Eto Buziashvili
@buziashvili.bsky.social
Malign influence and info ops | Foreign interference | Russia @ Atlantic Council, DFRLab. Views my own. 🇺🇦
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It's somewhat amusing that you can pass yourself off as a Russia expert commenting on this "peace deal" as messy but at least "a way to end the war" without realising Kremlin sees it as just a tactic to continue it later.
It will end nothing.
It will end nothing.
November 24, 2025 at 12:29 PM
It's somewhat amusing that you can pass yourself off as a Russia expert commenting on this "peace deal" as messy but at least "a way to end the war" without realising Kremlin sees it as just a tactic to continue it later.
It will end nothing.
It will end nothing.
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The "peace" charade is not worth spending time on. It will all fall apart very soon. Russia has no interest in peace. The Russian regime needs war to motivate its own existence. What is clear, as it has been since the break-up of the USSR, is that The West is impotent in dealing with Russia.
November 23, 2025 at 5:02 PM
The "peace" charade is not worth spending time on. It will all fall apart very soon. Russia has no interest in peace. The Russian regime needs war to motivate its own existence. What is clear, as it has been since the break-up of the USSR, is that The West is impotent in dealing with Russia.
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X’s New Feature Reveals Why Trust & Safety Work Was Never About The ‘Censorship Industrial Complex’
For the last few years, Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger, and their allies have spent considerable energy attacking both academic researchers studying disinformation and the trust & safety teams…
For the last few years, Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger, and their allies have spent considerable energy attacking both academic researchers studying disinformation and the trust & safety teams…
X’s New Feature Reveals Why Trust & Safety Work Was Never About The ‘Censorship Industrial Complex’
For the last few years, Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger, and their allies have spent considerable energy attacking both academic researchers studying disinformation and the trust & safety teams at social media platforms working to identify and remove coordinated inauthentic behavior—particularly foreign influence operations. They've insisted that any attempt to study and limit such operations is actually just "censorship" with various forms of cover, whether academic or operational.
www.techdirt.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:25 PM
X’s New Feature Reveals Why Trust & Safety Work Was Never About The ‘Censorship Industrial Complex’
For the last few years, Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger, and their allies have spent considerable energy attacking both academic researchers studying disinformation and the trust & safety teams…
For the last few years, Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger, and their allies have spent considerable energy attacking both academic researchers studying disinformation and the trust & safety teams…
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We must win the war against Russia for the same reason that we had to win the war against the Axis powers eighty years ago.
In both cases, there could not, and cannot, be a half-victory. That would make no practical or concrete sense, given the nature and aims of the enemy.
Period.
In both cases, there could not, and cannot, be a half-victory. That would make no practical or concrete sense, given the nature and aims of the enemy.
Period.
November 23, 2025 at 6:31 PM
We must win the war against Russia for the same reason that we had to win the war against the Axis powers eighty years ago.
In both cases, there could not, and cannot, be a half-victory. That would make no practical or concrete sense, given the nature and aims of the enemy.
Period.
In both cases, there could not, and cannot, be a half-victory. That would make no practical or concrete sense, given the nature and aims of the enemy.
Period.
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UPCOMING BRIEFING—The MAX App: Russia’s Pocket-Sized Approach to Mass Surveillance
📅Dec. 2
🕑2pm
🏛️Rayburn 2358-C
Join us to explore the implications of Russia’s approach to digital surveillance, including prospects for access to the open internet in Russia & occupied Ukraine. (1/3)
📅Dec. 2
🕑2pm
🏛️Rayburn 2358-C
Join us to explore the implications of Russia’s approach to digital surveillance, including prospects for access to the open internet in Russia & occupied Ukraine. (1/3)
November 24, 2025 at 10:08 PM
UPCOMING BRIEFING—The MAX App: Russia’s Pocket-Sized Approach to Mass Surveillance
📅Dec. 2
🕑2pm
🏛️Rayburn 2358-C
Join us to explore the implications of Russia’s approach to digital surveillance, including prospects for access to the open internet in Russia & occupied Ukraine. (1/3)
📅Dec. 2
🕑2pm
🏛️Rayburn 2358-C
Join us to explore the implications of Russia’s approach to digital surveillance, including prospects for access to the open internet in Russia & occupied Ukraine. (1/3)
FSB: give us encryption keys.
