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.
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Aug 31, 2021 • 52min
Foreign Office #40. Our Own Worst Enemy
Atlantic contributor and USA Today columnist Tom Nichols discusses America's political and cultural dysfunction, and why there may not be a cure.
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Aug 30, 2021 • 31min
Foreign Office #39. The Geopolitics of the New Afghanistan
A scholar and expert on Afghanistan Kamran Bokhari explains how various countries will respond to the Taliban takeover, and what to do about ISIS-K.
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Aug 28, 2021 • 42min
Foreign Office #38. ISIS-K and the Taliban: It's Complicated
Former US Army intelligence officer Michael Pregent on the terrorist threat from Afghanistan in the wake of two horrific suicide bombings.
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Aug 20, 2021 • 33min
Foreign Office #37. Crisis and Credibility
Mike Nelson, a U.S. war veteran and visiting fellow at the National Security Institute at George Mason University, discusses the pullout from Afghanistan. And America's place in the world.
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Aug 18, 2021 • 37min
Foreign Office #36. America's Abandoned Allies
Journalist and author Wesley Morgan explains how Afghans integral to the U.S. war effort have been left to a grim fate in a Taliban-run country.
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Aug 17, 2021 • 52min
Foreign Office #35. Afghanistan, Before and After the Americans
Afghanistan scholar and professor at the US Naval Postgraduate School Thomas Johnson explains how America bungled its longest war.
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Aug 13, 2021 • 48min
Foreign Office #34. Why Vladimir Milov Is Optimistic
Russia's former deputy energy minister discusses the political situation in Russia, and why Putin isn't as strong as he looks.
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Aug 11, 2021 • 32min
Foreign Office #33. Tales from Odessa
Author Vladislav Davidzon on a decade of writing about (and for) Ukraine.
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Aug 4, 2021 • 42min
Foreign Office #32. The Biden-Russia Conundrum
Veteran Russia expert James Sherr discusses the recent policy pivot on Nord Stream 2, and what the West doesn't understand when dealing with Moscow.
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Jul 21, 2021 • 50min
Foreign Office #31. Sorge's Way
Historian and biographer Owen Mathews on how Soviet master spy Richard Sorge infiltrated the Third Reich.
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