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# ![@michaeldweiss Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::18025377.png) @michaeldweiss Michael Weiss

Michael Weiss posts on X about ukraine, russia, zelensky, national security the most. They currently have XXXXXXX followers and 3431 posts still getting attention that total XXXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.

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[ukraine](/topic/ukraine) #243, [russia](/topic/russia) #288, [zelensky](/topic/zelensky) #117, [national security](/topic/national-security) #36, [moscow](/topic/moscow) #517, [united states](/topic/united-states) #1303, [money](/topic/money), [trumps](/topic/trumps), [target](/topic/target), [at least](/topic/at-least)

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### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours

"Hegseth is one Sapphire and tonic away from plugging human ear necklaces into Temu"  
[X Link](https://x.com/michaeldweiss/status/1995307571687969050)  2025-12-01T01:42Z 263.3K followers, 28.4K engagements


"Trump embraces Russia alienates Europe. Trump's cronies start sussing out big contracts with the Russians. But they're also investing in. Europe. Double dipping on cynical U.S. policymaking. Either way they win"  
[X Link](https://x.com/michaeldweiss/status/1995868863511364026)  2025-12-02T14:53Z 263.2K followers, 28.9K engagements


"Nothing stopping NATO allies (plus Australia and New Zealand now) from buying more sooner. $300bn in EU-frozen Russian assets could be allocated for this too"  
[X Link](https://x.com/michaeldweiss/status/1995973188376035820)  2025-12-02T21:47Z 263.2K followers, 25.6K engagements


"J.D. Vance's intervention in Germany's election on behalf of AfD was not a one-off. It is now ingrained in the U.S. National Security Strategy. "Cultivating resistance to Europe's current trajectory." Europe is be treated as enemy terrain to be destabilized by America's enabling of far-right parties to take power. And NATO expansion is bad. As Kirill Dmitriev might put it: "🕊""  
[X Link](https://x.com/michaeldweiss/status/1996959850484437225)  2025-12-05T15:08Z 263.2K followers, 8407 engagements


"The Trump administration has publicly and privately signaled that it does not believe Russia represents a cyber threat against US national security or critical infrastructure"  
[X Link](https://x.com/michaeldweiss/status/1895948485326774657)  2025-03-01T21:25Z 263.2K followers, 303.7K engagements


"OAN is what Kari Lake said would provide "newsfeed services" to Voice of America. Here one of their correspondents embeds with Russian occupiers in Donbas and plainly likes what he sees"  
[X Link](https://x.com/michaeldweiss/status/1970147131454615702)  2025-09-22T15:24Z 263.3K followers, 137.7K engagements


""Chinese national oil companies PetroChina Sinopec CNOOC and Zhenhua Oil will refrain from dealing in seaborne Russian oil at least in the short-term due to concern over sanctions the sources said.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/michaeldweiss/status/1981356284562543049)  2025-10-23T13:45Z 263.2K followers, 13.1K engagements


"Trump is now giving Belgium an excuse to stop frozen Russian assets from being used for Ukraine. "Prvot went on to describe the reparation loan as a problem for ongoing peace talks aimed at ending the war in Ukraine: 'It is now clear that the assets can play an important role in a peace plan Our action must not create obstacles to a peace plan.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/michaeldweiss/status/1995472910878687317)  2025-12-01T12:39Z 263.2K followers, 166.8K engagements


"Witkoff and Kushner promised not to go to Ukraine on their way back from Moscow"  
[X Link](https://x.com/michaeldweiss/status/1996000071481966791)  2025-12-02T23:34Z 263.2K followers, 123.6K engagements


"Fruitless for the U.S. Ukraine and Europe -- but not for Putin who bought himself time finagled a propaganda coup and gained valuable insights into how desperate and amateurish the American effort is with Witkoff at the helm"  
[X Link](https://x.com/michaeldweiss/status/1996620254227923435)  2025-12-04T16:38Z 263.2K followers, 93.9K engagements


