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Silicon Bites #100 - Trump is Mad, Bad and A Clear and Present Danger for Freedom, Law and Democracy

21 februari 2025 | 17 min

Edition No100 | 21-02-2025 - Scholz says Trump's comments about Zelenskyy 'wrong and dangerous'. Germany’s chancellor Olaf Scholz said it was “wrong and dangerous” of US president Donald Trumpto call Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy a “dictator”.“It is simply wrong and dangerous to deny President Zelenskyy his democratic legitimacy,” Scholz said in quotes carried by the German newspaper Spiegel.What is correct is that Zelenskyy is the elected head of state of Ukraine … The fact that proper elections can’t be held in the middle of the war is reflected in the Ukrainian constitution and electoral law. Russia’s ambassador to the UK, Andrei Kelin,said Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s legitimact has “come to an end”. Kelin, in an interview with BBC Newsnight, praised the Trump administration, saying it has “an understanding of what (Russia) is doing, why we are doing it, and what should be the outcome of it”.For the first time we have noticed that [the US] are not simply saying that this is Russian propaganda and disinformation. They have listened and they hear what we’re saying. The Russian ambassador added that Moscow did not want a temporary ceasefire or truce but an overall settlement.Asked if Russia would give Ukraine some of their territories back, Kelin said: Why should we? We have liberated these territories, upon which Russian people are living for centuries.Kyiv had expended huge efforts to try and create a favourable environment for peace discussions with Trump. Months, if not years of delicate entreaties and soft approaches has been blown out of the water by trumps repetition of vile and disgraceful Kremlin misinformation and lies. Rather than correcting these, he has doubled down and lashed out. ----------SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISERA project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to Ukraine's front-line towns.https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras----------LINKS:https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/19/kyivs-white-house-wooing-implodes-as-zelenskyy-tells-the-truth-about-trumphttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/19/ukraine-zelenskyy-says-trump-living-in-russian-disinformation-bubblehttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/19/trump-ukraine-war-russia-could-have-made-a-deal----------SILICON CURTAIN LIVE EVENTS - FUNDRAISER CAMPAIGN 10 Events in 10 months - Advocacy for a Ukrainian victory with Silicon Curtainhttps://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extrasOur first live events this year in Lviv and Kyiv were a huge success. Now we need to maintain this momentum, and change the tide towards a Ukrainian victory. The Silicon Curtain Roadshow is an ambitious campaign to run 10 events in 10 months (at a minimum). We may add more venues to the program, depending on the success of the fundraising campaign. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extrasWe need to scale up our support for Ukraine, and these events are designed to have a major impact. Your support in making it happen is greatly appreciated. All events will be recorded professionally and published for free on the Silicon Curtain channel. Where possible, we will also live-stream events.https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras----------SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtainhttps://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain----------

630. Alya Shandra - Minsk 3 will Lay Foundations for a Full-scale War in Western Europe Within 2-3 Years.

21 februari 2025 | 35 min

Alya Shandra is Editor-in-chief at Euro Maidan Press. She has a background in environmental science and NGOs. During the Euromaidan revolution Alya Shandra launched an indy-media outlet called Euromaidan Press, and that project was fueled by her interest in how to help Ukraine permanently move beyond being a post-communist post-colony country and evolve into becoming a free and democratic society that tackles corruption and nepotism.----------LINKS:The Surkov report: https://euromaidanpress.com/2019/11/12/what-surkovs-hacked-emails-tell-about-russias-hybrid-war-against-ukraine/The Euro Maidan Press: https://euromaidanpress.com/How to help the Ukrainian army - DONATE NOW!https://euromaidanpress.com/2022/02/27/verified-ways-to-help-the-ukrainian-army/?swcfpc=1----------SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtainhttps://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain----------TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:Save Ukrainehttps://www.saveukraineua.org/Superhumans - Hospital for war traumashttps://superhumans.com/en/UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukrainehttps://unbroken.org.ua/Come Back Alivehttps://savelife.in.ua/en/Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchenhttps://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraineUNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyyhttps://u24.gov.ua/Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundationhttps://prytulafoundation.orgNGO “Herojam Slava”https://heroiamslava.org/kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyślhttps://kharpp.com/NOR DOG Animal Rescuehttps://www.nor-dog.org/home/----------PLATFORMS:Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSiliconInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqmLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Silicon Bites #99 - Prepare for Betrayal as Trump Brokers a 21st Century Molotov Ribbentrop Pact.

20 februari 2025 | 32 min

Edition No99 | 20-02-2025 - Bad information. Bad preparation. Bad intent. Not grounded or limited by values.o We have been deceived and swindled. Trade imbalance. Bad deals. o Everything that is the US’s is by extension mine. All the slights mine too. o Relationships are all transactional, monetary in nature, and short-term. o See alliances through the lens of immediate quid pro quo.o ‘Bad deals made by Biden’ need to be repaid and allies squeezed for money. - Two points of view on the war: o Principled defense of democracy and sovereignty, selfless and values ledo Ukraine is guilty of not capitulating and resisting absorption by Russia World - Geopolitical points of view:o West: struggle of authoritarianism against democracy against Axis of Evil. o US: If you can’t beat them, collude with them. Peel Russia away from China. o Russia: divide US from West. Make complicit in criminality. Betray and destroy.o China: let West and Russia attrit themselves, then define new global order. - The path of least resistance – Trump sees the fall of Ukraine as the fastest solution. o The Afghan strategy part 2 – but this time own defeat via lies and gaslightingo Assumptions behind this strategy – Russian disinformation narratives injected. o Russia is strong and Ukraine is weak; Europe is decadent and will do nothing. o Hear words “Ukraine shouldn’t have started the war / refused to negotiate.”o It’s the failure to submit to force – to violence to see the world transaction-ally. o What are you dying for, when you could make money? No values. No empathy. o No mention of holding elections in Russia, run by same dictator 25 years.o No mentioned of Russian crimes, violence, illegality and interference. ----------SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISERA project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to Ukraine's front-line towns.https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras----------LINKS:https://phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/trump-and-putin-aligning-over-ukrainian ----------SILICON CURTAIN LIVE EVENTS - FUNDRAISER CAMPAIGN 10 Events in 10 months - Advocacy for a Ukrainian victory with Silicon Curtainhttps://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extrasOur first live events this year in Lviv and Kyiv were a huge success. Now we need to maintain this momentum, and change the tide towards a Ukrainian victory. The Silicon Curtain Roadshow is an ambitious campaign to run 10 events in 10 months (at a minimum). We may add more venues to the program, depending on the success of the fundraising campaign. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extrasWe need to scale up our support for Ukraine, and these events are designed to have a major impact. Your support in making it happen is greatly appreciated. All events will be recorded professionally and published for free on the Silicon Curtain channel. Where possible, we will also live-stream events.https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras----------SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtainhttps://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain----------

629. Timothy Ash - NATO is Dead, Europe is on its Own and the US is an Adversary - Toxic New World Order.

20 februari 2025 | 33 min

Timothy Ash, who has been professional economist for more than 30 years, with two thirds of that in the banking industry. Timothy’s specialism is emerging European economics, and he writes and blogs extensively on economic challenges for leading publications such as the Kyiv Post, Atlantic Council, the Financial Times, and the United Business Journal. He is also an Associate Fellow in the Russia and Eurasia programme at Chatham House and has advised various governments on Ukraine-Russia policy and specifically on the impact of sanctions.----------SILICON CURTAIN LIVE EVENTS - FUNDRAISER CAMPAIGN 10 Events in 10 months - Advocacy for a Ukrainian victory with Silicon Curtainhttps://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extrasOur first live events this year in Lviv and Kyiv were a huge success. Now we need to maintain this momentum, and change the tide towards a Ukrainian victory. The Silicon Curtain Roadshow is an ambitious campaign to run 10 events in 10 months (at a minimum). We may add more venues to the program, depending on the success of the fundraising campaign. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extrasWe need to scale up our support for Ukraine, and these events are designed to have a major impact. Your support in making it happen is greatly appreciated. All events will be recorded professionally and published for free on the Silicon Curtain channel. Where possible, we will also live-stream events.https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras----------LINKS:https://twitter.com/tasheconhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/timothy-ash-83a87158/https://www.chathamhouse.org/about-us/our-people/timothy-ashhttps://cepa.org/author/timothy-ash/----------ARTICLES:https://timothyash.substack.com/ https://kyivindependent.com/author/timothy-ash/----------SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtainhttps://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain----------TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:Save Ukrainehttps://www.saveukraineua.org/Superhumans - Hospital for war traumashttps://superhumans.com/en/UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukrainehttps://unbroken.org.ua/Come Back Alivehttps://savelife.in.ua/en/Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchenhttps://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraineUNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyyhttps://u24.gov.ua/Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundationhttps://prytulafoundation.org----------PLATFORMS:Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSiliconInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqmLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Silicon Bites #98 - Negotiations or Capitulation - US Discusses Carving up Ukraine Behind their Back

18 februari 2025 | 18 min

Edition No98 | 18-02-2025 - After the meeting between Russia and the US, questions but with few answers. QUESTION: Can you take us a little bit in the room today? What was the interaction like? How would you characterize the discussions? MR WITKOFF: It was positive, upbeat, constructive, everybody there to get to the right outcome, solution based. We discussed it afterwards. We couldn’t have imagined a better result after this session. It was very, very solid.Matthew Miller @matthewamillerNegotiating an end to a war is easy if your plan is to surrender.John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.socialRussia is at its weakest in years. Putin is in a precarious situation. They are attacking western interests around the world and murdering Europeans. Why is Rubio bending a knee and showing weakness?David Frum @davidfrumWhen FDR struck an over-the-heads-of-eastern-Europe deal at Yalta in Feb 1945, Stalin had 300+ divisions in the field vs Nazi Germany. The impending unilateral Trump sellout of Ukraine occurs when Putin is battered and almost broke.¬ Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63This looks more like Molotov-Ribbentrop than Yalta. It’s business, dividing up Ukraine for profit. And they will try and may succeed unless Europe acts quickly instead of just talks.----------SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISERA project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to Ukraine's front-line towns.https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras----------SILICON CURTAIN LIVE EVENTS - FUNDRAISER CAMPAIGN 10 Events in 10 months - Advocacy for a Ukrainian victory with Silicon Curtainhttps://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extrasOur first live events this year in Lviv and Kyiv were a huge success. Now we need to maintain this momentum, and change the tide towards a Ukrainian victory. The Silicon Curtain Roadshow is an ambitious campaign to run 10 events in 10 months (at a minimum). We may add more venues to the program, depending on the success of the fundraising campaign. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extrasWe need to scale up our support for Ukraine, and these events are designed to have a major impact. Your support in making it happen is greatly appreciated. All events will be recorded professionally and published for free on the Silicon Curtain channel. Where possible, we will also live-stream events.https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras----------SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtainhttps://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain----------

628. Ben Hodges - Europe must Prepare for War or Risk Russian Provocation and Domination of the Continent

17 februari 2025 | 44 min

Ben Hodges is a retired United States Army officer, who became commander of United States Army Europe in November 2014, and held that position for three years until retiring from the United States Army in January 2018. Until recently he was the Pershing Chair in Strategic Studies, at the Centre for European Policy Analysis, specialising in NATO, Transatlantic relationship and international security. ----------Over the past week, Russia sent 1,220 glide bombs, 40 missiles and more than 850 drones into Ukraine, including a couple of high explosive drones that hit the Chornobyl nuclear power plant. The idea that Putin wants peace is a dangerous delusion. Yet at the Munich Security conference last week several things came into sharp focus. The Trump administration seems desperate to secure peace and is prepared to grant any concession to get Putin to simply agree to negotiations. The victim of the war, Ukraine, and its largest supporter in monetary terms, Europe, are being cut out of the negotiation process. Ukraine is denied the security of NATO membership. Sanctions against Russia may be eased, and war criminal Putin normalised on the world stage. Moreover, the US under Trump is prepared to extort and blackmail victims of war and terror such as Ukraine, to strip its mineral resources, deny its agency and negate its sovereign borders. Europe is being told it’s on its own, with the implication it comes under Russia’s Eurasian imperial sphere of influence. In this episode we ask, how much worse can the situation get, and what does Putin want us to feel at this point of inflection? ----------SILICON CURTAIN LIVE EVENTS - FUNDRAISER CAMPAIGN 10 Events in 10 months - Advocacy for a Ukrainian victory with Silicon Curtainhttps://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extrasOur first live events this year in Lviv and Kyiv were a huge success. Now we need to maintain this momentum, and change the tide towards a Ukrainian victory. The Silicon Curtain Roadshow is an ambitious campaign to run 10 events in 10 months (at a minimum). We may add more venues to the program, depending on the success of the fundraising campaign. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extrasWe need to scale up our support for Ukraine, and these events are designed to have a major impact. Your support in making it happen is greatly appreciated. All events will be recorded professionally and published for free on the Silicon Curtain channel. Where possible, we will also live-stream events.https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras----------CHAPTERS00:03:41 That was that was a gloomy intro, even for you, but we're at a critical juncture.00:04:47 3 things come to mind immediately: one, the importance of allies and partners.00:06:10 The Russians clearly have no interest in actually negotiating with Ukraine.00:08:33 Ditching Europe would be a massive, catastrophic, self-inflicted wound for US.00:13:13 French president hosting an emergency summit of European leaders in Paris.00:16:13 It's to our detriment, that article 5 of the Washington Treaty is even a question.00:21:10 Dayton accord - You had a different structure, mission, rules of engagement.00:27:57 I don't know if it's desperation. The president would like to get this peace done.00:32:20 That's not going to cause a Russian tank regiment to turn around and go back.00:35:26 If Europeans feel uneasy about it, roll your sleeves up and do something.00:40:16 I've got nothing against Russians retreating themselves into a total collapse.00:42:17 This is a call for leaders, elected officials, to talk to fellow citizens as adults.----------SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtainhttps://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain----------TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:Save Ukrainehttps://www.saveukraineua.org/Superhumans - Hospital for war traumashttps://superhumans.com/en/UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukrainehttps://unbroken.org.ua/Come Back Alivehttps://savelife.in.ua/en/Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchenhttps://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraineUNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyyhttps://u24.gov.ua/Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundationhttps://prytulafoundation.orgNGO “Herojam Slava”https://heroiamslava.org/kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyślhttps://kharpp.com/NOR DOG Animal Rescuehttps://www.nor-dog.org/home/----------

627. Joseph Lindsley - Bad Intent or Very Bad Information: How to Read Vance & Trump's Words

16 februari 2025 | 41 min

Joe Lindsley is a traveller and a writer, and American reporting on Chicago's WGN Radio from Ukraine each and every weekday of Russia's full-scale war. He once was protégé to Fox News founder Roger Ailes, but Lindsley escaped that frenzied world where power mattered more than truth. He came to Lviv for a Ukrainian Catholic University journalism conference on Information Overload, AI, and Responsibility. Then the Coronavirus shut down world travel, and he stayed to build a better vision for the media industry.OTHER VIDEOS: 1. https://youtu.be/DM42QAF2ia4 (07-Nov-23)2. https://youtu.be/KAGt83FzXmI (26-Jan-24)3. https://youtu.be/AlD3HUTQAag (20-Feb-24)4. https://youtu.be/w8Y1XLuhB9Q (04-Apr-24)5. https://youtu.be/eA6DI5bwrq8 (05-Jun-24)6. https://youtu.be/VmQE32SHg88 (14-Nov-24)7. https://youtu.be/_0YldajNrWg (29-Jan-25)8. https://youtu.be/BcUHYVNZ5Ck (10-Feb-25)----------LINKS:https://www.ukrainianfreedomnews.com/donation/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Lindsleyhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/joseph-lindsley-60087618/https://www.youtube.com/@jplindsleyhttps://twitter.com/JPLindsleyhttps://www.instagram.com/jplindsley/https://www.facebook.com/josephlindsleyhttps://www.ukrainianfreedomnews.com/ ----------SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtainhttps://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain----------TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:Save Ukrainehttps://www.saveukraineua.org/Superhumans - Hospital for war traumashttps://superhumans.com/en/UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukrainehttps://unbroken.org.ua/Come Back Alivehttps://savelife.in.ua/en/Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchenhttps://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraineUNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyyhttps://u24.gov.ua/Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundationhttps://prytulafoundation.orgNGO “Herojam Slava”https://heroiamslava.org/kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyślhttps://kharpp.com/NOR DOG Animal Rescuehttps://www.nor-dog.org/home/----------PLATFORMS:Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSiliconInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Silicon Bites #97 - Trump Signals Dangerous Concessions Before Negotiations Begin (Art of the Steal)

15 februari 2025 | 38 min

Edition No97 | 15-02-2025 - Europe’s new Munich moment happened on the eve of the Munich Security Conference. And it was at this event in 2007, 18 years ago, that Vladimir Putin announced his intention to create a new security architecture for Europe – a new world order in fact. He was ignored, and Europe was presumed to be secure. The aggressor was appeased, and his lawless aggression normalised. We carried on growing fat, rich and ignoring the echoes from history. ----------Here we are. A seamless path towards democratic transition was assumed for countries of the former Soviet Bloc, and not nearly enough thought and effort were given to nurturing it. We just forgot our own histories and paths to democracy which were stained with blood, tears sacrifices and nobility. In fact, the opposite happened – a headlong rush to disarm Ukraine, reassert Russia as prime voice of the region, and abandonment to financial self-interest through the creation of money laundering efforts such as Londongrad. Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind, as the phrase goes. Ukraine has shown that the path to democracy is hard, and involves trauma, violence, radical thinking and bold action. It’s not easy – and never was. But before we dive into the maelstrom of news engulfing the world. Let’s take a moment of calm to understand what Ukraine has achieved and reflect on the fact that it is not conquered, despite the lies and delusions coming from Tucker Carlson, Viktor Orban, Fico, Gabbard and any number of other appeasing puppets of tyrannical regimes. Here is a calm image, and a reminder of what Ukraine is capable of, born of strength, will and ingenuity: Russia’s Black Sea fleet destroyed. Now more grain is exported through the Black Sea route that Russia tried to blockade than before Putin’s full-scale war. ----------SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISERA project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to Ukraine's front-line towns.https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras----------NEWS SOURCES:https://www.channel4.com/news/trump-shocks-europe-with-avalanche-of-concessions-to-putin-over-ukraine https://edition.cnn.com/2025/02/12/politics/video/john-bolton-trump-putin-ukraine-russia-negotiations-digvid https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2025/02/13/7498050/ https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-vladimir-putin-stun-europe-peace-plan-ukraine-nato/ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8ed3nk3n6ro https://news.sky.com/video/ceasefire-talks-not-a-betrayal-of-ukrainian-forces-says-us-defence-secretary-pete-hegseth-13308348----------SILICON CURTAIN LIVE EVENTS - FUNDRAISER CAMPAIGN 10 Events in 10 months - Advocacy for a Ukrainian victory with Silicon Curtainhttps://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extrasOur first live events this year in Lviv and Kyiv were a huge success. Now we need to maintain this momentum, and change the tide towards a Ukrainian victory. The Silicon Curtain Roadshow is an ambitious campaign to run 10 events in 10 months (at a minimum). We may add more venues to the program, depending on the success of the fundraising campaign. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extrasWe need to scale up our support for Ukraine, and these events are designed to have a major impact. Your support in making it happen is greatly appreciated. All events will be recorded professionally and published for free on the Silicon Curtain channel. Where possible, we will also live-stream events.https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras----------SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtainhttps://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain----------

623. David Satter - We Underestimate Russia's Capacity for Evil Deeds at our Peril - Things Can Always Get Worse.

15 februari 2025 | 56 min

David Satter is a journalist and historian with unique insights into how the deformation and repression of the past, is having terrible consequences for present day Russia. David has written extensively about Russia and the Soviet Union, especially the decline and fall of the USSR and rise of post-Soviet Russia. David Satter became the first American journalist to be expelled from Russia since the Cold War in December 2013. This was perhaps not a surprising move, given that his books have covered topics such as the FSB’s role in the apartment bombings that brought Putin to power. From 1976 to 1982 David was the Moscow correspondent of the Financial Times, and then became a special correspondent on Soviet affairs for The Wall Street Journal. He is currently a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and a fellow of the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. ----------BOOKS:He is author of several books that are essential reading to help understand the origins of the current crisis, including the brilliantly named books: - It Was a Long Time Ago, and It Never Happened Anyway- Darkness at Dawn: The Rise of the Russian Criminal State- The Less You Know, The Better You Sleep----------LINKS:https://davidsatter.com/https://twitter.com/davidsatter?lang=enhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Satterhttps://www.hudson.org/experts/362-david-satterhttps://www.fpri.org/contributor/david-satter/https://www.foreignaffairs.com/authors/david-satter----------SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtainhttps://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain----------TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:Save Ukrainehttps://www.saveukraineua.org/Superhumans - Hospital for war traumashttps://superhumans.com/en/UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukrainehttps://unbroken.org.ua/Come Back Alivehttps://savelife.in.ua/en/Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchenhttps://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraineUNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyyhttps://u24.gov.ua/Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundationhttps://prytulafoundation.orgNGO “Herojam Slava”https://heroiamslava.org/kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyślhttps://kharpp.com/NOR DOG Animal Rescuehttps://www.nor-dog.org/home/----------PLATFORMS:Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSiliconInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqmLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Silicon Bites #96 - Peace is Just Another Phase of War - In Putin's View we are now in a 'Forever War'

14 februari 2025 | 20 min

Edition No96 | 14-02-2025 - Last night Russia struck the fourth reactor of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, causing serious damage to the protective shielding. There is an almost zero possibility this was an accident, or not explicitly ordered by Vladimir Putin. It’s a signal. It’s a show of force and contempt for Western ‘peace-making’, or what he sees as weakness and capitulation. ----------We ran two events in Ukraine in the last two weeks. Lviv (part 2) and Kyiv. The event we ran in August 2023 was a huge success, and had a great impact. Now our aim is even more ambitious. Two cities. Two events. Multiple panels consisting of the best experts, and all filmed in high definition for the channel.https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extrasBut it costs. Last time the overall cost was £3,500 for Live in Lviv, and we covered 80% of this through ticket sales. This time the costs are higher, and there's less opportunity to sell tickets at the available venues and studios, so I'm creating a campaign to raise £5,000 to make this trip a reality. We also have a much more ambitious programme to film interviews around Kyiv and Lviv for the channel. This project will have an impact, so please help if you can. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras----------There are never any accidents in target or timing when Russia wants to send a signal. Bombing the kid’s cancer hospital in Kyiv was one such moment, and this is another. Russia deliberately chose the day of the Munich Security Conference to send a message.Yesterday, Putin spoke with Trump about a potential ceasefire, and through various mechanisms and actions that are not yet fully exposed, encourage Trump to say a bunch of alarming, misinformed, appeasing and flattering statements – flattering that is for Putin. Hinting that Ukraine is not fully party to negotiations, that it is partially culpable for the war, and that Russia has some rights over stolen lands because it ‘lost people’ there. Make no mistake, this is a PR and psychological victory for Putin. So how does he react? ----------SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISERA project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to Ukraine's front-line towns.https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras----------NEWS SOURCES:https://kyivindependent.com/chornobyl-nuclear-plant-shelter-damaged-in-russian-drone-strike/https://www.lbc.co.uk/world-news/russia-targets-chernobyl-high-explosive-drone-significant-damage/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/ukraine-russia-war-chernobyl-trump-live-news-b2698249.htmlhttps://edition.cnn.com/2025/02/14/europe/russia-ukraine-drones-chernobyl-intl-hnk/index.htmlhttps://www.lbc.co.uk/world-news/ukraine-munich-trump-russia-appeasement/https://kyivindependent.com/zelensky-warns-of-russian-military-buildup-potential-nato-threat-in-2026/https://kyivindependent.com/russia-to-rejoin-global-economy-europes-energy-system-after-russia-ukraine-peace-deal-orban-says/ ----------SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtainhttps://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain----------

626. Konstantin Samoilov - Putin Does Not Want Peace - But Does He Need Temporary Peace?

14 februari 2025 | 52 min

Welcome to our monthly conversation with Konstantin, who is one of the most respected voices on YouTube about what is happening Inside Russia. Konstantin Samoilov is a well-known YouTuber whose channel ‘Inside Russia’ comments insightfully on Russia’s decent into authoritarianism over the last few years. But now, like many others, he’s outside Russia, with no idea of when he can return there. ----------SILICON CURTAIN LIVE EVENTS - FUNDRAISER CAMPAIGN 10 Events in 10 months - Advocacy for a Ukrainian victory with Silicon Curtainhttps://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extrasOur first live events this year in Lviv and Kyiv were a huge success. Now we need to maintain this momentum, and change the tide towards a Ukrainian victory. The Silicon Curtain Roadshow is an ambitious campaign to run 10 events in 10 months (at a minimum). We may add more venues to the program, depending on the success of the fundraising campaign. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extrasWe need to scale up our support for Ukraine, and these events are designed to have a major impact. Your support in making it happen is greatly appreciated. All events will be recorded professionally and published for free on the Silicon Curtain channel. Where possible, we will also live-stream events.https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras----------SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISERA project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to Ukraine's front-line towns.https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras----------LINKS:https://www.youtube.com/@UC9HHZMXng9reLBQmNc1Y8iA ----------INSIDE RUSSIA is a source of current news on Russia - Konstantin carefully selects 9 news stories that are important and really matter, with commentaries and analyses by Konstantin delivered daily to channel patrons at Patreon.comGet your access to daily news updates at patreon.com/INSIDERUSSIA----------SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtainhttps://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain----------TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:Save Ukrainehttps://www.saveukraineua.org/Superhumans - Hospital for war traumashttps://superhumans.com/en/UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukrainehttps://unbroken.org.ua/Come Back Alivehttps://savelife.in.ua/en/Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchenhttps://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraineUNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyyhttps://u24.gov.ua/Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundationhttps://prytulafoundation.orgNGO “Herojam Slava”https://heroiamslava.org/kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyślhttps://kharpp.com/NOR DOG Animal Rescuehttps://www.nor-dog.org/home/----------PLATFORMS:Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSiliconInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqmLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

625. Vlad Vexler - Think it's Bad Now? This is Just the Start of Transactional Authoritarianism

13 februari 2025 | 61 min

GUEST: Vlad Vexler, Social Philosopher, and popular YouTuber.If Putin's aggression towards Ukraine, Europe and NATO members is Relentless, then what should our strategy towards it be, to guarantee the future security and prosperity of Europe?----------It’s my pleasure today to welcome back onto the channel Vlad Vexler, Social Philosopher, and unique YouTuber. Our previous three video conversations proved to be extremely popular, and a lot has happened since we last spoke. Please do check out Vlad’s channel on YouTube, as it has a collection of the most thought-provoking and insightful videos on the Russian mindset and the roots of this war.----------LINKS:https://www.youtube.com/@UC6-33VO9eerq9MXFaivi0gg https://www.youtube.com/@UCn7XHZiW6EUgSuxItybLLMg ----------SILICON CURTAIN LIVE EVENTS - FUNDRAISER CAMPAIGN 10 Events in 10 months - Advocacy for a Ukrainian victory with Silicon Curtainhttps://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extrasOur first live events this year in Lviv and Kyiv were a huge success. Now we need to maintain this momentum, and change the tide towards a Ukrainian victory. The Silicon Curtain Roadshow is an ambitious campaign to run 10 events in 10 months (at a minimum). We may add more venues to the program, depending on the success of the fundraising campaign. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extrasWe need to scale up our support for Ukraine, and these events are designed to have a major impact. Your support in making it happen is greatly appreciated. All events will be recorded professionally and published for free on the Silicon Curtain channel. Where possible, we will also live-stream events.https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras----------SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtainhttps://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain----------TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:Save Ukrainehttps://www.saveukraineua.org/Superhumans - Hospital for war traumashttps://superhumans.com/en/UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukrainehttps://unbroken.org.ua/Come Back Alivehttps://savelife.in.ua/en/Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchenhttps://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraineUNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyyhttps://u24.gov.ua/Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundationhttps://prytulafoundation.orgNGO “Herojam Slava”https://heroiamslava.org/kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyślhttps://kharpp.com/NOR DOG Animal Rescuehttps://www.nor-dog.org/home/----------PLATFORMS:Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSiliconInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqmLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

624. Jason Jay Smart - Rare Earth Metals are Ukraine's Secret Weapon to Keep Trump Engaged in War Effort.

12 februari 2025 | 38 min

617. Andrew Chakhoyan - "I was Gaslit by Russian Imperialism for Decades." Is it Doing the Same to You?

12 februari 2025 | 46 min

Andrew Chakhoyan is a Ukrainian American based in the Netherlands and is a vocal and articulate champion of Ukraine and its cause. ----------LINKS:https://x.com/ChakhoyanAndrewhttps://www.weforum.org/agenda/authors/andrew-chakhoyan/https://www.politico.eu/article/ukraine-incrementalism-russia-war-president-volodymyr-zelenskyy-truth/ ----------SILICON CURTAIN LIVE EVENTS - FUNDRAISER CAMPAIGN 10 Events in 10 months - Advocacy for a Ukrainian victory with Silicon Curtainhttps://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extrasOur first live events this year in Lviv and Kyiv were a huge success. Now we need to maintain this momentum, and change the tide towards a Ukrainian victory. The Silicon Curtain Roadshow is an ambitious campaign to run 10 events in 10 months (at a minimum). We may add more venues to the program, depending on the success of the fundraising campaign. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extrasWe need to scale up our support for Ukraine, and these events are designed to have a major impact. Your support in making it happen is greatly appreciated. All events will be recorded professionally and published for free on the Silicon Curtain channel. Where possible, we will also live-stream events.https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras----------SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtainhttps://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain----------TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:Save Ukrainehttps://www.saveukraineua.org/Superhumans - Hospital for war traumashttps://superhumans.com/en/UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukrainehttps://unbroken.org.ua/Come Back Alivehttps://savelife.in.ua/en/Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchenhttps://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraineUNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyyhttps://u24.gov.ua/Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundationhttps://prytulafoundation.orgNGO “Herojam Slava”https://heroiamslava.org/kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyślhttps://kharpp.com/NOR DOG Animal Rescuehttps://www.nor-dog.org/home/----------PLATFORMS:Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSiliconInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqmLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

622. David DeBatto - The Real Steal - Has Musk Mounted a Coup Against US Law and Governance Unchallenged?

11 februari 2025 | 39 min

David DeBatto is host of the ‘No Delusion Zone’ podcast @NoDelusionZone He is a retired U.S. Army Counterintelligence Special Agent, a geopolitical analyst, writer, and podcaster. David is an Iraq war veteran who served as Team Leader of a Tactical Human Intelligence Team (THT) in operations within Iraq and is also a former police officer. David is considered too conservative for the progressive left and too independent minded for the radical right and seeks to challenge political dogma and the naked self-interest of politicians. ----------LINKS:https://www.youtube.com/@NoDelusionZonehttps://www.protectingtherepublic.com/podcasthttps://x.com/ddebattohttps://www.kyivpost.com/authors/743----------SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtainhttps://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain----------TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:Save Ukrainehttps://www.saveukraineua.org/Superhumans - Hospital for war traumashttps://superhumans.com/en/UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukrainehttps://unbroken.org.ua/Come Back Alivehttps://savelife.in.ua/en/Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchenhttps://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraineUNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyyhttps://u24.gov.ua/Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundationhttps://prytulafoundation.orgNGO “Herojam Slava”https://heroiamslava.org/kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyślhttps://kharpp.com/NOR DOG Animal Rescuehttps://www.nor-dog.org/home/----------PLATFORMS:Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSiliconInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqmLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

623. Jonathan MS Pearce Stream - Bull in a China Shop: MAGA Dismantles US Institutions, Checks & Balances

11 februari 2025 | 120 min

621. Joe Lindsley - Make Europe Great Again? Make Europe Ukraine Again - to Restore Traditional Values.

11 februari 2025 | 58 min

Joe Lindsley is a traveller and a writer, and American reporting on Chicago's WGN Radio from Ukraine each and every weekday of Russia's full-scale war. He once was protégé to Fox News founder Roger Ailes, but Lindsley escaped that frenzied world where power mattered more than truth. He came to Lviv for a Ukrainian Catholic University journalism conference on Information Overload, AI, and Responsibility. Then the Coronavirus shut down world travel, and he stayed to build a better vision for the media industry.OTHER VIDEOS: 1. https://youtu.be/DM42QAF2ia4 (07-Nov-23)2. https://youtu.be/KAGt83FzXmI (26-Jan-24)3. https://youtu.be/AlD3HUTQAag (20-Feb-24)4. https://youtu.be/w8Y1XLuhB9Q (04-Apr-24)5. https://youtu.be/eA6DI5bwrq8 (05-Jun-24)6. https://youtu.be/VmQE32SHg88 (14-Nov-24)----------LINKS:https://www.ukrainianfreedomnews.com/donation/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Lindsleyhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/joseph-lindsley-60087618/https://www.youtube.com/@jplindsleyhttps://twitter.com/JPLindsleyhttps://www.instagram.com/jplindsley/https://www.facebook.com/josephlindsleyhttps://www.ukrainianfreedomnews.com/ ----------SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtainhttps://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain----------TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:Save Ukrainehttps://www.saveukraineua.org/Superhumans - Hospital for war traumashttps://superhumans.com/en/UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukrainehttps://unbroken.org.ua/Come Back Alivehttps://savelife.in.ua/en/Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchenhttps://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraineUNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyyhttps://u24.gov.ua/Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundationhttps://prytulafoundation.orgNGO “Herojam Slava”https://heroiamslava.org/kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyślhttps://kharpp.com/NOR DOG Animal Rescuehttps://www.nor-dog.org/home/----------PLATFORMS:Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSiliconInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Silicon Bites #95 - Catastrophic Explosion on Russian Oil Tanker - the New ‘Careless Smoking’ Trend?

11 februari 2025 | 7 min

Edition No95 | 10-02-2025 - Careless smokers have apparently caused extensive damage to Russian strategic infrastructure, fuel refineries and military complexes. Those damned smokers. If this was a real issue, then Russia would ban all smoking in public, and maybe even the sale of tobacco. Are we seeing a new manifestation of the careless smoker epidemic? ----------We ran two events in Ukraine in the last two weeks. Lviv (part 2) and Kyiv. The event we ran in August 2023 was a huge success, and had a great impact. Now our aim is even more ambitious. Two cities. Two events. Multiple panels consisting of the best experts, and all filmed in high definition for the channel.https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extrasBut it costs. Last time the overall cost was £3,500 for Live in Lviv, and we covered 80% of this through ticket sales. This time the costs are higher, and there's less opportunity to sell tickets at the available venues and studios, so I'm creating a campaign to raise £5,000 to make this trip a reality. We also have a much more ambitious programme to film interviews around Kyiv and Lviv for the channel. This project will have an impact, so please help if you can. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras----------An explosion Sunday forced the crew of a Russian oil tanker to evacuate. The incident which occurred at a port in northwest Russia is apparently being investigated, and there is no hint being made by the authorities of sabotage. But would they really admit to this, as it would be hugely embarrassing for Russia’s leadership to acknowledge this. Russia’s Federal Agency for Sea and Inland Water Transport wrote on Telegram that "an explosion took place in the engine room" of the Koala ship in Ust-Luga port west of St. Petersburg on Sunday morning. Other reports suggest three separate explosions. The ship was allegedly carrying 130,000 tonnes of heavy fuel oil, but it is not thought that the explosions and partial sinking of the vessel, had resulted in "a spill of the cargo or a leak of oil products." The ship is also not thought to be in imminent danger of fully sinking either, though may well be out of action for a considerable period. ----------SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISERA project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to Ukraine's front-line towns.https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras----------NEWS SOURCES:https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/02/09/russia-probes-explosion-on-oil-tanker-a87921https://yle.fi/a/74-20142552https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/explosions-hit-fuel-tanker-in-russian-port-1739108219.html----------SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtainhttps://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain----------

Silicon Bites #94 - The only Sanctions that Really Work: Destroying Russia's Oil Refining Capability

9 februari 2025 | 13 min

Edition No94 | 09-02-2025 - Ukraine has demonstrated there is only one class of sanctions that it can reply upon; exercise some control over and does not have to beg allies to enforce. A class of sanctions that has no loopholes, and no get-out clauses. Which allies will not find some route to circumvent, no and where no third country that can intercede as a middleman for the Kremlin. That sanction is the destruction of Russia’s energy infrastructure, including gas processing as supply routes as well as oil refineries and storage facilities. ----------We ran two events in Ukraine in the last two weeks. Lviv (part 2) and Kyiv. The event we ran in August 2023 was a huge success, and had a great impact. Now our aim is even more ambitious. Two cities. Two events. Multiple panels consisting of the best experts, and all filmed in high definition for the channel.https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extrasBut it costs. Last time the overall cost was £3,500 for Live in Lviv, and we covered 80% of this through ticket sales. This time the costs are higher, and there's less opportunity to sell tickets at the available venues and studios, so I'm creating a campaign to raise £5,000 to make this trip a reality. We also have a much more ambitious programme to film interviews around Kyiv and Lviv for the channel. This project will have an impact, so please help if you can. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras----------Because of its perceived effectiveness, it’s becoming clear that Ukraine will intensify strikes on Russian oil refineries and expand geography of attacks in 2025. This view is supported by foreign policy analysts such as Hlib Ostapenko, which claims that data shows that “the systematic campaign of strikes on Russian refineries and oil depots, which began in September 2023, is gaining new momentum.”In a recent article "Ukraine's strikes on Russian refineries: strategy for 2025", he points to the successful strikes on key facilities, including the terminal in Ust-Luga and the Astrakhan gas processing plant. They come amidst strikes that are particularly resonant, in comparison to the pre-election period in the US, where Ukraine refrained from such attacks for a few months, but now have hit the Kstovo refinery and Volgograd "Lukoil-Volgogradneftepererabotka", which was damaged twice in the first days of February. ----------SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISERA project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to Ukraine's front-line towns.https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras----------NEWS SOURCES:https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/3957651-ukrainian-strikes-destroy-46-of-russias-oil-refining-capacity-intercept.htmlhttps://ukranews.com/en/news/1062774-in-2025-ukraine-will-intensify-strikes-on-russian-oil-refineries-and-expand-geography-of-attackshttps://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2025/01/29/ukrainian-drones-flew-500-miles-and-in-a-single-strike-damaged-5-of-russias-oil-refining-capacity/https://kyivindependent.com/4-out-of-4-russian-lukoil-oil-refinery-struck-by-multiple-ukrainian-drones-military-intelligence-source-claims/https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraines-drone-attack-sparks-fire-forces-flight-suspensions-several-russian-2025-02-03/----------SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtainhttps://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain----------

616. Lesia Dubenko - Dismantling American Soft Power - A Script that Could have been Written by Kremlin

8 februari 2025 | 59 min

SEE VIDEO ALSO AT: https://youtu.be/EGFYmln-L4sAn Emotional Ukrainian - format with Lesia Dubenko - Episode 4 - 2025-02-05USAid is shut down by Musk and his team - Dismantling American Soft Power ----------Lesia Dubenko is a Ukrainian journalist and analyst featured in the Financial Times, Politico Europe, New Eastern Europe, Washington Times, and more. She’s currently affiliated with Ukraine’s media outlet Euromaidan Press. You can follow her on Substack for a dose of good and satirical commentary https://lesiadubenko.substack.com----------LINKShttps://x.com/lesialvdhttps://lesiadubenko.substack.com/https://archive.kyivpost.com/author/lesia-dubenkohttps://www.linkedin.com/in/lesiadubenko/https://euromaidanpress.com/author/lesiadubenko/----------SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISERA project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to Ukraine's front-line towns.https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras----------SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtainhttps://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain----------TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:Save Ukrainehttps://www.saveukraineua.org/Superhumans - Hospital for war traumashttps://superhumans.com/en/UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukrainehttps://unbroken.org.ua/Come Back Alivehttps://savelife.in.ua/en/Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchenhttps://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraineUNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyyhttps://u24.gov.ua/Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundationhttps://prytulafoundation.orgNGO “Herojam Slava”https://heroiamslava.org/kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyślhttps://kharpp.com/NOR DOG Animal Rescuehttps://www.nor-dog.org/home/----------PLATFORMS:Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSiliconInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqmLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

603. Zarina Zabrisky - Reporting on Russian Criminality - Propaganda Methods and a Resurgent Imperialism.

8 februari 2025 | 44 min

Zarina Zabrisky is an American writer based in the Bay Area, California. She is the author of the novel, We, Monsters, several collections of short stories, including Explosion, A Cute Tombstone and her debut work, Iron, and a book of collaborative poetry and art, Green Lions, co-written with Simon Rogghe. Zabrisky is currently based in Odesa, Ukraine. From the beginning of the 2022 full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, Zabrisky has been reporting on the war in Ukraine for Euromaidan Press, Byline Times and A Community Alliance, and has been published in The Paris Review and various other publications. ----------LINKS:http://www.zarinazabrisky.com/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zarina_Zabriskyhttps://euromaidanpress.com/author/zarinazabrisky/https://kyivindependent.com/author/zarina-zabrisky/https://bylinetimes.com/author/zarinazabrisky/----------SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtainhttps://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain----------TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:Save Ukrainehttps://www.saveukraineua.org/Superhumans - Hospital for war traumashttps://superhumans.com/en/UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukrainehttps://unbroken.org.ua/Come Back Alivehttps://savelife.in.ua/en/Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchenhttps://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraineUNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyyhttps://u24.gov.ua/Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundationhttps://prytulafoundation.orgNGO “Herojam Slava”https://heroiamslava.org/kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyślhttps://kharpp.com/NOR DOG Animal Rescuehttps://www.nor-dog.org/home/----------PLATFORMS:Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSiliconInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqmLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Silicon Bites #93 - New Blow to Putin and Russian Army as Ukraine Advances in the Kursk Direction.

7 februari 2025 | 14 min

Edition No93 | 07-02-2025 - Ukraine has struck again in the Kursk direction, advancing up to 6km it is claimed. Russian reports described being struck ‘Like a Bolt from the Blue’, raising the question of preparedness of Russian troops and lack of effective monitoring of Ukrainian preparations. So far, the only information we have is from Russian Mil bloggers, and Z-patriots, so we need to be cautious about the details, as the Ukrainian side is observing tight operational silence. According to these sources, Ukrainian troops launched a surprise offensive in Kursk with 500 personnel and 50 armoured vehicles. It is alleged that gas pipelines were damaged and the strike comes as a blow to Russian control in the area, as well as to Putin image. ----------We ran two events in Ukraine in the last two weeks. Lviv (part 2) and Kyiv. The event we ran in August 2023 was a huge success, and had a great impact. Now our aim is even more ambitious. Two cities. Two events. Multiple panels consisting of the best experts, and all filmed in high definition for the channel.https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extrasBut it costs. Last time the overall cost was £3,500 for Live in Lviv, and we covered 80% of this through ticket sales. This time the costs are higher, and there's less opportunity to sell tickets at the available venues and studios, so I'm creating a campaign to raise £5,000 to make this trip a reality. We also have a much more ambitious programme to film interviews around Kyiv and Lviv for the channel. This project will have an impact, so please help if you can. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras----------Kursk has become not just a significant meat grinder to sap Russia’s human resources, but a metal grinder, destroying huge amounts of Russian armour and kit. It is interesting to end this episode on some quotes and conclusions from the ISW report: - A small group of Ukrainian troops in Kursk Oblast have complicated the Russian military's efforts to advance in Ukraine over the last six months. - Roughly a division's worth of Ukrainian troops has undermined the Russian military's ability to launch or renew offensive operations in lower-priority areas of the frontline and to reinforce priority efforts with elite airborne (VDV) and naval infantry units. - The Ukrainian incursion in Kursk Oblast is a partial proof of concept of how limited Ukrainian battlefield activity that leverages vulnerabilities in Russia's warfighting capabilities and that integrates technological adaptations with mechanized manoeuvre can have theatre-wide impacts on operations. - It showed that surprise is still possible even on a partially transparent battlefield and that rapid manoeuvre is possible under the right conditions. The war in Ukraine, in other words, is not permanently stalemated. - Either side can potentially restore manoeuvre and begin to gain or regain significant territory. Russia will be able to do so if the West reduces or cuts off aid. Ukraine may be able to do so if Western support continues to empower Ukrainian innovation.----------SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtainhttps://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain----------

620. Anna Danylchuk - Ukraine is Target of Full-scale War but Feels like the Least Divided Place on Earth

7 februari 2025 | 31 min

Anna Danylchuk has been creating a war diary since the early days of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia in 2022. Anna Danylchuk aims to tell the truth about Ukraine and Russia’s war and cut through the noise and propaganda. Anna is passionate about the beauty and independence of her country, and communicates this powerfully in her videos, in a clear and honest way.----------LINKS: @AnnafromUkraine https://www.buymeacoffee.com/annafromukraineMy interview with Anna in Lviv - hosted on her excellent channel- https://youtu.be/daHcnsNQ1S0?si=yHbZ2kJZ3CTVRd8Z----------SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISER - A project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to Ukraine's front-line towns.https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras----------OTHER VIDEOS WITH ANNA ON SILICON CURTAIN:15. https://youtu.be/o_gWfR5XPrE (20-Dec-24)14. https://youtu.be/EZRULDT06_k (13-Nov-24)13. https://youtu.be/GU4R5mcubIE (19-Sep-27)12. https://youtu.be/APTdfyqnyAI (15-Aug-24)11. https://youtu.be/xUsxXcc97m8 (03-Jun-24)10. https://youtu.be/eQ5fJCFATM0 (18-Apr-24)9. https://youtu.be/Y59nUd8B5pY (21-Feb-24)8. https://youtu.be/J8mge30rxY8 (24-Jan-24)7. https://youtu.be/XQJoTAAfxt4 (24-Dec-23)6. https://youtu.be/0gaK_5TEXXw (28-Nov-23)5. https://youtu.be/x0o1bn-1Yyc (29-Sep-23)4. https://youtu.be/Hm5_Yb3geQ4 (30-Aug-23)3. https://youtu.be/r0PNxM7Xyow (23-Feb-23)2. https://youtu.be/5AenntkSxIs (31-Dec-22)1. https://youtu.be/vPT6oZ1FOAw (21-Oct-22)----------SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtainhttps://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain----------TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:Save Ukrainehttps://www.saveukraineua.org/Superhumans - Hospital for war traumashttps://superhumans.com/en/UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukrainehttps://unbroken.org.ua/Come Back Alivehttps://savelife.in.ua/en/Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchenhttps://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraineUNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyyhttps://u24.gov.ua/Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundationhttps://prytulafoundation.orgNGO “Herojam Slava”https://heroiamslava.org/kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyślhttps://kharpp.com/NOR DOG Animal Rescuehttps://www.nor-dog.org/home/----------PLATFORMS:Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSiliconInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqmLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Silicon Bites #92 - North Koreans Quit Kursk After Failing to Recapture the Region from Ukraine Army

6 februari 2025 | 9 min

Edition No92 | 06-02-2025 - North Koreans may have pulled out of front line. At least this is the claim coming from officials in Ukraine. Ukrainian special forces fighting in the Kursk region, which is where Koreans are thought to be concentrated, told the BBC they have not seen any North Korean troops there for the past three weeks. Ukraine's Special Operations Forces (SOF) spokesperson, Colonel Oleksandr Kindratenko, said it was likely they had pulled out after suffering heavy losses. So just how upset is Jim Jong Un with Putin at this humiliating blow? ---------- We ran two events in Ukraine in the last two weeks. Lviv (part 2) and Kyiv. The event we ran in August 2023 was a huge success, and had a great impact. Now our aim is even more ambitious. Two cities. Two events. Multiple panels consisting of the best experts, and all filmed in high definition for the channel. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras But it costs. Last time the overall cost was £3,500 for Live in Lviv, and we covered 80% of this through ticket sales. This time the costs are higher, and there's less opportunity to sell tickets at the available venues and studios, so I'm creating a campaign to raise £5,000 to make this trip a reality. We also have a much more ambitious programme to film interviews around Kyiv and Lviv for the channel. This project will have an impact, so please help if you can. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras ---------- Neither Russia nor North Korea release casualty figures or even admit openly that those troops are fighting on Russian soil, but estimates suggest that out of some 11,000 troops sent to fight, 1,000 had been killed in just three months. Possibly far more are killed and injured. If the speculation is true, it suggests significant North Korean casualties, because of which they have been pulled off the front lines. The concern among Ukrainian experts and Western officials is that the withdrawal may not be permanent. There is a possibility of course, that North Korean soldiers could return after receiving additional training, and in far greater numbers. But the Russians would have to come up with new ways of deploying them to avoid a repeat of such heavy casualties. ---------- SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISER A project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to Ukraine's front-line towns. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras ---------- NEWS SOURCES: https://kyivindependent.com/north-korean-troops-not-seen-for-3-weeks-in-parts-of-kursk-oblast-ukraines-special-forces-say/ https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjder8zgk48o https://www.politico.eu/article/north-korea-troops-removed-from-russia-ukraine-combat-seoul-spy-agency-nis-says/ https://kyivindependent.com/ukraines-strike-on-russian-command-post-kills-key-russian-north-korean-officers/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2025/01/15/north-korea-deployed-12000-troops-to-kursk-in-october-three-months-later-a-third-are-dead-or-wounded/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNkh5I_ZKQ4&t=472s ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemysl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ----------

619. Volodymyr Yermolenko - Why Russia Attacks its Neighbours - Imperial Trauma that Triggers Violence.

6 februari 2025 | 97 min

Volodymyr Yermolenko is President of PEN Ukraine, the writers Union, and Chief Editor of Ukraine World. He is one of Ukraine’s leading cultural and intellectual figures, a philosopher, essayist, translator, Doctor of Political Studies, candidate of philosophical sciences, and senior lecturer at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. It is a great privilege to be in conversation, especially here in Kyiv. In this discussion, Yermolenko unpacks the complexities of Ukrainian identity, the historical context of Russian-Ukrainian relations, and the ongoing war. He explores themes of assimilation, imperialism, and the role of language in shaping national identity, while also analyzing how media narratives influence public perception. ---------- This event was co-hosted jointly by the Fog of War & Silicon Curtain podcasts. Hosts: Yaroslava Bukhta and Jonathan Fink 📍 Recorded at the office of ICAP Yednannia 🎥 Filming & Editing: Vladyslav Mashkin, The Ukrainians Media 📢 Event Logistics & Communications: 9.Department & Veronika Kobzysta 🔍 Key Topics: ✅ The historical roots of Russian-Ukrainian relations ✅ How language shapes identity and assimilation ✅ The role of media in shaping war narratives ✅ The cultural stakes of Ukraine’s fight for identity ✅ What this means for Europe’s future 📢 Don’t forget to like, comment, and subscribe for more in-depth conversations on Ukraine, media, and global affairs. ---------- 00:00:00 - Introduction to the event and speaker 00:03:47 - Importance of memory and history in the Russian political project 00:04:32 - Discussion on the conscious effort to erase historical documents 00:05:26 - The symbolic significance of Chersones in Russian history 00:06:58 - The destruction of historical monuments in Crimea 00:08:04 - The role of legacy in European history 00:13:15 - The significance of language in shaping identity 00:14:41 - Language as a tool of imperialism and assimilation 00:20:58 - The challenge of conveying the reality of war to outsiders 00:28:56 - Discussion on genocide and reconciliation post-conflict 00:34:45 - The future of Europe and the rise of authoritarianism 00:50:20 - The balance between power and democracy in society 01:02:25 - The fight for Ukrainian identity as an anti-imperial struggle 01:06:26 - The role of culture in understanding and translating experiences 01:19:20 - The impact of media narratives on public perception 01:21:54 - Closing thoughts and reflections on the discussion ---------- 🎧 Follow us on: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2xj9aEHBbqc3VfH7mayJWB ApplePodcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fog-of-war/id1782306981 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fog_of_war_podcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fogofwarpodcast/ ---------- View Yaroslava’s profile Yaroslava Bukhta: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yaroslava-bukhta/ https://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/people/yaroslava-bukhta https://www.ukrainer.net/authors/yaroslava-bukhta-2/ https://x.com/yaroslavabukhta https://www.facebook.com/yaroslava.bukhta/ ---------- We ran two events in Ukraine in the last two weeks. Lviv (part 2) and Kyiv. The event we ran in August 2023 was a huge success, and had a great impact. Now our aim is even more ambitious. Two cities. Two events. Multiple panels consisting of the best experts, and all filmed in high definition for the channel. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras But it costs. Last time the overall cost was £3,500 for Live in Lviv, and we covered 80% of this through ticket sales. This time the costs are higher, and there's less opportunity to sell tickets at the available venues and studios, so I'm creating a campaign to raise £5,000 to make this trip a reality. We also have a much more ambitious programme to film interviews around Kyiv and Lviv for the channel. This project will have an impact, so please help if you can. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras ----------

612. Ingvald & Birds of Fury - Advances in Drone Warfare Protect Lives and Help Keep Ukraine in the Fight

5 februari 2025 | 29 min

Interview with Ingvald, member of the “BIRDS OF FURY” unit of the Ukrainian armed forces. A unit of the Armed Forces of Ukraine that uses the «Backfire» unmanned aerial vehicle system which has been specially designed to destroy enemy forces and equipment. This drone can fly far beyond the front line, venting our fury on the enemy, and return home to pick up a new payload. The «Backfire» is immune to enemy radio electronic countermeasures, and like us, is ready to unleash its rightful rage against our genocidal invaders. However, we and our planes need your help to continue destroying the Russian occupiers before they come knocking on your door. ---------- LINKS: https://zlyizbir.org.ua/ https://zlyizbir.org.ua/en/ ---------- We ran two events in Ukraine in the last two weeks. Lviv (part 2) and Kyiv. The event we ran in August 2023 was a huge success, and had a great impact. Now our aim is even more ambitious. Two cities. Two events. Multiple panels consisting of the best experts, and all filmed in high definition for the channel. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras But it costs. Last time the overall cost was £3,500 for Live in Lviv, and we covered 80% of this through ticket sales. This time the costs are higher, and there's less opportunity to sell tickets at the available venues and studios, so I'm creating a campaign to raise £5,000 to make this trip a reality. We also have a much more ambitious programme to film interviews around Kyiv and Lviv for the channel. This project will have an impact, so please help if you can. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras ---------- SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISER A project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to Ukraine's front-line towns. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Silicon Bites #91 - Why are Moscow and Washington Pushing Ukraine to Hold Risky, Divisive Elections

5 februari 2025 | 16 min

Edition No91 | 05-02-2025 - About 8 months ago I spotted an uptick in allusions to a certain narrative – the illegitimacy of Ukraine’s president. His elected term formally ended in May 2024, but under the country's martial law no election can be held. Let’s make this clear, it would be unconstitutional and unlawful for Zelenskyy to call an election. We’ll examine the impracticality of this later. ---------- We ran two events in Ukraine in the last two weeks. Lviv (part 2) and Kyiv. The event we ran in August 2023 was a huge success, and had a great impact. Now our aim is even more ambitious. Two cities. Two events. Multiple panels consisting of the best experts, and all filmed in high definition for the channel. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras But it costs. Last time the overall cost was £3,500 for Live in Lviv, and we covered 80% of this through ticket sales. This time the costs are higher, and there's less opportunity to sell tickets at the available venues and studios, so I'm creating a campaign to raise £5,000 to make this trip a reality. We also have a much more ambitious programme to film interviews around Kyiv and Lviv for the channel. This project will have an impact, so please help if you can. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras ---------- More than five years have now passed since May 20, 2019, when Zelensky was sworn in to the Verkhovna Rada, and boldly stated: "Each of us is president." He was elected with 73.2% of ballots cast by voters who dreamt of change. Among his many promises of transformation was a key one to negotiate an end to the war in the Donbas. He also committed to end corruption, improve pensions, raise wages, and many other enticing promises. Instead, what he and Ukraine got was war – full-scale, brutal and destructive, imperial, genocidal, relentless. The former comedian turned war leader has changed beyond recognition. Physically of course the impact of war has been obvious. But he has also matured into a great speaker, persuader and one of the most iconic war leaders of history. His words have matured, his face has hardened, his beard has grown. Zelensky now only appears in combat fatigues, an outfit that has remained unchanged since the invasion of February 24, 2022. ---------- SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISER A project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to Ukraine's front-line towns. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras ---------- NEWS SOURCES: https://www.rferl.org/a/trump-ukraine-peace-elections/33303303.html https://kyivindependent.com/us-urges-ukraine-to-hold-elections-after-ceasefire-trumps-envoy-tells-reuters/ https://unherd.com/newsroom/america-should-not-pressure-ukraine-into-elections/ https://news.sky.com/story/us-wants-ukraine-to-hold-elections-following-potential-ceasefire-trump-envoy-says-13301316 https://www.politico.eu/article/ukraine-freak-out-us-russia-push-election/ https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2024/05/23/volodymyr-zelensky-a-president-with-no-term-end_6672475_4.html ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ----------

Silicon Bites #90 - Orwellian 'Ministry of Efficiency' Mounts a 'Crypto Coup' Against US Governance.

4 februari 2025 | 20 min

Edition No90 | 04-02-2025 - Under the guise of bringing efficiency and transparency to governance in the US is a coup under way? An administrative takeover, a crypto coup by the leading luminary of the tech brotherhood, Elon Musk? A nihilistic revolution eviscerating US government institutions. Some are starting to see patterns that indicate a hijack of the Federal Government is in progress and being conducted virtually unchallenged. You perhaps thought that Trump 1, after 2016 was chaotic, then buckle up, because 2025 will be far wilder and stranger. ---------- We ran two events in Ukraine in the last two weeks. Lviv (part 2) and Kyiv. The event we ran in August 2023 was a huge success, and had a great impact. Now our aim is even more ambitious. Two cities. Two events. Multiple panels consisting of the best experts, and all filmed in high definition for the channel. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras But it costs. Last time the overall cost was £3,500 for Live in Lviv, and we covered 80% of this through ticket sales. This time the costs are higher, and there's less opportunity to sell tickets at the available venues and studios, so I'm creating a campaign to raise £5,000 to make this trip a reality. We also have a much more ambitious programme to film interviews around Kyiv and Lviv for the channel. This project will have an impact, so please help if you can. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras ---------- The newly created “Department of Government Efficiency” under Elon Musk, is increasingly starting to look like an Orwellian choice of names. For efficiency, read demolition of the basic functions of government, and a paralysis in the process of governance. Barely has the inauguration passed and attempts to decimate the federal civil service are well in hand. But the consequences are being felt on a global scale, as we just saw with the suspension of USAID that will affect many hundreds of millions of people outside of the US. ---------- SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISER A project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to Ukraine's front-line towns. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras ---------- NEWS SOURCES: https://substack.com/home/post/p-156341494 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/feb/02/elon-musk-doge-access-federal-payment-system https://news.sky.com/story/senior-usaid-pair-suspended-after-refusing-elon-musks-doge-staff-access-to-secure-systems-13302165 https://edition.cnn.com/2025/02/02/politics/usaid-officials-leave-musk-doge/index.html https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2025/02/02/this-needs-to-stop-now-elon-musk-confirms-radical-doge-us-treasury-plan/ https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/18/tech-bros-trump-inauguration-silicon-valley-nation-state https://news.sky.com/story/senior-usaid-pair-suspended-after-refusing-elon-musks-doge-staff-access-to-secure-systems-13302165 https://www.businessinsider.com/union-groups-sue-accuse-treasury-giving-doge-access-data-2025-2 ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemysl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ----------

Live Stream with Jonathan MS Pearce - The Chaos of Geopolitics and Moving at the Speed of Ukraine

3 februari 2025 | 90 min

Silicon Bites #89 - EU Debates Resumption of Gas Supplies from Russia (or their Total Capitulation).

3 februari 2025 | 12 min

Edition No89 | 03-02-2025 - This episode is all about energy – especially gas supply to Europe. Rumours abound that the EU is considering renewing gas purchases from Russia as part of a Ukraine peace deal. Where do we even start with this unbelievably misguided, opportunistic, immoral and strategically brain-dead idea? Dependence on Russian gas is what led Putin to believe he could invade a sovereign European nation in the first place and coerce all the others to just tolerate that. ---------- We ran two events in Ukraine in the last two weeks. Lviv (part 2) and Kyiv. The event we ran in August 2023 was a huge success, and had a great impact. Now our aim is even more ambitious. Two cities. Two events. Multiple panels consisting of the best experts, and all filmed in high definition for the channel. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras But it costs. Last time the overall cost was £3,500 for Live in Lviv, and we covered 80% of this through ticket sales. This time the costs are higher, and there's less opportunity to sell tickets at the available venues and studios, so I'm creating a campaign to raise £5,000 to make this trip a reality. We also have a much more ambitious programme to film interviews around Kyiv and Lviv for the channel. This project will have an impact, so please help if you can. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras ---------- Allegedly, EU officials are discussing the potential resumption of gas purchases via a Russian pipeline as part of a potential settlement of the Russia-Ukraine war. This was reported by the Financial Times reported on Jan. 30, citing undisclosed sources. The proposal's advocates, including Hungarian and German officials (of course), argue the move could give both Russia and Europe incentives to maintain a peace deal while stabilizing the continent's energy market, the outlet wrote. And this based on the theory that Russia was so trustworthy the first time round, through the Budapest Memorandum and Minsk Accords, that we should have another go at surrendering our security to the tyrant in the Kremlin? Such logic also assumes that the Russian leadership are economically and politically rational and ignore the clear imperialistic and genocidal motivations behind the war of aggression. ---------- SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISER A project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to Ukraine's front-line towns. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras ---------- NEWS SOURCES: https://kyivindependent.com/eu-denies-any-ties-between-russian-gas-purchases-and-peace-talks-over-war-in-ukraine/ https://kyivindependent.com/eu-mulls-restarting-russian-gas-purchases-as-part-of-ukraine-peace-deal-ft-reports/ https://www.ft.com/content/a19aa690-fb54-41ea-9885-10972b11ab24 https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/hungary-block-eu-russia-sanctions-next-time-unless-ukraine-gas-transit-resumes-2025-01-31/ https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-lets-russian-gas-slip-again-in-new-sanctions-package/ https://www.politico.eu/article/turkey-europe-gas-transit-ukraine-replace-cyprus/ https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/dec/20/donald-trump-tells-eu-buy-more-us-oil-gas-tariffs ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ----------

Silicon Bites #88 - 'Revolution is Coming' - Girkin Strelkov Forecasts Collapse of the Russian Army.

2 februari 2025 | 17 min

Edition No88 | 02-02-2025 - Strelkov is back with more pronouncements. It has been many months since the untimely reports of his demise spread around the Z-blogosphere. Of course we are not concerned about his health, or even his welfare. He is a war criminal and bears even more responsibilities for this horrific war than most Russians. His views on the state of the Russian army may hold some interest, however, as he has been known to occasionally give critical assessments of the competence and performance of the Russian army, some of which have been far closer to reality than the manipulative discourse of Russian propagandist and Z-patriots. ---------- We ran two events in Ukraine in the last two weeks. Lviv (part 2) and Kyiv. The event we ran in August 2023 was a huge success, and had a great impact. Now our aim is even more ambitious. Two cities. Two events. Multiple panels consisting of the best experts, and all filmed in high definition for the channel. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras But it costs. Last time the overall cost was £3,500 for Live in Lviv, and we covered 80% of this through ticket sales. This time the costs are higher, and there's less opportunity to sell tickets at the available venues and studios, so I'm creating a campaign to raise £5,000 to make this trip a reality. We also have a much more ambitious programme to film interviews around Kyiv and Lviv for the channel. This project will have an impact, so please help if you can. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras ---------- He’s in prison yes, but it’s the wrong prison, and he’s not incarcerated for his crimes against Ukraine and humanity, but for disloyalty to the regime that approves of those war crimes. He was an FSB officer who went to Donbas with a gang of thugs, supported by resources from oligarch Konstantin Malofeev, and started provocations and murders there. He blazed a trail for the Russian army to intervene, and for today’s full-scale invasion. But during the full-scale war Strelkov assessment of the actions of the Russian army was nearly uniformly negative. These statements are not because he disapproves of the invasion, but because he fears it is neither being conducted efficiently, or ruthlessly enough. “But in the long term, I emphasize, if we continue to fight, or rather, continue to operate as we are now, we will not hold anything, even the Kremlin will not hold it over time.” ---------- SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISER A project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to Ukraine's front-line towns. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras ---------- NEWS SOURCES: This episode is adapted from a report that appeared on Michael Naki’s YouTube channel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRDDItFxoQc&t=5s ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemysl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ----------

601. Truth on the Line - War, Media and the Battle for Reality (Recorded in Lviv Jan. 2025)

2 februari 2025 | 83 min

Lviv, a city of resistance, ideas, and stories, was the perfect place for our latest conversation on epistemic injustice, Ukraine’s agency in global knowledge production, and the decolonisation of how Ukraine is understood. Together with writer, curator, and academic Sasha Dovzhyk, we unpacked the gaps in global knowledge about Ukraine, the ways historical narratives shape (or distort) perceptions, and what it takes to reclaim our voice on our own terms. 📍 Hosted at INDEX: Institute for Documentation and Exchange, the discussion brought together those shaping Ukraine’s intellectual and cultural landscape—and those eager to rethink it. ---------- LINKS: https://www.index-ukraine.org https://www.linkedin.com/in/sasha-dovzhyk-3a907b25/ https://twitter.com/sasha_weirdsley https://www.sashadovzhyk.com/ https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/people/olexandra-dovzhyk https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/author/sasha-dovzhyk/ ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- ARTICLES: https://www.londonukrainianreview.org/ https://theecologist.org/profile/dr-sasha-dovzhyk https://www.theguardian.com/profile/sasha-dovzhyk https://lareviewofbooks.org/contributor/sasha-dovzhyk/ https://newlinesmag.com/writers/sasha-dovzhyk/ ---------- BOOKS: Ukraine Lab: Global Security, Environment, Disinformation Through the Prism of Ukraine (Ukrainian Voices, 39) Paperback – 4 Sept. 2023 by Sasha Dovzhyk (Editor), Rory Finnin (Foreword), Olesya Khromeychuk (Contributor), Sofia Cheliak (Contributor), & others. ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

614. Joseph Lindsley - Kyiv Stands Firm, Free and Defiant as Putin Unleashes Obscene Violence Daily

1 februari 2025 | 31 min

Joe Lindsley is a traveller and a writer, and American reporting on Chicago's WGN Radio from Ukraine each and every weekday of Russia's full-scale war. He once was protégé to Fox News founder Roger Ailes, but Lindsley escaped that frenzied world where power mattered more than truth. He came to Lviv for a Ukrainian Catholic University journalism conference on Information Overload, AI, and Responsibility. Then the Coronavirus shut down world travel, and he stayed to build a better vision for the media industry. OTHER VIDEOS: 1. https://youtu.be/DM42QAF2ia4 (07-Nov-23) 2. https://youtu.be/KAGt83FzXmI (26-Jan-24) 3. https://youtu.be/AlD3HUTQAag (20-Feb-24) 4. https://youtu.be/w8Y1XLuhB9Q (04-Apr-24) 5. https://youtu.be/eA6DI5bwrq8 (05-Jun-24) 6. https://youtu.be/VmQE32SHg88 (14-Nov-24) ---------- LINKS: https://www.ukrainianfreedomnews.com/donation/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Lindsley https://www.linkedin.com/in/joseph-lindsley-60087618/ https://www.youtube.com/@jplindsley https://twitter.com/JPLindsley https://www.instagram.com/jplindsley/ https://www.facebook.com/josephlindsley https://www.ukrainianfreedomnews.com/ ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Silicon Bites #87 - Trump's Freeze on US Foreign Aid is Gift to Tyrants, Aspiring Autocrats & Thugs.

