise missile talk with two special guests. Subscribe to and follow Foreign Office: open.substack.com/pub/macspaun...
Sat down with Ed Bogan, a 24-year veteran of CIA and (maybe) former acting CoS Kyiv to discuss his and his aunt’s trip to Uzhhorod, the war, America’s role in it, and states of exception: open.substack.com/pub/macspaun...
October 31, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Sat down with Ed Bogan, a 24-year veteran of CIA and (maybe) former acting CoS Kyiv to discuss his and his aunt’s trip to Uzhhorod, the war, America’s role in it, and states of exception: open.substack.com/pub/macspaun...
Life achievement unlocked.
October 31, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Life achievement unlocked.
The negotiator continues to negotiate. /END
October 28, 2025 at 6:16 PM
The negotiator continues to negotiate. /END
This makes Zorin's biopic unique in another way, an exercise in moviemaking magic, filtered through the counterfactual lens of totalitarian dictatorship. John Ford meets Hannah Arendt.
October 28, 2025 at 6:16 PM
This makes Zorin's biopic unique in another way, an exercise in moviemaking magic, filtered through the counterfactual lens of totalitarian dictatorship. John Ford meets Hannah Arendt.
Below is another nice shot of the horned piglet with his coy mistress on the banks of Lake Geneva. Maybe John Kerry snapped this one.
October 28, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Below is another nice shot of the horned piglet with his coy mistress on the banks of Lake Geneva. Maybe John Kerry snapped this one.
"Masha Bentley," as she's known owing to her inexplicable wealth, met Zorin when he was posted in Geneva as a diplomat, parlaying with the Americans on Syria and delivering pizza to the delegations at the President Wilson Hotel.
October 28, 2025 at 6:16 PM
"Masha Bentley," as she's known owing to her inexplicable wealth, met Zorin when he was posted in Geneva as a diplomat, parlaying with the Americans on Syria and delivering pizza to the delegations at the President Wilson Hotel.
Zorin divulges quite a lot about his troubled marriage (all GRU families are unhappy in the same way) and his affair with another agent of Russian military intelligence, Maria Khodynskaya-Golenishcheva.
October 28, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Zorin divulges quite a lot about his troubled marriage (all GRU families are unhappy in the same way) and his affair with another agent of Russian military intelligence, Maria Khodynskaya-Golenishcheva.
Here is Zorin with an anonymous Damascene gamer now residing in Moscow:
October 28, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Here is Zorin with an anonymous Damascene gamer now residing in Moscow:
This is the first time, so far as I'm aware, a senior Russian official has copped to planting information alibis to cover for Russian war crimes. Whoops!
October 28, 2025 at 6:16 PM
This is the first time, so far as I'm aware, a senior Russian official has copped to planting information alibis to cover for Russian war crimes. Whoops!
The shoot-first-ask-questions-never disposition of racist Russian military commanders. And the Mad Hatter illogic of Russian disinformation schemes about Syrian chemical weapons attacks.
October 28, 2025 at 6:16 PM
The shoot-first-ask-questions-never disposition of racist Russian military commanders. And the Mad Hatter illogic of Russian disinformation schemes about Syrian chemical weapons attacks.
Humphrey unbound.
October 26, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Humphrey unbound.
It was real. First Russia sanctions under Trump this term. home.treasury.gov/news/press-r...
October 22, 2025 at 8:56 PM
It was real. First Russia sanctions under Trump this term. home.treasury.gov/news/press-r...
Bessent going further now:
October 22, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Bessent going further now:
Also good, if true.
October 22, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Also good, if true.
Welcome development. Storm Shadow attack on the Russian chemical factory in Bryansk was part of this. Restrictions lifted before the Ze visit. And Hegseth isn’t calling the shots; SACEUR is now.
October 22, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Welcome development. Storm Shadow attack on the Russian chemical factory in Bryansk was part of this. Restrictions lifted before the Ze visit. And Hegseth isn’t calling the shots; SACEUR is now.
Moonstar and Skywalker shall never be silenced!
October 22, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Moonstar and Skywalker shall never be silenced!
May you live in interesting times. open.substack.com/pub/macspaun...
October 20, 2025 at 12:50 AM
May you live in interesting times. open.substack.com/pub/macspaun...
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.
July 3, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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.
@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...
June 2, 2025 at 6:04 PM
@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...
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-...
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-...
June 2, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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-...
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-...