"Five European diplomats accuse Belgium of making money off taxes of frozen Russian assets when that money should go to Ukraine"  
[X Link](https://x.com/michaeldweiss/status/1994425649222525278)  2025-11-28T15:18Z 263.3K followers, 122K engagements


"Ukraine's inevitable accession to NATO was affirmed at the NATO summit Bucharest in 2008 by all allies including the United States. Crimea's belonging to Ukraine is affirmed by a host of Congressional legislation Executive Orders 13660 and 13685 which imposed sanctions on anyone taking action to advance Russia's claim to the peninsula as well as by policies enacted by Donald Trump in his first term such as the Crimea Declaration of 2018. These are not provocative or controversial positions; claiming them as such is revisionist horseshit meant to obscure America's bullying of Ukraine to accept"  
[X Link](https://x.com/michaeldweiss/status/1998509677550637341)  2025-12-09T21:46Z 263.3K followers, 54.5K engagements


"Exclusive: We have emails and documents from members of GRU Unit 29155Putins assassination and sabotage squadproving their culpability for a 2011 bombing in Bulgaria. The IEDs were planted in Czechia.The target was ammunition bound for Georgia"  
[X Link](https://x.com/michaeldweiss/status/1715340789989949499)  2023-10-20T12:14Z 263.3K followers, 4.6M engagements


"Doc circulating in Ukrainian media is said to be the 28-point plan. It's not as absurd and dire as has been reported -- it's even more so. Eng. translation follows. N.B. I absolutely love point 3: "it is expected" Russia won't invade anyone else. Cool. Plus America profits from rebuilding what Putin bombed to smithereens and all Russian war criminals are amnestied. They should call this plan "the Aristocrats." X. Ukraine's sovereignty will be confirmed. X. A comprehensive and comprehensive non-aggression agreement will be concluded between Russia Ukraine and Europe. All ambiguities of the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/michaeldweiss/status/1991607955737776217)  2025-11-20T20:41Z 263.3K followers, 753.9K engagements


"European counter-plan. Ukraine NATO membership up to NATO; no territorial concessions; ceasefire along contact line; no cap on Ukrainian military; EU membership; reconstruction to be paid by Russia"  
[X Link](https://x.com/michaeldweiss/status/1992659882164486339)  2025-11-23T18:21Z 263.3K followers, 1.9M engagements


"Polish meme: The peace talks were attended by Ushakov and Witkoff. And from the American side"  
[X Link](https://x.com/michaeldweiss/status/1994070201877364980)  2025-11-27T15:45Z 263.3K followers, 452.6K engagements


"Dear Europe: If you read this and still think the United States is with you you deserve everything you fear is coming your way. This is Russian-style corruption incorporated into the American system"  
[X Link](https://x.com/michaeldweiss/status/1994626328155316322)  2025-11-29T04:35Z 263.3K followers, 525.6K engagements


"Good tick-tock here especially on Vance's role trying to force this deal before the midterms and using the Yermak/Mindich scandal as leverage"  
[X Link](https://x.com/michaeldweiss/status/1994886052771729745)  2025-11-29T21:47Z 263.3K followers, 45.8K engagements


"Funding Ukraines war effort over four years will cost European governments between $XXX and $XXX billion but it would cost them almost double between $XXX and $XXX trillion to reinforce its eastern flank if Moscow gets its way"  
[X Link](https://x.com/michaeldweiss/status/1995290660895887518)  2025-12-01T00:35Z 263.3K followers, 372.2K engagements


"Article V more of an allegory than a provision. Remember this when they talk about "security guarantees" for Ukraine"  
[X Link](https://x.com/michaeldweiss/status/1995861308349333614)  2025-12-02T14:23Z 263.3K followers, 146.2K engagements


"Witkoff and Kushner are returning to the U.S. where Congress is back from holiday Witkoffs leaked chats with Ushakov and the WSJ deep dive into side deals with Russia are the talk of the town and more Republicans are growing outspoken about appeasement. Both return to discuss more discussions"  
[X Link](https://x.com/michaeldweiss/status/1996005310461247607)  2025-12-02T23:55Z 263.3K followers, 73.5K engagements