Durov: no.
FSB: alright buddy, keep the candy.
That’s not how Telegram got magically unblocked in Russia.
⬇️Nice piece that offers facts, too many coincidences, and a pattern that’s hard to ignore. As Kasparov says: I believe in coincidences, but I also believe in KGB.
Durov: no.
FSB: alright buddy, keep the candy.
That’s not how Telegram got magically unblocked in Russia.
⬇️Nice piece that offers facts, too many coincidences, and a pattern that’s hard to ignore. As Kasparov says: I believe in coincidences, but I also believe in KGB.
Le Débunk Café fait le point dans cette enquête détaillée sur ce que l'on sait des liens de Pavel Durov et de Telegram avec les services de renseignement russes. Spoiler alert : plus guère de doute, Durov est bel et bien un agent d'influence du Kremlin.
November 24, 2025 at 5:37 PM
FSB: give us encryption keys.
Durov: no.
FSB: alright buddy, keep the candy.
That’s not how Telegram got magically unblocked in Russia.
⬇️Nice piece that offers facts, too many coincidences, and a pattern that’s hard to ignore. As Kasparov says: I believe in coincidences, but I also believe in KGB.
Durov: no.
FSB: alright buddy, keep the candy.
That’s not how Telegram got magically unblocked in Russia.
⬇️Nice piece that offers facts, too many coincidences, and a pattern that’s hard to ignore. As Kasparov says: I believe in coincidences, but I also believe in KGB.
As expected. Classic Russian move:
1) Slip in an impossible “peace” plan that’s just Ukrainian surrender.
2) Stoke fractures between the US, Europe, and Ukraine.
3) Reject any counter-offer.
4) Keep killing children and bombing hospitals in Ukraine.
5) Repeat.
1) Slip in an impossible “peace” plan that’s just Ukrainian surrender.
2) Stoke fractures between the US, Europe, and Ukraine.
3) Reject any counter-offer.
4) Keep killing children and bombing hospitals in Ukraine.
5) Repeat.
⚡️ Kremlin rejects European counter-proposal to US peace plan for Ukraine.
Kyiv's European partners reportedly pitched the plan as a counter-proposal to a 28-point document backed by the Trump administration.
Kyiv's European partners reportedly pitched the plan as a counter-proposal to a 28-point document backed by the Trump administration.
Kremlin rejects European counter-proposal to US peace plan for Ukraine
Kyiv's European partners reportedly pitched the plan as a counter-proposal to a 28-point document backed by the Trump administration, which was criticized for heavily favoring Russia.
kyivindependent.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:37 PM
As expected. Classic Russian move:
1) Slip in an impossible “peace” plan that’s just Ukrainian surrender.
2) Stoke fractures between the US, Europe, and Ukraine.
3) Reject any counter-offer.
4) Keep killing children and bombing hospitals in Ukraine.
5) Repeat.
1) Slip in an impossible “peace” plan that’s just Ukrainian surrender.
2) Stoke fractures between the US, Europe, and Ukraine.
3) Reject any counter-offer.
4) Keep killing children and bombing hospitals in Ukraine.
5) Repeat.
Trying to "cap" Ukraine’s armed forces is crazy. Russia launched the war, Ukraine is resisting extinction. Military caps are imposed on aggressor states after defeat, as with Germany after both world wars. Applying such limits to Ukraine inverts all geostrategic logic.
www.wsj.com/world/europe...
www.wsj.com/world/europe...
White House Hails Progress in Talks With Ukraine to End War With Russia
Officials from the U.S., Ukraine and Europe held meetings in Geneva to discuss next steps on the proposal.
www.wsj.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Trying to "cap" Ukraine’s armed forces is crazy. Russia launched the war, Ukraine is resisting extinction. Military caps are imposed on aggressor states after defeat, as with Germany after both world wars. Applying such limits to Ukraine inverts all geostrategic logic.
www.wsj.com/world/europe...
www.wsj.com/world/europe...