31 januari 2025 | 29 min

Edition No87 | 31-01-2025 - There is Chaos and confusion after Trump halts US foreign aid. ‘It will kill people’, claim NGOs, charities and recipients of US aid. The new directive mat put some aid organizations at risk of bankruptcy and has caused genuine panic among NGOs fighting Russian aggression in Ukraine and Georgia. There are organization across many areas of activity threatened, with funding ranging from a few percent of total funds and income for staff right up to 90% of costs. ---------- We ran two events in Ukraine in the last two weeks. Lviv (part 2) and Kyiv. The event we ran in August 2023 was a huge success, and had a great impact. Now our aim is even more ambitious. Two cities. Two events. Multiple panels consisting of the best experts, and all filmed in high definition for the channel. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras But it costs. Last time the overall cost was £3,500 for Live in Lviv, and we covered 80% of this through ticket sales. This time the costs are higher, and there's less opportunity to sell tickets at the available venues and studios, so I'm creating a campaign to raise £5,000 to make this trip a reality. We also have a much more ambitious programme to film interviews around Kyiv and Lviv for the channel. This project will have an impact, so please help if you can. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras ---------- The sudden announcement of the pause in US foreign aid came out of the blue it seems for most NGOs and organizations. And panic quickly set in. My Ukrainian colleague’s phone was buzzing continuously when the news dropped with people in tears and trying to understand the evolving situation. The pause in aid is causing chaos inside groups ranging from health providers to landmine removers — interrupting lifesaving programs as officials struggle to understand the scope, scale and impact of the directive. Many in the aid space said they couldn’t remember any such sudden halt to funding in the past. They also didn’t understand why programs had to be stopped so that the new administration could log and review them. What we are seeing here are not conservative values at play, but a kind of revolutionary nihilism towards good governance. ---------- SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISER A project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to Ukraine's front-line towns. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras ---------- NEWS SOURCES: https://www.ft.com/content/e122fb95-ae23-4c82-80c8-c8904724131e https://www.newsmax.com/us/trump-funding-healthcare/2025/01/29/id/1196988/ https://kyivindependent.com/trump-suspends-aid-to-ukraine-vital-ngos-dont-know-if-theyll-survive/ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/28/ukraine-war-briefing-shock-as-trump-aid-freeze-hits-ukrainian-causes https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/27/chaos-confusion-trump-u-s-foreign-aid-00200771 https://www.euronews.com/2025/01/29/us-freeze-on-foreign-aid-funding-is-a-death-sentence-for-people-in-need-ngos-warn https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trumps-freeze-us-aid-rings-alarm-bells-thailand-ukraine-2025-01-28/ ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemysl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ----------

607. Philip Obaji Jr. - Russia's Wagner Group Committing Crimes in Africa and Expanding Authoritarianism.

31 januari 2025 | 37 min

Philip Obaji Jr. is a Nigeria-based correspondent for The Daily Beast, covering sub-Saharan Africa. He fearlessly and relentlessly uncovers stories about Russian crimes in Africa, including those perpetrated by the Wagner Group. He was awarded Int. Journalist of the Year in 2023. He won the Future Awards Africa Prize in Education in 2014, and the Future Awards Africa Prize for Young Person of the Year in 2015. ---------- LINKS: https://x.com/PhilipObaji https://www.gofundme.com/f/philip-obaji-uncover-russian-atrocities-africa https://www.thedailybeast.com/author/philip-obaji-jr/ ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

608. Konstantin Samoilov - Early Signs of Russian Collapse - There will be Blood when the Chaos Begins

30 januari 2025 | 33 min

Welcome to our monthly conversation with Konstantin, who is one of the most respected voices on YouTube about what is happening Inside Russia. Konstantin Samoilov is a well-known YouTuber whose channel ‘Inside Russia’ comments insightfully on Russia’s decent into authoritarianism over the last few years. But now, like many others, he’s outside Russia, with no idea of when he can return there. ---------- SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISER A project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to Ukraine's frontline towns. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras ---------- LINKS: https://www.youtube.com/@UC9HHZMXng9reLBQmNc1Y8iA ---------- INSIDE RUSSIA is a source of current news on Russia - Konstantin carefully selects 9 news stories that are important and really matter, with commentaries and analyses by Konstantin delivered daily to channel patrons at Patreon.com Get your access to daily news updates at patreon.com/INSIDERUSSIA @INSIDERUSSIA https://www.patreon.com/insiderussia ---------- OTHER VIDEOS WITH KONSTANTIN ON SILICON CURTAIN: https://youtu.be/kvpa8MS8Mmw (20-Nov-24) https://youtu.be/S15izhFsEF8 (20-Nov-24) https://youtu.be/zAaBRnpQ_Xg (22-Oct-24) https://youtu.be/WUUz11jZ-nY (17-Sep-27) https://youtu.be/2Pz9wGeCzXc (13-Aug-24) https://youtu.be/xV_cXBA12tw (22-Jul-24) https://youtu.be/lnIgKQRHM8o (15-Jun-24) https://youtu.be/XX3zU5QNvCw (22-May-24) https://youtu.be/qXcfjra6KGI (16-Apr-24) https://youtu.be/FTuvRZQMCN8 (04-Mar-24) https://youtu.be/URzXdRO02ps (29-Jan-24) ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

605. Kevin Leach - The Vicious Cycle of Failure needs to be Broken - with Training, Weapons & Recruitment

29 januari 2025 | 39 min

Kevin Leach is the main director for Sabre Training Advisory Group, a professional military training non-profit. Their aim is to give Ukrainian defenders the skills to come home alive. Kevin is a Canadian Armed Forces veteran, with a long history of working in Ukraine and in military affairs. He served as a sergeant from 2008-2018, specialising in armoured reconnaissance. He leads a weekly segment on the Mriya Report called “Come Home Alive” covering the Key Elements of Training for the Ukrainian army. ---------- LINKS: https://x.com/SabreAdvisory https://www.sabretag.org/donate https://www.instagram.com/sabre_tag/ https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mriyareport/episodes/Kevin-Leach--Sabre-Advisory-Training-on-Key-Elements-of-Training---May-29--2024-e2kavap ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

606. Liubov Velychko - Dissecting the Science of Russia Vranyo - The Art of Geopolitical Lying at Scale

28 januari 2025 | 17 min

Liubov Velychko is a Ukrainian investigative journalist with over 15 years of experience uncovering corruption, crime, and human rights violations. She Specializes in exposing disinformation campaigns, and has conducted numerous investigations into Russian propaganda, revealing the networks behind its spread and dismantling the information operations orchestrated by Russian intelligence agencies. ---------- At relatively short notice, we're organising two events in Ukraine in the last week of January. Lviv (part 2) and Kyiv. The event we ran in August 2023 was a huge success, and had a great impact. Now our aim is even more ambitious. Two cities. Two events. Multiple panels consisting of the best experts, and all filmed in high definition for the channel. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras But it costs. Last time the overall cost was £3,500 for Live in Lviv, and we covered 80% of this through ticket sales. This time the costs are higher, and there's less opportunity to sell tickets at the available venues and studios, so I'm creating a campaign to raise £5,000 to make this trip a reality. We also have a much more ambitious programme to film interviews around Kyiv and Lviv for the channel. This project will have an impact, so please help if you can. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras ---------- SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISER A project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to Ukraine's frontline towns. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras ---------- LINKS: https://www.linkedin.com/in/v-press/ https://www.rusi.org/people/velychko https://x.com/VelychkoLiubov https://www.occrp.org/en/people/lyubov-velychko https://mind.ua/en/author/1158-liubov-velychko ---------- THE MAIN MYTHS: - Myth: Ukraine is irredeemably corrupt and has greater corruption issues than Russia. - Myth: Ukraine is not a democracy because elections have been suspended in wartime. - Myth: Russian language and culture are suppressed in Ukraine. - Myth: Russians don’t oppose the war, because they have ‘bad information’. - Myth: Russians can be divided into ‘good’ and ‘bad’. - Myth: Putin can be negotiated with using economically rational, transactional logic. - Myth: Putin insane, not simply a kleptocratic, chauvinistic psychopath. - Myth: Negotiations and treaties with Russia can give Ukraine peace and security. - Myth: Putin wants peace. - Myth: Russia will be satisfied with just a few territories of Ukraine, in DNR and LNR. - Myth: Zelensky makes decisions for himself and his clique, not the Ukrainian people. - Myth: Oligarchs pull all the strings, and leaders are only their puppets, and of the US. - Myth: Russian security concerns is a real and serious topic for consideration. - Myth: Russia could be accepted into NATO, and other international institutions. - Myth: Trade relationship with India, Global South, etc can help make Ukraine secure. - Myth: Russians can be forgiven this generation for the crimes committed in their name. ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ----------

Silicon Bites #86 - Trump’s Ultimatum to Putin: End Your Pointless War Now or Face Crippling Tariffs

26 januari 2025 | 12 min

“It's time to make a deal.” Announces incoming President of the US, Donald Trump. If he does not end Russia’s war against Ukraine war soon, Trump implies that Putin will face punitive tariffs and sanctions, on top of those already imposed. Trump also says he’ll ask NATO allies to raise defence spending to 5 percent of GDP, which is far beyond the current spend, and even higher than current US expenditure on defence. This would be a transformational change to many societies, with implications that I think he can hardly grasp. ---------- At relatively short notice, we're organising two events in Ukraine in the last week of January. Lviv (part 2) and Kyiv. The event we ran in August 2023 was a huge success, and had a great impact. Now our aim is even more ambitious. Two cities. Two events. Multiple panels consisting of the best experts, and all filmed in high definition for the channel. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras But it costs. Last time the overall cost was £3,500 for Live in Lviv, and we covered 80% of this through ticket sales. This time the costs are higher, and there's less opportunity to sell tickets at the available venues and studios, so I'm creating a campaign to raise £5,000 to make this trip a reality. We also have a much more ambitious programme to film interviews around Kyiv and Lviv for the channel. This project will have an impact, so please help if you can. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras ---------- Trump did not attend the World Economic Forum in Davos in person, but via a video link announced he would bring down the cost of oil, because "if the price came down, the Russia-Ukraine war would end immediately. It's time to end it." He added. This comes a day after he threatened massive tariffs and sanctions on Russian exports if Putin fails to make a deal to end the conflict. Not after 24 hours, but within the first 100 days of Trump taking office. For perhaps the first time, Trump blamed Vladimir Putin for the fact the war has not ended. Up until now he has not directly spoken in negative terms about the Russian president, sparking a belief against some of his detractors that he may be a Russian asset. But does Trump now see an opportunity in weakening of even beating Putin? ---------- SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISER A project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to Ukraine's front-line towns. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Silicon Bites #85. Lychakiv Cemetery - Lviv's Military Cemetery Starkly Shows Price of Ukrainian Freedom and Democracy.

26 januari 2025 | 17 min

The Lychakiv military cemetery opened in Lviv at the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine already contains hundreds of graves, with a capacity ten times greater. Tragically, it's area has grown considerably since I was last there in August 2023. ---------- At relatively short notice, we're organizing two events in Ukraine in the last week of January. Lviv (part 2) and Kyiv. The event we ran in August 2023 was a huge success, and had a great impact. Now our aim is even more ambitious. Two cities. Two events. Multiple panels consisting of the best experts, and all filmed in high definition for the channel. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras But it costs. Last time the overall cost was £3,500 for Live in Lviv, and we covered 80% of this through ticket sales. This time the costs are higher, and there's less opportunity to sell tickets at the available venues and studios, so I'm creating a campaign to raise £5,000 to make this trip a reality. We also have a much more ambitious program to film interviews around Kyiv and Lviv for the channel. This project will have an impact, so please help if you can. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras ---------- SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISER A project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to Ukraine's front-line towns. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Silicon Bites #84 - The Kremlin Rules when it comes to Negotiation - Demand Ukraine's Capitulation

22 januari 2025 | 18 min

Edition No84 | 21-01-2025 - Today’s episode is recorded with the notorious NAZI death camp of Auschwitz in the background. It seems relevant to be here, where levels of anxiety build around the world, following the inauguration of Trump, and the impromptu fascistic style salute given by Elon Musk yesterday. Combined with growing support for the aFD in Germany and a boisterous Tommy Robinson in the UK. Along with a resurgence of extreme populist politicians around the world and increasing adoption of intolerant and belligerent language. We are leaving an era of historically atypical stability (though it rarely felt like that) and moving into an era of potential chaos and turmoil, which is unfortunately far more typical of human history. ---------- At relatively short notice, we're organising two events in Ukraine in the last week of January. Lviv (part 2) and Kyiv. The event we ran in August 2023 was a huge success, and had a great impact. Now our aim is even more ambitious. Two cities. Two events. Multiple panels consisting of the best experts, and all filmed in high definition for the channel. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras But it costs. Last time the overall cost was £3,500 for Live in Lviv, and we covered 80% of this through ticket sales. This time the costs are higher, and there's less opportunity to sell tickets at the available venues and studios, so I'm creating a campaign to raise £5,000 to make this trip a reality. We also have a much more ambitious programme to film interviews around Kyiv and Lviv for the channel. This project will have an impact, so please help if you can. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras ---------- Everyone will have their own reasons to feel anxiety. For me, it’s because I have relatives who ended up in a place like this, also extermination camps located in Poland. And since 2012, I’ve been tracking the rising authoritarian tendencies in Russia, with a feeling of dread about where this would end up. History does not repeat exactly, and it can be dangerous to assume patterns that happened then are exactly thew same as patterns now, but the number of historical parallels between the 1930s and today are too numerous to ignore. This is a warning from history. There will always be bad people, intent on malice and mischief, self-enrichment to the detriment of the majority. But it’s when good people turn a blind eye, and fail to organise to counter the bad, that evil people and their evil acts triumph. ---------- SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISER A project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to Ukraine's front-line towns. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras ---------- NEWS SOURCES: https://www.ft.com/content/ac39b604-ef6d-41cb-bb8c-0eb76e002176 https://euromaidanpress.com/2024/12/03/well-tell-kellogg-to-screw-himself-putins-crony-on-peace-talks/ https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-war-latest-over-50-000-russians-seek-mia-through-ukraines-project/ https://www.csis.org/analysis/putin-thinks-he-can-win-why-would-he-negotiate https://kyivindependent.com/trump-says-putin-wants-to-meet-arrangements-already-underway/ https://kyivindependent.com/garry-kasparov-on-modern-russian-empire/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhwukP-TvLM&t=3s ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ ----------

598. Jake Broe - Putin is Finished in Long Term as Systemic Damage to Russian Economy Rises Dramatically.

20 januari 2025 | 58 min

Jake Broe is a United States Air Force veteran who served for six years as a Nuclear and Missile Operations Officer. But you may know him better as one of the most prominent voices on YouTube throughout the war, someone with absolute moral clarity about who the victim of the war is – spoilers, it’s Ukraine – and who brings direct military experience to his detailed analysis of the unfolding conflict. Do please subscribe to his channel for videos updates on the war in Ukraine as well as conversations with engaging speakers, expert guests, and other YouTubers. ---------- LINKS: https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/the-pearl-of-khorasan/ https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/charlie-gammell/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlie-g-280116266/ https://catholicherald.co.uk/author/charlie-gammell/ https://shows.acast.com/behind-the-lines-with-arthur-snell/episodes/iran-where-are-they-headed ---------- At relatively short notice, we're organising two events in Ukraine in the last week of January. Lviv (part 2) and Kyiv. The event we ran in August 2023 was a huge success, and had a great impact. Now our aim is even more ambitious. Two cities. Two events. Multiple panels consisting of the best experts, and all filmed in high definition for the channel. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras But it costs. Last time the overall cost was £3,500 for Live in Lviv, and we covered 80% of this through ticket sales. This time the costs are higher, and there's less opportunity to sell tickets at the available venues and studios, so I'm creating a campaign to raise £5,000 to make this trip a reality. We also have a much more ambitious programme to film interviews around Kyiv and Lviv for the channel. This project will have an impact, so please help if you can. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras ---------- SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISER A project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to Ukraine's front-line towns. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras ---------- LINKS: https://www.youtube.com/@JakeBroe https://twitter.com/RealJakeBroe https://www.instagram.com/jakebroe/ https://www.buymeacoffee.com/jakebroe https://www.patreon.com/join/jakebroe ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

597. Charlie Gammell - The Defeat of Russia in Syria is also Major Strategic Loss for the Iranian Regime.

19 januari 2025 | 45 min

Charlie Gammell is an historian and former diplomat who was on the Iran desk at the Foreign Office. He has written for publications such as The Spectator ---------- LINKS: https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/the-pearl-of-khorasan/ https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/charlie-gammell/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlie-g-280116266/ https://catholicherald.co.uk/author/charlie-gammell/ https://shows.acast.com/behind-the-lines-with-arthur-snell/episodes/iran-where-are-they-headed ---------- At relatively short notice, we're organising two events in Ukraine in the last week of January. Lviv (part 2) and Kyiv. The event we ran in August 2023 was a huge success, and had a great impact. Now our aim is even more ambitious. Two cities. Two events. Multiple panels consisting of the best experts, and all filmed in high definition for the channel. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras But it costs. Last time the overall cost was £3,500 for Live in Lviv, and we covered 80% of this through ticket sales. This time the costs are higher, and there's less opportunity to sell tickets at the available venues and studios, so I'm creating a campaign to raise £5,000 to make this trip a reality. We also have a much more ambitious programme to film interviews around Kyiv and Lviv for the channel. This project will have an impact, so please help if you can. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras ---------- SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISER A project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to Ukraine's front-line towns. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Silicon Bites #83 - Trump Holds the Key to Putin's Defeat - But will he Use this Power for Victory?

18 januari 2025 | 26 min

Edition No83 | 18-01-2025 - This is an update of an episode I put out while the US election was still in full swing. Now, the Trump team are having to tackle the issue of Russia, its interference with and sabotage against Western powers, and its imperial war in Ukraine, there is far more nuance and realism in the pronouncement and comments coming from key figures. It seems timely to put out a revised episode based on ideas for the incoming Trump team, about how they could win in Ukraine. ---------- At relatively short notice, we're organising two events in Ukraine in the last week of January. Lviv (part 2) and Kyiv. The event we ran in August 2023 was a huge success, and had a great impact. Now our aim is even more ambitious. Two cities. Two events. Multiple panels consisting of the best experts, and all filmed in high definition for the channel. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras But it costs. Last time the overall cost was £3,500 for Live in Lviv, and we covered 80% of this through ticket sales. This time the costs are higher, and there's less opportunity to sell tickets at the available venues and studios, so I'm creating a campaign to raise £5,000 to make this trip a reality. We also have a much more ambitious programme to film interviews around Kyiv and Lviv for the channel. This project will have an impact, so please help if you can. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras ---------- SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISER A project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to Ukraine's front-line towns. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemysl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ----------

Silicon Bites #82 - Russia Plans 'Acts of Chaos' Across Europe to Disrupt Allied Support for Ukraine

17 januari 2025 | 12 min

Edition No82 | 17-01-2025 - Russia is a terrorist state. We’ve been saying this for three years on the channel. But Russia constantly reminds of this fact. The latest is an allegation that Russia plotted terror attacks on airlines around the world. According to Polish PM, Donald Tusk this bombshell news has come from US intelligence sources. "I can only confirm that Russia planned acts of air terror, not just against Poland but against airlines across the globe," said Tusk during a meeting with Volodymyr Zelenskyy. ---------- At relatively short notice, we're organising two events in Ukraine in the last week of January. Lviv (part 2) and Kyiv. The event we ran in August 2023 was a huge success, and had a great impact. Now our aim is even more ambitious. Two cities. Two events. Multiple panels consisting of the best experts, and all filmed in high definition for the channel. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras But it costs. Last time the overall cost was £3,500 for Live in Lviv, and we covered 80% of this through ticket sales. This time the costs are higher, and there's less opportunity to sell tickets at the available venues and studios, so I'm creating a campaign to raise £5,000 to make this trip a reality. We also have a much more ambitious programme to film interviews around Kyiv and Lviv for the channel. This project will have an impact, so please help if you can. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras ---------- U.S. intelligence warned the White House that Russia was planning to smuggle incendiary devices onto cargo planes heading to the US. This sounds very similar to the devices apparently planted on DHL delivery places, that are alleged to have caused two warehouse fires. According to The New York Times report The White House, warned the Kremlin to stop the operation. Tusk did not provide details to underpin the allegation, but it was felt serious enough to put his reputation on the line by stating it emphatically, in public, and in the full glare of the world’s press, given that he was with Zelenskyy at the time. "All I can say, and I will not go into details, but I can confirm the validity of these fears," said Tusk. ---------- SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISER A project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to Ukraine's front-line towns. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras ---------- NEWS SOURCES: https://www.politico.eu/article/russia-planned-terror-attacks-airlines-around-world-donald-tusk-says/ https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/russia-planned-acts-of-terror-in-the-air-polands-tusk-says/ https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy4717j21kko https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/azerbaijan-airlines-flight-was-downed-by-russian-air-defence-system-four-sources-2024-12-26/ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/paris-olympics-train-vandalism-cause-b2586422.html https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13675809/French-train-arson-Putins-new-terror-tactic.html ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemysl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ----------

595. Oleksandr Mykhed - Language and the Battle for Reality in Context of Russia's War Against Ukraine

17 januari 2025 | 56 min

Oleksandr Mykhed is a Ukrainian writer. Until March 2022, he lived in Kyiv; he is now enlisted in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. He is the author of nine books; selected essays and excerpts from his books have been translated into ten languages. He has participated in literary residencies in Finland, Latvia, Iceland, the USA and France, and a virtual residency at Oxford University. He has written for publications including The Financial Times, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and The Guardian, and has appeared as a guest on CNN and NPR. He is a member of PEN Ukraine, and anyone who has heard him speak, such as at the event in Waterstones in London with Luke Harding, will know how compelling he is. ---------- LINKS: https://x.com/mykhed_o https://www.penguin.co.uk/authors/303637/oleksandr-mykhed https://pen.org.ua/en/autors/myhed-oleksandr ARTICLES: https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/jun/30/the-language-of-war-by-oleksandr-mykhed-review-ukraine-russia-a-painful-piece-of-history https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqWDfx4XtRY ---------- At relatively short notice, we're organising two events in Ukraine in the last week of January. Lviv (part 2) and Kyiv. The event we ran in August 2023 was a huge success, and had a great impact. Now our aim is even more ambitious. Two cities. Two events. Multiple panels consisting of the best experts, and all filmed in high definition for the channel. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras But it costs. Last time the overall cost was £3,500 for Live in Lviv, and we covered 80% of this through ticket sales. This time the costs are higher, and there's less opportunity to sell tickets at the available venues and studios, so I'm creating a campaign to raise £5,000 to make this trip a reality. We also have a much more ambitious programme to film interviews around Kyiv and Lviv for the channel. This project will have an impact, so please help if you can. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras ---------- SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISER A project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to Ukraine's front-line towns. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

594. Sergej Sumlenny - Ukraine's Kursk Offensive Points Towards the Future of Warfare with Drone Swarms

16 januari 2025 | 76 min

Sergej Sumlenny is founder of the European Resilience Initiative Centre and a former Regional Director for Ukraine and Belarus at the Heinrich Böll Foundation. He is based in Berlin, Germany and is an expert in Energy and Security Policy, Human Rights, and International Business Consulting. He is also an expert in the Central and Eastern Europe region, with a Ph.D. in Political Sciences. Fluent or native in German, English, Ukrainian, and Russian. ---------- LINKS: https://twitter.com/sumlenny https://www.linkedin.com/in/sergej-sumlenny-4502aa5/ https://european-resilience.org/ https://www.boell.de/en ---------- At relatively short notice, we're organising two events in Ukraine in the last week of January. Lviv (part 2) and Kyiv. The event we ran in August 2023 was a huge success, and had a great impact. Now our aim is even more ambitious. Two cities. Two events. Multiple panels consisting of the best experts, and all filmed in high definition for the channel. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras But it costs. Last time the overall cost was £3,500 for Live in Lviv, and we covered 80% of this through ticket sales. This time the costs are higher, and there's less opportunity to sell tickets at the available venues and studios, so I'm creating a campaign to raise £5,000 to make this trip a reality. We also have a much more ambitious programme to film interviews around Kyiv and Lviv for the channel. This project will have an impact, so please help if you can. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras ---------- SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISER A project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to Ukraine's front-line towns. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

594. Cormac Smith - Putin Seeks to Replace Rules Based Order with a new 'Disordered' Age of Imperialism

15 januari 2025 | 57 min

Cormac Smith has worked in Public Relations and Corporate Communications for over three decades. In 2016 he travelled to Ukraine to take up a special appointment as the ‘Strategic Communication Advisor’ to Pavlo Klimkin, then the Foreign Minister of Ukraine. He was attached to the British Embassy in Kyiv but was embedded in Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the first foreigner to hold such a position. While in Kyiv, he also advised and provided training for five other government ministries and worked directly with three other cabinet ministers: Health, Education and the Deputy Prime Minister. ---------- LINKS: https://defencebrink.uk/ https://x.com/CormacS63 https://x.com/philipingmbe ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Silicon Bites #81 - Ukrainian Drones Pound Russian Infrastructure on a Totally Unprecedented Scale

15 januari 2025 | 8 min

Edition No81 | 15-01-2025 - Ukraine has steadily been increasing its strikes against targets deep within Russia since the conclusion of the US election. But before we get into the details of the latest strikes over the weekend, let’s review how this started last week with the huge, 'multi-day’ targeting of Russia's Engels airbase infrastructure. ---------- At relatively short notice, we're organising two events in Ukraine in the last week of January. Lviv (part 2) and Kyiv. The event we ran in August 2023 was a huge success, and had a great impact. Now our aim is even more ambitious. Two cities. Two events. Multiple panels consisting of the best experts, and all filmed in high definition for the channel. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras But it costs. Last time the overall cost was £3,500 for Live in Lviv, and we covered 80% of this through ticket sales. This time the costs are higher, and there's less opportunity to sell tickets at the available venues and studios, so I'm creating a campaign to raise £5,000 to make this trip a reality. We also have a much more ambitious programme to film interviews around Kyiv and Lviv for the channel. This project will have an impact, so please help if you can. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras ---------- Ukraine has targeted Russia's Engels airbase and associated infrastructure in 'multi-day, comprehensive operation'. This was reported by Kyiv's 14th Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Regiment reported on Jan. 14. This unit is part of Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces; they claimed the attacks were intended to "reduce the enemy's strategic aviation capabilities". It’s also been reported, and footage on social media seems to attest to this, that they struck aviation fuel tanks at the Kristal oil plant used to supply Russian long-range bomber aircraft. "We are doing our best to ensure that Engels fire crews, who have just put out the flames after the previous attack, are not left without work in the face of the increasingly difficult economic situation in Russia." The Ukrainian unit is quoted as saying. The attack had also seemed to have targeted ammunition warehouses at the airbase which store cruise missiles and glide bombs. Several explosions were heard in the area, according to local reports from Russian Telegram channels. ---------- SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISER A project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to Ukraine's front-line towns. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras ---------- NEWS SOURCES: https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-targets-russias-engels-airbase-in-multi-day-comprehensive-operation-drone-forces-report/ https://kyivindependent.com/drones-reportedly-attack-russian-chemical-plant-in-tatarstan/ https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-strikes-chemical-plants-refineries-warehouses-in-russia/ https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-war-latest-ukraine-targets-russian-industrial-plants-ammunition-depots-in-overnight-strike/ https://kyivindependent.com/drone-attack-damages-industrial-facility-in-russias-saratov-region/ ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ----------

592. Live Stream with Operator Starsky and Jonathan MS - Russia Goes up in Flames in Largest Scale Attack

15 januari 2025 | 87 min

591. Live Stream with Jonathan MS Pearce - Trucks for Ukraine and Why Russia Acts with Such Loathing

14 januari 2025 | 79 min

539. Ben Hodges - Deep Strikes Using US Weapons Could be Authorized by New Trump Team - Putin in Trouble.

14 januari 2025 | 51 min

One of President Joe Biden's final decisions in office was to grant Ukraine permission to use ATACMS on Russian territory, but with geographical restrictions. One of then Trump teams first decision may be to allow long range, or deep strikes. Will this turn the tide of the war or force Putin to negotiate? ---------- Ben Hodges is a retired United States Army officer, who became commander of United States Army Europe in November 2014, and held that position for three years until retiring from the United States Army in January 2018. Until recently he was the Pershing Chair in Strategic Studies, at the Centre for European Policy Analysis, specializing in NATO, Transatlantic relationship and international security. ---------- At relatively short notice, we're organizing two events in Ukraine in the last week of January. Lviv (part 2) and Kyiv. The event we ran in August 2023 was a huge success, and had a great impact. Now our aim is even more ambitious. Two cities. Two events. Multiple panels consisting of the best experts, and all filmed in high definition for the channel. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras But it costs. Last time the overall cost was £3,500 for Live in Lviv, and we covered 80% of this through ticket sales. This time the costs are higher, and there's less opportunity to sell tickets at the available venues and studios, so I'm creating a campaign to raise £5,000 to make this trip a reality. We also have a much more ambitious programme to film interviews around Kyiv and Lviv for the channel. This project will have an impact, so please help if you can. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras ---------- SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISER A project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to Ukraine's front-line towns. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras ---------- CHAPTERS: 00:02:10 Russia still does not have a joined-up command structure in Kursk. 00:05:14 Ukraine could still build up forces right under the noses of the Russians 00:07:37 The Trump team will have enormous leverage over Vladimir Putin. 00:11:15 Russian economy is in deep trouble. They'll never change until defeated. 00:15:18 Training officers at entry level up through brigade command must continue. 00:19:01 Putin has not changed his war aims despite the casualties and failures. 00:26:11 American president elect using same kind of language as Kremlin and Beijing. 00:32:16 Putin’s regime has been able to make people complicit in his criminality. 00:35:08 Centre of gravity in Europe is shifting east and north to Poland and Ukraine. 00:39:48 Having a grown-up conversation with electorates, has been lacking until now. 00:44:12 British Army and US Army are very good at scaling up training and learning. ---------- LINKS: https://twitter.com/general_ben https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Hodges https://cepa.org/author/ben-hodges/ https://warsawsecurityforum.org/speaker/hodges-ben-lt-gen/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-hodges-1674b1172/ ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ----------

Silicon Bites #80 - New Research Suggests that the Russian War Economy is on a Precipice of Collapse

13 januari 2025 | 17 min

Edition No80 | 13-01-2025 - We cannot say when the Russian economy will ‘collapse’, or even if it’s cave in single a dramatic moment. But what’s not under doubt is that pressure on Putin’s economy is building – it was even terms a ‘house of cards’ in a recent article in the Financial Times. All this pressure makes Putin’s war economy less sustainable, his regime more brittle, and the outcome of events far less certain or indeed predictable. And if you’re a tyrant, then things you cannot control, unpredictability in fact, is the last thing you want to see in your realm. ---------- At relatively short notice, we're organising two events in Ukraine in the last week of January. Lviv (part 2) and Kyiv. The event we ran in August 2023 was a huge success, and had a great impact. Now our aim is even more ambitious. Two cities. Two events. Multiple panels consisting of the best experts, and all filmed in high definition for the channel. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras But it costs. Last time the overall cost was £3,500 for Live in Lviv, and we covered 80% of this through ticket sales. This time the costs are higher, and there's less opportunity to sell tickets at the available venues and studios, so I'm creating a campaign to raise £5,000 to make this trip a reality. We also have a much more ambitious programme to film interviews around Kyiv and Lviv for the channel. This project will have an impact, so please help if you can. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras ---------- SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISER A project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to Ukraine's front-line towns. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras ---------- NEWS SOURCES: https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/01/09/russias-economic-gamble-the-hidden-costs-of-war-driven-growth-a87548 https://navigatingrussia.substack.com/ https://www.ft.com/content/61adaed4-ac9a-4891-afb6-b3ad648c58ad https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-economy-ukraine-war-recession-outlook-inflation-sanctions-banks-rates-2025-1 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/01/09/russias-economic-gamble-the-hidden-costs-of-war-driven-growth-a87548 ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemysl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ----------

588. David DeBatto - Fears Grow that the Carnage of a Second Trump Term will be Exported onto World Stage

13 januari 2025 | 50 min

Friends and acquaintances who are traditional republicans of the Reagan era try to reassure me there is a gulf of difference between what Trump says, and what he’ll do. I have some doubts. ---------- David DeBatto is host of the ‘No Delusion Zone’ podcast @NoDelusionZone He is a retired U.S. Army Counterintelligence Special Agent, a geopolitical analyst, writer, and podcaster. David is an Iraq war veteran who served as Team Leader of a Tactical Human Intelligence Team (THT) in operations within Iraq and is also a former police officer. David is considered too conservative for the progressive left and too independent minded for the radical right and seeks to challenge political dogma and the naked self-interest of politicians. ---------- LINKS: https://www.youtube.com/@NoDelusionZone https://www.protectingtherepublic.com/podcast https://x.com/ddebatto https://www.kyivpost.com/authors/743 ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Silicon Bites #79 - Russia's 100k Tonne Oil Timebomb Drifts Dangerously in Germany's Coastal Waters

11 januari 2025 | 8 min

Edition No79 | 11-01-2025 - This channel has been warning for over a year of the threats to marine ecologies from Russia’s rust-bucket fleet of clapped-out illegal tankers, transporting its blood oil to unscrupulous buyers around the world to fuel Putin’s genocidal war. And now another one of them is threatening disaster, as a shadow fleet vessel carrying 100,000 tonnes of oil breaks down and is adrift in heavy seas off Germany’s northern coast. The Eventin was sailing from Russia to Egypt with 100,000 tonnes of oil when its engine failed and it lost ability to manoeuvre. Three tugs are now attempting to steer it away from the coast and towards a safer area. Though if the vessel breaks up, there is no safe area for 100,000 tonnes of oil to dissipate. As the vessel drifted in coastal waters Friday, the foreign minister, Annalena Baerbock, criticised Russia’s use of “dilapidated oil tankers” to avoid sanctions on its oil exports, calling it a threat to European security. Russia has used murky ships for oil exports to circumvent sanctions imposed by Western nations for waging its brutal war against Ukraine. ---------- At relatively short notice, we're organising two events in Ukraine in the last week of January. Lviv (part 2) and Kyiv. The event we ran in August 2023 was a huge success, and had a great impact. Now our aim is even more ambitious. Two cities. Two events. Multiple panels consisting of the best experts, and all filmed in high definition for the channel. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras But it costs. Last time the overall cost was £3,500 for Live in Lviv, and we covered 80% of this through ticket sales. This time the costs are higher, and there's less opportunity to sell tickets at the available venues and studios, so I'm creating a campaign to raise £5,000 to make this trip a reality. We also have a much more ambitious programme to film interviews around Kyiv and Lviv for the channel. This project will have an impact, so please help if you can. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras ---------- SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISER A project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to Ukraine's frontline towns. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras ---------- NEWS SOURCES: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/11/germany-battles-to-secure-russian-shadow-fleet-oil-tanker-adrift-off-northern-coast https://kyivindependent.com/germany-towing-shadow-fleet-tanker/ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/01/11/germany-races-to-secure-stricken-russian-shadow-fleet-oil-tanker-2-a87574 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/01/11/germany-races-to-secure-stricken-russian-shadow-fleet-oil-tanker-2-a87574 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/01/10/nato-to-send-2-ships-to-guard-baltic-sea-infrastructure-finland-says-a87563 ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemysl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ----------

587. Ambassador James S. Gilmore - Russia Is Losing the War in Ukraine and Cannot Benefit from Aggression

11 januari 2025 | 33 min

Russia Is Losing the War in Ukraine, says a former senior US diplomat. In today’s interview I’m honoured to be joined by Ambassador James Gilmore, who explains the broader consequences of Russia’s actions and what’s at stake if the international community fails to push back against Putin’s aggressive imperialist and expansionist ambitions. As a Trump-era diplomat James Gilmore has had firsthand experience of negotiating with the US’s European partners and our common Russian foe. ---------- James Gilmore was the former US Ambassador to the OSCE during the first administration of President-elect Donald Trump. A member of the Republican Party, Gilmore also chaired the Republican National Committee in 2001 and served as the U.S. Ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe during the first Trump administration. In 1997 James Gilmore was elected as Governor of Virginia with a majority of 56%, where improvements to education quality and teacher numbers formed one of his key manifesto policies. ---------- KYIV POST INTERVIEW: Russia is losing: Former Trump Admin Insider Speaks Out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhS-Gi4mrwk ---------- LINKS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Gilmore https://caprifoundation.org/james-s-gilmore-iii/ https://ua.usembassy.gov/tag/ambassador-james-s-gilmore-iii/ https://www.nga.org/governor/james-s-gilmore/ ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

586. Liubov Velychko - Challenging Russian Lies and Myths that Led to Imperial Aggression and Appeasement

10 januari 2025 | 64 min

Liubov Velychko is a Ukrainian investigative journalist with over 15 years of experience uncovering corruption, crime, and human rights violations. She Specializes in exposing disinformation campaigns, and has conducted numerous investigations into Russian propaganda, revealing the networks behind its spread and dismantling the information operations orchestrated by Russian intelligence agencies. ---------- At relatively short notice, we're organising two events in Ukraine in the last week of January. Lviv (part 2) and Kyiv. The event we ran in August 2023 was a huge success, and had a great impact. Now our aim is even more ambitious. Two cities. Two events. Multiple panels consisting of the best experts, and all filmed in high definition for the channel. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras But it costs. Last time the overall cost was £3,500 for Live in Lviv, and we covered 80% of this through ticket sales. This time the costs are higher, and there's less opportunity to sell tickets at the available venues and studios, so I'm creating a campaign to raise £5,000 to make this trip a reality. We also have a much more ambitious programme to film interviews around Kyiv and Lviv for the channel. This project will have an impact, so please help if you can. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras ---------- SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISER A project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to Ukraine's frontline towns. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras ---------- LINKS: https://www.linkedin.com/in/v-press/ https://www.rusi.org/people/velychko https://x.com/VelychkoLiubov https://www.occrp.org/en/people/lyubov-velychko https://mind.ua/en/author/1158-liubov-velychko ---------- THE MAIN MYTHS: - Myth: Ukraine is irredeemably corrupt and has greater corruption issues than Russia. - Myth: Ukraine is not a democracy because elections have been suspended in wartime. - Myth: Russian language and culture are suppressed in Ukraine. - Myth: Russians don’t oppose the war, because they have ‘bad information’. - Myth: Russians can be divided into ‘good’ and ‘bad’. - Myth: Putin can be negotiated with using economically rational, transactional logic. - Myth: Putin insane, not simply a kleptocratic, chauvinistic psychopath. - Myth: Negotiations and treaties with Russia can give Ukraine peace and security. - Myth: Putin wants peace. - Myth: Russia will be satisfied with just a few territories of Ukraine, in DNR and LNR. - Myth: Zelensky makes decisions for himself and his clique, not the Ukrainian people. - Myth: Oligarchs pull all the strings, and leaders are only their puppets, and of the US. - Myth: Russian security concerns is a real and serious topic for consideration. - Myth: Russia could be accepted into NATO, and other international institutions. - Myth: Trade relationship with India, Global South, etc can help make Ukraine secure. - Myth: Russians can be forgiven this generation for the crimes committed in their name. ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ----------

Silicon Bites #78 - Trump 2.0 Sees Insanity Unleashed with Threats Against Canada Greenland & Mexico

9 januari 2025 | 22 min

Edition No78 | 09-01-2025 - Musk and Trump are shaking things up, and the inauguration of Trump 2.0 has not even begun. The four years following Trump’s election in 2016 felt like drinking from a fire hydrant of toxic nonsense. Somehow, though, the madness was largely contained to US domestic issues and pollution of the informational sphere – Trump did not instigate any major wars. It’s quite possible Putin delayed launching a full-scale war in Ukraine because Trump was in office and then COVID kicked in. But now, it seems the gloves of insanity are well and truly off. ---------- At relatively short notice, we're organising two events in Ukraine in the last week of January. Lviv (part 2) and Kyiv. The event we ran in August 2023 was a huge success, and had a great impact. Now our aim is even more ambitious. Two cities. Two events. Multiple panels consisting of the best experts, and all filmed in high definition for the channel. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras But it costs. Last time the overall cost was £3,500 for Live in Lviv, and we covered 80% of this through ticket sales. This time the costs are higher, and there's less opportunity to sell tickets at the available venues and studios, so I'm creating a campaign to raise £5,000 to make this trip a reality. We also have a much more ambitious programme to film interviews around Kyiv and Lviv for the channel. This project will have an impact, so please help if you can. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras ---------- SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISER A project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to Ukraine's frontline towns. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras ---------- Reach for the impossible and get something for nothing - Moscow rules. Negotiation rather than hot war. Fear bargaining. People under pressure tend to make mistakes and default to appeasement of a bully - Again, a negotiating tactic designed to get more than you would otherwise. - Also force people to pick sides, alliances, impose exclusivity. Smoke and mirrors. Sleight of hand. - Musk – the same role played by Steele report and Guiliani in Trump 1.0. - Is Musk just saying mad things or being briefed and encourages by Trump circle. - Is he just tolerated, or are they extending his leash, goading him to do this? - Because it suits their purposes. Again, it’s the ‘insanity’ strategy that has worked so well for Putin, forcing western powers to self-deter. And even to snooze. He’s mad and is going to do it. - Accelerate the world to Vladimir Putin conception of geopolitics. - A dog-eat-dog world, or competition between sovereign imperial blocks. - All other countries are resources, assets, pawns, but do not have agency. Buckle up. Trump has had time to prepare for his 2.0 administration, and its going to be a bumpy ride. This is WWIII if we are lucky, which may have a finite beginning and end. If we’re unlucky this is the new global disorder, and it will become a permanent feature of life. ---------- NEWS SOURCES: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robin-horsfall-52243220/ ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ----------

585. Glen Grant - Fighting the Persistence of the Soviet Mindset Within Ukrainian Armed Forces after 2014

9 januari 2025 | 46 min

Glen Grant worked as a defence and reform expert in Ukraine working for the Ukrainian Institute for the Future. He is also a Senior Fellow in the UK Institute for Statecraft on Building Integrity Initiative countering Russian influence. Glen graduated from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, the Junior Staff Course Warminster and the Joint Staff Defence College at the Royal Naval College Greenwich. ---------- LINKS: https://x.com/GlenGrant https://balticsecurity.eu/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/glengrant/ https://jamestown.org/analyst/glen-grant/ ARTICLES & INTERVIEWS: https://www.kyivpost.com/podcasts/31754 https://euromaidanpress.com/2023/03/20/2023-is-a-time-and-chance-for-military-change-in-ukraine-glen-grant/ https://kyivindependent.com/author/glen-grant-15959/ ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

584. Livestream with Jonthan MS Pearce - Welcome to Putin's Warped Vision of an Unstable Tripolar World

8 januari 2025 | 97 min

Silicon Bites #77 - Russian Propaganda Narratives that Inspired Lex Fridman's Interview Questions

8 januari 2025 | 37 min

Edition No77 | 08-01-2025 - When preparing this second part episode, I was going to go through the interview chronologically and respond to each part. But many YouTubers have already done this, and many of you will have seen the interview in its entirety already. So, this likely won’t be of great value. ---------- SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISER A project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to Ukraine's frontline towns. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras ---------- Zelenskyy’s answers are for the most part superb and push back strongly against Russian disinformation narratives far better than I can. This is perhaps one of Zelenskyy’s most forceful and accessible interviews. In some ways it’s the naivety, and what could be described as ignorance of context on the part of Fridman, that triggers Zelenskyy into providing some of the most compelling answers ever given to Russian narratives and talking points, many of which have been adopted by the MAGA bubble as well as some in conservative political circles. Also, it must be said by the far Left, and those who have traditionally seen the Soviet Union as a template for an alternative society to capitalism and as an antidote to American imperialism. Both are deeply misguided, as Russia is a classic imperialist entity, perhaps one of the most brutal imperial powers in history, and not a template for any kind of civilisation that a reasonable person should aspire to live in or help build. ~/ /~/ /~/ /~/ /~ So, in this episode, I’m going to examine the Russian myths and propagandistic narratives that are the source for what seems to be much of Lex Fridman’s research. He claims at the end of the interview to have consumed many books on the history of Ukraine and Russia, it’s imperial domination of the region and the more recent history that led up to the full-scale war. But unfortunately, his choice of themes and the construction of his questions, suggest to me that his sources of information are weighted towards podcasts, memes and conversations within a bubble, rather than solid journalism and the writings of professional historians. There is a strong bias in Lex’s framing of topics and questions towards Russian inspired historical mythology and intentionally manufactured national myths, which seem to be a more potent source of inspiration for Lex in his choices, priorities and phraseology, than reliable sources. Here is a breakdown of nearly all Lex’s questions that spanned the three-hour interview, and how each correlate to a greater or lesser extent to common Russian narratives. Some of the topics of course are perfectly valid to bring up, and Russian propaganda rarely manufacturers issues from scratch. It leverages existing problems, pours petrol on the flames of real conflicts, and seeks to widen and weaponize existing divisions. But propaganda utilises these issues, and Lex has scored an almost complete bingo card of them. Again, I suspect that his intention is not to be propagandistic, but the framing of his questions, the language he uses, betrays a lack of depth and seriousness to his research, as well as a remarkable level of naivety about real-world politics. ---------- NEWS SOURCES: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u321m25rKXc ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemysl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ----------

Silicon Bites #76 - Finland Impounds Ship Suspected of Sabotaging Undersea Cables & Infrastructure

7 januari 2025 | 11 min

Edition No76 | 07-01-2025 - An anchor belonging to the oil tanker Eagle S, suspected of being used to damage undersea cables in the Gulf of Finland, has been located and retrieved from the seabed. This follows the seizure by police in Finland of the Russian-linked dark fleet tanker Eagle S. This is the first time a ship suspected of sabotaging undersea infrastructure has been taken into custody by authorities, according to Estonia Prime Minister Kristen Michal. Estonia Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna said the damage to undersea infrastructure was not a coincidence. “They have become systematic, and we must consider them an attack on our infrastructure,” he said. The Finnish customs service believes the Eagle S is part of a shadow fleet of ageing tankers being used to evade sanctions on the sale of Russian oil. ---------- SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISER A project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to Ukraine's frontline towns. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras ---------- Trucks under Christmas Tree https://donorbox.org/trucks-under-christmas-tree/fundraiser/silicon-curtain The Goal of the Campaign for Silicon Curtain: € 10,000 to purchase 1 truck to save Ukrainian lives. ---------- Here are some interesting points about the seizure of the vessel, made by expert Robin Häggblom on Twitter last week. 1) Finnish Defence Forces involvement seems to have been limited. It was the Finnish Border Guard's flagship that shadowed the tanker and caught it in the act, According to Robin this was largely handled by the ministry of the Interior and Law Enforcement, rather than obvious military forces units. 2) The Police told a reporter they don't plan on contacting the Russian authorities. This was a strong and correct gesture of contempt for Russia and its actions. But Robin notes that it may also mark an end to the process of soft appeasement of Russia known as Finlandization, where the USSR and Russia was given special consideration compared to other states. 3) If the Russians have been foolish enough to use shadow fleet vessels as SIGINT platforms, for monitoring and intelligence operations, then we may expect must closer tracking of their grey fleet by NATO powers, and potentially more interventions. The shadow fleet-concept, notes Robin, rests on the right of innocent passage, while intelligence gathering specifically is mentioned as *not* being part of that under UNCLOS Article 19, 2. If there is reason to suspect innocent passage isn't adhered to, it can up new legal actions, which the Western allies have been loath to adopt until now. 4) The operation is typical for how Finland handles hybrid operations. Everything is done according to the book and within a clear legal framework. But the signalling around this operation appears to be unusually strong, which may be intended as a clear message to Russia. More of a show of force than was necessary may indicate that Finland and other countries’ patience with Russia’s illegal, aggressive and risky actions does have limits. More on this story in forthcoming episodes with experts Elizabeth Braw and Jerry Hendrix. ---------- NEWS SOURCES: https://yle.fi/a/74-20135216 https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/finland-court-rejects-owners-request-release-oil-tanker-2025-01-03/ https://www.lloydslist.com/LL1151950/Finland-police-seize-Russian-linked-dark-fleet-tanker-Eagle-S-in-cable-cutting-investigation ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ----------

583. Lesia Dubenko - Breaking Down the Big Interview Between Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Lex Fridman

6 januari 2025 | 35 min

SEE VIDEO ALSO AT: https://youtu.be/2EKB-pulmTU An Emotional Ukrainian - format with Lesia Dubenko - Episode 3 - 2025-01-06 The big interview between Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Lex Fridman. ---------- Lesia Dubenko is a Ukrainian journalist and analyst featured in the Financial Times, Politico Europe, New Eastern Europe, Washington Times, and more. She’s currently affiliated with Ukraine’s media outlet Euromaidan Press. You can follow her on Substack for a dose of good and satirical commentary https://lesiadubenko.substack.com ---------- LINKS https://x.com/lesialvd https://lesiadubenko.substack.com/ https://archive.kyivpost.com/author/lesia-dubenko https://www.linkedin.com/in/lesiadubenko/ https://euromaidanpress.com/author/lesiadubenko/ ---------- SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISER A project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to Ukraine's frontline towns. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Silicon Curtain #75 - Dissecting the Zelenskyy Interview Conducted by Lex Fridman in Ukraine

6 januari 2025 | 35 min

Edition No75 | 06-01-2025 - Lex Fridman is in the enviable position to interview some of the world’s leading writers, thinkers, scientists and politicians. Some have accused him of peddling ‘low quality’ and superficial content, but that cannot be true of all his video, given the calibre of some of his guests. And this interview with Zelenskyy that has just come out is one of his best. And it’s not because of the quality of Fridman’s questions. His precision, erudition and wit. Sometimes it’s the reverse, when the simplistic or naïve assumptions behind his questions irked or irritated Zelenskyy, it elicited some of the President’s clearest and best responses. ---------- SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISER A project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to Ukraine's frontline towns. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras ---------- Trucks under Christmas Tree https://donorbox.org/trucks-under-christmas-tree/fundraiser/silicon-curtain The Goal of the Campaign for Silicon Curtain: € 10,000 to purchase 1 truck to save Ukrainian lives. ---------- This is important, because the interview was not for Ukrainians, for activists or the pro-Ukraine bubble. It was meant for people that may have no regard for Zelenskyy or Ukraine, may be indifferent to its plight, or who may even have been influenced by Russian talking points, and have an active antipathy towards Ukraine’s leadership. If the interview reached these people, and broke down some myths and preconceptions then it will have been worth it. If the interview succeeds in humanising Zelensky and Ukraine for people, then it can be considered a success. If the interview undermines the propagandistic narrative that Putin really wants peace, but is being obstructed by Ukraine, then it will have strategic importance ahead of Trump’s inauguration, and the negotiation process that he clearly wants to initiate. If Trump’s supporters move away from the idea of peace through capitulation, to peace through strength, then this interview will have served a very important purpose. ---------- NEWS SOURCES: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u321m25rKXc ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemysl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ----------

Silicon Bites #74 - Ukraine Launches Bold Counterattack in Kursk Oblast Surprising Russian Forces

5 januari 2025 | 8 min

Edition No74 | 05-01-2025 - Ukraine has launched a new offensive in Russia's Kursk Oblast. Early reports on its success are incomplete and mixed. Much of the detail is coming from the Russian Z-blogger community and therefore needs to be view as potentially unreliable. This has not stopped the first media headlines reporting on Ukraine’s surprise counterattack in Kursk today from leading with the reactions of the Russian voices and incorporating their phraseology into article headlines. ---------- SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISER A project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to Ukraine's frontline towns. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras ---------- Trucks under Christmas Tree https://donorbox.org/trucks-under-christmas-tree/fundraiser/silicon-curtain The Goal of the Campaign for Silicon Curtain: € 10,000 to purchase 1 truck to save Ukrainian lives. ---------- ‘Last ditch attempt’ to catch Russia off guard, and ‘last chance’ to take back land, scream the headlines, directly reflecting quotes from Z-bloggers. But both statements involve massive assumptions, and indeed reflect Russian interests, rather than reality. There’s no way to tell how many new offensives or counter-offensives Ukraine has the resources for, or will have in 3 months’ time, 6 months’ time, etc. Throughout the war, it’s served the interests of Russia to reinforce the myth that it cannot be beaten, that a Russian victory is inevitable, that ever setback for Ukraine is de facto a catastrophe, and every catastrophe for Russia is of no consequence. And many in the media have duly complied, in their use of both explicit and implicit language, to add to this strategic mythology of Russian invincibility, their capacity to apparently tolerate any hardship, and their infinite resources. None of this is of course true. Phrases such as ‘bold’ and ‘surprising’ could equally be applied to the situation, but it seems there is a reflexive bias in the minds of some journalists and policymakers, to automatically position Ukraine as a victim, incapable of achieving victories, and underplay their successes. ---------- NEWS SOURCES: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/05/ukraine-launches-surprise-operation-in-kursk-region-according-to-reports https://www.vietnam.vn/en/tong-thong-ukraine-thong-bao-ton-that-nang-ne-cua-quan-doi-nga-va-trieu-tien-o-kursk/ https://www.politico.eu/article/hundreds-north-korea-troops-dead-kursk-ukraine-war/ https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14250611/Putins-forces-slaughtered-attack-Kursk-village.html https://www.newsweek.com/russia-ukraine-kursk-losses-2008486 https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/01/05/ukrainian-forces-launch-attacks-in-multiple-directions-in-russias-kursk-oblast-officials-say/ https://kyivindependent.com/russia-claims-2/ ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemysl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ----------

Silicon Bites #73 - Russia's Ability to use Energy as a Cynical Weapon of Blackmail just got Reduced

4 januari 2025 | 15 min

Edition No73 | 04-01-2025 - Is the stopping of gas transit via Ukraine 'One of Moscow's biggest defeats'? That is what Zelensky is claiming, as Ukraine terminated Russian natural gas transit on 1st Jan. 2025. Kyiv has repeatedly warned it would not extend the agreement to allow Russian natural gas to transit through its territory to Europe, and indeed the expiry of that agreement was a natural point for Ukraine to make good on its threats. It’s remarkable in fact that this gas transit has continues for 3 years of the full-scale war, given how important gas has been in the financing of Russia's war. ---------- SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISER A project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to Ukraine's frontline towns. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras ---------- Trucks under Christmas Tree https://donorbox.org/trucks-under-christmas-tree/fundraiser/silicon-curtain The Goal of the Campaign for Silicon Curtain: € 10,000 to purchase 1 truck to save Ukrainian lives. ---------- "When Putin was handed power in Russia over 25 years ago, the annual gas pumping through Ukraine to Europe stood at over 130 billion cubic meters. Today, the transit of Russian gas is 0. This is one of Moscow's biggest defeats," Zelensky said. "Turning energy into a weapon and cynical energy blackmail of partners is what deprived Russia of its most attractive and geographically accessible market." Zelensky has suggested that three years is a long enough period for European countries to adapt to the termination of Russian gas supplies. For some countries it’s been easier than others, and some have been more proactive in weaning themselves off Russia gas. Zelensky also suggested that having a greater diversity of suppliers and partners could increase competition in the market and help to drive down prices. "The more gas from Europe's true partners is available on the market, the sooner the last negative consequences of European energy dependence on Russia will be overcome," Zelensky said. With a degree of sarcasm, he added “it will be necessary to withstand the hysteria of some European politicians who prefer mafia schemes with Moscow to transparent energy policy." Two examples of leaders that prefer to maintain so-called ‘mafia relations’ with Russia, are Viktor Orban, the Hungarian Prime Minister, and Slovak counterpart Robert Fico. As the most vocal opponents of Ukraine's decision to stop Russian gas transit, they have also shown a willingness to also pay homage at the court of the killer Tsar in the Kremlin, despite Russia's invasion of Ukraine and are the main promoters of pro-Russian narratives in Europe. ---------- NEWS SOURCES: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/01/breakaway-moldovan-region-cuts-heating-and-hot-water-as-russia-stops-gas-flow https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/russian-gas-pipeline-ukraine-gazprom-b2673631.html https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/02/moldovan-region-transnistria-shuts-down-its-industries-after-loss-of-russian-gas https://kyivindependent.com/slovak-state-energy-company-to-continue-to-supply-electricity-to-ukraine-despite-ficos-threats/ https://kyivindependent.com/one-of-moscows-biggest-defeats-zelensky-on-stopping-russian-gas-transit-via-ukraine/ https://kyivindependent.com/transnistria-rejects-offer-to-buy-gas-from-europe-expects-russia-to-resume-supplies/ ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ----------

Silicon Bites #72 - Psycho was Bored - Was this on Anyone's 'Causes of Putin's War' Bingo Card?

2 januari 2025 | 30 min

Edition No72 | 02-01-2025 - Vladimir Putin summed up the results of the year and answered questions from journalists and the people of Russia in a live broadcast. December 19, 2024 "We have already received over 2.2 million questions, including 1.2 million via telephone, about 43,000 via SMS messages, and over 140,000 via the website. We can see that the number of questions is increasing in real time." ---------- Trucks under Christmas Tree https://donorbox.org/trucks-under-christmas-tree/fundraiser/silicon-curtain The Goal of the Campaign for Silicon Curtain: € 10,000 to purchase 1 truck to save Ukrainian lives. ---------- SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISER A project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to Ukraine's frontline towns. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras ---------- Anna Suvorova: Before we start taking questions from our people and our colleagues, journalists, I would like to ask the first general question. In recent time, everyone has been feeling a disturbing sense that the world is going crazy, or already has, because the potential for conflict is off the charts in every part of the world, and the global economy is struggling. How does Russia manage not only to stay afloat, but also to continue growing in this situation? Vladimir Putin: You know, when all is calm and life is measured and stable, we get bored. This amounts to stagnation, so we crave action. When action begins, time starts whistling by – or bullets do, for that matter. Unfortunately, bullets are what is zipping past our heads these days. We are scared, yes – but not as “all get out” kind of scared. Our economics are the ultimate measure of things. As is traditional, I will start with the economy. Although your question was a bit provocative, I will turn to the economy anyway. The economy is number one; it is the cornerstone. It has an impact on living standards, general stability, and the country’s defence capability. The economy is everything. The economic situation in Russia is generally positive and stable. We are growing in spite of everything, in spite of any external threats or attempts at outside influence. What this means is that our economy will have grown by eight percent over the past two years. After all, the tenths and hundredths of a percent make for a negligeable difference. This is what experts have been telling me – we exchanged views this very morning. About eight percent over the past two years, compared to a growth rate between five and six percent for the United States, one percent for the Eurozone, and zero for Germany, the EU’s leading economy. It seems that next year that country will also have zero growth. ---------- NEWS SOURCES: http://www.en.kremlin.ru/events/president/transcripts/75909 ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemysl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ----------

Silicon Bites #71 - Georgia Pre-crime Detention Marks Slide into Kremlin-inspired Authoritarian Rule

1 januari 2025 | 21 min

Edition No71 | 01-01-2025 - As the slide toward dictatorship in Georgia accelerates, this episode will review the mechanics of law that mark an increasingly repressive and desperate regime. As we’ve examined in previous episodes, the Georgia Dream party has now ripped off the mask and shed any last vestige of ambiguity they are a Kremlin proxy party that is intent on deconstructing Georgia’s fragile democracy and subverting institutions that have been evolving since independence to bring rule of law and civic liberties to society. ---------- SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISER A project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to Ukraine's frontline towns. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras ---------- Here is a summary of the laws brough in, posted on X by the excellent Anna Gvarishvili, who has been a recent guest on this channel. The following restrictions have bene rushed into law, and will take effect on Dec. 30: 1. Drivers joining protests with processions: If police determine such actions obstruct traffic, drivers will be fined 1,000 Lari and have driving license suspended for a year. 2. Unauthorized protest stencils/signs/posters: Fines for damaging the city’s appearance have been increased from 50 Lari to up to 1,000 Lari. 3. Blocking roads during protests: can lead to a fine on each person of 5,000 Lari (a 10-fold increase in the fine for this offence). Those deemed to be organizers, can face fines of 15,000 Lari. This rule also applies to violations under Georgia’s “Law on Assemblies and Demonstrations,” including blocking building entrances. Instead of a fine, administrative detention of up to 15 days can also be imposed. 4. Presence of pyrotechnics at protests: Regardless of whether they are used, individuals will be fined 5,000 Lari. If this is deemed an organized act, the organizer may face a fine of 15,000 Lari. Administrative detention of up to 15 days may also be applied instead of a fine. 5. Possession of laser or bright light-emitting devices: 2,000 Lari fine. 6. Covering one’s face with masks or other means: This will result in a 2,000 Lari fine. 7. Minors at protests: If a minor is deemed to have violated Article 173 (disobedience to lawful police demands), their parents will be fined for improper upbringing, with fines ranging from 100 to 300 Lari. This is the one that triggered the title of this episode, and it has sinister connotations of the pre-crime detection unit in the Sci-Fi book, Minority Report. 8. Preventive detention: Police can now detain individuals preventively, assuming they may commit an offense based on prior violations. 9. Detention for court appearance: Police can detain individuals solely to ensure their appearance in court, even if they do not refuse to attend voluntarily. This provision allows police to detain someone even if no case has yet been filed in court. 10. Expanded grounds for personal and property searches: Personal searches, inspections of items, and confiscation of belongings and documents are now permitted under these same grounds. ---------- NEWS SOURCES: https://oc-media.org/from-fireworks-to-the-public-sector-georgian-dream-introduces-new-legislation-amid-protests/ https://oc-media.org/us-sanctions-bidzina-ivanishvili/ https://eurasianet.org/georgia-government-set-to-pass-laws-bolstering-police-state https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-sanctions-georgian-officials-responsible-for-brutal-crackdown-on-media-and-protestors https://civil.ge/archives/645520 https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crk01xyd22eo https://oc-media.org/when-we-get-in-the-minibus-the-fun-will-start-how-georgian-police-torture-detained-protesters/ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/27/lets-see-who-will-be-leaving-georgias-presidential-standoff-nears-crunch-point ----------

582. Yaroslava Bukhta - Navigating the Fog of War - Lessons Learned from Interviews Conducted in 2024

31 december 2024 | 66 min

581. Anders Puck Nielsen - Putin’s War not Sustainable in 2025 Without Full Mobilisation of Resources.

30 december 2024 | 53 min

✅ Go to RFU News to stay fully informed. Subscribe through my link and get 40% off unlimited access this week only: https://www.rfunews.com/christmas-sale?_from=sc ---------- GUEST: Anders Puck Nielsen - YouTuber and military analyst. Today I’m speaking with Anders Puck Nielsen, military analyst and influential YouTuber based in Denmark. He specialises in naval warfare and strategy; in today’s video we are going to be talking about Ukrainian successes against Russia’s Black Sea fleet and state of the ground war in Ukraine. ---------- LINKS: https://www.youtube.com/@anderspuck https://twitter.com/anderspuck https://www.linkedin.com/in/anderspucknielsen/ https://apnielsen.info/en/frontpage/ ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

578. Valeriia Voshchevska - Starving Putin's War Economy of Income with Strategic Communications Activism

28 december 2024 | 73 min

Silicon Bites #70 - 4 Oil Tankers in 4 Days - Predictions of Environmental Disaster Proving Correct.

27 december 2024 | 12 min

Edition No70 | 27-12-2024 - It’s a tragedy that politicians can’t seem to act on warnings alone, and the public can’t be moved to outrage, passion or action by an impending disaster or crime. Last week we had a case in point where it’s the images of thick, viscous oil washing up on the Black Sea coast. ---------- SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISER A project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to Ukraine's frontline towns. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras ---------- Stricken oil tankers show the risks of Russia's ageing 'shadow fleet', which it uses to bypass sanctions. Although the vessel that split apart was covered by Russian insurer VSK, it’s doubtful whether the costs of the cleanup operations will be covered. The full scale of the various incidents, as well as their long-term impact on the environment are so far unknown. One crew member was killed after the Volgoneft 212 split in half, with 12 rescued, while authorities said all 14 crew aboard the Volgoneft 239, which ran aground 80 metres from the shore near the port of Taman, were also rescued. Russian authorities sought to limit the damage from oil spilled into the Kerch Strait by two ageing tankers that were damaged during a heavy weekend storm – though part of the campaign was informational, seeking to deny the seriousness, and not only focused on the physical clean-up. The ships are on average more than 50-year-old, and were carrying some 9,200 metric tons (62,000 barrels) of oil products in total. Volgoneft 212 was constructed in 1969 and Volgoneft 239 in 1973. The spill is likely to become one of the largest environmental disasters to affect the region in recent years. The Kerch Strait, which separates mainland Russia from the Moscow-annexed Crimea region, is a key route for exports of its grain and fuel products. ---------- NEWS SOURCES: https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-polytics/3939182-estonian-pm-names-two-options-facing-russian-shadow-fleet-vessels-caught-without-insurance.html https://www.ft.com/content/8a485a6b-477e-4087-83f4-eca357082d71 https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-tankers-damaged-kerch-strait-were-carrying-62000-barrels-oil-products-2024-12-16/ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/16/ukraine-calls-for-sanctions-against-russia-oil-tankers-over-black-sea-spill https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/12/16/russian-tankers-caught-in-storm-may-have-leaked-3k-tons-of-oil-products-state-media-a87359 https://kyivindependent.com/sinking-of-two-russian-oil-tankers-may-cause-significant-environmental-impacts-greenpeace-warns/ https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-economy-shadow-dark-oil-tankers-sanctions-navy-warships-escort-2024-12 ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemysl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ----------

Silicon Bites #69 - Muscovy Brings Gifts of Terror and Destruction to Ukraine on Christmas Day 2024.

26 december 2024 | 10 min

Edition No69 | 26-12-2024 - What is Christmas like, when your neighbour is a terrorist state, run without challenge or hindrance by a delusional imperialist and pervert, hooked on aggression and suffering? Russia launched a massive Christmas day attack on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, and civilian residential targets in numerous cities, leaving more than half a million people without heating, water and electricity. Temperatures across Ukraine are around freezing point. ---------- SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISER A project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to Ukraine's frontline towns. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras ---------- Zelenskyy, President of Ukrainian spoke with direct moral clarity when he condemned the attack as ‘inhuman’. This was the 13th large-scale assault in 2024, on the energy grid of Ukraine, in what Zelenskyy said was a deliberate series of strikes. “This was not a coincidence. What could be more inhuman?” He wrote on X. But it’s also entirely predictable. Putin always lashes out after press conferences, or visits to his court by foreign dignitaries, and of course, special dates such as Christmas hold a special fascination for his perverse mind. Attacks at Christmas and New Year as well as on significant anniversaries are entirely predictable, as is Russia’s raging desire to instil fear in its enemies, and those it seeks to control and plunder. About 50 of the 70 missiles fired were intercepted, as well as a ‘significant’ number of more than 100 attack drones launched by Russia, on this, the celebration of Christ’s birth. Oleh Syniehubov, governor of Ukraine’s eastern Kharkiv region, explained that the attack had left more than 500,000 people without heating, water and electricity at Christmas. Russia is not just a terrorist state, but also, it’s claims to be Christian one is barely plausible, given its actions of the last three years, and the genocidal character of its regime, which is enthusiastically supported and sanctified by the Moscow Patriarch, and former KGB agent. President Joe Biden said in a statement “The Ukrainian people deserve to live in peace and safety, and the United States and the international community must continue to stand with Ukraine until it triumphs over Russia’s aggression.” Biden also reaffirmed his instruction to the Department of Defence “to continue its surge of weapons deliveries to Ukraine”. ---------- NEWS SOURCES: https://www.ft.com/content/b7b2c8d9-8eed-4620-adfe-a99e696a1dd4 https://kyivindependent.com/russia-terrorizes-ukraine-with-mass-missile-drone-attack-on-christmas-morning/ https://kyivindependent.com/the-west-is-pushing-ukraine-toward-concessions-that-will-backfire/ https://kyivindependent.com/kellogg-condemns-russias-mass-attack-against-ukraine-on-christmas-day/ ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemysl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ----------

579. Anna from Ukraine - Tales from Mordor - Russian Propaganda Versus Rural Reality

25 december 2024 | 85 min

An alternative Christmas message from your favourite Ukrainian. ---------- Anna Danylchuk has been creating a war diary since the early days of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia in 2022. Anna Danylchuk aims to tell the truth about Ukraine and Russia’s war and cut through the noise and propaganda. Anna is passionate about the beauty and independence of her country, and communicates this powerfully in her videos, in a clear and honest way. ---------- LINKS: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/annafromukraine My interview with Anna in Lviv - hosted on her excellent channel- https://youtu.be/daHcnsNQ1S0?si=yHbZ2kJZ3CTVRd8Z ---------- SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISER - A project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to Ukraine's frontline towns. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras ---------- OTHER VIDEOS WITH ANNA ON SILICON CURTAIN: 14. https://youtu.be/EZRULDT06_k (13-Nov-24) 13. https://youtu.be/GU4R5mcubIE (19-Sep-27) 12. https://youtu.be/APTdfyqnyAI (15-Aug-24) 11. https://youtu.be/xUsxXcc97m8 (03-Jun-24) 10. https://youtu.be/eQ5fJCFATM0 (18-Apr-24) 9. https://youtu.be/Y59nUd8B5pY (21-Feb-24) 8. https://youtu.be/J8mge30rxY8 (24-Jan-24) 7. https://youtu.be/XQJoTAAfxt4 (24-Dec-23) 6. https://youtu.be/0gaK_5TEXXw (28-Nov-23) 5. https://youtu.be/x0o1bn-1Yyc (29-Sep-23) 4. https://youtu.be/Hm5_Yb3geQ4 (30-Aug-23) 3. https://youtu.be/r0PNxM7Xyow (23-Feb-23) 2. https://youtu.be/5AenntkSxIs (31-Dec-22) 1. https://youtu.be/vPT6oZ1FOAw (21-Oct-22) ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

580. Gabrielius Landsbergis - Western Powers are Unprepared for a Russian Defeat or for a Russian Victory

24 december 2024 | 54 min

Ukrainians know Russia better than anyone. Ukrainians know Russia's strengths and weaknesses. Ukrainians know what deters Russia and what doesn't. Ukrainians therefore know best how to secure peace. Today I’m speaking to a rare breed of politician, one that understands the scale of threat to Europe Russia represents and is not afraid of expressing these truths to power in an impactful way. ---------- Gabrielius Landsbergis is a Lithuanian politician and diplomat who served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania from December 2020 until November 2024. He is also a former Member of the European Parliament (2014–2016), where he served on the Committee on International Trade and the Subcommittee on Security and Defence. As Minister of Foreign Affairs, Landsbergis was a vocal advocate for European integration, NATO solidarity, and democratic values. His tenure was characterized by Lithuania's firm support for Ukraine during the ongoing Russian invasion, as well as efforts to counter Russian influence in the region. ---------- LINKS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabrielius_Landsbergis https://x.com/GLandsbergis https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/124759/GABRIELIUS_LANDSBERGIS/history/8 https://cepa.org/author/gabrielus-landsbergis/ https://www.coe.int/en/web/portal/-/cm-president-landsbergis-collective-effort-needed-to-ensure-sustainable-peace-and-respect-for-human-rights https://www.politico.eu/article/lithuania-gabrielius-landsbergis-resign-election-parliament-defeat/ ---------- SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISER A project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to Ukraine's frontline towns. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

577. An Emotional Ukrainian - Is Putin's war About Territory, Control, or Geopolitics?

21 december 2024 | 65 min

SEE FULL VIDEO AT: https://youtu.be/gidNFLqTqdE An Emotional Ukrainian - format with Lesia Dubenko - Episode 2 - 2024-12-17 Is Putin's war all about territory, control, or geopolitics? ---------- Lesia Dubenko is a Ukrainian journalist and analyst featured in the Financial Times, Politico Europe, New Eastern Europe, Washington Times, and more. She’s currently affiliated with Ukraine’s media outlet Euromaidan Press. You can follow her on Substack for a dose of good and satirical commentary https://lesiadubenko.substack.com ---------- LINKS https://x.com/lesialvd https://lesiadubenko.substack.com/ https://archive.kyivpost.com/author/lesia-dubenko https://www.linkedin.com/in/lesiadubenko/ https://euromaidanpress.com/author/lesiadubenko/ ---------- SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISER A project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to Ukraine's frontline towns. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Jonathan MS and Georgijs Ivanovs - Friday - "Trucks under Christmas Tree" Livestream Fundraiser

21 december 2024 | 105 min

Jonathan MS and Philip Ittner - Thursday- "Trucks under Christmas Tree" Livestream Fundraiser

21 december 2024 | 104 min

575. Tinatin Japaridze - Maidan in Tbilisi - How Close to Ending is Russian Dream of Controlling Georgia?

20 december 2024 | 42 min

Tinatin Japaridze specializes in the geopolitics and security of Eurasia, with a particular focus on the Russia-Ukraine war. She leads Eurasia Group’s coverage of Georgia and Azerbaijan, including the countries’ domestic and foreign policies, reforms, and leadership. Prior to joining Eurasia Group, Tinatin spent more than 15 years working at the intersection of communications and security. For several years, Tinatin was the UN Bureau Chief for Eastern European media outlets, a UN Radio host, and the producer of her own radio show on current affairs and international security. She is a regular media contributor to The Moscow Times, The Washington Post, and The Atlantic, among other outlets. Her book “Stalin’s Millennials: Nostalgia, Trauma, and Nationalism” was published in 2022. ---------- LINKS: https://x.com/TinatinTweets https://www.linkedin.com/in/tinatinjaparidze/ https://uc.web.ox.ac.uk/people/tinatin-japaridze https://www.thecriticalmass.com/tinatin-japaridze ---------- BOOKS: Stalin’s Millennials: Nostalgia, Trauma, and Nationalism (2022) ---------- SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISER A project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to Ukraine's frontline towns. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain/collections ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- ARTICLES: https://www.gzeromedia.com/news/watching/georgias-parliament-advances-divisive-foreign-agents-bill https://eurasianet.org/perspectives-russia-is-going-to-wake-up-to-a-very-difficult-reality https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/navalny-kremlin-critics-deaths-1.7117854 ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

576. Sir Richard Shirreff - To Avoid World War 3 Britain must Prepare for War with Russia as a Deterrent.

19 december 2024 | 49 min

Barely a week goes by without things occurring that would have been inconceivable three years ago. Russian territory being hit by American made munitions, history’s most substantial sanctions in place against Russia, a near coup against the Kremlin, and Putin going cap-in-hand to Kim-Jong-Un to prop up his ailing military. What more can happen before these tensions and conflicts coalesce into World War 3 – especially the expectations that Korea troops will soon be fighting on the territory of Europe. ---------- Richard Shirreff is Co-founder and Managing Partner at Strategia Worldwide. After graduating from Oxford, he served in the British Army for 37 years commanding soldiers on operations or in combat at every level from platoon to division and rising to the highest rank before retiring from the Army as NATO’s Deputy Supreme Commander Europe. Richard is co-Founder and Managing Partner of Strategia Worldwide. In 2016 his novel ‘2017: War with Russia’ was published in the UK, USA, and Poland. He is an honorary Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. ---------- SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISER A project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to Ukraine's frontline towns. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain/collections ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- LINKS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Shirreff https://twitter.com/RichardShirreff https://www.strategiaworldwide.com/our-people/sir-richard-shirreff https://www.globsec.org/who-we-are/our-people/gen-ret-sir-richard-shirreff https://www.brookings.edu/events/is-armed-conflict-with-russia-a-real-possibility/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podca

Jonathan MS and Andrew Mercado - Wednesday- "Trucks under Christmas Tree" Livestream Fundraiser

19 december 2024 | 88 min

Jonathan MS and Rick the Ukrainian - Wednesday- "Trucks under Christmas Tree" Livestream Fundraiser

19 december 2024 | 61 min

574. Anastasiya Paraskevova - Tackling Kremlin's Talking Points Head on - Talking Fight to Western Media.

18 december 2024 | 43 min

Jonathan MS and Guests - Tuesday - "Trucks under Christmas Tree" Livestream Fundraiser Campaign

18 december 2024 | 77 min

573. John Sweeney - Trump, Ukraine, Russia in 2025 - The Outcome is Unpredictable and May be Unexpected

17 december 2024 | 52 min

John Sweeney is a British investigative journalist and writer. He worked for The Observer newspaper, and the BBC's Panorama and Newsnight series. Sweeney ceased working for the BBC in October 2019, and is now reporting on the war in Ukraine, as well as creating a Daily war diary. Which I strongly advise you to watch if you’ve not seen it. He’s also been working on a film, documenting the most brutal parts of the conflict – ‘The Eastern Front’, which is released in June this year. ---------- SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISER A project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to Ukraine's frontline towns. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain/collections ---------- LINKS: https://www.johnsweeney.co.uk/ https://twitter.com/johnsweeneyroar https://inews.co.uk/opinion/john-sweeney-vladimir-putin-chance-1972364 https://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/books/1736357/john-sweeney-ukraine-war-vladimir-putin https://pressgazette.co.uk/comment-analysis/john-sweeney-ukraine-front-line/ ----- BOOKS: Murder in the Gulag: The Life and Death of Alexei Navalny (2024) Killer in the Kremlin (2023) Putin's Prisoner: My Time as a Prisoner of War in Ukraine Taking on Putin with John Sweeney The Useful Idiot The Church of Fear: Inside the Weird World of Scientology Hunting Ghislaine ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Jonathan MS and Phil Ittner - Monday - "Trucks under Christmas Tree" Livestream Fundraiser Campaign