"As @GLandsbergis and I discussed: Europe should think of it as a kind of Russian swear jar. Every sabotage operation every drone attack every act of state terrorism -- calculate the cost double or triple it and donate that amount to Ukraine. And make a big show of doing so:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/michaeldweiss/status/1996254835440594952)  2025-12-03T16:26Z 263.3K followers, 40.4K engagements


""The government collected XXXXX billion rubles ($6.8 billion) in oil and gas taxes last month a XX% drop from the same month a year earlier.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/michaeldweiss/status/1996284528109740082)  2025-12-03T18:24Z 263.3K followers, 56.6K engagements


"The war has done many things. One is to show just how many policies should have been enacted before the war"  
[X Link](https://x.com/michaeldweiss/status/1996340340232699944)  2025-12-03T22:06Z 263.3K followers, 56.7K engagements


"Big story dropping tomorrow"  
[X Link](https://x.com/michaeldweiss/status/1996388670061134240)  2025-12-04T01:18Z 263.3K followers, 104.7K engagements


"New at @derspiegel: We obtained the transcript of a conference call of top European leaders and Volodymyr Zelensky warning of American dirty tricks to the end war. Emmanuel Macron said there's a chance the U.S. will "betray" Ukraine on territory. Friedrich Merz said: "They are playing games both with you and with us." Alexander Stubb said: "We mustn't leave Ukraine and Volodymyr alone with these guys" meaning Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner. Eng"  
[X Link](https://x.com/michaeldweiss/status/1996561642616652070)  2025-12-04T12:46Z 263.3K followers, 809.1K engagements


"Irish neutrality looking very quaint indeed"  
[X Link](https://x.com/michaeldweiss/status/1996684959315382383)  2025-12-04T20:56Z 263.3K followers, 147.6K engagements


"Hes pissed and has every right to be"  
[X Link](https://x.com/michaeldweiss/status/1996692168053026976)  2025-12-04T21:24Z 263.3K followers, 447.8K engagements


"J.D. Vance's intervention in Germany's election on behalf of AfD was not a one-off. It is now ingrained in the U.S. National Security Strategy. "Cultivating resistance to Europe's current trajectory." Europe is be treated as enemy terrain to be destabilized by America's enabling of far-right parties. And NATO expansion is bad. As Kirill Dmitriev might put it: "🕊""  
[X Link](https://x.com/michaeldweiss/status/1996963125434749032)  2025-12-05T15:21Z 263.3K followers, 333.1K engagements


""The Trump administration has privately informed European allies that Washington will no longer remain NATOs primary conventional defense provider beyond 2027 three people familiar with classified conversations this week told Kyiv Post.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/michaeldweiss/status/1996977982511239244)  2025-12-05T16:20Z 263.3K followers, 1.2M engagements


""The U.S. officials told their counterparts that if Europe does not meet the 2027 deadline the U.S. may stop participating in some NATO defense coordination mechanisms said the sources who requested anonymity to discuss private conversations.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/michaeldweiss/status/1996984528544395322)  2025-12-05T16:46Z 263.3K followers, 15.6K engagements


""Comintern of the Right" is well formulated by Steve. It pays to remember who's leading this effort in U.S. foreign policy largely as an extension of the domestic culture war. Hint: It's the same man now making excuses for conservatism's embrace of Nick Fuentes and Tucker Carlson; the man who dismisses XX year-olds joking in chat groups about the Shoah as the ignorable antics of kids. Arendt had a similar name for this phenomenon.👇"  
[X Link](https://x.com/michaeldweiss/status/1997013621205799235)  2025-12-05T18:42Z 263.3K followers, 46K engagements


"It would be a grim historical irony if Europe got its act together at long last not in deference to American prodding but in panicked opposition to American attempts to destabilize Europe"  
[X Link](https://x.com/michaeldweiss/status/1997030314141524443)  2025-12-05T19:48Z 263.3K followers, 48.2K engagements


