Ivan U. KŁYSZCZ
@ivanklyszcz.com
Insights on int'l security, intel, Russia | Research Fellow @ICDS-Tallinn.bsky.social | ivanklyszcz.com | Tweets reflect my views only
‘Nigerian officials said they have been scrutinizing TikTok and social-media posts, to map how the view that the fight between pastoralists and farmers is a Christian genocide, once relegated to the fringes […], became a preoccupation in Washington.’ www.wsj.com/world/africa...
Exclusive | A Truth Social Threat and a Scramble in Nigeria to Avert Military Action
The West African country is trying to persuade Trump not to insert the U.S. military or cut off aid as largely Muslim cattle herdsmen are accused of killing Christians.
www.wsj.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:37 PM
‘Nigerian officials said they have been scrutinizing TikTok and social-media posts, to map how the view that the fight between pastoralists and farmers is a Christian genocide, once relegated to the fringes […], became a preoccupation in Washington.’ www.wsj.com/world/africa...
Scoop: Weapons sales to NATO allies stalled by government shutdown www.axios.com/2025/11/09/g...
Scoop: Weapons sales to NATO allies stalled by government shutdown
It's another example of the shutdown's sweeping global impacts.
www.axios.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Scoop: Weapons sales to NATO allies stalled by government shutdown www.axios.com/2025/11/09/g...
‘This fake targets American audiences with the aim of fueling anti-Ukrainian sentiment and undermining support for Ukraine.’
Russian propaganda exploits fringe U.S. commentator to accuse Ukraine of refinery blasts in Romania and Hungary
www.ukrinform.net/rubric-factc...
Russian propaganda exploits fringe U.S. commentator to accuse Ukraine of refinery blasts in Romania and Hungary
www.ukrinform.net/rubric-factc...
Russian propaganda exploits fringe U.S. commentator to accuse Ukraine of refinery blasts in Romania and Hungary
Russian propagandists use an American commentator to spread anti-Ukrainian narratives to Western audiences. — Ukrinform.
www.ukrinform.net
November 8, 2025 at 9:31 AM
‘This fake targets American audiences with the aim of fueling anti-Ukrainian sentiment and undermining support for Ukraine.’
Russian propaganda exploits fringe U.S. commentator to accuse Ukraine of refinery blasts in Romania and Hungary
www.ukrinform.net/rubric-factc...
Russian propaganda exploits fringe U.S. commentator to accuse Ukraine of refinery blasts in Romania and Hungary
www.ukrinform.net/rubric-factc...
How a satellite image allegedly showing atrocities in Sudan was misinterpreted f24.my/BY15
How a satellite image allegedly showing atrocities in Sudan was misinterpreted
In the wake of documented atrocities by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) during the capture of El-Fasher in late October, internet users shared a screenshot from Google Earth allegedly showing mass kill...
f24.my
November 7, 2025 at 3:37 PM
How a satellite image allegedly showing atrocities in Sudan was misinterpreted f24.my/BY15
Austria's intelligence service finds weapons cache linked to Hamas www.euronews.com/2025/11/06/a...
Austria's intelligence uncovers weapons cache linked to Hamas
The weapons cache, which is thought to be part of unspecified foreign operations linked to Hamas, was discovered in a suitcase in a rented storage room in Vienna and contained five handguns and 10 magazines.
www.euronews.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Austria's intelligence service finds weapons cache linked to Hamas www.euronews.com/2025/11/06/a...
‘… most of the videos are accompanied by captions in several foreign languages’.
Deepfake Blitz: Kremlin Pushes AI Videos of Ukrainian Troops “Giving Up” Near Pokrovsk united24media.com/latest-news/...
Deepfake Blitz: Kremlin Pushes AI Videos of Ukrainian Troops “Giving Up” Near Pokrovsk united24media.com/latest-news/...
Deepfake Blitz: Kremlin Pushes AI Videos of Ukrainian Troops “Giving Up” Near Pokrovsk
A recent CPD report reveals AI-generated fake videos on TikTok misleadingly claiming mass surrenders of Ukrainian troops near Pokrovsk, promoting Kremlin narratives.
united24media.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:20 PM
‘… most of the videos are accompanied by captions in several foreign languages’.