16 december 2024 | 92 min

570. Russia's War on Energy and How it Uses Winter as a Weapon: Alex Cornell du Houx & Ievgeniia Kopytsia

16 december 2024 | 48 min

Alex Cornell du Houx served on the Energy Utilities and Technology and Legal and Veterans Affairs committees, sponsoring 14 successful pieces of legislation and co-sponsoring 98 successful bills. He won the REED award for the best national Public Affairs Campaign for his work co-founding Operation Free, a coalition of lawmakers and veterans promoting energy security. Cornell du Houx participated in and led State Department delegations to Southeast Asia to foster government-to-government relations, is a Kentucky Colonel, a senior advisor to the Veterans Campaign, and Partner with the Truman National Security Project. He has provided value-based communications, empathy-based fundraising, and EQ & Public Leadership training worldwide. Alex served in the Marine Corps infantry for seven years and is currently a Public Affairs Officer with the Navy Reserve. Dr Ievgeniia Kopytsia is a law scholar specialising in environmental, climate and energy law from international, EU and Ukrainian perspectives. Her research focuses on climate change and net zero legal dilemmas in the poly-crises era. Dr Ievgeniia Kopytsia also serves as an Associate Professor at Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University, where she leads "Sustainable Law and Policy Research Centre" and coordinates Europe-Ukraine Energy Transition Hub - an international consortium aiming to leverage the green reconstruction of Ukraine and provide support to strengthen Ukraine’s governance, regulatory frameworks, and market mechanisms in the field of energy, sustainability, and climate action. ---------- LINKS: Alex Cornell du Houx https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Cornell_du_Houx https://alexcornell.org/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/cornellalex/ https://www.usfca.edu/faculty/alex-cornell-du-houx https://protectingamerica.net/about/alex/ https://x.com/alex_cornell Ievgeniia Kopytsia https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/people/dr-ievgeniia-kopytsia https://www.linkedin.com/in/ievgeniiakopytsia/ https://netzeroclimate.org/netzero_team/ievgeniia-kopytsia/ ---------- SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISER A project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to Ukraine's frontline towns. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras ---------- TRUCKS UNDER CHRISTMAS TREE With this campaign, we will raise funds for 1 truck to help brave warriors from the 237th battalion, 129th brigade who leverage technology and manage to hold russian advance at the very edge of the frontline. In partnership with Car for Ukraine. https://donorbox.org/trucks-under-christmas-tree/fundraiser/silicon-curtain ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ----------

567. Shota Dighmelashvili - The Mechanics of State Capture Exported from Russia to Georgia, Moldova, etc.

14 december 2024 | 76 min

569. Iryna Baturevych - How Ukrainian Cultural Talent has been Repressed, Tormented, Silenced and Erased.

13 december 2024 | 48 min

Iryna Baturevych is a co-founder of the Chytomo media project (NGO), the Ukrainian independent media covering publishing and contemporary literary and cultural processes in Ukraine. Together with the Chytomo team, she organized the Ukrainian Chytomo Award for the Outstanding Achievements in Publishing. The publishing markets observer. In 2022, she co-founded the Ukrainian Club of Montreal. Iryna is a deputy director and a head of the analytical department of the Ukrainian Book Institute, guest teacher of the Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University. Iryna presented the Ukrainian publishing market in more than 15 international events including the biggest book fairs and forums: Frankfurt Book Fair (Germany), Bologna Book Fair (Italy), Salon du livre (Canada), etc. Iryna has 15 years of experience in publishing and media, articles were published in the Ukrainian media (Chytomo.com, Day Newspaper, Ukrainska Pravda), and professional media abroad (e.g. PW, Publishing Perspectives, Boersenblatt). __ How Chytomo media was created: “I’ve always been driven by a desire to engage in tasks that propel me forward. Back in 2009, I was writing my university master’s thesis. I used this as an opportunity to create something practical and impactful. And I knew that Oksana (Oksana Khmelyovska, Chytomo co-founder, editor-in-chief) shared this vision and was the ideal partner to help me bring it to life. Besides, we recognised that the key to our growth lay not only in analyzing the process, but in engaging directly with industry experts — publishers, managers, writers, and designers. How? Given our journalistic background, we decided to start Chytomo — an online magazine about publishing, literature, and design. For the past 14 years, we have been leading this project, and I am pleased to see that Chytomo has now become an influential platform for aspiring publishing professionals in Ukraine, a tool for fostering a culture of reading, and a media outlet that introduces Ukrainian publishing and literature to a global audience.” __ LINKS: https://chytomo.com/en/authors/iryna-baturevych-2/ https://culturalhub.org/publication_author/iryna-baturevych/ https://ukraineworld.org/en/podcasts/ep-325 https://publishingperspectives.com/tag/iryna-baturevych/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/iryna-baturevych-520a0b23/ ---------- PUBLICATIONS: Wettbewerb auf Spitzenniveau https://www.boersenblatt.net/news/wettbewerb-auf-spitzenniveau-327671 (DE) https://www.giornaledellalibreria.it/scritti-da/iryna-baturevych-1917.html (IT) https://life.pravda.com.ua/authors/656ef0f89a2df/ (UA) Interviews: UkraineWorld Ukrainian non-fiction books: what is available in English? – with Iryna Baturevych Publishing Perspectives: Ukraine’s Iryna Baturevych: ‘Solidarity Is Our Superpower’ La Press Un essor inattendu pour le marché du livre en Ukraine Le Devoir En Ukraine, poésie de guerre et livres bombardés ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ----------

571. Konstantin Samoilov - 3 Levers Trump Could Pull to Trigger Putin's Doomsday Scenario

12 december 2024 | 65 min

Welcome to our monthly conversation with Konstantin, who is one of the most respected voices on YouTube about what is happening Inside Russia. Konstantin Samoilov is a well-known YouTuber whose channel ‘Inside Russia’ comments insightfully on Russia’s decent into authoritarianism over the last few years. But now, like many others, he’s outside Russia, with no idea of when he can return there. ---------- SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISER A project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to Ukraine's frontline towns. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras ---------- LINKS: https://www.youtube.com/@UC9HHZMXng9reLBQmNc1Y8iA ---------- INSIDE RUSSIA is a source of current news on Russia - Konstantin carefully selects 9 news stories that are important and really matter, with commentaries and analyses by Konstantin delivered daily to channel patrons at Patreon.com Get your access to daily news updates at patreon.com/INSIDERUSSIA @INSIDERUSSIA https://www.patreon.com/insiderussia ---------- OTHER VIDEOS WITH KONSTANTIN ON SILICON CURTAIN: https://youtu.be/kvpa8MS8Mmw (20-Nov-24) https://youtu.be/S15izhFsEF8 (20-Nov-24) https://youtu.be/zAaBRnpQ_Xg (22-Oct-24) https://youtu.be/WUUz11jZ-nY (17-Sep-27) https://youtu.be/2Pz9wGeCzXc (13-Aug-24) https://youtu.be/xV_cXBA12tw (22-Jul-24) https://youtu.be/lnIgKQRHM8o (15-Jun-24) https://youtu.be/XX3zU5QNvCw (22-May-24) https://youtu.be/qXcfjra6KGI (16-Apr-24) https://youtu.be/FTuvRZQMCN8 (04-Mar-24) https://youtu.be/URzXdRO02ps (29-Jan-24) ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

568. Olga Vlasova - Manipulating Fear and Incentives Form Complex Array of Tactics used by Putin's Regime

11 december 2024 | 64 min

A complex array of tactics are employed by the Russian government to manipulate public sentiment in connection with Russia's war in Ukraine, and to stifle any internal dissent. Studying the "politics of pacification" can help us understand how authoritarian regimes maintain control over society through a mixture of incentives and fear. As dissent increases, then repression needs to find new and more effective ways to maintain the authoritarian status quo and semblance of normality. But there are implications also for state capture, because these techniques can be learned, shared and imposed on other societies; their adaptations can be used as a toolkit for state capture and authoritarian control. ---------- Olga Vlasova is a Visiting Scholar at King’s Russia Institute, where she conducts research on Russian politics, and has a background in both practical politics and political science. Olga conducts research into the "politics of fear and calming" in Russia. Olga’s dedication to democracy and public service is evident in her active involvement in Russian politics, when that was more openly possible. She has also been a candidate in parliamentary elections, an authorized representative in presidential elections, and has played a significant role in the campaigns of centrist party in the Duma YABLOKO. Olga's research also focuses on propaganda and media, societal support for violence, digital authoritarianism, educational policies, and political education in contemporary European states. ---------- LINKS: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ovlas/ https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/olga-vlasova https://nationalinterest.org/profile/olga-vlasova https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/15/thursday-briefing-ukraine-incursion-russian-views-of-war ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

566. Rose Wang - Bluesky Social Aims to Help Users Escape the Tyranny and Toxicity of Social Algorithms

10 december 2024 | 43 min

It’s been claimed that on Election Day in the US 280,000 X users closed their accounts. At the same time, Bluesky saw a massive spike in new users, up from 13 million in October, surpassing 21 by November. Rose Wang, whom I’m honoured to speaking with today, is quoted as saying that the company's 20-person team has been in "firefighting mode" as this spectacular growth has far surpassed their projections and has caused some technical stress. Bluesky is touted as a far more decentralised and democratic digital experience, that aims to avoid issues that have dogged all other social platform as they scaled and commercialised their business models. Let’s find out how Rose and her team intent to achieve this. ---------- Rose Wang is Chief Operating Officer of Bluesky Social, a microblogging social media service. It was spun out from Twitter, after its acquisition by Elon Musk. Although similar to Twitter in look and feel, Bluesky Social has ambitions to expand and innovate its platform significantly. Rose was also CEO and Co-founder of Chirps, a snack product made from insect protein, with the progressive ambition to reduce land and water usage, and greenhouse gas emissions. ---------- LINKS: https://x.com/iamrosewang https://x.com/bluesky https://www.linkedin.com/in/rosewang20/ ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

565. Mariam Kintsurashvili - Brutal Repression and Lawlessness Unleached on Peaceful Georgian Protesters.

9 december 2024 | 46 min

Silicon Bites #68 - Assad's Brutal Regime is Falling and Putin Feels the Walls Close in Around him

8 december 2024 | 20 min

Edition No68 | 08-12-2024 - Assad is falling – in fact the total capitulation of his regime may be confirmed by the time this episode comes out. The mainstream media are paying attention and giving these events prominence fitting with their historical importance. The rapid collapse of the Assad clan’s 50-year reign of tyranny is a major blow to Russia and Iran in the region and will send out shockwaves to autocratic regimes around the world. Colour revolutions are back. It’s doubtful Putin will see these as organic manifestations of people power, or reactions to the brutal repressions of dictators. For him, autocracy is the natural order of the world, so he is likely to see plots and conspiracies by his enemies behind the unfolding events. The walls are closing in on Putin, as one-by-one his schemes to project Russian power, control and influence fail. ---------- SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISER A project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to Ukraine's frontline towns. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras ---------- Hezbollah and Hamas are decimated, and their power much reduced. The Islamic Republic of Iran is greatly weakened and humiliated. The attempt at state capture in Romania through one of the Kremlin’s puppet populist politicians has failed decisively. The reaction of the Romains security services, and electoral commission provides a template for how sovereign democracies should fight back hard against Kremlin influence and operations. The decades-long attempt at state capture in Georgia is faltering, fast descending into brutal repression and violence. The mask of Kremlin intentions has been ripped off. The hybrid approach is no longer effective, and they are resorting to brutish violence in their desperation. Lenin's quote comes to mind, there are decades when nothing happens and then weeks when decades happen. ---------- NEWS SOURCES: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/12/08/assad-suspected-fleeing-russia-flight-disappears-off-radar/ https://phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/weekend-update-110-ukraine-and-the https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/syria-war-live-updates-syrian-rebels-advance-on-damascus-homs-hezbollah-withdraws-forces-president-bashar-al-assad-7198116 timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/middle-east/mohammed-al-jolani-the-rebel-leader-who-toppled-assads-rule-in-syria/articleshow/116099586.cms ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemysl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ----------

564. Lesia Dubeno - Putin's Overseas Adventures in Ruins - Is Russia Suffering from Disasterous Overreach

7 december 2024 | 57 min

See the full conversation on iWi channel - https://youtu.be/1aOGBQv2j2M https://www.youtube.com/@infowarfarechannel/featured ---------- Lesia Dubenko is a Ukrainian journalist and analyst featured in the Financial Times, Politico Europe, New Eastern Europe, Washington Times, and more. She’s currently affiliated with Ukraine’s media outlet Euromaidan Press. You can follow her on Substack for a dose of good and satirical commentary https://lesiadubenko.substack.com ---------- LINKS https://x.com/lesialvd https://lesiadubenko.substack.com/ https://archive.kyivpost.com/author/lesia-dubenko https://www.linkedin.com/in/lesiadubenko/ https://euromaidanpress.com/author/lesiadubenko/ ---------- SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISER A project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to Ukraine's frontline towns. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Silicon Bites #67 - Mr Carlson Comes to Moscow to Amplify The Kremlin's Nuclear Terroristic Threats.

7 december 2024 | 19 min

Edition No67 | 06-12-2024 - Love him or loath him, Tucker Carlson has a knack for sucking the oxygen out of the information space. He creates friction, he generates headlines, he grabs attention. “Nothing is what it seems” is the apparent philosophy behind his media persona. He is just asking the ‘difficult questions’ that nobody else wants to ask. Looking for alternative ideas and uncovering the deep state conspiracies that manipulate us and ruin our lives. The trouble is the overall framing of his work is deeply imbued with highly partisan and propagandistic narratives. He has a purpose, and it is itself deeply manipulative and aligned with oligarchic money interests. No wonder the Kremlin and Russian state TV love him. No wonder he has been called back to Moscow when they find themselves in a real pickle. ---------- SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISER A project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to Ukraine's frontline towns. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras ---------- His persona perfectly matches the strategic purpose of networks like RT, whose strapline is “question everything”. The underlying message behind much of Russian propagandistic media is – "все не так однозначно" – or “It’s really not so simple”. Stoke division, yes. Divide and conquer – of course. But fundamentally, Russian propaganda is about denying your agency. Preventing you from uniting, collaborating and organising to resist the forceful expansion of its influence and interests. It does this by eroding trust, sowing division and enmity, and fostering the nihilistic idea of informational ambiguity. There is no truth or morality – it’s all relative. My opinion is just as valid as your facts. It’s complicated. Politics makes no difference. There are always two sides of each story, and both are lies in their own ways. But lies can be equated with truth. The aggressor with the victim. It’s cynical. It’s corrosive. It’s effective. Think Doublespeak from Orwell’s 1984. Black is white. Up is down. And Russia always lies. It shouldn’t work, but it does, and increasingly this approach has power in the era of weaponised social media algorithms, fragmented media, weak institutions, disenchantment with party politics and the decline of class identities. It’s the outer clothing of a regime that does not pursue ideology or morality of any kind, but a pure projection of power and material demands. Because those material demands are in the service of a small parasitic elite, with an extraction mentality; the result is always going to be negative. They are not grasping for power as an extension of their country’s or people’s interests, but for their own benefit. ---------- NEWS SOURCES: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/tucker-carlson-russia-moscow-interview-sergei-lavrov-putin-b2658625.html https://www.politico.eu/article/tucker-carlson-sergey-lavrov-vladimir-putin/ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/12/04/tucker-carlson-interviews-russian-fm-lavrov-in-moscow-a87222 https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/tucker-carlson-warns-of-wwiii-but-russias-nuclear-threats-ring-hollow/ https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/1985783/ https://stevenmoore.substack.com/p/tucker-carlsons-tourism-in-russia https://uacrisis.org/en/tucker-carlson-in-moscow-again https://www.linkedin.com/posts/tymofiy-mylovanov-1a13112_lavrov-through-tucker-carlson-delivers-activity-7270765240839979009-3w1c?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ----------

563. Anna Gvarishvili - Freedom in Georgia Under Threat Following Stolen Election by Kremlin Proxy Party

5 december 2024 | 49 min

Anna Gvarishvili is a journalist and editor, providing news and analysis on the drastic reversal of liberal democratic values in Georgia. She is Head of Investigative Media Lab (IML). Anna worked as Head of media production and operations at School of Social Sciences, the University of Georgia. She has eight years of experience in TV and online media. In 2020-2022 she has served as a managing editor of "Tabula". ---------- LINKS: https://x.com/annagvarishvili https://www.journalismfund.eu/journalists/anna-gvarishvili https://ug.edu.ge/en/persons/full/10727 https://www.linkedin.com/in/anna-gvarishvili-463064146/ ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

562. Andriy Zagorodnyuk - Beware Ahead of Negotiations - Concessions by the West Signal Weakness to Putin

4 december 2024 | 32 min

Andriy Zagorodnyuk is a Ukrainian entrepreneur and politician. From 2015 to 2017, Andriy headed the Reform Project Office at the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine. He was the Minister of Defence of Ukraine from 29 August 2019 to 4 March 2020. Andriy studied law at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. He also graduated from Warwick University and Oxford University and became an advisor to the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky after he was elected president in the 2019. After his resignation as Defence Minister, Andriy became the Chairman of the “Centre for Defence Strategies”. The CDS is a Ukrainian security think tank involved in security studies, defence policy research and advocacy. ---------- LINKS: https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/expert/andriy-zagorodnyuk/ https://www.rusi.org/people/zagorodnyuk https://kyivindependent.com/author/andriy-zagorodnyuk/ https://www.thecipherbrief.com/experts/andriy-zagorodnyuk https://www.foreignaffairs.com/authors/andriy-zagorodnyuk ---------- ARTICLES: https://www.rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentary/overcoming-challenges-building-future-force-ukraine ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

561. Kevin Leach - The Surge Can Save Ukraine But There is Little Time Left for Sullivan to Get it Done

3 december 2024 | 108 min

Kevin Leach is the main director for Sabre Training Advisory Group, a professional military training non-profit. Their aim is to give Ukrainian defenders the skills to come home alive. Kevin is a Canadian Armed Forces veteran, with a long history of working in Ukraine and in military affairs. He served as a sergeant from 2008-2018, specialising in armoured reconnaissance. He leads a weekly segment on the Mriya Report called “Come Home Alive” covering the Key Elements of Training for the Ukrainian army. ---------- LINKS: https://x.com/SabreAdvisory https://www.sabretag.org/donate https://www.instagram.com/sabre_tag/ https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mriyareport/episodes/Kevin-Leach--Sabre-Advisory-Training-on-Key-Elements-of-Training---May-29--2024-e2kavap ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

559. Cormac Smith - Putin Will Escalate Ahead of Being Forced into Negotiations - A Violent Winter Awaits

2 december 2024 | 47 min

Cormac Smith has worked in Public Relations and Corporate Communications for over three decades. In 2016 he travelled to Ukraine to take up a special appointment as the ‘Strategic Communication Advisor’ to Pavlo Klimkin, then the Foreign Minister of Ukraine. He was attached to the British Embassy in Kyiv but was embedded in Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the first foreigner to hold such a position. While in Kyiv, he also advised and provided training for five other government ministries and worked directly with three other cabinet ministers: Health, Education and the Deputy Prime Minister. ---------- LINKS: https://defencebrink.uk/ https://x.com/philipingmbe https://x.com/CormacS63 ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Silicon Bites #66 - Putin and Patrushev Threaten Trump with Unsubtle Warnings - What do They Expect?

1 december 2024 | 30 min

Edition No66 | 01-12-2024 - It is an illusion that Putin wants the war to end. In fact, he needs the war not to end, to perpetuate his regime. There are no limits to how many Russians he will sacrifice to save his own neck, how much blood he will spill to save the 10.5 pints in his own body. He is quite prepared to burn all of Russia’s economy and resources, for as long as that keep him in power. So, the determination of President-elect Donald Trump to achieve a settlement of the war, any deal in fact, so he can boast to his supporters that he delivered on campaign promises. As we’ve suggested in a recent episode, it would seem Putin and Trump are on a collision course. ---------- SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISER A project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to Ukraine's frontline towns. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras ---------- NEWS SOURCES: https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-polytics/3932396-zelensky-putin-seeks-to-escalate-so-that-trump-cant-end-war.html https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1982490/Trump-Putin-MI6-Europe-Ukraine-war https://www.indiatoday.in/world/story/vladimir-putin-russian-president-donald-trump-us-president-elect-ukraine-assassination-threats-2642092-2024-11-29 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/russia-ukraine-war-map-live-uk-putin-nuclear-threat-b2656716.html https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/putin-sends-chilling-warning-to-trump-over-his-safety-as-he-threatens-kyiv-with-oreshnik-missile-strike-101732841021860.html https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cdj3kmel349t https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1982318/ww3-fears-russia-ukraine-war-latest-vladimir-putin https://kyivindependent.com/putin-threatens-to-target-decision-making-centers-in-kyiv-with-oreshnik-missile/ https://www.newsweek.com/vladimir-putin-nikolai-patrushev-donald-trump-russia-1984360 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/05/22/how-patrushevs-paranoia-consumed-the-kremlin-a85198 https://www.politico.eu/article/russia-putin-ditched-security-chief-nikolai-patrushev-conspiracy/ ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemysl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ----------

560. Philip Ingram & Cormac Smith - Trump Holds All the Cards as Putin Weakens Economically & Militarily.

30 november 2024 | 41 min

Cormac Smith has worked in Public Relations and Corporate Communications for over three decades. In 2016 he travelled to Ukraine to take up a special appointment as the ‘Strategic Communication Advisor’ to Pavlo Klimkin, then the Foreign Minister of Ukraine. He was attached to the British Embassy in Kyiv but was embedded in Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the first foreigner to hold such a position. While in Kyiv, he also advised and provided training for five other government ministries and worked directly with three other cabinet ministers: Health, Education and the Deputy Prime Minister. ---------- Philip Ingram is a journalist and consultant who has built on a long and senior military career as an intelligence, counterintelligence, security officer, and planner. Philip has extensive business experience, especially in steel manufacturing. He also has extensive media experience, appearing on the BBC, Sky News and Radio networks, international networks including Al Jazeera, TRT World, CNN, ABC, CBC, Japanese NTV and many others. ---------- LINKS: https://defencebrink.uk/ https://x.com/philipingmbe https://x.com/CormacS63 ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

558. Timothy Ash - Dramatic Collapse of Rouble Weakens Russia and Terrifies Putin, Shaking his Authority.

29 november 2024 | 60 min

Timothy Ash, who has been professional economist for more than 30 years, with two thirds of that in the banking industry. Timothy’s specialism is emerging European economics, and he writes and blogs extensively on economic challenges for leading publications such as the Kyiv Post, Atlantic Council, the Financial Times, and the United Business Journal. He is also an Associate Fellow in the Russia and Eurasia programme at Chatham House and has advised various governments on Ukraine-Russia policy and specifically on the impact of sanctions. ---------- LINKS: https://twitter.com/tashecon https://www.linkedin.com/in/timothy-ash-83a87158/ https://www.chathamhouse.org/about-us/our-people/timothy-ash https://cepa.org/author/timothy-ash/ ---------- ARTICLES: https://timothyash.substack.com/ https://kyivindependent.com/author/timothy-ash/ ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Silicon Bites #65 - Rouble Crashes Showing up Flaws in Putin's Fantasy Militarised Sovetised Economy

28 november 2024 | 15 min

Edition No65 | 24-11-2024 - We’ve been predicting that the Russian economy would implode for going on two years, but also pointing out that Russian Central bankers may be able to preserve an impression of stability and normalcy for some considerable time. And so, it’s proved. Russia has been more adept at creating an alternative economy to replace Western exports, and indeed not all the revenue from Western markets dried up despite three nearly years of full-sale war. Grey markets, grey fleets and the fundamental shift to running a brazenly dark economy have helped Russia hugely recover from the initial economic shock of Feb-22. ---------- SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISER A project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to Ukraine's frontline towns. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras ---------- Indeed, it’s the willingness of many countries, especially China and India to benefit from discounted Russian exports of hydrocarbons and raw material that has kept the cash flowing into Russia’s war machine. Many western countries have been entirely hypocritical on this, paying lip service to sanctions, but turning a blind eye as their manufactured goods continues to flow into Russia via intermediary countries neighbouring Putin’s empire. It turns out there are three key levers that can trigger crisis and even collapse in the Russian economy. And to an extent, these could have been triggered at any time over the last 3 years. - Reduce Russia’s sovereign wealth funds that maintain the war economy and currency - Work to reduce the global price of oil, hitting Russia’s grey fleet exports hard - Tighten sanction to stop the flow of goods and revenue into Kremlin war machine Russia amassed a huge sovereign wealth fund over many years of relatively frugal financial management amid soaring oil prices. It’s mind boggling to think what could have been done to improve standards of living in Russia if you combine the revenues wasted on war with the mountains of cash stolen by the kleptocratic classes. Anyway, that wealth fund – the fighting war chest – is running out. The flows of money into it from the external economy are lessening or are held in non-conventical currencies such as Rupees or Yuan. The domestic economy is flagging (and the income it generates in taxes) as is moves to more of a nationalised, militarised economy. So, the money lake is draining down. ---------- NEWS SOURCES: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/27/russias-rouble-plunges-to-lowest-rate-since-early-weeks-of-ukraine-war https://www.ft.com/content/6189fdb4-d1ef-4e0b-a7f1-e7f9a7286df5 https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/11/27/7486548/ https://timothyash.substack.com/p/the-rouble-is-melting-finally?r=ynli4&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/11/27/russian-central-bank-halts-currency-buying-until-2025-as-ruble-slides-a87147 ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemysl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ----------

556. Terrell Jermaine Starr - Russia Treated as 1st Tier Adversary but Ukraine Often as a 2nd Tier Ally

27 november 2024 | 55 min

African American journalist Terrell Jermain Starr sees the Story of Ukrainian resilience as a Black experience. Russia is not only a colonial state, but it’s also a supremacist state, he says. Terrell has made it his mission to build bridges of trust between Americans and Ukraine. This is clearly vital, as he explains that African Americans are some of the most exposed people to Russian propaganda and disinformation within the US. Today we’ll be exploring the parallels to discrimination faced by Black people in the US, with centuries long persecution of Ukrainian identity by the Russian Empire. ---------- Terrell Jermaine Starr is the host and founder of Black Diplomats Official YouTube channel, where he posts regular dispatches from Ukraine that feature underrepresented voices and share how civilians are living through the war. Terrell was in Ukraine when the war broke out and provided daily video reports via Twitter that generated millions of views and dozens of appearances on network television where he spoke to millions of people around the world. What makes his work so interesting is that he explains the Russian colonialism that Ukrainians experience through the lens of white supremacy that Black people in the United States and around the world have endured. He helps people get past the challenge of seeing Ukrainians as merely white and, therefore, unable to be oppressed. Before Terrell focused on Ukraine full-time, he reported for various Black-owned and run media outlets in the U.S., including The Root where he was a national correspondent and covered presidential, state and local politics. He has a master’s degree in Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies and a second in Journalism from the University of Illinois. He graduated from Philander Smith College, a historically Black school, with a bachelors in English. ---------- LINKS: https://www.youtube.com/@BlackDiplomatsOfficial https://www.instagram.com/terrelljstarr/?hl=en https://bsky.app/profile/terrelljstarr.bsky.social https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61569344763189 https://x.com/terrelljstarr https://terrellstarr.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/terrellstarrukraine/ Terrell’s fundraiser to create a series on black people in Ukraine: https://x.com/terrelljstarr/status/1861449586188984699 ---------- ARTICLES: https://euromaidanpress.com/2024/05/28/story-of-ukraine-is-a-black-experience-says-african-american-reporter/ https://www.ukrainer.net/terrell-star/ https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/03/19/person-of-interest-terrell-jermaine-starr-00018630 ---------- SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISER A project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to Ukraine's frontline towns. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ----------

557. Mark Toth and Jon Sweet - Ukraine Given Enough Weapons to Survive and not Lose War on Biden’s Watch.

27 november 2024 | 63 min

Too little too late. Slow walking munitions for Ukraine over three years has ensured the war becomes a long, attritional grind. In that time Ukraine has lost some of its bravest and brightest warriors. Is the rush to supply Ukraine after the US election simply to ensure that the country does not lose on Biden’s watch? ---------- Jon Sweet is an accomplished intelligence professional who served for 30 years within the Defence and Intelligence sector as an U.S. Army Military Intelligence Officer. He is now a freelance author, contributor and columnist for The Hill, The Messenger, Washington Examiner, Kyiv Post and FOX News. He provides an experienced military perspective on current world events. Mark Toth is a retired economist, historian and entrepreneur and has lived in US diplomatic and military communities around the world. Mark writes on issues of National Security and Foreign Policy and is a regular contributor to The Hill, BBC, Washington Examiner, Fox News, Kyiv Post and The Messenger. ---------- LINKS: https://x.com/MCTothSTL https://x.com/JESweet2022 https://nationalsecuritynews.com/author/mark-toth/ https://nationalsecuritynews.com/author/jon-sweet/ https://muckrack.com/mark-toth-1 ---------- ARTICLES: https://www.kyivpost.com/opinion/42703 ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm.

555. Kira Rudik - 1000 Days of Struggle Against Invasion - Recorded at the National Liberal Club London

25 november 2024 | 28 min

This video and the audio recording were made at an event at the Liberal Club in London on 20th November 2024. The event was kindly organised by the Liberal Democrat Friends of Ukraine. ---------- Kira Rudik is a Ukrainian politician currently serving as a People's Deputy of Ukraine from the Holos party. She is the party's leader, and vice president of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE). Prior to politics she worked in the Ukrainian and American IT industries. She was a member of the board of the American Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine and the IT Association of Ukraine. ---------- LINKS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kira_Rudik https://nlc.org.uk/ https://www.libdems.org.uk/ ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Silicon Bites #64 - Russia's Geopolitical Strategy of Terror and Trauma Learned from Golden Horde

24 november 2024 | 26 min

Edition No64 | 24-11-2024 - Russia stands accused of firing the first intercontinental ballistic missile to be used against an adversary at war. The horror is even starker, as the missile was not used against military objectives, but fired indiscriminately into an urban centre. Dnipro in Ukraine. When we strip way all the fluff of geopolitical jargon, we can see Russia as a nuclear armed, terroristic entity that learned its statecraft of trauma and threat from the Mongol Horde and not Europe. ---------- SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISER A project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to Ukraine's frontline towns. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras ---------- - Russia's deployment of an ICBM armed with conventional warheads against Ukraine marks a significant and alarming escalation. - This unprecedented action suggests Russia may have depleted a substantial portion of its conventional missile arsenal, compelling it to resort to strategic reserves. - The use of such an expensive and complex weapon, typically reserved for long-range nuclear deterrence, underscores the challenges Russia faces in sustaining its military campaign. But also suggests that the informational and psychological benefits far exceed the military impact, to justify the use of such a munition. - This type of ICBM is known for its lack of precision in conventional warfare – underscoring Moscow’s role as terrorist, willing to cause indiscriminate trauma. - This appears to be a desperate attempt to project strength yet highlights Russia's difficulties in subduing a smaller nation committed to defending its sovereignty. - It’s bizarre Russia compromises some of its most guarded technology to Ukraine and partners, just for brinkmanship and signalling. - The strike was an elaborately staged attempt to demonstrate escalatory dominance — the ability to outbid the west in the retaliatory ladder all the way to nuclear war. But again, this may be another Potemkin façade of a strategy. All teeth and no bite. ---------- NEWS SOURCES: https://kyivindependent.com/what-is-russias-oreshnik-missile-and-what-happens-next/ https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/vladimir-putin-war-ukraine-russia-intercontinental-missile-us-b1195343.html https://mickryan.substack.com/p/russias-oreshnik-missile-attack-on https://www.politico.eu/article/russia-launches-intercontinental-ballistic-missile-at-ukraine/ https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/russias-rumoured-icbm-launch-is-raising-the-stakes-in-ukraine/ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/22/what-is-ballistic-missile-russia-ukraine-war-irbm-icbm https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/russia-launched-icbm-ukraine-war-putin-rcna181131 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/21/russia-fired-intercontinental-ballistic-missile-at-dnipro-says-ukraine ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ----------

Silicon Bites #63 - Putin’s Plan was to Erase Ukraine in 2022 and Likely has not Changed in 3 years.

23 november 2024 | 19 min

Edition No63 | 23-11-2024 - Documents from the first weeks of Putin’s invasion have been obtained by Russian investigative unit Systema. They reveal aspects of the plan to render post-war Ukraine powerless. Russia seems to have embarked on its war, with a ‘pre-baked’ “peace agreement” to impose upon a defeated Ukraine. One also presumes with the Ukrainian government decapitated and its leaders either captured or killed. ---------- SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISER A project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to Ukraine's frontline towns. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras ---------- The document contains a list of conditions for a ceasefire and peace agreement. It was presented to Ukraine’s delegation during the third round of talks in Belarus on March 7, 2022. Systema received the document from a Ukrainian source familiar with the course of the negotiations and a source from the Russian side verified its authenticity. I have no way to corroborate this but share the contents while advising people to remain healthily sceptical. The document consists of six pages containing a draft agreement of 18 articles that touch on a wide range of issues. The Ukrainian delegation, led by Verkhovna Rada deputy Davyd Arakhamia, met with a Russian team led by Putin aide Vladimir Medinsky. The proposal includes requirements for Ukraine’s neutrality, border placement, and humanitarian concerns such as language, religion, and history. The proposal was written before Russia’s annexation of four Ukrainian regions in September 2022 and doesn’t include the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia. The initial version of the “peace agreement,” includes terms that would be impossible for any free Ukrainian government to accept. Only politicians with a gun to their heads might be inclined to agree to such terms, which in effect, amount to the dissolution of the Ukrainian state, and to rendering it completely vulnerable to subsequent attack or demands by Russia. - Near-total disarmament of Ukraine under Moscow’s supervision - Isolation from Western assistance and participation in bodies such as NATO and EU - Long-term stationing of Russian troops on territories captured in war’s first weeks Some of these demands remained unchanged throughout the entire negotiations process. From what we know, the Ukrainian delegation only tentatively agreed to one of Russia’s key demands, to become a “permanently neutral state” that would never join NATO or allow foreign troops to be stationed on its territory. ---------- NEWS SOURCES: https://meduza.io/en/feature/2024/11/04/journalists-obtain-russia-s-initial-proposals-from-march-2022-negotiations-revealing-putin-s-plans-for-post-war-ukraine ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ----------

553. Konstantin Samoilov - Why There is no Effective Opposition to Putin's Regime, the 'Liberal' Opposition are Divided and Discordant.

22 november 2024 | 33 min

Welcome to our monthly conversation with Konstantin, who is one of the most respected voices on YouTube about what is happening Inside Russia. Konstantin Samoilov is a well-known YouTuber whose channel ‘Inside Russia’ comments insightfully on Russia’s decent into authoritarianism over the last few years. But now, like many others, he’s outside Russia, with no idea of when he can return there. #russian #russiaukraine #russianarmy #russianeconomy #ukraine #ukrainewar #ukrainerussia ---------- SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISER A project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to Ukraine's frontline towns. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras ---------- LINKS: INSIDE RUSSIA is a source of current news on Russia - Konstantin carefully selects 9 news stories that are important and really matter, with commentaries and analyses by Konstantin delivered daily to channel patrons at Patreon.com Get your access to daily news updates at patreon.com/INSIDERUSSIA

https://www.patreon.com/insiderussia ---------- OTHER VIDEOS WITH KONSTANTIN ON SILICON CURTAIN: https://youtu.be/zAaBRnpQ_Xg (22-Oct-24) https://youtu.be/WUUz11jZ-nY (17-Sep-27) https://youtu.be/2Pz9wGeCzXc (13-Aug-24) https://youtu.be/xV_cXBA12tw (22-Jul-24) https://youtu.be/lnIgKQRHM8o (15-Jun-24) https://youtu.be/XX3zU5QNvCw (22-May-24) https://youtu.be/qXcfjra6KGI (16-Apr-24) https://youtu.be/FTuvRZQMCN8 (04-Mar-24) https://youtu.be/URzXdRO02ps (29-Jan-24) ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

554. Operator Starsky - ATACMS Approved by US- Are Days of Putin's Pride Project Kerch Bridge Numbered?

21 november 2024 | 76 min

Today I’m speaking with Operator Starsky, a former Ukrainian National Guardian, blogger, and inspiration for everyone who is following the war, and supporting a Ukrainian victory. He has created one of the most popular and original YouTube channels dedicated to the international community. I’m not sure you need an introduction – I’m sure most people watching this channel will have seen your videos! ---------- LINKS: https://www.youtube.com/@PropagandaStudyInstitute http://psi-eu.org/ https://www.youtube.com/@StarskyUA https://twitter.com/starskyua?lang=en ---------- CHAPTERS: 00:02:40 First most recent strike we saw happened in Karachev, in Bryansk region. 00:05:31 We are not talking about 100 Himars systems. We're talking about roughly 20. 00:08:29 Aa lot of people believe Kerch bridge is basically Putin's death. Not the case. 00:10:07 Where Kerch Bridge located, there is plenty of electronic warfare equipment. 00:12:37 Russia uses 10-15,000 artillery shells a day and will soon face a critical lack. 00:20:09 We should interpret North Koreans on the front line as extreme desperation. 00:26:31 Putin makes nuclear ‘doctrine’ statements because he believes it is effective. 00:30:11 People must understand they are terrorists armed with nuclear weapons. 00:40:27 They understand Russia is losing its population. It has bad demographics. 00:42:05 Eternal trauma of the amnesiac mind – why Russia turns on its neighbours. 00:49:55 It’s like Soviet propaganda. Russia is beautiful. Everybody loves Putin. 00:55:13 We have a saying “to catch God's beard”. To imagine you can control God. 00:59:40 The problem was that Zelensky had in his team a lot of pro-Russian people. ---------- SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISER A project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to Ukraine's frontline towns. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

552. Konstantin Samoilov - Russian Infrastructure, Industry & Economy "On the Precipice of Total Collape"

20 november 2024 | 41 min

Welcome to our monthly conversation with Konstantin, who is one of the most respected voices on YouTube about what is happening Inside Russia. Konstantin Samoilov is a well-known YouTuber whose channel ‘Inside Russia’ comments insightfully on Russia’s decent into authoritarianism over the last few years. But now, like many others, he’s outside Russia, with no idea of when he can return there. ---------- LINKS: INSIDE RUSSIA is a source of current news on Russia - Konstantin carefully selects 9 news stories that are important and really matter, with commentaries and analyses by Konstantin delivered daily to channel patrons at Patreon.com Get your access to daily news updates at patreon.com/INSIDERUSSIA https://www.patreon.com/insiderussia ---------- OTHER VIDEOS WITH KONSTANTIN ON SILICON CURTAIN: https://youtu.be/zAaBRnpQ_Xg (22-Oct-24) https://youtu.be/WUUz11jZ-nY (17-Sep-27) https://youtu.be/2Pz9wGeCzXc (13-Aug-24) https://youtu.be/xV_cXBA12tw (22-Jul-24) https://youtu.be/lnIgKQRHM8o (15-Jun-24) https://youtu.be/XX3zU5QNvCw (22-May-24) https://youtu.be/qXcfjra6KGI (16-Apr-24) https://youtu.be/FTuvRZQMCN8 (04-Mar-24) https://youtu.be/URzXdRO02ps (29-Jan-24) ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Silicon Bites #62 - It's ATACMS O'Clock in Kursk Region as War Reaches Another Terrible Anniversary.

19 november 2024 | 18 min

Edition No62 | 19-11-2024 - Scholz's call with Putin risks opening a 'Pandora's Box,' warns Zelensky. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's has been calling Putin again, and it risks opening a "Pandora's box," says Zelensky. He’s not the only one. Manby leaders both publicly and privately have pointed out how unilateral and misguided are Scholz's actions. ---------- SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISER A project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to Ukraine's frontline towns. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras ---------- This could potentially be leading to "other conversations and other calls," Zelensky warned, running the risk of normalising Russia as a country and Putin as a statesman. This is the first time Scholz has spoken in nearly two years. The German chancellor condemned Russia’s war in Ukraine, urged Putin to withdraw his troops, and discussed potential talks with Kyiv. The response was swift, as Russia launched one of its largest strikes against Ukrainian energy infrastructure and cities of the war. More on that in a minute. Scholz had informed Zelensky in advance of his intention to call Putin. Zelensky reportedly responded, "This will just make Putin feel that the isolation is decreasing.” Zelensky criticized any negotiations that could ease Russia's isolation without meaningful outcomes. "It is extremely important for Putin to loosen his isolation, Russia's isolation, and to conduct ordinary negotiations that will not result in anything — as he has been doing for decades," Zelensky said. See Minsk 1 and 2 – attempts to trick the international community, gaslight the media and grind Ukraine down. Zelensky reiterated there would be no "Minsk-3.” ---------- NEWS SOURCES: https://kyivindependent.com/scholzs-call-with-putin-risks-opening-a-pandoras-box-zelensky-warns/ https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-war-latest-russia-launches-one-of-the-largest-aerial-strikes-on-ukraine-energy-grid-damage-eu-has-convincing-evidence-of-reported-chinese-attack-drone-production-for-russia/ https://kyivindependent.com/north-korean-delivers-70-missile-launchers-artillery-systems-to-russias-kursk-oblast/ https://kyivindependent.com/russia-producing-thermobaric-drones-capable-of-causing-simply-terrifying-damage-to-civilians-ap-reports/ https://kyivindependent.com/nyt-biden-authorizes-ukraine-to-target-russia-with-us-long-range-missiles/ https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/11/17/7484975/ https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/france-and-britain-greenlight-ukraine-s-use-1731872568.html https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1858395630520930466.html ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ----------

551. Stephen Douglas - Trump Destined to be Manipulated and Abused by Putin and to Betray his Interests

17 november 2024 | 67 min

Stephen Douglas is a self-described expert in combat propaganda (is a former diplomat), and creator of Decoding Trolls and Disinfolklore. The latter has been described in a Byline Times review as a “brilliant new analytical method to parse and counter disinformation”. ---------- LINKS: https://twitter.com/DecodingTrolls https://www.decodingtrolls.net/ https://www.disinfolklore.net/ https://www.bylinesupplement.com/p/disinfolklore ---------- SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISER A project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to Ukraine's frontline towns. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- WATCH NEXT: Carl Miller https://youtu.be/5MYEpbs7CHU Nina Jankowicz https://youtu.be/em0gfGQf0Zs Adam Ure https://youtu.be/EzimhQc62AQ Valeria Kovtun https://youtu.be/0BY82QBE-Js Oleksandra Tsekhanovska https://youtu.be/xfyr4XvLguM ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

550. Ian Williams - Xi Jinping and CCP's Surveillance State is Destroying Growth in the Chinese Economy

16 november 2024 | 70 min

Ian Williams is an author and award-winning journalist - a long-time foreign correspondent in Russia, China and the Far East, where he worked for Channel 4 News and NBC. He is the author of Fire of the Dragon - China's New Cold War, and Every Breath You Take - China's New Tyranny, a study of China's surveillance state. He is currently a PhD candidate at the War Studies Department, King's College London, where he researches the converging offensive cyber strategies of China and Russia. ---------- LINKS: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Vampire-State-Rise-Chinese-Economy/dp/1780278373 https://ianwilliamsauthor.net/ https://x.com/ianwill https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/ian-williams ---------- SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISER A project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to Ukraine's frontline towns. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Silicon Bites - #61 - If he Chooses to There are More than 10 Ways Trump can Completely Screw Russia

15 november 2024 | 57 min

Edition No61 | 15-11-2024 - This episode focuses on opportunities for the Trump administration to win in Ukraine. It does not mean he will adopt them or be minded to embrace similar measures. Only the choices he makes, and discernible actions he takes when his administration assumes power, will tell the truth about what’s in his mind. His choices may also be guided by events, rather than any premeditated strategy. That means we need to be agile, and ready to inject ideas and opportunities into policy, as there may be a deficit of them within the administration. Especially if Putin turns on Trump, or vice versa. ~~~~~ CHAPTERS: 00:00:00 Ten ways to screw up Russia 00:09:25 One - Response to escalation 00:15:00 Two - Indifference to Biden's red lines 00:19:52 Three - Drill to deflate oil prices 00:22:05 Four - Divide China from Russia 00:26:05 Five - Demand peace, with ultimatums 00:27:51 Six - Enforce component sanctions on adversaries and allies 00:30:18 Seven - Deter and degrade Russia's proxies and partners 00:31:51 Eight - Destroy NATO's credibility 00:36:13 Nine - Provocations escalate 00:40:26 Ten - Russian hubris triggers Trump 00:44:51 Summary ~~~~~ SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISER A project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to Ukraine's frontline towns. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras ~~~~~ But a hallmark of his tenure in the Oval office is likely to be uncertainty and surprise. Of course, this is the opposite of the crushingly predictable, obvious, and cautious actions of Biden, guided by the Sullivan Doctrine. Soft appeasement and self-deterring de-escalation have given way to uncertainty. This episode is intended to be a catalyst of ideas, and to stimulate the pro-Ukraine community to seek opportunity, not despair. Whether consciously or accidentally, here are ten ways that Trump could screw Russia. Those who voted for Trump see an opportunity, those who opposed him see only drs closing, and incipient authoritarianism and chaos. Russian propaganda is expert at driving this edge wider and making it more toxic. It’s incumbent on us to find ways to close the gap in perception, and counter propagandistic narratives. Trump made his core campaign slogan – close to commitment – to stop the wars. - War does not stop. Wars will not stop. The move towards rules-based global competitor has turned to scrabbling rivalry, increasingly fractious and lawless. We call it the international order – others just see the biggest gang on the street. We’ve not seen that it’s gone, while countries in the periphery of it will likely not mourn its passing, because in the short-term it’s in their financial interests. The long-term stability of international order probably always seemed contingent for them on the maintenance on Western military hegemony. That’s passing too. ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ----------

548. Joseph Lindsley - Ukraine Doesn't Fear Return of Trump Due to Weakness of Biden Support

14 november 2024 | 57 min

Joe Lindsley is a traveller and a writer, and American reporting on Chicago's WGN Radio from Ukraine each and every weekday of Russia's full-scale war. He once was protégé to Fox News founder Roger Ailes, but Lindsley escaped that frenzied world where power mattered more than truth. He came to Lviv for a Ukrainian Catholic University journalism conference on Information Overload, AI, and Responsibility. Then the Coronavirus shut down world travel, and he stayed to build a better vision for the media industry. OTHER VIDEOS: 1. https://youtu.be/DM42QAF2ia4 (07-Nov-23) 2. https://youtu.be/KAGt83FzXmI (26-Jan-24) 3. https://youtu.be/AlD3HUTQAag (20-Feb-24) 4. https://youtu.be/w8Y1XLuhB9Q (04-Apr-24) 5. https://youtu.be/eA6DI5bwrq8 (05-Jun-24) ---------- LINKS: https://www.ukrainianfreedomnews.com/donation/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Lindsley https://www.linkedin.com/in/joseph-lindsley-60087618/ https://www.youtube.com/@jplindsley https://twitter.com/JPLindsley https://www.instagram.com/jplindsley/ https://www.facebook.com/josephlindsley https://www.ukrainianfreedomnews.com/ ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

549. David DeBatto - Slide into Chaotic American Autocracy may be Unavoidable - The Time to Resist is Now

14 november 2024 | 34 min

David DeBatto is host of the ‘No Delusion Zone’ podcast . He is a retired U.S. Army Counterintelligence Special Agent, a geopolitical analyst, writer, and podcaster. David is an Iraq war veteran who served as Team Leader of a Tactical Human Intelligence Team (THT) in operations within Iraq and is also a former police officer. David is considered too conservative for the progressive left and too independent minded for the radical right and seeks to challenge political dogma and the naked self-interest of politicians. ---------- LINKS: https://www.youtube.com/@NoDelusionZone https://www.protectingtherepublic.com/podcast https://x.com/ddebatto https://www.kyivpost.com/authors/743 ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

547. Anna Danylchuk - Ukraine Hits Russia Where it Hurts Targeting Ethanol Factories

13 november 2024 | 45 min

GUEST: Anna from Ukraine - Anna Danylchuk ---------- Anna Danylchuk has been creating a war diary since the early days of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia in 2022. Anna Danylchuk aims to tell the truth about Ukraine and Russia’s war and cut through the noise and propaganda. Anna is passionate about the beauty and independence of her country, and communicates this powerfully in her videos, in a clear and honest way. ---------- LINKS: @AnnafromUkraine https://www.buymeacoffee.com/annafromukraine My interview with Anna in Lviv - hosted on her excellent channel- https://youtu.be/daHcnsNQ1S0?si=yHbZ2kJZ3CTVRd8Z ---------- SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISER - A project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to Ukraine's frontline towns. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras ---------- OTHER VIDEOS WITH ANNA ON SILICON CURTAIN: 13. https://youtu.be/GU4R5mcubIE (19-Sep-27) 12. https://youtu.be/APTdfyqnyAI (15-Aug-24) 11. https://youtu.be/xUsxXcc97m8 (03-Jun-24) 10. https://youtu.be/eQ5fJCFATM0 (18-Apr-24) 9. https://youtu.be/Y59nUd8B5pY (21-Feb-24) 8. https://youtu.be/J8mge30rxY8 (24-Jan-24) 7. https://youtu.be/XQJoTAAfxt4 (24-Dec-23) 6. https://youtu.be/0gaK_5TEXXw (28-Nov-23) 5. https://youtu.be/x0o1bn-1Yyc (29-Sep-23) 4. https://youtu.be/Hm5_Yb3geQ4 (30-Aug-23) 3. https://youtu.be/r0PNxM7Xyow (23-Feb-23) 2. https://youtu.be/5AenntkSxIs (31-Dec-22) 1. https://youtu.be/vPT6oZ1FOAw (21-Oct-22) ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

545. John Lough - The Four Possible Outcomes to the Ukraine War and Russia's Ambitions to Target Europe

11 november 2024 | 38 min

The international response to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine remains inadequate to the task of achieving a full victory and often lags dangerously behind requirements. There is now a fear that the Western response is even inadequate to maintain an unhealthy status quo, and that Russia is now making advanced against a depleted and exhausted Ukraine. Meanwhile Western backers debate the war’s likely endgame and its aftermath, without a clear sense of how Ukraine’s allies can shape the outcome. In this context, John Lough of Chatham House has produced a timely analysis that examines Four scenarios for how the war in Ukraine will end. ---------- There are four possible outcomes for Russia’s full-scale war on Ukraine: ‘long war’, ‘frozen conflict’, ‘victory for Ukraine’ and ‘defeat for Ukraine’. Regardless of which scenario emerges, the far-reaching and traumatic sociological, economic and political impacts of the war will be inescapable. Chatham House briefing (Updated 21 October 2024) Published 16 October 2024 (ISBN: 978 1 78413 626 0) An earlier version of this paper was funded by the Secretary of State’s Office for Net Assessment and Challenge (SONAC) within the UK Ministry of Defence. This briefing paper was supported in part through a grant from the Open Society Foundations. ---------- John Lough is an associate fellow of the Russia and Eurasia Programme at Chatham House and the Head of International at the New Eurasian Strategies Centre, a London-based think-tank. He studied German and Russian at Cambridge University and began his career as an analyst at the Soviet Studies (later Conflict Studies) Research Centre, focusing on Soviet/Russian security policy. He spent six years with NATO and was the first alliance representative to be based in Moscow (1995–98). He gained direct experience of the Russian oil and gas industry at TNK-BP as a manager in the company’s international affairs team (2003–08). From 2008 to 2024, he worked in consultancy alongside his role with Chatham House. He has written extensively on governance and anti-corruption issues in Ukraine and is the author of Germany’s Russia Problem, published by Manchester University Press (2021). ---------- LINKS: https://www.chathamhouse.org/2024/10/four-scenarios-end-war-ukraine/about-author https://www.chathamhouse.org/2023/06/how-end-russias-war-ukraine https://www.chathamhouse.org/about-us/our-people/john-lough https://www.highgate.ltd/john-lough https://x.com/JohnLough ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

490. Sviatoslav Hnizdovskyi - Global Risk from Disinformation and Innovating Resilient Scalable Solutions

11 november 2024 | 67 min

Sviatoslav Hnizdovskyi is CEO at OpenMinds and of the Kyiv-based Open Minds Institute. He is an expert at countering influence operations and disinformation. ---------- LINKS: https://x.com/s_hnizdovskyi https://www.linkedin.com/in/hnizdovskyi/ https://www.openminds.ltd/ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/how-strong-is-russian-public-support-for-the-invasion-of-ukraine/ https://www.facebook.com/sviatoslav.hnizdovskyi/ ---------- SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISER - A project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to Ukraine's frontline towns. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

542. Stephanie Baker - Punishing Putin's Regime Financially may be Most Effective Route to Ending the War

9 november 2024 | 50 min

Stephanie Baker is a Senior Writer at Bloomberg, covering the intersection of business and politics. She has also written for The Moscow Times and Radio Free Europe. Stephanie is author of a fantastic book, Punishing Putin: Inside the Global Economic War to Bring Down Russia. It tells the story of how a furious financial war unfolded following the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia, from seizing superyachts to manipulating the global price of oil to blocking the sale of military technology -- a series of unprecedented sanctions that have radically rearranged global alliances. ---------- LINKS: Twitter: @stephanibaker https://stephaniebakerwriter.com/ ---------- BOOKS: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Punishing-Putin/Stephanie-Baker/9781668050583 https://harpercollins.co.uk/products/punishing-putin-inside-the-global-economic-war-to-bring-down-russia-stephanie-baker?variant=40921316196430 ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

544. Benjamin Tallis - Lack of Leadership and Will in Europe Risks Another Munich and Defeat of Ukraine

8 november 2024 | 49 min

For nearly a thousand days, Ukraine has resisted full-scale Russian aggression: the heroism of its armed forces and its people stand as an example to all free nations. But as the US has delivered Trump back to the White House, Ukraine and its allies face mounting strategic dangers. ---------- Dr Benjamin Tallis is Director of the Democratic Strategy Initiative, a Berlin-based Think Tank, set up to address the systemic competition we now see in global politics. He is also a research fellow at the German Council on Foreign Relations. He runs the project “Action Group Zeitenwende” on the transformation of Germany’s security and foreign policy, and where he hosts the podcast "Berlin Inside Out" in 2025. He previously worked for the EU on security missions in Ukraine and the Balkans and was policy officer at the European Centre of Excellence for Civilian Crisis Management in Berlin. Benjamin spent five years at the Institute of International Relations Prague where he headed the Centre for European Security, advised numerous European governments, edited the journal New Perspectives. Benjamin regularly appears in the media, and has been published in Foreign Policy, Politico, The Independent, and in leading academic journals. ---------- SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISER - A project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to Ukraine's frontline towns. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- CHAPTERS: 00:00:00 Heroism of Ukraine’s armed forces stand as an example to all free nations. 00:02:08 Olaf Schulz's party banking a good result in the Hamburg state elections. 00:05:09 Delaying election is not about German national interest on the part of the SPD. 00:08:17 Decision makers take strange comfort in fatalistic view Russia destined to win. 00:12:08 Seizing Russian assets would not “make us as bad as the Russians.” 00:16:13 There’s a risk Trump could try to impose a disadvantageous deal on Ukraine. 00:20:17 Former NATO official asked how many people work there, “about half” he said. 00:27:36 NATO is still the best we've got, for the present, because it's tried and tested. 00:32:42 So many European countries still haven't understood this as their war too. 00:37:18 Lack of strategic depth in Europe has been exposed this last year particularly. 00:40:23 This would be de facto neutrality, and a guaranteed disaster for Ukraine. 00:44:33 Rusia loves to watch the world burn because then it can profit off the chaos. 00:46:37 We have dropped the ball massively in Europe on providing our own security. ---------- LINKS: To Avoid Another Munich, Europe Must Act to Secure Ukraine – Sunday 3rd November 2024. https://www.democratic-strategy.net/_files/ugd/dcfff6_17f621993d194aeda9bb6c7cf7352dd6.pdf https://berlinsideout.podigee.io https://twitter.com/bctallis https://www.linkedin.com/in/benjamin-tallis-b02a386/ https://dgap.org/en/user/28265 https://foreignpolicy.com/author/benjamin-tallis/ https://www.opendemocracy.net/ru/author/benjamin-tallis/ ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine Ukrainian Freedom News https://www.ukrainianfreedomnews.com/donation/ UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ----------

Silicon Bites - #60 - The 10% Ally. Will Trump be Any Better? Is Stark Reality Better than Delusion?

7 november 2024 | 32 min

Edition No60 | 07-11-2024 - This is a piece I had planned on writing as a rebuke to Biden administration, in the event of a Kamala Harris victory. Perhaps the topic becomes even more urgent now, as the US government enters a transition phase to a second Trump term of office. With the US apparently supplying only 10% of the promised and approved aid to Ukraine that was mandated in the April aid bill, we must ask, can Trump really be much worse than this? It’s a point Ukrainians have been making for some time – that delusions and weakness under the Democrats may be more dangerous than facing the stark reality of a Trump presidency. ~~~~~ SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISER A project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to Ukraine's frontline towns. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras ~~~~~ At the start of November Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged Ukraine’s allies to stop just ‘watching’ amid the threat from North Korea, and before the troops sent to Russia by Pyongyang reached the battlefields of Kursk and Donbas. The geopolitical rubbernecking continued, and little seems to have been done of any impact. No new supplies to address the significantly escalatory threat and no lifting of existing of red lines. Pathetically John Kirby announced that ‘no new red lines’ would be imposed in response to Russia’s successful attempts to drag North Korea into the war, a statement that has the deterrence power of brandishing a limp lettuce to deter a charging bull. ~~~~~ SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ~~~~~ NEWS SOURCES: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/02/volodymyr-zelenskyy-urges-allies-to-stop-just-watching-amid-north-korea-threat https://www.independent.co.uk/news/ap-ukraine-russia-kyiv-vladimir-putin-b2640107.html https://euromaidanpress.com/2024/10/31/ukraine-has-received-only-10-of-latest-us-aid-package-zelenskyy-reveals/ https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/zelenskyy-criticises-poland-for-failing-on-military-aid-and-defence-front/ https://www.politico.eu/article/volodymyr-zelenskyy-confirms-tomahawk-missiles-victory-plan-blasts-us-for-giving-away-secrets-ukraine-white-house-russia-war-leak/ ~~~~~ USEFUL LINKS: Vatnik Soup https://twitter.com/P_Kallioniemi http://www.medbat.org.ua/en/ Real World News https://kyivindependent.com/ https://www.kyivpost.com/ https://english.nv.ua/ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/ https://meduza.io/en https://meduza.io/ https://novayagazeta.eu/ https://www.newsweek.com/topic/russia... Analysis https://www.ft.com/russia https://www.economist.com/ https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ https://cepa.org/ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/ https://www.theatlantic.com/search/?s... ~~~~~ TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemysl https://kharpp.com/ Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine Ukrainian Freedom News https://www.ukrainianfreedomnews.com/donation/ UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ~~~~~

543. Steven Moore - Hot Take on US Election - Trump: Risks and Opportunities for Ukraine, NATO and the EU

6 november 2024 | 33 min

Steven Moore is a political strategist, who spent seven years as a chief of staff and senior leadership aide in the United States Congress, developing relationships with senior policymakers across the United States and around the world. He worked on Capitol Hill in the House of Representatives mostly as chief of staff for former Rep. Pete Roskam (R-Ill.), the former chief deputy GOP whip. In that role, Moore was one of the most influential staff members on the Republican side of the aisle. ---------- LINKS: https://x.com/MooreUSA https://x.com/UKRAINEFREEDOM7 https://www.ukrainer.net/ukraine-through-the-eyes-of-steven-moore/ https://stevenmoore.substack.com/ https://substack.com/@steveninkyiv ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine Ukrainian Freedom News https://www.ukrainianfreedomnews.com/donation/ UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

541. Mariam Kintsurashvili - Russia's Election Heist Brings Georgia Closer to Comprehensive State Capture

5 november 2024 | 59 min

Kseniia Kalmus & Alex Fergusson Drone Event - Ukrainian Drones Deliver Justice on Carbon Fibre Wings.

3 november 2024 | 38 min

Panel discussion and presentation with Kseniia Kalmus and Alex Fergusson on 2nd November 2024 at the Ukrainian Social Club, London. ---------- Today, Ukraine is not only a battlefield, but also the birthplace of new technological solutions that save lives and bring victory closer. KLYN Drones workshop is engaged in the production of FPV drones, which play a key role in modern military operations. They bring together engineers, volunteers and technology enthusiasts to create high-tech solutions that are used on the frontlines every day. ---------- LINKS: KLYN Drones, made in Ukraine: https://klyn.io/ https://www.instagram.com/kseniia.kalmus/ https://www.instagram.com/noeltock/ FAC Technology: https://www.factechnology.com/ ---------- SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISER - A project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to Ukraine's frontline towns. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ KLYN Drones, made in Ukraine. https://klyn.io/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

530. Olga Myrovych - Ukraine's Media Landscape and Professionals Still Evolving & Maturing in Time of War

3 november 2024 | 34 min

Olga is CEO at the Lviv Media Forum, and an expert in the media and non-profit sector. She has a varied background in strategic management, organisational development, negotiations and fundraising. All essential skills to grow one of the most vibrant media organisations in the world, and which is working under extraordinary conditions and at a critical phase of Ukraine’s history as a sovereign democracy. ---------- LINKS: https://x.com/LvivMediaForum https://www.linkedin.com/in/olga-myrovych/ https://www.praguecivilsociety.org/fellows/olga-myrovych https://lvivmediaforum.com/en/team ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

539. Mick Ryan - How China Benefits from the Long War in Ukraine and New Age of Darkness for Democracies.

31 oktober 2024 | 39 min

Mick Ryan is a retired major general in the Australian Army. A graduate of the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies and the U.S. Marine Corps University Command and Staff College and School of Advanced Warfighting. He has commanded at platoon, squadron, regiment, task force, and brigade level. In January 2018, he assumed command of the Australian Defence College in Canberra, Australia. In 2021 he was an adjunct scholar at the Modern War Institute. He completed his 35-year career with the Australian Army and transitioned to the Army Reserve as a major general on February 27, 2022. His book, War Transformed, was published in 2022, ‘White Sun War: The Campaign for Taiwan’ was published in 2023, and his latest book "The War for Ukraine: Strategy and Adaptation Under Fire", will be released on 13th August 2023. ---------- CHAPTERS: 00:02:52 This isn't a primary school sports tournament where you have non-competitive sports.
00:05:34 Putin started a war that got away from him. He was the dog that caught the car.
00:08:14 Putin has been able to cheaply and easily manipulate electoral cycles in the West.
00:11:13 Perception of an existential threat drove the British response in the Second World War.
00:13:11 Authoritarians no longer believe West capable of standing up against their aggression.
00:15:09 North Korean army has army of 1m plus. 5,000 a month is pocket change for them.
00:18:37 Putin knows that a lot of Americans have lost patience with the war in Ukraine.
00:21:52 Most wars are aggregation of past wars’ tactics - 90% the last war and 10% new stuff.
00:28:39 The notion a wonder weapon can change the entire trajectory of the war is a fantasy.
00:30:39 Conventional deterrence has broken down – we need to reinvest thinking about it.
00:35:57 Zelensky understands his country is at threat of being extinguished by Russia.
---------- LINKS: https://x.com/WarintheFuture https://mickryan.substack.com/ https://www.csis.org/people/mick-ryan https://mwi.westpoint.edu/adjunct-scholars/mick-ryan/ https://x.com/LowyInstitute https://x.com/CSIS ---------- BOOKS: War Transformed: The Future of Twenty-First-Century Great Power Competition and Conflict Hardcover (2022) White Sun War: The Campaign for Taiwan (2023) The War for Ukraine: Strategy and Adaptation Under Fire (2024) ---------- ARTICLES: https://www.forces.net/ukraine/death-thousand-cuts-warns-former-general-ukraine-war-enters-new-phase https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-is-more-dangerous-than-when-it-first-invaded-strategist-2024-4 https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2024/07/04/it-took-russia-three-months-and-thousands-of-lives-to-capture-one-isolated-ukrainian-neighborhood/ https://edition.cnn.com/videos/world/2024/02/02/exp-mick-ryan-interview-fst-020202aseg1.cnn https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/ukraine-war-how-check-russia-s-momentum ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine Ukrainian Freedom News https://www.ukrainianfreedomnews.com/donation/ UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ----------

540. Ryan McBeth - It's 1941 and Dictators are Waging a Mass War in Europe Against the Idea of Democracy.

30 oktober 2024 | 54 min

Ryan McBeth is an influential YouTuber, Author, triathlete, Army veteran and programmer. Ryan makes educational and OSINT videos, that look at the war in Ukraine from a military perspective. Today we’ll be talking about the two side’s strategies in the war, tactics, equipment, morale, and training. ---------- CHAPTERS: 00:02:06 From a strategic level North Korea finally has something that Russia wants. 00:07:12 I don't know why the US has manufactured these de-escalatory red lines. 00:08:56 What if they go nuclear? Putin will be dead. That’s not an outcome he wants. 00:11:10 We haven't mentally prepared our populations for fact we're already in WWIII. 00:13:19 Russia is basically a bully that owns a gas station. A mafia run gas station. 00:16:53 One of the issues is that there aren't necessarily enough weapons to give. 00:19:54 At some point you need to mobilise – the bodies to pull the triggers of guns. 00:24:53 I’m of opinion that either candidate is going to be ok when it comes to Ukraine. 00:27:25 Some are rearming. Poland's going to have largest land army in Europe soon. 00:33:35 We may just have more footage of Russian war crimes – executions of POWs. 00:36:06 Russians bombarded with patriotic propaganda and stories of WWII sacrifices. 00:40:02 Even though US supplying weapons we're still collaborating on spaceflight. 00:42:29 If it were a real issue, the US would revoke security clearance of Elon Musk. 00:44:22 Artillery would help Ukraine a lot. Long range weapon systems and the F-16. ---------- SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISER - A project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to Ukraine's frontline towns. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras ---------- LINKS: https://www.youtube.com/@RyanMcBethProgramming https://www.ryanmcbeth.com/ https://ryanmcbeth.substack.com/ https://www.instagram.com/therealryanmcbeth/?hl=en ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

537. Jake Broe - There is no War in NATO Countries, Finland, Poland, etc. - Freedom Makes the World Safer

29 oktober 2024 | 53 min

Jake Broe is a United States Air Force veteran who served for six years as a Nuclear and Missile Operations Officer. But you may know him better as one of the most prominent voices on YouTube throughout the war, someone with absolute moral clarity about who the victim of the war is – spoilers, it’s Ukraine – and who brings direct military experience to his detailed analysis of the unfolding conflict. Do please subscribe to his channel for videos updates on the war in Ukraine as well as conversations with engaging speakers, expert guests, and other YouTubers. ---------- SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISER - A project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to Ukraine's frontline towns. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras ---------- CHAPTERS: 00:02:05 It's a war of attrition. It's about who can tolerate the horrors of war longer. 00:05:12 How does empire benefit you if you don't have running water and heat? 00:06:41 Ukraine should be going after Russia's thermal power plants in winter. 00:09:56] Donald Trump is working with Vladimir Putin, based on all available evidence. 00:11:55 The only thing dictators want is legitimacy and respect, nothing negative. 00:16:02 I'm going to resist this coalition of Donald Trump, Elon Musk and Putin. 00:20:55 In the US we view life as a game. And the scoreboard is your bank account. 00:23:29 10,000 troops sent by Kim Jong Un is nothing in the grand scheme of this war. 00:28:37 Technology will make it impossible for North Korea to remain a closed society. 00:32:56 Idea of frozen conflict entertains the idea Russia would ever stop willingly. 00:35:30 Putin talking to Elon Musk. Musk endorsed Trump. Putin talking to Trump. 00:39:03 Put your head back in the sand is the strategy of a lot of European politicians. 00:42:17 Poland, The Baltics, Finland join NATO. And they all have peace. 00:46:31 During Soviet times, Ukraine was an economic and engineering powerhouse. 00:49:04 We must apply pressure to our politicians to be doing more for Ukraine. 00:51:32 Stay informed. Stay engaged. Keep supporting Ukraine. Russia will break first. ---------- LINKS: https://www.youtube.com/@JakeBroe https://twitter.com/RealJakeBroe https://www.instagram.com/jakebroe/ https://www.buymeacoffee.com/jakebroe https://www.patreon.com/join/jakebroe ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

526. Caolan Robertson - Russia is Inflicting a Human Safari on Ukraine - Hunting Civilians with Drones.

28 oktober 2024 | 47 min

532. Russia Plans a Reckless Sabotage Campaign of 'Sustained Mayhem' across Europe Using Criminal Proxies

27 oktober 2024 | 57 min

This is a conversation with the three esteemed authors of a paper entitled “Russian Sabotage in the Gig-Economy Era”, written by Daniela Richterova, Elena Grossfeld, Magda Long and Patrick Bury. I’m delighted to be joined by three of them today. ---------- We are experiencing the most intense era of sabotage since the Second World War in Western countries. Russian operations have now reached unprecedented levels. It seems the main aim is to increase the costs of supporting Ukraine, while at the same time slowing the delivery of military supplies. Russian operations are increasingly organised around ‘gig-economy’ principles. The dangers are mounting from operations that have an element of plausible deniability, that can scale, while causing significant damage and sowing terror. ---------- LINKS: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03071847.2024.2401232 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/03071847.2024.2401232?needAccess=true https://news.sky.com/story/mi6-and-cia-warn-of-reckless-campaign-of-sabotage-across-europe-being-waged-by-russia-13210838 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp8e15yr1gwo ---------- BIOGRAPHIES: Daniela Richterova is Associate Professor in Intelligence Studies at the Department of War Studies, King’s College London. She is Director of the MA in Intelligence and International Security and Co-director of the King’s Centre for the Study of Intelligence. She is the author of the forthcoming monograph Watching the Jackals: Prague’s Covert Liaisons with Cold War Terrorists and Revolutionaries (Georgetown University Press, January 2025). https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/dr-daniela-richterova https://x.com/drichterova?lang=en https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-daniela-richterova-219a292b/ https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/daniela.richterova ---------- Elena Grossfeld is a PhD candidate at the Department of War Studies, King’s College London, researching intelligence organisations, their strategic culture and technologies. Her recent publications include ‘Russia’s Declining Satellite Reconnaissance Capabilities and its Implications for Security and International Stability’, an examination of the implications of declining Russia’s space capabilities for the war in Ukraine and global stability. https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/elena-grossfeld https://kcsi.uk/members/elena-grossfeld https://x.com/kloosha https://rusi.org/people/grossfeld https://foreignpolicy.com/author/elena-grossfeld/ ---------- Magda Long is Visiting Research Fellow at the King’s Centre for the Study of Intelligence at King’s College London. She has two decades of combined work and academic experience in defence and security, intelligence and risk management. Her research examines how states use covert activities to pursue their foreign policy objectives and mitigate national security threats, and as a tool in hybrid warfare. https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/magda-long https://kcsi.uk/members/dr-magda-long https://x.com/magda_long?lang=en https://www.linkedin.com/in/magda-long-97b9604/ ---------- Patrick Bury is Reader in Warfare and Counterterrorism at the University of Bath. A UKRI Future Leaders Fellow, he has over 20 years’ experience in the security sector as a practitioner, analyst and scholar. https://researchportal.bath.ac.uk/en/persons/patrick-bury https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrick-bury-50b43838/ ---------- CHAPTERS: ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ ----------

538. Jeffrey Sonnenfeld - Russia's "Axis of Evil" will not Prevent the Imminent Economic Catastrophe

26 oktober 2024 | 39 min

Jeffrey Sonnenfeld is Lester Crown Professor of Leadership Practice and a Senior Associate Dean of the Yale School of Management. He helped catalyse the retreat of 1,200 global corporations from Russia, and now strongly advocates for seized Russian Central Bank assets to be passed to Ukraine. Sonnenfeld is known as the founder and CEO of the Chief Executive Leadership Institute (CELI), affiliated with Yale University and for convening Yale's semi-annual CEO Summits, which have drawn thousands of CEOs over the years to engage in off-the-record peer-to-peer conversations. ---------- SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISER - A project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to Ukraine's frontline towns. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras ---------- LINKS: https://som.yale.edu/faculty-research/faculty-directory/jeffrey-sonnenfeld https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Sonnenfeld https://x.com/jeffsonnenfeld https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffsonnenfeld/ https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/experts/jeffrey-sonnenfeld ---------- ARTICLES: https://time.com/6980510/russia-frozen-assets-ukraine/ By Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, John E. Herbst and William B. Taylor https://fortune.com/europe/2023/03/06/imf-naively-parroted-putin-fake-statisticsand-botched-economic-forecast-russia-ukraine/ https://www.hudson.org/economics/can-putin-outlast-west-thomas-duesterberg https://thehill.com/opinion/international/4931629-a-russian-economic-meltdown-is-coming-next-year/ https://fortune.com/europe/2024/08/19/an-economic-catastrophe-is-lurking-beneath-russias-gdp-growth-as-putin-throws-everything-into-the-fireplace/ https://insights.som.yale.edu/insights/the-imf-is-returning-to-russia-no-one-should-be-surprised https://time.com/7024423/russia-putin-military-power-us/ ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

536. Ben Hodges - There can be No Victory Without Retaking Crimea - Putin Won't Stop Escalating Violence.

25 oktober 2024 | 38 min

Ben Hodges is a retired United States Army officer, who became commander of United States Army Europe in November 2014, and held that position for three years until retiring from the United States Army in January 2018. Until recently he was the Pershing Chair in Strategic Studies, at the Centre for European Policy Analysis, specialising in NATO, Transatlantic relationship and international security. ---------- SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISER - A project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to Ukraine's frontline towns. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras ---------- LINKS: https://twitter.com/general_ben https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Hodges https://cepa.org/author/ben-hodges/ https://warsawsecurityforum.org/speaker/hodges-ben-lt-gen/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-hodges-1674b1172/ ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

534. Marika Mikiashvili - Georgia is Lurching Back into Orbit of Russia and Corrupt, Single Party Tyranny

24 oktober 2024 | 42 min

535. Jade McGlynn - On the Brink of Historic Failure of Western Policy in Ukraine Risks Defeat to Russia.

24 oktober 2024 | 50 min

Dr Jade McGlynn is a Russia specialist and experienced researcher. She is Senior Research Associate (Non-Resident) at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies. She is also a Research Fellow at the Department of War Studies at King’s College London. Jade is a Polyglot political analyst with experience of living and working in several European countries. She has a PhD in Russian from the University of Oxford, with academic fellowships from Leverhulme, AHRC, Marie Curie, and Carnegie and has held positions in Russia, the UK, and US. She is the author of scholarly works as well as media articles and has a new book coming out in March 2023 – Russia’s War and Memory Makers. ---------- LINKS: https://smalldeedsbigwar.substack.com/p/on-the-brink-of-historic-failure https://smalldeedsbigwar.substack.com/p/a-safe-haven-on-the-long-road-to https://jademcglynn.com/ https://twitter.com/DrJadeMcGlynn https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-jade-mcglynn-341357209/ https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ceelbas/jade-mcglynn-oxford https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/dr-jade-mcglynn https://www.csis.org/people/jade-mcglynn ---------- BOOKS: Memory Makers: The Politics of the Past in Putin's Russia (2023) Russia's War (2023) Rethinking Period Boundaries: New Approaches to Continuity and Discontinuity in Modern European History and Culture (2022) ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

533. Konstantin Samoilov - Arrival of North Korean Troops in Russia Proof of Desperation

24 oktober 2024 | 32 min

Welcome to our monthly conversation with Konstantin, who is one of the most respected voices on YouTube about what is happening Inside Russia. Konstantin Samoilov is a well-known YouTuber whose channel ‘Inside Russia’ comments insightfully on Russia’s decent into authoritarianism over the last few years. But now, like many others, he’s outside Russia, with no idea of when he can return there. ---------- CHAPTERS: 00:00:00 Health update from Konstantin and episode introduction. 00:03:36 There's one thing that is mighty in Russia, mightiest in the world, propaganda. 00:05:32 Unemployment is not low. It's catastrophic. Prices are going up for everything. 00:08:44 The so-called economic experts you mention are nothing but regime tools. 00:11:24 Everybody is talking about ‘child free’. The tax on those who don't have kids. 00:14:14 We all saw what was happening in Russia last winter. This one will be worse. 00:18:29 There are big questions about this turbine in Krasnodar – it's experimental. 00:22:00 Part of your country is occupied by a foreign army; you're not doing anything. 00:24:22 Putin smuggles North Koreans into the country, dresses them as Russians. 00:26:35 It's a proof that Russia is so desperate for more troops for the front lines. 00:28:31 What if North Koreans come at the rate of 10 or 12,000 every single month? 00:30:21 There's a kind of a gut feeling Putin might be getting set up by the Chinese. ---------- LINKS: INSIDE RUSSIA is a source of current news on Russia - Konstantin carefully selects 9 news stories that are important and really matter, with commentaries and analyses by Konstantin delivered daily to channel patrons at Patreon.com Get your access to daily news updates at patreon.com/INSIDERUSSIA @INSIDERUSSIA https://www.patreon.com/insiderussia ---------- OTHER VIDEOS WITH KONSTANTIN ON SILICON CURTAIN: https://youtu.be/2Pz9wGeCzXc (13-Aug-24) https://youtu.be/xV_cXBA12tw (22-Jul-24) https://youtu.be/lnIgKQRHM8o (15-Jun-24) https://youtu.be/XX3zU5QNvCw (22-May-24) https://youtu.be/qXcfjra6KGI (16-Apr-24) https://youtu.be/FTuvRZQMCN8 (04-Mar-24) https://youtu.be/URzXdRO02ps (29-Jan-24) ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

2024-10-22 | Russia's Blood Oil Transported by a Shadow Fleet of over 600 Tankers

24 oktober 2024 | 17 min

2024-10-22 | Moscow has been using old, underinsured ships to transport oil, and is estimated their capacity has increased by 70% since last year. This is despite a recent crackdown on insurers and shipping companies that are apparently enabling Moscow to circumvent Western sanctions. ---------- SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISER - A project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to Ukraine's frontline towns. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras ---------- Shares in shipbroker Braemar fell after the Financial Times of London release a report on the Russian ‘shadow fleet’, and how it’s using ancient vessels to move oil beyond the reach of western sanctions. The ‘shadow fleet’ is estimated to consist of more than 400 vessels that are moving about 4 million barrels of oil per day. The Financial Times alleged involvement of Braemar, causing its stock to fall 11% in two days. London has long been a global centre of the maritime industry and Braemar, founded in 1982, is one of the industry’s leading brokers. Their business model is to match buyers and sellers of vessels in return for a percentage of the purchase price. It would be scandalous indeed, if they were involved in brokering to build up Russia’s shadow fleet that it props up its war economy and the war machine that is focused on the annihilation of Ukraine. Oil that Russia transports using this fleet generates billions of dollars a year in additional revenue. The FT reported that at least 25 of shadow fleet vessels had been purchased by a British accountant on behalf of Eiger Shipping DMCC, the Dubai-based shipping arm of Lukoil, Russia’s second-largest oil producer. Eiger, it is alleged, financed the acquisitions by paying in advance to charter the vessels. The accountant’s lawyers, and another person, told the FT Braemar was fully aware the vessels were being acquired for, and financed by, Eiger. ---------- Sources and recommended reading: https://www.ft.com/content/57b85fab-fa44-4881-b7ed-543116920fa7 https://www.ft.com/content/b9dee3f3-c2f8-4aa1-b0d9-d207f815b6e5 https://www.politico.eu/article/revealed-putins-sanctions-busting-shadow-fleet-is-spilling-oil-all-over-the-world/ https://euromaidanpress.com/2024/10/15/ukraines-foreign-minister-calls-on-europe-to-fight-russias-shadow-fleet-of-tankers/ ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemysl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Silicon Bites #59 - NATO or Nukes? Ukraine Needs Both for its Future Peace, Security and Prosperity.

