Eto Buziashvili - Georgian Dream Party Follows the Kremlin Playbook and Unleashes Extreme Violence

Eto Buziashvili is an expert in Influence operations, foreign interference, social media manipulation and digital authoritarianism. She is a Research Associate at the Atlantic Council. Her work has been cited by The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, BBC, Foreign Policy, and Voice of America, among other media outlets and global magazines.
----------
LINKS:
/ etobuziashvili
/ eto-buziashvili
www.atlanticcouncil.org/exper...
----------
ARTICLES:
www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs...
www.politico.eu/article/vladi...
globalvoices.org/2024/04/04/n...
----------
SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:
www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconc...
/ siliconcurtain
----------
TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:
Save Ukraine
www.saveukraineua.org/
Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas
superhumans.com/en/
UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine
unbroken.org.ua/
Come Back Alive
savelife.in.ua/en/
Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen
wck.org/relief/activation-che...
UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy
u24.gov.ua/
Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation
prytulafoundation.org
NGO “Herojam Slava”
heroiamslava.org/
kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl
kharpp.com/
NOR DOG Animal Rescue
www.nor-dog.org/home/
----------
PLATFORMS:
Twitter: / curtainsilicon
Instagram: / siliconcurtain
Podcast: open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6...
Linkedin: / finkjonathan
Patreon: / siliconcurtain
----------
Welcome to the Silicon Curtain podcast. Please like and subscribe if you like the content we produce. It will really help to increase the popularity of our content in KZbin’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

[@henriikkak2091]

I am sorry that Europe didn't pay enough attention to Georgia in 2008. We see you now, though, and we wish you strength and resilience in your fight for real freedom!

[@downbymysinsofficial]

Once they start fighting, they'll need assistance just like Ukraine!

[@douglasritter]

Georgia needs to be free and part of western Europe. Gods speed!

[@yamaneko-ex8fy]

Thank you for keeping us informed on Georgia and what a great threat Russia is to so many societies. Sending energy and good vibes to Georgian people defending their freedom, democracy and dignity.

[@dianetourje1359]

Yet another intelligent, informed, & analytical guest. Thank you

[@andyzx9682]

what a sincere , honest , well spoken Georgian lass .. excellent

[@SonaliGurpur]

💯 all the way. You have to see RT influence in India. It's mind numbing. It's in all the regional languages too.

[@18_rabbit]

many of us in the West have been wondering a lot about exactly that

[@serhii3194]

As we say in Ukraine, West might invented nuclear bombs but Soviet Union (for us it just reiteration of Russian Empire) perfected weapon much potent and dangerous - how to bomb people minds, and most dire situation is when your country propaganda and policies are fully alighned and amplifying each other with Russian ones. There basically no chanse for democracy then

[@terjeoseberg990]

Putin has been spending his oil and gas profits on propagandizing everywhere.

[@patricklosi3358]

Yeah I can't imagine the influence CNN, FOX NEWS and MSNBC have on anyone in America. 🤦 Criticism of news agencies is certainly understandable and valid. But don't you think we should be asking the follow up question as well: Compared to what?

[@hughjass6646]

Thanks for another higher quality speaker. Helps me keep my sanity

[@mikekolyshkin3931]

I visited Georgia in 2012 and fell in love with the country and its people. Georgian hospitality and cordiality brought our Ukrainian group literally to tears. I saw with my own eyes the police stations in Tbilisi intentionally built of glass to symbolize transparency of the local power. By the by, Georgia was one of the first states in the world that adopted Christianity in 330 AD or even earlier. The Georgians are highly civilized Europians with rich culture and noble dignity. I wish all the Georgian people peace, freedom, and prosperity. Thank you, Jonathan, for introducing such phenomenal humans on the channel!

[@mvjh2277]

Definitely commenting to thank you for your series on Georgia. 🇬🇪

[@thefastandthedead1769]

"It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself"' The words from 1320 in the Declaration of Arbroath seem as applicable today as they were then. Slava Georgia and her supporters! 🤍❤

[@johntucker5994]

This was an excellent discussion Jonathan and Eto. Thank you both for your interest in and efforts for a free Georgia. As an American, I would welcome greater engagement by the U.S. government, both covert and overt, in assisting Georgian citizens to fulfill their goal to be free of Russian control and to join the EU and other western institutions to improve their quality of life and to be free.

[@athenak4666]

Prayers of democratic freedom for Georgians.🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

[@EeeEee-bm5gx]

I was looking for some information on Georgia. People in my infobubble are uninformed but interested.