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Blessed are the peacemakers
November 23, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Blessed are the peacemakers
Here’s the Ukrainian peace plan. Peace for Europe will come after Russia’s defeat.
Shatura power station in Moscow region was hit overnight, igniting transformers at the 1500 MW facility with locals reporting at least six strikes.
November 23, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Here’s the Ukrainian peace plan. Peace for Europe will come after Russia’s defeat.
1) Ownership melodrama aside, it reads like a Russian document.
2) There can be no “peace plan” with Russia, only its defeat.
3) Europe has to stop taking rules and start making them.
2) There can be no “peace plan” with Russia, only its defeat.
3) Europe has to stop taking rules and start making them.
November 23, 2025 at 10:45 AM
1) Ownership melodrama aside, it reads like a Russian document.
2) There can be no “peace plan” with Russia, only its defeat.
3) Europe has to stop taking rules and start making them.
2) There can be no “peace plan” with Russia, only its defeat.
3) Europe has to stop taking rules and start making them.
If you bought bagged lettuce the day that “peace plan” got leaked, it’s still not expired.
Well there’s certainly no basis for negotiations now. I feel a bit sorry for everyone who has to go to Geneva for nothing. Maybe they can still cancel
US senators say they spoke with Rubio about Trump’s Ukraine peace plan who denied it is a US plan
U.S. senators critical of President Donald Trump’s approach to ending the Russia-Ukraine war say they spoke with U.S.
apnews.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:59 PM
If you bought bagged lettuce the day that “peace plan” got leaked, it’s still not expired.
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I just dipped a toe in the cesspit that used to be Twitter, and I think the surest indication that the “28 points” were translated from Russian is the number of Russian mouthpiece accounts busy shouting, unprompted, that that is absolutely not the case and they were drafted in the White House.
There is plenty in the 28-point list of US/Russian surrender demands for Ukraine that is nonsensical, unenforceable, or so vague as to be meaningless. My favourite might be
“9. European fighter jets will be stationed in Poland.”
It could have been written for maximum vagueness to wrangle over -
“9. European fighter jets will be stationed in Poland.”
It could have been written for maximum vagueness to wrangle over -
November 22, 2025 at 8:01 PM
I just dipped a toe in the cesspit that used to be Twitter, and I think the surest indication that the “28 points” were translated from Russian is the number of Russian mouthpiece accounts busy shouting, unprompted, that that is absolutely not the case and they were drafted in the White House.
Very clear message from Warsaw re basing European fighter jets in Poland without actually consulting Poland.
November 22, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Very clear message from Warsaw re basing European fighter jets in Poland without actually consulting Poland.
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The latest Storm-1516/R-FBI campaign is targeting the rift related to the corruption scandal in Ukraine. The video contains a faked screenshot of a publication in zn[.]ua with a made up story of a corruption case involving social policy minister Denys Uliutin.
November 22, 2025 at 3:24 PM
The latest Storm-1516/R-FBI campaign is targeting the rift related to the corruption scandal in Ukraine. The video contains a faked screenshot of a publication in zn[.]ua with a made up story of a corruption case involving social policy minister Denys Uliutin.
With all attention on a “peace deal,” here’s a weekend rec: an excellent 5-episode podcast that unpacks a core lens for understanding Putin’s Russia, especially the “dvor mentality” that forms the basis of its worldview and negotiation behavior.
open.spotify.com/show/2xy9VMZ...
open.spotify.com/show/2xy9VMZ...
About a Boy: The Story of Vladimir Putin
open.spotify.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:36 AM
With all attention on a “peace deal,” here’s a weekend rec: an excellent 5-episode podcast that unpacks a core lens for understanding Putin’s Russia, especially the “dvor mentality” that forms the basis of its worldview and negotiation behavior.
open.spotify.com/show/2xy9VMZ...
open.spotify.com/show/2xy9VMZ...
A brief reminder of Russian negotiation tactics that the West should always keep in mind. And yes, always listen to the Estonians.
November 22, 2025 at 10:26 AM
A brief reminder of Russian negotiation tactics that the West should always keep in mind. And yes, always listen to the Estonians.