24 oktober 2024 | 20 min

Edition No59 | 21-10-2024 - Ukraine needs more weapons and seeks security guarantees, are the central points made by Zelensky in his recent visit to Berlin. Additionally, Zelensky is stressing the need to show Moscow that it can’t win the war. ~~~~~ SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISER A project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to Ukraine's frontline towns. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras ~~~~~ With the upcoming election in the US, there is a race to get support for a concept of victory and initiate a negotiation for ending the war on favourable terms for Ukraine. But this is also happening at a time when Russian forces are making slow but steady progress along the front lines, and future support for Ukraine is in doubt. Zelenskyy presented his so-called victory plan to the Ukrainian parliament last week and aims to seek a just peace to the war with Russia thanks to military aid and guarantees from its allies. The plan consists of five main points and three secret annexes. “Ukraine's victory plan is a blueprint to strengthen our state and strengthen our positions. To be strong enough to end the war,” Zelenskyy said, adding: "If we start moving with this concrete plan of victory now, we may manage to end the war no later than next year.” The idea is to ensure Ukraine gets iron-clad security guarantees from allies and becomes well armed to prevent Russia from using any pause in the fighting to rearm and then attack again. Linked to this discussion is the urgent request to join NATO, a step that seems to be gaining some traction in the corridors of power within Brussels. But the inherent weaknesses and failures of previous initiatives such as the Minsk Accords and Budapest Memorandums hang over these initiatives like a geopolitical memento mori, a memorial to optimism and delusion. ~~~~~ SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ~~~~~ NEWS SOURCES: https://www.chathamhouse.org/events/all/special-event/conversation-valerii-zaluzhnyi-ukrainian-ambassador-uk https://euromaidanpress.com/2024/10/16/zelenskyy-unveils-5-point-victory-plan-to-ukrainian-parliament/ https://www.politico.eu/article/volodymyr-zelenskyy-presents-his-victory-plan-to-ukraine-parliament-war-vladimir-putin/ https://www.politico.eu/article/nato-nukes-volodymyr-zelenskyy-war-ukraine-aid-russia/ ~~~~~ USEFUL LINKS: Vatnik Soup https://twitter.com/P_Kallioniemi http://www.medbat.org.ua/en/ Real World News https://kyivindependent.com/ https://www.kyivpost.com/ https://english.nv.ua/ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/ https://meduza.io/en https://meduza.io/ https://novayagazeta.eu/ https://www.newsweek.com/topic/russia... Analysis https://www.ft.com/russia https://www.economist.com/ https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ https://cepa.org/ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/ https://www.theatlantic.com/search/?s... ~~~~~ TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemysl https://kharpp.com/ Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine Ukrainian Freedom News https://www.ukrainianfreedomnews.com/donation/ UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ~~~~~

531. Darin Gerdes - The Stakes Could not be Higher - Global Democracy is the Brink

20 oktober 2024 | 33 min

Silicon Bites #58 - General Valerii Zaluzhnyi Warns of the Risks of Western Weakness Towards Russia.

20 oktober 2024 | 16 min

Edition No58 | 19-10-2024 - Zelensky has a plan for victory, but the reception of it has been lukewarm to put it mildly. Unimaginative, scathing and myopic is how I would characterise some of the reactions. ~~~~~ SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISER A project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to Ukraine's frontline towns. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras ~~~~~ It’s as if our democratically elected official and institutions do not have the will or capacity to deal with hard, complex and slow problems. Problems that require imaginative leadership, commitment and risk are shunned, in favour of quick fixes, sound bites and pretence. Politics is a kind of puppet show, when politicians pretend to be solving problems, and we pretend that the problems are solved, or else were not so important after all. It’s a sort of self-gaslighting mechanism where trust in politics and an individual’s sense of agency progressively erodes with each electoral cycle. This is fine until real, intractable and existential problems arise, and concrete solutions are required. We are at such an inflection point and are collectively failing to recognise that. Zelensky’s peace plan is a challenge to us, to snap out of our catatonic societal stupor, and recognise that real problems are existential for Ukraine’s survival, and ultimately for ours too. His challenge is to make us realise that there are no easy choices left. Ukraine survives or it does not. Both scenarios have far-reaching implications and foist responsibilities on the West. Ukraine’s survival requires a clear victory, followed by two options. NATO membership immediately, or adoption of nuclear weapons. It’s clear, stark and imminent. There is no third option. He does not want to make us uncomfortable but wants to make us think and act. It’s not working though, judging by the reaction to his victory and security proposals. Our democratic institutions are weak and capacity to solve hard problems that require leadership responses (rather than managerially weighted ones) is much reduced compared to the 1940s. ~~~~~ SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ~~~~~ NEWS SOURCES: https://www.chathamhouse.org/events/all/special-event/conversation-valerii-zaluzhnyi-ukrainian-ambassador-uk https://euromaidanpress.com/2024/10/16/zelenskyy-unveils-5-point-victory-plan-to-ukrainian-parliament/ https://www.politico.eu/article/volodymyr-zelenskyy-presents-his-victory-plan-to-ukraine-parliament-war-vladimir-putin/ https://www.politico.eu/article/nato-nukes-volodymyr-zelenskyy-war-ukraine-aid-russia/ ~~~~~ USEFUL LINKS: Vatnik Soup https://twitter.com/P_Kallioniemi http://www.medbat.org.ua/en/ Real World News https://kyivindependent.com/ https://www.kyivpost.com/ https://english.nv.ua/ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/ https://meduza.io/en https://meduza.io/ https://novayagazeta.eu/ https://www.newsweek.com/topic/russia... ~~~~~ TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemysl https://kharpp.com/ Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine Ukrainian Freedom News https://www.ukrainianfreedomnews.com/donation/ UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ~~~~~

529. Joseph Lindsley - Questions on Ukraine No One is Asking the Presidential Candidates Harris and Trump

17 oktober 2024 | 65 min

Joe Lindsley is a traveller and a writer, and American reporting on Chicago's WGN Radio from Ukraine each and every weekday of Russia's full-scale war. He once was protégé to Fox News founder Roger Ailes, but Lindsley escaped that frenzied world where power mattered more than truth. He came to Lviv for a Ukrainian Catholic University journalism conference on Information Overload, AI, and Responsibility. Then the Coronavirus shut down world travel, and he stayed to build a better vision for the media industry. OTHER VIDEOS: 1. https://youtu.be/DM42QAF2ia4 (07-Nov-23) 2. https://youtu.be/KAGt83FzXmI (26-Jan-24) 3. https://youtu.be/AlD3HUTQAag (20-Feb-24) 4. https://youtu.be/w8Y1XLuhB9Q (04-Apr-24) 5. https://youtu.be/eA6DI5bwrq8 (05-Jun-24) ---------- LINKS: https://www.ukrainianfreedomnews.com/donation/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Lindsley https://www.linkedin.com/in/joseph-lindsley-60087618/ https://www.youtube.com/@jplindsley https://twitter.com/JPLindsley https://www.instagram.com/jplindsley/ https://www.facebook.com/josephlindsley https://www.ukrainianfreedomnews.com/ ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Silicon Bites #57 - North Korea is Now Deeply Committed to Enabling Russian Victory against Ukraine.

16 oktober 2024 | 17 min

Edition No57 | 16-10-2024 - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has accused North Korea of sending military personnel to Russia. And judging by the media coverage, this is not seen as a big deal. It may be worth spelling that out. Iranian drones batter Ukrainian cities, killing civilians daily. Approximately half the three million artillery shells Russia uses annually come from North Korea. And now North Korea is sending its own troops to invade European territory. This is not hyperbole, or clickbait. North Korea is literally involved in the invasion of a sovereign European democracy, involved in the slaughter of innocent European civilians, and apparently neither the media nor our esteemed leaders seem to give a rat’s arse about it. Is this the moment where history will judge that Western democracy faltered and failed? ~~~~~ SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISER A project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to Ukraine's frontline towns. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras ~~~~~ Russia has said it signed a treaty with North Korea that provides “strategic cooperation” in all areas. Further it adds for the avoidance of doubt, that the deal with North Korea is ‘unambiguous’. The treaty includes a mutual assistance clause, in which each side committed to help resist external aggression. That’s an interesting commitment, when Russia is struggling to retake its own territories in the Kursk oblast. Putin signed the treaty with North Korea earlier this year but did not explain how it might be put into practice. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov was asked whether the treaty obliged Russia to back North Korea in a conflict and he said the wording of the agreement was “quite unambiguous.” And involves “truly strategic deep cooperation in all areas, including security. ~~~~~ SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ~~~~~ NEWS SOURCES: https://kyivindependent.com/russia-plans-to-involve-north-korea-in-war-in-ukraine-this-fall-zelensky-says/ https://kyivindependent.com/north-korea-has-sent-10-000-soldiers-to-russia-western-source-says/ https://euromaidanpress.com/2024/10/15/us-official-north-korean-troops-in-ukraine-would-show-russian-desperation/ https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/us-concerned-by-reports-north-korean-soldiers-fighting-russia-2024-10-15/ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/ukraine-russia-war-updates-map-putin-north-korea-soldiers-b2629954.html https://kyivindependent.com/thaad/ ~~~~~ USEFUL LINKS: Vatnik Soup https://twitter.com/P_Kallioniemi http://www.medbat.org.ua/en/ Real World News https://kyivindependent.com/ https://www.kyivpost.com/ https://english.nv.ua/ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/ https://meduza.io/en https://meduza.io/ https://novayagazeta.eu/ https://www.newsweek.com/topic/russia... Analysis https://www.ft.com/russia https://www.economist.com/ https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ https://cepa.org/ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/ https://www.theatlantic.com/search/?s... ~~~~~ TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemysl https://kharpp.com/ Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine Ukrainian Freedom News https://www.ukrainianfreedomnews.com/donation/ UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ~~~~~

528. Maksym Eristavi - Gaslight, Invade & Extermination - The Mechanics of Russian Colonial Expansionism.

15 oktober 2024 | 53 min

Maksym Eristavi is a Ukrainian journalist and writer. An author of the ‘Russian Colonialism 101’ guidebook and self-described 'Russian colonialism storyteller in chief,' he champions global awareness about the Russian colonial legacy. Eristavi has a two-decade journalism career behind his back that included championing mainstream English-language coverage of Eastern Europe by indigenous voices. He is the founder of Volya Hub, the first storytelling hub expanding public awareness about Russian colonialism, and a co-founder of #UkrainianSpaces, a multimedia hub that amplifies Ukrainian voices and decolonizes global Ukraine conversations ---------- LINKS: https://twitter.com/maksymeristavi https://www.maksymeristavi.com/ https://istpublishing.org/en/russian-colonialism-101-maksym-eristavi https://www.instagram.com/maksym.eristavi/?hl=en ---------- STRATEGIES OF RUSSIAN IMPERIALISM: - Gaslight: stoking divide / stoking ethnic divide - Gaslight: identity erasure / accusation of fascism - Gaslight: manufacturing disinformation / dehumanising rhetoric - Invade to protect from ethnic violence, feudalism, liberate - Invade to protect itself / occupation - Exterminate: cultural erasure, settler colonialism - Exterminate: ethnic cleansing, deportations - Exterminate: mass murder, genocide - Exterminate: Russification, linguicide, ecocide, assimilation and erasure - Exterminate: territorial dismembering - Failed colonialism: sabotage, assassination, infiltration, threat - Control: State capture, erosion of institutions ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- ABOUT: Maksym Eristavi is a Ukrainian journalist, writer, and author of “Russian Colonialism 101,” an illustrated guide to Russian colonial crimes. A self-described 'Russian colonialism storyteller in chief,' he champions global awareness about the Russian colonial legacy. This mission is personal: a mixed Ukrainian with Asian, Roma, and Georgian roots, several generations of his family suffered from genocides, assimilation, and identity erasure throughout centuries of Russian colonial rule. Eristavi has a two-decade journalism career behind his back that included championing mainstream English-language coverage of Eastern Europe by indigenous voices. He went from covering both Ukrainian pro-democratic revolutions, being the country’s youngest news anchor and newsroom manager to founding international operations at the leading news startup covering Eastern Europe, and becoming a contributor to leading global outlets, such as RFERL, BBC, CNN, Al-Jazeera, Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, Politico and the Washington Post. At the same time, Bild and The New York Times called his social media reporting an essential source on the region. He led pioneering English-language coverage of the Russian disinformation warfare, Russian colonialism, and human rights violations in Eastern Europe. He is the founder of Volya Hub, the first storytelling hub expanding public awareness about Russian colonialism, and a co-founder of #UkrainianSpaces, a multimedia hub that amplifies Ukrainian perspectives and decolonizes global Ukraine conversations. His work and anti-colonial bridge-building made Eristavi a featured speaker at leading universities, many parliaments, and foreign ministries, including hearings at the US Congress and the European Parliament. ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org ----------

527. Keir Giles - Russia's Next War - Who Will Defend Europe from an Aggressive and Militaristic Russia?

14 oktober 2024 | 50 min

We are naturally focused on the war in Ukraine, as the largest such conflict since WWII on the territory of Europe. But this is just the latest manifestation of extreme aggression b Russia, in a pattern of expansion and coercion of its neighbours that goes back centuries. In this interview, Keir Giles explains the outline of future threats / future wars, and whether its possible to deter the Kremlin from returning Europe to a state of perpetual warfare. Is containing a revanchist Russia the best we can hope for, or are there political, social and structural problems that prevent Europe from mounting an adequate defence. Are we in a race against time, where direct conflict with Russia is practically unavoidable, and the stakes higher than we can possibly imagine? ---------- Keir Giles has spent his career watching, studying, and explaining Russia. Keir’s work has appeared in a wide range of academic and military publications across Europe and in North America, and he is a regular contributor and commentator on Russian affairs for international print and broadcast media. He is a Senior Consulting Fellow at the UK's Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House), and also works with the Conflict Studies Research Centre (CSRC), a group of deep subject matter experts on Eurasian security formerly attached to the British Ministry of Defence. He is a regular contributor to research projects on Russian security issues in the U.S., UK, and Europe. ---------- SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISER - A project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to Ukraine's frontline towns. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras ---------- LINKS Who Will Defend Europe? An Awakened Russia and a Sleeping Continent (2024) Russia's War on Everybody: And What it Means for You (2022) Moscow Rules: What Drives Russia to Confront the West (2019) The Turning Point for Russian Foreign Policy (2017) The State of the NATO-Russia Reset (2011) Potential Challenges to Public Order and Social Stability in the Russian Federation (2011) ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

2024-10-13 | @SiliconWafers | Ramzan Kadyrov Accuses Three Russian Lawmakers of Plot to kill Him.

13 oktober 2024 | 16 min

2024-10-13 | None of us know what forms Putin’s nightmares take, but I’d hazard a guess that open conflict between his mafia lieutenants would feature in them. Adding the ethnic colour of a ‘blood feud’ is just an additional theatrical flourish. This is what happened this week, as Kadyrov threatened a ‘blood feud’, as he claimed a group of Russian lawmakers were planning his assassination. ---------- SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISER - A project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to Ukraine's frontline towns. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras ---------- In a video posted on his Telegram account on Oct. 9 Chechen strongman Ramzan Kadyrov accused three Russian lawmakers of plotting to kill him. He warned a "blood feud" would ensue if they could not prove their innocence. "If they don’t provide proof to the contrary, I officially declare a blood feud against Barakhoyev, Suleiman Kerimov, and Rizvan Kurbanov. We have witnesses, and we know the people they asked about the price of an order [for my assassination]." Kadyrov claimed to other officials from the North Caucasian republic. Kadyrov named three lawmakers, Bekhan Barakhoyev, Suleiman Kerimov, and Rizvan Kurbanov, from neighbouring Dagestan and Ingushetia, as potentially being the figures behind the plot. Before we delve into the current accusation, we must review some recent history. There was a violent incident in September at the Moscow headquarters of Wildberries, Russia's largest online retailer, in which two people were killed and several others were arrested. A full Silicon Wafers episode on this will be published next week. In that incident a fight broke out when Vladislav Bakalchuk, the estranged husband of the company's founder Tatiana Kim (formerly Bakalchuk), tried to "illegally" enter the building with his security guards. ---------- Sources and recommended reading: https://kyivindependent.com/kadyrov-claims-group-of-russian-lawmakers-are-plotting-his-assassination/ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2024/10/10/in-first-public-comments-on-wildberries-shooting-kadyrov-declares-blood-feud-against-federal-lawmakers-who-he-claims-ordered-his-murder https://www.politico.eu/article/chechnya-warlord-ramzan-kadyrov-blood-feud-russia-mps-dagestan-ingushetia-assassination-plot/ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/10/10/kadyrov-declares-blood-feud-against-russian-lawmakers-in-first-remarks-on-wildberries-shootout-a86636 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/10/09/chechnyas-kadyrov-speaks-out-against-russias-medieval-migration-laws-a86625 https://www.kyivpost.com/opinion/40363 ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemysl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ----------

525. Igor Tracz -Terrible Truth of War in the East of Ukraine - its Scale, Brutality and Terrible Impact.

12 oktober 2024 | 42 min

SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISER - A project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to Ukraine's frontline towns. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras ---------- Igor Tracz 10-time world champion in dog sled racing. volunteer at war. 72 convoys with humanitarian aid to Ukraine completed. Climber, cyclist, diver, shooter, sport trainer, president of a humanitarian foundation. Will Blackburn Author of "The War Next Door" Will Blackburn never meant to write a book about Ukraine. For many years he was happy selling software and living in London. The only outstanding drama in his life had been a tour of Iraq with the Territorial Army in 2003/4. A family crisis in 2015 precipitated a move to Poland. In February of 2022 Will and his wife found themselves living right on the border of a massive European war. He knew he could not just stand by and be happy selling software. It was time to do something. Once Will saw for himself the utter destruction and suffering of Ukraine and its people, he realised that he had to document what he was seeing. Those notes became the book about his journeys into Ukraine. Will is now fully involved in sourcing equipment in support of Ukraine and the convoys run by Fundacja Igora Tracza. Honor Phillips Traveler, Photographer, Writer, team member with Bridge to History - occasional Muay Thai boxer. DW Phillips is a Producer and Film Director, Attorney and Journalist. He has been involved in some extraordinary projects in Ukraine as a Documentary Filmmaker. ---------- LINKS: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dw-p-59111859/ https://www.youtube.com/@UkraineStory ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

2024-10-11 | Is Israel at War with Russia After Strike Near Russian Base in Syria

11 oktober 2024 | 33 min

2024-10-11 | This news is a week old, but more details are coming out, so it’s worth taking a deeper dive into the Israel strike near the Russian air base in Syria. The full impact of this has also not been appreciated, I feel, I certain sections of the media, so let’s jump into this story. ---------- Is Israel at war with Russia? Well, frustratingly this is a no, yes answer to the question. Is it formally at war? No. Does the attack on Russian munitions being delivered to Iran constitute a declaration of war? No. Will Russia see it as such? Again no. But this is not a war like WWII or the Cold War. It’s a war without rules, where acts of aggression, terror and provocation are carried out without restraint and without rules. Russia is arming and conspiring with Israel’s enemies, of that there is no doubt. Russia is providing deadly aid; in the full knowledge it will be used by the proxies of it’s allies Iran to seek to slaughter Israeli civilians. Russia indeed has close ties with these proxy forces sowing death, terror, and chaos in the region, and Russia is fully cognisant of their strategies and techniques. Russia has probably assisted them in training as well as the provision of the materials of death. So yes, this really is a kind of war, and Russia is a full and willing participant in it. The grey zone war of sabotage, illegality, cyber and informational attacks, and the warm war of assassination and provocation. WWIII may not resemble ‘hot’ wars of the past, but may play out in this warm, grey zone of perpetual aggression, subversion of international institutions and attacks in the informational space. ---------- Sources and recommended reading: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/10/03/israeli-strike-suspected-near-russian-air-base-in-syria-whi/?ICID=continue_without_subscribing_reg_first https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/04/world/middleeast/israel-strikes-russian-airbase-syria.html https://english.enabbaladi.net/archives/2024/10/israeli-strikes-approach-russias-interests-in-syria/ https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1956833/israel-attacks-russian-khmeimim-airbase-syria https://cepa.org/article/israels-decapitation-strikes-leave-russia-trembling/ ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemysl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

524. Andrey Kurkov - Nothing Bad Ever Happened - How Russia Whitewashes & Repeats Worst Crimes of History

9 oktober 2024 | 34 min

Andrey Kurkov is a Ukrainian author and public intellectual. He is the author of 20 novels, including the bestselling Death and the Penguin, nine books for children, and about 20 documentary, fiction and TV movie scripts. His work is currently translated into 37 languages, including English, Spanish, Japanese, French, German, and many others. His first novel was published two weeks before the fall of the Soviet Union, and in the ensuing social and political turmoil he made the first steps towards self-publishing and distribution. His books are full of black humour, post-Soviet reality and elements of surrealism. ---------- LINKS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrey_Kurkov https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/88420.Andrey_Kurkov https://www.penguin.co.uk/authors/184021/andrey-kurkov https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/booklists/author-of-the-month-andrey-kurkov https://www.amazon.co.uk/Books-Andrey-Kurkov/s?rh=n%3A266239%2Cp_27%3AAndrey+Kurkov ---------- BOOKS: The Silver Bone: The Kyiv Mysteries Grey Bees: A captivating, heartwarming story about a gentle beekeeper caught up in the war in Ukraine Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv Diary of an Invasion Death and the Penguin The Bickford Fuse and many others... ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Silicon Bites #56 - Schrödinger's Terrorist: is Igor Strelkov (Girkin) Alive or Dead? Rumours Abound

8 oktober 2024 | 17 min

Edition No55 | 06-10-2024 - Ukrainian officials in Chernihiv have told residents not to swim in the Desna River after a toxic spill last month. This video is based on the excellent reporting of Luke Harding and Artem Mazhulin in Slabyn, Ukraine, from the UK’s Guardian newspaper. ~~~~~ ‘Everything is dead’ – reports come in of a major ecocide event, after rivers are poisoned. Ukrainian officials in Chernihiv have told residents not to swim in the Desna River after a toxic spill last month. This video is based on the excellent reporting of Luke Harding and Artem Mazhulin in Slabyn, Ukraine, from the UK’s Guardian newspaper. It won’t come as a surprise to anyone who’s paying attention, that Russia is suspected of deliberately leaking chemical waste into rivers. This has had deadly consequences already for wildlife within the waters and surrounding ecosystems. Hundreds of fish, including roach, pike, carp and other species, have washed up on the Desna River’s willow-fringed banks. “Everything is dead, starting from the tiniest minnow to the biggest catfish,” explains Serhiy Kraskov, mayor of the village of Slabyn, located in Ukraine’s northern Chernihiv region. ~~~~~ SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISER A project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to Ukraine's frontline towns. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ~~~~~ NEWS SOURCES: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/01/ukraine-seim-river-poisoning-chernihiv-ecocide- https://svidomi.in.ua/en/page/this-is-an-environmental-disaster-how-russia-poisoned-the-seim-river-in-the-north-of-ukraine https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/09/12/7474751/ ~~~~~ USEFUL LINKS: Vatnik Soup https://twitter.com/P_Kallioniemi http://www.medbat.org.ua/en/ Real World News https://kyivindependent.com/ https://www.kyivpost.com/ https://english.nv.ua/ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/ https://meduza.io/en https://meduza.io/ https://novayagazeta.eu/ https://www.newsweek.com/topic/russia... Analysis https://www.ft.com/russia https://www.economist.com/ https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ https://cepa.org/ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/ https://www.theatlantic.com/search/?s... ~~~~~ TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemysl https://kharpp.com/ Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine Ukrainian Freedom News https://www.ukrainianfreedomnews.com/donation/ UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ~~~~~

473. Katia Denysova - Exploring Groundbreaking Modernist Art Made in Ukraine Between 1900 and the 1930s

7 oktober 2024 | 44 min

Silicon Bites - #55 - Russian Commits Another Ecocide with Poisoning of the Seim and Desna Rivers.

6 oktober 2024 | 15 min

Edition No55 | 06-10-2024 - Ukrainian officials in Chernihiv have told residents not to swim in the Desna River after a toxic spill last month. This video is based on the excellent reporting of Luke Harding and Artem Mazhulin in Slabyn, Ukraine, from the UK’s Guardian newspaper. ~~~~~ ‘Everything is dead’ – reports come in of a major ecocide event, after rivers are poisoned. Ukrainian officials in Chernihiv have told residents not to swim in the Desna River after a toxic spill last month. This video is based on the excellent reporting of Luke Harding and Artem Mazhulin in Slabyn, Ukraine, from the UK’s Guardian newspaper. It won’t come as a surprise to anyone who’s paying attention, that Russia is suspected of deliberately leaking chemical waste into rivers. This has had deadly consequences already for wildlife within the waters and surrounding ecosystems. Hundreds of fish, including roach, pike, carp and other species, have washed up on the Desna River’s willow-fringed banks. “Everything is dead, starting from the tiniest minnow to the biggest catfish,” explains Serhiy Kraskov, mayor of the village of Slabyn, located in Ukraine’s northern Chernihiv region. ~~~~~ SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISER A project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to Ukraine's frontline towns. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ~~~~~ NEWS SOURCES: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/01/ukraine-seim-river-poisoning-chernihiv-ecocide- https://svidomi.in.ua/en/page/this-is-an-environmental-disaster-how-russia-poisoned-the-seim-river-in-the-north-of-ukraine https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/09/12/7474751/ ~~~~~ USEFUL LINKS: Vatnik Soup https://twitter.com/P_Kallioniemi http://www.medbat.org.ua/en/ Real World News https://kyivindependent.com/ https://www.kyivpost.com/ https://english.nv.ua/ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/ https://meduza.io/en https://meduza.io/ https://novayagazeta.eu/ https://www.newsweek.com/topic/russia... Analysis https://www.ft.com/russia https://www.economist.com/ https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ https://cepa.org/ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/ https://www.theatlantic.com/search/?s... ~~~~~ TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemysl https://kharpp.com/ Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine Ukrainian Freedom News https://www.ukrainianfreedomnews.com/donation/ UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ~~~~~

523.Lesia Dubenko - Israeli Strike Shows it's not Afraid of Russia when Upholding its Security Interests

5 oktober 2024 | 22 min

Lesia Dubenko is a Ukrainian journalist and analyst featured in the Financial Times, Politico Europe, New Eastern Europe, Washington Times, and more. She’s currently affiliated with Ukraine’s media outlet Euromaidan Press. You can follow her on Substack for a dose of good and satirical commentary https://lesiadubenko.substack.com ---------- SUMMARY: The West is conducting 'Preemptive self deterrence' with regards to Russia, in a way that exudes weakness and morally amounts to appeasement of evil acts and malign intent. This is likely caused at some level of fear of Russia - its threats, its capacity of violence and also the threat of its imagined collapse. Israel shows no such fear or restraint in defending its own legitimate security interests, when it bombed arms being delivered by Russia to sworn enemies of the Israeli state. ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

522. John Sweeney - Putin's Uniformed Gangsters have Captured Russian Society, Military, Media, Education

4 oktober 2024 | 51 min

GUEST: John Sweeney - investigative journalist and writer. Orange hat advocate. ---------- SPEAKER: John Sweeney is a British investigative journalist and writer. He worked for The Observer newspaper, and the BBC's Panorama and Newsnight series. Sweeney ceased working for the BBC in October 2019, and is now reporting on the war in Ukraine, as well as creating a Daily war diary. Which I strongly advise you to watch if you’ve not seen it. He’s also been working on a film, documenting the most brutal parts of the conflict – ‘The Eastern Front’, which is released in June this year. ---------- SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISER A project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to Ukraine's frontline towns. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain/collections ---------- CHAPTERS: ---------- LINKS: https://www.johnsweeney.co.uk/ https://twitter.com/johnsweeneyroar https://inews.co.uk/opinion/john-sweeney-vladimir-putin-chance-1972364 https://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/books/1736357/john-sweeney-ukraine-war-vladimir-putin https://pressgazette.co.uk/comment-analysis/john-sweeney-ukraine-front-line/ ----- BOOKS: Murder in the Gulag: The Life and Death of Alexei Navalny (2024) Killer in the Kremlin (2023) Putin's Prisoner: My Time as a Prisoner of War in Ukraine Taking on Putin with John Sweeney The Useful Idiot The Church of Fear: Inside the Weird World of Scientology Hunting Ghislaine ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

521. Mark Galeotti - Russian Dissident Opposition Descends into Destructive Squabbles Struggles & Battles

3 oktober 2024 | 67 min

GUEST: Mark Galeotti - historian, author, security expert and academic. ---------- SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISER A project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to Ukraine's frontline towns. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain/collections ---------- LINKS: https://inmoscowsshadows.wordpress.com/ https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/in-moscows-shadows/id1510124746 https://twitter.com/MarkGaleotti https://www.rusi.org/people/galeotti https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Galeotti ---------- SPEAKER: Mark Galeotti is an author and academic – by training an historian – but in practice an interdisciplinary scholar with interests encompassing politics, criminology, security studies, international relations, and anthropology. He is a specialist in transnational and organized crime, security affairs, Russian Politics, Russian History, Intelligence and Security. Mark has a PhD in Government from LSE and has worked as a Senior Lecturer and Head of Department of History at Keele University. He is a Principal Director at Mayak Intelligence, and is an Honorary Professor, SSEES at UCL. He is a Senior Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute. He has also been Professor of Global Affairs at New York University from 2009 to 2016. ---------- BOOKS: Downfall: Prigozhin, Putin, and the new fight for the future of Russia by Mark Galeotti and Anna Arutunyan (2024) Mark Galeotti: Putin's Wars: From Chechnya to Ukraine (2022) Mark Galeotti: The Weaponisation of Everything: A Field Guide to the New Way of War (2022) Mark Galeotti: A Short History of Russia: From the Pagans to Putin (2021) Mark Galeotti: Storm-333: KGB and Spetsnaz seize Kabul, Soviet-Afghan War 1979 (2021) Mark Galeotti: We Need to Talk About Putin: How the West gets him wrong (2019) Mark Galeotti: Russian Political War: Moving Beyond the Hybrid (2019) Mark Galeotti: The Vory: Russia's Super Mafia (2018) ---------- WAR STUDIES: Mark Galeotti: Russia’s Wars in Chechnya: 1994–2009 (2024) Mark Galeotti: Putin Takes Crimea 2014: Grey-zone warfare opens the Russia-Ukraine conflict (2023) Mark Galeotti: Russia's Five-Day War: The invasion of Georgia, August 2008 (2023) Mark Galeotti: Afghanistan 1979–88: Soviet air power against the mujahideen (2023) Mark Galeotti: Teutonic Knight vs Lithuanian Warrior: The Lithuanian Crusade 1283–1435 (2023) ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

520. Anders Puck Nielsen - Russia's Military Strength and Reserves of Equipment may have Already Peaked

2 oktober 2024 | 51 min

The Russian war economy is not doing well. But it seems like there is an attritional race on – will the Russian war machine collapse before the will and resolve of Ukraine’s allies, to support it for victory. Is it time to let go of the idea that Russia has endless resources to continue the war indefinitely, and that historically is not uncommon for Russia to lose wars – and catastrophically, without the country, and indeed the world, ceasing to exist. The next six months will likely prove crucial, and we’ll be exploring these issues today with Anders Puck Nielsen. ---------- GUEST: Anders Puck Nielsen - YouTuber and military analyst. Today I’m speaking with Anders Puck Nielsen, military analyst and influential YouTuber based in Denmark. He specialises in naval warfare and strategy; in today’s video we are going to be talking about Ukrainian successes against Russia’s Black Sea fleet and state of the ground war in Ukraine. ---------- CHAPTERS: 00:00:00 ---------- LINKS: @anderspuck https://www.youtube.com/@anderspuck https://twitter.com/anderspuck https://www.linkedin.com/in/anderspucknielsen/ https://apnielsen.info/en/frontpage/ ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

518. Oz Katerji - The Challenges of Conflict Reporting in Ukraine and Communicating Scale of Russia's War

1 oktober 2024 | 40 min

519. Chuck Pfarrer - Ukraine's Strategy in Kursk is "Correct": to Fight Russia Where it's most Vulnerable

1 oktober 2024 | 26 min

Chuck Pfarrer is an American writer, film producer and former navy SEAL. He’ll be a familiar and trusted presence to many who have tuned in to the Mriya Report on ‘X’ over the course of the war. As an author, Chuck has penned screenplays, novels and comic books, as well as non-fiction works. His works feature themes relating to the military, and of course is a strong advocate for Ukrainian victory. ---------- LINKS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Pfarrer https://x.com/chuckpfarrer?lang=en https://navyseals.com/ns-overview/notable-seals/chuck-pfarrer/ ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

517. Michael Andersen & Brian Bonner - A Conspiracy of Defeatism by Media & Analysts Disguised as Realism

30 september 2024 | 61 min

Today I am speaking with "Two Grumpy Old Men”, Michael Andersen and Brian Bonner who seasoned Ukraine watchers and have teamed up to create a video and Substack blog "Two Grumpy Old Men On Ukraine." They focus on Ukraine, and issues in related parts of the world since both have lived and worked in many countries. They write, run Q&As, create videos, report on the unfolding war, and resurface content from their collective archive, to help frame current events in a historical context. ---------- LINKS: https://twogrumpyoldmenonukraine.substack.com/ https://www.youtube.com/@ukraine_calling https://www.linkedin.com/posts/brianbonner_two-grumpy-old-men-on-ukraine-substack-activity-7187382236466327552-wixH/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianbonner/ ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine Ukrainian Freedom News https://www.ukrainianfreedomnews.com/donation/ UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

516. Elisabeth Braw - Could Floating Bombs Become Putin's Next Weapon of Mass Intimidation Against West?

29 september 2024 | 44 min

Russia’s Shadow Tankers Threaten an Environmental Catastrophe in the Baltic. And now a Maltese-flagged cargo ship filled with 20,000 tonnes of Russian sourced ammonium nitrate in drifting towards the UK coast. This is the same potentially explosive fertiliser that caused a massive explosion in Beirut in 2020, and this ship is carrying 7 times more of this dangerous cargo. Understandably it has been rejected permission to dock by several countries. So, what kind of threats does the Kremlin’s shadow fleet pose to the environment as well as the global maritime order? ---------- Elisabeth Braw is a senior fellow at the Atlanric council. She is also a columnist with Foreign Policy, where she writes on national security and the globalised economy. Before joining AEI, Elisabeth was a Senior Research Fellow at RUSI, where she led the Modern Deterrence project. She is published in a wide range of publications, including Politico, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (writing in German), The Times and The Wall Street Journal. Elisabeth is also the author of highly regarded books – one of which we are discussing today. Goodbye Globalization: The Return of a Divided World (2024) ---------- ROLES & PUBLICATIONS: - Monthly columnist – POLITICO (Feb 2023 – Present) - Advisory Board Member - GALLOS Technologies Limited (Aug 2022 – Present) - Commissioner – UK National Preparedness Commission (Nov 2020 – Present) - Member of the Advisory Group – Centre for Information Resilience (Feb 2021 – Present) - Senior Fellow – American Enterprise Institute (Oct 2020 – Present) - Columnist – Foreign Policy (Feb 2020 – Present) - Member of the Steering Committee – Aurora Forum (Dec 2019 – Present) - Op-ed contributor – The Times (Dec 2016 – Present) - Non-resident Associate Fellow – European Leadership Network (ELN) (Aug 2017 – Present) - Senior Research Fellow – Royal United Services Institute (Sep 2019 – Oct 2020) - Adjunct Fellow – Centre for European Policy (Jul 2018 – Jul 2019) - Senior Consultant – Control Risks (Jun 2016 – Aug 2018) - Non-resident Senior Fellow – Atlantic Council (Apr 2016 – Jun 2018) ---------- LINKS: https://twitter.com/elisabethbraw https://www.linkedin.com/in/elisabethbraw/ https://rusi.org/people/braw https://www.aei.org/profile/elisabeth-braw/ https://www.europeanleadershipnetwork.org/person/elisabeth-braw/ https://foreignpolicy.com/author/elisabeth-braw/ https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/people/elisabeth-braw https://cepa.org/author/elisabeth-braw/ ---------- ARTICLES: https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/01/16/russia-ukraine-gray-zone-warfare-autocrats-democracy-527022 https://www.ft.com/content/0ac9e1a9-2aad-47d9-83fb-4839e9b31b33 https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/china-is-master-of-grey-zone-aggression-t6z2khp69 https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/60291/create-a-psychological-defence-agency-to-prebunk-fake-news https://www.aei.org/podcast/elisabeth-braw-on-gray-zone-warfare/ ---------- BOOKS: ‘God’s Spies: The Stasi’s Cold War Espionage (2019) The Defender's Dilemma: Identifying and Deterring Gray-zone Aggression (2022) Goodbye Globalization: The Return of a Divided World (2024) ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

501. Darth Putin (Master Strategist) - A Confidential Converstion with Putin's Parody Nemesis from 'X'

27 september 2024 | 63 min

Darth Putin (KGB). An account on Twitter / X that may or may not be authored by the Bunker Tsar himself. Darth Putin - Czar for life of all Russians. Master Strategist. Thought leader. Wellness coach. Tea connoisseur. Author. Wanted in 123 countries. Parody, apparently. ---------- LINKS: https://x.com/darthputinkgb https://www.amazon.co.uk/Darth-Putin-Guide-Master-Strategist-ebook/dp/B0CVYFPZ5N https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/in-the-bunker-with-darth-putin/id1732865476 ---------- BOOKS: The Darth Putin Guide to Being a Master Strategist: 13 Rules on How to Think, Act, Dress & Date Like a Master Strategist (2024) How to Tankie: The Anti-Imperialist's Guide to the Modern World (2023) ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

515. Anna Danylchuk, Operator Starsky & Cormac Smith - The Dangerous Delusion of a 'Quick and Easy' Peace

26 september 2024 | 48 min

GUESTS: Anna Danylchuk, Operator Starsky and Cormac Smith ---------- Anna Danylchuk has been creating a war diary since the early days of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia in 2022. Anna Danylchuk aims to tell the truth about Ukraine and Russia’s war and cut through the noise and propaganda. Anna is passionate about the beauty and independence of her country, and communicates this powerfully in her videos, in a clear and honest way. Operator Starsky is a former Ukrainian National Guardian, blogger, and inspiration for everyone who is following the war, and supporting a Ukrainian victory. He has created one of the most popular and original YouTube channels dedicated to the international community. I’m not sure you need an introduction – I’m sure most people watching this channel will have seen his videos. Cormac Smith has worked in Public Relations and Corporate Communications for over three decades. In 2016 he travelled to Ukraine to take up a special appointment as the ‘Strategic Communication Advisor’ to Pavlo Klimkin, then the Foreign Minister of Ukraine. He was attached to the British Embassy in Kyiv but was embedded in Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. ---------- LINKS: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/annafromukraine https://www.youtube.com/@PropagandaStudyInstitute http://psi-eu.org/ https://www.youtube.com/@StarskyUA https://twitter.com/starskyua?lang=en https://defencebrink.uk/ https://x.com/CormacS63 ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

514. Casey Michel - Foreign Agent Lobbyists are Acting as Foot-Soldiers for Brutal Authoritarian Regimes

25 september 2024 | 60 min

For years, one group of Americans has worked as foot-soldiers for the most authoritarian regimes around the planet. In the process, they've not only entrenched dictatorships and spread kleptocratic networks, but they've secretly guided U.S. policy without the rest of America even being aware. And now, journalist Casey Michel contends some of them have begun turning their sights on American democracy itself. These Americans are known as foreign lobbyists, and many of them spent years ushering dictatorships directly into the halls of Washington, all while laundering the reputations of the most heinous, repressive regimes in the process. Many of these lobbyists have transformed into proxies for dictators and strongmen wherever they can be found. And for years, they've escaped scrutiny. These lobbyists include figures like Ivy Lee, the inventor of the public relations industry - a man who whitewashed Mussolini, opened doors to the Soviets, and advised the Nazis on how to sway American audiences. They include people like Paul Manafort, who invented lobbying as we know it - and who then took his talents to autocrats from Ukraine to the Philippines, and then back to the White House. And they now include an increasing number of Americans elsewhere: in law firms and consultancies, among PR specialists and former lawmakers, and even within think tanks and universities. ---------- Casey Michel is head of the Combating Kleptocracy Program at the Human Rights Foundation, focusing on how dictators and autocrats use illicit finance and dirty money to remain in power. He’s the author of AMERICAN KLEPTOCRACY, on America's transformation into an offshore haven. His new book, FOREIGN AGENTS, will examine the explosion of the foreign lobbying industry in Washington, and how that industry has helped entrench dictatorships and upend American foreign policy. FOREIGN AGENTS will be published in 2024. ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- LINKS: http://www.caseymichel.com/ https://x.com/cjcmichel https://www.linkedin.com/in/caseymichel/ https://www.rusi.org/people/michel https://www.hudson.org/experts/1381-casey-michel ---------- BOOKS: https://read.macmillan.com/lp/american-kleptocracy/ American Kleptocracy: How the U.S. Created the World's Greatest Money Laundering Scheme in History (2021) Foreign Agents: How American Lobbyists and Lawmakers Threaten Democracy Around the World (2024) ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ----------

508. David Gioe, Huw Dylan & Elena Grossfeld: Putin’s (mis)Management of Russian Intelligence Assessments

24 september 2024 | 72 min

This is a conversation with the three esteemed authors of a paper entitled “The autocrat’s intelligence paradox: Vladimir Putin’s (mis)management of Russian strategic assessment in the Ukraine War. Huw Dylan, David V. Gioe and Elena Grossfeld ---------- This article argues that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 is illustrative of this broader, though understudied, pattern of autocratic mismanagement of strategic intelligence. The invasion was both spurred and accompanied by a catastrophic intelligence failure, the responsibility for which rests with Vladimir Putin, the arbiter of a system with limited capacity to offer dispassionate strategic assessments. His failure is characteristic of autocratic regimes assessing foreign developments, including Putin’s Soviet predecessors. ---------- LINKS: https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/03/17/putins-kgb-past-didnt-help-him-with-intelligence-ukraine/ https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13691481241258108 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/13691481221146113 ---------- Professor David Gioe is Visiting Professor of Intelligence and International Security in the Department of War Studies. He joins the department as a British Academy Global Professor. He is Associate Professor of History at the US Military Academy at West Point, where he also serves as History Fellow for the Army Cyber Institute. David is also Director of Studies for the Cambridge Security Initiative and co-convener of its International Security and Intelligence program. Dr Huw Dylan is a Reader in Intelligence and International Security at the Department of War Studies, King’s College London. He is also an Associated Researcher at the Centre for Intelligence Studies in the Norwegian Intelligence School. His work is focused on intelligence in the Cold War and beyond, with a specific focus on deception operations, intelligence in diplomacy, and covert action. Elena Grossfeld is a PhD candidate in the Department of War Studies, King's College London (KCL), and a member of King's Intelligence and Security Group (KISG). Her research interests are strategic culture of Russian/Soviet intelligence, Cold War, and information warfare. ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ ----------

513. Christopher Forsback - Nowhere on Russia's Western Heartlands is Safe from Ukrainian Drone Fragments

23 september 2024 | 38 min

512. Pekka Kallioniemi (Vatnik Soup) - Follow the Money to See how Russia Poisons the Information Space

23 september 2024 | 41 min

Vatnik soup is a Twitter thread series where Pekka Kallioniemi introduces pro-Russian actors and propagandists from around the world. This includes so-called “independent journalists”, politicians, military personnel and of course just regular grifters looking to make money. The series has introductions and deeper insights on how online propaganda and disinformation works and is spread. There are now 200 Vatnik soups, which introduce bad actors along with the strategies they employ to pollute the information space. As Pekka states: the first victim of war is the truth, and Russia considered itself at war with the US, and its perceived vassals, the collective West, EU, and NATO. ---------- Pekka Kallioniemi has a PhD in interactive technology and is an expert on social media platforms, algorithms, and disinformation. He is a #NAFO activist, and runs a series on Kremlin assets, agents, and oligarchs, called vatnik soup. ---------- BOOK: Vatnik Soup. The Ultimate Guide to Russian Disinformation (Hardcover - 2024) ---------- LINKS: https://vatniksoup.com/ https://twitter.com/P_Kallioniemi https://youtube.com/@TheSoupCentral ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

511. David Satter - Putin's Regime has its Origins in Blood and Fear. Apartment Bombings 25th Anniversary

22 september 2024 | 37 min

David Satter is a journalist and historian with unique insights into how the deformation and repression of the past, is having terrible consequences for present day Russia. David has written extensively about Russia and the Soviet Union, especially the decline and fall of the USSR and rise of post-Soviet Russia. David Satter became the first American journalist to be expelled from Russia since the Cold War in December 2013. This was perhaps not a surprising move, given that his books have covered topics such as the FSB’s role in the apartment bombings that brought Putin to power. From 1976 to 1982 David was the Moscow correspondent of the Financial Times, and then became a special correspondent on Soviet affairs for The Wall Street Journal. He is currently a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and a fellow of the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. ---------- BOOKS: He is author of several books that are essential reading to help understand the origins of the current crisis, including the brilliantly named books: - It Was a Long Time Ago, and It Never Happened Anyway - Darkness at Dawn: The Rise of the Russian Criminal State - The Less You Know, The Better You Sleep ---------- LINKS: https://davidsatter.com/ https://twitter.com/davidsatter?lang=en https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Satter https://www.hudson.org/experts/362-david-satter https://www.fpri.org/contributor/david-satter/ https://www.foreignaffairs.com/authors/david-satter ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine Ukrainian Freedom News https://www.ukrainianfreedomnews.com/donation/ UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available

510. Terron Sims - Kamala Harris has made Freedom Part of her Campaign - But is she for Ukrainian Victory

21 september 2024 | 56 min

Whatever mistakes he has made in the war Vladimir Putin has retained the Escalation Initiative, always proving he can push the war to a new level of brutality, with the Western allies constantly playing catch-up, and in many ways placing restrictions and delays on Ukraine in terms of how it fights back. What are the implications of this dynamic for the war and a potential Ukrainian victory? ---------- Terron Sims, II is a combat veteran, businessman, political leader, and a proud graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point. He Chairs the DNC’s Veterans & Military Families (VMF) Council and previously served as Chief-of-Staff to Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee. Terron has decades of operational and leadership experience in the Department of Defense (DoD) and throughout the federal government. Mr. Sims served on active duty in the US Army as a Field Artillery officer. While deployed in Iraq from 2003 to 2004, Mr. Sims established and mentored the government of Baghdad’s Tisa Nissan District, where he served as the primary liaison to the CPA, the UN, Baghdad City Hall, and Iraq’s federal government. His final Army assignment as the Deputy Chief-of-Training for the Joint Readiness Training Center (JRTC) and Fort Polk was designing and leading pre-construction operations of a $29 Million dollar real-world fighting village. Mr. Sims has served in political roles of increasing responsibility over the past decade. In 2008 and 2012, he was Director, Virginia VMF for Obama and served on the Defense and Veterans Policy Teams, where he wrote the Service Member Life Insurance policy. In 2010, Mr. Sims wrote the Democratic National Committee’s VMF candidates’ platform, which is used in federal campaigns nationwide. During Sec Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, Mr. Sims wrote her DoD and VA Intergovernmental Agency Policy. For the 2020 Biden campaign, Mr. Sims wrote five pieces of veterans policy, primarily in the areas of entrepreneurship and business for military spouses and veterans. In 2013, Mr. Sims wrote the Veterans Services and National Security Policy Platforms for the (UK) Labour Party and briefed them to the Shadow Defense Minister and her Cabinet. Mr. Sims has published two novels, With Honor In Hand and Hands of Honor, and has written his third novel, For Hands to Honor, along with his Iraq memoirs, Baghdad Peace, as well as other pieces of work. He also writes regularly about veterans and military families and national security issues. ---------- LINKS: http://www.terronsims.com/experience https://x.com/terronii https://www.linkedin.com/in/terron-sims-ii-637b358/ ARTICLES: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230131005439/en/Terron-Sims-II-Joins-Merit-as-Executive-Director-of-Military-Veterans-Affairs https://www.wtkr.com/virginia-democrats-veterans-press-conference-trump-rally ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine Ukrainian Freedom News https://www.ukrainianfreedomnews.com/donation/ UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ----------

509. Anna Danylchuk - Ukraine Taking the Fight to Russia with Strike on Vast Ammunition Dump

20 september 2024 | 40 min

GUEST: Anna from Ukraine - Anna Danylchuk ---------- Anna Danylchuk has been creating a war diary since the early days of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia in 2022. Anna Danylchuk aims to tell the truth about Ukraine and Russia’s war and cut through the noise and propaganda. Anna is passionate about the beauty and independence of her country, and communicates this powerfully in her videos, in a clear and honest way. ---------- LINKS: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/annafromukraine My interview with Anna in Lviv - hosted on her excellent channel- https://youtu.be/daHcnsNQ1S0?si=yHbZ2kJZ3CTVRd8Z ---------- OTHER VIDEOS WITH ANNA ON SILICON CURTAIN: 12. https://youtu.be/APTdfyqnyAI (15-Aug-24) 11. https://youtu.be/xUsxXcc97m8 (03-Jun-24) 10. https://youtu.be/eQ5fJCFATM0 (18-Apr-24) 9. https://youtu.be/Y59nUd8B5pY (21-Feb-24) 8. https://youtu.be/J8mge30rxY8 (24-Jan-24) 7. https://youtu.be/XQJoTAAfxt4 (24-Dec-23) 6. https://youtu.be/0gaK_5TEXXw (28-Nov-23) 5. https://youtu.be/x0o1bn-1Yyc (29-Sep-23) 4. https://youtu.be/Hm5_Yb3geQ4 (30-Aug-23) 3. https://youtu.be/r0PNxM7Xyow (23-Feb-23) 2. https://youtu.be/5AenntkSxIs (31-Dec-22) 1. https://youtu.be/vPT6oZ1FOAw (21-Oct-22) ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

2024-09-19 | Things go Boom in Russia: Spectacular Strike on Vast Russian Arsenal

20 september 2024 | 9 min

2024-09-19 | Z-patriots are having a meltdown, because, once more things are going boom in Russia. And this time, it’s big. It’s huge in fact. Not only do we find out what it looks like to ignite roughly 30,000 tons of munitions, we get to see so-called Russian patriots lose their minds over how their government fails to protect strategically significant military sites over and over. ---------- The ecosystem of patriotic channels, that nonetheless must exist within the restrictions defined by the Russian regime, have been howling all morning and saying that Russia's defeat is almost inevitable. This is real hysteria, born of rage, frustration and fear. What really rubs salt into the wounds, is that it is clearly Ukrainians achieving this with their own weapons. Propagandists can try to pin it on NATO, but this really does not wash any more, given that it’s plain for all to see how timid, cautious and slow Western support really is. Everyone knows that for now, there is a ‘soft appeasement’ in place, meaning that western weapons cannot be used against airbases and launch sites that continue to rain death upon Ukrainian people. The 107th Arsenal of the Main Missile and Artillery Directorate of Russian armed forces was hit by drones. This may be the biggest blow to a Russian ammunition depot during the entire course of the war and resulted in an explosion that was visible from space. The fire engulfed the entire territory of the arsenal. The warehouses could store up to 30,000 tons of various ammunition – which does not mean that it was stocked to capacity when hit. We just don’t know how much stuff was onsite at the time. But munitions it could have contained, include 122 mm rocket munitions for Grad and 82 mm mortar shells. Missiles for S-300 and S-400, and for Iskanders could have been stored at the arsenal. A stock of North Korean KN 23 may also have been stored at this site. Shells from the 107th arsenal were directly delivered by rail to Kursk and Belgorod, and apparently, the Northern group of troops will feel the consequences of this strike, and the job of soldiers fighting against Ukraine’s incursions into Kursk may find their task is massively complicated by the loss of these ammunition reserves. ---------- Sources and recommended reading: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08IiEi3-uVI&t=588s ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

507. Phil Ittner - Support Ukraine to Win the War, not Only to Survive the Genocidal Assault by Russia

20 september 2024 | 57 min

Phil Ittner is a veteran broadcast journalist now working independently in Ukraine. Currently he's based in Kyiv and produces a weekly interview podcast "On the Edge". Disillusioned with how mainstream media was covering the historic war in Ukraine, Phil decided he had to step in and bring a professional and credible perspective to reporting from Ukraine. ---------- LINKS: @PhilipIttner https://x.com/IttnerPhilip https://www.linkedin.com/in/phil-ittner-4180271a/ https://philipittner.com/about/ https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/45-the-big-interview-philip-ittner-on-the-realities/id1617276298?i=1000610636024 ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

506. Konstantin Samoilov - There is no Way Out of the Economic Tsunami for Putin's Regime

18 september 2024 | 51 min

Welcome to our monthly conversation with Konstantin, who is one of the most respected voices on YouTube about what is happening Inside Russia. Konstantin Samoilov is a well-known YouTuber whose channel ‘Inside Russia’ comments insightfully on Russia’s decent into authoritarianism over the last few years. But now, like many others, he’s outside Russia, with no idea of when he can return there. ---------- LINKS: INSIDE RUSSIA is a source of current news on Russia - Konstantin carefully selects 9 news stories that are important and really matter, with commentaries and analyses by Konstantin delivered daily to channel patrons at Patreon.com Get your access to daily news updates at patreon.com/INSIDERUSSIA https://www.patreon.com/insiderussia ---------- OTHER VIDEOS WITH KONSTANTIN ON SILICON CURTAIN: https://youtu.be/xV_cXBA12tw (22-Jul-24) https://youtu.be/lnIgKQRHM8o (15-Jun-24) https://youtu.be/XX3zU5QNvCw (22-May-24) https://youtu.be/qXcfjra6KGI (16-Apr-24) https://youtu.be/FTuvRZQMCN8 (04-Mar-24) https://youtu.be/URzXdRO02ps (29-Jan-24) ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

505. Katsiaryna Shmatsina - Lukashenko's Regime is an Experiment in Tyranny that is Beholden to Moscow

17 september 2024 | 52 min

Katsiaryna Shmatsina - Dissident and collaborator on the 'Darth Putin' satirical project on X. https://x.com/DarthPutinKGB ---------- In 2020, mass anti-government protests erupted across Belarus. The brutal crackdown that followed shocked the international community: the authorities arrested tens of thousands of citizens, shut down independent media and NGOs, and fomented a migrant crisis on the European Union's border. But where many thought Belarus's dictator, Alyaksandr Lukashenka, would fall, he instead turned to Moscow for support, intensifying repression. Many of his opponents fled the country. Then, in February 2022, Belarus provided a staging area for Russia's invasion of Ukraine, allowing troops and weapons to be based on its territory as large-scale war returned to Eastern Europe once again. ---------- Katsiaryna Shmatsina is a Belarusian political analyst focusing on Belarusian foreign policy, regional security, and the impact of the great power relations on smaller actors. Katsiaryna’s portfolio includes a non-residential fellowship at the German Marshall Fund (2020) and Think Visegrad Fellowship (2019). Previously, she worked for the American Bar Association where she managed democratic-governance and rule-of-law projects. She holds a master’s degree in international relations from Syracuse University, New York and a law degree from Belarusian State University. She is also a vocal dissident who has been sanctioned by both the Belarussian and Russian governments. ---------- LINKS: https://x.com/kshmatsina https://www.linkedin.com/in/kshmatsina/ https://carnegieendowment.org/people/katsiaryna-shmatsina/ https://eksperty.org/experts/katsiaryna-shmatsina https://www.lawfaremedia.org/contributors/kshmatsina https://prisoners.spring96.org/en/person/kacjaryna-szmacina https://www.wilsoncenter.org/person/katsiaryna-shmatsina ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

2024-09-16 | Real Escalation as Iran & China Give Military Support to Ally Russia Including Missiles

17 september 2024 | 17 min

2024-09-16 | Russia has received new ballistic projectiles from Iran, prompting the US and Europe to impose new sanctions. The supply of weapons by Iran to its ally Russia has major implications and ought to place a greater burden on allies to protect Ukraine, but are they doing anything meaningful, apart from the usual condemnations and reiterations of ‘unenforced’ red lines. ---------- Russia has received new and highly deadly ballistic weapons from Iran and is likely to use them in Ukraine said the US secretary of state, Antony Blinken. This statement was made during his trip to London last Tuesday, as he prepared to travel with UK foreign secretary, David Lammy, to Kyiv. An announcement on long range weapons for Ukraine to counter this threat was expected, but never came. Iran’s supply of weapons is a genuine escalation of the conflict. Ukraine’s defense of its sovereign territory usually gets accused of escalation, but what Iran and China are doing is the real escalation of the conflict, and the West’s reaction is dithering and timidity once again. It’s thought that these new munitions may have huge significance to the battlefield balance ahead of the winter, which of course is intense in this part of the world. The US and Europe have imposed new sanctions on Iran, but these have not had any deterrent impact either on Russia’s aggression of Iran’s close support of its ally. Pressure is building on the US to end its restrictions on Ukraine using British-supplied Storm Shadows to strike targets deep inside Russia and not just in occupied parts of Ukraine. But so far, the Biden administration has stubbornly refused to relent, showing them in the same light as Scholz’s dogmatic intransigence around the Taurus system. When asked about a decision, Blinken defers and obfuscates, citing Ukraine’s ability to maintain the systems, training and their strategic purpose. He also questions the fallacy of seeing them as a ‘silver bullet’. ---------- Sources and recommended reading: https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/sep/10/antony-blinken-russia-ballistic-missiles-iran-ukraine https://www.voanews.com/a/iran-denies-delivering-ballistic-missiles-aid-to-moscow-s-ukraine-war-effort/7783007.html https://kyivindependent.com/what-irans-ballistic-missiles-in-russian-hands-could-mean-for-ukraine/ https://www.politico.eu/article/united-states-accuse-china-help-russia-war-kurt-campbell/ https://www.ft.com/content/44ad9fc5-6ccf-47f0-b075-8bef0a9a1cd9 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/russia-ukraine-war-putin-iran-nuclear-kharkiv-latest-news-b2613402.html https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-war-latest-dozens-injured-in-strike-on-apartment-block-zelenskyy-attacks-russian-terror-as-he-pleads-for-help-12541713 ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ----------

502. Cormac Smith & Philip Ingram - Dithering and Delay by Allies is Causing Ukraine to Slowly Bleed Out

16 september 2024 | 62 min

Cormac Smith has worked in Public Relations and Corporate Communications for over three decades. In 2016 he travelled to Ukraine to take up a special appointment as the ‘Strategic Communication Advisor’ to Pavlo Klimkin, then the Foreign Minister of Ukraine. He was attached to the British Embassy in Kyiv but was embedded in Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the first foreigner to hold such a position. While in Kyiv, he also advised and provided training for five other government ministries and worked directly with three other cabinet ministers: Health, Education and the Deputy Prime Minister. ---------- Philip Ingram is a journalist and consultant who has built on a long and senior military career as an intelligence, counterintelligence, security officer, and planner. Philip has extensive business experience, especially in steel manufacturing. He also has extensive media experience, appearing on the BBC, Sky News and Radio networks, international networks including Al Jazeera, TRT World, CNN, ABC, CBC, Japanese NTV and many others. ---------- LINKS: https://defencebrink.uk/ https://x.com/philipingmbe https://x.com/CormacS63 ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Orest Zub & Marta Trotsiuk - Given the Right Tools to Fight Back Ukraine Can Triumph over Russia

16 september 2024 | 30 min

Marta Trotsiuk – Ukrainian art ambassador. Gallery 101 founder. Expert in international art projects and cultural diplomacy. She is also a leading expert on art consulting and curating and has been highly active in the effort to promote Ukrainian identity and art as part of the fight back against Russian aggression and cultural imperialism. LINKS: https://www.instagram.com/marta_trotsiuk https://www.f6s.com/member/marta-trotsiuk https://www.linkedin.com/in/marta-trotsiuk-569497254/ ---------- Orest Zub – traveller, blogger, and online entrepreneur from Lviv. He has been reporting on the war in Ukraine from the start via his YouTube channels in Ukrainian and English. Before the war, Orest visited over 120 countries including many regions experiencing conflict. But as he says, he could never imagine that the full-scale war would come to his own country. Orest’s aim is to inform the global community on what is really happening in Ukraine, and to provide informational resistance to the occupier. LINKS: https://x.com/orestzub https://www.youtube.com/user/orestzub https://www.instagram.com/orestzub https://orestzub.com/ https://nomadmania.com/orest-zub/ ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

503. David DeBatto - No More Delusions and Gaslighting Trump Fully Intends to Throw Ukraine Under the Bus

14 september 2024 | 45 min

What a week – Russian media manipulation networks uncovered in the US – conservative influencers seem to be more influence by hard Russian cash than principles, however. Vance leaks the Trump plan to ‘stop Ukraine war in 24 hours’, and it turns out to be an appalling plan to appease Putin. Putin threatens WWIII, but with what army does he plan to fight it. And the big focus for this episode, despite overwhelming evidence of guilt for multiple felonies – here we are again with Trump the GOP candidate for president of the United States is engaged in a fractious and at times farcical election process. But will his criminal guilt, outlandish lies and conspiracy theories, incoherence, toxicity and clownishness have any influence on adherents to the MAGA cult or GOP officials? Might he be replaced after a disastrous electoral debate? And will those who support Ukraine, yet still canvas for his victory now wise up to his disastrous and craven plan to throw Ukraine under the bus? Buckle up. Not all of you will enjoy this one, some will love it, but here we go anyway. ---------- David DeBatto is host of the ‘No Delusion Zone’ podcast. He is a retired U.S. Army Counterintelligence Special Agent, a geopolitical analyst, writer, and podcaster. David is an Iraq war veteran who served as Team Leader of a Tactical Human Intelligence Team (THT) in operations within Iraq and is also a former police officer. David is considered too conservative for the progressive left and too independent minded for the radical right and seeks to challenge political dogma and the naked self-interest of politicians. ---------- LINKS: https://www.youtube.com/@NoDelusionZone https://www.protectingtherepublic.com/podcast https://x.com/ddebatto https://www.kyivpost.com/authors/743 ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

497. Ian Garner - Russia has Constructed a 'Self-selecting' Digital Gulag to Stifle Opposition to Putin

13 september 2024 | 64 min

With the blocking of YouTube in Russia, and pressure on other platforms, are we seeing the emergence of a Digital Gulag? The more efficient way to entrap and control a population than the real-world Gulag of watch towers and razor wire? ---------- Ian Garner is an historian and analyst of Russian culture and war propaganda. He is motivated by two questions: what drives Russia’s obsession with war, and why have so many Russians in the past and present fallen for militarism. Ian Garner is also a world leading authority on the myths and propaganda surrounding the second world war battle of Stalingrad in Soviet & Russian Literature. Ian has been interviewed for the Washington Post, Rolling Stone, New York Times, BBC, VICE News, Mashable, and many other media channels. ---------- BOOKS: Z Generation: Into the Heart of Russia's Fascist Youth (2023) Stalingrad Lives: Stories of Combat and Survival (2022) Read more at: https://www.igarner.net/ Follow Ian at: https://twitter.com/irgarner ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

2024-09-13 | Is NATO Really "at War" with Russia as Ukraine Blitz Grows in Scale

13 september 2024 | 17 min

2024-09-13 | According to Putin and his minions, NATO countries are on the brink of war with Russia. Is this more hollow bluffing and bluster from the diminutive tyrant in the Kremlin, or are we about to cross the first genuine Russian red line of this war? Evidence points to it being another empty threat, if we ignore the threatening words and look at Russia’s actions and capabilities. ---------- The first action based was for Russia’s FSB security service to revoke the accreditation of six British diplomats in reaction to a widely held belief that use of British Storm Shadows will be authorised for use on the territory of Russia. These Moscow based personnel have been accused of spying and sabotage work. Six diplomats were named on Russian state TV, and photographs of them shown. As we already know, Russian propagandists love to position the British as their core enemy, the “main bastards”, and see British plotting as instrumental in pulling Washington away from its cautious ‘escalation management’ policies towards taking a harder line against Russia, and in support of a Ukrainian victory. Delusional, paranoid maybe, but this seems to be the thinking of the war-addicted elite in Russian media and policy making circles. Vladimir Putin said that a western move to let Kyiv use longer-range weapons against targets inside Russia would effectively mean NATO is “at war” with Moscow. It is known that US and UK diplomats are discussing easing rules on firing western weapons into Russia. Kyiv has been pressing for this change in policy for many months now, and indeed it makes no military sense at all to restrict Ukraine for firing back on the airfields and launch sites that deliver death and trauma to Ukrainian civilians daily. It’s purely a political restriction, one borne of fear of Red Lines Moscow has threatened and others that we have imagined. ---------- Sources and recommended reading: https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/sep/13/russia-ukraine-moscow-kyiv-long-range-weapons-nato-keir-starmer-joe-biden-latest-news-updates?filterKeyEvents=false&page=with:block-66e3e3e58f082dce7ae32965#block-66e3e3e58f082dce7ae32965 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/13/russia-revokes-accreditation-british-diplomats-spying https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/13/ukraine-daily-briefing-russia-accused-of-unprecedented-missile-attack-on-grain-ship-in-black-sea https://kyivindependent.com/russian-cities-left-defenseless-as-ukraine-ramps-up-drone-attacks/ https://kyivindependent.com/the-long-range-missiles-ukraine-could-soon-be-firing-deep-into-russia/ https://kyivindependent.com/irans-fath-360-ballistic-missile-what-we-know-about-the-weapon-now-in-russias-hands/ ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ----------

