Michael Weiss discusses the strategic importance of Bakhmut and the large Ukrainian military strategy with Mykola Bielieskov, Research Fellow at National Institute for Strategic Studies under UA President/senior analyst at Come Back Alive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The former Illinois Representative talks war — both abroad and at home. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Renee DiResta of the Stanford Internet Observatory on the latest attempts to retcon Russia’s election interference Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Yahoo contributor James Rushton and 'The Killer in the Kremlin' John Sweeney on covering the war from Ukraine and what to expect next. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Jahara Matisek explains the debate around sending Western jets to Kyiv. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Eliot Cohen, Professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, explains why he's optimistic Ukraine will win. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Author Owen Mathews on his latest book Overreach: The Inside Story of Putin’s War Against Ukraine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What’s behind Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s sacking of his SBU chief and Prosecutor General? Ukrainian journalist Viktor Kovalenko explains. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

 How a dog avatar became a meme that chased a Russian ambassador off Twitter (for a while). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

War reporter Danny Gold on his time at Ukraine’s eastern front Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Benjamin Tallis explains the Sholz government's wobbliness on Ukraine and why old habits die hard in Berlin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nathan Ruser combined open source intelligence and cartography to offer a more precise and explanatory visual of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

James Rushton, an independent national security analyst, on the Western weapons systems sent to help Ukraine defend the Donbas. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Evgenia Kara-Murza talks about her husband Vladimir's latest arrest in Moscow. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Phillips O'Brien, a professor a strategic studies at the University of St. Andrews, on why so many overestimated Russia's military capability. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Olexander Scherba, Ukraine's former ambassador to Vienna, on why his country will never be like Austria. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Russian journalists Andrei Soldatov on how the FSB’s Fifth Service is taking the blame for failure in Ukraine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Pavlo Kalyuk, the community organizer for Podil, explains why he isn't leaving Ukraine's besieged capital. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

British journalist John Sweeney reports from Ukraine's besieged capital. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Agnieszka Legucka recently returned from Eastern Ukraine, offers her perspective of what happens next. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Peter Pomerantsev and Vladislav Davidson discuss the messaging about an intending Russian invasion of Ukraine.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hybrid War Expert Liubov Tsybulska on how Russia’s “imminent” invasion is already underway. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Robert Lee, a Russian military analyst, says Putin's buildup at Ukraine's borders means only one thing: an invasion is coming. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Human rights lawyer Steve Swerdlow and scholar Diana Kudaibergenova on the recent turmoil in the Central Asian republic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Journalists Holger Roonemaa and Mattias Carlsson discuss their joint investigation with @foreignoffpod into the notorious Russian mercenary corps. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

National security attorney Mark Zaid explains the US government’s indictments of the Wikileaks founder, history of the Espionage Act, and why this case is unique. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Newlines Institute senior analyst Rasha Al Qeedi dissects the results of the last election and how the country has changed since America's invasion. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ambassador Daniels Fried on why the US keeps making the same mistakes with Russia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Attorney Jonathan Reich explains how financial safeguards against criminality are being used to target Russian dissidents and exiles from Putin's regime. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hungarian writer Peter Kreko explains how a Central European country of ten million became the lodestar for a new breed of North American conservative. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Atlantic contributor and USA Today columnist Tom Nichols discusses America's political and cultural dysfunction, and why there may not be a cure. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Former US Army intelligence officer Michael Pregent on the terrorist threat from Afghanistan in the wake of two horrific suicide bombings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Afghanistan scholar and professor at the US Naval Postgraduate School Thomas Johnson explains how America bungled its longest war. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Russia's former deputy energy minister discusses the political situation in Russia, and why Putin isn't as strong as he looks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Author Vladislav Davidzon on a decade of writing about (and for) Ukraine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Historian and biographer Owen Mathews on how Soviet master spy Richard Sorge infiltrated the Third Reich. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Former CIA officer Marc Polymeropoulos on being a victim of directed energy attacks, U.S. Russian relations, and his new book. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Former Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicious discusses Belarus's hijacking of a commercial plane, and what the West needs to do about Minsk (and Moscow). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Andrei Sannikov, a former Belarusian presidential candidate, explains Alexander Lukashenko's crazy plot to arrest a journalist by hijacking a RyanAir plane. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

