Foreign Office with Michael Weiss
Foreign Office is a weekly interview podcast hosted by Michael Weiss, from New Lines Magazine and Free Russia Foundation, dedicated to those ever-relevant subjects of Russian intelligence operations and active measures. Featured guests include prominent historians and scholars, journalists, diplomats, and ex-spies.
Latest episodes
Feb 21, 2023 • 1h 1min
Foreign Office #70. Prigozhin and Wagner and Trolls—Oh My
Renee DiResta of the Stanford Internet Observatory on the latest attempts to retcon Russia’s election interference
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Feb 15, 2023 • 1h 1min
Foreign Office #69. The View from Kyiv
Yahoo contributor James Rushton and 'The Killer in the Kremlin' John Sweeney on covering the war from Ukraine and what to expect next.
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Feb 6, 2023 • 44min
Foreign Office #68. Will Ukraine Get F-16s?
U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Jahara Matisek explains the debate around sending Western jets to Kyiv.
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Jan 30, 2023 • 38min
Foreign Office #67. Why Russia's War Is In Even Worse Shape Than It Looks
Eliot Cohen, Professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, explains why he's optimistic Ukraine will win.
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Jan 23, 2023 • 1h 7min
Foreign Office #66. “Putin’s Folly”
Author Owen Mathews on his latest book Overreach: The Inside Story of Putin’s War Against Ukraine
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Aug 8, 2022 • 42min
Foreign Office #65. On Ukraine's Military Adaptability
Gen. Mick Ryan explains how Ukraine has handled Western weapons platforms, and why it's wisely gone back to a war of "corrosion" against Russian forces.
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Aug 1, 2022 • 33min
Foreign Office #64. The Kyvian Reshuffle
What’s behind Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s sacking of his SBU chief and Prosecutor General? Ukrainian journalist Viktor Kovalenko explains.
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Jul 26, 2022 • 36min
Foreign Office #63. The Fellas of NAFO
How a dog avatar became a meme that chased a Russian ambassador off Twitter (for a while).
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Jul 21, 2022 • 1h
Foreign Office #62. On Coups and Illegals
Former CIA officer Marc Polymeropolous discusses the capture of a GRU illegal trying to infiltrate the ICC -- and whether or not former National Security Adviser John Bolton could really plan a "coup."
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Jul 2, 2022 • 50min
Foreign Office #61. The Battle of Donbas
War reporter Danny Gold on his time at Ukraine’s eastern front
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