500. Operator Starsky - Episode 500 - Kursk is a Multi-Layered Campaign Utilising Secrecy and Surprise

12 september 2024 | 72 min

496. Michael Sheridan - Documents Suggest that Xi Jinping Secretly Distrusts and Hates Russia

11 september 2024 | 55 min

Michael Sheridan is the Author of a new history of Hong Kong and China, and has a new book out called “The Red Emperor – Xi Jinping and his China”. He is a long-time foreign correspondent in Asia, Middle East, and Europe. He was the Far East Correspondent for the Sunday Times for 20 years, based in Hong Kong, and later Bangkok. He covered the rise of China and the handover of Hong Kong, upheaval in Burma and the fall of Suharto in Indonesia. ---------- LINKS: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-sheridan-4a7499109/ ---------- BOOKS: The Gate to China – A New History of the People’s Republic & Hong Kong (2021) by Michael Sheridan, Daniel York, et al. The Red Emperor – Xi Jinping and his China by Michael Sheridan (2024) ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

2024-09-11 | Russian Propaganda Film Pulled from Canadian Film Festival Program

11 september 2024 | 27 min

2024-09-11 | Outrage has erupted over a film created by Russian Director and propagandist Anastasia Trofimova, called ‘Russians at War’. Calls for its screening to be pulled from the Toronto International Film Festival have intensified; surely festival organizers should have reacted when the film was showcased at the Venice International Film Festival, despite the public uproar it caused. ---------- Breaking news, as this episode was being recorded, the Canadian broadcaster TVO made a statement that it had withdrawn support from the documentary "Russians at War" following protests from the Ukrainian community, and in fact far more widely than that. But this controversy pales beside news that the film was part-financed by the Canadian government to the tune of $312,000 US dollars. This despite the fact Canada is an ally of Ukraine in its existential fight against the Russian army. A rabble army of murderers, looters and rapists that the Canadian-Russian filmmaker Anastasia Trofimova seeks to absolve and whitewash of their documented war crimes. This is the accusation, but does it stand up to scrutiny? This video examines the controversy and the film itself to understand if the propaganda motive outweighs any artistic merits. If a malign actor, or an openly aggressive revanchist state like Russia, invests money in an information project, with the aim of manipulating the media space and public discourse, to alter both perceptions and policies in that country to favour its own strategic interests, then that is paid for speech, not free speech. And if the parties creating and disseminating those media products don’t declare their financial interests, that is disclosure in transparent fashion of who is funding the project, so we can better understand their motives and objectives, then really, this is not free speech, but an informational weapon, an assault on public discourse. ---------- Sources and recommended reading: https://kyivindependent.com/opinion-russian-soldiers-in-ukraine-are-ordinary-guys-who-commit-horrific-war-crimes/ https://kyivindependent.com/outrage-erupts-over-canadian-tax-dollars-funding-russians-at-war-documentary/ ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

499. Susan Grunewald - Treatment and Repatriation of German POWs by the USSR at the End of World War Two

10 september 2024 | 62 min

Susan Grunewald is an Assistant Professor of History at Louisiana State University. She was the Digital History Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pittsburgh World History Centre from 2019 to 2022. Susan earned her Ph.D. in History at Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, US). She specializes in Soviet and German WWII and post-war history, digital humanities, and GIS. We’ll discuss her engaging book “From Incarceration to Repatriation. German Prisoners of War in the Soviet Union.” ---------- LINKS: https://susangrunewald.com/ https://x.com/susangrunewald https://www.linkedin.com/in/susangrunewald/ https://www.worldhistory.pitt.edu/people/ant-24 https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501776021/from-incarceration-to-repatriation/ ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

2024-09-10 | Criminal Mil-Blogger 'Thirteenth' Attacks "Traitors in the Kremlin"

10 september 2024 | 16 min

2024-09-10 | Z-blogger Yegor Guzenko who publishers under the name of Thirteenth, seems to have lost his mind. Or at least, is losing faith in the masters of the Kremlin and the SVO. ---------- “Everything that is happening now is treachery.” He screams, in several video messages posted in his Telegram channel this week. “Traitors are sitting in the Kremlin!” Some have been permitted to criticise underlings and intermediaries of the Tsar. Governors and even Ministry of Defence. But hurling abuse at the boss in the Red Fortress is off limits. The Thirteenth has more than 300,000 subscribers and seems to have crossed a line when he spoke harshly about the Kremlin and the current Russian government, as well as indirectly throwing accusations in Putin’s direction. The outburst is quite something, and even though his team later deleted these recordings, the fate of Thirteenth may already be sealed. Unlucky for some, is the obvious comment. “If 10 years ago,” he rants, “if one old man would not have messed up, and would have gone. Honestly admitted his f*ck up, then all this f*ckery would not have happened. Everything that is happening now is a betrayal. The traitors are sitting in the Kremlin.” ---------- Sources and recommended reading: https://www.newsweek.com/russian-miltary-blogger-slams-putin-traitors-kremlin-1950611 https://x.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1832806091773599982 ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

498. Kevin Leach - Russia has Shown in Response to Kursk Offensive it Can't Engage in Manoeuvre Warfare

9 september 2024 | 47 min

Russia has shown in its response to the Kursk counter-offensive, that it can't engage in manoeuvre warfare, suggesting a theory of victory for Ukraine. ---------- Kevin Leach is the main director for Sabre Training Advisory Group, a professional military training non-profit. Their aim is to give Ukrainian defenders the skills to come home alive. Kevin is a Canadian Armed Forces veteran, with a long history of working in Ukraine and in military affairs. He served as a sergeant from 2008-2018, specialising in armoured reconnaissance. He leads a weekly segment on the Mriya Report called “Come Home Alive” covering the Key Elements of Training for the Ukrainian army. ---------- LINKS: https://x.com/SabreAdvisory https://www.sabretag.org/donate https://www.instagram.com/sabre_tag/ https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mriyareport/episodes/Kevin-Leach--Sabre-Advisory-Training-on-Key-Elements-of-Training---May-29--2024-e2kavap ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

495. Svitlana Morenets - Safety is Relative in Ukraine Where Russia Targets all its Cities and Civilians.

8 september 2024 | 55 min

2024-09-08 | Russia Destroyed Chersonesus in Crimea, a UNESCO World Heritage Site

8 september 2024 | 7 min

2024-09-08 | It was reported earlier this year that Russia destroyed the Chersonesus in Sevastopol, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. They are in the process of erecting vast new buildings on the site of the archaeological remains. Since the occupation of Crimea in 2014, Russia has been systematically destroying historical sites. It’s alleged the invaders moved many archaeological artefacts to Russia, and indeed there are reports that museums on occupied Ukrainian territory have been completely looted. ---------- Eveline Kravchenko an employee of the Institute of Archaeology of the National Academy of Sciences, stressed in a speech at an expert forum that, “the Chersonesus in Sevastopol is a UNESCO heritage site of world importance.” The ancient city of Chersonesus was founded in the 6th century BC and was one of the local centres of Hellenic civilization. In 2013, Chersonesus was included in the UNESCO World Heritage List. The authenticity of this monument is likely lost forever, as Russians erected in its place a new open-air theatre and cathedral in honour of the Moscow patriarch (and former KGB agent). During the construction, it’s believed that some archaeological findings were transported to museums in Russia. In 2015-2016, developers obstructed views of the archaeological remains with observation platforms: towers, walls, and columns. Later, they erected an open-air theatre on the site of the ancient citadel, which imposes a load of approximately one ton on the original structure. A significant portion of artifacts discovered during the process were exported to museums in Russia, including frescoes, pottery, household items, and icons. Subsequently, construction began on an archaeological park, apparently called “New Chersonesus” at the site of remains of the necropolis. “Russians ignored the geology and archaeology at the site and began to remove the soil on the territory with standard excavators. Somehow, they dug up an ancient spring, which flooded everything," Evelina Kravchenko explained. ---------- Sources and recommended reading: https://nikvesti.com/en/news/incidents/russians-destroy-monument-crimea-theater-cathedral-moscow-patriarchate https://odessa-journal.com/russia-stole-artifacts-from-the-ancient-site-of-chersonesus https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/06/26/7462672/ https://bukvy.org/en/russia-is-destroying-ancient-chersonesus-in-crimea/ https://odessa-journal.com/russians-destroyed-the-ancient-site-of-chersonesus-and-erected-a-new-building-in-its-place https://kyivindependent.com/russian-occupation-authorities-destroy-unesco-world-heritage-site-build-outdoor-theater-in-its-place/ ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ----------

2024-09-07 | Soft Appeasement of Russia - Biden, Sullivan, EU, ETC Wake the **** Up

7 september 2024 | 28 min

2024-09-01 | There is no end in sight to the death and suffering that Russian is willing to unleash on Ukraine. In less than a week, 60 people have been killed by Russian strikes on Ukraine. ---------- Russian army strikes on numerous Ukrainian cities have killed dozens of civilians and left hundreds wounded. The single deadliest attack of the war to date was in the city of Poltava in central Ukraine. A Russian missile struck a military educational facility on Tuesday killed 53 people and left more than 270 injured, according to the Ukrainian Emergencies Ministry. Lviv has escaped the kind of destruction experiences by Kharkiv, Kherson and other cities. But on Wednesday the Russian World came to the western Ukrainian city of Lviv. Seven people, including a mother and her three daughters, were killed by Russian shelling and projectiles. More than 50 people were injured, with five adults in a serious condition. One of the most extraordinary and heartbreaking sights was the father of those girls, being helped from the burning building by rescuers. His face caked with dried blood, he is taken to one side, to await news of his family. He receives the worst news and his grief is palpable. How do you recover from that? What life awaits you, after losing all your bright and beautiful family in one go. What hope remains after Russian terrorism destroys your world, for no reason, out of malice and envy, greed and stupidity? ---------- Sources and recommended reading: https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2024/09/04/no-end-in-sight-en https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-war-latest-27/ https://kyivindependent.com/death-toll-of-poltava-attack-rises/ https://kyivindependent.com/as-ukrainian-children-return-to-school-russia-launches-missiles-at-educational-facilities/ https://kyivindependent.com/she-was-the-culture-kharkiv-mourns-18-year-old-artist-killed-in-russian-attack/ https://www.kyivpost.com/opinion/38452 https://kyivindependent.com/lithuanian-fm-west-chose-to-be-caught-off-guard-by-russia/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xc1zRzICjfk https://www.kyivpost.com/post/38459 https://kyivindependent.com/ukraines-deep-drone-strikes-aim-to-break-russias-war-machine-sow-discontent/ https://www.kyivpost.com/post/38440 https://kyivindependent.com/germany-orders-17-iris-t-air-defense-systems-for-ukraine-sholz-says/ ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

494. Anastasiia Zagoruichyk - Russian Nuclear Blackmail Threatens Ukraine's Green and Resilient Recovery

5 september 2024 | 53 min

Anastasiia Zagoruichyk is an expert on Energy and Climate Policy. She is a Graduate of Oxford University, in Sustainability, Enterprise and the Environment. Pacific Northwest National Lab. ---------- LINKS: https://www.smithschool.ox.ac.uk/news/green-politics-ukraine-smith-school-msc https://euromaidanpress.com/author/anastasiiazagoruichyk/ https://earthjournalism.net/fellows/anastasiia-zagoruichyk https://www.scotsman.com/news/world/ukraine-russia-we-are-a-freedom-loving-people-but-we-are-fighting-back-in-this-information-war-says-ukrainian-journalist-3612922 https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/ukrainians-putin-russia-war-victory-b2042175.html https://euromaidanpress.com/2023/12/08/cop28-shows-growing-rift-between-wests-green-vision-and-russian-oil-alliance/ ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

493. Georgijs Ivanovs - Ukraine's Bold Counter-Offensive in the Kursk Region Changes Rules of the Game

4 september 2024 | 59 min

Georgijs Ivanovs started the Ukraine Matters channel in 2007, and it has garners 11.5 m views. He started the channel to explain the situation surrounding the war in Ukraine in simple terms. Like myself, he is not Ukrainian, nor is he a military expert. But he has been to Ukraine many times and seen it almost fully (except for Odesa region). He has a lot of good friends in Ukraine, and in fact his wife is Ukrainian, and so feels extremely connected to the invasion that scaled up in February 2022. ---------- LINKS: https://www.youtube.com/@UCvgxquzwLOWDTR9eq578Ecg ---------- PREVIOUS VIDEOS: https://youtu.be/exCNgEKhVRE (25-Jun-23) https://youtu.be/5Fi38Zv8ROo (09-Oct-23) ---------- CHAPTERS: ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

485. Pyotr Kurzin - The Old World Rules-Based Order is Crumbling - Will a New One Emerge

3 september 2024 | 50 min

The world order is crumbling. The concept of finding a balance between great powers is redundant, as an alliance of autocratic states seeks to challenge global democracies more aggressively and directly and the institutions that underpin their societies. Of the four, three can be classed as quasi terrorist states, pariahs that seeks to maximise chaos and violence inn the world to further their own ends. Iran, North Korea and Russia. Do we need a new concept of global power to survive in this era, let alone thrive, as our values and institutions come under systematic assault from the axis of autocracy. ---------- Pyotr Kurzin is host of The Global Gambit podcast, as is an historian of great power politics and the Cold War. He also has Russian British heritage, which gives him a close perspective on the topic. ---------- LINKS: https://www.youtube.com/@theglobalgambit https://www.linkedin.com/in/pyotrkurzin/ ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

491. Andrew Chakhoyan - Incrementalism is the Enemy of Freedom and is a Creating Killing Zone in Ukraine

3 september 2024 | 51 min

492. Jonathan Pearce - Escalation Appeasement of Washington and Berlin is Immoral & Strategically Stupid.

2 september 2024 | 52 min

Jonathan MS Pearce is a philosopher, author, columnist, and public speaker with an interest in writing about almost anything, from scepticism to science, politics, and morality, to the environment. Essentially because everything is philosophy. He is a former teacher and is now battling primary progressive multiple sclerosis. He can no longer play football with his twin boys, but he can still write a good column and book. And remarkably, and very bravely, he has just come back from an arduous journey to Ukraine’s frontlines. His experiences are the subject of today’s conversation. ---------- JONATHAN MS PEARCE LINKS: https://www.youtube.com/@ATPGeo https://twitter.com/ATipplingPhilo https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/Jonathan%20M.S.%20Pearce/author/B004DAVFKC https://onlysky.media/jonathan-pearce/ ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

2024-09-01 | Energy War Intensifies - Largest Ukrainian Drone Strike of the War

1 september 2024 | 12 min

2024-09-01 | We are enabling a lottery of death to take place in Ukraine, daily, and it’s both stupid and immoral. Our timidity must stop, otherwise Russian aggression will only escalate. ---------- Ukraine has conducted the largest drone assault on Russian infrastructure of the war so far. Fires are reported at two power plants and oil refinery in Moscow region, with 158 Ukrainian drones targeting multiple regions, including Moscow, Tver, Voronezh, Tula, Kaluga, Bryansk, Belgorod, Lipetsk, and Kursk, according to officials and residents. The attacks follow Russia’s concerted attempts to degrade and destroy energy infrastructure in Ukraine, to make cities unliveable and create misery for its citizens. The scale of the strike suggests a significant advancement in Ukraine's drone capabilities. 158 was the number of drones reported by the Russian Ministry of Defence, so the true number of drones may be even higher. It is an enduring frustration when multiple media outlets begin their stories with quotes from Russian officials, who invariably lie. ---------- Sources and recommended reading: https://kyivindependent.com/russia-claims-dozens-of-ukrainian-drones-targeted-moscow-other-regions/ https://kyivindependent.com/russian-forces-wiping-off-kursk-oblasts-sudzha-ukrainian-commander-says/ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/09/01/russian-energy-sites-targeted-in-mass-overnight-drone-attack-a86217 https://www.kyivpost.com/post/38278 https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2024/09/01/kyiv-targets-15-regions-in-massive-overnight-drone-strikes-on-russian-energy-infrastructure-en-news https://kyivindependent.com/russia-attacks-kharkiv-injuring-at-least-28-including-medic/ ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Untold Stories of Heroism - Ukrainian Athletes at Paris Olympics - Stories of Triumph over Adversity

31 augusti 2024 | 29 min

Ukraine is competing at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris from 26 July to 11 August 2024. It is the nation's eighth consecutive appearance at the Summer Olympics in the post-Soviet era and the first since the Russian invasion of Ukraine. A total of 140 athletes competed amid the Russian invasion, the lowest number in the history of Ukraine's participation in the games. ---------- DW Phillips is a documentary filmmaker and constitutional attorney with Ukraine Story, a nonprofit foundation for journalism and documentary reporting in Ukraine. He and his documentary team have been filming conducting interviews in Ukraine with victims of Russian atrocities, and reporting stories of courage, defiance and perseverance of the Ukrainian people. He has reported on Russian atrocities in Bucha, and is presently working on issues of Kremlin disinformation campaigns in the American Right, religious liberty in Ukraine and the KGB domination of the Moscow Patriarchate of the Russian Orrhodox Church. ---------- LINKS: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dw-p-59111859/ https://www.youtube.com/@UkraineStory ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

2024-08-30 | Shock of the Kursk Offensive. Russian Propagandists Lose their Minds

30 augusti 2024 | 20 min

2024-08-30 | Ukraine’s offensive in the Kursk region seems to have triggered a meltdown among Russia’s propagandists and the talking heads on state TV. Despite the usual exhortations to violence, and denigrations of Ukraine, their ire this week seems to have turned on their own leaders, in the wake of Ukraine’s success in grabbing and holding Russian territory in Kursk Oblast and now Belgorod and Bryansk. ----------

Phrases which are only usually heard by the most ‘extreme’ liberal opposition commentators such as Michael Naki, are being screamed at viewers of the main Russian state TV networks. And some of the stuff they are saying is wild. The kind of stuff that usually causes bankers to fall out of windows in Moscow, or their private jets to experience mechanical trouble, as Prigozhin discovered. They are saying that the SVO (Special Military Operation) has run out of strength, that Russian victory is not guaranteed at all and most shocking of all, that Russia’s military and civil leaders have lost control of everything, and the territories lost by Russia to Ukraine may not be returning to the motherland anytime soon. Some have even expressed grudging praise for Ukraine’s military prowess. Now, before we dive into the detail, I must emphasize what a seismic shock this has been for the propagandists, and we must assume, by extension, the Russian leadership. It’s a mark of how seriously Putin takes the incursions, that he has tried to avoid all mention of them. At the same time, he has taken the militarily catastrophic decision to appoint the FSB to lead the counter operation. In this episode, I’ll share some speeches by the panicking propagandists, which are indicative of the chaos, and their extraordinary statements. We must note of course that they are not critical of the idea of the war and would rapidly embrace any minor victory. No, they are critical of the leaders precisely because the war is not being prosecuted in a brutal enough manner or showing success. ---------- Sources and recommended reading: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrI3tcxswpo https://www.youtube.com/@UCoAw0n5OyITkmejSCMfmnWg ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

489. Jake Broe - Putin's Empire is in Ruins and he Appears Increasingly Desperate to 'Win' War in Ukraine

29 augusti 2024 | 52 min

Today I’m speaking with Jake Broe, a United States Air Force veteran who served for six years as a Nuclear and Missile Operations Officer. But you may know him better as one of the most prominent voices on YouTube throughout the war, someone with absolute moral clarity about who the victim of the war is – spoilers, it’s Ukraine – and who brings direct military experience to his detailed analysis of the unfolding conflict. Do please subscribe to his channel for videos updates on the war in Ukraine as well as conversations with engaging speakers, expert guests, and other YouTubers. ---------- LINKS: https://www.youtube.com/@JakeBroe https://twitter.com/RealJakeBroe https://www.instagram.com/jakebroe/ https://www.buymeacoffee.com/jakebroe https://www.patreon.com/join/jakebroe ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

488. BONUS VIDEO - Ben Hodges - Kursk Counter Offensive May Only be the Start of Ukraine's Operations

28 augusti 2024 | 5 min

Bonus video from this discussion with Ben Hodges available only on the https://www.youtube.com/@SiliconWafers channel, on the topic of "Top tactical priorities to ensure a Ukrainian victory". ---------- Ukraine is successfully conducting multi-domain operations, in accordance with NATO training and strategic precepts. Successful long-range precision strikes against Russian energy and transportation infrastructure, a land-centric counter-offensive in Kursk that is changing the war’s momentum and narrative. Should allies just provide munitions and get out of the way, instead of imposing red lines? ---------- Ben Hodges is a retired United States Army officer, who became commander of United States Army Europe in November 2014, and held that position for three years until retiring from the United States Army in January 2018. Until recently he was the Pershing Chair in Strategic Studies, at the Centre for European Policy Analysis, specialising in NATO, Transatlantic relationship and international security. ---------- LINKS: https://twitter.com/general_ben https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Hodges https://cepa.org/author/ben-hodges/ https://warsawsecurityforum.org/speaker/hodges-ben-lt-gen/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-hodges-1674b1172/ ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

488. Ben Hodges - Kursk Counter Offensive May Only be the Start of Ukraine's Operations

28 augusti 2024 | 47 min

Bonus video from this discussion with Ben Hodges available only on the https://www.youtube.com/@SiliconWafers channel, on the topic of "Top tactical priorities to ensure a Ukrainian victory". ---------- Ukraine is successfully conducting multi-domain operations, in accordance with NATO training and strategic precepts. Successful long-range precision strikes against Russian energy and transportation infrastructure, a land-centric counter-offensive in Kursk that is changing the war’s momentum and narrative. Should allies just provide munitions and get out of the way, instead of imposing red lines? ---------- Ben Hodges is a retired United States Army officer, who became commander of United States Army Europe in November 2014, and held that position for three years until retiring from the United States Army in January 2018. Until recently he was the Pershing Chair in Strategic Studies, at the Centre for European Policy Analysis, specialising in NATO, Transatlantic relationship and international security. ---------- CHAPTERS: 00:00:00 ---------- LINKS: https://twitter.com/general_ben https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Hodges https://cepa.org/author/ben-hodges/ https://warsawsecurityforum.org/speaker/hodges-ben-lt-gen/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-hodges-1674b1172/ ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

2024-08-27 | Largest Kyiv Attack Since 2022 Shows Putin's Impotent Rage & Violence.

27 augusti 2024 | 18 min

2024-08-27 | Civilians has been killed and injured as Russia launches a large-scale attack on Ukraine for second night, on 27th August 2024. According to the Ukrainian Air Force, this was possibly the largest attack on Ukraine since start of full-scale invasion. Russia launched 127 projectiles and 109 drones, while Ukraine downed 102 projectiles and 99 drones, estimated the Air Force. Russian strikes hit several civilian, energy, and fuel facilities, including a dam in Kyiv, part of the Kyiv Hydroelectric Power Plant, more on that in a minute. ---------- Seven people were killed and 47 were injured, according to the State Emergency Service and this attack was spread over a huge territory, with Russian forces striking targets in 15 oblasts, according to Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal. Russia is using an approach that combines many types of offensive weapons – likely because this what they have, but also because the mixture creates a harder task for Ukrainina air defences. One Kinzhal ballistic, one Iskander-M/KN-23 ballistic, one Kh-22 cruise, 99 Kh-101, Kalibr, and Kh-59/69 cruise, as well as 99 Shahed-type drones. You’ll notice that I avoid using the ‘M’ word I here, because there is some evidence that the algorithm does not approve of that word, or the violent reality that it represents. Scanning the media reports, there is some coverage, but nearly as much as would be expected from such a serious event. Some commentators have slipped in the ad hoc analysis that this attack was ‘revenge’ for the Kursk incursions. But no Ukrainian analysts have expressed this view. Rather, they point out, that Russia’s behaviour has been consistent for 2 and a half years now. Where it can attack, it does. Where air defences are shown to be weak Russia attacks hardest, and where it can take out crucial energy and power-generating infrastructure, it goes after that. The behaviour has not changed, and the target has not changed. Only the intensity varies, and that is usually timed in a symbolic way after key holidays such as New Year and Ukrainian Independence Day which has just passed. Rather than revenge, this is the mindset of an abusive ex-partner that tries to excerpt his ‘ownership’ over an abused spouse, even though he has no legal or moral right to do so. ---------- Sources and recommended reading: https://kyivindependent.com/attacks-84/ https://kyivindependent.com/russia-launches-largest-attack-on-ukraine-since-start-of-full-scale-invasion-air-force-reports/ https://kyivindependent.com/at-least-2-dead-4-injured-in-russian-missile-strike-on-kryvyi-rih/ https://kyivindependent.com/explosions-in-kyiv-russia-launches-massive-missile-and-drone-attack-on-cities-across-ukraine/ https://kyivindependent.com/a-near-death-feeling-largest-yet-russian-attack-on-ukraines-energy-infrastructure-brings-back-widespread-power-outages/ https://kyivindependent.com/borrell-calls-on-to-lift-ban-for-ukraines-use-western-long-range-weapons-after-russian-mass-aug-26-attack/ ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ----------

487. Oleksiy Goncharenko - Ukraine Passes Law to 'Ban' Orthodox Church if Proven to be Spying for Moscow.

26 augusti 2024 | 40 min

Oleksiy Goncharenko was born in Odesa, and is a Ukrainian politician, member of the Ukrainian parliament, member of the Ukrainian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Vice President of the PACE Committee on Migration, Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons, founder of a Ukrainian network of educational and cultural centres. In 2014, he was elected to the Verkhovna Rada on the party list of Petro Poroshenko Bloc. In the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election Goncharenko was re-elected as an independent candidate. He also runs a hugely popular YouTube channel and is a very effective communicator through digital media channels. #АлексейГончаренко #Олексійgoncharenko #ukraine #ukrainewar #russia #zelensky #putin #propaganda #war #disinformation #hybridwarfare #foreignpolicy #communism #sovietunion #postsoviet -------------------- LINKS: https://twitter.com/GoncharenkoUa https://www.youtube.com/@AlexGoncharenko https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleksiy_Goncharenko ---------- CHAPTERS: 00:00 Introduction ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

484. Olena Halushka - Russian has no Red Lines and no Borders, so why are Western Allies so Cautious?

24 augusti 2024 | 59 min

The approach to supporting Ukraine which Western leaders have been taking so far has been „as long as it takes“. The lack of a clearly defined end goal impacted the pace and scale of the assistance, as well as raised questions on its efficiency. It cannot last this way in the protracted war as Ukraine’s mobilisation potential and resources are shorter than Russia’s. Instead, a clear commitment of the West to aid Ukraine with „whatever it takes for a fast victory“ is the only way to return sustainable peace back to Europe. ---------- ABOUT: Olena Halushka is a is a board member of the Ukrainian NGO “Anti-corruption Action Centre”, and co-founder of the International Centre for Ukrainian Victory. She has also worked as a chief of international advocacy at the post-Maidan coalition of 80 CSOs “Reanimation Package of Reforms”. Olena is a contributor to the Atlantic Council, Kyiv Independent. She has also written op-eds for the Washington Post, the Foreign Policy, and the EU Observer – but it’s a major article she wrote for the UK’s Guardian newspaper that we’ll be discussing today. ---------- LINKS: https://twitter.com/OlenaHalushka https://twitter.com/AntAC_ua https://twitter.com/ICUVua https://www.linkedin.com/in/olena-halushka-b7342259/?originalSubdomain=ua https://ukrainianvictory.org/experts/olena-halushka/ https://www.fpri.org/contributor/olena-halushka/ https://cepa.org/author/olena-halushka/ https://archive.kyivpost.com/author/olena-halushka https://foreignpolicy.com/author/olena-halushka/ ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

486. Shaun Pinner, Macer Gifford and Jonathan MS Pearce - Putin Broken by Kursk, Will he Survive to 2025?

23 augusti 2024 | 77 min

Shaun Pinner is a former British soldier and Ukrainian Marine. He has written an extraordinary first-hand account of the war in Ukraine, his capture, imprisonment, and torture by the Russian invaders. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaun_Pinner https://www.penguin.co.uk/authors/300663/shaun-pinner https://www.instagram.com/snowy_ua/ https://x.com/olddog100ua ---------- Macer Gifford is a British veteran of the Ukrainian Army are whose dispatches from the frontlines of this conflict were of tremendous value, highly engaging, informative, eloquent, and full of humanity. https://x.com/macergifford https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macer_Gifford https://www.hachette.co.uk/contributor/macer-gifford/ ---------- Jonathan MS Pearce is a philosopher, author, columnist, and public speaker. He also is a former teacher and is now battling primary progressive multiple sclerosis. He made a remarkably and arduous journey to Ukraine’s frontlines, earlier this year. I’m delighted to welcome back to the channel three of the most compelling advocates for UA in UK. https://x.com/atipplingphilo https://www.youtube.com/@UCtUQHzC0QmABOQERfABAhZg https://secularhumanism.org/authors/pearce-jonathan-ms/ ---------- Welcome to Silicon Curtain – all our content is also available on popular podcast platforms like Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Please like and subscribe to help new people find our fantastic speakers. ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

2024-07-21 | Gadgets Ban in the Russian Military Causes Turmoil and Consternation

23 augusti 2024 | 13 min

2024-07-12 | It has been said that Russian corruption is Ukraine’s greatest ally. But it seems that the interfering bureaucratic mindset of Russian politicians and officials is also a great aid to the Ukrainian war effort. ---------- The Russian parliament adopted a law in July hiking the penalty for the unauthorised use of personal internet devices, and in fact any internet enabled gadgets, by frontline Russian soldiers fighting in Ukraine. The new law follows reports the Russian army is experiencing record losses on the frontline. The law classifies possession of devices that allow military personnel to store or send videos, photos or geolocated data via the internet as a grave offense, punishable by up to 15 days detention. It also forbids the transmission of any information that could be used to identify any Russian troops and their whereabouts. There are some fears that this will make it harder to for Ukrainian units to analyse Russian movements, according to Ukrainian open-source investigators. But even if this law cuts both ways, on balance it’s likely that Russian soldiers will come off worse. We can guess at it’s negative impact by the uproar it has cause among Z-Patriots and bloggers. Yegor Guzenko, also known as the Thirteenth, said in a Telegram post that the entire army relies on internet devices. "But how can office rats understand and know this? Let's let these scumbags of the Duma go to war themselves," he wrote. ---------- Sources and recommended reading: https://www.politico.eu/article/russian-duma-adopts-law-on-punishment-for-soldiers-using-gadgets-on-the-frontline/ https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-july-23-2024 https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidhambling/2024/07/24/russia-plans-to-punish-troops-using-smartphones-in-ukraine/ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/07/putin-bans-electronic-devices-in-bid-to-stop-russian-military-leaks ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

483. Cormac Smith & Philip Ingram - We Need to Start Imagining a Russian Defeat and Preparing for 'Chaos'

22 augusti 2024 | 68 min

Cormac Smith has worked in Public Relations and Corporate Communications for over three decades. In 2016 he travelled to Ukraine to take up a special appointment as the ‘Strategic Communication Advisor’ to Pavlo Klimkin, then the Foreign Minister of Ukraine. He was attached to the British Embassy in Kyiv but was embedded in Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the first foreigner to hold such a position. While in Kyiv, he also advised and provided training for five other government ministries and worked directly with three other cabinet ministers: Health, Education and the Deputy Prime Minister. ---------- Philip Ingram is a journalist and consultant who has built on a long and senior military career as an intelligence, counterintelligence, security officer, and planner. Philip has extensive business experience, especially in steel manufacturing. He also has extensive media experience, appearing on the BBC, Sky News and Radio networks, international networks including Al Jazeera, TRT World, CNN, ABC, CBC, Japanese NTV and many others. ---------- LINKS: https://defencebrink.uk/ https://x.com/philipingmbe https://x.com/PhilipIngMBE ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

2024-08-21 | Where is Vladimir Vladimirovich - Mystery of the Disappearing Dictator

21 augusti 2024 | 17 min

2024-08-21 | Where exactly is Vladimir Vladimirovich? This is the adult version of where’s Wally? Find the genocidal tyrant. It’s not even a matter of spotting him amongst the body doubles, trebles, quadruples, quintuples, etc. He’s nowhere. Largely vanished from the screens of state TV and official appearances. ---------- It’s been 2 weeks since a foreign army invaded Russia, the first time in fact for 80 years since the former ally of the USSR, Nazi Germany turned on Stalin. Russia has lost 1,250 kilometres and 92 settlements to a substantive Ukrainian army, and Putin chooses this moment to keep a low profile. Why is the dictator who fosters the image of a tough, man of action, who was going to take Kyiv in 3 days, and eliminate all the Ukro-nazis, silent on the fact that this decadent and ‘corrupt’ adversary is now gobbling up chunks of Russian territory. Literally driving German tanks into Kursk to de-Putinise Russian territory. And many of the locals seem perfectly happy with this. My guess is that the tyrant is terrified, as reality catches up with his myths and delusions. ---------- Sources and recommended reading: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-08-16/ukraine-s-assault-inside-russia-is-putin-s-worst-nightmare https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XPSp-8bUY0 ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

2024-08-20 | The Offensive That Broke the Myth of Putin as a War Leader in Russia

20 augusti 2024 | 22 min

2024-08-20 | 2024, and Russia’s history is once more turning on the Kursk region. This is the campaign that broke Putin – that showed the world the hollowness and impotence of the Russian army, the lunacy of his invasion of Ukraine and the toxic propaganda that sustains his regime. We are now in the second week of Ukraine’s offensive within Russia, and there is no sign of a military response from Putin that has any chance of dislodging the Ukrainian forces. There are Georgians and Belarussians said to be among the troops, emphasising the anti-imperial character of the fightback against Russia. @SiliconWafers ---------- In early 1941, spies and diplomats started to warn Joseph Stalin, dictator of the Soviet Union, that that the Nazis were about to strike. Reports that it was Hitler’s intention to rip up the non-aggression pact between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany were received with increasing frequency and urgency. Stalin, apparently ignored them, believing them that the Germans would not choose to fight on two fronts, and any invasion would only come after they had defeated France. Soviet intelligence purportedly named the exact, or almost exact, date of the invasion no fewer than 47 times in the 10 days before “Operation Barbarossa” went into effect. Fast forward to 2024, and it seems that Putin may have been warned of Ukraine’s incursion into Kursk days before it began, but again ignored the warnings. We examined the possible reasons why in the previous episode, but the historical parallels are interesting, nonetheless. The historical ironies accumulate. The battle of Kursk in the summer of 1943 was a critical turning point in World War II, an encounter that both sides knew would reshape the war. The adversaries were at the peak of their respective military powers. More than three million men and eight thousand tanks met in the heart of the Soviet territory. Defeat ended German hopes of restoring their position on the Eastern Front and put the Red Army on the road to Berlin. From there, Stalin went on to take Berlin, and place his brutal imprint on the post war order in Central and Eastern Europe. Many ancient states in Europe came under the dominance of The Soviet Union, and a process of political Russification extinguished their independence and hopes of democratic development. ---------- Sources and recommended reading: https://kyivindependent.com/syrskyi-kursk-economist/ https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-war-latest-ukraine-captures-92-settlements-in-russias-kursk-oblast-kyiv-claims/ https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-allegedly-hits-3rd-bridge/ https://kyivindependent.com/10-days-of-kursk-from-first-shot-to-capture-of-sudzha/ https://kyivindependent.com/mick-ryan-on-ukraines-kursk-offensive-high-risk-high-return/ https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-established-military-administration-in-russias-kursk-oblast/ ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Silicon Bites - #54 - US Red Lines & Caution Create Safe Space for Russian Murder Weapons in Ukraine

19 augusti 2024 | 37 min

Edition No54 | 19-08-2024 - Washington is effectively blocking Britain’s request for Kyiv to employ Storm Shadow missiles against targets within Russian territory, according to reports. This move comes amidst the Biden administration’s apprehensions about so-called ‘escalation’ of the conflict in Ukraine. ~~~~~ Reports continue to swirl that the US is effectively blocking Ukraine from firing British Storm Shadow missiles on targets within mainland Russia, mirroring its own restrictions on the use of highly effective long-range weapons against strategic military targets on Russia’s territory, for instance with ATACMS. These bases are used, not only to hit Ukrainian cities, civilians, and infrastructure, but also degrade Ukraine’s military and quite possibly limit the scope and effectiveness of operations such as the Kursk offensive. The US has defined and imposed safe zones for Russian killing hardware, where they have impunity to murder Ukrainians, and can expect no repercussions for their actions. There are drones of course, but these neither have the scale or speed to take out the Russian military bases and aircraft in a highly agile and timely way. The US policy has created a safe space for murder by Russians. ~~~~~ SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ~~~~~ NEWS SOURCES: KYIV INDEPENDENT https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-can-decide-how-to-use-spanish-supplied-equipment-spanish-defense-minister-says/ https://kyivindependent.com/russia-used-over-40-missiles-750-guided-bombs-against-ukraine-this-week-zelensky-says/ https://kyivindependent.com/attacks-82/ https://kyivindependent.com/us-ukraine-discussions-about-long-range-cruise-missiles-in-advanced-stages-source-says/ https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-war-latest-ukrainian-forces-strengthen-their-positions-in-kursk-oblast-reportedly-destroy-another-key-bridge/ https://kyivindependent.com/zelensky-we-need-timely-delivery-of-promised-aid-packages-war-does-not-take-breaks/ https://kyivindependent.com/10-days-of-kursk-from-first-shot-to-capture-of-sudzha/ https://kyivindependent.com/attacks-81/ https://kyivindependent.com/ukrainian-forces-entered-another-russian-oblast-media-say/ https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-hit-4-russian-airbases/ https://kyivindependent.com/general-staff-says-russias-black-sea-fleet-submarine-sunk-after-successfully-hit/ https://kyivindependent.com/thousands-flee-as-russian-troops-take-one-donetsk-oblast-village-after-another/ https://kyivindependent.com/with-nord-stream-making-headlines-again-donald-tusk-tells-patrons-to-apologize-and-keep-quiet/ https://kyivindependent.com/opinion-were-the-istanbul-peace-talks-a-missed-opportunity-for-ukraine/ https://kyivindependent.com/russian-forces-start-fire-at-zaporizhzhia-nuclear-plant-ukraine-says/ https://kyivindependent.com/moscow-spreads-more-claims-about-alleged-ukraines-plan-to-attack-kursk-nuclear-plant/ https://kyivindependent.com/media-russian-nuclear-giant-rosatom-funneled-hundreds-of-millions-euro-in-profits-through-the-netherlands/ https://kyivindependent.com/ukraines-foreign-ministry-says-reports-on-germany-halting-military-aid-are-manipulation/ OTHER SOURCES https://www.eurasiantimes.com/us-blocks-uk-authorization-for-ukraines/#google_vignette https://www.politico.com/news/2024/07/09/ukraine-us-weapons-russia-00167172 https://thehill.com/policy/international/4767636-biden-ukraine-weapons-restrictions/ ~~~~~ USEFUL LINKS: Vatnik Soup https://twitter.com/P_Kallioniemi http://www.medbat.org.ua/en/ Real World News https://kyivindependent.com/ https://www.kyivpost.com/ https://english.nv.ua/ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/ https://meduza.io/en https://meduza.io/ https://novayagazeta.eu/ https://www.newsweek.com/topic/russia... Analysis https://www.ft.com/russia https://www.economist.com/ https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ https://cepa.org/ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/ ~~~~~

2024-08-18 | Russian Army Using Conscripts Like Cannon Fodder - Dying Like Flies.

18 augusti 2024 | 16 min

2024-08-18 | Relatives of Russian conscripts are looking for their sons who disappeared after fighting in the Kursk region. “I think Putin doesn’t even know that our sons were sent there.” Reports the Russian oppositional media Mediazona on August 16, 2024. ---------- The Kursk border region is guarded predominantly by conscripts, like many other “second tier” areas, that were previously thought to be safe from large-scale Ukrainian assaults. At the start of Ukraine’s new offensive conscripts found themselves on the front line. But rather than pull them back in favour of experienced and full-time soldiers, Putin seems to be doubling down, and sending more units of untrained and ill-equipped fighters to take on the battle-hardened and highly motivated Ukrainian troops. Contract solders are now surrendering in huge quantities but also dying like flies, to save Putin’s skin. Many of the so-called ‘kontraktniki” have been captured or are listed as missing. New conscripts from other units from other units are being rushed to the border regions, though equally unprepared. But perhaps the scale and ambition of Ukrainian plans to seize extensive further border territory are underestimated and underappreciated both by Russia and by some allies. Authorities have not confirmed the deaths of the conscripts, but reports of some individual deaths are started to come out. 22-year-old Artem Dobrodumsky died in the Kursk region. His obituary was published at the karate sports club where Dobrodumsky trained for many years. According to his coach he died three days before his birthday, but the details of his passing are not known. “All that is known today is that he served in military service and died near Kursk,” according to his coach. Neither the publication nor the coach asks the crucial question “for what did he die?” ---------- Sources: https://zona.media/article/2024/08/16/drafted ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

2024-08-17 | Kursk Offensive has Caught Russian Military in Disarray and Confusion.

17 augusti 2024 | 19 min

2024-08-17 | The disarray in Putin’s military command has been exposed by Ukraine’s attack in Russia. Zelensky’s chief adviser, Mykhailo Podolyak has explained in a recent interview for the British newspaper The Independent that Ukraine’s cross-border offensive in the Kursk direction shows Putin has ‘very little control’ over Russia’s border regions. Shockingly, on Russia state TV, one commentator even suggested that they were lost, and should be abandoned. This idea was shouted down by the other propagandists but is also indicative of the chaos and disarray that is engulfing Putin’s failing regime. ---------- Kyiv’s army seems able to have exploited poorly-defended Russian positions – but how is this possible? Speculation is rife that embattled governor of the Kursk region may not have used the money provided to fortify the frontier well. It would hardly be a surprise if sub-standard work was carries out because of ‘contracts for friends’ and use of substandard materials. Big chunks of the budgets may simply have disappeared into greedy pockets. This exposes the fundamental rot within Putin’s ‘vertical’ system. According to sources, Ukrainian troops overran two fortified Russian defensive lines, infantry strong points with anti-tank ditches, before pushing up to a dozen miles into Kursk in the early hours of the incursion. After a few days, Ukraine has been able to take the substantial settlement of Sudzha. And despite the scepticism of some commentators, experts and allies, and in refutation of Russian propaganda narratives, Ukraine’s forces are still advancing. Thet seems to have a robust plan, and specific objectives, but have been incredibly tight-lipped about what they are. In this case, the uncertainty and speculation help Ukraine (overall), and terrify the Russian ‘elite’. ---------- Sources: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/russia-ukraine-war-kursk-incursion-pokrovsk-b2597391.html https://kyivindependent.com/10-days-of-kursk-from-first-shot-to-capture-of-sudzha/ https://kyivindependent.com/thousands-flee-as-russian-troops-take-one-donetsk-oblast-village-after-another/ https://kyivindependent.com/mick-ryan-on-ukraines-kursk-offensive-high-risk-high-return/ https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-established-military-administration-in-russias-kursk-oblast/ https://kyivindependent.com/how-ukraines-kursk-incursion-threw-russias-top-propagandists-into-crisis/ https://kyivindependent.com/kursk-incursion-deals-blow-to-putins-prestige-marking-first-ground-invasion-of-russia-since-world-war-ii/ https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-can-decide-how-to-use-spanish-supplied-equipment-spanish-defense-minister-says/ ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ----------

481. Phil Ittner - How Mainstream Media "Dropped the Ball" on some of its Coverage of the War in Ukraine.

16 augusti 2024 | 61 min

Phil Ittner is a veteran broadcast journalist now working independently in Ukraine. Currently he's based in Kyiv and produces a weekly interview podcast "On the Edge". Disillusioned with how mainstream media was covering the historic war in Ukraine, Phil decided he had to step in and bring a professional and credible perspective to reporting from Ukraine. ---------- LINKS: https://www.youtube.com/@PhilipIttner https://x.com/IttnerPhilip https://www.linkedin.com/in/phil-ittner-4180271a/ https://philipittner.com/about/ https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/45-the-big-interview-philip-ittner-on-the-realities/id1617276298?i=1000610636024 ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

480. Anna Danylchuk - Ukraine's Kursk Incursion Changes Dynamic of the War and Boosts Ukrainians' Morale.

16 augusti 2024 | 65 min

GUEST: Anna from Ukraine - Anna Danylchuk ---------- Anna Danylchuk has been creating a war diary since the early days of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia in 2022. Anna Danylchuk aims to tell the truth about Ukraine and Russia’s war and cut through the noise and propaganda. Anna is passionate about the beauty and independence of her country, and communicates this powerfully in her videos, in a clear and honest way. ---------- LINKS: @AnnafromUkraine https://www.buymeacoffee.com/annafromukraine My interview with Anna in Lviv - hosted on her excellent channel- https://youtu.be/daHcnsNQ1S0?si=yHbZ2kJZ3CTVRd8Z ---------- OTHER VIDEOS WITH ANNA ON SILICON CURTAIN: 11. https://youtu.be/xUsxXcc97m8 (03-Jun-24) 10. https://youtu.be/eQ5fJCFATM0 (18-Apr-24) 9. https://youtu.be/Y59nUd8B5pY (21-Feb-24) 8. https://youtu.be/J8mge30rxY8 (24-Jan-24) 7. https://youtu.be/XQJoTAAfxt4 (24-Dec-23) 6. https://youtu.be/0gaK_5TEXXw (28-Nov-23) 5. https://youtu.be/x0o1bn-1Yyc (29-Sep-23) 4. https://youtu.be/Hm5_Yb3geQ4 (30-Aug-23) 3. https://youtu.be/r0PNxM7Xyow (23-Feb-23) 2. https://youtu.be/5AenntkSxIs (31-Dec-22) 1. https://youtu.be/vPT6oZ1FOAw (21-Oct-22) ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

479. Konstantin Samoilov - Putin Broke Russia & Ukraine's Kursk Offensive May End his Regime

14 augusti 2024 | 52 min

Welcome to our monthly conversation with Konstantin, who is one of the most respected voices on YouTube about what is happening Inside Russia. Konstantin Samoilov is a well-known YouTuber whose channel ‘Inside Russia’ comments insightfully on Russia’s decent into authoritarianism over the last few years. But now, like many others, he’s outside Russia, with no idea of when he can return there. ---------- CHAPTERS: 00:01:35 Back for another conversation at a truly historic moment in the war 00:03:58 Impact of Ukraine's counter-offensive under appreciated by the media 00:08:03 This may be Ukraine's greatest success so far in its war of defence 00:19:52 Ukraine has multiple goals from its extensive operations in Russia 00:26:23 Taking control of gap pipelines to Europe is a significant step 00:29:50 Russia's economy is facing a perfect storm of significant challenges 00:36:24 US pressure on secondary sanctions is disrupting trade with Russia 00:40:51 Trade is reverting to 'shuttling' behaviour not seen since 1990s 00:44:46 Ukrainians are unlikely to copy the brutal, illegal tactics of Russia 00:47:35 More needs to be done on western military support and sanctions regime ---------- LINKS: INSIDE RUSSIA is a source of current news on Russia - Konstantin carefully selects 9 news stories that are important and really matter, with commentaries and analyses by Konstantin delivered daily to channel patrons at Patreon.com Get your access to daily news updates at patreon.com/INSIDERUSSIA https://www.patreon.com/insiderussia ---------- OTHER VIDEOS WITH KONSTANTIN ON SILICON CURTAIN: https://youtu.be/xV_cXBA12tw (22-Jul-24) https://youtu.be/lnIgKQRHM8o (15-Jun-24) https://youtu.be/XX3zU5QNvCw (22-May-24) https://youtu.be/qXcfjra6KGI (16-Apr-24) https://youtu.be/FTuvRZQMCN8 (04-Mar-24) https://youtu.be/URzXdRO02ps (29-Jan-24) ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

478. Julia Friedrich - The Brutal Experience of Life Under Russian Occupation in the Donbas and Crimea

13 augusti 2024 | 42 min

Julia Friedrich interview - The experience of Ukrainians under occupation Research referenced in this video: https://gppi.net/2024/07/30/life-under-russian-occupation-in-ukraine https://gppi.net/media/Friedrich_2024_Life-Under-Russian-Occupation.pdf ---------- NEW STUDY | “They Came to ‘Liberate’ Us and Left Us with Nothing” What does life under Russia’s occupation look like? It is a “total, all-encompassing fear” that dominates all aspects of life – that is how Ukrainians who lived under occupation in 2022-23 until they were liberated or escaped described it to me. In a new study, I collect accounts from Ukrainians to understand what their stories tell us about Russian occupation practices. News about the war in Ukraine are often dominated by front line movements and the counting of kilometres of advance or retreat. Through in-depth interviews, I aimed to instead shed light on the experiences of those that populate these spots on the map and the human cost of living under Russian ‘rule.’ ---------- Julia Friedrich is Research Fellow at the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi). She specialises in security dynamics in Russia and Ukraine. Other areas of interest include Germany and the EU's crisis prevention, stabilization and conflict resolution tools and feminist foreign policy. ---------- LINKS: https://x.com/ja_friedrich https://gppi.net/team/julia-friedrich https://gppi.net/publications/julia-friedrich ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

DW Phillips - Ukraine's Performance at the Paris Olympics Shows the Power of Hope Over Despair

13 augusti 2024 | 24 min

Ukraine is competing at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris from 26 July to 11 August 2024. It is the nation's eighth consecutive appearance at the Summer Olympics in the post-Soviet era and the first since the Russian invasion of Ukraine. A total of 140 athletes competed amid the Russian invasion, the lowest number in the history of Ukraine's participation in the games. ---------- DW Phillips is a documentary filmmaker and constitutional attorney with Ukraine Story, a nonprofit foundation for journalism and documentary reporting in Ukraine. He and his documentary team have been filming conducting interviews in Ukraine with victims of Russian atrocities, and reporting stories of courage, defiance and perseverance of the Ukrainian people. He has reported on Russian atrocities in Bucha, and is presently working on issues of Kremlin disinformation campaigns in the American Right, religious liberty in Ukraine and the KGB domination of the Moscow Patriarchate of the Russian Orrhodox Church. ---------- LINKS: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dw-p-59111859/ https://www.youtube.com/@UkraineStory ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

2024-08-11 | Kursk Operation is Ukraine's Gamble for Victory over Russian Invasion.

11 augusti 2024 | 20 min

2024-08-10 | The Battle of Kursk hastens the downfall of Putin's murderous regime. In a historical irony the name 'Kursk' bookends failure at the start of his time in office, and may signal it's end in catastrophic failure. Is Kursk Putin's avenging nemesis? ---------- Kursk - a gamble for victory “A surprise attack, conceived with cunning, prepared with duplicity and executed with ruthlessness, provides international history with its most melodramatic moments.” So explains Sir Lawrence Freedman in his superlative books ‘Command’ and ‘Strategy’. And Ukraine has demonstrated its command of surprise and the potential battlefield impact through its lightning advance through Russia’s Kursk oblast. The power of shock in warfare is to overwhelm an adversary when they are at their weakest or when they least expect it. The irony here, is that Russian hubris, and its culture of systemic lying throughout the military and political hierarchy mean they are less likely to imagine the unexpected and prepare for it. Add to this the fact Russia does not see Ukraine as sovereign, and constantly denies its agency, which means they underestimate the Ukrainian capacity for innovation and surprise time and again, to their detriment. This time assumptive and arrogant thinking may lead to total defeat. ‘Between countries at war, there is no border, there is only the front,’ states the Ukrainian military researcher Mykola Bielieskov. Russians have forgotten that, but the Ukrainians did not. The incursions into Kursk and now Belgorod, have achieved stunning initial success and are looking more and more like a full offensive. This shows what Ukrainians can achieve if they have both the tools and lack of restrictions in how they fight Russia. ---------- Source accounts on Twitter: https://twitter.com/WarintheFuture https://twitter.com/War_Mapper https://twitter.com/NOELreports https://twitter.com/DefenceU https://twitter.com/defencehq https://twitter.com/IAPonomarenko https://twitter.com/MBielieskov https://twitter.com/PhillipsPOBrien ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

2024-08-10 | Battle of Kursk Hastens Putin's Downfall - The Name 'Kursk' is Putin's Avenging Nemesis

10 augusti 2024 | 19 min

2024-08-10 | The Battle of Kursk hastens the downfall of Putin's murderous regime. In a historical irony the name 'Kursk' bookends failure at the start of his time in office, and may signal it's end in catastrophic failure. Is Kursk Putin's avenging nemesis? ---------- Is it accurate to say Ukraine has ‘invaded’ Russia? Imposing that language on the situation may be premature and depend very much on what happens next. In the unlikely event that Ukrainian troops charge up to Moscow, Prigozhin style, then the phrase may be apt. But if the present action turns into a smart manoeuvre to ‘go around’ Russian fortifications on the Eastern and southern fronts, then it could be seen as simply an extension of the active front that winds its way across many hundreds of kilometres of Ukrainian territory, of which around a thousand kilometres is experiencing active combat at any given time. We seem immune to the shock of seeing a vast conventional war unfold on Ukraine’s territory, as if that were somehow normal and natural. But shocked that the same should be meted out to the aggressor army on Russian territory. In traditional warfare, that makes no sense, as whether formally declared or not, Russia has mounted an act of aggression against Ukraine, on a scale not seen since WWII. In other words, a war for territorial acquisition and regime change, which also has the characteristics of a genocidal campaign. The UN charter is clear and explicit that Ukraine has the right of self-defence as the victim of this aggression, and whose sovereign territories have been violated. The UN Charter states: Nothing in the present Charter shall impair the inherent right of individual or collective self-defence if an armed attack occurs against a Member of the United Nations, until the Security Council has taken measures necessary to maintain international peace and security. ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

477. Jerry Hendrix - Ukraine Transforms Naval Warfare by Ejecting Entire Russian Fleet from the Black Sea

7 augusti 2024 | 54 min

Henry J. Hendrix is a retired United States Navy captain. He has served as an American defence analyst, an official historian and curator of the Navy and an author. His written work has focused on the composition of the United States Navy force, the structure of the Navy, the role of the aircraft carrier in modern strategic environments and the structure of the carrier air wing. ---------- LINKS: https://twitter.com/JerryHendrixII https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_J._Hendrix https://sagamoreinstitute.org/dr-jerry-hendrix/ https://www.usni.org/people/jerry-hendrix https://www.cnas.org/people/dr-jerry-hendrix https://www.linkedin.com/in/jerry-hendrix-9599684/ ---------- ARTICLES: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/04/us-navy-oceanic-trade-impact-russia-china/673090/ ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

476. DW Phillips - Ukraine is Participating in its 8th Summer Olympics but Sending Fewest Ever Athletes

6 augusti 2024 | 29 min

Ukraine is competing at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris from 26 July to 11 August 2024. It is the nation's eighth consecutive appearance at the Summer Olympics in the post-Soviet era and the first since the Russian invasion of Ukraine. A total of 140 athletes competed amid the Russian invasion, the lowest number in the history of Ukraine's participation in the games. ---------- DW Phillips is a documentary filmmaker and constitutional attorney with Ukraine Story, a nonprofit foundation for journalism and documentary reporting in Ukraine. He and his documentary team have been filming conducting interviews in Ukraine with victims of Russian atrocities, and reporting stories of courage, defiance and perseverance of the Ukrainian people. He has reported on Russian atrocities in Bucha, and is presently working on issues of Kremlin disinformation campaigns in the American Right, religious liberty in Ukraine and the KGB domination of the Moscow Patriarchate of the Russian Orrhodox Church. ---------- LINKS: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dw-p-59111859/ https://www.youtube.com/@UkraineStory ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

475. Putin Explodes Useful Idiot Bomb in Washington - RU Opposition Shows Lack of Solidarity with Ukraine

4 augusti 2024 | 51 min

Conversation with Sergej Sumlenny and Stephen Douglas. ---------- General Rudenko, the Soviet Chief Prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials of senior Nazi war criminals made a famous address: about the German leadership having the ‘Morals of Cannibals, the Greed of Burglars’. “The defendants knew that cynical mockery of the laws and customs of war constituted the gravest of crimes. They knew it, but they hoped that total war, by securing victory, would also secure their impunity…” Not unlike Putin’s criminal war against Ukraine. But do Russian liberals recently released from custody also seek ‘impunity’ for the countrymen, supposedly guiltless and disconnected from Putin’s crimes and thuggish regime, absolved of responsibility for the largest war since 1946. ---------- Sergej Sumlenny is founder of the European Resilience Initiative Centre and a former Regional Director for Ukraine and Belarus at the Heinrich Böll Foundation. He is based in Berlin, Germany and is an expert in Energy and Security Policy, Human Rights, and International Business Consulting. ---------- Stephen Douglas is a self-described expert in combat propaganda (is a former diplomat), and creator of Decoding Trolls and Disinfolklore. The latter has been described in a Byline Times review as a “brilliant new analytical method to parse and counter disinformation”. ---------- LINKS: https://twitter.com/sumlenny https://www.linkedin.com/in/sergej-sumlenny-4502aa5/ https://european-resilience.org/ https://www.boell.de/en https://twitter.com/DecodingTrolls https://www.decodingtrolls.net/ https://www.disinfolklore.net/ https://www.bylinesupplement.com/p/disinfolklore ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

2024-08-01 | Prisoner Exchange - Russia Swaps Good People for Spies, Killers & Scum in Historic US Brokered Deal.

2 augusti 2024 | 19 min

EXAMPLE MEMBERS' CONTENT - FREE FOR 48 HOURS. Subscribe to new channel - @SiliconWafers ---------- 2024-08-01 | Political prisoners were released in a historic exchange. Even during the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States there was not an exchange of prisoners comparable to this. Many people thought that these people had a de facto a life sentence (or at least until Putin died). The release included Vladmir Kara-Murza, Oleg Orlov, Ilya Yashin, Evan Gershkovich and other lesser know dissidents: Liliya Chernysheva, Ksenia Fadeeva, Alexander Chalenko, Vadim Astanin, and many others. ---------- LINKS: https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/08/01/russia-frees-political-prisoners-journalists-in-landmark-exchange-with-west-a85895 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/all-about/russia-and-the-west-hold-historic-prisoner-swap https://kyivindependent.com/killers-spies-and-smugglers-the-russians-released-in-historic-prisoner-swap/ https://kyivindependent.com/no-link-between-us-russia-prisoner-swap-talks-and-war-in-ukraine-sullivan-says/ https://kyivindependent.com/navalny-2/ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/08/02/kamala-harris-calls-russian-opposition-figure-navalnaya-after-prisoner-swap-a85907 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6se2NlhB9yo ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine Ukrainian Freedom News https://www.ukrainianfreedomnews.com/donation/ UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

467. Mark Temnycky - Ukraine's Future is in NATO, and the Security of Europe is Dependent on it Happening

1 augusti 2024 | 36 min

GUEST: Mark Temnycky - Ukrainian-American freelance journalist. ---------- The July 2023 NATO Summit in Vilnius, Lithuania was a chance to end the ambiguity and incrementalism that has left Ukraine vulnerable to Russian aggression and continues to feed Putin’s delusions that he can win the war and beat the Western alliance. The NATO summit, Ukraine's summer counter-offensive, and the recent instability between Russia and the Wagner Group have ensured that the Russo-Ukrainian war remains in the headlines. But what discussions are happening behind closed doors and what events on the ground may be influencing the direction of the war and its aftermath? Will the clear moral stance of supporting Ukraine in wartime, descend into messy compromises in peacetime, and ethical trade-offs with the pariah terror state, Russia? ---------- SPEAKER: Mark Temnycky is a Ukrainian-American freelance journalist, based just outside of New York City, and is a non-resident fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Centre. He has covered Eastern European affairs and energy security matters for seven years, with articles published in The New York Times, Forbes, Daily Mail, EUobserver, Kyiv Post, Atlantic Council, Wilson Centre, and other US and European news outlets and think tanks. His works have been cited and shared by European Parliament, NATO, Helsinki Commission, RAND Corporation, Transparency International, and other government institutions, nongovernmental organizations, and been widely interviewed in UK, US, and EU media. ---------- LINKS: https://twitter.com/MTemnycky https://www.linkedin.com/in/marktemnycky/ https://bylinetimes.com/author/mtemnycky/ https://cepa.org/author/mark-temnycky/ https://www.wilsoncenter.org/person/mark-temnycky https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/expert/mark-temnycky/ ---------- ARTICLES: https://www.kyivpost.com/opinion/16845 https://bylinetimes.com/2023/05/09/ukraine-and-georgia-should-be-welcomed-into-nato/ https://cepa.org/article/weapons-and-ammunition-need-to-be-higher-on-nato-agenda/ https://www.carnegiecouncil.org/media/series/the-doorstep/ukraine-next-move-mark-temnycky ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

473. Malcolm Nance - Russia's Actions Show it has Become a Terrorist State - A European "Islamic State".

30 juli 2024 | 58 min

Malcolm Nance is a former career US Naval Intelligence officer specializing in counter-terrorism, intelligence and violent extremism. He has been an advisor to the US government’s law enforcement, Homeland Security and Intelligence agencies. As an Arabic-speaking special intelligence collections operator, field interrogator he provided top secret anti and counter-terrorism support to national intelligence agencies while on numerous reconnaissance and combat operations in the Balkans, Middle East and sub-Saharan Africa. On April 18, 2022, Nance revealed that he had joined the Ukrainian Foreign Legion in March 2022. In an interview with Michael Harriot of The Guardian, Nance alluded to African-American military aviator Eugene Bullard's service in the French Foreign Legion to his service in Ukraine, hoping to inspire "African Americans and young Americans who have been in the military" and describing the International Legion as "the pantheon of the defense of democracy in the defense of Ukraine". ---------- LINKS: https://x.com/MalcolmNance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_Nance https://www.linkedin.com/in/malcolmnance/ https://www.spymuseum.org/host-an-event/spy-speaker-series/malcolm-nance/ https://us.macmillan.com/author/malcolmnance ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

472. Yevhen Hlibovytsky - Which will Win: Ukraine's Democratic Horizontal or Russian Autocratic Vertical?

29 juli 2024 | 53 min

Yevhen Hlibovytsky is a director of Frontier Institute, a cross-sectoral think tank researching social transformation trajectories and strategic challenges in and around Ukraine. Yevhen has extensive experience in Ukraine’s reforms sector. In the last 20 years, he has also worked for OSCE and other international organizations in countries of Central Asia, the Caucasus, and Central and Eastern Europe, building a comparative understanding of transformation in post-communist countries. He is frequently engaged by the Atlantic Council, Chatham House and other think tanks for discussions on Ukraine and the transformation of the post-Soviet countries. Yevhen Hlibovytsky is a supervisory board member of Ukrainian Public Service Broadcasting and an advisory board member of Razom for Ukraine, a US-based advocacy group. Yevhen Hlibovytsky is a lecturer at the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv. ---------- LINKS: https://x.com/YHlibovytsky https://www.linkedin.com/in/yevhenhlibovytsky/ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/event/reimagining-ukraine/ https://huri.harvard.edu/event/hlibovytsky-2023 http://www.forumdavos.com/regional_people/223/Yevhen+Hlibovytsky/7 ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

2024-07-24 | ‘I know we will win – and how’. What we Learned from Col Gen Syrskyi - Silicon Wafers on YouTube

27 juli 2024 | 26 min

EXAMPLE MEMBERS' CONTENT - FREE FOR 48 HOURS. Subscribe to new channel - https://www.youtube.com/@SiliconWafers ---------- 2024-07-24 | ‘I know we will win – and how’: Ukraine’s top general on turning the tables against Russia. Col Gen Oleksandr Syrskyi weighs Ukraine’s recent setbacks, counter strikes and the changing face of Europe’s biggest war since 1945 in an article in: The Guardian – Wed 24 Jul 2024 by Luke Harding ---------- Col Gen Oleksandr Syrskyi was tight-lipped about when Ukraine will receive a long-awaited delivery of F-16 fighter jets. Syrskyi is Ukraine’s new commander-in-chief. His unenviable task is to defeat a bigger Russian army. He acknowledges the Russians are much better resourced. They have more of everything: tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, soldiers. Their original 100,000-strong invasion force has grown to 520,000, he said, with a goal by the end of 2024 of 690,000 men. The figures for Ukraine have not been made public. There is a ratio of 1:2 or 1:3 in their favour,” he said. Since 2022 the number of Russian tanks has “doubled” – from 1,700 to 3,500. Artillery systems have tripled, and armoured personnel carriers gone up from 4,500 to 8,900. Since last autumn Ukraine’s armed forces have been going steadily backwards. One of his first acts when he got the job in February 2024 – replacing Valerii Zaluzhnyi, now Ukraine’s ambassador to the UK – was to order the withdrawal of his troops from the eastern city of Avdiivka. The retreat coincided with a six-month gap in the US supply of weapons. ---------- LINKS: The Guardian - British newspaper https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jul/24/i-know-we-will-win-and-how-ukraines-top-general-on-turning-the-tables-against-russia Yevhen Sherstiuk – Head of crisis response Department, Ministry of defense of Ukraine https://www.linkedin.com/in/yevhen-sherstiuk-507908214/ https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7222846894320832512/ ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine Ukrainian Freedom News https://www.ukrainianfreedomnews.com/donation/ UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

470. Joseph Lindsley - Drip Feeding Weapons is Part of US Strategy to Slowly Lose the War against Russia.

26 juli 2024 | 64 min

Joe Lindsley is a traveller and a writer, and American reporting on Chicago's WGN Radio from Ukraine each and every weekday of Russia's full-scale war. He once was protégé to Fox News founder Roger Ailes, but Lindsley escaped that frenzied world where power mattered more than truth. He came to Lviv for a Ukrainian Catholic University journalism conference on Information Overload, AI, and Responsibility. Then the Coronavirus shut down world travel, and he stayed to build a better vision for the media industry. OTHER VIDEOS: 1. https://youtu.be/DM42QAF2ia4 (07-Nov-23) 2. https://youtu.be/KAGt83FzXmI (26-Jan-24) 3. https://youtu.be/AlD3HUTQAag (20-Feb-24) 4. https://youtu.be/w8Y1XLuhB9Q (04-Apr-24) 5. https://youtu.be/eA6DI5bwrq8 (05-Jun-24) ---------- LINKS: https://www.ukrainianfreedomnews.com/donation/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Lindsley https://www.linkedin.com/in/joseph-lindsley-60087618/ https://www.youtube.com/@jplindsley https://twitter.com/JPLindsley https://www.instagram.com/jplindsley/ https://www.facebook.com/josephlindsley https://www.ukrainianfreedomnews.com/ ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

471. Hamish de Bretton Gordon - Drip Feeding Munitions and Supplies Risks a Slow Destruction of Ukraine .

25 juli 2024 | 37 min

Hamish de Bretton-Gordon OBE is Director of DBG Defence. He is a senior executive with a military, humanitarian, charity and commercial experience. Hamish is a world leading authority on chemical weapons and humanitarian support in Syria, and a vocal advocate for Ukrainian victory. ---------- LINKS: https://x.com/HamishDBG https://www.linkedin.com/in/hamish-de-bretton-gordon-obe-37aa9a35/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamish_de_Bretton-Gordon https://www.theguardian.com/profile/hamish-de-bretton-gordon https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/h/ha-he/hamish-de-bretton-gordon/ http://www.militaryspeakers.co.uk/speakers/hamish-de-bretton-gordon-obe/ ---------- BOOKS: Chemical Warrior: Syria, Salisbury and Saving Lives at War Hardcover (2020) ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemysl https://kharpp.com/ Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine Ukrainian Freedom News https://www.ukrainianfreedomnews.com/donation/ UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

468. James Sherr and Orysia Lutsevych - The Risks of Pushing for 'Peace at any Price' in the Ukraine War.

24 juli 2024 | 57 min

A letter was published in the Financial Times: Calling for an immediate ‘peace’. But this clamour for a cessation of hostilities and a ‘peace at any price’ deal shows blindness to Russian goals, argue the signatories of a counter letter in the same publication. I am joined today by the author of the riposte to that, James Sherr, and one of the key signatories Orysia Lutsevych. ---------- Orysia Lutsevych OBE is deputy director of the Russia and Eurasia Programme and head of the Ukraine Forum at Chatham House. Orysia’s research focuses on social change, the role of civil society in democratic transition in Eastern Europe and, most recently, democratic resilience to foreign encroachment. She is the author of several Chatham House research publications, including – Resilient Ukraine: Safeguarding Society from Russian Aggression. Her media work includes contributions for BBC, CNN, Guardian, The Times, Financial Times, and New York Times. ---------- James Sherr OBE is an Honorary fellow of the International Centre for Defence & Security in Tallinn Estonia. He also is an associate fellow and former head of the Russia and Eurasia Programme at Chatham House (2008–11). He was a fellow of the Conflict Studies Research Centre of the UK Ministry of Defence from 1995 to 2008; and director of studies of the Royal United Services Institute (1983–85). He has published extensively on Soviet and Russian military, security, and foreign policy, as well as energy security, the Black Sea region, and Ukraine’s efforts to deal with Russia, and the West. ---------- LINKS: The letter and the response: https://www.ft.com/content/90185a02-8107-47c0-ae6f-b06e88b796b5 https://www.ft.com/content/52ef3e3e-292c-44d3-80bd-97793487e715 By James Sherr OBE: https://icds.ee/en/a-war-against-falsehood-and-fear/ https://icds.ee/en/the-moment-of-truth/ Chatham House paper: https://www.chathamhouse.org/2023/06/how-end-russias-war-ukraine ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemysl https://kharpp.com/ Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine Ukrainian Freedom News https://www.ukrainianfreedomnews.com/donation/ UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

469. Maria Avdeeva - Ukraine Scales up Deep Strike Capabilities on Russia with Powerful Long-range Drones

23 juli 2024 | 30 min

Maria Avdeeva is a Security Expert, Disinformation Analyst and Global Communicator. She is a strategic communications and security expert with experience in consultancy and research, specializing in countering disinformation. After the full-scale invasion, she shifted her focus to documenting Russian war crimes, delivering reports to a broad international audience, and collaborating with leading global media outlets. Her security-related insights have been cited by CNN, BBC, NPR, CBC, DW, and other international media sources. ---------- LINKS: https://x.com/maria_avdv https://www.facebook.com/maria.avdieieva/ https://www.fpri.org/contributor/maria-avdeeva/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariia-avdieieva/ https://visegradinsight.eu/author/avdeevam/ https://www.iwm.at/documenting-ukraine/grantees/maria-avdeeva https://carnegieendowment.org/people/maria-avdeeva ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

466. Konstantin Samoilov (Inside Russia) - Russia Running Low on Men, Money and Munitions to Sustain the War

22 juli 2024 | 46 min

Welcome to our monthly conversation with Konstantin, who is one of the most respected voices on YouTube about what is happening Inside Russia. Konstantin Samoilov is a well-known YouTuber whose channel ‘Inside Russia’ comments insightfully on Russia’s decent into authoritarianism over the last few years. But now, like many others, he’s outside Russia, with no idea of when he can return there. ---------- LINKS: INSIDE RUSSIA is a source of current news on Russia - Konstantin carefully selects 9 news stories that are important and really matter, with commentaries and analyses by Konstantin delivered daily to channel patrons at Patreon.com Get your access to daily news updates at patreon.com/ https://www.patreon.com/insiderussia ---------- OTHER VIDEOS WITH KONSTANTIN ON SILICON CURTAIN: https://youtu.be/gbINoWwiq-Y https://youtu.be/71CgzWpxf4Y https://youtu.be/L2pEHdrSbJw https://youtu.be/HKF-QaXOCIg https://youtu.be/F6vJGl0169Y https://youtu.be/ogYRqb24ltc https://youtu.be/VhpoQwvEqis https://youtu.be/URzXdRO02ps (29-Jan-2024) https://youtu.be/FTuvRZQMCN8 (04-Mar-24) https://youtu.be/qXcfjra6KGI (16-Apr-24) https://youtu.be/XX3zU5QNvCw (22-May-24) https://youtu.be/lnIgKQRHM8o (15-Jun-24) ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Silicon Bites - Episode #53 - The Attempted Assassination of Trump Gives his Campaign More Momentum.