Deepfake Blitz: Kremlin Pushes AI Videos of Ukrainian Troops “Giving Up” Near Pokrovsk united24media.com/latest-news/...
Deepfake Blitz: Kremlin Pushes AI Videos of Ukrainian Troops “Giving Up” Near Pokrovsk united24media.com/latest-news/...
‘The researchers believe that the chatbots use Russian sources more often when a topic is considered a data void, a search term that doesn’t have many high-quality results.’
AI chatbots are spewing Russian propaganda, study finds www.euronews.com/next/2025/11...
AI chatbots are spewing Russian propaganda, study finds www.euronews.com/next/2025/11...
Which AI company diffuses the most Russian propaganda?
One in five AI chatbot answers uses Russian propaganda websites as sources, a new study shows.
www.euronews.com
November 4, 2025 at 6:20 PM
‘The researchers believe that the chatbots use Russian sources more often when a topic is considered a data void, a search term that doesn’t have many high-quality results.’
AI chatbots are spewing Russian propaganda, study finds www.euronews.com/next/2025/11...
AI chatbots are spewing Russian propaganda, study finds www.euronews.com/next/2025/11...
‘Milan, Lisbon and Seville have grown into burgeoning tech, finance and startup hubs. Labor markets once dominated by low-value work are adding skilled jobs…’
Europe’s Role Reversal: The Problem Economies Are Now Further North www.wsj.com/economy/euro...
Europe’s Role Reversal: The Problem Economies Are Now Further North www.wsj.com/economy/euro...
Europe’s Role Reversal: The Problem Economies Are Now Further North
France, the U.K. and Germany have rising budget deficits and debt, while the former crisis hot spots in the south look financially healthier.
www.wsj.com
November 3, 2025 at 7:07 AM
‘Milan, Lisbon and Seville have grown into burgeoning tech, finance and startup hubs. Labor markets once dominated by low-value work are adding skilled jobs…’
Europe’s Role Reversal: The Problem Economies Are Now Further North www.wsj.com/economy/euro...
Europe’s Role Reversal: The Problem Economies Are Now Further North www.wsj.com/economy/euro...
Interesting new polling data about Russians' views on international affairs: more pro-China than before, and more so than Iran and Pakistan.
news.gallup.com/poll/696476/...
news.gallup.com/poll/696476/...
Russians' Approval of China Firms as Global Order Shifts
Russian approval of China has hit record highs recently, aligning Moscow closer to Beijing than Washington and surpassing Pakistan and Iran.
news.gallup.com
November 1, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Interesting new polling data about Russians' views on international affairs: more pro-China than before, and more so than Iran and Pakistan.
news.gallup.com/poll/696476/...
news.gallup.com/poll/696476/...
‘The missile, which can carry a nuclear or conventional warhead, has a range of 2,500 km […]’.
Exclusive: Russia uses missile in Ukraine that led Trump to quit nuclear treaty, Kyiv says www.reuters.com/business/aer...
Exclusive: Russia uses missile in Ukraine that led Trump to quit nuclear treaty, Kyiv says www.reuters.com/business/aer...
www.reuters.com
October 31, 2025 at 11:12 AM
‘The missile, which can carry a nuclear or conventional warhead, has a range of 2,500 km […]’.
Exclusive: Russia uses missile in Ukraine that led Trump to quit nuclear treaty, Kyiv says www.reuters.com/business/aer...
Exclusive: Russia uses missile in Ukraine that led Trump to quit nuclear treaty, Kyiv says www.reuters.com/business/aer...
Always glad to come to Poland and hang out with Matty.
October 30, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Always glad to come to Poland and hang out with Matty.
‘This marks the first official acknowledgment from a NATO ally that Washington is scaling back forces on the continent.’
US begins troop drawdown in Romania
www.politico.eu/article/u-s-...
US begins troop drawdown in Romania
www.politico.eu/article/u-s-...