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Here is my read of the "peace plan" and how Kirill Dmitriev played the American media to force this thing into being -- with an incompetent White House scrambling to make it seem like this was somehow coordinated and well-planned. open.substack.com/pub/macspaun...
“He Must Have Got This From K.”
How a Russian operative used the American media to force a risible “peace deal” into existence
open.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Here is my read of the "peace plan" and how Kirill Dmitriev played the American media to force this thing into being -- with an incompetent White House scrambling to make it seem like this was somehow coordinated and well-planned. open.substack.com/pub/macspaun...
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I support the Priess Plan.
I already have a counterproposal:
Russia pulls forces/proxies out of Ukraine—all of it—and removes offensive weapons from regions bordering Ukraine.
Pays for all war damage—and reconstruction.
All Russians engaged in war crimes stand trial.
And Ukraine can join any alliance it damn well pleases.
Russia pulls forces/proxies out of Ukraine—all of it—and removes offensive weapons from regions bordering Ukraine.
Pays for all war damage—and reconstruction.
All Russians engaged in war crimes stand trial.
And Ukraine can join any alliance it damn well pleases.
November 21, 2025 at 10:05 PM
I support the Priess Plan.
A very good catch by The Guardian on Russianisms that make the “peace deal” sound like it escaped from a Russian grammar workbook and got run over by Google Translate on the way out.
I’d add “NATO expansion” - their trademark phrase, not “NATO enlargement.”
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
I’d add “NATO expansion” - their trademark phrase, not “NATO enlargement.”
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
November 21, 2025 at 8:15 PM
A very good catch by The Guardian on Russianisms that make the “peace deal” sound like it escaped from a Russian grammar workbook and got run over by Google Translate on the way out.
I’d add “NATO expansion” - their trademark phrase, not “NATO enlargement.”
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
I’d add “NATO expansion” - their trademark phrase, not “NATO enlargement.”
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
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My cynical gut reaction to US-Russia negotiated deal is that the Kremlin was very smart. This is a play to divide not just the US and Ukraine but the US and Europe. They made what look like concessions, so they look reasonable. They also threw US some money. But they know Ukraine/EU can't say yes.1/
November 21, 2025 at 2:48 PM
My cynical gut reaction to US-Russia negotiated deal is that the Kremlin was very smart. This is a play to divide not just the US and Ukraine but the US and Europe. They made what look like concessions, so they look reasonable. They also threw US some money. But they know Ukraine/EU can't say yes.1/
Brilliant analysis.
Some notable things in what's being called the "Trump peace plan" but which could not have been more clearly written in Moscow if it came with a 2 for 1 deal on tickets to the Bolshoi Ballet. 🧵
November 21, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Brilliant analysis.
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Agree. Coalition of the Willing has to stop deluding itself that after a ceasefire on reasonable terms it will send symbolic forces to Ukraine w US backing. UK, France, Germany, Poland &c must invest whatever it takes to defeat RU in UA, or they will have to fight it, without US help, further West.
It’s not a “US plan”, it’s Moscow’s plan, dictated to guilty men in the White House. Setting aside the injustices being pushed on Ukraine, this would be a disaster for European security & guarantee a war with 🇷🇺 in a few years, in which, presumably, 🇺🇸 and 🇷🇺 are on the same side.
on.ft.com/3LYajoR
on.ft.com/3LYajoR
US plan for Ukraine-Russia peace calls on Kyiv to cede land under its control
Ukrainian officials say President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is being pressed to agree to terms negotiated by the US and Russia
on.ft.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Agree. Coalition of the Willing has to stop deluding itself that after a ceasefire on reasonable terms it will send symbolic forces to Ukraine w US backing. UK, France, Germany, Poland &c must invest whatever it takes to defeat RU in UA, or they will have to fight it, without US help, further West.
Long overdue but some good news.
How the EU plans to get troops and weapons across the continent to deter Russia
“Significant barriers to effective military mobility in the EU persist,” says a communication due to be announced on Wednesday.
www.politico.eu
November 20, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Long overdue but some good news.