21 juli 2024 | 51 min

Edition No53 | 20-07-2024 ~~~~~ SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ~~~~~ NEWS SOURCES: KYIV INDEPENDENT https://kyivindependent.com/i-dont-care-jd-vance-on-ukraine-in-his-own-words/ https://kyivindependent.com/the-counteroffensive-a-jd-vance-vice-presidency-would-be-a-disaster-for-ukraine/ https://kyivindependent.com/trump-signals-potential-opposition-to-sanctions-against-russia/ https://kyivindependent.com/stuck-in-legal-limbo-ukrainian-civilians-endure-torture-in-russian-prisons/ https://kyivindependent.com/95-ukrainian-prisoners-released-from-russian-captivity/ https://kyivindependent.com/hard-work-underway-to-reopen-kyiv-childrens-hospital-hit-by-russian-missile/ https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-war-latest-russia-withdrew-its-last-patrol-boat-from-black-sea-in-occupied-crimea-ukraines-navy-says/ KYIV POST https://www.kyivpost.com/post/35678 https://www.kyivpost.com/photos/35476 THE MOSCOW TIMES https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/07/17/we-are-still-fighting-for-justice-mh17-victims-families-solemn-on-10th-anniversary-of-tragedy-a85731 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/07/11/foiled-russian-assassination-plot-targeted-ceo-of-german-arms-maker-rheinmetall-cnn-a85694 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/07/12/putin-is-watching-the-wests-indecision-with-derision-a85687 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/07/10/russia-outlaws-the-moscow-times-as-undesirable-organization-a85677 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/07/11/russia-adds-navalnaya-to-terrorists-and-extremists-list-a85689 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/07/10/karamurza-a85675 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/07/11/nobel-winner-muratov-calls-on-foreign-leaders-to-exchange-russian-political-prisoners-a85685 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/07/08/in-photos-okhmatdyt-childrens-hospital-after-russian-strike-a85643 NOVAYA GAZETA https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2024/07/11/russian-court-sentences-exiled-politician-leonid-gozman-to-8-5-years-in-absentia-en-news https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2024/07/09/some-go-crazy-within-half-an-hour-en https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2024/07/11/us-officials-shut-down-russian-bot-farm-used-to-spread-disinformation-on-x-en-news https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2024/07/10/europes-lasting-dictator-en https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2024/07/10/the-alexander-technique-en https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2024/07/08/russian-missile-strike-on-kyiv-in-photos-en ~~~~~ USEFUL LINKS: Vatnik Soup https://twitter.com/P_Kallioniemi http://www.medbat.org.ua/en/ Real World News https://kyivindependent.com/ https://www.kyivpost.com/ https://english.nv.ua/ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/ https://meduza.io/en https://meduza.io/ https://novayagazeta.eu/ https://www.newsweek.com/topic/russia... Analysis https://www.ft.com/russia https://www.economist.com/ https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ https://cepa.org/ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/ https://www.theatlantic.com/search/?s... YouTube Channels / @timesradio1 / @khodorkovskyru / @popularpolitics / @macknack / @plushev / @tvrain / @fake_news / @feyginlive ~~~~~ TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine Ukrainian Freedom News https://www.ukrainianfreedomnews.com/donation/ UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ~~~~~

454. DW Phillips - In 2024 D-Day Still Resonates on the 80th Anniversary of the Normany Landings in WWII.

19 juli 2024 | 31 min

462. Hijacking Reality - Panel Discussion on the Practice and Impact of Russian Disinformation Techniques

19 juli 2024 | 71 min

The Putin regime has exploited the vulnerabilities of global social media platforms, using bots and trolls to promote its narratives. They also use it for coercive manipulation to change public attitudes towards Ukraine aid, and to cause fear, indecision, hesitation and caution among politicians and geo-political commentators. But Russia is not alone in using these methods; once developed the same techniques can be used by other powers, international and local to subvert democratic institutions and to warp public perception of the news and politics in their countries. And in a year of numerous elections, Russian multi-front aggression including info and Cyber poses an enormous threat. ---------- Gundars Bergmanis-Korāts – Principal Scientist at NATO StratCom COE Dr. Gundars Bergmanis-Korats is a Principal Scientist at the NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence (StratCom COE). He holds a PhD in Signal and Image Processing from the University of Lorraine in France. In his role, Gundars concentrates on projects that explore the diverse applications of artificial intelligence (AI) in strategic communications, analysing the risks and opportunities presented by this technology from multiple perspectives, including those of defenders and malicious actors. He also oversees the content delivery of training courses, such as Online and Social Media Analytics and AI for Communicators ---------- Dmytro Plieshakov who is founder and CEO at Osavul. His work focuses on countering disinformation and influence operations using AI technologies. ---------- LINKS: Report: https://www.osavul.cloud/cases/nato-virtual-manipulation-brief https://www.osavul.cloud/ ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemysl https://kharpp.com/ Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine Ukrainian Freedom News https://www.ukrainianfreedomnews.com/donation/ UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

465. Fabian Hoffmann - Europe can no Longer Rely on US to Secure its Territory and Economies from Russia.

18 juli 2024 | 49 min

Fabian Hoffmann is a Doctoral Research Fellow at the Oslo Nuclear Project at the University of Oslo. His research focuses on missile technology, nuclear strategy and defense policy. His PhD project focuses on the strategic-level effects of long-range strike weapons, including their implications for nuclear strategy. Fabian’s research has been published in Journal of Strategic Studies, European Security, War on the Rocks, and The Washington Post, among others. He frequently contributes to national and international news media, with commentary appearing in print and on television. ---------- LINKS: https://x.com/FRHoffmann1 https://www.linkedin.com/in/fabian-hoffmann1/ ---------- ARTICLES: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/f/fa-fe/fabian-hoffmann/ https://www.politico.eu/article/russia-targeted-hospitals-ukraine-war-okhmatdyt-vladimir-putin/ https://ip-quarterly.com/en/future-zeitenwende-scenario-5-poland-becomes-nuclear-power https://dgap.org/en/media/16259 https://edition.cnn.com/videos/world/2024/03/09/exp-ukraine-testing-ground-military-fabian-hoffmann-intv-030903aseg1-cnni-world.cnn https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/09/26/atacms-missiles-ukraine-war-biden-zelensky/ https://odessa-journal.com/bellingcat-okhmatdyt-hospital-was-hit-by-a-russian-x-101-missile https://kyivindependent.com/taurus-long-range-missile-why-does-ukraine-want-them-and-germany-hesitates/ https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2023/07/28/franz-stefan-gady-and-michael-kofman-on-what-ukraine-must-do-to-break-through-russian-defences ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemysl https://kharpp.com/ Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine Ukrainian Freedom News https://www.ukrainianfreedomnews.com/donation/ UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Political Violence Puts the Function and Culture of Democracy at Risk - What is the Scale of Risks?

16 juli 2024 | 76 min

As opponents become enemies, and partisan positions degrade the quality of political debate, is democracy in the US at risk from internal division? How might China, Russia and other hostile actors leverage the situation to their advantage? ---------- Vlad Vexler It’s my pleasure today to welcome back onto the channel Vlad Vexler, Social Philosopher, and unique YouTuber. Our previous three video conversations proved to be extremely popular, and a lot has happened since we last spoke. Please do check out Vlad’s channel on YouTube, as it has a collection of the most thought-provoking and insightful videos on the Russian mindset and the roots of this war. ----------

Jonathan MS Pearce Jonathan MS Pearce is a philosopher, author, columnist, and public speaker with an interest in writing about almost anything, from scepticism to science, politics, and morality, to the environment. Essentially because everything is philosophy. He is a former teacher and is now battling primary progressive multiple sclerosis. ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemysl https://kharpp.com/ Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine Ukrainian Freedom News https://www.ukrainianfreedomnews.com/donation/ UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

463. The Implication for Ukraine of a Victory for Donald Trump in the November 2024 Presidential Election

16 juli 2024 | 56 min

Scott Lucas https://x.com/ScottLucas_EA Scott Lucas is a political analyst with more than 30 years’ experience including a wide range of interests from academic expertise to journalism, and public media, as well as digital engagement. Scott is a regular contributor to international TV, radio, and digital outlets. He is a Professor at the Clinton Institute, University College Dublin, and Professor Emeritus at the University of Birmingham. ---------- James Ker-Lindsay Professor James Ker-Lindsay is an academic and analyst with internationally recognised expertise on Southeast Europe (Balkans, Turkey, Greece, and Cyprus). He has extensive experience working in Government, Private Sector, Higher Education, and Think Tanks. He is a regular commentator for the international media, including BBC, CNN and Reuters and was formerly Co-Editor of the Cyprus Review. ---------- Pyotr Kurzin Pyotr Kurzin is a commentator and YouTube host on the subjects of geopolitical risk, global macroeconomics and current affairs. Half British and half Russian, he is a product of the Cold War, and endlessly curious about why the world is the wat it is. He hosts contrasting conversations with diverse guests, often with contrasting perspectives and expertise, to help audiences become more informed. ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemysl https://kharpp.com/ Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine Ukrainian Freedom News https://www.ukrainianfreedomnews.com/donation/ UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Silicon Bites - #52 - Russia Targets Children's Cancer Hospital Intending to Cause Death and Misery.

14 juli 2024 | 46 min

Edition No52 | 13-07-2024 This episode examines the deliberate targeting of a children's cancer hospital in Kyiv, one of the largest in Europe. The immediate consequences were devestating, but the longer-term ones may be even worse. Does our lack of a forceful response give Russia a green-light for genocide on an unparalleled scale in Ukraine? ~~~~~ SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ~~~~~ NEWS SOURCES: KYIV INDEPENDENT https://kyivindependent.com/russia-probes-for-air-defense-gaps-to-wreak-havoc-in-kyiv/ https://kyivindependent.com/russian-pilot-leaked-secret-data-on-russias-aviation-division-to-ukraines-military-intelligence-source-says/ https://kyivindependent.com/relentless-russian-missile-strikes-change-life-forever-in-yet-another-once-sleepy-kyiv-neighborhood/ https://kyivindependent.com/orban-orban-discusses-ways-to-make-peace-with-trump-in-florida/ https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-war-latest-nato-affirms-ukraines-irreversible-membership-path-poland-prepares-ukrainian-legion/ https://kyivindependent.com/nato-summit-ends-with-32-countries-signing-ukraine-compact/ https://kyivindependent.com/sweden-ready-to-send-gripen-fighter-jets/ https://kyivindependent.com/18-bohdana-howitzers-heading-for-ukraines-battlefield-heres-what-they-can-do/ KYIV POST https://www.kyivpost.com/post/35708 https://www.kyivpost.com/post/35701 THE GUARDIAN https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jul/11/orban-hungary-pm-trump-meeting https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jul/11/nato-viktor-orban-peace-mission-trump https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jul/10/first-f-16-jets-heading-to-ukraine-after-months-of-training-and-negotiations THE FINANCIAL TIMES https://www.ft.com/content/90185a02-8107-47c0-ae6f-b06e88b796b5 https://www.ft.com/content/52ef3e3e-292c-44d3-80bd-97793487e715 OTHER https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/07/09/make-no-mistake-destroying-hospitals-is-part-of-the-kremlins-strategy-a85653 https://tsargrad.tv/articles/detskaja-bolnica-v-kieve-ne-sluchajnost-pora-jeto-priznat-i-perestat-bojatsja_1025063 ~~~~~ USEFUL LINKS: Vatnik Soup https://twitter.com/P_Kallioniemi http://www.medbat.org.ua/en/ Real World News https://kyivindependent.com/ https://www.kyivpost.com/ https://english.nv.ua/ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/ https://meduza.io/en https://meduza.io/ https://novayagazeta.eu/ https://www.newsweek.com/topic/russia... Analysis https://www.ft.com/russia https://www.economist.com/ https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ https://cepa.org/ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/ https://www.theatlantic.com/search/?s... YouTube Channels / @timesradio1 / @khodorkovskyru / @popularpolitics / @macknack / @plushev / @tvrain / @fake_news / @feyginlive ~~~~~ TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine Ukrainian Freedom News https://www.ukrainianfreedomnews.com/donation/ UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ~~~~~ 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 YouTube s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

458. Oleksandr Musienko - Putin is Escalating the War to Impose an Unjust Peace on Ukraine @UNITED24media

13 juli 2024 | 51 min

Oleksandr Musienko is a military and political expert, political and legal adviser, and head of the Centre for Military-Law Research. He is a United24 Media ambassador and hosts his own very popular military analytical channel on YouTube in the Ukrainian language. ---------- Interview created in partnership with United24 Media UNITED24 Media is an English-language modern-format digital media offering short content stories and reels on Ukraine, its culture, history, businesses, people, and, most importantly, the ongoing war with Russia. Ukraine is fighting for freedom and independence against absolute evil. Owner: Office of the President of Ukraine Created by: Ministry of Digital Transformation Headquarters: Kyiv, Ukraine Launched: July 21, 2022 ---------- LINKS: @Musienko_channel @UNITED24media https://united24media.com/ ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemysl https://kharpp.com/ Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine Ukrainian Freedom News https://www.ukrainianfreedomnews.com/donation/ UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

461. Generaal Dick Berlijn - Focusing on Defensive Strategies Alone will Likely Lengthen Duration of War.

12 juli 2024 | 52 min

NATO offers Ukraine a bridge to membership, but has not closed the sky, and from the evidence of Monday’s attack on a children’s cancer hospital, has not d=deterred Putin’s aggression in any way. ---------- General Dick Lodewijk Berlijn is a retired Royal Netherlands Air Force four-star general, who served as Chief of Defence Staff of the Netherlands from 2004. His office saw Dutch military presence in Uruzgan with ISAF, as well as naval contributions to the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon, among other interventions. He is a highly regarded expert ion the areas of Cyber security, leadership, strategy, crisis management, security issues and Defense. He has been awarded the Légion d'Honneur and the Legion of Merit, and the Order of Orange-Nassau. Berlijn graduated from the Koninklijke Militaire Academie in 1973. ---------- LINKS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Berlijn https://x.com/DickBerlijn https://www.linkedin.com/in/dickberlijn/ https://hague.company/about/team/dick-berlijn/ ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine Ukrainian Freedom News https://www.ukrainianfreedomnews.com/donation/ UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available

459. David Satter - Only the Victory of Ukraine and Return of its Sovereign Territories can End the War.

11 juli 2024 | 53 min

David Satter is a journalist and historian with unique insights into how the deformation and repression of the past, is having terrible consequences for present day Russia. David has written extensively about Russia and the Soviet Union, especially the decline and fall of the USSR and rise of post-Soviet Russia. David Satter became the first American journalist to be expelled from Russia since the Cold War in December 2013. This was perhaps not a surprising move, given that his books have covered topics such as the FSB’s role in the apartment bombings that brought Putin to power. From 1976 to 1982 David was the Moscow correspondent of the Financial Times, and then became a special correspondent on Soviet affairs for The Wall Street Journal. He is currently a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and a fellow of the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. ---------- BOOKS He is author of several books that are essential reading to help understand the origins of the current crisis, including the brilliantly named books: - It Was a Long Time Ago, and It Never Happened Anyway - Darkness at Dawn: The Rise of the Russian Criminal State - The Less You Know, The Better You Sleep ---------- LINKS https://davidsatter.com/ https://twitter.com/davidsatter?lang=en https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Satter https://www.hudson.org/experts/362-david-satter https://www.fpri.org/contributor/david-satter/ https://www.foreignaffairs.com/authors/david-satter ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine Ukrainian Freedom News https://www.ukrainianfreedomnews.com/donation/ UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available

460. Mick Ryan - To Avoid Ukrainian Defeat by a Thousand Cuts the NATO Strategy Needs to Radically Change

10 juli 2024 | 39 min

Barely a week goes by without things occurring that would have been inconceivable three years ago. Russian territory being hit by American made munitions, history’s most substantial sanctions in place against Russia, a near coup against the Kremlin, and Putin going cap-in-hand to Kim-Jong-Un to prop up his ailing military. What more can happen before these tensions and conflicts coalesce into World War 3 – especially the expectations that Korea troops will soon be fighting on the territory of Europe. ---------- Mick Ryan is a retired major general in the Australian Army. A graduate of the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies and the U.S. Marine Corps University Command and Staff College and School of Advanced Warfighting. He has commanded at platoon, squadron, regiment, task force, and brigade level. In January 2018, he assumed command of the Australian Defence College in Canberra, Australia. In 2021 he was an adjunct scholar at the Modern War Institute. He completed his 35-year career with the Australian Army and transitioned to the Army Reserve as a major general on February 27, 2022. His book, War Transformed, was published in 2022, ‘White Sun War: The Campaign for Taiwan’ was published in 2023, and his latest book "The War for Ukraine: Strategy and Adaptation Under Fire", will be released on 13th August 2023. ---------- LINKS: https://x.com/WarintheFuture https://mickryan.substack.com/ https://www.csis.org/people/mick-ryan https://mwi.westpoint.edu/adjunct-scholars/mick-ryan/ https://x.com/LowyInstitute https://x.com/CSIS ---------- BOOKS: War Transformed: The Future of Twenty-First-Century Great Power Competition and Conflict Hardcover (2022) White Sun War: The Campaign for Taiwan (2023) The War for Ukraine: Strategy and Adaptation Under Fire (2024) ---------- ARTICLES: https://www.forces.net/ukraine/death-thousand-cuts-warns-former-general-ukraine-war-enters-new-phase https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-is-more-dangerous-than-when-it-first-invaded-strategist-2024-4 https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2024/07/04/it-took-russia-three-months-and-thousands-of-lives-to-capture-one-isolated-ukrainian-neighborhood/ https://edition.cnn.com/videos/world/2024/02/02/exp-mick-ryan-interview-fst-020202aseg1.cnn https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/ukraine-war-how-check-russia-s-momentum ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine Ukrainian Freedom News https://www.ukrainianfreedomnews.com/donation/ UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available

453. Batu Kutelia - State Capture of Georgia and its Political Institutions by Russia is Nearly Complete.

9 juli 2024 | 50 min

Batu Kutelia has over a decade of experience in international relations, and currently serves as a Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. He is a former Ambassador to the USA and former Head of Georgia’s Foreign Intelligence Service. He is a member of the board at the Atlantic Council of Georgia and Professor at the Alte University, Tbilisi, Georgia. He was co-author and TV co-host of the Foreign Affairs talk show at the Mtavari TV in 2020-2021. He is frequent contributor to the major national and international TV, printed and online media on the issues of national and international security, Russian hybrid warfare, defense and security sector reform and policies. ---------- LINKS: https://x.com/bkutelia https://www.linkedin.com/in/batu-kutelia-95733584/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batu_Kutelia https://www.fpri.org/contributor/batu-kutelia/ https://www.mccaininstitute.org/programs/leadership-programs/mccain-global-leaders/ngl/batu-kutelia/ https://cepa.org/author/batu-kutelia/ ---------- ARTICLES: https://kyivindependent.com/author/batu-kutelia/ https://kyivindependent.com/kutelia-sikharulidze-ending-putins-wars-dont-forget-georgia/ https://warontherocks.com/2024/05/rewind-and-reconnoiter-americas-vital-interests-in-georgia-with-batu-kutelia-shota-gvineria-and-david-h-ucko/ https://cepa.org/article/georgia-first-victim-of-russias-war-on-democracy/ https://ip-quarterly.com/en/georgias-fate-will-be-decided-kyiv https://www.euractiv.com/section/global-europe/opinion/russias-inevitable-collapse/ https://www.fpri.org/article/2020/10/georgias-parliamentary-elections-and-the-problem-of-oligarchic-rule/ https://www.the-american-interest.com/2020/01/31/state-capture-in-the-caucasus/ ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine Ukrainian Freedom News https://www.ukrainianfreedomnews.com/donation/ UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available

Silicon Bites - Episode #51 - Far from Causing the War, NATO's Failure to Deter has Enabled Russia.

8 juli 2024 | 47 min

Edition No51 | 08-07-2024 ~~~~~ SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ~~~~~ NEWS SOURCES: KYIV INDEPENDENT https://kyivindependent.com/trump-reportedly-considering-making-deal-with-putin-to-foreclose-nato-ukraine-accession-officials-tell-politico/ https://kyivindependent.com/nato-plans-to-establish-new-post-in-kyiv-trump-proof-ukraine-aid-wsj-reports/ https://kyivindependent.com/opinion-cognitive-warfare-is-natos-new-battlefield/ https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-fights-disinformation-not-christians-amid-russian-aggression/ https://kyivindependent.com/zelensky-18/ https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-not-ready-to-give-up-its-territory-to-compromise-with-russia-to-end-war-yermak-says/ https://kyivindependent.com/14-brigades-underarmed-aid-arriving-too-slowly-zelensky-comments-on-battlefield-situation/ https://kyivindependent.com/who-needs-warships-when-youve-got-drones-russia-dominance-in-black-sea/ https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-withdraws-from-eastern-chasiv-yar-neighborhood-military-says/ https://kyivindependent.com/russia-tries-to-keep-financial-system-under-control-as-military-spending-soars/ KYIV POST https://www.kyivpost.com/post/35336 https://www.kyivpost.com/opinion/35065 https://www.kyivpost.com/opinion/35294 NOVAYA GAZETA https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2024/07/04/looking-skywards-en https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2024/07/03/suspension-of-hostilities-en https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2024/07/03/i-didnt-do-anything-wrong-mum-en OTHER https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/07/04/kremlin-officials-wishing-for-a-trump-victory-while-claiming-otherwise-a85601 https://www.politico.com/news/2024/07/03/ukraine-bridge-nato-dangerous-00166537 https://euromaidanpress.com/2024/07/03/trump-considers-nato-deal-with-putin-potentially-to-block-ukraines-nato-accession/ https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/07/02/nato-second-trump-term-00164517 https://www.reuters.com/world/ukraine-get-good-news-air-defence-nato-summit-us-official-says-2024-07-02/ https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jul/05/ukraine-war-briefing-ukrainian-army-confirms-retreat-from-part-of-key-town-of-chasiv-yar https://www.politico.com/newsletters/national-security-daily/2024/07/03/concerns-swirl-about-the-nato-bridge-for-ukraine-00166510 ~~~~~ USEFUL LINKS: Vatnik Soup https://twitter.com/P_Kallioniemi http://www.medbat.org.ua/en/ Real World News https://kyivindependent.com/ https://www.kyivpost.com/ https://english.nv.ua/ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/ https://meduza.io/en https://meduza.io/ https://novayagazeta.eu/ https://www.newsweek.com/topic/russia... Analysis https://www.ft.com/russia https://www.economist.com/ https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ https://cepa.org/ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/ https://www.theatlantic.com/search/?s... YouTube Channels / @timesradio1 / @khodorkovskyru / @popularpolitics / @macknack / @plushev / @tvrain / @fake_news / @feyginlive ~~~~~ TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ~~~~~

457. Jon Sweet & Mark Toth - Ukraine has been Treated by History as a 'Corridor' and Pawn without Agency.

7 juli 2024 | 60 min

Is Ukraine too corrupt to join NATO? Escalation management still holds sway. ---------- Jon Sweet is an accomplished intelligence professional who served for 30 years within the Defence and Intelligence sector as an U.S. Army Military Intelligence Officer. He is now a freelance author, contributor and columnist for The Hill, The Messenger, Washington Examiner, Kyiv Post and FOX News. He provides an experienced military perspective on current world events. Mark Toth is a retired economist, historian and entrepreneur and has lived in US diplomatic and military communities around the world. Mark writes on issues of National Security and Foreign Policy and is a regular contributor to The Hill, BBC, Washington Examiner, Fox News, Kyiv Post and The Messenger. ---------- LINKS: https://x.com/MCTothSTL https://x.com/JESweet2022 https://nationalsecuritynews.com/author/mark-toth/ https://nationalsecuritynews.com/author/jon-sweet/ https://muckrack.com/mark-toth-1 ---------- ARTICLES: https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/4679167-ukraines-fate-is-in-bidens-hands-will-he-once-again-make-the-wrong-choice/ https://www.kyivpost.com/opinion/33025 https://tvpworld.com/76770888/nato-needs-to-take-on-a-more-global-role-security-expert-for-tvp-world https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13172981/sweden-nato-membership-blow-putin-toth-sweet.html https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/2578283/putins-nuclear-messaging-to-the-west/ https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/4346078-ukraines-window-of-opportunity-is-closing/ https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12742647/How-Hamas-aiding-Putin-Xis-ideological-war-against-West-UK-Israel-Ukraine-global-conflict-Russia-China-achieve-economic-military-domination.html ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available

456. Cormac Smith - Negotiations for Putin only Provide a Pause for him to Rearm and Attack Uraine Again.

7 juli 2024 | 58 min

Cormac Smith has worked in Public Relations and Corporate Communications for over three decades. Before moving into the government sector in 2000 I spent most of the 1990’s managing media relations in the pharmaceutical industry. He has held several senior communication management positions in local government, and Whitehall departments, but in 2016 travelled to Ukraine to take up a special appointment as the ‘Strategic Communication Advisor’ to Pavlo Klimkin, then the Foreign Minister of Ukraine. He was attached to the British Embassy in Kyiv but was embedded in Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the first foreigner to hold such a position. While in Kyiv, he also advised and provided training for five other government ministries and worked directly with three other cabinet ministers: Health, Education and the Deputy Prime Minister. In addition, he worked with The National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine and the NATO mission to the country. ---------- LINKS: https://x.com/CormacS63 https://www.linkedin.com/in/cormac-smith-848360162/ https://defencebrink.uk/ DEBATE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6HeC0OwFBQ ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine Ukrainian Freedom News https://www.ukrainianfreedomnews.com/donation/ UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

455. Philip Ingram - Putin is Making Little Headway in his War, but does he Understand he's now Losing?

5 juli 2024 | 55 min

Philip Ingram is a journalist and consultant who has built on a long and senior military career as an intelligence, counterintelligence, security officer, and planner. Philip has extensive business experience, especially in steel manufacturing, and has set up companies from scratch, merged companies, taken over companies post sale assets. He also has extensive media experience, appearing on the BBC, Sky News and Radio networks, international networks including Al Jazeera, TRT World, CNN, ABC, CBC, Japanese NTV and many others. ---------- LINKS: https://x.com/PhilipIngMBE https://greyharemedia.com/philip-ingram-mbe-bio/ ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine Ukrainian Freedom News https://www.ukrainianfreedomnews.com/donation/ UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

450. Terron Sims - Trump's Plan for Ukraine and NATO is Becoming Clearer, and it's Not Good for Freedom.

4 juli 2024 | 49 min

Whatever mistakes he has made in the war Vladimir Putin has retained the Escalation Initiative, always proving he can push the war to a new level of brutality, with the Western allies constantly playing catch-up, and in many ways placing restrictions and delays on Ukraine in terms of how it fights back. What are the implications of this dynamic for the war and a potential Ukrainian victory? ---------- Terron Sims, II is a combat veteran, businessman, political leader, and a graduate of the Military Academy at West Point in 2000. He is the Executive Director of Military & Veterans Affairs for Merit, Chairs the DNC’s Veterans & Military Families (VMF) Council, and previously served as Chief-of-Staff to Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee. An Iraq veteran, Terron was key in establishing Baghdad's local governments and was Wasit Province's military liaison officer. Terron sits on the Board of Principals for the Truman National Security Project and is active in Democratic politics. Mr. Sims has served in political roles of increasing responsibility over the past decade. In 2008 and 2012, he was Director, Virginia VMF for Obama and served on the Defence and Veterans Policy Teams. Mr. Sims has published two novels, With Honor In Hand and Hands of Honor, and has written a third along with his Iraq memoirs, Baghdad Peace. He also writes regularly about veterans and military families and national security issues. ---------- LINKS: http://www.terronsims.com/experience https://x.com/terronii https://www.linkedin.com/in/terron-sims-ii-637b358/ ARTICLES: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230131005439/en/Terron-Sims-II-Joins-Merit-as-Executive-Director-of-Military-Veterans-Affairs https://www.wtkr.com/virginia-democrats-veterans-press-conference-trump-rally ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine Ukrainian Freedom News https://www.ukrainianfreedomnews.com/donation/ UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

452. Tom Keatinge - Sanctions are one of the Best Levers Over Russian Illegality - If we Apply them Fully

3 juli 2024 | 47 min

Tom Keatinge is the founding Director of the Centre for Finance & Security (CFS) at RUSI. According to The Economist, Tom Keatinge is one of a small group of '‘White collar vigilantes and poachers-turned-gamekeepers’. Tom’s research focuses on matters at the intersection of finance and security, including the use of finance as a tool of intelligence and disruption. He has a Master’s in Intelligence and International Security from King’s College London, where his research focused on the effectiveness of the global counter-terror finance regime. Prior to joining RUSI in 2014, he was an investment banker for 20 years at J.P. Morgan. ---------- LINKS: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-keatinge-9812444/ ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine Ukrainian Freedom News https://www.ukrainianfreedomnews.com/donation/ UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Pre-election Conversation: "Ukraine must win" - Held 28th June at Ukrainian Cultural Centre, London.

3 juli 2024 | 76 min

Ukraine Must Win: pre-election panel conversation with the participation of: - Edward Lucas - Paul Mason - Macer Gifford and moderated by Jonathan Fink (Silicon Curtain) ---------- Organiser: SupportUkraine.UK (Instagram @supportukraine.uk). Thanks to the Association of Ukrainians in Great Britain (AUGB) London Branch for hosting the event. All funds raised from this event will be directed to help frontline medics in Ukraine. Date: Friday, June 28 · 7 - 9pm (GMT+1) Host: Ukrainian Cultural Centre, AUGB London Location: 154 Holland Park Avenue London W11 4UH ---------- If the West provides Ukraine with support to win the war, this victory will secure peace not only for Ukraine but for the whole of Europe. A pre-election discussion with representatives from three main political parties. Support Ukraine looks forward to a night of captivating conversation about what’s needed for a Ukrainian victory. The panel will be quizzed by the host of the Silicon Curtain podcast Jonathan Fink. He’ll be joined by Edward Lucas, Paul Mason and Macer Gifford. ---------- Welcome to the pre-election debate. The election outcome may seem to be broadly predictable, but what will Day one for the new UK government look like? How prominent will Ukraine be in the priority list of a new cabinet? Will there be a continuation of foreign policy, and will it be aligned behind a Ukrainian victory – not simply the vaguely worded and non-committal phrase “as long as it takes”. The devil will be on the detail, ranging from issue such as rearming Britain for a dangerous world to our commitment to international law and cracking down on the laundering of oligarch money and finding our place in a fracturing global economy. But tonight, we will be discussing whether the war in Ukraine, which was initiated by Russia, should be at the top of the list. The longer it drags on, the higher the cost for Ukraine in human and economic terms, and the more malign and toxic Russia seem to be becoming. Despite Escalation management, prolonging the war seems to be compounding risks of a wider conflagration, rather than mitigating risk. We desperately need leadership to resolve the war, and align around a Ukrainian victory, but will we get it through the result of this election? ---------- Edward Lucas was one of the first journalists to raise the alarm about Putin’s actions and motivations. While most of the world still thought of Putin as ‘someone we could do business with’, Edward published a prescient and insightful book in 2008 called “The New Cold War – Putin’s threat to Russia and the West”. Edward Lucas is now a full-time Liberal Democrat is a Prospective candidate for the Cities of London and Westminster constituency, on a platform that includes defending democracy against dirty money and corruption. ---------- Paul Mason is a British commentator and radio personality. He was Culture and Digital Editor of Channel 4 News, becoming the programme's Economics Editor in 2014. He is the author of several books, and a visiting professor at the University of Wolverhampton. Allegedly Mason was a member of the Workers' Power group, as a Leftie activist, but he now explains that “What his politics are is very complicated.” Mason was considered as a candidate by the Labour Party to run in the constituency of Islington North at this election but was not selected for the final shortlist. ---------- Macer Gifford is a British veteran of the Ukrainian Army – who is well known to members of NAFO (North Atlantic Fellas Organization), and those who follow the Ukraine war in detail. As he says on his Twitter profile, he is channelling the spirit of George Orwell, and his dispatches from the frontlines of the war in Ukraine have been highly engaging, informative, eloquent, and full of humanity. Macer has an MSc in Security & Diplomacy and has followed Conservative politics for many years. ----------

Pre-election Event Audience Q&A: "Ukraine must win" - 28th June at Ukrainian Cultural Centre, London

2 juli 2024 | 40 min

Ukraine Must Win: pre-election panel event - Audience Q&A - with the participation of:
- Edward Lucas
- Paul Mason
- Macer Gifford
and moderated by Jonathan Fink (Silicon Curtain)
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Organiser: SupportUkraine.UK (Instagram @supportukraine.uk).
Thanks to the Association of Ukrainians in Great Britain (AUGB) London Branch for hosting the event.
All funds raised from this event will be directed to help frontline medics in Ukraine.
Date: Friday, June 28 · 7 - 9pm (GMT+1)
Host: Ukrainian Cultural Centre, AUGB London
Location: 154 Holland Park Avenue London W11 4UH
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If the West provides Ukraine with support to win the war, this victory will secure peace not only for Ukraine but for the whole of Europe. A pre-election discussion with representatives from three main political parties. Support Ukraine looks forward to a night of captivating conversation about what’s needed for a Ukrainian victory. The panel will be quizzed by the host of the Silicon Curtain podcast Jonathan Fink. He’ll be joined by Edward Lucas, Paul Mason and Macer Gifford.
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Welcome to the pre-election debate. The election outcome may seem to be broadly predictable, but what will Day one for the new UK government look like? How prominent will Ukraine be in the priority list of a new cabinet? Will there be a continuation of foreign policy, and will it be aligned behind a Ukrainian victory – not simply the vaguely worded and non-committal phrase “as long as it takes”. The devil will be on the detail, ranging from issue such as rearming Britain for a dangerous world to our commitment to international law and cracking down on the laundering of oligarch money and finding our place in a fracturing global economy. But tonight, we will be discussing whether the war in Ukraine, which was initiated by Russia, should be at the top of the list. The longer it drags on, the higher the cost for Ukraine in human and economic terms, and the more malign and toxic Russia seem to be becoming. Despite Escalation management, prolonging the war seems to be compounding risks of a wider conflagration, rather than mitigating risk. We desperately need leadership to resolve the war, and align around a Ukrainian victory, but will we get it through the result of this election?
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Edward Lucas was one of the first journalists to raise the alarm about Putin’s actions and motivations. While most of the world still thought of Putin as ‘someone we could do business with’, Edward published a prescient and insightful book in 2008 called “The New Cold War – Putin’s threat to Russia and the West”. Edward Lucas is now a full-time Liberal Democrat is a Prospective candidate for the Cities of London and Westminster constituency, on a platform that includes defending democracy against dirty money and corruption.
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Paul Mason is a British commentator and radio personality. He was Culture and Digital Editor of Channel 4 News, becoming the programme's Economics Editor in 2014. He is the author of several books, and a visiting professor at the University of Wolverhampton. Allegedly Mason was a member of the Workers' Power group, as a Leftie activist, but he now explains that “What his politics are is very complicated.” Mason was considered as a candidate by the Labour Party to run in the constituency of Islington North at this election but was not selected for the final shortlist.
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Macer Gifford is a British veteran of the Ukrainian Army – who is well known to members of NAFO (North Atlantic Fellas Organization), and those who follow the Ukraine war in detail. As he says on his Twitter profile, he is channelling the spirit of George Orwell, and his dispatches from the frontlines of the war in Ukraine have been highly engaging, informative, eloquent, and full of humanity. Macer has an MSc in Security & Diplomacy and has followed Conservative politics for many years.
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2024-06-03 | Huge Tax Increases Hit Russian Business - Original Video by Naki & Milov | Translation

30 juni 2024 | 25 min

EXAMPLE MEMBERS' CONTENT - FREE FOR 24 HOURS. ---------- 2024-06-03 | Tax increases will hit everyone (in Russia) by Michael Naki and Vladimir Milov | Translated from the original Russian by Jonathan Fink ---------- What has become clear about the Russian economy over the past week. Now we won’t be able to tell how petrol production fell, since it was defined as classified, which, of course, is a sure sign that everything is fine and under control, but a lot of other things were happening. Let's start with gasoline, because this is just a complete joke. Indeed, they decided after the last time, remember, we discussed, last week the lowest level for the production of gasoline from diesel since February was reached. That is, all these attacks on Russian refineries, as we find out, work. They just stupidly decided to keep it secret, as they say, in order to prevent market manipulation by unscrupulous parties. This classification of data on gasoline production indicates that they have big, irreparable problems. That is, apparently, they do not want it to be seen how seriously the Ukrainian strikes are knocking out all these Russian oil refining capacities. ---------- С деньгами в российском бюджете настолько всё хорошо, что вновь повышаются налоги. Причём власти пытаются заговорить людям зубы, рассказывая, что коснутся они только «богатых» (а богатый в России, как выясняется, это зарабатывающий от 2 тысяч долларов). На самом же деле основной удар ждёт не оттуда, а от увеличения налога на прибыль. И, конечно же, он будет перенесён на потребителя и заложен в цену. Также всё замечательно с бензином, причём настолько, что Россия перестала публиковать данные о его производстве. Если удары по НПЗ продолжатся, то российская система будет испытывать всё больше проблем. ---------- LINKS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_v-dmEsp9cA&t=1662s @MackNack @Vladimir_Milov ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine Ukrainian Freedom News https://www.ukrainianfreedomnews.com/donation/ UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

451. Sir Richard Shirreff - Escalation is Putin's Default Strategy; Might that be Driving us Towards WW3?

29 juni 2024 | 55 min

449. Steven Moore - All Outcomes from the Election Pose Risks, but what are the Main Existential Threats?

29 juni 2024 | 47 min

Whatever mistakes he has made in the war Vladimir Putin has retained the Escalation Initiative, always proving he can push the war to a new level of brutality, with the Western allies always playing catch-up, any in many ways placing restrictions and delays on Ukraine in terms of how it fights back. What are the implications of this dynamic for the war and a potential Ukrainian victory? ---------- Steven Moore is a political strategist, who spent seven years as a chief of staff and senior leadership aide in the United States Congress, developing relationships with senior policymakers across the United States and around the world. He worked on Capitol Hill in the House of Representatives mostly as chief of staff for former Rep. Pete Roskam (R-Ill.), the former chief deputy GOP whip. In that role, Moore was one of the most influential staff members on the Republican side of the aisle. ---------- LINKS: https://x.com/MooreUSA https://x.com/UKRAINEFREEDOM7 https://stevenmoore.substack.com/ https://substack.com/@steveninkyiv ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine Ukrainian Freedom News https://www.ukrainianfreedomnews.com/donation/ UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

448. Benjamin Tallis - Estonian PM Kallas and 'Russia Hawk' Set to be EU's Next Top Diplomat

27 juni 2024 | 42 min

Silicon Bites - Episode #50 - Putin's Little Helpers and the Spreaders of Myths, Lies and Deceptions

26 juni 2024 | 49 min

Edition No50 | 26-06-2024 ~~~~~ SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ~~~~~ NEWS SOURCES: KYIV INDEPENDENT https://kyivindependent.com/washington-post-new-data-shows-large-suspected-north-korean-munitions-transfers-to-russia/ https://kyivindependent.com/russias-su-57-hype-versus-reality/ https://kyivindependent.com/ft-serbia-hints-its-artillery-shells-are-making-their-way-to-ukraine/ https://kyivindependent.com/satellite-images-show-russias-shahed-warehouse-destruction/ https://kyivindependent.com/budanov-no-point-in-peace-talks/ https://kyivindependent.com/media-counter-terrorism-operation-regime-institute-in-russias-dagestan-amid-deadly-attacks/ https://kyivindependent.com/russia-withdrawing-units-from-area-near-vovchansk-due-to-their-loss-of-combat-capability-military-says/ https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-war-latest-russian-attacks-damage-energy-infrastructure-in-multiple-regions-kharkiv-repeatedly-hit-with-glide-bombs/ https://kyivindependent.com/worst-case-scenario-in-ukraines-energy-system-very-close-to-realistic-largest-energy-company-says/ https://kyivindependent.com/russia-blames-us-for-deadly-strike-in-crimea/ THE GUARDIAN https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jun/21/russia-was-provoked-into-ukraine-war-claims-nigel-farage https://www.theguardian.com/politics/video/2024/jun/22/sunak-starmer-condemn-farage-claims-west-provoked-russia-invasion-ukraine-video https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/22/ukraine-war-briefing-zelenskiy-hails-historic-step-as-eu-set-to-open-ukraine-accession-talks https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/23/a-return-to-the-cold-war-putin-and-kim-have-joined-forces-as-global-delinquents https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/23/ukraine-endures-widespread-blackouts-as-russia-attacks-critical-infrastructure NOVAYA GAZETA https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2024/06/17/seize-the-day-en https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2024/06/22/further-limits-revealed-to-kyivs-use-of-us-supplied-weapons-against-russia-en-news https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2024/06/23/three-dead-and-over-100-injured-by-missile-shot-down-over-sevastopol-en KYIV POST https://www.kyivpost.com/post/34732 https://www.kyivpost.com/post/34663 OTHER https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/06/23/at-least-19-dead-after-church-and-synagogue-attacks-in-russias-dagestan-a85496 https://www.wsj.com/articles/putin-russia-war-ukraine-solovyov-jeffrey-sachs-columbia-university-mark-episkopos-center-national-interest-dimitri-simes-11673017425 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-13558621/Farage-no-Trump-soft-spot-Putin-endears-no-one.html https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-ukraine-russia-war-threatens-cut-aid-election-2024/ ~~~~~ USEFUL LINKS: Vatnik Soup https://twitter.com/P_Kallioniemi http://www.medbat.org.ua/en/ Real World News https://kyivindependent.com/ https://www.kyivpost.com/ https://english.nv.ua/ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/ https://meduza.io/en https://meduza.io/ https://novayagazeta.eu/ https://www.newsweek.com/topic/russia... Analysis https://www.ft.com/russia https://www.economist.com/ https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ https://cepa.org/ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/ https://www.theatlantic.com/search/?s... YouTube Channels / @timesradio1 / @khodorkovskyru / @popularpolitics / @macknack / @plushev / @tvrain / @fake_news / @feyginlive ~~~~~ TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine ~~~~~

447. Beverly Ochieng - One Year on from Prighozhin’s Mutiny, Wagner is Deeply Embedded in Africa's Sahel.

25 juni 2024 | 48 min

445. Kevin Leach - Russia did not Invest the Culture Wars, but Ruthlessly Exploits them to Divide Enemies

24 juni 2024 | 71 min

Kevin Leach is the main director for Sabre Training Advisory Group, a professional military training non-profit. Their aim is to give Ukrainian defenders the skills to come home alive. Kevin is a Canadian Armed Forces veteran, with a long history of working in Ukraine and in military affairs. He served as a sergeant from 2008-2018, specialising in armoured reconnaissance. He leads a weekly segment on the Mriya Report called “Come Home Alive” covering the Key Elements of Training for the Ukrainian army. ---------- LINKS: https://x.com/SabreAdvisory https://www.sabretag.org/donate https://www.instagram.com/sabre_tag/ https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mriyareport/episodes/Kevin-Leach--Sabre-Advisory-Training-on-Key-Elements-of-Training---May-29--2024-e2kavap ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

446. Ivana Stradner - Putin's Desire for Further Territorial Conquests is Unlikely to Stop Unless Stopped

22 juni 2024 | 43 min

Dr Ivana Stradner is a Research Fellow at The Foundation for Defence of Democracies (FDD) a non-partisan institution focusing on national security and foreign policy. She is a Special Correspondent @KyivPost and expert on Russia’s information security. Ivana has been published in many academic journals and the media, including The Washington Post, The National Interest, Real Clear World and Defence, Newsweek, National Review, and Foreign Policy. ---------- LINKS: https://www.fdd.org/team/ivana-stradner/ https://x.com/ivanastradner https://www.aei.org/profile/ivana-stradner/ https://www.belgradeforum.org/speaker/ivana-stradner/ https://foreignpolicy.com/author/ivana-stradner/ https://www.kyivpost.com/authors/245 ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine Ukrainian Freedom News https://www.ukrainianfreedomnews.com/donation/ UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

444. @AnnafromUkraine and @ATPGeo - Putin's Bogus Peace Ultimatum - Why Russia is not Serious about Peace

21 juni 2024 | 84 min

GUESTS: Anna from Ukraine - Anna Danylchuk and Jonathan MS Pearce ---------- Anna Danylchuk has been creating a war diary since the early days of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia in 2022. Anna Danylchuk aims to tell the truth about Ukraine and Russia’s war and cut through the noise and propaganda. Anna is passionate about the beauty and independence of her country, and communicates this powerfully in her videos, in a clear and honest way. Jonathan MS Pearce is a philosopher, author, columnist, and public speaker with an interest in writing about almost anything, from scepticism to science, politics, and morality, to the environment. Essentially because everything is philosophy. He is a former teacher and is now battling primary progressive multiple sclerosis. He can no longer play football with his twin boys, but he can still write a good column and book. And remarkably, and very bravely, he has just come back from an arduous journey to Ukraine’s frontlines. His experiences are the subject of today’s conversation. ---------- LINKS: @AnnafromUkraine https://www.buymeacoffee.com/annafromukraine @ATPGeo https://twitter.com/ATipplingPhilo https://onlysky.media/jonathan-pearce/ ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Silicon Bites #49 - Extension of Financial Sanctions & Secondary sanctions Hit Russian Economy Hard.

20 juni 2024 | 39 min

Edition No49 | 20-06-2024 ~~~~~ SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ~~~~~ NEWS SOURCES: KYIV INDEPENDENT https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-war-latest-over-80-states-organizations-sign-peace-summits-joint-communique/ https://kyivindependent.com/everyone-knows-putins-proposals-for-peace-in-ukraine-not-meant-seriously-scholz-says/ https://kyivindependent.com/putin-names-ceasefire-demands-full-ukrainian-withdrawal-from-four-oblasts/ https://kyivindependent.com/sbu-drones-hit-russian-oil-depots-in-rostov-oblast-source-says/ https://kyivindependent.com/ukrainian-drones-attack-metallurgical-plant-other-facilities-in-3-russian-regions/ https://kyivindependent.com/at-least-12-000-civilians-confirmed-to-have-been-killed-since-beginning-of-full-scale-war-prosecutor-general-says/ https://kyivindependent.com/us-announces-1-5-billion-in-aid-for-ukraine-including-support-for-energy-infrastructure/ https://kyivindependent.com/ukrainian-women-share-their-accounts-of-rape-by-russian-forces-as-reporters-investigate-their-assailants/ THE MOSCOW TIMES https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/06/13/moscow-exchange-halts-dollar-euro-trade-after-new-us-sanctions-a85391 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/06/14/russia-reckons-with-loss-of-regional-influence-as-armenia-eyes-exit-from-moscow-led-military-bloc-a85402 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/06/17/us-reporter-gershkovich-to-stand-trial-in-russia-on-june-26-a85433 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/06/18/branded-foreign-agents-wives-and-mothers-of-mobilized-russian-soldiers-face-uncertain-future-a85319 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/06/15/sweden-says-russian-bomber-violated-its-airspace-a85423 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/06/14/what-should-russians-do-if-vpns-are-banned-a84090 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/06/07/embarrassingly-for-the-kremlin-russian-ai-isnt-good-enough-for-its-own-disinformation-a85338 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/06/12/letting-more-russians-come-to-europe-means-taking-billions-out-of-putins-pockets-a85386 KYIV POST https://www.kyivpost.com/post/34390 https://www.kyivpost.com/post/34409 NOVAYA GAZETA https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2024/06/16/russias-brics-partners-refuse-to-sign-ukraine-peace-summit-declaration-en-news https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2024/06/16/presidential-envoy-to-become-general-secretary-of-ruling-united-russia-party-en-news https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2024/06/12/dying-for-danzig-en ~~~~~ USEFUL LINKS: Vatnik Soup https://twitter.com/P_Kallioniemi http://www.medbat.org.ua/en/ Real World News https://kyivindependent.com/ https://www.kyivpost.com/ https://english.nv.ua/ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/ https://meduza.io/en https://meduza.io/ https://novayagazeta.eu/ https://www.newsweek.com/topic/russia... Analysis https://www.ft.com/russia https://www.economist.com/ https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ https://cepa.org/ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/ https://www.theatlantic.com/search/?s... YouTube Channels / @timesradio1 / @khodorkovskyru / @popularpolitics / @macknack / @plushev / @tvrain / @fake_news / @feyginlive ~~~~~ TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine Ukrainian Freedom News https://www.ukrainianfreedomnews.com/donation/ UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ~~~~~

443. Mark Galeotti - The Fall, Rise & Fall of One of the Most Dangerous Warlords in Russia and the World.

19 juni 2024 | 67 min

GUEST: Mark Galeotti - historian, author, security expert and academic. ---------- Yevgeny Prigozhin emerged as one of the most dangerous warlords in the world and as one of Vladimir Putin's chief rivals in Russia's tumultuous political climate, exiled after leading Wagner's attempted coup and killed in a mysterious plane crash. But what is the truth about this enigmatic figure, his role in the war with Ukraine, and the chaos unleashed across Russia by his turn against Putin? And, in the aftermath of his death, what is next for Russia in the new stage of late Putinism that Prigozhin's life forged? ---------- LINKS: https://inmoscowsshadows.wordpress.com/ https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/in-moscows-shadows/id1510124746 https://twitter.com/MarkGaleotti https://www.rusi.org/people/galeotti https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Galeotti ---------- SPEAKER: Mark Galeotti is an author and academic – by training an historian – but in practice an interdisciplinary scholar with interests encompassing politics, criminology, security studies, international relations, and anthropology. He is a specialist in transnational and organized crime, security affairs, Russian Politics, Russian History, Intelligence and Security. Mark has a PhD in Government from LSE and has worked as a Senior Lecturer and Head of Department of History at Keele University. He is a Principal Director at Mayak Intelligence, and is an Honorary Professor, SSEES at UCL. He is a Senior Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute. He has also been Professor of Global Affairs at New York University from 2009 to 2016. ---------- BOOKS: Downfall: Prigozhin, Putin, and the new fight for the future of Russia by Mark Galeotti and Anna Arutunyan (2024) Mark Galeotti: Putin's Wars: From Chechnya to Ukraine (2022) Mark Galeotti: The Weaponisation of Everything: A Field Guide to the New Way of War (2022) Mark Galeotti: A Short History of Russia: From the Pagans to Putin (2021) Mark Galeotti: Storm-333: KGB and Spetsnaz seize Kabul, Soviet-Afghan War 1979 (2021) Mark Galeotti: We Need to Talk About Putin: How the West gets him wrong (2019) Mark Galeotti: Russian Political War: Moving Beyond the Hybrid (2019) Mark Galeotti: The Vory: Russia's Super Mafia (2018) ---------- WAR STUDIES: Mark Galeotti: Russia’s Wars in Chechnya: 1994–2009 (2024) Mark Galeotti: Putin Takes Crimea 2014: Grey-zone warfare opens the Russia-Ukraine conflict (2023) Mark Galeotti: Russia's Five-Day War: The invasion of Georgia, August 2008 (2023) Mark Galeotti: Afghanistan 1979–88: Soviet air power against the mujahideen (2023) Mark Galeotti: Teutonic Knight vs Lithuanian Warrior: The Lithuanian Crusade 1283–1435 (2023) ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine Ukrainian Freedom News https://www.ukrainianfreedomnews.com/donation/ UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ----------

442. Oleksandr Musienko - Collapse of Russian Army and New Ukrainian Counter-Offensive Can't be Ruled Out

18 juni 2024 | 50 min

Oleksandr Musienko is a military and political expert, political and legal adviser, and head of the Centre for Military-Law Research. He is a United24 Media ambassador and hosts his own very popular military analytical channel on YouTube in the Ukrainian language. ---------- Interview created in partnership with United24 Media UNITED24 Media is an English-language modern-format digital media offering short content stories and reels on Ukraine, its culture, history, businesses, people, and, most importantly, the ongoing war with Russia. Ukraine is fighting for freedom and independence against absolute evil. Owner: Office of the President of Ukraine Created by: Ministry of Digital Transformation Headquarters: Kyiv, Ukraine Launched: July 21, 2022 ---------- LINKS: https://www.youtube.com/@Musienko_channel/ https://united24media.com/ ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine Ukrainian Freedom News https://www.ukrainianfreedomnews.com/donation/ UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

441. Konstantin Samoilov - US Secondary Sanctions Hit Russian Economy Hard and May Affect Military Production

17 juni 2024 | 38 min

Monthly conversation with Konstantin Samoilov of the @INSIDERUSSIA channel. US expands Russia secondary sanctions, prohibits supply of IT services, extends export controls, and designates over 300 targets. ---------- Welcome to our monthly conversation with Konstantin, who is one of the most respected voices on YouTube about what is happening Inside Russia. Konstantin Samoilov is a well-known YouTuber whose channel ‘Inside Russia’ comments insightfully on Russia’s decent into authoritarianism over the last few years. But now, like many others, he’s outside Russia, with no idea of when he can return there. ---------- CONTENT: 00:01:24 Popcorn moment - is the russian economy finally imploding? ---------- LINKS: INSIDE RUSSIA is a source of current news on Russia - Konstantin carefully selects 9 news stories that are important and really matter, with commentaries and analyses by Konstantin delivered daily to channel patrons at Patreon.com Get your access to daily news updates at patreon.com/INSIDERUSSIA https://www.youtube.com/@INSIDERUSSIA https://www.patreon.com/insiderussia ---------- OTHER VIDEOS WITH KONSTANTIN ON SILICON CURTAIN: https://youtu.be/gbINoWwiq-Y https://youtu.be/71CgzWpxf4Y https://youtu.be/L2pEHdrSbJw https://youtu.be/HKF-QaXOCIg https://youtu.be/F6vJGl0169Y https://youtu.be/ogYRqb24ltc https://youtu.be/VhpoQwvEqis https://youtu.be/URzXdRO02ps (29-Jan-2024) https://youtu.be/FTuvRZQMCN8 (04-Mar-24) https://youtu.be/qXcfjra6KGI (16-Apr-24) https://youtu.be/XX3zU5QNvCw (22-May-24) ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

439. Aliide Naylor - The Baltics are Vital Democracies that Border a Revanchist Russia Ruled by a Tyrant.

16 juni 2024 | 35 min

Aliide Naylor is a British journalist, author, and editor who has specialised in Russia and frontline European nations since 2011. Her freelance reportage has been published by a variety of outlets, including Vice, The Times, the Guardian, Tortoise, POLITICO Europe, and many more. Whilst she has extensive experience working on Russia, Europe, and international affairs, she also covers topics as diverse as technology, society and culture. Her first book, 'The Shadow in the East: Vladimir Putin and the New Baltic Front', was published by Bloomsbury in January 2020. ---------- The Baltics are vital democracies in North-Eastern Europe, but with a belligerent Vladimir Putin to their east – plotting his war on Ukraine – and 'expansionist' NATO to their west, these NATO members have increasingly been the subject of unsettling headlines in both Western and Russian media. But beyond the headlines, what is daily existence like in the Baltics, and what does the security of these frontline nations mean for the world? Based on her extensive research and work as a journalist, Aliide Naylor takes us inside the geopolitics of the region. Travelling to the heart of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania she explores modernity in the region, investigates smuggling and troop movements in the borderlands, and explains the countries' unique cultural identities. Naylor tells us why the Baltics have been vital to the political struggle between East and West, and how they play a critical role in understanding the long running tensions between Russia and Europe. ---------- LINKS: https://x.com/Aliide_N https://www.aliidenaylor.com/biography-contact ---------- BOOKS: THE SHADOW IN THE EAST | Vladimir Putin and the – New Baltic Front ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine Ukrainian Freedom News https://www.ukrainianfreedomnews.com/donation/ UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

440. Dimko Zhluktenko - Tech Entrepreneurs are Helping Accelerate the Military Tech Revolution in Ukraine

13 juni 2024 | 41 min

2024-06-08 | Vassal State: What China Gives Russia - Original video by Vladimir Milov | Translation

12 juni 2024 | 29 min

2024-06-08 | What China Gives Russia by Vladimir Milov | Translated from the original Russian by Jonathan Fink ---------- What did Putin agree with Xi Jinping during his visit to China, and what is happening in Russian Chinese relations in general? There is a lot of talk about this now. On the one hand, the dialogue between Putin and Xi in Beijing did not end with anything concrete in terms of signing any new agreements. On the other hand, we hear a lot of talk that China may still begin to supply Russia with lethal weapons for use in its war with Ukraine. In general, what is the current situation in Russian Chinese relations? Since, despite all these statements about eternal friendship, some rather alarming messages are coming through; agreements between the countries are not working. Large Chinese companies have stopped working with Russia, fearing secondary US sanctions. Well, first of all, it must be said that, despite the fact that Russian propaganda presented Putin’s visit to China with maximum fanfare, and, by the way, most of the Russian government and senior people from the Russian leadership went with him. But, on the other hand, the results of this visit were strikingly empty. As a result, Putin and Xi signed only 11 documents. You can easily find this list on the Kremlin’s website, and it is clear that there is nothing serious there, no new financial, trade, military agreements. Only phytosanitary protocols, which, in general, can be signed at the level of deputy ministers. ---------- Визит Путина в Китай оказался удивительно пустым. Что скрывается за отсутствием реальных прорывов? Почему не решаются возрастающие острые проблемы в отношениях с Китаем - блокировка расчетов, уход китайских компаний с российского рынка, сокращение критических поставок китайского оборудования? Объясняет Владимир Милов - это продолжение нашего регулярного плейлиста, где мы рассказываем правду об истинной сущности отношений России и Китая, о которой вы не услышите по российскому телевидению. ---------- LINKS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGbbVjuIiT0&t=88s https://www.youtube.com/@Vladimir_Milov ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine Ukrainian Freedom News https://www.ukrainianfreedomnews.com/donation/ UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

434. Maksym Kononenko - Ukraine Pushes for a Just, Sustainable and Equitable Peace to End Russia's War.

12 juni 2024 | 49 min

Today I’m speaking with the Ambassador of Ukraine to Estonia, His Excellency Maksym Kononenko. The Ambassador is preparing for the upcoming Global Peace Summit in Switzerland on June 15-16. And this interview is part of an effort to draw the attention of the global public to topics relating to creating a sustainable and secure peace in Ukraine, and about Ukraine's vision of ending the Russia-Ukraine war. ---------- LINKS: https://estonia.mfa.gov.ua/en/governance/maksym-kononenko https://x.com/kononenkomak?lang=en ARTICLES: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_2024_Ukraine_peace_summit https://www.reuters.com/world/china-will-not-join-swiss-peace-conference-ukraine-sources-say-2024-05-31/ https://www.eda.admin.ch/eda/en/fdfa/fdfa/aktuell/dossiers/konferenz-zum-frieden-ukraine.html https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-peace-conference-switzerland-china/32948994.html https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cw99d97qq7zo ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine Ukrainian Freedom News https://www.ukrainianfreedomnews.com/donation/ UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

438. Taras Zhovtenko - Unpacking the Authoritarian Toolkit of Propaganda that Russia Exports to the World

11 juni 2024 | 36 min

Disinformation continues to be a threat to Ukrainian sovereignty and is also targeted at Western democracies and allies of Ukraine. Around the world aggressive information warfare threatens information security and social stability, especially in states which Russia seeks to destabilise or coerce into supporting it. As we saw in the 2016 US elections, it can potentially threaten results of voting, place undue influence on voters’ decisions and undermine democratic processes. This is more important than ever, with a slew of elections in 2024 and the advent of exponential AI created fakes. ---------- Taras Zhovtenko has a PhD in National Security and is on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Public Advisory Board. He is a researcher and Analyst in the area of IOPs/PSYOPs, Hybrid Threats, Disinformation, and International Security. ---------- LINKS: https://x.com/TarasZhovtenko https://www.linkedin.com/in/taras-zhovtenko-07246ba0/ ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine Ukrainian Freedom News https://www.ukrainianfreedomnews.com/donation/ UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

437. Ecocide Campaign - On this day in 2023 Russia Committed Ecocide when it Destroyed the Kakhovka Dam

10 juni 2024 | 24 min

IN MEMORY OF THE DESTRUCTION OF KAKHOVKA DAM Friends and fellow activists, This is vitally important, and unfortunately has not received nearly enough media attention, either at the time the crime was committed by Russia, or subsequently. Ecocide needs to be designated a war crime. We must remember Kakhovka. Please share this around your networks to maximise attention on this issue. My friend and colleague Steven Lacey has kindly involved me in the creation process of this impactful campaign to raise awareness about Kakhovka and Ecocide. On this day in 2023 the Kakhovka Dam was destroyed, laying waste to hundreds of square miles of natural habitat and poisoning waterways. Right now The International Criminal Court does not recognise Ecocide as an international crime and ecological destruction goes unpunished. Help nature get justice. Share to show your support and visit: https://lnkd.in/d2dDPQmv to donate and sign the petition. #StopEcocide #NatureDemandsJustice ---------- LINKS: Please, please do share to support Ukraine and justice. https://www.stopecocide.earth/ ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine Ukrainian Freedom News https://www.ukrainianfreedomnews.com/donation/ UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Silicon Bites #48 - Pressure Building to Prosecute Putin's Genocidal Propagandists from Russian TV.

9 juni 2024 | 52 min

Edition No48 | 09-06-2024 ~~~~~ SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ~~~~~ NEWS SOURCES: KYIV INDEPENDENT https://kyivindependent.com/zelensky-tells-french-parliament-russia/ https://kyivindependent.com/biden-warns-putin-is-not-going-to-stop-at-ukraine/ https://kyivindependent.com/hur-ukraine-hit-su-57-jet-for-first-time/ https://kyivindependent.com/what-are-frances-mirage-2000-5-jets-and-how-can-ukraine-use-them/ https://kyivindependent.com/f-16s-for-ukraine-when-will-they-arrive-and-what-can-they-do/ https://kyivindependent.com/european-commission-says-ukraine-ready-to-start-accession-talks/ https://kyivindependent.com/handelsblatt-merkel-russia-gas/ KYIV POST https://www.kyivpost.com/post/33713 https://www.kyivpost.com/post/34001 https://www.kyivpost.com/post/33695 NAVAYA GAZETA https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2024/06/04/methodical-madness-en https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2024/06/06/russia-to-consider-providing-weapons-to-strike-western-targets-putin-says-en-news https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2024/06/06/the-solution-to-all-our-problems-en https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2024/06/05/eyeing-the-door-en https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2024/06/05/cruel-and-unusual-en https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2024/06/03/russias-new-red-guards-en OTHER SOURCES: https://www.fidh.org/en/region/europe-central-asia/ukraine/medvedev-solovyov-simonyan-and-other-top-russian-propagandists https://doxa.team/articles/deport-rpc ~~~~~ USEFUL LINKS: Vatnik Soup https://twitter.com/P_Kallioniemi http://www.medbat.org.ua/en/ Real World News https://kyivindependent.com/ https://www.kyivpost.com/ https://english.nv.ua/ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/ https://meduza.io/en https://meduza.io/ https://novayagazeta.eu/ https://www.newsweek.com/topic/russia... Analysis https://www.ft.com/russia https://www.economist.com/ https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ https://cepa.org/ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/ https://www.theatlantic.com/search/?s... YouTube Channels / @timesradio1 / @khodorkovskyru / @popularpolitics / @macknack / @plushev / @tvrain / @fake_news / @feyginlive ~~~~~ TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemysl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ~~~~~ 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 YouTube s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

2025-05-29 | How Putin Destroyed Luhansk - Original video by Michael Naki | Translation from Russian

8 juni 2024 | 40 min

2025-05-29 | Michael Naki | How Putin Destroyed Luhansk ---------- Russian propaganda has been trying for 10 years to pretend that there was no Russian invasion of Donbass. That in fact, a civil war took place in Ukraine 10 years ago, and the residents of Donbass simply wanted to secede, they wanted independence from Kyiv. And the bloody Kiev regime came and began to destroy Donbass in response. Where have you been for eight years? Asked during the start of the Russian full-scale invasion two years ago? All kinds of TV presenters. Eight years while Ukraine bombed Donbass. In fact, Ukraine destroyed enemy troops that occupied its territory. In fact, there was no civil war in Ukraine. There was the Russian army, there were Russian representatives who came to Donbass and simply began to seize everything there, masquerading as some kind of local population, and so on. Over the course of 10 years, Donbass was transformed from a prosperous region that needed almost nothing, into a garbage dump, where shells rattle every day, into a garbage dump, where the stadium has been empty for a long time and where people simply live not like in the 90s, but much worse. Because various kinds of bandits who came from Moscow constantly do nothing but divide the remaining fragments of Donbass that still exist. ---------- Материал "Важных историй": https://istories.media/stories/2024/0... Россия вот уже 10 лет пытается формировать нарратив, что в Украине началась гражданская война, и из-за этого Луганск и Донецк перешли под крыло Москвы. Но никакого отношения к действительности этот выстраиваемый миф не имеет. На самом деле, в эти города буквально приехали россияне, скооперировались с местными маргиналами и начали открытую войну. Что происходило в Луганске 10 лет назад – смотрите в новом ролике. ---------- LINKS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtt00fcniTo https://www.youtube.com/@MackNack ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine Ukrainian Freedom News https://www.ukrainianfreedomnews.com/donation/ UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

436. Olena Tregub - Are Allies Finally Starting to Back Ukraine to Win not Merely to Survive the Invasion

8 juni 2024 | 49 min

Olena Tregub is a Ukrainian expert in policy analysis, policy design and reform implementation, with a special focus on corruption prevention in economic and security sectors. Since 2017 Olena has been Secretary General of NAKO (the Independent Defence Anti-Corruption Committee) – an international oversight body created by Transparency International. It’s her mission to strengthen democratic oversight over defence spending, increase accountability and transparency of the sector, which is critical in wartime, and has become a hotly debated topic in the run-up to the 2024 US election. Before joining the Ukrainian government, Olena built her career abroad in journalism, policy analysis, education, and international development. Olena has worked in the UN Headquarters in New York, taught International Relations in American universities, and cooperated with The New York Times and Kyiv Post. ---------- LINKS: https://twitter.com/OTregub https://www.linkedin.com/in/olenatregub/ https://cepa.org/author/olena-tregub/ https://archive.kyivpost.com/author/olena-tregub https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/expert/olena-tregub/ https://nako.org.ua/en/about ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine Ukrainian Freedom News https://www.ukrainianfreedomnews.com/donation/ UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

435. Michael Andersen & Brian Bonner - Two Grumpy Old Men Fighting the Disinformation War for Ukraine.

7 juni 2024 | 33 min

Today I am speaking with "Two Grumpy Old Men”, Michael Andersen and Brian Bonner who seasoned Ukraine watchers and have teamed up to create a video and Substack blog "Two Grumpy Old Men On Ukraine." They focus on Ukraine, and issues in related parts of thew world since both have lived and worked in many countries. They write, run Q&As, create videos, report on the unfolding war, and resurface content from their collective archive, to help frame current events in a historical context. ---------- LINKS: https://twogrumpyoldmenonukraine.substack.com/ https://www.youtube.com/@ukraine_calling https://www.linkedin.com/posts/brianbonner_two-grumpy-old-men-on-ukraine-substack-activity-7187382236466327552-wixH/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianbonner/ ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine Ukrainian Freedom News https://www.ukrainianfreedomnews.com/donation/ UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

433. Joseph Lindsley - Ukraine is Showing NATO how to do NATO, in Defending the Bleeding Edge of Freedom.

6 juni 2024 | 60 min

Joe Lindsley is a traveller and a writer, and American reporting on Chicago's WGN Radio from Ukraine each and every weekday of Russia's full-scale war. He once was protégé to Fox News founder Roger Ailes, but Lindsley escaped that frenzied world where power mattered more than truth. He came to Lviv for a Ukrainian Catholic University journalism conference on Information Overload, AI, and Responsibility. Then the Coronavirus shut down world travel, and he stayed to build a better vision for the media industry. OTHER VIDEOS: 1. https://youtu.be/DM42QAF2ia4 (07-Nov-23) 2. https://youtu.be/KAGt83FzXmI (26-Jan-24) 3. https://youtu.be/AlD3HUTQAag (20-Feb-24) 4. https://youtu.be/w8Y1XLuhB9Q (04-Apr-24) 5. https://youtu.be/eA6DI5bwrq8 (05-Jun-24) ---------- LINKS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Lindsley https://www.linkedin.com/in/joseph-lindsley-60087618/ https://www.youtube.com/@uafreedomnews https://twitter.com/JPLindsley https://www.instagram.com/jplindsley/ https://www.facebook.com/josephlindsley https://www.ukrainianfreedomnews.com/ ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

432. Kevin Leach - Canadian Instructor Training Ukraine's Assault Troops How to Come Back from War Alive.

6 juni 2024 | 67 min

Kevin Leach is the main director for Sabre Training Advisory Group, a professional military training non-profit. Their aim is to give Ukrainian defenders the skills to come home alive. Kevin is a Canadian Armed Forces veteran, with a long history of working in Ukraine and in military affairs. He served as a sergeant from 2008-2018, specialising in armoured reconnaissance. He leads a weekly segment on the Mriya Report called “Come Home Alive” covering the Key Elements of Training for the Ukrainian army. ---------- LINKS: https://x.com/SabreAdvisory https://www.sabretag.org/donate https://www.instagram.com/sabre_tag/ https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mriyareport/episodes/Kevin-Leach--Sabre-Advisory-Training-on-Key-Elements-of-Training---May-29--2024-e2kavap ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

431. Anna Danylchuk - US Does not Want Ukraine to Lose, but Absurdly, Neither Does it Want Russia to Lose

4 juni 2024 | 51 min

GUEST: Anna from Ukraine - Anna Danylchuk ---------- Anna Danylchuk has been creating a war diary since the early days of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia in 2022. Anna Danylchuk aims to tell the truth about Ukraine and Russia’s war and cut through the noise and propaganda. Anna is passionate about the beauty and independence of her country, and communicates this powerfully in her videos, in a clear and honest way. ---------- LINKS: https://www.youtube.com/@UCiVefOT4TGW3pOqW6AxmlBQ https://www.buymeacoffee.com/annafromukraine My interview with Anna in Lviv - hosted on her excellent channel- https://youtu.be/daHcnsNQ1S0?si=yHbZ2kJZ3CTVRd8Z ---------- OTHER VIDEOS WITH ANNA ON SILICON CURTAIN: 1. https://youtu.be/vPT6oZ1FOAw (21-Oct-22) 2. https://youtu.be/5AenntkSxIs (31-Dec-22) 3. https://youtu.be/r0PNxM7Xyow (23-Feb-23) 4. https://youtu.be/Hm5_Yb3geQ4 (30-Aug-23) 5. https://youtu.be/x0o1bn-1Yyc (29-Sep-23) 6. https://youtu.be/0gaK_5TEXXw (28-Nov-23) 7. https://youtu.be/XQJoTAAfxt4 (24-Dec-23) 8. https://youtu.be/J8mge30rxY8 (24-Jan-24) 9. https://youtu.be/Y59nUd8B5pY (21-Feb-24) 10. https://youtu.be/eQ5fJCFATM0 (18-Apr-24) ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Silicon Bites #47 - Tax Hikes are Now Being Used to Scrape Together Cash to Fund Putin's Idiotic War

3 juni 2024 | 43 min

Edition No47 | 03-06-2024 ~~~~~ SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ~~~~~ NEWS SOURCES: KYIV INDEPENDENT https://kyivindependent.com/russian-troop-losses-hit-record-monthly-high-in-may-ukraine-claims/ https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-war-latest-zelensky-urges-us-to-allow-ukraine-to-strike-russia-with-atacms-missiles/ https://kyivindependent.com/we-took-out-so-many-of-them-ukraine-stabilizes-kharkiv-front-after-brutal-russian-offensive/ https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-war-latest-12/ https://kyivindependent.com/russia-launches-large-scale-attack-on-ukraine-damage-to-critical-infrastructure-reported/ https://kyivindependent.com/russias-new-defense-minister-belousov-to-put-russias-economy-on-war-footing/ THE MOSCOW TIMES https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/05/31/russia-is-preparing-new-tax-hikes-heres-why-a85263 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/05/30/russias-soaring-wartime-salaries-are-bolstering-working-class-support-for-putin-a85273 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/06/01/russia-labels-wives-of-mobilized-soldiers-group-foreign-agent-a85290 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/06/01/russian-mercenary-prigozhins-statue-unveiled-at-his-grave-a85294 KYIV POST https://www.kyivpost.com/post/33664 https://www.kyivpost.com/post/33575 https://www.kyivpost.com/post/33674 NAVAYA GAZETA https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2024/05/29/pressure-from-all-directions-en https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2024/06/01/frontier-justice-en https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2024/05/30/hypersonic-paranoia-en https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2024/06/02/violent-mob-ransacks-the-head-office-of-georgias-main-opposition-party-en-news https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2024/06/02/georgias-zero-hour-en https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2024/05/28/georgian-nightmare-en OTHER SOURCES: https://www.ft.com/russia https://www.economist.com/ukraine-crisis https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-05-20/putin-in-china-russia-s-pipeline-dream-exposes-beijing-s-energy-advantage ~~~~~ USEFUL LINKS: Vatnik Soup https://twitter.com/P_Kallioniemi http://www.medbat.org.ua/en/ Real World News https://kyivindependent.com/ https://www.kyivpost.com/ https://english.nv.ua/ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/ https://meduza.io/en https://meduza.io/ https://novayagazeta.eu/ https://www.newsweek.com/topic/russia... Analysis https://www.ft.com/russia https://www.economist.com/ https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ https://cepa.org/ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/ https://www.theatlantic.com/search/?s... YouTube Channels / @timesradio1 / @khodorkovskyru / @popularpolitics / @macknack / @plushev / @tvrain / @fake_news / @feyginlive ~~~~~ TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemysl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ~~~~~ 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 YouTube s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

419. Alexander Etkind - Curse of the Petrostate - What is Connection Between Oil, War, and Climate Crisis

2 juni 2024 | 55 min

What is the connection between oil, war, and climate crisis? In a long article “Oil, climate and war: The curse of the petrostate”, Alexander Etkind explores the tendency of authoritarian petrostates, such as Russia and Iran, to launch wars and downplay climate change. ---------- SPEAKER: Alexander Etkind is a historian and cultural scientist. Alexander Etkind was born in 1955 in St. Petersburg, Russia, and is a professor at CEU Vienna. He was formerly a professor of history and the Chair of Russia-Europe relations at the European University Institute in Florence. He is fellow of the European Institute for International Law and International Relations. Etkind's research focuses on European and Russian intellectual history, memory studies, natural resources and the history of political economy, empire and colonies in Europe, and Russian politics, novels, and film in the 21st century. His has written many compelling books, including Russia Against Modernity, Rethinking the Gulag and Nature's Evil: A Cultural History of Natural Resources. Links will be added to the video description. ---------- LINKS: Alexander Etkind on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Sasha_Etkind Alexander Etkind on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Etkind Alexander Etkind at the Moscow Times: https://www.themoscowtimes.com/author/alexander-etkind-2 ---------- BOOKS: Russia Against Modernity (2023) Rethinking the Gulag: Identities, Sources, Legacies (2022) Nature's Evil: A Cultural History of Natural Resources (2021) Eros Of the Impossible: The History of Psychoanalysis In Russia (2019) Development and Dystopia: Studies in Post-Soviet Ukraine and Eastern Europe (2018) War and Memory in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus (2017) Cultural Forms of Protest in Russia (2017) Warped Mourning: Stories of the Undead in the Land of the Unburied (2013) Internal Colonization: Russia's Imperial Experience (2011) Remembering Katyn (2013) ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org ---------- WATCH NEXT: Julia Tymoshenko https://youtu.be/mLqB7ShA2l4 Anastasiya Shapochkina https://youtu.be/AUbSEiqJk1o Luke Harding https://youtu.be/YRgCJ4HqIbo Yuri Felshtinsky https://youtu.be/_Jhj4Z32e_Q Ian Garner https://youtu.be/j9l4PYBD0_o ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

430. Garry Kasparov - US and German Micromanaging of How Ukraine Conducts the War Risks Failure & Defeat.

1 juni 2024 | 61 min

The ascension of Vladimir Putin - a former lieutenant colonel of the KGB - to the presidency of Russia in 1999 was a strong signal that the country was headed away from democracy. In the intervening years Putin has grown not only into a dictator but an international threat, but for too long the US and the world's other leading powers have continued to appease him. Now it’s clear Putin is at the centre of a worldwide assault on political liberty and the modern world order. But will the Western allies mobilize too late to halt the rise of the authoritarians? ---------- Garry Kasparov is a Russian pro-democracy leader, global human-rights activist, business speaker and author, and former world chess champion. Born in Baku, Azerbaijan, in the Soviet Union in 1963, Garry Kasparov came to international fame at the age of 22 as the youngest world chess champion in history in 1985. He defended his title five times, including a legendary series of matches against arch-rival Anatoly Karpov. His famous matches against the IBM super-computer Deep Blue in 1996-97 were key to bringing artificial intelligence, and chess, into the mainstream. In 2005, Kasparov retired from professional chess to join the vanguard of the Russian pro-democracy movement. In 2012, Kasparov was named chairman of the New York-based Human Rights Foundation, succeeding Vaclav Havel. He is now considered to be Russia's leading dissident. ---------- LINKS: https://www.kasparov.com/ https://x.com/Kasparov63 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garry_Kasparov ---------- BOOKS: The World After Ukraine (2025) Winter is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must be Stopped Hardcover (2015) Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins (2018) ---------- ARTICLES: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/russia-arrests-former-world-chess-32669346 https://www.politico.eu/article/chess-garry-kasparov-russia-extremist-list-honor/ https://rdi.org/articles/garry-kasparov-the-real-reason-putin-killed-navalny/ ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

429. Galina Ackerman - Putin Appears to be a Badly Programmed Set of Autocratic Responses and Aggressions

31 maj 2024 | 48 min

Galina Ackerman is Editor in Chief at Desk Russia, and is a French writer, historian, journalist, translator, and researcher at the University of Caen, specializing in Ukraine and Post-Soviet states. She was also a translator for the Russian journalist murdered by the Putin regime, Anna Politkovskaya. Galia was born into a Russian Jewish family and holds a doctorate in history from the University of Paris Pantheon-Sorbonne. In 1998, Galia translated into French 'Chernobyl Prayer' by Svetlana Alexievich, a book about the Chernobyl disaster. While working on the translation, she travelled to the poisoned territories called the 'Zone' (short for Chernobyl Exclusion Zone) and interviewed local people who had witnessed the nuclear catastrophe at first hand. ---------- LINKS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galia_Ackerman https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galia_Ackerman https://x.com/GaliaAckerman https://x.com/DeskRussie https://www.linkedin.com/in/galina-ackerman-8305b790/ ---------- BOOKS: L'Ukraine: Atlas géopolitique d'une idée européenne Edizione Francese | di Philippe Lemarchand, Galina Ackerman, e al. (2023) ---------- ARTICLES: https://desk-russie.eu/auteur/galia-ackerman https://desk-russie.info/2024/05/23/giorgi-gakharia-this-law-serves-russian-interests.html https://desk-russie.info/2024/05/12/comrade-putins-sexennial-plan.html https://desk-russie.info/2024/05/10/the-quarrels-of-the-russian-opposition.html https://desk-russie.info/2024/04/22/the-russian-state-in-the-face-of-terrorism.html ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

426. Lubomyr Luciuk - Secrets from the Archives of Stalin's Soviet Counter-Insurgency Ukraine Operations.

30 maj 2024 | 67 min

Perhaps the most perverse Russian invasion narrative, is that Ukraine is not old, and is not distinct from Russia in any case. But Ukraine is not just a footnote to Russian imperial history. As a nation, it is old, different, and diverse. Just as it went unrecognised by Russia, it has not been understood or recognised by the outside world either, for a variety of reasons. 100 years ago, few noticed its disappearance as an independent state; but that has now changed. Putin’s tyranny and violence have accelerated the evolution of Ukrainian identity and increased the pressure for social, political, and economic change. ---------- Lubomyr Luciuk is a Canadian academic and author of books and articles in the field of political geography and Ukrainian history. He is currently a full professor at the Royal Military College of Canada and a Senior Research Fellow of the Chair of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Toronto. In 2010, Luciuk was one of 16 recipients of the Shevchenko Medal of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress in recognition of his educational, research and advocacy efforts on behalf of the Ukrainian Canadian community. On 6 December 2019 he received the Cross of Ivan Mazepa, a Ukrainian Presidential Award, presented in Kingston by His Excellency, Andriy Shevchenko, Ukraine's Ambassador to Canada. More recently he was declared a persona non grata by the RU Federation. LINKS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lubomyr_Luciuk https://www.writersunion.ca/member/lubomyr-luciuk https://cius40.artsrn.ualberta.ca/8-2/round-table-iii-ukrainian-canadian-studies/lubomyr-luciuk-reflections-interdisciplinary-nature-ukrainian-studies-canada/ ---------- BOOKS: Enemy Archives: Soviet Counterinsurgency Operations and the Ukrainian Nationalist Movement – Selections from the Secret Police Archives In fear of the barbed wire fence: Canada's first national internment operations and the Ukrainian Canadians, 1914-1920 Searching for Place: Ukrainian Displaced Persons, Canada, and the Migration of Memory ---------- ARTICLES: https://www.kyivpost.com/authors/610 https://www.ukrainianworldcongress.org/center-for-strategic-communications-campaign-against-lubomyr-luciuks-book-is-attack-on-ukrainian-history-and-academic-freedom/ ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available

428. Robin Horsfall - Putin Won't Stop Attacking Ukraine and Testing Europe Until he's Stopped by Force.

29 maj 2024 | 51 min

GUEST: Robin Horsfall, soldier, writer, campaigner and keynote speaker. ---------- The war in Ukraine continues despite a lack of media interest. Russian forces have made repeated assaults along the Donbas front and attempted an offensive towards Kharkiv. Perhaps Putin wanted some kind of victory, no matter how insignificant, before the Victory Parade in Moscow on May 9th. But it has cost Russia dearly, with the loss of more than 15,000 soldiers killed or wounded and he has nothing to show except a few pock- marked fields and piles of rubble that used to be villages. What is the point of Putin’s war, and when will the Western allies finally show him it is fruitless to continue? ---------- SPEAKER: Robin Horsfall joined the British Army at the age of fifteen in 1972. He served with the Parachute Regiment and 22 Special Air Service. He left the British Army in 1984 and worked as a mercenary, bodyguard and as a medical officer is many active zones around the world. He then built London Karate for twenty years, teaching thousands the art and discipline of karate. He retired and went to Surrey University aged 56 and graduated in English Literature and Creative Writing three years later. He is the author of several books including his hugely successful autobiography Fighting Scared - which I highly recommend you read. ---------- LINKS: https://robinhorsfall.co.uk/books/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/robin-horsfall-52243220/ ---------- BOOKS: - Slava Ukraini! Who Dares Shares (2023 - Signed hardback) - Fighting Scared - The Words of the Wise Old Paratrooper - Warrior Poet: A Soldier’s Songs Find out more about Robin's extraordinary life and achivements here, as well as an online shop to buy his books: https://robinhorsfall.co.uk/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

424. Christopher Forsbäck - If we Want Ukraine to Survive, it Must be Allowed to Strike Russia Back Hard.

28 maj 2024 | 41 min

Silicon Bites #46 - Purge of Russian Army Begins - Ruthless Requisitioning for Putin’s Criminal War.