US begins troop drawdown in Romania
It’s the first official acknowledgment from a NATO ally that Washington is scaling back forces on the continent.
www.politico.eu
October 29, 2025 at 11:47 AM
‘This marks the first official acknowledgment from a NATO ally that Washington is scaling back forces on the continent.’
US begins troop drawdown in Romania
www.politico.eu/article/u-s-...
US begins troop drawdown in Romania
www.politico.eu/article/u-s-...
RT gets its hands on AI video disinformation.
AI video circulates showing Western leaders making shock revelations www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...
AI video circulates showing Western leaders making shock revelations www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...
www.euronews.com
October 28, 2025 at 3:59 PM
RT gets its hands on AI video disinformation.
AI video circulates showing Western leaders making shock revelations www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...
AI video circulates showing Western leaders making shock revelations www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...
Low-level agents in Germany: Russia's covert shadow force www.euronews.com/2025/10/27/l...
Low-level agents in Germany: Russia's covert shadow force
Germany is turning into a frontline for hybrid warfare, with German intelligence warning that Russia is recruiting so-called "low-level agents" – ordinary civilians paid small sums to carry out acts o...
www.euronews.com
October 27, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Low-level agents in Germany: Russia's covert shadow force www.euronews.com/2025/10/27/l...
‘Markus Frohnmaier, deputy chairman of the AfD parliamentary group in the Bundestag, was part of the organizing team for the 2018 Yalta International Economic Forum, which was supported by the Russian government and the Russian secret service FSB.’ www.dw.com/en/is-german...
Is Germany's far-right populist AfD spying for Russia? – DW – 10/26/2025
German politicians are making serious accusations against the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party. They allege the party is studying the country's critical infrastructure — in the interests of the Kre...
www.dw.com
October 26, 2025 at 7:58 PM
‘Markus Frohnmaier, deputy chairman of the AfD parliamentary group in the Bundestag, was part of the organizing team for the 2018 Yalta International Economic Forum, which was supported by the Russian government and the Russian secret service FSB.’ www.dw.com/en/is-german...
Tensions remain high as China and EU prepare Brussels meeting on rare earths www.euronews.com/business/202...
Tensions high as China and EU prepare another meeting on rare earths
Maros Šefčovič's meeting with his Chinese counterpart is cancelled. Instead, EU and Chinese experts will discuss China's rare earth export controls in Brussels.
www.euronews.com
October 25, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Tensions remain high as China and EU prepare Brussels meeting on rare earths www.euronews.com/business/202...
Trump sending US carrier to Latin America as war fears rise www.rfi.fr/en/internati...
Trump sending US carrier to Latin America as war fears rise
Washington is deploying an aircraft carrier strike group to counter drug-trafficking organizations in Latin America, the Pentagon said Friday, a major increase to a military buildup in the region that...
www.rfi.fr
October 24, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Trump sending US carrier to Latin America as war fears rise www.rfi.fr/en/internati...
While many in Europe argue that we have too much state involvement in the tech sector, this essay makes the case for deeper cooperation between US AI companies and the government, called a ‘national security partnership’. Something to reflect on. www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
The AI Grand Bargain
What America needs to win the innovation race.
www.foreignaffairs.com
October 23, 2025 at 3:55 PM
While many in Europe argue that we have too much state involvement in the tech sector, this essay makes the case for deeper cooperation between US AI companies and the government, called a ‘national security partnership’. Something to reflect on. www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
EU countries mull response to China's squeeze on rare earths www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...
EU countries mull response to China's squeeze on rare earths
China's restrictions on rare earths are expected to be raised during a meeting of EU leaders as capitals mull how to respond.
www.euronews.com
October 23, 2025 at 3:21 PM
EU countries mull response to China's squeeze on rare earths www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...