"I absolutely had this on my Bingo card for 2025. But Maher is waiting things out"  
[X Link](https://x.com/michaeldweiss/status/1997032995639701525)  2025-12-05T19:59Z 263.3K followers, 69.5K engagements


"Yermak said to have met with Ukraines Foreign Intelligence Service. Will fuel speculation hes about to skedaddle"  
[X Link](https://x.com/michaeldweiss/status/1997036094400213221)  2025-12-05T20:11Z 263.3K followers, 30.2K engagements


"It also pays to remember that Arnold Deutsch who suggested to Moscow that perhaps disillusioned members of the British establishment studying at Cambridge would make good recruits to the NKVD and then of course found a few was a follower of Reich. And then what happened was:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/michaeldweiss/status/1997040416504664259)  2025-12-05T20:28Z 263.3K followers, 12.5K engagements


"Charles McLaughlin just killed the Georgia sanctions provisions in the NDAA (Megobari Act). Bidzina and Putin will be happy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/michaeldweiss/status/1997104790828917213)  2025-12-06T00:44Z 263.3K followers, 42.3K engagements


"Its all just pure trolling at this point. They click post and howl with laughter at people stupid enough to believe a word theyre saying. And there are many many takers"  
[X Link](https://x.com/michaeldweiss/status/1997120392909979806)  2025-12-06T01:46Z 263.3K followers, 92K engagements


"The EU was created to keep Europe from going to war with itself again a project that has been rather successful and is also one of the reasons why Ukraine started a revolution in 2014 when its corrupt pro-Russian president betrayed a campaign pledge to bring Kyiv closer to the EU. This administration has bestowed any number of engulfing mandible-straining acts of fellatio on illiberal Middle Eastern autocracies without lecturing them on their domestic policies which are a shade worse than anything the EU could contrive. "Civilizational suicide" is the stuff of your blimpish uncle in his cups"  
[X Link](https://x.com/michaeldweiss/status/1997376577542271160)  2025-12-06T18:44Z 263.3K followers, 116.4K engagements


"The NDAA dropped Sunday. Its pro-Europe position is meant to tie the administrations hands on Americas force posture and the Baltic Security Initiative. It is also the opposite of the National Security Strategy. By @ralakbar"  
[X Link](https://x.com/michaeldweiss/status/1998012265061044485)  2025-12-08T12:50Z 263.3K followers, 129.6K engagements


"The reason Don Jr. and the online Vance whisperers are clucking overtime about Zelensky not taking these talks "seriously" is that they want him to give up Donbas. This pressure has been there from day one"  
[X Link](https://x.com/michaeldweiss/status/1998076734412046588)  2025-12-08T17:06Z 263.3K followers, 77.6K engagements


"Suggest European friends and allies read not only the National Security Strategy but also the National Defense Authorization Act for FY 2026 which was published last night. It's very long so skip to this section:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/michaeldweiss/status/1998083848916414702)  2025-12-08T17:34Z 263.3K followers, 164.6K engagements


"Here for instance we see several amendments written in direct response to what Elbridge Colby has been doing at DoD while Pete Hegseth does chin-ups and tequila shots. Note the provision about reclassifying aid to Ukraine as needed U.S. stocks -- this cannot be done per this draft unless the kit is so badly needed for a contingency op its absence could result in mission failure or loss of American lives:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/michaeldweiss/status/1998084742546088157)  2025-12-08T17:38Z 263.3K followers, 29.8K engagements


"Let's say Trump wants to punish Zelensky again for not wanting to forfeit Donbas by cutting intel sharing to Ukraine. He would have two days to notify Congress on this decision. And he'd have to explain why he did it and what the anticipated consequences to Ukraine would be. "Because I'm an asshole and I don't care" might not even suffice in this fast-changing political environment"  
[X Link](https://x.com/michaeldweiss/status/1998086183637733603)  2025-12-08T17:44Z 263.3K followers, 80.4K engagements