28 maj 2024 | 46 min

Edition No46 | 27-05-2024 ~~~~~ SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ~~~~~ NEWS SOURCES: KYIV INDEPENDENT https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-war-latest-syrskyi/ https://kyivindependent.com/explainer-russias-most-recent-offensive-into-kharkiv-oblast/ https://kyivindependent.com/russian-missile-strike-reduces-kharkiv-printing-press-to-ashes/ https://kyivindependent.com/media-explosions-reported-across-occupied-crimea/ https://kyivindependent.com/uk-man-arrested-on-suspicion-of-helping-russian-intelligence/ https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-war-latest-uk-defense-secretary-says-intelligence-has-evidence-of-chinese-lethal-aid-to-russia/ https://kyivindependent.com/opinion-russias-shadow-fleet-strategy-draws-from-irans-playbook/ https://kyivindependent.com/estonian-authorities-say-russian-border-guard-removed-river-border-markers-from-estonian-territory/ THE MOSCOW TIMES https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/05/23/deputy-chief-of-russias-general-staff-arrested-for-bribery-a85199 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/05/22/how-patrushevs-paranoia-consumed-the-kremlin-a85198 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/05/23/putin-signs-decree-allowing-for-seizure-of-us-property-in-russia-a85206 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/05/23/kremlin-condemns-calls-for-kyiv-to-use-us-arms-in-russia-a85208 KYIV POST https://www.kyivpost.com/post/33168 https://www.kyivpost.com/videos/33098 https://www.kyivpost.com/post/33060 https://www.kyivpost.com/post/33161 https://www.kyivpost.com/post/33136 THE ECONOMIST https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2024/05/10/a-russia-linked-network-uses-ai-to-rewrite-real-news-stories https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2024/04/29/who-is-supplying-russias-arms-industry https://www.economist.com/europe/2024/05/12/russia-is-ramping-up-sabotage-across-europe https://www.economist.com/europe/2024/04/07/the-kremlin-wants-to-make-ukraines-second-city-unliveable NAVAYA GAZETA https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2024/05/23/deputy-chief-of-russias-general-staff-arrested-for-large-scale-bribery-as-post-shoigu-purge-continues-en-news https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2024/05/18/exile-and-the-empire-en ~~~~~ USEFUL LINKS: Vatnik Soup https://twitter.com/P_Kallioniemi http://www.medbat.org.ua/en/ Real World News https://kyivindependent.com/ https://www.kyivpost.com/ https://english.nv.ua/ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/ https://meduza.io/en https://meduza.io/ https://novayagazeta.eu/ https://www.newsweek.com/topic/russia... Analysis https://www.ft.com/russia https://www.economist.com/ https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ https://cepa.org/ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/ https://www.theatlantic.com/search/?s... YouTube Channels / @timesradio1 / @khodorkovskyru / @popularpolitics / @macknack / @plushev / @tvrain / @fake_news / @feyginlive ~~~~~ TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemysl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ~~~~~ 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 YouTube s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

425. Jon Sweet and Mark Toth - Washington Must Now Greenlight the Use of US-made Weapons to Strike Russia

26 maj 2024 | 58 min

Ukraine needs a game-changer. In fact, it needs two, argue Jon Sweet & Mark Toth in their latest article in The Hill. The first is Washington’s unequivocal greenlight to use US made weapons, and other western equipment, to strike Russian troops staging along its borders — especially those near the Kharkiv Oblast. Russia is using this US restriction as a way to plan and execute attacks against civilians and to launch new offensives. Secondly, Kyiv needs a no-fly zone, and fast. ---------- Jon Sweet is an accomplished intelligence professional who served for 30 years within the Defence and Intelligence sector as an U.S. Army Military Intelligence Officer. He is now a freelance author, contributor and columnist for The Hill, The Messenger, Washington Examiner, Kyiv Post and FOX News. He provides an experienced military perspective on current world events. Mark Toth is a retired economist, historian and entrepreneur and has lived in US diplomatic and military communities around the world. Mark writes on issues of National Security and Foreign Policy and is a regular contributor to The Hill, BBC, Washington Examiner, Fox News, Kyiv Post and The Messenger. ---------- LINKS: https://x.com/MCTothSTL https://x.com/JESweet2022 https://nationalsecuritynews.com/author/mark-toth/ https://nationalsecuritynews.com/author/jon-sweet/ https://muckrack.com/mark-toth-1 ---------- ARTICLES: https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/4679167-ukraines-fate-is-in-bidens-hands-will-he-once-again-make-the-wrong-choice/ https://www.kyivpost.com/opinion/33025 https://tvpworld.com/76770888/nato-needs-to-take-on-a-more-global-role-security-expert-for-tvp-world https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13172981/sweden-nato-membership-blow-putin-toth-sweet.html https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/2578283/putins-nuclear-messaging-to-the-west/ https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/4346078-ukraines-window-of-opportunity-is-closing/ https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12742647/How-Hamas-aiding-Putin-Xis-ideological-war-against-West-UK-Israel-Ukraine-global-conflict-Russia-China-achieve-economic-military-domination.html ---------- WATCH NEXT: Sir Richard Shirreff https://youtu.be/UMi1Y3iF710 Operator Starsky https://youtu.be/ABIIyNa1AOk Anders Puck Nielsen https://youtu.be/2TJTUuu_cM0 Ben Hodges https://youtu.be/gpzfEVhdNp0 John Spencer https://youtu.be/2lmAOWfQvdE ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available

427. Operator Starsky - Will Moscow's Purges of the Military Improve their Competence or Help Ukraine Win

25 maj 2024 | 44 min

Today I’m speaking with Operator Starsky, a Ukrainian National Guardian, blogger, and inspiration for everyone who is following the war, and supporting a Ukrainian victory. He has created one of the most popular and original YouTube channels dedicated to the international community. I’m not sure you need an introduction – I’m sure most people watching this channel will have seen your videos! ---------- LINKS: https://www.youtube.com/@PropagandaStudyInstitute http://psi-eu.org/ https://www.youtube.com/@StarskyUA https://twitter.com/starskyua?lang=en ---------- OTHER VIDEOS WITH OPERATOR STARSKY ON SILICON CURTAIN: https://youtu.be/ABIIyNa1AOk https://youtu.be/ijqIznyYPYI https://youtu.be/6cRlltDAd8k https://youtu.be/TEeR3-W7p9s ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

422. Jeffrey Sonnenfeld - Russia has Become a Malign Genocidal Entity and its Collapse Should be Welcomed

25 maj 2024 | 18 min

Harvard’s Lawrence Tribe has forcefully remarked, “there can be no justification for halfway measures, let alone for doing nothing while Ukraine is destroyed. Inaction is an illusion: it would represent a cowardly decision to appease and to encourage further aggression around the world.” Similarly, 80 years ago, FDR warned, “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” Interpreting that in the context of Russia’s illegal violation of Ukraine’s sovereign borders, Jeffrey Sonnenfeld argues that now is the time to act and seize Russia’s $300 billion in frozen assets to support a Ukrainian victory over an imperialistic aggressor. ---------- Jeffrey Sonnenfeld is Lester Crown Professor of Leadership Practice and a Senior Associate Dean of the Yale School of Management. He helped catalyse the retreat of 1,200 global corporations from Russia, and now strongly advocates for seized Russian Central Bank assets to be passed to Ukraine. Sonnenfeld is known as the founder and CEO of the Chief Executive Leadership Institute (CELI), affiliated with Yale University and for convening Yale's semi-annual CEO Summits, which have drawn thousands of CEOs over the years to engage in off-the-record peer-to-peer conversations. We discuss topics such as "why the IMF naively 'endorses' Putin's fake economic stats." ---------- LINKS: https://som.yale.edu/faculty-research/faculty-directory/jeffrey-sonnenfeld https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Sonnenfeld https://x.com/JeffSonnenfeld https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffsonnenfeld/ ---------- BOOKS: Resilience: HBR Emotional Intelligence Series by Harvard Business Review, Daniel Henning, et al. ---------- ARTICLES: https://time.com/6980510/russia-frozen-assets-ukraine/ By Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, John E. Herbst And William B. Taylor https://insights.som.yale.edu/insights/no-the-business-exodus-from-russia-was-not-bonanza-for-putin https://fortune.com/europe/2023/03/06/imf-naively-parroted-putin-fake-statisticsand-botched-economic-forecast-russia-ukraine/ ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

423. Konstantin Samoilov - Is the appointment of Belousov Putin's Greatest Mistake so Far?

23 maj 2024 | 47 min

Welcome to our monthly conversation with Konstantin, who is one of the most respected voices on YouTube about what is happening Inside Russia. Konstantin Samoilov is a well-known YouTuber whose channel ‘Inside Russia’ comments insightfully on Russia’s decent into authoritarianism over the last few years. But now, like many others, he’s outside Russia, with no idea of when he can return there. ---------- LINKS: INSIDE RUSSIA is a source of current news on Russia - Konstantin carefully selects 9 news stories that are important and really matter, with commentaries and analyses by Konstantin delivered daily to channel patrons at Patreon.com Get your access to daily news updates at patreon.com/INSIDERUSSIA https://www.youtube.com/@INSIDERUSSIA https://www.patreon.com/insiderussia ---------- OTHER VIDEOS WITH KONSTANTIN ON SILICON CURTAIN: https://youtu.be/gbINoWwiq-Y https://youtu.be/71CgzWpxf4Y https://youtu.be/L2pEHdrSbJw https://youtu.be/HKF-QaXOCIg https://youtu.be/F6vJGl0169Y https://youtu.be/ogYRqb24ltc https://youtu.be/VhpoQwvEqis https://youtu.be/URzXdRO02ps (29-Jan-2024) https://youtu.be/FTuvRZQMCN8 (04-Mar-24) https://youtu.be/qXcfjra6KGI (16-Apr-24) ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

421. Tinatin Japaridze - The Foreign Agents Law is Part of a Slide Towards Kremlin-controlled Autocracy.

22 maj 2024 | 57 min

Tinatin Japaridze specializes in the geopolitics and security of Eurasia, with a particular focus on the Russia-Ukraine war. She leads Eurasia Group’s coverage of Georgia and Azerbaijan, including the countries’ domestic and foreign policies, reforms, and leadership. Prior to joining Eurasia Group, Tinatin spent more than 15 years working at the intersection of communications and security. For several years, Tinatin was the UN Bureau Chief for Eastern European media outlets, a UN Radio host, and the producer of her own radio show on current affairs and international security. She is a regular media contributor to The Moscow Times, The Washington Post, and The Atlantic, among other outlets. Her book “Stalin’s Millennials: Nostalgia, Trauma, and Nationalism” was published in 2022. ---------- LINKS: https://x.com/TinatinTweets https://www.linkedin.com/in/tinatinjaparidze/ https://uc.web.ox.ac.uk/people/tinatin-japaridze https://www.thecriticalmass.com/tinatin-japaridze ---------- BOOKS: Stalin’s Millennials: Nostalgia, Trauma, and Nationalism (2022) ---------- ARTICLES: https://www.gzeromedia.com/news/watching/georgias-parliament-advances-divisive-foreign-agents-bill https://eurasianet.org/perspectives-russia-is-going-to-wake-up-to-a-very-difficult-reality https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/navalny-kremlin-critics-deaths-1.7117854 ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

420. Macer Gifford - Fighting on the Frontline of Freedom to Highlight Ukraine's Just, Humanitarian Cause

21 maj 2024 | 66 min

Macer Gifford is a British veteran of the Ukrainian Army – who will be well known to members of NAFO, and those who follow the Ukraine war in detail. As he says on his Twitter profile, he is channelling the spirit of George Orwell, and his dispatches from the frontlines of this conflict have bene highly engaging, informative, eloquent, and full of humanity. Macer has an MSc in Security and Diplomacy. ---------- FUNDRAISER: 409th fundraiser! https://fundrazr.com/c2Ogqb "I will be doing a fundraiser for the 409th that will focus on two areas of support, the drone team and training. The battalion is deployed in the East and doing some great work. A former colleague of mine from the 131st has been sharing a lot of his experience with the drone team. After speaking to my friend and the commander of the battalion, I now have a list of equipment that will be transformative for the entire battalion. These civilian/ commercially bought items include Alientech receivers, antenna and cabling. I'm particularly keen to include training aids for the battalion. Thank you all for the support and best wishes over the last few months. I may be home at the moment, but my heart is in Ukraine." ---------- LINKS: https://x.com/macergifford https://www.linkedin.com/in/macer-gifford-615535109/ ---------- BOOKS: Fighting Evil: The Ordinary Man who went to War Against ISIS Paperback (2020) ---------- ARTICLES: https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1833951/british-volunteer-Ukraine-fighting-trenches https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc-podcast/why-is-this-happening/fighting-frontlines-ukraine-macer-gifford-podcast-transcript-n1301112 ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Silicon Bites #45 - Careless Match-related Incidents on the Rise Across Russia and Occupied Crimea.

20 maj 2024 | 42 min

Edition No45 | 20-05-2024 Episode dedicated to that infamous vatnik, Roger Waters, and to the other members of Pink Floyd who actually know right from wrong, and back Ukraine. ~~~~~ SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ~~~~~ KYIV INDEPENDENT https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-war-latest-ukrainian-drones-hit-military-facilities-in-russia-crimea-amid-russian-claims-of-over-100-drones-downed/ https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-war-latest-russian-double-tap-strike-north-of-kharkiv-kills-6-including-pregnant-woman/ https://kyivindependent.com/uk-defense-sec-says-wests-stance-on-ukraine-war-completely-nonsensical/ https://kyivindependent.com/uk-defense-secretary-calls-germany-to-provide-ukraine-with-long-range-missiles/ https://kyivindependent.com/russian-media-novorossiysk-port-oil-depot-hit-in-overnight-attack/ https://kyivindependent.com/massive-ukrainian-drone-attack-on-novorossiysk-port-and-oil-depots-russia-claims-over-100-downed/ https://kyivindependent.com/partisans-artillery-depot-hit-at-belbek-airfield-in-occupied-crimea/ https://kyivindependent.com/air-force-ukraine-downs-all-20-russian-drones-overnight/ https://kyivindependent.com/zelensky-progress-made-on-artillery-shortage/ https://kyivindependent.com/russias-new-defense-minister-belousov-to-put-russias-economy-on-war-footing/ https://kyivindependent.com/what-are-glide-bombs-and-how-do-they-help-russia-gain-land-in-ukraine/ https://kyivindependent.com/zelensky-our-partners-fear-that-russia-will-lose-this-war/ https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-war-latest-zelensky-says-situation-in-kharkiv-difficult-but-under-control-russia-suffering-significant-losses/ https://kyivindependent.com/minister-russia-takes-civilians-captive-in-northern-vovchansk-executions-reported/ https://kyivindependent.com/explainer-whats-behind-ongoing-protests-in-georgia/ https://kyivindependent.com/reuters-g7-will-support-using-frozen-russian-assets-revenue-to-fund-ukraine/ https://kyivindependent.com/russian-foreign-ministry-declares-british-defense-attache-persona-non-grata/ https://kyivindependent.com/vyshyvanka-ukrainian-tradition-preserved-through-centuries/ THE MOSCOW TIMES https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/05/16/putin-xi-hail-ties-as-stabilizing-force-in-chaotic-world-a85133 NAVAYA GAZETA https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2024/05/16/snakes-and-adders-en KYIV POS Thttps://www.kyivpost.com/post/32786 https://www.kyivpost.com/post/32796 https://www.kyivpost.com/videos/32454 ~~~~~ USEFUL LINKS: Vatnik Soup https://twitter.com/P_Kallioniemi http://www.medbat.org.ua/en/ Real World News https://kyivindependent.com/ https://www.kyivpost.com/ https://english.nv.ua/ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/ https://meduza.io/en https://meduza.io/ https://novayagazeta.eu/ https://www.newsweek.com/topic/russia... Analysis https://www.ft.com/russia https://www.economist.com/ https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ https://cepa.org/ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/ https://www.theatlantic.com/search/?s... YouTube Channels / @timesradio1 / @khodorkovskyru / @popularpolitics / @macknack / @plushev / @tvrain / @fake_news / @feyginlive ~~~~~ TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemysl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ~~~~~

418. Robert Hicken - GPNow CrisisCare is an Essential Service Helping Ukrainian Families in 5 Continents.

19 maj 2024 | 32 min

Ukrainian CrisisCare Telehealth Service "It's infinitely easier to take a life, than save a life” --------- ABOUT GPNOW UKRAINE GPNow Ukrainian CrisisCare is helping Ukrainian families in 5 continents - Africa, Asia Pacific, Middle East, South America and Europe. Today, we hear from Robert Hicken – President of the PII Foundation who will provide an update on their GPNow Ukrainian CrisisCare “hospital in the cloud” Telehealth Service which provides free medical advice, comfort and care for thousands of Ukrainian citizens to provide FREE medical advice, comfort care for thousands of Ukrainian families in Ukraine (including occupied territory), across Europe & around the world. Together with John Spiteri & Kirsty Macaulay who are about to release a song “Party-Z” to raise awareness and funding to support the service on: https://bandcamp.com/ PII Foundation - (a 501 9 (c)(3) non-profit organisation EIN: 92-1201579) --------- LEARN MORE: https://www.gpnow.net/ukrainian-crisiscare/ Fund GPNow: https://rebrand.ly/gpn_web Join GPNow: https://rebrand.ly/gpnow_teaming - join our Ukrainian CrisisCare Support Team Follow GPNow: https://rebrand.ly/gpnow_twitter_ua on X (Formerly Twitter) GPNow on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@gpnowtelehealthchannel --------- CONTACT Email Us: [email protected] https://www.pii-foundation.org/ UKRAINE HOSPITAL IN THE CLOUD DONATIONS https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=SM4AEW8BB3U8L Corporate program sponsorship welcomed BANDCAMP - 7.62 Flowers - "No War In Ukraine" https://762flowers.bandcamp.com/track/no-war-in-ukraine With thanks to: Robert Hicken: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-hicken-1a627136/ John Spiteri: https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-spiteri-a7047a90 Kirsty Macaulay: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirsty-macaulay-667905b5 --------- INTRO Currently there are more than 7 million refugees who have fled the conflict in Ukraine. There is a dire need to ensure these citizens can access timely and free telehealth consultations. Robert Hicken is working closely with business leaders across every industry in asking them to commit corporate donations to Ukrainian CrisisCare, and its high-impact and life-changing program. Transparency in the charitable sector in Ukraine is important and GPNow’s Ukrainian CrisisCare, ensures each corporate sponsor gets valuable recognition for supporting the Ukrainian telehealth program, as well as transparency on how the funds or allocated and used. --------- Robert Hicken is President of the PII Foundation as well as being Founder and CEO of GPNow. He is focused on ensuring the world’s most vulnerable people can access secure high-definition low-bandwidth multi-lingual telehealth and virtual care services that they desperately need. --------- LINKS https://www.gpnow.net/home https://www.gpnow.net/pii-foundation/ https://twitter.com/rhicken --------- CONTACT Robert Hicken (President - PII Foundation) Mobile: +1 720 738 0774 Mobile: +65 8351 2580 (Whatsapp) Email: [email protected] Website: www.gpnow.net/pii-foundation "VirtualCare for the most Vulnerable" PII FOUNDATION is a 501 9(c)(3) non profit organisation EIN: 92-1201579 Donations are tax-deductible in the US. --------- Details of songs mentioned in the episode: Links to purchase them will be provided, as soon as they are available. 'Party Z' Writer / producer / lead vocals / guitarist - John Spitteri Co- producer / media / 2nd Female vocalist - Kirsty Macaulay Lead female vocalist - Margaret Ryder Lead Guitarists - Andrew Dockerty Drums / bass guitar - Andrew Rankin Produced and recorded by Andrew Rankin at Black Cave Recording Studio 'No War in Ukraine' Written and sung by John Spiteri Violinist - Sheila Sapkota Engineered and mixed by Andrew Rankin at Black Cave Recording Studio Artwork / Media - Kirsty Macaulay ---------

417. Deborah Fairlamb - Innovation is Key to Victory in Ukraine - the side with the Best Ideas Might Win.

19 maj 2024 | 47 min

Deborah Fairlamb is a Founding Partner at Green Flag Ventures, a business fund investing in the future of Ukraine. Since 2015, she has specialized in investments and business development in Ukraine, with a particular focus on the tech sector and startups. ---------- LINKS: https://www.linkedin.com/in/deborahfairlamb/ https://www.greenflag.vc/team https://www.ukrainer.net/deborah-fairlamb/ ---------- ARTICLES: https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/11/24/7430183/ https://ubn.news/an-american-founded-investment-fund-plans-to-invest-in-eight-ukrainian-startups-this-year/ https://www.defenseone.com/business/2024/01/shark-tank-kyiv-investors-hunt-war-winning-tech-ukraine/393427/ ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

416. Jahara 'FRANKY' Matisek - Why our Approach to Containing Russia is Wrong & Risks Failure in Ukraine.

18 maj 2024 | 58 min

Jahara "FRANKY" Matisek teaches in the Department of National Security Affairs (NSA) as a Military Professor at the U.S. Naval War College. Previously, he was an Associate Professor in the MSS Department, Senior Fellow at HDI, Fellowship Director for IWI, and T-53 Instructor Pilot. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Northwestern University with a Graduate Certificate in African Studies. He has been published over 90 articles in peer-reviewed journals and other outlets and ---------- LINKS: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jahara-franky-matisek-phd-9294a9a/ https://usnwc.edu/Faculty-and-Departments/Directory/Jahara-Franky-Matisek https://mwi.westpoint.edu/staff/jahara-matisek/ https://www.rusi.org/people/matisek https://warroom.armywarcollege.edu/author/jahara-matisek/ https://irregularwarfare.org/team/jahara-matisek/ https://cepa.org/author/jahara-franky-matisek/ ---------- BOOKS: My book, Old and New Battlespaces, discusses the growing prominence of sociopolitical-information warfare (Lynne Rienner, 2022) https://www.rienner.com/title/Old_and_New_Battlespaces_Society_Military_Power_and_War My long-term book project, "Weak States, Strong Armies: Military Effectiveness in Africa?" (under revision) focuses on how bureaucratically weak African states become militarily effective through the creation of military enclaves. ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

415. Casey Michel - Is Putin Retooling His Regime to Support 'Eternal Warfare' & Confrontation with West?

17 maj 2024 | 51 min

“A toxic flood of dark money has given billionaires and special interests a powerful way to rig the system secretly in their favour…” These are the words of Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, ahead of a debate in the US Congress around the Spending in Elections (DISCLOSE) Act. But this phrase could equally be applied to the UK, where Russian Oligarchs and dark money interests have been able to cleanse their ill-gotten gains for decades through the London financial laundromat. Londongrad is the phrase coined to describe the high presence of Russians in the United Kingdom, especially in reference to Russian money in London, permeating its service sector and securing political influence. ---------- Casey Michel is head of the Combating Kleptocracy Program at the Human Rights Foundation, focusing on how dictators and autocrats use illicit finance and dirty money to remain in power. He’s the author of AMERICAN KLEPTOCRACY, on America's transformation into an offshore haven. His new book, FOREIGN AGENTS, will examine the explosion of the foreign lobbying industry in Washington, and how that industry has helped entrench dictatorships and upend American foreign policy. FOREIGN AGENTS will be published in 2024. ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- LINKS: http://www.caseymichel.com/ https://x.com/cjcmichel https://www.linkedin.com/in/caseymichel/ https://www.rusi.org/people/michel https://www.hudson.org/experts/1381-casey-michel ---------- BOOKS: https://read.macmillan.com/lp/american-kleptocracy/ American Kleptocracy: How the U.S. Created the World's Greatest Money Laundering Scheme in History (2021) Foreign Agents: How American Lobbyists and Lawmakers Threaten Democracy Around the World (2024) ---------- ARTICLES: https://foreignpolicy.com/author/casey-michel/ https://www.theatlantic.com/author/casey-michel/ FOREIGN POLICY How Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Became Putin’s Spiritual Guru April 7, 2024 Russia’s Opposition Needs More Than One Savior March 1, 2024 Russia’s Crimean Red Line Has Been Erased October 4, 2023 How to Stop Former Western Leaders From Becoming Paid Shills for Autocrats February 15, 2022 Kazakhstan’s Border With Russia Is Suddenly an Open Question Again January 6, 2022 How Delaware Became the World’s Biggest Offshore Haven November 19, 2021 The Fatal Flaw in the West’s Fight Against Autocracy October 6, 2021 America’s Money Lost the Afghan War September 13, 2021 Biden Might Stop a Sanctions Revolution August 24, 2021 Oligarchs’ Favorite U.S. Visa Might Not Last July 16, 2021 THE ATLANTIC We’ve Never Seen Anything Like the Menendez Indictment - The case against the New Jersey senator has the potential to reshape how America deals with foreign agents. Casey Michel - October 26, 2023 Make Russia Pay - The West has already frozen some $300 billion in Russian assets. Here’s the case for seizing them. Casey Michel - May 28, 2023 Decolonize Russia - To avoid more senseless bloodshed, the Kremlin must lose what empire it still retains. Casey Michel - May 27, 2022 How the West Undermines Its Own Sanctions - The Western sanctions in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have been far broader than many experts anticipated. But there’s a catch. Casey Michel - March 9, 2022 The United States of Dirty Money - How landlocked South Dakota became one of the world’s hottest destinations for offshore funds. Casey Michel - October 5, 2021 ----------

415. Taras Byk - Is Putin’s Endless Aggression Exhausting Russia’s Military, Social and Economic Reserves

16 maj 2024 | 50 min

Taras Byk's special mission is the breakup of the Russian Federation, a project that doesn't seem so far-fetched after the Prigozhin mutiny, and Putin’s endless aggression that is exhausting Russia’s military and economic reserves. Taras is a civil society activist and political strategist, who believes that Ukraine's Maidan Revolution, in which he participated, saved not only Ukraine but also Europe. Today we will be discussing the threat from a resurgent Russia, and the history of imperial expansion that sits behind it. Can Ukraine's stand for freedom and struggle against renewed Russification of its peoples hold the line in Europe between freedom and authoritarianism, between the rule of law and unimaginable barbarism. Can Ukraine's experience even help revitalise the idea of democracy and help us to become more resilience in the face of creeping nepotism, corruption, oligarchy, and aggressive autocrats? ---------- Taras Byk is a manager at Wooden Horse Strategies, LLC, a governmental-relations, and strategic communications firm based in Kyiv. ---------- LINKS: https://www.linkedin.com/in/taras-byk-09bb305/ ---------- ARTICLES: https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/is-putins-russia-heading-for-collapse-like-its-czarist-and-soviet-predecessors/ https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/podcasts/6527f6aaefe26/2023/10/26/7425908/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QScdSVMz83A&t=2s ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

413. Nicole Grajewski - The Russia-Iran Relationship is Growing Stronger but are they Best of Frenemies?

15 maj 2024 | 45 min

As the global geopolitical landscape undergoes significant transformations, the nuclear threat has taken on new dimensions. The Russia-Iran relationship is growing stronger. Khamenei endorsing Russia’s war in Ukraine — which has given Tehran more leverage in the bilateral relationship — while both countries try to weather unprecedented Western sanctions. Nonetheless, Russia’s ties with Iran remain complex, characterized by areas of cooperation, stalled plans and competition across various domains. Iran / Russia – best frenemies? ---------- Nicole is a Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She is an Associate at Harvard’s Belfer Centre and Author of the forthcoming book “Russia and Iran: Partners in Defiance from Syria to Ukraine”. Her areas of expertise include Russia, the Middle East & North Africa, international relations, international security and defence, military intervention. ---------- LINKS: https://twitter.com/NicoleGrajewski https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicole-grajewski-phd-b9405385/ https://www.belfercenter.org/person/nicole-grajewski ---------- ARTICLES: https://carnegieendowment.org/emissary/2024/04/iran-and-israels-dangerous-gambit?lang=en https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/event/iran-russia-alliance/ https://www.russiamatters.org/analysis/russia-and-iran-get-closer-while-still-competing-amid-balancing-act-turkey https://ecfr.eu/publication/alone-together-how-the-war-in-ukraine-shapes-the-russian-iranian-relationship/ ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

414. Calder Walton - "Spies" Charts Century-long War of 'Hot' and 'Cold' Espionage Between East and West.

14 maj 2024 | 53 min

Calder Walton is a world-leading expert on intelligence, national security, and geopolitics. He has written two books, the latest of which is “SPIES. The Epic Intelligence War between East and West” (2023). It is a best-selling exposé of the history of Russian intelligence, that challenges the idea that the Cold War ended with the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991, but in fact continued after, down to the present day. Today, he argues, the West is in a new Cold War with Russia and China. ---------- LINKS: https://calderwalton.com/ https://twitter.com/calder_walton https://www.linkedin.com/in/calder-walton-a9034590/ https://www.simonandschuster.com/authors/Calder-Walton/190278440 https://www.belfercenter.org/person/calder-walton ---------- BOOKS: Spies: The epic intelligence war between East and West (2023) https://www.amazon.co.uk/Spies-epic-intelligence-between-East-ebook/dp/B0B37519PL?ref_=ast_author_mpb ---------- ARTICLES: https://www.economist.com/culture/2023/07/20/calder-waltons-spies-is-a-riveting-history-of-espionage https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/china-is-using-every-trick-for-world-domination-97xm3hcxn https://www.ft.com/content/b037b640-0365-41f6-a98b-bdd797fc0da4 https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-12-16/ai-not-human-spies-will-drive-the-new-us-china-cold-war https://theconversation.com/profiles/calder-walton-1436266 ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Silicon Bites #44 - Russia Opens a New Frontline North of Kharkiv - Reported to Sustain Huge Losses.

13 maj 2024 | 49 min

Edition No44 | 13-05-2024 ~~~~~ Key developments on May 11,12: - Putin proposes firing Shoigu, appointing new defense minister - Zelensky says Russian troops try to "gain a foothold" in Kharkiv Oblast; heavy fighting ongoing - Russia's breakthrough attempt halted, situation in several sectors' changing rapidly,' Syrskyi says - Russia attacks 106 infrastructure facilities in Ukraine in one day - Media: Ukrainian drones attack military targets in 3 Russian oblasts overnight - Russia seeking to blame Ukraine after apartment building collapses in Belgorod, reportedly killing at least 7. Russian dictator Vladimir Putin on May 12 proposed firing Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and nominated Andrei Belousov to replace him, according to the Telegram channel of the Federation Council, the Russian parliament's upper house. Putin appointed Shoigu as the secretary of Russia's security council, Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. Shoigu is replacing Nikolai Patrushev, who has been the council's secretary since 2008. ~~~~~ SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ~~~~~ KYIV INDEPENDENT https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-war-latest-russias-breakthrough-attempt-halted-situation-in-several-sectors-changing-rapidly-syrskyi-says/ https://kyivindependent.com/legal-committee-of-georgian-parliament-takes-1-minute/ https://kyivindependent.com/military-russian-forces-in-kharkiv-oblast-contained-fighting-continues/ https://kyivindependent.com/civilians-flee-vovchansk-under-russian-bombardment-as-ground-offensive-on-kharkiv-begins/ https://kyivindependent.com/kharkiv-governor-heavy-fighting-underway-but-no-threat-of-ground-invasion-of-city/ https://kyivindependent.com/sensing-weakness-russians-push-up-to-cut-off-kostyantynivka/ https://kyivindependent.com/czech-president-europe-russia/ https://kyivindependent.com/german-lawmakers-suggest-nato-could-protect-sky-over-western-ukraine/ https://kyivindependent.com/biden-approves-400-million-defense-aid-package-for-ukraine/ https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-could-recruit-up-to-20-000-convicts/ https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-targets-russian-oil-refineries/ https://kyivindependent.com/russias-highly-militarized-victory-day-celebration-has-nothing-to-do-with-wwii/ THE MOSCOW TIMES https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/05/11/russia-claims-gains-in-ukraines-kharkiv-region-a85093 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/05/11/thousands-rally-in-tbilisi-against-foreign-influence-bill-a85094 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/05/10/ukrainian-drone-attacks-oil-refinery-in-russias-kaluga-region-a85086 KYIV POST https://www.kyivpost.com/opinion/32355 https://www.kyivpost.com/post/32452 https://www.kyivpost.com/post/30574 NOVAYA GAZETA https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2024/05/09/past-perfect-en https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2024/05/10/imputiny-en https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2024/05/11/willing-accomplices-en ~~~~~ USEFUL LINKS: Vatnik Soup https://twitter.com/P_Kallioniemi http://www.medbat.org.ua/en/ ~~~~~ TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemysl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ~~~~~

411. Safe Unsound - Exploring a Film Following the Lives & Challenges of Displaced Ukrainians in Ireland.

11 maj 2024 | 60 min

Safe Unsound | Documentary What is Safe Unsound about? Three Ukrainian families find a foothold in a remote corner of Ireland. How temporary is their life there? No one knows. ---------- LINKS: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/d-j-b/safe-unsound-documentary ---------- THE TEAM: Daniel James Baldwin - Director and Producer Hannah Tookey - Producer Steve Lacey - Executive Producer Daria Korsak - Editor and Translator Jackie Teboul - Director of Photography ---------- In Spring 2022, the plight of Ukraine and its people was at the forefront of our minds and we opened our arms to them. Today, 6 million displaced Ukrainians face a souring of that mood, and Moscow is poised to take advantage the moment our emotional fatigue kicks in. Safe Unsound is a story about the human cost of war told from the perspective of three Ukrainian families containing three generations. In County Mayo, in Ireland, where they moved after the invasion of their country, they are far from the frontline, and very far from home. Victor and his wife Ludmilla imagined spending their retirement eating apples in their orchard, not learning English in an abandoned schoolhouse in Castlebar. Kate planned to learn to dance, not leave her law career and husband in Kyiv to work day and night to rebuild a life for her young children in the countryside. Maryna hoped to support her four kids and help them thrive, not keep the peace at home while her eldest daughter, Arina, works to make ends meet. This film explores these families' efforts to contribute to, and fit into, Irish society as well as their tireless quest for control, momentum, and independence. ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

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

10 maj 2024 | 47 min

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: https://twitter.com/EtoBuziashvili https://www.linkedin.com/in/eto-buziashvili/ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/expert/eto-buziashvili/ ---------- ARTICLES: https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/dispatch-from-tbilisi-amid-georgias-battle-for-democracy-russian-influence/ https://www.politico.eu/article/vladimir-putin-wagner-yevgeny-prigozhin-russia-ukraine-war-propaganda/ https://globalvoices.org/2024/04/04/no-respite-for-georgias-civil-society/ ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

410. Jake Broe - Despite Recent Incremental Gains in Territory Russia has Failed to Achieve any Successes

9 maj 2024 | 57 min

Today I’m speaking with Jake Broe, a United States Air Force veteran who served for six years as a Nuclear and Missile Operations Officer. But you may know him better as one of the most prominent voices on YouTube throughout the war, someone with absolute moral clarity about who the victim of the war is – spoilers, it’s Ukraine – and who brings direct military experience to his detailed analysis of the unfolding conflict. Do please subscribe to his channel for videos updates on the war in Ukraine as well as conversations with engaging speakers, expert guests, and other YouTubers. ---------- LINKS: https://www.youtube.com/@JakeBroe https://twitter.com/RealJakeBroe https://www.instagram.com/jakebroe/ https://www.buymeacoffee.com/jakebroe https://www.patreon.com/join/jakebroe ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

399. Lesia Dubenko - An Irreverent Look at the Useful Idiot Amplifying Narratives Friendly to the Kremlin

8 maj 2024 | 44 min

Lesia Dubenko is a political scientist and an Alumna of Lund University, with an Msc in European Affairs. She has eight years of experience in political and social journalism and has been published in the Financial Times, Politico Europe, New Eastern Europe, Atlantic Council, KP. In August 2018 she entered the Ukrainian NGO sector, and has been cooperating with different Ukrainian NGOs, including “Europe without Barriers”, “Internews Ukraine”, “European Pravda” and more. ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- ARTICLES: https://www.politico.eu/article/vladimir-putin-west-talk-global-south-partners-war-ukraine/ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/ukraines-counteroffensive-will-likely-create-new-reintegration-challenges/ https://www.ft.com/stream/cb65d50c-d074-4194-863f-d513b3226deb ---------- LINKS: https://twitter.com/LesiaLVD https://www.linkedin.com/in/lesiadubenko/ https://archive.kyivpost.com/author/lesia-dubenko https://www.politico.eu/author/lesia-dubenko/ ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

408. Marika Mikiashvili - Georgians Understand if Protests Fail Russia will Control the Country's Destiny

8 maj 2024 | 55 min

Silicon Bites #43 - Economic and Labour Issues Threaten to Derail Putin's War Machine and Invasion

6 maj 2024 | 46 min

Edition No43 | 06-05-2024 ~~~~~ SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ~~~~~ KYIV INDEPENDENT https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-war-latest-ukraine-may-use-british-weapons-to-strike-targets-inside-russia-cameron-says/ https://kyivindependent.com/battle-of-chasiv-yar-begins-under-a-drone-infested-sky/ https://kyivindependent.com/general-loss-of-chasiv-yar-likely-a-matter-of-time/ https://kyivindependent.com/italian-defense-minister-rules-out-sending-troops-to-ukraine/ https://kyivindependent.com/kharkiv-endures-new-wave-of-brutal-russian-attacks/ THE MOSCOW TIMES https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/05/01/in-photos-russia-shows-off-captured-western-military-hardware-at-moscow-expo-a85005 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/05/03/my-moral-compass-demands-it-russian-emigres-rally-alongside-georgians-against-foreign-influence-bill-a85019 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/05/02/in-photos-georgian-riot-police-clash-with-protesters-rallying-against-foreign-influence-bill-a85010 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/05/03/kremlin-slams-dangerous-remarks-by-macron-about-troop-deployment-in-ukraine-a85028 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/all-about/russia-battles-historic-flooding https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/04/29/russias-ishim-river-swells-to-record-high-amid-widespread-flooding-a84982 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/04/22/russias-record-floods-submerge-uranium-mines-in-urals-reports-a84919 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/04/23/how-ukraine-war-is-stretching-russian-workers-to-their-limits-a84926 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/04/29/major-european-banks-paying-russia-more-in-taxes-than-before-ukraine-invasion-ft-a84985 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/04/23/10-years-later-russian-volunteer-fighters-recall-fueling-the-war-in-donbas-a84917 FINANCIAL TIMES https://www.ft.com/content/f6ba327b-5200-4deb-ba95-fba3bbd6536a https://www.ft.com/content/b4a556b0-0402-4114-9428-869bd49cf23c OTHER ARTICLES https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/05/5/7454321/ https://euromaidanpress.com/2024/05/05/european-agencies-sound-alarm-over-russian-sabotage-plots-ft-says/ https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2024/05/02/russian-heart-eating-cannibal-released-from-prison-to-fight-in-ukraine-en-news ~~~~~ USEFUL LINKS: Vatnik Soup https://twitter.com/P_Kallioniemi http://www.medbat.org.ua/en/ Real World News https://kyivindependent.com/ https://www.kyivpost.com/ https://english.nv.ua/ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/ https://meduza.io/en https://meduza.io/ https://novayagazeta.eu/ https://www.newsweek.com/topic/russia... Analysis https://www.ft.com/russia https://www.economist.com/ https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ https://cepa.org/ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/ https://www.theatlantic.com/search/?s... ~~~~~ TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemysl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ~~~~~ 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 YouTube s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

406. Viktoras Bachmetjevas - In Absence of Contrition and Punishment for its Crimes can Russia Progress?

5 maj 2024 | 49 min

Viktoras Bachmetjevas is a philosopher with an interest in ethics, especially the intersection of ethics and the philosophy of religion. Today we’ll be discussing issues as diverse as the threat from autocracy and oligarchy, corruption, and nepotism, and well as Forgiveness, contrition, and victimhood. ---------- LINKS: https://twitter.com/VBachmetjevas https://www.linkedin.com/in/viktoras-bachmetjevas-335a182/ https://www.iwm.at/fellow/viktoras-bachmetjevas https://parisinstitute.org/faculty/viktoras-bachmetjevas/ https://europeanstudies.macmillan.yale.edu/people/viktoras-bachmetjevas ---------- BOOKS: Philosophy of Humour: New Perspectives: 389 (Value Inquiry Book) by Daniel O'Shiel and Viktoras Bachmetjevas (2023) ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

407. Anna Nemzer - Putin Started a War on Russian Media and the Truth Early in the 2000s and it Continues

4 maj 2024 | 51 min

Anna Nemzer is a Broadcast Journalist at the Russian oppositional news network TV RAIN. She has produced an extraordinary series of documentary videos on key moments in Russia’s return to autocracy under Putin, and stages in the consolidation of his power over society and the media. ---------- LINKS: https://pen.org/user/annanemzer/ https://twitter.com/tvrain_english ---------- BOOKS: Prisoner, Hardcover and Kindle (2016) https://www.amazon.co.uk/Prisoner-Anna-Nemzer-ebook/dp/B01BSXXTZ0/ref=sr_1_3?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.jIiajkvRhnZkX66DLX4RCcAs5is6KHcG7B7iUG4SpofGjHj071QN20LucGBJIEps.ICsVK3kkMMfqzj3m7ZFw-8m2uya8sgOK0ZPN3w0SjV4&dib_tag=se&qid=1714845677&refinements=p_27%3AAnna+Nemzer&s=books&sr=1-3 ---------- ARTICLES: https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/event/the-closing-of-the-russian-mind-freedom-of-expression-in-putins-russia/ ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

405. Ivan U. Kłyszcz - Chechnya: Putin's Pitbull or Achilles Heel? What Might it's Fate be After Kadyrov?

3 maj 2024 | 46 min

Ivan U. Kłyszcz is an analyst and researcher specializing in core issues of international security, notably great power competition, the grand strategy of major powers, and Russian foreign policy. In recent years, the research of Dr Klyszcz has focused on Moscow’s engagements with the countries of the so-called ‘Global South’, with particular focus on Africa, Latin America, and South Asia. His research has been extensively cited in international media (Al-Jazeera, BBC, Deutsche Welle, France 24) and attracted the interest from diplomats, governments, and major NGOs. ---------- LINKS: https://ivanklyszcz.com/ https://twitter.com/IvanUlisesKK https://www.linkedin.com/in/ivan-ulises-kentros-klyszcz/ https://www.rusi.org/people/klyszcz ---------- ARTICLES: https://icds.ee/en/autor/ivan-u-k-klyszcz/ https://ridl.io/auth/ivan-u-klyszcz/ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/author/ivan-u-klyszcz ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

403. Marlene Laruelle - Has Vladimir Putin's Regime Embraced Fascism or is it Simply a Mafia Autocracy?

2 maj 2024 | 60 min

Vladimir Putin's regime has increasingly been accused of embracing fascism, in its annexation of Crimea, its historical revisionism, attacks on liberal democratic values, and its support for far-right movements in Europe. These tendencies have accelerated with the full-scale war in Ukraine. So, does Russia now meet the diverse criteria for historic fascism, or it’s off-shoot, German Nazism? Russia has successfully muddied the waters, by branded itself as the world's preeminent antifascist power because of its sacrifices during the Second World War. But Russia continues to weaponize and debase that legacy of WWII, embracing the same characteristics, policies, and tactics of the axis powers. ---------- Marlène Laruelle is Research Professor of the Illiberalism studies department at the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES) at the George Washington University. Marlène is a French historian, sociologist, and political scientist who specializes in Eurasia and Europe, and is one of the most prolific and insightful Western experts on issues related to Russian nationalism and memory politics. Formerly, she was Senior Research Fellow at the Central Asia and Caucasus Institute and Research Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars. ---------- LINKS: http://marlene-laruelle.com/ https://elliott.gwu.edu/marlene-laruelle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marl%C3%A8ne_Laruelle https://www.ifri.org/en/about/team/marlene-laruelle https://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/about/people/marlene-laruelle https://www.ifri.org/en/publications/publications-ifri/ouvrages-ifri/russia-fascist-unraveling-propaganda-east-and-west ---------- BOOKS: Is Russia Fascist? Unravelling Propaganda East and West (2021) Central Peripheries: Nationhood in Central Asia (2021) Memory Politics and the Russian Civil War: Reds Versus Whites (2020) Understanding Russia: The Challenges of Transformation (2018) Russian Nationalism: Imaginaries, Doctrines, and Political Battlefields (2018) Russian Eurasianism (2008) ---------- ARTICLES: https://www.faena.com/aleph/umberto-eco-a-practical-list-for-identifying-fascists https://www.russiamatters.org/analysis/review-marlene-laruelles-russia-fascist-unraveling-propaganda-east-and-west ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

404. Natalie Sabanadze - Georgia's Maidan Style Protest Pushing Back Against Putinisation of its Politics

2 maj 2024 | 46 min

Natalie Sabanadze is Senior Fellow of the Russia and Eurasia Program, at Chatham House. Natalie was Georgia’s Ambassador to Belgium, Luxembourg, and the EU and head of the Georgian mission to the European Union in May 2013. Prior to assuming her current position, Sabanadze worked as the senior adviser to the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities in The Hague. She held a number of posts with the OSCE HCNM, including head of Central and Southeast Europe section and more recently, head of Eastern Europe, Caucasus, and Central Asia section. ---------- LINKS: https://twitter.com/natasabanadze https://www.chathamhouse.org/about-us/our-people/natalie-sabanadze https://www.linkedin.com/in/natalie-sabanadze-8a9b892a/ https://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/about/people/natalie-sabanadze-0 ---------- ARTICLES: https://www.chathamhouse.org/events/all/members-event/whats-next-ukraines-path-eu-accession https://carnegieeurope.eu/2023/05/17/who-is-afraid-of-georgian-democracy-pub-89746 https://cepa.org/article/drugs-lies-and-secret-tapes-georgias-faltering-democracy/ ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

402. Illia Ponomarenko - The Battle of Kyiv Ended with an Unscripted Ukrainian Victory over the Invaders.

30 april 2024 | 57 min

Illia Ponomarenko is a Ukrainian journalist, war reporter and defence analyst formerly writing for The Kyiv Independent. In January 2023, given his prominent role in reporting from the conflict, he was described by Der Spiegel as "likely the best-known Ukrainian after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy". He has written an account of his experiences reporting on the war – I Will Show You How It Was: The Story of Wartime Kyiv (to be released in August 2024). ---------- BOOK SUMMARY: In late February 2022, a series of missiles and rocket strikes began falling upon Ukraine, as the Russian military barreled over the border and fanned out across the country. First they took Chernobyl, then Kherson, then Mariupol. Time stood still as the world waited for Ukraine to flatten underneath the boot of its neighbor. Meanwhile, on the front lines in the capital city, Kyiv Independent reporter Illia Ponomarenko was seeing a different story on unfold: after months-years-of waiting for this long-feared attack, Ukraine was fed up and ready to fight back. The Russians bogged down hard in combat east and west of Kyiv. They got exhausted. They screwed up logistics. They sustained heavy losses. Their unbelievably overconfident blitz was failing. I Will Show You How It Was is Illia Ponomarenko's heart-wrenching memoir of the war on his homeland, offering a fiery diatribe against Russian hypocrisy and a moving look at what is being lost. But it's also a story of pride and even elation as Ukrainian forces come together, find their mojo, and oust the invaders from Kyiv. The most powerful and personal chronicle of the war to date, I Will Show You How It Was is an exceptional literary achievement, chronicling a stunning feat of resistance and a courageous people set on a miraculous victory. ---------- LINKS: https://kyivindependent.com/author/illia-ponomarenko/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illia_Ponomarenko https://www.theguardian.com/profile/illia-ponomarenko ---------- BOOKS: I Will Show You How It Was: The Story of Wartime Kyiv (2024). https://www.amazon.co.uk/Will-Show-You-How-Was/dp/1639733876 https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/i-will-show-you-how-it-was-9781639733880/ ---------- ARTICLES: https://kyivindependent.com/illia-ponomarenko-the-story-of-wartime-kyiv/ https://lawliberty.org/book-review/horror-and-heroism-in-the-battle-of-kyiv/ https://time.com/6836750/ukraine-biden-us-congress/ https://kyivindependent.com/what-will-it-take-for-ukraine-to-maintain-and-operate-the-m1-abrams/ https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/09/kyiv-suburbs-stalingrad-ukraine-capital-city ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- 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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

401. Colby Badhwar - Why US Military Aid Package will not be Enough to Achieve a Real Ukrainian Victory

29 april 2024 | 64 min

Ukraine will not succeed in liberating its lands without the provision of long-range missiles, argues Colby Badhwar. For Kyiv, the ability to strike operational and strategic targets deep inside enemy territory — i.e. inside Russia itself — is not a whim, but a crucial necessity. But are allies framing their strategy and aligning their production and logistic capabilities accordingly? The manufacturer of German TAURUS missiles has halted production due to a lack of orders. Meanwhile, Chancellor Olaf Scholz remains adamant in refusing to supply Ukraine with long-range weapons. Do the Western allies want victory, or merely prevent Ukraine from being annihilated by a revanchist Russian empire? ---------- Colby Badhwar is a security columnist at The Insider, a Russia-focused, independent media outlet. He is a defence and news analyst with an emphasis on procurement, arms sales military aid to Ukraine. Colby is based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ---------- LINKS: https://twitter.com/ColbyBadhwar https://theins.ru/en/opinion/colby-badhwar ---------- ARTICLES: https://theins.ru/en/opinion/colby-badhwar/266452 https://www.mediaite.com/politics/tucker-carlson-roasted-for-not-challenging-putins-claim-that-poland-was-to-blame-for-hitler-invading/ https://theins.ru/en/opinion/colby-badhwar/270670 https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/did-the-biden-administration-fall-for-russias-nuclear-propaganda/ ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

398. Jen Stout - Covering the War in Ukraine with Empathy for the Human Struggle and Cost of Russia's War

28 april 2024 | 47 min

Jen Stout is a journalist, writer, and radio producer from Scotland, frequently working in Ukraine. Originally from Shetland she has lived in Germany and Russia. Her reports are often found in the Sunday Post and on BBC Radio. And she’s written a fabulous book: Night Train to Odesa: Covering the Human Cost of Russia's War, which we’ll be discussing today. ---------- LINKS: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jen-stout-61903b53/ https://birlinn.co.uk/contributor/jen-stout/ https://jennybrownassociates.com/author/jen-stout https://www.amazon.co.uk/Night-Train-Odesa-Covering-Russias/dp/1846976472 ARTICLES: https://muckrack.com/jen-stout/articles https://www.sundaypost.com/fp/jen-stout/ https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/europe/61781/ukraines-war-of-the-words ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

400. Ilya Ponomarev - ‘Elites’ in Russia Fight Over Positions, Resources, Wealth, Status and to Survive

28 april 2024 | 50 min

Ilya Ponomarev is a Russian-Ukrainian politician who was a member of the Russian State Duma from 2007 to 2016. After the 2022 Russian invasion, Ponomarev joined Ukraine's Territorial Defence Forces, and categorically denounced the invasion. While a member of the Russian State Duma, he was the only deputy not to vote in favour of the Russian gay propaganda law and to vote against Russia's annexation of Crimea in March 2014. In 2015, while in the US, Ponomarev was formally charged in Russia with embezzlement, which he called politically motivated. In 2016, he was impeached for not performing his duties, and he went into exile in Ukraine, where he obtained Ukrainian citizenship in 2019. Ilya Ponomarev has endorsed acts of sabotage and arson in Russia and claims to be a spokesman with insurgent Russian forces (National Republican Army) fighting on the side of Ukraine. ---------- ARTICLES: https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/01/19/ilya-ponomaryov-we-have-to-capture-the-kremlin-there-is-no-other-way-a83772 ---------- BOOKS: Does Putin Have to Die? The Story of How Russia Becomes a Democracy after Losing to Ukraine (Hardcover – 19 Jan. 2023) ---------- LINKS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya_Ponomarev ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- WATCH NEXT: Yuri Felshtinsky https://youtu.be/PWGC2il6svU Konstantin Samoilov https://youtu.be/ogYRqb24ltc Grigor Atanesian https://youtu.be/oxDAieyJt9I Maria Snegovaya https://youtu.be/qL6lAj2UsPk Olga Solovyeva https://youtu.be/ABNXnXV-7ic ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

395. Taras Kuzio - Russia’s Orthodox Church is Complicit in Crimes of Genocide, Abduction and Persecution

26 april 2024 | 48 min

Dr Taras Kuzio is a British academic and Professor of Political Science at the National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy, and an expert on politics, crime and security in Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia. Taras Kuzio is of Ukrainian descent and received a BA in economics from the University of Sussex, an MA in Soviet studies from the University of London and holds a doctorate in political science from the University of Birmingham; he was a postdoctoral fellow at Yale University. His most recent book is Russian Nationalism and the Russian-Ukrainian War (2022), which was published prior to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. This follows two other books on Russia-Ukraine relations. In total, he is the author and editor of sixteen books. He is an associate research fellow at the UK Henry Jackson Society thinktank and has contributed to the Atlantic Council, Foreign Affairs, Kyiv Post, New Eastern Europe, and E-International Relations. ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- ARTICLE: https://henryjacksonsociety.org/publications/russia-and-the-anti-western-axis-must-be-militarily-defeated-shifting-the-western-consensus-toward-ending-russias-military-threat-to-ukraine-and-the-west/ ---------- LINKS: https://henryjacksonsociety.org/staff/dr-taras-kuzio/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taras_Kuzio https://twitter.com/TarasKuzio https://www.linkedin.com/in/taras-kuzio-3811583a/ https://archive.transatlanticrelations.org/fellows/taras-kuzio/ https://www.amazon.co.uk/Books-Taras-Kuzio/s?rh=n%3A266239%2Cp_27%3ATaras+Kuzio ---------- Please like and subscribe to see more great speakers and content on the Silicon Curtain channel, and check you are still subscribed to the channel, as many YouTubers covering the war in Ukraine have reporting losing subscribers, in a way that is unexplained, perhaps as part of some algorithmic change or process; I’d hate for you to miss out on some of the great greats we have lined up. Please also consider becoming a patron to support the work of the channel, or ‘Buy me a Coffee’. ----------

397. Anders Puck Nielsen - Will Munitions being Shipped to Ukraine at Scale Help Turn the Tide of War?

25 april 2024 | 54 min

GUEST: Anders Puck Nielsen - YouTuber and military analyst. ---------- Today I’m speaking with Anders Puck Nielsen, military analyst and influential YouTuber based in Denmark. He specialises in naval warfare and strategy; in today’s video we are going to be talking about Ukrainian successes against Russia’s Black Sea fleet and state of the ground war in Ukraine. ---------- LINKS: https://www.youtube.com/@anderspuck https://twitter.com/anderspuck https://www.linkedin.com/in/anderspucknielsen/ https://apnielsen.info/en/frontpage/ ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

396. Jessica Berlin - Policy of Escalation Management has Hurt Ukraine and is Not a Strategy for Victory.

24 april 2024 | 46 min

Fears of Russia’s collapse in Biden’s and Scholz’s administrations run deep and can't be changed by telling stories of Russian war crimes alone. Advisers and analysts have been conditioned by decades of Soviet nuclear threat and memory of the chaotic and rapid collapse of the Soviet Union in the 1990s. But what can turn politicians that cling to security blanket of escalation management, into leaders that imagine a Ukrainian victory, a triumph of pluralistic, democratic values, and plan accordingly? ---------- Jessica Berlin is an international political analyst, founder of the strategy consultancy CoStruct, and Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors at the pan-African fintech company Bridge Technologies. She has previously lived in Afghanistan, China, Myanmar, Rwanda, the UK, and US and worked in security, foreign policy, and economic development. Institutions she’s worked with include the US Senate, US Department of Defence, and the German development agency. Her commentary has been featured on CNN, BBC, DW News, the Washington Post, Le Monde, and many others. She is currently a Non-resident Fellow at the think tank CEPA and has held past fellowships from the German Marshall Fun, the Robert Bosch Foundation, and others. ---------- ARTICLE: https://bloodgoldreport.com https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/3744338-jessica-berlin-berlinbased-security-and-foreign-policy-expert.html ---------- LINKS: https://www.jessica.berlin/ https://twitter.com/berlin_bridge https://www.linkedin.com/in/berlinjessica/ https://cepa.org/author/jessica-berlin/ https://www.policycenter.ma/adelportrait/jessica-berlin https://warsawsecurityforum.org/speaker/berlin-jessica/ ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Silicon Bites #42 - Russian Aggression Remains Relentless as Ukraine is Supplied with New Munitions.

23 april 2024 | 34 min

Edition No42 | 23-04-2024 ~~~~~ SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ~~~~~ KYIV INDEPENDENT https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-war-latest-over-20-000-russian-troops-trying-to-storm-chasiv-yar-budanov-says-ukraine-to-face-difficult-situation-from-mid-may/ https://kyivindependent.com/breaking-u-s-house-passes-61-billion-ukraine-aid-bill/ https://kyivindependent.com/us-house-approves-bill-to-transfer-seized-russian-assets-to-ukraine/ https://kyivindependent.com/thousands-of-european-flights-affected-by-suspected-russian-jamming/ https://kyivindependent.com/swedish-navy-chief-says-russian-shadow-fleet-possibly-also-conducting-espionage/ https://kyivindependent.com/isw-russia-attempting-to-create-outsized-panic-in-kharkiv-force-mass-exodus-of-civilians/ https://kyivindependent.com/opinion-russias-energy-infrastructure-attacks-are-depopulating-ukraine/ https://kyivindependent.com/budanov-ukraine-faces-difficult-situation/ https://kyivindependent.com/governor-russia-attacks-tv-infrastructure-in-kharkiv/ THE GUARDIAN https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/21/house-approves-61bn-aid-for-ukraine-what-we-know-so-far-and-what-happens-next https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/22/rishi-sunak-promises-uks-largest-ever-military-support-package-for-ukraine https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/22/boris-johnson-ukraine-2022-peace-talks-russia OTHER ARTICLES https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/could-europe-send-troops-to-ukraine/ https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2024/04/ukraine-strikes-russias-kommuna-submarine-rescue-ship-with-neptune-missiles/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2024/04/21/the-russian-warship-kommuna-is-special-a-111-year-old-veteran-of-three-fleets-and-three-wars-the-ukrainian-navy-attacked-her-anyway/?sh=1e6f812c5d45 ~~~~~ USEFUL LINKS: Vatnik Soup https://twitter.com/P_Kallioniemi http://www.medbat.org.ua/en/ Real World News https://kyivindependent.com/ https://www.kyivpost.com/ https://english.nv.ua/ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/ https://meduza.io/en https://meduza.io/ https://novayagazeta.eu/ https://www.newsweek.com/topic/russia... Analysis https://www.ft.com/russia https://www.economist.com/ https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ https://cepa.org/ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/ https://www.theatlantic.com/search/?s... YouTube Channels / @timesradio1 / @khodorkovskyru / @popularpolitics / @macknack / @plushev / @tvrain / @fake_news / @feyginlive ~~~~~ TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemysl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ~~~~~ 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 YouTube s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

394. Stas Olenchenko - Analysing Propagandists that Normalise, Whitewash and Weaponize Russian Narratives

21 april 2024 | 52 min

Disinformation continues to be a threat to Ukrainian sovereignty and is also targeted at Western democracies and allies of Ukraine. Around the world aggressive information warfare threatens information security and social stability, especially in states which Russia seeks to destabilise or coerce into supporting it. As we saw in the 2016 US elections, it can potentially threaten results of voting, place undue influence on voters’ decisions and undermine democratic processes. This is more important than ever, with a slew of elections in 2024 and the advent of exponential AI created fakes. ---------- Stas Olenchenko is a content strategist and writer focused on Ukraine, media and tech. He is the writer behind “The Words War” newsletter, which focuses on undoing myths about Ukraine. ---------- LINKS: https://twitter.com/StasOlenchenko https://medium.com/@olenchenko.stan https://www.linkedin.com/in/stasolenchenko/ https://play.acast.com/s/live-from-ukraine/stas-olenchenko https://archive.kyivpost.com/author/stas-olenchenko https://stasolenchenko.substack.com/ ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

391. Yuliya Ziskina - Seize Russian Assets to Propel Ukraine Towards the Victory is Needs and Deserves.

21 april 2024 | 52 min

393. Olena Halushka - Russia is Creating a Hell on Earth in Ukraine, making Ukrainian Victory Essential

19 april 2024 | 53 min

The approach to supporting Ukraine which Western leaders have been taking so far has been „as long as it takes“. The lack of a clearly defined end goal impacted the pace and scale of the assistance, as well as raised questions on its efficiency. It cannot last this way in the protracted war as Ukraine’s mobilisation potential and resources are shorter than Russia’s. Instead, a clear commitment of the West to aid Ukraine with „whatever it takes for a fast victory“ is the only way to return sustainable peace back to Europe. ---------- ABOUT: Olena Halushka is a is a board member of the Ukrainian NGO “Anti-corruption Action Centre”, and co-founder of the International Centre for Ukrainian Victory. She has also worked as a chief of international advocacy at the post-Maidan coalition of 80 CSOs “Reanimation Package of Reforms”. Olena is a contributor to the Atlantic Council, Kyiv Independent. She has also written op-eds for the Washington Post, the Foreign Policy, and the EU Observer – but it’s a major article she wrote for the UK’s Guardian newspaper that we’ll be discussing today. ---------- LINKS: https://twitter.com/OlenaHalushka https://twitter.com/AntAC_ua https://twitter.com/ICUVua https://www.linkedin.com/in/olena-halushka-b7342259/?originalSubdomain=ua https://ukrainianvictory.org/experts/olena-halushka/ https://www.fpri.org/contributor/olena-halushka/ https://cepa.org/author/olena-halushka/ https://archive.kyivpost.com/author/olena-halushka https://foreignpolicy.com/author/olena-halushka/ ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

392. Anna from Ukraine - Heirs to the Waffen SS, Russia Repeats the Crimes and Traumas of WWII in Ukraine

18 april 2024 | 54 min

GUEST: Anna from Ukraine - Anna Danylchuk ---------- Anna Danylchuk has been creating a war diary since the early days of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia in 2022. Anna Danylchuk aims to tell the truth about Ukraine and Russia’s war and cut through the noise and propaganda. Anna is passionate about the beauty and independence of her country, and communicates this powerfully in her videos, in a clear and honest way. ---------- LINKS: https://www.youtube.com/@UCiVefOT4TGW3pOqW6AxmlBQ https://www.buymeacoffee.com/annafromukraine My interview with Anna in Lviv - hosted on her excellent channel- https://youtu.be/daHcnsNQ1S0?si=yHbZ2kJZ3CTVRd8Z ---------- OTHER VIDEOS WITH ANNA ON SILICON CURTAIN: https://youtu.be/x0o1bn-1Yyc https://youtu.be/Hm5_Yb3geQ4 https://youtu.be/x-gUSUG7N6E https://youtu.be/r0PNxM7Xyow https://youtu.be/5AenntkSxIs https://youtu.be/vPT6oZ1FOAw https://youtu.be/0gaK_5TEXXw https://youtu.be/XQJoTAAfxt4 https://youtu.be/J8mge30rxY8 (24-Jan-24) https://youtu.be/Y59nUd8B5pY (21-Feb-24) ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

390. Konstantin Samoilov - Floods, Mobilisation and Terror Unleashed in Russia- A Perfect Storm of Trauma

18 april 2024 | 49 min

Welcome to our monthly conversation with Konstantin, who is one of the most respected voices on YouTube about what is happening Inside Russia. Konstantin Samoilov is a well-known YouTuber whose channel ‘Inside Russia’ comments insightfully on Russia’s decent into authoritarianism over the last few years. But now, like many others, he’s outside Russia, with no idea of when he can return there. ---------- LINKS: INSIDE RUSSIA is a source of current news on Russia - Konstantin carefully selects 9 news stories that are important and really matter, with commentaries and analyses by Konstantin delivered daily to channel patrons at Patreon.com Get your access to daily news updates at patreon.com/INSIDERUSSIA https://www.youtube.com/@INSIDERUSSIA https://www.patreon.com/insiderussia ---------- OTHER VIDEOS WITH KONSTANTIN ON SILICON CURTAIN: https://youtu.be/gbINoWwiq-Y https://youtu.be/71CgzWpxf4Y https://youtu.be/L2pEHdrSbJw https://youtu.be/HKF-QaXOCIg https://youtu.be/F6vJGl0169Y https://youtu.be/ogYRqb24ltc https://youtu.be/VhpoQwvEqis https://youtu.be/URzXdRO02ps (29-Jan-2024) https://youtu.be/FTuvRZQMCN8 (04-Mar-24) ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Silicon Bites - #41 - Strikes Against Russian Oil Infrastructure is Ukraine's Most Potent Weapon.

18 april 2024 | 50 min

Edition No41 | 16-04-2024 ~~~~~ SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ~~~~~ KYIV INDEPENDENT https://kyivindependent.com/we-in-ukraine-know-very-well-the-horror-zelensky-condemns-iranian-missile-and-drone-attack-on-israel/ https://kyivindependent.com/syrskyi-situation-on-eastern-front-has-significantly-deteriorated-in-recent-days/ https://kyivindependent.com/unequipped-and-outgunned-ukrainian-military-often-cant-evacuate-its-wounded/ https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-war-latest-april-14/ https://kyivindependent.com/zelensky-assistance-for-ukraine-is-limited-while-russia-has-access-to-missiles-drones-components/ https://kyivindependent.com/trump-2/ https://kyivindependent.com/half-of-french-youth-willing-to-fight-in-ukraine-to-defend-france/ THE MOSCOW TIMES https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/04/09/in-photos-russias-orenburg-region-hit-with-worst-flooding-in-decades-a84767 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/04/14/everythings-lost-russians-mourn-flooded-homes-a84838 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/04/11/the-kremlins-creeping-nationalizations-hit-chelyabinsk-businesses-a84810 NOVAYA GAZETA https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2024/03/27/crisis-what-crisis-en https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2024/04/14/a-losing-battle-en OTHER ARTICLES https://www.kyivpost.com/post/31090 https://euromaidanpress.com/2024/04/12/the-big-oil-behind-americas-criticism-of-ukrainian-strikes-on-russian-refineries/ https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/03/27/ukraine-drone-strikes-russia-oil-refineries/ https://news.sky.com/story/oil-price-rises-after-ukraine-attacks-major-russian-refinery-13107022 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-12/iea-warns-attacks-on-russia-refineries-may-disrupt-diesel-market?embedded-checkout=true https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2024/03/24/ukraine-has-developed-15-kinds-of-long-range-strike-drone-and-sortied-them-against-russias-oil-industry/?sh=1feb6fed63a3 https://www.vox.com/world-politics/24113745/russia-shadow-fleet-oil-tankers-environmental-risk ~~~~~ USEFUL LINKS: Vatnik Soup https://twitter.com/P_Kallioniemi http://www.medbat.org.ua/en/ Real World News https://kyivindependent.com/ https://www.kyivpost.com/ https://english.nv.ua/ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/ https://meduza.io/en https://meduza.io/ https://novayagazeta.eu/ https://www.newsweek.com/topic/russia... Analysis https://www.ft.com/russia https://www.economist.com/ https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ https://cepa.org/ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/ https://www.theatlantic.com/search/?s... YouTube Channels / @timesradio1 / @khodorkovskyru / @popularpolitics / @macknack / @plushev / @tvrain / @fake_news / @feyginlive ~~~~~ TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemysl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ~~~~~ 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 YouTube s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

389. Greg and Jonathan - What Choice of Candidates do Americans Face in November's Presidential Election?

14 april 2024 | 74 min

Gregory Terry has worked in Ukraine for 26 years, facilitating the delivery of aid to frontline areas of the country. Like me, he uses YouTube as a tool to advocate for Ukraine and demonstrate the amazing work of his team on the ground. Greg has always been fascinated by the cultures, history, and languages of the region, growing up in an era which saw the opening up of the Soviet Union. I’ll let him tell the story of his family, and how he came to be connected to Russia and Ukraine. Greg now runs an NGO in Ukraine and considers the country his second homeland. ---------- CHANNEL: https://www.youtube.com/gregterryexperience "Welcome to our channel dedicated to supporting Ukraine! We're here to provide you with the latest news, updates, and first hand witnesses to Ukraine's resilience. Join us to learn about volunteer efforts, charitable giving opportunities, and ways to make a positive impact. Together, let's stand in solidarity and support Ukraine in their journey towards peace and prosperity." GREG TERRY LINKS: https://www.gregterry.org/ https://www.gregterry.org/donate.html https://www.youtube.com/gregterryexperience https://www.buymeacoffee.com/gregterry https://twitter.com/gregoryjterry ---------- Jonathan MS Pearce is a philosopher, author, columnist, and public speaker with an interest in writing about almost anything, from scepticism to science, politics, and morality, to the environment. Essentially because everything is philosophy. He is a former teacher and is now battling primary progressive multiple sclerosis. He can no longer play football with his twin boys, but he can still write a good column and book. And remarkably, and very bravely, he has just come back from an arduous journey to Ukraine’s frontlines. His experiences are the subject of today’s conversation. JONATHAN MS PEARCE LINKS: https://www.youtube.com/@ATPGeo https://twitter.com/ATipplingPhilo https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/Jonathan%20M.S.%20Pearce/author/B004DAVFKC https://onlysky.media/jonathan-pearce/ ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

388. DW Phillips - Has a Pro-Putin wing of the American Far Right Formed an Unholy Alliance with Russia?

12 april 2024 | 46 min

With the vote on Ukraine on the cusp, the Pro-Putin wing of the American Far right is pushing a specific narrative designed to enrage Americans and call the Christianity of Speaker Johnson into question. How is Moscow influencing the Right and is there narrative taken seriously in the American political landscape? ---------- DW Phillips is a documentary filmmaker and constitutional attorney with Ukraine Story, a nonprofit foundation for journalism and documentary reporting in Ukraine. He and his documentary team have been filming conducting interviews in Ukraine with victims of Russian atrocities, and reporting stories of courage, defiance and perseverance of the Ukrainian people. He has reported on Russian atrocities in Bucha, and is presently working on issues of Kremlin disinformation campaigns in the American Right, religious liberty in Ukraine and the KGB domination of the Moscow Patriarchate of the Russian Orrhodox Church. ---------- LINKS: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dw-p-59111859/ https://www.youtube.com/@UkraineStory ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Silicon Bites - #40 - Terror in Moscow - is it Just the Start of New Wave of Horrors and Repression?

10 april 2024 | 45 min

Edition No4 | 10-04-2024 ~~~~~ SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ~~~~~ KYIV INDEPENDENT https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-war-latest-ukraine-hits-aviation-training-center-in-russias-voronezh-oblast-source-says/ https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-war-latest-april-6-7-2024/ https://kyivindependent.com/source-russias-engels-air-base-was-hit-by-ukraine-heres-why-its-important/ https://kyivindependent.com/update-4-killed-23-injured-in-russian-april-5-attacks-on-zaporizhzhia/ https://kyivindependent.com/yermak-russian-counteroffensive-could-start-in-may-or-june-kharkiv-likely-to-be-targeted/ https://kyivindependent.com/russia-losses/ https://kyivindependent.com/uk-defense-ministry-russia-aims-to-recruit-400-000-contract-service-personnel-in-2024/ https://kyivindependent.com/faith-under-fire-russias-war-on-religion-in-ukraines-occupied-territories/ https://kyivindependent.com/moscow-shooting-aftermath-repressions-racism-and-terror/ THE MOSCOW TIMES https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/04/02/by-torturing-moscow-attack-suspects-russia-risks-radicalizing-future-terrorists-a84696 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/04/05/russia-is-descending-into-the-dark-ages-through-normalizing-violence-a84717 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/04/03/russias-terrorism-laws-target-everyone-but-the-real-threat-a84729 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/03/27/my-family-knows-the-injustice-of-the-death-penalty-we-cant-let-it-come-back-to-russia-a84639 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/04/05/russian-blogger-gets-10-months-correctional-labor-for-statue-tickling-video-a84752 NOVAYA GAZETA https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2024/03/22/mobilisation-2-0-plan-to-recruit-extra-300000-soldiers-according-to-kremlin-sources-en-news https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2024/04/03/zelensky-says-russia-plans-to-draft-another-300000-troops-in-june-en-news https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2024/04/02/i-dont-want-to-see-your-face-en OTHER ARTICLES https://www.kyivpost.com/videos/30662 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/ukraine-russia-war-news-latest-putin-drones-nuclear-b2526352.html https://nypost-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/nypost.com/2024/03/24/opinion/why-the-moscow-terror-attack-could-be-a-putin-false-flag-operation/amp/ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68759150 https://defence-blog.com/leaked-audio-reveals-russian-plan-to-occupy-kazakhstan-territory/ https://euromaidanpress.com/2024/04/05/stoltenberg-russian-personnel-expelled-from-nato-hq/ https://www.kyivpost.com/post/30659 https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2024/04/06/estonia-just-found-another-million-shells-for-ukraine/?sh=5828192f5ba1 ~~~~~ USEFUL LINKS: Vatnik Soup https://twitter.com/P_Kallioniemi http://www.medbat.org.ua/en/ Real World News https://kyivindependent.com/ https://www.kyivpost.com/ https://english.nv.ua/ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/ https://meduza.io/en https://meduza.io/ https://novayagazeta.eu/ https://www.newsweek.com/topic/russia... Analysis https://www.ft.com/russia https://www.economist.com/ https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ https://cepa.org/ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/ https://www.theatlantic.com/search/?s... ~~~~~ TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemysl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ~~~~~

387. James Ker-Lindsay - The World is at a Point of Systemic Change as Challenges to Sovereignty Increase

9 april 2024 | 45 min

James Ker-Lindsay is an academic and analyst with internationally recognised expertise on Southeast Europe (Balkans, Turkey, Greece, and Cyprus). He has extensive experience working across Government, Private Sector, Higher Education, and Think Tanks. He is also a regular commentator for the international media, including the BBC, CNN and Reuters and was formerly Co-Editor of the Cyprus Review. From 2000-2005, he covered Greek and Cypriot politics for the Economist Intelligence Unit. ---------- LINKS: https://www.youtube.com/@JamesKerLindsay/featured https://twitter.com/JamesKerLindsay https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-ker-lindsay-b31b9930/ BOOKS: https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/James-Ker-Lindsay/author/B001JOTQ88 ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

386. Sten Rynning - Does Russia Believe Article 5 Still has the Power to Deter its Aggression in Europe?

7 april 2024 | 51 min

Russia's illegal war of aggression against Ukraine has shattered peace in Europe. NATO's Strategic doctrine states that Russia is the most significant and direct threat to Euro-Atlantic security, peace, and stability. It’s clear Russia wants to establish spheres of influence and control other countries through coercion, subversion, aggression, and annexation. We can now see clearly that Russia uses conventional, cyber and hybrid means – including disinformation – against NATO Allies and partners. But it also deploys an array of illegal tactics against Ukraine – targeting civilian infrastructure, energy, agricultural, food and the economy and ecology, cultural targets, and civilian dwellings, uses rape, torture, and terror, and latterly strikes against first responders, massive glide bombs and chemical weapons. NATO says it does not seek confrontation and poses no threat to Russia, but that may be part of the problem. Russia commits crimes on this scale because no one, apart from Ukraine, has shown the will to stop them, or pose a significant threat to Russia’s ambitions or Putin’s regime. ---------- Sten Rynning is Director of the Danish Institute for Advanced Study. Formerly he was Vice Dean for the Research at the faculty of business and social sciences, at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU). He was also a member of the Alphen Group and a non-resident associate fellow at the NATO Defence College. Among the topics he works on are NATO, European security, and war studies. ---------- LINKS: https://twitter.com/stenrynning https://www.linkedin.com/in/rynning/ https://portal.findresearcher.sdu.dk/en/persons/sry BOOKS: NATO: From Cold War to Ukraine, a History of the World’s Most Powerful Alliance (2024) War Time - Temporality and the Decline of Western Military Power Edited by Sten Rynning, Olivier Schmitt, Amelie Theussen (2021) https://yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300270112/nato/ https://www.amazon.co.uk/NATO-New-History-Sten-Rynning/dp/0300270119 https://www.brookings.edu/books/war-time/ ARTICLES: https://www.ft.com/content/e2429a1f-ca3e-4d97-b08c-80bdea18b47f https://www.historytoday.com/archive/review/deterring-armageddon-peter-apps-and-nato-sten-rynning-review https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/nato-75-russia-ukraine-putin-baltic-b2522002.html https://carnegieeurope.eu/strategiceurope/91922 ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

385. Anastasiia Marushevska - Russian Historical Myths that Distort Ukrainian History from Middle Ages.

6 april 2024 | 55 min

GUEST: Anastasiia Marushevska - Communications expert, speaker, writer, and traveller. ---------- About the report: This analytical report is dedicated to reviewing the origin and modifications of the Russian history-based propaganda that aims to legitimise the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The research provides a comprehensive analysis of the Russian historical myths that seek to distort Ukrainian history from the middle ages to the ongoing all-out war, covering Russia's claim for Ukraine's mediaeval heritage and false primacy in establishing the Orthodox Christianity in Eastern Europe, the myth of 'reunification' of Russian and Ukrainian nations, the history-based propaganda concerning Russia-occupied territories of Ukraine, the World War Two-related propaganda and instances of disinformation related to the ongoing invasion of Ukraine. Relying on methods of scientific analysis, source verification, analytical interpretation and Open Source Intelligence, the report accompanies the historical review of the analysed myths with the respective ideological implication and sources the research with specific examples of their use in Russian propaganda. ---------- LINKS: https://www.pr.army/ https://www.ukrainer.net/en/ https://deportation.org.ua/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/pr-army/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/ukrainer/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/where-are-our-people/ https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/115204.htm ---------- WATCH NEXT: Oleksandr Kraiev https://youtu.be/tbucZuR6CqI Eugen Fedchenko https://youtu.be/YDi5IKtlv1M Valeria Kovtun https://youtu.be/l7zw1L12ZVg Oleksandra Tsekhanovska https://youtu.be/sgwt2XwIS3k Olga Tokariuk https://youtu.be/b6Y0lHUqpeo ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

384. Joseph Lindsley - Russia Aims on Taking Kharkiv and is Aggressively Targeting Energy Infrastructure.

5 april 2024 | 62 min

Fourthin a series of monthly conversations on Silicon Curtain, about how Ukrainians are redefining the ideas of freedom and democracy, and why Ukraine must not be allowed to fall under Russian control. ---------- ABOUT: Joe Lindsley is a traveller and a writer, and American reporting on Chicago's WGN Radio from Ukraine each and every weekday of Russia's full-scale war. He once was protégé to Fox News founder Roger Ailes, but Lindsley escaped that frenzied world where power mattered more than truth. He came to Lviv for a Ukrainian Catholic University journalism conference on Information Overload, AI, and Responsibility. Then the Coronavirus shut down world travel, and he stayed to build a better vision for the media industry. OTHER VIDEOS: https://youtu.be/DM42QAF2ia4 (07-Nov-23) https://youtu.be/KAGt83FzXmI (26-Jan-24) https://youtu.be/AlD3HUTQAag (20-Feb-24) ---------- LINKS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Lindsley https://www.linkedin.com/in/joseph-lindsley-60087618/ https://www.youtube.com/@uafreedomnews https://twitter.com/JPLindsley https://www.instagram.com/jplindsley/ https://www.facebook.com/josephlindsley https://www.ukrainianfreedomnews.com/ ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

383. Nigel Gould Davies - Why A Putin Victory Risks Security, Freedom, Tolerance, and Wealth in the West.

5 april 2024 | 49 min

Nigel Gould-Davies is a senior fellow for Russia and Eurasia at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in London. Between 2010 and 2013 he held senior government relations roles in the international energy industry. Previously he has also served in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, where his roles included head of the Economic Section in Moscow, ambassador to Belarus, and project director in the Policy Planning Unit. He is author of Tectonic Politics: Global Political Risk in an Age of Transformation (Brookings, 2019). ---------- LINKS: https://twitter.com/Nigelgd1 https://www.linkedin.com/in/nigel-gould-davies-5347b51a?originalSubdomain=uk https://www.iiss.org/people/russia-and-eurasia/dr-nigel-gould-davies/ https://gsas.harvard.edu/person/nigel-gould-davies BOOKS: Tectonic Politics: Global Political Risk in an Age of Transformation (2019) https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tectonic-Politics-Insights-Critical-International/dp/0815737130 https://www.chathamhouse.org/2019/05/tectonic-politics-global-political-risk-age-transformation ARTICLES: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00396338.2024.2332057 https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/12/09/biden-putin-ukraine-appeasement-deterrence-donbass/ ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Silicon Bites 39 - Zelensky Warns Allies that Without Munitions Supplies Ukraine may have to Retreat

3 april 2024 | 40 min

Edition No39 | 03-04-2024 Ukraine's critical infrastructure targeted in Russian overnight attack. Russia attacked Ukraine with drones and missiles overnight on March 31, damaging infrastructure facilities and killing at least one person. Russian troops hit Ukraine with drones and missiles, including 11 Shahed drones, 14 cruise missiles, an Kh-59 guided missile, and an Iskander-M ballistic missile, the Air Force reported. A total of nine cruise missiles and nine drones were downed. ~~~~~ SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ~~~~~ KYIV INDEPENDENT https://kyivindependent.com/ukraines-critical-infrastructure-targeted-in-russian-overnight-attack/ https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-war-latest-march-30-31-2024/ https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-war-latest-april-1/ https://kyivindependent.com/drone-attack-reportedly-targets-oil-refinery-in-russias-tatarstan/ https://kyivindependent.com/budanov-warns-russian-railway-in-occupied-ukraine-can-pose-serious-problem/ https://kyivindependent.com/belarus-begins-military-drills-near-borders-with-eu-ukraine/ https://kyivindependent.com/moscow-shooting-aftermath-repressions-racism-and-terror/ https://kyivindependent.com/russia-demands-extradition-of-ukrainians-including-head-of-sbu-after-isis-k-attributed-terrorist-attack/ NOVAYA GAZETA https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2024/03/23/the-deadliest-terror-attack-in-russia-in-20-years-in-pictures-en https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2024/03/27/abandoned-by-putin-en https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2024/03/14/let-there-be-war-en KYIV POST https://www.kyivpost.com/post/30379 https://www.kyivpost.com/post/30370 https://www.kyivpost.com/videos/30106 EUROMAIDAN PRESS https://euromaidanpress.com/2024/03/26/frontline-report-ukraine-prepares-for-likely-russian-assault-from-belgorod-region/ https://euromaidanpress.com/2024/03/31/ukrainian-police-many-still-missing-bucha-civilian-death-toll-not-final-two-years-on/ https://euromaidanpress.com/2024/03/31/ukraines-budget-shortfall-in-march-due-to-polish-border-blockade-amounts-to-160-million/ OTHER ARTICLES https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/03/29/mass-deportations-seen-in-st-petersburg-after-moscow-concert-attack-ngo-a84685 https://www.politico.eu/article/ukraine-attacks-shahed-drone-factory-oil-refinery-russia-tatarstan-republic/ https://biz.liga.net/en/all/tek/novosti/ft-ssha-poprosili-ukrainu-prekratit-udary-po-rossiyskim-npz ~~~~~ USEFUL LINKS: Vatnik Soup https://twitter.com/P_Kallioniemi http://www.medbat.org.ua/en/ Real World News https://kyivindependent.com/ https://www.kyivpost.com/ https://english.nv.ua/ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/ https://meduza.io/en https://meduza.io/ https://novayagazeta.eu/ https://www.newsweek.com/topic/russia... Analysis https://www.ft.com/russia https://www.economist.com/ https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ https://cepa.org/ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/ https://www.theatlantic.com/search/?s... YouTube Channels / @timesradio1 / @khodorkovskyru / @popularpolitics / @macknack / @plushev / @tvrain / @fake_news / @feyginlive ~~~~~ TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemysl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ~~~~~ 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 YouTube s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

382. Jonathan MS Pearce - Autocrats are on the March but not all Countries have Woken up to the Threat.

2 april 2024 | 63 min

Jonathan MS Pearce is a philosopher, author, columnist, and public speaker with an interest in writing about almost anything, from scepticism to science, politics, and morality, to the environment. Essentially because everything is philosophy. He is a former teacher and is now battling primary progressive multiple sclerosis. He can no longer play football with his twin boys, but he can still write a good column and book. And remarkably, and very bravely, he has just come back from an arduous journey to Ukraine’s frontlines. His experiences are the subject of today’s conversation. ---------- JONATHAN MS PEARCE LINKS: https://www.youtube.com/@ATPGeo https://twitter.com/ATipplingPhilo https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/Jonathan%20M.S.%20Pearce/author/B004DAVFKC https://onlysky.media/jonathan-pearce/ ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

375. Valeria Kovtun - UnpackingTechniques Russia used to Implant its Lies and Narratives into your Head

1 april 2024 | 46 min

Disinformation continues to be a threat to Ukrainian sovereignty and is also targeted at Western democracies and allies of Ukraine. Around the world aggressive information warfare threatens information security and social stability, especially in states which Russia seeks to destabilise or coerce into supporting it. As we saw in the 2016 US elections, it can potentially threaten results of voting, place undue influence on voters’ decisions and undermine democratic processes. This is more important than ever, with a slew of elections in 2024 and the advent of exponential AI created fakes. ---------- Valeria Kovtun is Deputy Project Director at the Zinc Network, a cognitive resilience programme rolling out in Ukraine. Valeria was formerly Head at Filter, the National media literacy project founded in Ukraine. She also worked as a journalist at BBC Reel and has been a senior correspondent at major Ukrainian media organisations, and a fellow journalist at the United Nations. She also has a background in video production, content management and news broadcasting. Valeria Kovtun studied law, Media Communications, and journalism at several prestigious institutions, including the Kyiv National Economics University, the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, and the LSE. ---------- LINKS: https://twitter.com/valerie_kov?lang=en https://www.linkedin.com/in/valeria-kovtun-76b13517a/ https://zincnetwork.com/ ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

380. Michael Kimmage - Putin's War in Ukraine Ushers in a New Age of Global Instability and Confrontation

31 mars 2024 | 54 min

In Collisions, Michael Kimmage, traces the origins of the Russia-Ukraine war. He unpicks the development of Ukraine and Russia's fractious relationship back to the end of the Cold War, through the central events that led to Vladimir Putin seizing Crimea in 2014 and, eight years later, initiating the most intensive and widescale military confrontation of the post-WWII era. This conflict ushers in a new age of global instability, and a collision between Russia and the Western alliance that is far hotter than confrontations during the Cold War. ---------- Michael Kimmage is a professor of history at the Catholic University of America. Michael is author of books and articles about international affairs, Soviet and Russian politics, and the European-American relationship. From 2014 to 2016, he served on the Secretary's Policy Planning Staff at the U.S. Department of State. He is a senior non-resident associate at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies. ---------- CHAPTERS: 00:01:55 The fractious relationship with Russia never really went away 00:04:21 External peace and internal Terror during the interwar period 00:07:18 Impact of Putin's speech at the 2007 Munich Security Conference 00:10:25 Were the signs of impending conflict accumulating in 2021? 00:14:36 Putin has used distraction and lying to fool West since 2014 00:16:57 The stages of Putinism with increasing internal repression 00:23:35 Grienance and victimhood that underpins Putin's worldview 00:29:24 The European contradiction - wealth but low defence investment 00:32:04 Lack of strategy and a concept of victory among the allies 00:34:29 Is there a chance in Europe's attitude to the war and Ukraine 00:40:05 Is 'Bidenism' just as risky for Ukraine as 'Trumpism'? 00:43:44 Is there a problem in Washington with the idea of taking Crimea? 00:49:35 Are we paying too little attention to weakness in Russian economy? ---------- LINKS: https://twitter.com/mkimmage https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-kimmage-66654a5/ https://www.csis.org/people/michael-kimmage https://www.wilsoncenter.org/person/michael-kimmage https://history.catholic.edu/faculty-and-research/faculty-profiles/kimmage-michael/index.html https://global.oup.com/academic/product/collisions-9780197751794?cc=gb&lang=en& https://www.gmfus.org/find-experts/michael-kimmage ---------- ARTICLES: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/authors/michael-kimmage https://www.americanpurpose.com/authors/michael-kimmage/ ---------- BOOKS: Collisions: The Origins of the War in Ukraine and the New Global Instability (2024) The Abandonment of the West: The History of an Idea in American Foreign Policy (2020) ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- LINKS: https://twitter.com/general_ben https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Hodges https://cepa.org/author/ben-hodges/ https://warsawsecurityforum.org/speaker/hodges-ben-lt-gen/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-hodges-1674b1172/ ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

381. Ben Hodges - The Siege of Crimea has Begun as Ukraine Takes Control over the Black Sea and Coastline

30 mars 2024 | 47 min

Strikes on Russian oil refineries have a significant impact on Russia’s ability to conduct warfare. Lieutenant General Ben Hodges, Commander of U.S. Forces Europe in 2014-17, stated this during the 16th annual Kyiv Security Forum. “Of course, attacks on oil refineries have a significant impact. Russia is less able to pay for this war, and it also deprives it of the necessary fuel to continue hostilities. I would recommend ignoring the calls for an end to such attacks.” The Lieutenant General emphasized that sanctions against Russia need to be strengthened. He also added that 2024 will be the year of industrial competition. “Ukraine and the West should win this competition. I am talking about of course building up ammunition supplies, but also moving forward maintenance capabilities so that the Ukrainian soldiers can fix forward equipment that is broken or damaged on site, as well as increasing their ammunition stocks.” According to Hodges, Ukraine should put pressure on Russian logistics, particularly in Crimea, to make the peninsula unusable for Russian troops. “I would not expect a dramatic drop in Ukraine’s ability to defend itself. The job of (new Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine) Syrskyi will be to stabilize the situation on the front line, but industrial competition will play a role here, while the Ukrainian army needs new units to ensure rotation”. ---------- Ben Hodges is a retired United States Army officer, who became commander of United States Army Europe in November 2014, and held that position for three years until retiring from the United States Army in January 2018. He was most recently a Senior Advisor to Human Rights First, until summer 2023, and serves as NATO Senior Mentor for Logistics. Until recently was the Pershing Chair in Strategic Studies, at the Centre for European Policy Analysis, specialising in NATO, the Transatlantic relationship and international security. ---------- CHAPTERS: 00:01:07 Introduction - what's happened since the last conversation 00:01:55 What we're still getting wrong about Vladimir Putin 00:03:39 Russia crimes - using Ecocide and Energy as Weapons if war 00:06:14 The grey fleet breaking oil sanctions and threatening disaster 00:11:29 Ukraine's revolution in military tactics in the air and at sea 00:14:17 Has siege of Crimea begun, and will it become untenable for Russia 00:16:25 The failing Western strategy of extreme 'escalation manangement' 00:22:29 How has Ukraine still held the line, depite ammunition famine 00:29:42 Why was Jake Sullivan in Kyiv, and does it involve appeasement? 00:30:32 We are giving Putin signals thate he can act with total impunity 00:36:15 What are immediate requirements of Ukraine and how can we meet them? 00:40:41 Is the strategy of 'risk management' built on incorrect assumptions? 00:43:51 Western strategy increases global risk of conflict and chaos ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- LINKS: https://twitter.com/general_ben https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Hodges https://cepa.org/author/ben-hodges/ https://warsawsecurityforum.org/speaker/hodges-ben-lt-gen/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-hodges-1674b1172/ ---------- CHAPTERS: 00:00:00 ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org ----------

379. Marci Shore - What is worth dying for? Maidan Showed what Ukrainians are Ready to Risk for Freedom.

30 mars 2024 | 44 min

Marci Shore asks the vital question: What is worth dying for? While the world watched the uprising on the Maidan as an episode in geopolitics, those in Ukraine during the extraordinary winter of 2013–14 lived the revolution as an existential transformation: the blurring of night and day, the loss of a sense of time, the sudden disappearance of fear, the imperative to make choices. The Maidan was an illumination of the human capacity for natality, the ability to act, to begin anew at this moment. It was the turning point without which Ukrainian resistance to the full-scale Russian invasion cannot be understood. ---------- Marci Shore is an American professor of intellectual history at Yale University, where she specializes in the history of literary and political engagement with Marxism and phenomenology. Marci is author of Caviar and Ashes: A Warsaw Generation's Life and Death in Marxism, 1918–1968, and of The Taste of Ashes, a study of the presence of the communist and Nazi past in today's Eastern Europe. But today we will be discussing her most recent book, about the Revolution of Dignity – The Ukrainian Night: An Intimate History of Revolution. ---------- LINKS: https://twitter.com/marci_shore https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marci_Shore https://jackson.yale.edu/person/marci-shore/ https://history.yale.edu/people/marci-shore https://yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300276831/the-ukrainian-night/ https://www.ukrainianworldcongress.org/marci-shore-on-revolution-of-dignity/ ---------- BOOKS: The Taste of Ashes The Ukrainian Night: An Intimate History of Revolution ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

378. Andrew A. Michta - Washington’s Failing Strategy in Ukraine Shows the Urgent Need for New Thinking.

29 mars 2024 | 50 min

Washington’s likely failure in Ukraine shows the US needs a new national security strategy. Andrew A. Michta is senior fellow and director of the Scowcroft Strategy Initiative at the Atlantic Council of the United States. The views expressed here are his own: "The United States Senate’s failure to pass an aid package for Ukraine last month will likely be remembered as the first domino to fall in Russia’s war of aggression, potentially setting the stage for Russian President Vladimir Putin’s victory. And while the U.S. Congress is expected to try again in 2024, this was a clear sign that the West has grown weary of an open-ended “as-long-as-it-takes” approach. If this is to change, it’s time for a new strategy. It’s true that U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration succeeded in leading NATO toward a common response to Russia’s unprovoked invasion — and this will be remembered as a splendid manifestation of America’s strategic DNA. But what followed has muddied the waters — especially the drawn-out and overly cautious process of providing military assistance to Ukraine. Most importantly, the U.S. and its allies should have laid out a clear vision for victory. Instead, we heard from various officials that it’s either up to Ukraine to decide what the end state should be, that Putin can’t be allowed to win, or that Ukraine can’t be allowed to lose. Like the saying goes: If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will get you there." ---------- Dr Andrew A. Michta is Director of the Scowcroft Strategy Initiative and Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council of the United States in Washington, DC. Previously he was Dean of the College of International and Security Studies at the George C. Marshall European Centre for Security Studies, in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. In 2015 -16 he was Professor of National Security Affairs at the U.S. Naval War College. Prior to that he filled many similarly prestigious roles. He is also a Member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. Professor Michta has published books and articles on U.S. and European security, NATO, transatlantic relations, civil-military relations, energy security and democratization. He has special expertise in Central European politics and security. He is a frequent media contributor and government consultant. ---------- LINKS: https://twitter.com/andrewmichta https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-a-michta-39116934/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_A._Michta https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/expert/andrew-michta/ https://www.politico.eu/author/andrew-a-michta/ https://www.wilsoncenter.org/person/andrew-michta-0 ---------- ARTICLES: https://www.ft.com/content/b589f3d4-4ab1-4430-b2bb-d7c607473579 https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/3722921/proliferation-remains-best-deterrence-against-threats-to-us-space-access/ https://www.ifri.org/en/publications/briefings-de-lifri/tailoring-deterrence-high-north-nuclear-consequences-swedens ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Silicon Bites #28 - Ukraine Continues to Hit Russia Refineries in A Strategy That's Worrying Moscow.

27 mars 2024 | 34 min

Edition No38 | 27-03-2024 Ukrainian drones “have knocked out 600,000 to 900,00 barrels” of Russia’s daily oil-refining capacity. Industry experts estimate that Ukraine’s campaign of long-range drone strikes on Russia’s energy industry has already succeeded in knocking out between 600,000 and 900,000 barrels of Russia’s daily oil-refining capacity, Bloomberg reports. Ukraine launched a bombing campaign against Russia’s oil and gas industry in January 2024 using domestically produced long-range drones. According to Kyiv officials, these air strikes are designed to starve the Russian invasion force inside Ukraine of fuel while also undermining the economic foundations of Vladimir Putin’s war machine. On March 1, Russia imposed a six-month ban on gasoline exports in a move widely linked to Ukraine’s drone attacks. ~~~~~ SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ~~~~~ KYIV INDEPENDENT https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-war-latest-6/ https://kyivindependent.com/putin-recognizes-radical-islamists/ https://kyivindependent.com/opinion-why-isis-attacked-russia-and-why-russia-blames-ukraine/ https://kyivindependent.com/todays-attack-on-kyiv/ https://kyivindependent.com/ukhydroenergo-years-needed-to-restore-dnipro-hydroelectric-power-plant/ https://kyivindependent.com/sbu-head-russia-stops-weapons-supplies-via-crimean-bridge-after-repeated-strikes/ https://kyivindependent.com/borrell-eu-has-delivered-500-000-shells-to-ukraine/ https://kyivindependent.com/russias-response-to-terrorist-attack-alleged-torture-of-suspects-follows-pattern-of-abuse-in-ukraine/ https://kyivindependent.com/despite-no-opposition-and-predetermined-result-russias-presidential-election-was-heavily-rigged/ THE MOSCOW TIMES https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/03/23/at-least-60-killed-145-injured-in-mass-shooting-outside-moscow-a84579 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/03/23/how-moscow-terror-attack-exposes-the-farce-of-russias-security-theater-3-a84595 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/03/25/kyrgyzstan-warns-citizens-against-travel-to-russia-after-concert-attack-a84618 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/03/25/russian-missile-attack-on-kyiv-wounds-9-a84617 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/03/22/kremlin-planning-new-mobilization-for-kharkiv-offensive-vyorstka-a84571 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/03/22/kremlin-says-russia-in-a-state-of-war-a84570 OTHER ARTICLES https://businessukraine.ua/industry-experts-ukrainian-drones-have-knocked-out-600000-to-90000-barrels-of-russias-daily-oil-refining-capacity/ https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-22/russia-crude-oil-refining-drops-to-10-month-low-after-ukraine-drone-attacks?embedded-checkout=true https://www.politico.eu/article/joe-biden-man-vows-more-help-coming-ukraine-despite-us-gridlock-jake-sullivan-kyiv/ ~~~~~ USEFUL LINKS: Vatnik Soup https://twitter.com/P_Kallioniemi http://www.medbat.org.ua/en/ Real World News https://kyivindependent.com/ https://www.kyivpost.com/ https://english.nv.ua/ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/ https://meduza.io/en https://meduza.io/ https://novayagazeta.eu/ https://www.newsweek.com/topic/russia... ~~~~~ TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ~~~~~

373. Eduard Fesko - UK a Key Partner for Ukraine, Providing Economic, Humanitarian & Military Assistance.

26 mars 2024 | 52 min

The UK government is providing a range of economic, humanitarian, and defensive military assistance to Ukraine – often leading the way with supply of new capabilities and categories of munition, to encourage allies to scale up their commitments. Britain seems to be less intimidated by Russia’s so-called ‘red lines’, which time have proved to be illusory – just the bluff and bluster of a bully. Overall, the European Union has provided the most to Ukraine in terms of military, financial and humanitarian aid combined, but the UK is the second largest donor of military assistance to Ukraine. ---------- Eduard Fesko is Chargé d’affaires a.i. at the Embassy of Ukraine in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Norther Ireland. He was previously Minister-Counsellor, Deputy Head of Mission at the Embassy of Ukraine in the UK, and has fulfilled various roles in the diplomatic service of Ukraine. - Deputy Director at Minister's Office, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine - Deputy Director General, Political Directorate at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine - Counsellor, Political Coordinator at the Permanent Mission of Ukraine to the United Nations - First Secretary, Counsellor, Head of the OSCE Section at the Department of International Organizations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

377. Yuri Felshtinsky - Only Thing Cerain after Terror Attack in Moscow is that Putin will Leverage it.

25 mars 2024 | 85 min

Dr Yuri Felshtinsky is a prominent author, historian, and journalist, and expert on Russia and the former Soviet Union. He has appeared in hundreds of print, TV, and radio interviews worldwide, and is widely known as co-author of the book “Blowing Up Russia” with Alexander Litvinenko, a former Lieutenant Colonel in the FSB who was poisoned with radioactive polonium in London in 2006. His latest book – “Blowing up Ukraine: The Return of Russian Terror and The Threat of World War III”, was researched before the invasion of Ukraine, and is the first comprehensive investigation into the lethal methods Russia has used since 1999 to take over Ukraine – culminating in the full-blown unprovoked war in 2022 and mounting atrocities. ---------- BOOKS: From Red Terror to Terrorist State: Russia’s Secret Intelligence Services and Their Fight for World Domination from Felix Dzerzhinsky to Vladimir Putin Hardcover – 4 Nov. 2023 by Yuri Felshtinsky (Author), Vladimir Popov (Author) Publisher: Gibson House ---------- LINKS: https://twitter.com/yfelshtinsky https://www.linkedin.com/in/yuri-felshtinsky-55497940/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Felshtinsky https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/yuri-felshtinsky/ ---------- ARTICLES: https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2023/09/03/yuri-felshtinsky-nothing-will-change-in-russia-until-the-security-services-are-dismantled_6122181_4.html ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

376. John Foreman - Escalation Management is Failing - Is Biden Asleep at the Wheel of Global Security?

25 mars 2024 | 46 min

As the UK Defence Attache to the Russian Federation from 2019 to 2022, John Foreman advised senior UK officials and ministers on Russian military and security affairs and represented the UK Chief of Defence Staff to the Russian General Staff. He had a front-row seat for the tense meetings and negotiations that immediately preceded Russia’s full-scale assault on Ukraine in February 2022. ---------- John Foreman is an independent consultant specialising in Russia, Ukraine, and international security, with over 20 years of diplomatic, operational, and corporate experience in the defence and security sector. He facilitated the largest UK ministerial/defence visit to Moscow since 1944, negotiated a bilateral treaty to reduce operational risk, and informed UK Russia policy and strategy. Currently, he is a visiting lecturer to King's College London, a mentor to future UK defence attaches and advisors, and a RAND Europe associate. He has a lifelong interest in Russia, Ukraine, their languages, peoples, cultures, and histories. He was appointed CBE in the 2023 New Year's Honours for his service. ---------- LINKS: https://twitter.com/exexpat19 https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-l-foreman/ https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/john-foreman/ https://www.ambassadorllp.com/who-we-are/john-foreman ---------- ARTICLES: https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2023/03/05/britains-most-recent-defence-attache-in-moscow-on-the-failings-of-valery-gerasimov ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

374. Olga Onuch - Zelensky is Forced to make Decisions that are Existential to the Survival of Ukraine.

23 mars 2024 | 60 min

Prof. Olga Onuch has written what has been described as the definitive portrait of Volodymyr Zelensky, an extraordinary book called “The Zelensky Effect”. In this book, she explains the paradox of Zelensky as a leader and but also entertainer, businessman and risk-taker. She explores Ukraine’s national history to show how its now-iconic president reflects the hopes and frustrations of the country’s first ‘independence generation’. Interweaving social and political background with compelling episodes from Zelensky’s life and career, this is the story of Ukraine told through the journey of one man who has come to symbolise his country, and perhaps uniquely in the world is forced to make decisions that are existential to the survival of his country. ---------- Prof. Olga Onuch is Professor (Chair) in Comparative and Ukrainian Politics at the University of Manchester (making her the first-ever holder of a Full Professorship in ‘Ukrainian Politics’ in the English-speaking world). Olga joined UoM in 2014, after holding research posts at the University of Toronto, the University of Oxford, and Harvard University. ---------- BOOKS: The Zelensky Effect by Olga Onuch, Henry E. Hale, et al. (2023) ---------- LINKS: https://olgaonuch.com/ https://twitter.com/oonuch https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/olga.onuch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olga_Onuch https://www.linkedin.com/in/olga-olya-ola-onuch-0163a944/ https://www.hurstpublishers.com/profile/olga-onuch/ ---------- ARTICLES: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/zelenskys-fight-after-war https://globalaffairs.org/commentary-and-analysis/podcasts/zelensky-effect-how-ordinary-ukrainian-became-extraordinary-leader https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/the-zelenskyy-effect-why-ukraine-s-ze-is-defeating-russia-s-z/article_aac3affa-3e24-50f8-8c67-626ecc794e95.html ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- ARTICLES: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/non-fiction/best-books-ukraine-russia-2023/ https://granta.com/soundscape-of-war/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2022/12/08/ukrainian-lessons-at-the-train-station-ada-wordsworth/ https://www.theoldie.co.uk/article/language-lessons-in-ukraine-ada-wordsworth ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- WATCH NEXT: Operator Starsky https://youtu.be/TEeR3-W7p9s Anna Danylchuk https://youtu.be/XQJoTAAfxt4 Mykola Kuleba https://youtu.be/Ih_EWo9GjUA Olena Halushka https://youtu.be/zbKR18583BY Halyna Yanchenko https://youtu.be/WbjhSlGDKGk ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

372. Leyla Latypova - Russia's War has Taken a Much Higher Toll on Minorities than Ethnic Russians

23 mars 2024 | 58 min

371. Elisabeth Braw - Globalization is no Longer Working as Russia's War Accelerates Unpredictable Change

21 mars 2024 | 55 min

After the Cold War, globalization accelerated at breakneck speed. Manufacturing, transport, and consumption defied national borders, companies made more money, and consumers had access to an ever-increasing range of goods. But in recent years, a profound shift has begun to take place. Business executives and politicians alike are realising that globalization is no longer working. Supply chains are imperilled, Russia has been expelled from the global economy after its invasion of Ukraine, and China is using these fissures to leverage a strategic advantage. Given these pressures, what will the future of our world economy look like? ---------- Elisabeth Braw is a senior fellow at the Atlanric council. She is also a columnist with Foreign Policy, where she writes on national security and the globalised economy. Before joining AEI, Elisabeth was a Senior Research Fellow at RUSI, where she led the Modern Deterrence project. She is published in a wide range of publications, including Politico, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (writing in German), The Times and The Wall Street Journal. Elisabeth is also the author of highly regarded books – one of which we are discussing today. Goodbye Globalization: The Return of a Divided World (2024) ---------- ROLES & PUBLICATIONS: - Monthly columnist – POLITICO (Feb 2023 – Present) - Advisory Board Member - GALLOS Technologies Limited (Aug 2022 – Present) - Commissioner – UK National Preparedness Commission (Nov 2020 – Present) - Member of the Advisory Group – Centre for Information Resilience (Feb 2021 – Present) - Senior Fellow – American Enterprise Institute (Oct 2020 – Present) - Columnist – Foreign Policy (Feb 2020 – Present) - Member of the Steering Committee – Aurora Forum (Dec 2019 – Present) - Op-ed contributor – The Times (Dec 2016 – Present) - Non-resident Associate Fellow – European Leadership Network (ELN) (Aug 2017 – Present) - Senior Research Fellow – Royal United Services Institute (Sep 2019 – Oct 2020) - Adjunct Fellow – Centre for European Policy (Jul 2018 – Jul 2019) - Senior Consultant – Control Risks (Jun 2016 – Aug 2018) - Non-resident Senior Fellow – Atlantic Council (Apr 2016 – Jun 2018) ---------- LINKS: https://twitter.com/elisabethbraw https://www.linkedin.com/in/elisabethbraw/ https://rusi.org/people/braw https://www.aei.org/profile/elisabeth-braw/ https://www.europeanleadershipnetwork.org/person/elisabeth-braw/ https://foreignpolicy.com/author/elisabeth-braw/ https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/people/elisabeth-braw https://cepa.org/author/elisabeth-braw/ ---------- ARTICLES: https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/01/16/russia-ukraine-gray-zone-warfare-autocrats-democracy-527022 https://www.ft.com/content/0ac9e1a9-2aad-47d9-83fb-4839e9b31b33 https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/china-is-master-of-grey-zone-aggression-t6z2khp69 https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/60291/create-a-psychological-defence-agency-to-prebunk-fake-news https://www.aei.org/podcast/elisabeth-braw-on-gray-zone-warfare/ ---------- BOOKS: ‘God’s Spies: The Stasi’s Cold War Espionage (2019) The Defender's Dilemma: Identifying and Deterring Gray-zone Aggression (2022) Goodbye Globalization: The Return of a Divided World (2024) ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

368. Jerry Hendrix - Global Trade is Threatened by the Rise of an Autocratic Alliance Bringing Disorder

21 mars 2024 | 53 min

Geopolitical competition in the Black Sea is redefining regional order and shaping relations between states in the wider region. It has also challenged the idea of regional order based on regional ownership and laid bare how the security of different regions is interlinked. The Black Sea and Eastern Mediterranean have increasingly merged into one geopolitical space, where regional and great power rivalries play out. ---------- Henry J. Hendrix is a retired United States Navy captain. He has served as an American defence analyst, an official historian and curator of the Navy and an author. His written work has focused on the composition of the United States Navy force, the structure of the Navy, the role of the aircraft carrier in modern strategic environments and the structure of the carrier air wing. He also publicly supported a recent plan to build a 350-ship Navy. Jerry Hendrix is President of Hendrix and Associates. ---------- LINKS: https://twitter.com/JerryHendrixII https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_J._Hendrix https://sagamoreinstitute.org/dr-jerry-hendrix/ https://www.usni.org/people/jerry-hendrix https://www.cnas.org/people/dr-jerry-hendrix https://www.linkedin.com/in/jerry-hendrix-9599684/ ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

365. Dietmar Pichler - Building Resilience Against the Disinformation and Propaganda of Autocracies

19 mars 2024 | 53 min

Berlin Panel 3: The guns of Europe & Russia’s nuclear blackmailing with William Alberque, Mykola Bielieskov, Gustav Gressel, and Roderich Kiesewetter.

19 mars 2024 | 93 min

This is a recording of the Marathon event in support of Ukraine that was jointly run in Berlin on 15th March 2024 by Silicon Curtain and the European Resilience Initiative Center: https://www.youtube.com/@EuroResilience https://www.youtube.com/@SiliconCurtain ---------- The online TV marathon was hosted to mark the second anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine and 10 years of the Russo-Ukrainian war. Hosted in a recording studio in Berlin, by the European Resilience Initiative Center and Silicon Curtain channel. The event also aims to raise funds for the Ukrainian army to continue it's resistance against Russian aggression: Please donate to support Ukraine's army. It's vitally important and every donation matters! https://www.paypal.com/donate?campaign_id=JX6D2JAUSBX44 The European Resilience Initiative Center is raising money to support Ukraineʼs army units. They have been providing financial support for over a year and have delivered over €400,000 worth of vital supplies. They are in direct contact with specific units and know their needs. Help us to help them. We’ve set up this campaign with a goal of 20.000 € to be raised from the live event. ---------- The event schedule: Panel 1: Western Support of Ukraine: More Words Than Deeds? With Sergej Sumlenny (host), Aaron Burnett, Yevgheniya Gaber, and Olena Halushka. https://youtu.be/_ejDvDpDQRE Break 1 Break: With Ben Hodges, Hanna Shelest, and Viktoriia Vdovychenko. https://youtu.be/mR0vYhAKKU8 Panel 2: Russia’s Escalation Ladder: From One War to Another. With Jonathan Fink (host) and Sergej Sumlenny. https://youtu.be/XUZzjfEdzmg Break 2 Break: With Alina Frolova and Malcolm Nance. https://youtu.be/8seIo1xGm1o Panel 3: The guns of Europe & Russia’s nuclear blackmailing. With Sascha Ostanina (host), William Alberque, Mykola Bielieskov, Gustav Gressel, and Roderich Kiesewetter. https://youtu.be/lko-gNGc64w Break 3 Break: With Mauro Gilli. https://youtu.be/9U09hpZrhJY Panel 4: Western Training Missions for Ukraine. With Sergej Sumlenny (host) and Sascha Ostanina. https://youtu.be/5ANXhWkCDwE Break 4 Break: with Nathalie Vogel. https://youtu.be/h49NsLdZAfs Panel 5: The weaponisation of information, memory and politics. With Jonathan Fink (Host), Nikolai Klimeniouk, and Operator Starsky. https://youtu.be/gKHXrALcy4M ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ----------

Berlin Panel 4 Break: Western Training Missions for Ukraine with Nathalie Vogel

19 mars 2024 | 11 min

This is a recording of the Marathon event in support of Ukraine that was jointly run in Berlin on 15th March 2024 by Silicon Curtain and the European Resilience Initiative Center: https://www.youtube.com/@EuroResilience https://www.youtube.com/@SiliconCurtain ---------- The online TV marathon was hosted to mark the second anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine and 10 years of the Russo-Ukrainian war. Hosted in a recording studio in Berlin, by the European Resilience Initiative Center and Silicon Curtain channel. The event also aims to raise funds for the Ukrainian army to continue it's resistance against Russian aggression: Please donate to support Ukraine's army. It's vitally important and every donation matters! https://www.paypal.com/donate?campaign_id=JX6D2JAUSBX44 The European Resilience Initiative Center is raising money to support Ukraineʼs army units. They have been providing financial support for over a year and have delivered over €400,000 worth of vital supplies. They are in direct contact with specific units and know their needs. Help us to help them. We’ve set up this campaign with a goal of 20.000 € to be raised from the live event. ---------- The event schedule: Panel 1: Western Support of Ukraine: More Words Than Deeds? With Sergej Sumlenny (host), Aaron Burnett, Yevgheniya Gaber, and Olena Halushka. https://youtu.be/_ejDvDpDQRE Break 1 Break: With Ben Hodges, Hanna Shelest, and Viktoriia Vdovychenko. https://youtu.be/mR0vYhAKKU8 Panel 2: Russia’s Escalation Ladder: From One War to Another. With Jonathan Fink (host) and Sergej Sumlenny. https://youtu.be/XUZzjfEdzmg Break 2 Break: With Alina Frolova and Malcolm Nance. https://youtu.be/8seIo1xGm1o Panel 3: The guns of Europe & Russia’s nuclear blackmailing. With Sascha Ostanina (host), William Alberque, Mykola Bielieskov, Gustav Gressel, and Roderich Kiesewetter. https://youtu.be/lko-gNGc64w Break 3 Break: With Mauro Gilli. https://youtu.be/9U09hpZrhJY Panel 4: Western Training Missions for Ukraine. With Sergej Sumlenny (host) and Sascha Ostanina. https://youtu.be/5ANXhWkCDwE Break 4 Break: with Nathalie Vogel. https://youtu.be/h49NsLdZAfs Panel 5: The weaponisation of information, memory and politics. With Jonathan Fink (Host), Nikolai Klimeniouk, and Operator Starsky. https://youtu.be/gKHXrALcy4M ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ----------

Berlin Panel 3 Break: The guns of Europe and Russia’s nuclear blackmailing with Mauro Gilli

18 mars 2024 | 15 min

This is a recording of the Marathon event in support of Ukraine that was jointly run in Berlin on 15th March 2024 by Silicon Curtain and the European Resilience Initiative Center: https://www.youtube.com/@EuroResilience https://www.youtube.com/@SiliconCurtain ---------- The online TV marathon was hosted to mark the second anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine and 10 years of the Russo-Ukrainian war. Hosted in a recording studio in Berlin, by the European Resilience Initiative Center and Silicon Curtain channel. The event also aims to raise funds for the Ukrainian army to continue it's resistance against Russian aggression: Please donate to support Ukraine's army. It's vitally important and every donation matters! https://www.paypal.com/donate?campaign_id=JX6D2JAUSBX44 The European Resilience Initiative Center is raising money to support Ukraineʼs army units. They have been providing financial support for over a year and have delivered over €400,000 worth of vital supplies. They are in direct contact with specific units and know their needs. Help us to help them. We’ve set up this campaign with a goal of 20.000 € to be raised from the live event. ---------- The event schedule: Panel 1: Western Support of Ukraine: More Words Than Deeds? With Sergej Sumlenny (host), Aaron Burnett, Yevgheniya Gaber, and Olena Halushka. https://youtu.be/_ejDvDpDQRE Break 1 Break: With Ben Hodges, Hanna Shelest, and Viktoriia Vdovychenko. https://youtu.be/mR0vYhAKKU8 Panel 2: Russia’s Escalation Ladder: From One War to Another. With Jonathan Fink (host) and Sergej Sumlenny. https://youtu.be/XUZzjfEdzmg Break 2 Break: With Alina Frolova and Malcolm Nance. https://youtu.be/8seIo1xGm1o Panel 3: The guns of Europe & Russia’s nuclear blackmailing. With Sascha Ostanina (host), William Alberque, Mykola Bielieskov, Gustav Gressel, and Roderich Kiesewetter. https://youtu.be/lko-gNGc64w Break 3 Break: With Mauro Gilli. https://youtu.be/9U09hpZrhJY Panel 4: Western Training Missions for Ukraine. With Sergej Sumlenny (host) and Sascha Ostanina. https://youtu.be/5ANXhWkCDwE Break 4 Break: with Nathalie Vogel. https://youtu.be/h49NsLdZAfs Panel 5: The weaponisation of information, memory and politics. With Jonathan Fink (Host), Nikolai Klimeniouk, and Operator Starsky. https://youtu.be/gKHXrALcy4M ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ----------

Berlin Panel 2 Break: Escalation from one War to Another with Alina Frolova and Malcolm Nance

18 mars 2024 | 30 min

This is a recording of the Marathon event in support of Ukraine that was jointly run in Berlin on 15th March 2024 by Silicon Curtain and the European Resilience Initiative Center: https://www.youtube.com/@EuroResilience https://www.youtube.com/@SiliconCurtain ---------- The online TV marathon was hosted to mark the second anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine and 10 years of the Russo-Ukrainian war. Hosted in a recording studio in Berlin, by the European Resilience Initiative Center and Silicon Curtain channel. The event also aims to raise funds for the Ukrainian army to continue it's resistance against Russian aggression: Please donate to support Ukraine's army. It's vitally important and every donation matters! https://www.paypal.com/donate?campaign_id=JX6D2JAUSBX44 The European Resilience Initiative Center is raising money to support Ukraineʼs army units. They have been providing financial support for over a year and have delivered over €400,000 worth of vital supplies. They are in direct contact with specific units and know their needs. Help us to help them. We’ve set up this campaign with a goal of 20.000 € to be raised from the live event. ---------- The event schedule: Panel 1: Western Support of Ukraine: More Words Than Deeds? With Sergej Sumlenny (host), Aaron Burnett, Yevgheniya Gaber, and Olena Halushka. https://youtu.be/_ejDvDpDQRE Break 1 Break: With Ben Hodges, Hanna Shelest, and Viktoriia Vdovychenko. https://youtu.be/mR0vYhAKKU8 Panel 2: Russia’s Escalation Ladder: From One War to Another. With Jonathan Fink (host) and Sergej Sumlenny. https://youtu.be/XUZzjfEdzmg Break 2 Break: With Alina Frolova and Malcolm Nance. https://youtu.be/8seIo1xGm1o Panel 3: The guns of Europe & Russia’s nuclear blackmailing. With Sascha Ostanina (host), William Alberque, Mykola Bielieskov, Gustav Gressel, and Roderich Kiesewetter. https://youtu.be/lko-gNGc64w Break 3 Break: With Mauro Gilli. https://youtu.be/9U09hpZrhJY Panel 4: Western Training Missions for Ukraine. With Sergej Sumlenny (host) and Sascha Ostanina. https://youtu.be/5ANXhWkCDwE Break 4 Break: with Nathalie Vogel. https://youtu.be/h49NsLdZAfs Panel 5: The weaponisation of information, memory and politics. With Jonathan Fink (Host), Nikolai Klimeniouk, and Operator Starsky. https://youtu.be/gKHXrALcy4M ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ----------

Berlin Panel 2: Russia’s Escalation Ladder: From One War to Another with Jonathan Fink and Sergej

18 mars 2024 | 30 min

This is a recording of the Marathon event in support of Ukraine that was jointly run in Berlin on 15th March 2024 by Silicon Curtain and the European Resilience Initiative Center: https://www.youtube.com/@EuroResilience https://www.youtube.com/@SiliconCurtain ---------- The online TV marathon was hosted to mark the second anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine and 10 years of the Russo-Ukrainian war. Hosted in a recording studio in Berlin, by the European Resilience Initiative Center and Silicon Curtain channel. The event also aims to raise funds for the Ukrainian army to continue it's resistance against Russian aggression: Please donate to support Ukraine's army. It's vitally important and every donation matters! https://www.paypal.com/donate?campaign_id=JX6D2JAUSBX44 The European Resilience Initiative Center is raising money to support Ukraineʼs army units. They have been providing financial support for over a year and have delivered over €400,000 worth of vital supplies. They are in direct contact with specific units and know their needs. Help us to help them. We’ve set up this campaign with a goal of 20.000 € to be raised from the live event. ---------- The event schedule: Panel 1: Western Support of Ukraine: More Words Than Deeds? With Sergej Sumlenny (host), Aaron Burnett, Yevgheniya Gaber, and Olena Halushka. https://youtu.be/_ejDvDpDQRE Break 1 Break: With Ben Hodges, Hanna Shelest, and Viktoriia Vdovychenko. https://youtu.be/mR0vYhAKKU8 Panel 2: Russia’s Escalation Ladder: From One War to Another. With Jonathan Fink (host) and Sergej Sumlenny. https://youtu.be/XUZzjfEdzmg Break 2 Break: With Alina Frolova and Malcolm Nance. https://youtu.be/8seIo1xGm1o Panel 3: The guns of Europe & Russia’s nuclear blackmailing. With Sascha Ostanina (host), William Alberque, Mykola Bielieskov, Gustav Gressel, and Roderich Kiesewetter. https://youtu.be/lko-gNGc64w Break 3 Break: With Mauro Gilli. https://youtu.be/9U09hpZrhJY Panel 4: Western Training Missions for Ukraine. With Sergej Sumlenny (host) and Sascha Ostanina. https://youtu.be/5ANXhWkCDwE Break 4 Break: with Nathalie Vogel. https://youtu.be/h49NsLdZAfs Panel 5: The weaponisation of information, memory and politics. With Jonathan Fink (Host), Nikolai Klimeniouk, and Operator Starsky. https://youtu.be/gKHXrALcy4M ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ----------

Berlin Panel 4: Western Training Missions for Ukraine, with Sergej Sumlenny and Sascha Ostanina

18 mars 2024 | 34 min

This is a recording of the Marathon event in support of Ukraine that was jointly run in Berlin on 15th March 2024 by Silicon Curtain and the European Resilience Initiative Center:
https://www.youtube.com/@EuroResilience
https://www.youtube.com/@SiliconCurtain
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The online TV marathon was hosted to mark the second anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine and 10 years of the Russo-Ukrainian war. Hosted in a recording studio in Berlin, by the European Resilience Initiative Center and Silicon Curtain channel. The event also aims to raise funds for the Ukrainian army to continue it's resistance against Russian aggression:
Please donate to support Ukraine's army. It's vitally important and every donation matters!
https://www.paypal.com/donate?campaign_id=JX6D2JAUSBX44
The European Resilience Initiative Center is raising money to support Ukraineʼs army units. They have been providing financial support for over a year and have delivered over €400,000 worth of vital supplies. They are in direct contact with specific units and know their needs. Help us to help them. We’ve set up this campaign with a goal of 20.000 € to be raised from the live event.
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The event schedule:
Panel 1: Western Support of Ukraine: More Words Than Deeds?
With Sergej Sumlenny (host), Aaron Burnett, Yevgheniya Gaber, and Olena Halushka.
https://youtu.be/_ejDvDpDQRE
Break 1 Break: With Ben Hodges, Hanna Shelest, and Viktoriia Vdovychenko.
https://youtu.be/mR0vYhAKKU8
Panel 2: Russia’s Escalation Ladder: From One War to Another.
With Jonathan Fink (host) and Sergej Sumlenny.
https://youtu.be/XUZzjfEdzmg
Break 2 Break: With Alina Frolova and Malcolm Nance.
https://youtu.be/8seIo1xGm1o
Panel 3: The guns of Europe & Russia’s nuclear blackmailing.
With Sascha Ostanina (host), William Alberque, Mykola Bielieskov, Gustav Gressel, and Roderich Kiesewetter.
https://youtu.be/lko-gNGc64w
Break 3 Break: With Mauro Gilli.
https://youtu.be/9U09hpZrhJY
Panel 4: Western Training Missions for Ukraine.
With Sergej Sumlenny (host) and Sascha Ostanina.
https://youtu.be/5ANXhWkCDwE
Break 4 Break: with Nathalie Vogel.
https://youtu.be/h49NsLdZAfs
Panel 5: The weaponisation of information, memory and politics.
With Jonathan Fink (Host), Nikolai Klimeniouk, and Operator Starsky.
https://youtu.be/gKHXrALcy4M
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SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:
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TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:
Save Ukraine
https://www.saveukraineua.org/
Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas
https://superhumans.com/en/
UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine
https://unbroken.org.ua/
Come Back Alive
https://savelife.in.ua/en/
Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen
https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine
UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy
https://u24.gov.ua/
Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation
https://prytulafoundation.org
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370. Michal Rachon - Poland is a Key Target for Russian Active Measures to Create Division Among Allies

17 mars 2024 | 50 min

Berlin Panel 1 Break: Western Support for Ukraine with Ben Hodges, Hanna Shelest and Viktoriia Vdovychenko

17 mars 2024 | 26 min

This is a recording of the Marathon event in support of Ukraine that was jointly run in Berlin on 15th March 2024 by Silicon Curtain and the European Resilience Initiative Center: https://www.youtube.com/@EuroResilience https://www.youtube.com/@SiliconCurtain ---------- The online TV marathon was hosted to mark the second anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine and 10 years of the Russo-Ukrainian war. Hosted in a recording studio in Berlin, by the European Resilience Initiative Center and Silicon Curtain channel. The event also aims to raise funds for the Ukrainian army to continue it's resistance against Russian aggression: Please donate to support Ukraine's army. It's vitally important and every donation matters! https://www.paypal.com/donate?campaign_id=JX6D2JAUSBX44 The European Resilience Initiative Center is raising money to support Ukraineʼs army units. They have been providing financial support for over a year and have delivered over €400,000 worth of vital supplies. They are in direct contact with specific units and know their needs. Help us to help them. We’ve set up this campaign with a goal of 20.000 € to be raised from the live event. ---------- The event schedule: Panel 1: Western Support of Ukraine: More Words Than Deeds? With Sergej Sumlenny (host), Aaron Burnett, Yevgheniya Gaber, and Olena Halushka. Break 1: With Ben Hodges, Hanna Shelest, and Viktoriia Vdovychenko. Panel 2: Russia’s Escalation Ladder: From One War to Another. With Jonathan Fink (host) and Sergej Sumlenny. Break 2: With Alina Frolova and Malcolm Nance. Panel 3: The guns of Europe & Russia’s nuclear blackmailing. With Sascha Ostanina (host), William Alberque, Mykola Bielieskov, Gustav Gressel, and Roderich Kiesewetter. Break 3: With Mauro Gilli. Panel 4: Western Training Missions for Ukraine. With Sergej Sumlenny (host) and Sascha Ostanina. Break 4: with Nathalie Vogel. Panel 5: The weaponisation of information, memory and politics. With Jonathan Fink (Host), Nikolai Klimeniouk, and Operator Starsky. https://youtu.be/gKHXrALcy4M ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ----------

Berlin Panel 5: Weaponised Disinformation with Operator Starsky, Nikolai Klimeniouk & Jonathan Fink

17 mars 2024 | 87 min

This is a recording of the Marathon event in support of Ukraine that was jointly run in Berlin on 15th March 2024 by Silicon Curtain and the European Resilience Initiative Center: https://www.youtube.com/@EuroResilience https://www.youtube.com/@SiliconCurtain ---------- The online TV marathon was hosted to mark the second anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine and 10 years of the Russo-Ukrainian war. Hosted in a recording studio in Berlin, by the European Resilience Initiative Center and Silicon Curtain channel. The event also aims to raise funds for the Ukrainian army to continue it's resistance against Russian aggression: Please donate to support Ukraine's army. It's vitally important and every donation matters! https://www.paypal.com/donate?campaign_id=JX6D2JAUSBX44 The European Resilience Initiative Center is raising money to support Ukraineʼs army units. They have been providing financial support for over a year and have delivered over €400,000 worth of vital supplies. They are in direct contact with specific units and know their needs. Help us to help them. We’ve set up this campaign with a goal of 20.000 € to be raised from the live event. ---------- The event schedule: Panel 1: Western Support of Ukraine: More Words Than Deeds? With Sergej Sumlenny (host), Aaron Burnett, Yevgheniya Gaber, and Olena Halushka. Break 1: With Ben Hodges, Hanna Shelest, and Viktoriia Vdovychenko. Panel 2: Russia’s Escalation Ladder: From One War to Another. With Jonathan Fink (host) and Sergej Sumlenny. Break 2: With Alina Frolova and Malcolm Nance. Panel 3: The guns of Europe & Russia’s nuclear blackmailing. With Sascha Ostanina (host), William Alberque, Mykola Bielieskov, Gustav Gressel, and Roderich Kiesewetter. Break 3: With Mauro Gilli. Panel 4: Western Training Missions for Ukraine. With Sergej Sumlenny (host) and Sascha Ostanina. Break 4: with Nathalie Vogel. Panel 5: The weaponisation of information, memory and politics. With Jonathan Fink (Host), Nikolai Klimeniouk, and Operator Starsky. ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ----------

364. Maria Popova and Oxana Shevel - Russia and Ukraine have Tangled Histories, cut Through with Trauma.

16 mars 2024 | 53 min

In February 2022, Russian missiles rained on Ukrainian cities, and tanks rolled towards Kyiv to end Ukrainian independent statehood. President Zelensky declined a Western evacuation offer and Ukrainians rallied to defend their country. What are the roots of this war, which has upended the international legal order and brought back the spectre of nuclear escalation? How did these supposedly “brotherly peoples” become each other’s worst nightmare? ---------- Maria Popova is Jean Monnet Chair and Associate Professor of Political Science at McGill University in Montreal. She holds a BA in Spanish Literature and Government from Dartmouth College and a PhD in Government from Harvard University. She has lived and conducted research across Eastern Europe and Eurasia and its various regime incarnations — to her current attempt to disentangle real from fake anti-corruption efforts in Bulgaria, Romania, and Ukraine. The ideal background to explore the road to war that Putin has taken. Oxana Shevel is an Associate Professor of comparative politic at Department of Political Science at Tufts University and Director of Tufts International Relations program. Her research and teaching focuses on the post-Soviet region, especially Ukraine and Russia, and issues such as nation building and identity politics, citizenship policies, memory politics, church-state relations, and democratization process in the post-Soviet region. She is a co-author (with Maria Popova) of a book on the root causes of the Russo-Ukrainian war Russia and Ukraine: Entangled Histories, Diverging States (2023). ---------- BOOKS: ---------- ARTICLES: ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

369. Peter Pomerantsev - Lessons from WWII in Fighting Propaganda Using Black Disinformation Techniques.

14 mars 2024 | 50 min

Fighting propagandistic lies with more lies rarely works and runs the risk of eroding trust in your credibility and undermining your cause. However, there is a role for so-called Black disinformation in wartime. This deliberate dissemination of false or misleading information can be highly effective as part of a military operation. Information campaigns with the intent to deceive, manipulate, or undermine an adversary during warfare or conflicts is a tactic used to gain strategic advantages by sowing confusion and destabilizing the enemy. Classic examples of this weaponised subterfuge played an important role in Britain’s victory in WWII and can help to save many lives and shorten conflicts. ---------- Peter Pomerantsev is a Soviet-born British journalist, author, and TV producer. He has written two books about Russian disinformation and propaganda: Nothing Is True, and Everything Is Possible (2014) and This Is Not Propaganda (2019). Peter was born into a Russian speaking Jewish family in Kyiv, in 1977. In 1978, he moved with his parents to West Germany, after his father, broadcaster, and poet Igor Pomerantsev, was arrested by the KGB for proliferating anti-Soviet literature. They later moved to Munich and then London where Igor Pomerantsev worked for the BBC World Service. ---------- BOOKS: Nothing is True and Everything is Possible: Adventures in Modern Russia (2014) This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality (2019) Ukraine in Histories and Stories: Essays by Ukrainian Intellectuals (Ukrainian Voices) by Volodymyr Yermolenko with Foreword by Peter Pomerantsev (2020) Black Earth City: A Year in the Heart of Russia (Charlotte Hobson and Peter Pomerantsev 2017) How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler (2024) ---------- ARTICLES: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/mar/02/the-man-who-tricked-nazi-germany-lessons-from-the-past-on-how-to-beat-disinformation ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

367. Artur Rehi - Why Europe Needs to Scale up Military Support for Ukraine As Quickly as Possible.

13 mars 2024 | 34 min

366. Keir Giles - After 2007 Munich Security Conference Moscow’s Intent to Challenge West Became Clear.

12 mars 2024 | 49 min

After Putin’s Munich Security conference speech in 2007, Moscow’s intent to challenge the West became clearer. A question arose almost immediately: how far the country as a whole or its leader was at fault— whether the world had a Russia problem or a Putin problem. Since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine analysts have continued to debate the attitudes of ordinary Russians toward the war. Do a broad majority of Russians genuinely support the crimes and atrocities committed by their country’s armed forces? If not, why do they give every appearance of doing so, and acquiesce to be mobilised? ---------- Keir Giles has spent his career watching, studying, and explaining Russia. Keir’s work has appeared in a wide range of academic and military publications across Europe and in North America, and he is a regular contributor and commentator on Russian affairs for international print and broadcast media. He is a Senior Consulting Fellow at the UK's Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House), and also works with the Conflict Studies Research Centre (CSRC), a group of deep subject matter experts on Eurasian security formerly attached to the British Ministry of Defence. He is a regular contributor to research projects on Russian security issues in the U.S., UK, and Europe. ---------- LINKS Russia's War on Everybody: And What it Means for You (2022) Moscow Rules: What Drives Russia to Confront the West (2019) The Turning Point for Russian Foreign Policy (2017) The State of the NATO-Russia Reset (2011) Potential Challenges to Public Order and Social Stability in the Russian Federation (2011) ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

362. DW Phillips - Film is a Powerful Medium to Counter Russian Propaganda and Disinformation Narratives.

12 mars 2024 | 54 min

363. Timothy Ash - Make $300 Billion of Russia Central Bank Monies Available to Ukraine to Ensure Victory

10 mars 2024 | 48 min

Timothy Ash has been arguing for more than 18 months that the $300 billion plus of Russia central bank monies “immobilised” in Western jurisdictions should be formally frozen, seized and allocated to Ukraine both to compensate it for the immense damage done by Russia to Ukraine but also to give it a chance of being able to fund the war, to secure victory, and subsequent peace and reconstruction. For much of this time it has appeared as if we have been banging our heads against a brick wall, but something seems to have changed in recent weeks months, as a number of G7 countries (the UK, the US and Canada, in particular) appear to have changed their positions and are now arguing in support of seizing the assets and allocating them to Ukraine. ---------- Timothy Ash, who has been professional economist for more than 30 years, with two thirds of that in the banking industry. Timothy’s specialism is emerging European economics, and he writes and blogs extensively on economic challenges for leading publications such as the Kyiv Post, Atlantic Council, the Financial Times, and the United Business Journal. He is also an Associate Fellow in the Russia and Eurasia programme at Chatham House and has advised various governments on Ukraine-Russia policy and specifically on the impact of sanctions. ---------- LINKS: https://twitter.com/tashecon https://www.linkedin.com/in/timothy-ash-83a87158/ https://www.chathamhouse.org/about-us/our-people/timothy-ash https://cepa.org/author/timothy-ash/ ---------- ARTICLES: https://timothyash.substack.com/ https://kyivindependent.com/author/timothy-ash/ ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

361. Mark Galeotti - The Russian Ways of War are as Likely to Bring Defeat as Victory History Suggests.

9 mars 2024 | 68 min

GUEST: Mark Galeotti - historian, author, security expert and academic. ---------- