Michael Weiss
@michaeldweiss
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@insidereng, ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror: https://t.co/zOgJMJGUl5. Next book: GRU @vikingbooks. [email protected], Substack: https://t.co/EZguk3zT74
New York, NY
Joined December 2008
Exclusive: We have emails and documents from members of GRU Unit 29155–Putin’s assassination and sabotage squad—proving their culpability for a 2011 bombing in Bulgaria. The IEDs were planted in Czechia.The target was ammunition bound for Georgia.
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In November 2011, GRU Unit 29155 blew up an ammunition depot in Lovnidol, Bulgaria, containing artillery destined for Georgia. It was the first known terror attack perpetrated by the team of hitmen...
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The Jackson Lamb monologue about the Stasi in the last episode of “Slow Horses” struck me as the perfect bizarro-world complement to George Smiley’s monologue about Karla in Delhi. Shared significance of a cigarette lighter, too. Gary Oldman deserves a second knighthood.
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Bashar's luxurious residence in exile in Moscow https://t.co/HamB1kmrnu where "Assad's family owns around 20 apartments in the left tower" according to @zeitonline
https://t.co/7waUJ29BFJ
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Park a HIMARS nearby, see how long they hang about.
UPDATE: Footage of armed men seen in Estonia’s south border with Russia, the Saatse Boot. Contrast change by me:
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Belgium buys modern jets from the U.S., donates its older American-made jets to Ukraine. https://t.co/xj2dtkd7Rm
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Kushner and Witkoff are doing Middle East diplomacy, and cleaning up: https://t.co/HjjK4s3oA8
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Arab countries that denounced the war in Gaza maintained a quiet security partnership with Israel. The reason was Iran and its proxies, deemed the "Axis of Evil," according to leaked U.S. documents obtained by the Washington Post. https://t.co/cZnQPB5b5r
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Over $1 billion in losses right there.
Russia has lost its 65th Ka-52 helicopter since the start of the invasion of Ukraine. The crash of another helicopter was reported by the Russian pro-war channel Fighterbomber. According to propagandist sources, the incident was not combat-related. Both crew members were
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A flawed yet peaceful compromise between Damascus & the Kurds could spare the region new bloodshed. In @TIME, I explore what stands in the way, drawing on conversations with all sides, including my meeting with Syria President Ahmad al-Sharaa decently
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Deadly clashes this week in the Kurdish-led northeast are a warning of just how fast Syria could slide back into war, writes Hassan Hassan.
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Pretty sure Putin has made a much bigger mockery of Trump’s peacekeeping efforts than a roomful of Scandinavians in Oslo did this week.
⚡️Putin blasts Nobel Peace Prize decision, wins thanks from Trump. Putin praised Trump's peacekeeping efforts and said the Nobel committee's decisions to award the honor to "people who have done nothing for peace" damaged the prize's reputation. https://t.co/cJYPfgdqVv
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Some people think anyone who believes a word of what they’re saying must be incredibly stupid, and in this respect they’re entirely correct. https://t.co/wvsO6NeXPe
I’m turning 41, but I don’t feel like celebrating. Our generation is running out of time to save the free Internet built for us by our fathers. What was once the promise of the free exchange of information is being turned into the ultimate tool of control. Once-free countries
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He was “problematic” his whole life, which was the fucking point. He was also a reactionary Little Englander well before the correct-thinking began to notice. Good for her, but this shouldn’t need to be said. Once you apply this purity test to art and artists you soon realize
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Eichmann worked for Mercedes-Benz, Karadžić became a New Age “healer.” This asshole is a month away from starting a Twitch.
German magazine Die ZEIT reports that Assad has become a major online gamer according to a source with contacts to his circle
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The prototype already caught three GRU agents and recruited one.
🇪🇪 Estonian firm Stickleback Robotics has developed autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) that is hard-to-detect, cost-effective and designed for near-surface operations. They won a top prize back in June in a 72-hour artificial intelligence hackathon, organised by the Estonian
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“A powerful explosion ripped through a central Tennessee ammunition plant on Friday, killing and injuring multiple people, the authorities said. The extent of the damage was not clear, but the blast appeared to have leveled part of the facility and left behind a fiery spread of
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Go back and look up with U.S. officials were saying about why Ukraine didn't need F-16s (and how long it would take them to learn how to fly 'em): https://t.co/8P6BIJrbkY
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28 of Syria’s senior Christian clerics, from every denomination, signed this statement calling for the repeal of CAESAR.
Grateful the Senate has passed a REPEAL of the Caesar Act as part of the NDAA! These very severe sanctions were imposed on a regime which, thankfully, no longer exists. Syria’s success now depends on FULL & TOTAL repeal.
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