[@DarkestAlice]

Thank you, Jonathan, for inviting Eto Buziashvili for this interesting conversation. I hope, Georgians will have the final say. 🇺🇦 Перемоги і миру всім українцям! 🇺🇦

[@catherineandpaulfuters2523]

Thank you for your coverage and insights 🇬🇧🇺🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇦🇪🇺

[@crimeajewel]

❤❤❤❤❤ 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 ❤❤❤❤

[@stevenjohns-savage7024]

Great work guys 😁. Keep up the information we all need for the future

[@alvarobarcala]

She articulates the whole thing very clearly. More people should listen to her! It would be good that, following the theme of Russian intoxicating influences on other countries, you would dedicate (please) an episode to the issue with Viktor Orban and Hungary too. He is not just pro Putin, but he has declared many times that central and North parts of Romania should be Hungary, like in the Hungarian Empire times. So here we have another aspirant of Emperor, and aligned with Putin. That's why Orban is so happy with Russia changing the territorial order of Europe. He wants to help Russia in their invasions, thinking that Putin will give him Transilvania or even all Romania in exchange. If Russia takes Moldova (and having the alliance of Hungary and Serbia) Romania will be besieged. I do believe he has some pact with Putin, and when the times arrives, he will betray NATO, in an attempt of having another Hungarian empire again, within the sphere of Russia. It already happened in the past. Everyone is too focused on the Baltics and North Ukraine, but I do think Putin wants to expand using the South, as we see in Georgia, and Moldavia-Transnistria is an open door into Europe, with the help of Hungary (The fact that Putin made Transnistria ask him for liberation shows what is the plan of Putin). I would take the issue of Viktor Orban very seriously. People is tired of him because he blocks NATO and the EU, but the real issue with Orban is even massively bigger than that, as I've mentioned.

[@5ty717]

Get this lady back… she is so articulate…

[@djparn007]

Thank you, Jonathan and Eto. Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦

[@claudiocorrodi2303]

Thank you for this interview and for covering the Georgian struggle! After Saakashvili and his government screwed up big time, the Georgian Dream started with high hopes. But now the Georgian Dream is just another nightmare. I hope Georgia will be free in the end!🇬🇪

[@mariafoster7388]

So sad that Georgians are oppressed in this way.

[@downbymysinsofficial]

You still have to fight for just governments for the people by the people.

[@Grundewalt]

@Silicon Curtain. I listened to the podcast version and when I came home I want to share a thought I had in route. I heard about the Belorusization of Georgia, having in mind the crackind down of the protests gradually until a direct intervention leading to de facto ocupation. There is an argument to be made that belarus has also flirted with joing EU, not unlike Putin himself. Not unlike Goeorgia or Armenia, or even Kasakshtan. That should be take with a bit of salt as in fact the security services are aware of the ppl will but have no intention of fulfilling, only to use the time to gain trust and elections. But there is another parralel of modus operandi of FSB led russki mir in neighboring countries. One that encompass also Moldova chechnia and to some extent even countries that apparently have escaped the direct occupation in the first phase of expansionism: Romania, Bulgaria Hungary, slovakia Serbia, Germany etc : using the power of local kleptocracy (same as yanukovich in Ukraine or Shor in Moldova, Loukasenka in Belarus, AUR in Romania, ADF in Germany, Le pen in France) to get a followship already primed for violence in politics, than HOLLOWING THAT PARTY OUT , PURGING DISSIDENS like in the GOP in USA and Georgia Dream in Georgia and probably elswere, and then using money and the inherent money in politics to win power in that country and then to never let it go (like they try in Turkey, Hungary, Slovakia, Austria, Chechnia..So using democratic tools against democracy.

[@AlGrant-bh9or]

A well-thought-out analysis. I see the parellel here in the U.S. Our Supreme Court has been taken over by anti-democratic forces by design who pull the strings, above trump.

[@alexwaterville8074]

Fascinating thank you x

[@sumiland6445]

💛💙💜💙💛 listening uninterrupted 😊 🇺🇦 🌏 🇬🇧 🇺🇸

[@mvjh2277]

It seems this conflict in Georgia 🇬🇪 is a replay of Ukraine Maidan 🇺🇦 , sadly.

[@Donovanwashere]

🇬🇪💪🇬🇪💪🇺🇦🇺🇸🇺🇦🇺🇸

[@oldwot3888]

Thanks again, Simon, for platforming the important voices. Excellent and timely.

[@mikesmith135]

Thanks!

[@SiliconCurtain]

Thank you! 🙏

[@kj1483]

Prior to the Atlantic Council DFRLab, Eto advised the National Security Council of Georgia and was involved in developing strategic documents. Before that, Eto worked as a senior analyst at the country’s Ministry of Interior, where she covered security issues related to Russia and the occupied regions of Georgia. She was one of the negotiators at the Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism (IPRM) through which Russian officials and separatist leaders from the occupied regions of Georgia addressed the consequences of 2008 Russian-Georgian War. Eto graduated from the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP) and the University of Geneva with an MA in International and European Security.

[@johnt3805]

❤🇬🇪 from 🇨🇦

[@robmcdonald8896]

Another great and informative interview. Might have also been a good point to touch on the imprisoned former president who is being slowly killed by Georgian Dream.

[@SiliconCurtain]

I will, in other episodes.

[@claudiocorrodi2303]

I would not be surprised, if the Georgian Dream or at least some of its members try to get "permanently rid" of Saakashvili. However, we should also keep in mind, that the government of Saakashvili turned more and more authoritarian over time. So I hope that neither the Georgian Dream stays in power nor Saakashvili is coming back to power. For me more disturbing in the current events is, that until 2007 Iwanischwili backed Saakashvili and after they got into disagreement, Iwanischwili bought himself a new political party, which won the 2012 elections.

[@dutchy661]

Thank you Jonathan for pointing this out, and thank you Eto and all the best to you 🙏

[@ymichel7593]

Good news: The Foreign Agent Law is going to be repealed. The fight goes on.

[@gillydior]

🇬🇧❤🇺🇦

[@WalterBurton]

Staggering, this modern view from 30,000 feet. Civilians can watch the patterns repeat in "real-time," as it were.

[@TeeganDuckworth-ko6vs]

Great discussion..all will be revealed in the next election!

[@RoguehawkEye1963]

Another great interview and very eloquent interviewee

[@EeeEee-bm5gx]

Troll farm bots are out in force on this one

[@SiliconCurtain]

Of course. Paranoid Putin sees colour revolutions everywhere.

[@WalterBurton]

👍👍👍

[@level7041]

Time to fight back..

[@Aussie-Mocha]

We really can’t afford to underestimate what Putin can do with his “ruski mir” machine 😮

[@stevedolesch9241]

I agree, henriiikkak2091. As with the Crimean situation in 2014. I have a feeling that, if they knew, Western Inteligencia, had ignored what Putin was doing. I think they didn't have 360 sight nor forward sight, meaning seeing what could happen but when it does happen, they say, we should have and could have done something. The other freakish feeling I have is that they wanted this to happen!

[@richa7118]

🇬🇪🇬🇪 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇪🇬🇪

[@pdd60absorbed12]

Russian Lessons (2010) were learned too late. Btw, does anyone know if Nekrasov went over to the other side with The Magnitsky Act-Behind the Scenes (2016) documentary?

[@andyzx9682]

reminds me of the westminster regimes ' project fear ' in 2014

[@Toto-no3mv]

It looks like the battle lines are being drawn, based on what happened in Ukraine in 2014. Everyone--government and people--knows what's at stake.

[@johnwilliams2660]

Georgian nightmare

[@no8637]

🎉

[@texfromro]

I really can't understand how russia can be dragged in a war with Georgia if Russia doesn't want a war. And what kind of individual one needs to be to think that Georgia could declare war to Russia

[@davidtrace1641]

This is their chance to have their own midan and they have to be violent against their government, police and secret service?

[@peterlaurie1247]

Russia's 2 greatest exports, oil and misery. Europe seems to think that just because US is (currently) sending some aid to Ukraine, all the other problems have gone away.

[@rahjah6958]

Would be great if we could have a union of St George, I don’t think I need to explain what the means.

[@RennieNightcart]

Georgian Dream Party = Gruzian Nightmare Party.

[@seejaybee]

Hmmm, isn't the Kremlin a foreign actor ??

[@TalibanAtrocities]

Georgian state police : Ukranian Berkut Georgian gangs of thugs dressed in black : Ukranian Titushkis Same playbook

[@chelovekrazumni9960]

The topic of digital authoritarianism is actual for both Russia/China and Western countries. Western countries pushing for digital authoritarianism not less than Russia or China. Some EU countries, like Netherlands, or Denmark are already decades total digital control fascist regimes. What about UK in that regard? 😂😅😅

[@18_rabbit]

those two countries r two of THE most free, most transparent, most anti-authoritarian, dedicated to human rights, most good-natured ppl's and gvt's, on this planet. You sound like you need information, bcuz u appear to be not aware of what reality is in europe.

[@EeeEee-bm5gx]

I see a little troll, scaramouche, scaramouche, do the fandango!

[@pouncepounce7417]

Source : Ivan

[@nicholastregenza8426]

Thanks!

[@SiliconCurtain]

Thank you!

[@mike4480]

And Thank you Johnathan for another amazing update/ Stream and guest … 💙💛💙