"More bad news for Colby and Vance cabal. The Baltic Security Initiative is codified by this legislation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/michaeldweiss/status/1998088857846423888)  2025-12-08T17:54Z 263.3K followers, 34.7K engagements


"Wanna permanently reduce the U.S. troop presence in Europe Where you gonna get the money Also the Grynch stays in the picture"  
[X Link](https://x.com/michaeldweiss/status/1998089611198029930)  2025-12-08T17:57Z 263.3K followers, 18.5K engagements


"MAGA and the capitulationists fail to understand Ukraines political landscape and why this is an untenable demand with or without Zelensky at the helm"  
[X Link](https://x.com/michaeldweiss/status/1998160656886030366)  2025-12-08T22:39Z 263.3K followers, 43.3K engagements


"One of the authors of the National Security Strategy is Michael Anton whom no one elected but who held down C-suite jobs at Citigroup and BlackRock. He would like you to know that he is more of a tribune of European thought and opinion than is the EU whose largest body is elected by each member-state every five years"  
[X Link](https://x.com/michaeldweiss/status/1998161886676668820)  2025-12-08T22:44Z 263.3K followers, 48.2K engagements


"OK but what if South Africa refuses to take you back"  
[X Link](https://x.com/michaeldweiss/status/1998163234369515601)  2025-12-08T22:50Z 263.3K followers, 198.7K engagements


"Its important to remember that the majority of Congress and American voters including pro-Trump Republicans are more aligned with the EU NATO and Ukraine on the future of Ukraine than they are with Trump Witkoff Vance Kushner and the Russian Federation. Losing sight of this fact is what the minority is keen for the majority to do"  
[X Link](https://x.com/michaeldweiss/status/1998200030776156224)  2025-12-09T01:16Z 263.3K followers, 62.5K engagements


"I'm really not sure the Trumpers have thought this thing through"  
[X Link](https://x.com/michaeldweiss/status/1998409790423503233)  2025-12-09T15:09Z 263.3K followers, 125.7K engagements


"You can tell he's furious. Good"  
[X Link](https://x.com/michaeldweiss/status/1998412783495315570)  2025-12-09T15:21Z 263.3K followers, 112.1K engagements


"Yes but this information is more than a year old. The parcel bombs that went off in Leipzig and Birmingham were "test runs" per Western intelligence for GRU-sponsored terrorist attacks intended for North America"  
[X Link](https://x.com/michaeldweiss/status/1998506010089238913)  2025-12-09T21:32Z 263.3K followers, 29.8K engagements


"Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusks tweet responding hostilely to the public version of the NSS was the most viewed political post on X this weekend"  
[X Link](https://x.com/michaeldweiss/status/1998565535660089813)  2025-12-10T01:28Z 263.3K followers, 28.9K engagements


"Chasing the Kremlin with new proposals without muscle to push through Kremlin rejectionism has been tried by the U.S. many times. It doesnt work. By @AmbDanFried"  
[X Link](https://x.com/michaeldweiss/status/1996344726115799503)  2025-12-03T22:24Z 263.3K followers, 17K engagements


"This is true: "Rubios name is never mentioned in the transcript according to a source familiar with it. However Witkoff and Kushner are cited repeatedly by several European leaders including Macron Merz Stubb Rutte and Meloni underscoring the centrality of the two US developers to these negotiations.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/michaeldweiss/status/1996970090139402491)  2025-12-05T15:49Z 263.3K followers, 88.2K engagements


"Wilhelm Reich was a bit silly but he got one thing very right"  
[X Link](https://x.com/michaeldweiss/status/1997039258201104778)  2025-12-05T20:23Z 263.3K followers, 32.9K engagements


"The same is true of the Ukraine peace plan whether its XX or XX points. And this is the greater indictment as hes indifferent to how his administration cruelly shapes the fate of XX million"  
[X Link](https://x.com/michaeldweiss/status/1998592191506297096)  2025-12-10T03:14Z 263.3K followers, 32.3K engagements