🇷🇺 🇺🇦 President Trump recently renewed calls for a land swap between Russia and Ukraine. Managing Director of GMF's Alliance for Alliance for Securing Democracy David Salvo explains that this would grant Moscow control over offshore gas reserves in addition to other important resources:

"Without any clarity on what future security guarantees for Ukraine will look like, a ceasefire simply allows Russia to reconstitute its forces." David Salvo speaks with The Times and The Sunday Times on the key flashpoints in US-Russia talks over Ukraine. ⤵️ podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mon…

🌍 Russian state-media articles have been laundered into ostensibly independent outlets targeting Africa & the Middle East. These examples show the merits of focusing on image-reuse analysis to discover laundering, Peter Benzoni explains. ⤵️ securingdemocracy.gmfus.org/whos-reusing-r…

🇺🇸 🇺🇦 GMF Experts Josh Rudolph, Kristine Berzina, and David Salvo share their takes on the Trump Zelenskyy meeting. Rudolph: "Putin remains the obstacle to peace." Berzina: "The United States is not signaling a retreat from the European stage." Salvo: "Trump did little to dispel

It is positive that the Trump-Zelenskyy meeting was amicable. But this weekend "did little to dispel the notion that 🇺🇸 would support a comprehensive peace agreement largely on 🇷🇺's terms." "Putin is still calling the shots", David Salvo writes German Marshall Fund ⤵️ gmfus.org/news/trump-zel…

🇷🇺🇺🇸 Putin did not "signal any sort of shift in Russia's maximalist position" during last week's negotiations on war in Ukraine. "I don't think he's ready to soften his position quite yet," David Salvo told USA TODAY's Francesca Chambers & Zac Anderson. ⤵️ usatoday.com/story/news/wor…

In English, Russian state media aligned itself with the Trump administration on US border policy. 🌎 In Spanish, they sought to fuel discontent with US policies and exacerbate divides with Latin American audiences, Krysia Sikora writes. ⤵️ securingdemocracy.gmfus.org/cross-border-c…

🇷🇺 Russian state media and officials laid the groundwork to blame Ukraine and Europe if peace negotiations fail or go Ukraine's way. "Moscow is prepared for and ready to take advantage of a failure to secure a peace deal," Larissa Doroshenko 🇺🇦 writes. 🔽 securingdemocracy.gmfus.org/shifting-the-b…

🇷🇺 Since Putin's meeting with Trump in Alaska, the Kremlin has "put the onus on Ukraine & 🇪🇺 to make progress." Larissa Doroshenko 🇺🇦 explains how Russia intends to shift blame away in Washington's eyes if talks break down or go Ukraine's way. ⤵️ securingdemocracy.gmfus.org/shifting-the-b…

🇷🇺 "Russian state media’s English- and Spanish-language accounts adopted contradictory positions on Trump's border policies." This strategy in part hopes to "exacerbate friction between 🇺🇸 and Latin America", Krysia Sikora explains. ⤵️ securingdemocracy.gmfus.org/cross-border-c…

Last week, the Trump administration axed the last remaining federal organ that tracks & analyzes foreign interference in 🇺🇸 elections & society. But 🇺🇸's adversaries "have no interest in slowing down" such operations, David Salvo warns Just Security. ⤵️ justsecurity.org/119653/wjh-dis…

In 2024, the Foreign Malign Influence Center provided updates to the 🇺🇸 public about how foreign adversaries were seeking to influence 🇺🇸's elections. Closing this organ only benefits Moscow, Beijing, and Tehran, David Salvo writes Just Security. ⤵️ justsecurity.org/119653/wjh-dis…

🇺🇸 With the US government closing the Foreign Malign Influence Center, Congress should step up. Committees should call hearings to "compel administration officials" to share information about foreign interference, David Salvo explains Just Security. ⤵️ justsecurity.org/119653/wjh-dis…

The closure of the "last remaining US federal-government organ dedicated to tracking and analyzing" foreign threats to US society and elections is a "blow to national security and a gift to 🇺🇸's adversaries", David Salvo writes Just Security. 👇 justsecurity.org/119653/wjh-dis…

🇷🇺 Russian state media's English- and Spanish-language accounts adopted contradictory positions about US immigration policy. Krysia Sikora explains how this reflects a strategy to exacerbate friction between 🇺🇸 and Latin America. ⤵️ securingdemocracy.gmfus.org/cross-border-c…

💬 American conservatives often reject social-media regulation on the grounds that it stifles speech. Conversely, the lack of regulation places speech at greater risk by leaving it subject to political pressure, ASD's David Salvo & Bret Schafer write. ⤵️ securingdemocracy.gmfus.org/in-denouncing-…

🇲🇩 Before Moldova's 2024 elections, 🇺🇸-funded outlets provided an alternative to the Kremlin's media. 🇷🇺 Less than a year later, those outlets are "slowly but steadily receding ... to the seeming benefit of Russian propagandists", ASD finds. ⤵️ securingdemocracy.gmfus.org/rising-and-fal…

🇺🇸🇪🇺 American opponents of social-media regulation often criticize EU legislation as a form of censorship. By contrast, 🇪🇺's model could provide those opponents with the mechanisms to hold platforms accountable, ASD's David Salvo & Bret Schafer write. ⤵️ securingdemocracy.gmfus.org/in-denouncing-…

🇲🇩 Moldova's elections have recently asked citizens to choose between a pro-EU or pro-Russian path. Against this backdrop, cuts to 🇺🇸-funded media have "coincided with a significant jump in the relative visibility of 🇷🇺 state-media outlets", ASD finds. ⤵️ securingdemocracy.gmfus.org/rising-and-fal…

📰 In Moldova, "the effects are already visible just months after USAGM began to dismantle its global operations." 🇺🇸-funded outlets have faded from search results, while 🇷🇺's alternatives have started to take their place. Read ASD's findings here. ⤵️ securingdemocracy.gmfus.org/rising-and-fal…