National security reporter Tom Rogan on why the CIA isn't giving up on the GRU 'bounties' claim, and on alleged directed energy attacks against Americans. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Czech analyst Jakub Janda on how Russian state terrorism on NATO soil has upended Prague's relationship with Moscow. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bellingcat's Christo Grozev on what the latest disclosures out of Bulgaria and Czechia tell us about GRU Unit 29155. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nerma Jelacic, director of External Relations and Communications at Commission for International Justice and Accountability, explains how her NGO unmasked a Russian-back disinformation network on Syria — by pretending to be a Russian spy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

RFE/RL’s Mike Eckel explains how the latest US sanctions on Russia advance what Mueller alleged about the Trump campaign’s ties to Moscow. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

USIP Russia Director Don Jensen weighs the possible reason for Russia’s military buildup. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Analyst Monika Richter explains how Chinese government threats got an EU report on COVID-19 disinformation censored. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Johns Hopkins scholar and “Active Measures” author Thomas Rid on the DNI report on Russian meddling and how 2020 is different from 2016. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Wired journalist Andy Greenberg on the SolarWinds hack and why cyberespionage is not cyber warfare. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Benjamin Schmitt, an energy security expert, argues Nord Stream 2 can and should be cancelled. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Russian journalist Yevgenia Albats — on Amnesty International’s decision to revoke Navalny’s prisoner of conscious status. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Andrea Chalupa, screenwriter of "Mr. Jones," on what inspired her to memorialize the journalist who uncovered Ukraine's terror-famine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Senior Fellow at the European Values Center for Security Policy Nathalie Vogel on why the EU let the Kremlin humiliate it — again. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The deputy editor of Newlines magazine Faysal Itani on the murder of Lebanese activist Lokman Slim and what America can and cannot do in the Middle East. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Former CIA Officer John Sipher discusses the grey area between Russian informant and Russian agent. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Journalist Marcy Wheeler explains the U.S. government's charges against the Wikileaks founder, and why Britain refused to extradite him to America to face them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Christo Grozev, the Bellingcat journalist who unmasked Alexey Navalny’s hit squad, explains how he did it, and what it says about Putin’s security state. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Foreign policy analyst Damir Marusic on why a Biden presidency won't necessarily change much. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Former Biden adviser and Russia expert Michael Carpenter discusses his coauthored articles with President-Elect Joe Biden and what to expect from the new administration. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Award-winning journalist Simon Ostrovsky reports from Nagorno-Karabakh Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As Joe Biden crept to victory, Estonia's former President Toomas Henrik Ilves explained how much of Europe saw this election -- and what it expects and (doesn't expect) from America going forward Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

FireEye's John Hultquist explains the U.S. government's newly unsealed indictment about the GRU's devastating hacking operations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tim Weiner, the acclaimed historian of the CIA, discusses his new book on American-Russian political warfare, from the Cold War till now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Time magazine's Simon Shuster discusses the ongoing Kremlin disinformation campaign involving individuals sanctioned by the U.S. Government Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Vladimir Kara-Murza, vice president of Free Russia Foundation, recounts his own poisoning (twice) while traveling in Russia and what the FBI will has and hasn't told him about what it knows. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Russian journalists Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan discuss Russia's history of poisonings in light of the Navalny case and why the use of a signature toxin such as Novichok implicates Vladimir Putin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In our pilot episode, Michael interviews Anton Shekhovtsov, an expert on the European far-right and the Russian government's ties to it. They discuss their jointly written essay for The Daily Beast, drawn from a still-classified KGB training manual, about the false-flag recruitment of an adviser to the Austrian chancellery in the late 1950s and early 1960s by a particularly resourceful Soviet double agent "Safo." Also, the stunning revelations about a Wirecard executive, Austria's first expulsion of a Russian intelligence officer, and why Vienna has the well-earned reputation of being the spy capital of Europe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices