Day: February 26, 2026

Why can’t they brief Congress?Sasha Ingber (@SashaIngber)NEW: DOD’s Cross-Functional Team prevented from briefing Congress on Havana Syndrome updates
-CFT kept in the dark on lawmaker requests
-CFT closer to attributing to Russia “authoritatively”
– @RepRickCrawford plans to reach out Hegseth in coming days
sashaingber.substack.com/p/a…—  https://x.com/SashaIngber/status/2027124404325380232

— Michael Weiss (@michaeldweiss) Feb 26, 2026

Yesterday Kirill Dmitriev boosted the SVR bullshit about the UK and France giving Ukraine a “dirty bomb” and demanded Keir Starmer resign. Today he left a meeting in Geneva with Kushner and Witkoff, and declined to comment about how it went.

One of Witkoff’s closest foreign confidants is Jonathan Powell, Starmer’s NSA. I wonder what Powell has said to Dim Philby about the SVR psyop or the loudmouth Russian negotiator lending credence to it…

Kirill isn’t as bright as he thinks he is. He QAnon posts and channels the most deranged MAGA claptrap on Twitter when the people he has to impress do not, as if to wishcast his way to a grand bargain, which is certainly more remote than his original 28-point plan indicated. He’s got enemies in Moscow. And he’s put a lot on the line, promising a deal he may not be able to deliver, either from the American side or from his own.

— Michael Weiss (@michaeldweiss) Feb 26, 2026

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— Reuters (@Reuters) Feb 26, 2026