Rarely do I come across an essay as intellectually stimulating as this one: ‘Between 1850 and 1949, five new great powers stormed onto the scene, but in the 75 years since, only China has. And it may be the last.’ www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
The Stagnant Order
The end of rising powers.
www.foreignaffairs.com
October 22, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Rarely do I come across an essay as intellectually stimulating as this one: ‘Between 1850 and 1949, five new great powers stormed onto the scene, but in the 75 years since, only China has. And it may be the last.’ www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
‘[…] by increasing spending on US military technology, Europe has reinforced US dominance in some technologies […]. This has created a situation in which, despite bigger European spending, the US’s technological lead may be growing.’
www.bruegel.org/policy-brief...
www.bruegel.org/policy-brief...
Europe’s dependence on US foreign military sales and what to do about it
Europe’s reliance on US arms raises autonomy concerns, as security worsens and leaders aim to cut strategic and technological dependence
www.bruegel.org
October 21, 2025 at 11:24 AM
‘[…] by increasing spending on US military technology, Europe has reinforced US dominance in some technologies […]. This has created a situation in which, despite bigger European spending, the US’s technological lead may be growing.’
www.bruegel.org/policy-brief...
www.bruegel.org/policy-brief...
People sometimes ask me about what sources are there to research the Russian intelligence agencies. Articles like this help.
theins.ru/en/confessio...
theins.ru/en/confessio...
“Our people poisoned Navalny”: Former FSB officer on surveilling opposition figures and running black ops in Russia and Ukraine
For many years, Russia’s Service for the Protection of the Constitutional Order and the Fight against Terrorism (SZKSBТ), also known as the FSB’s Second Service, has effectively functioned as Russia’s...
theins.ru
October 20, 2025 at 6:20 PM
People sometimes ask me about what sources are there to research the Russian intelligence agencies. Articles like this help.
theins.ru/en/confessio...
theins.ru/en/confessio...
The Dutch services are some of the most capable in Europe, so one wonders whether this is part of a wider trend.
Dutch services share less information with the US: ‘Sometimes we don’t tell them things anymore’ www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...
Dutch services share less information with the US: ‘Sometimes we don’t tell them things anymore’ www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...
Nederlandse diensten delen minder informatie met de VS: ‘Soms vertellen we dingen niet meer’
Het aantal dreigingen dat op Nederland afkomt is groot, zien de hoofden van de AIVD en de MIVD elke dag: niet alleen Russische agressie, maar ook de opmars van China als digitale macht en binnenlands ...
www.volkskrant.nl
October 19, 2025 at 8:01 PM
The Dutch services are some of the most capable in Europe, so one wonders whether this is part of a wider trend.
Dutch services share less information with the US: ‘Sometimes we don’t tell them things anymore’ www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...
Dutch services share less information with the US: ‘Sometimes we don’t tell them things anymore’ www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...
About Alaska, John Bolton's comment after the event stuck with me, that Trump looked ‘very tired’ after meeting Putin. Now we know why. Will Putin make the same speech in a new meeting? www.ft.com/content/7af3...
How Vladimir Putin’s history rant in Alaska nudged Donald Trump closer to Ukraine
Fraught summit in Anchorage marked a nadir that reshaped how the presidents approach each other
www.ft.com
October 17, 2025 at 5:25 PM
About Alaska, John Bolton's comment after the event stuck with me, that Trump looked ‘very tired’ after meeting Putin. Now we know why. Will Putin make the same speech in a new meeting? www.ft.com/content/7af3...
‘The document highlights trade integration, migration, and border management, […] agriculture, fertilisers and critical raw materials.’ Also projects on AI, investment and more.
EU presents new pact to reshape relations with Mediterranean countries
www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...
EU presents new pact to reshape relations with Mediterranean countries
www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...
EU presents new pact to reshape relations with Mediterranean countries
Brussels is to seek deeper integration with the bloc's southern neighbours, through a new "Pact for the Mediterranean" presented on Thursday.
www.euronews.com
October 16, 2025 at 5:23 PM
‘The document highlights trade integration, migration, and border management, […] agriculture, fertilisers and critical raw materials.’ Also projects on AI, investment and more.
EU presents new pact to reshape relations with Mediterranean countries
www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...
EU presents new pact to reshape relations with Mediterranean countries
www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...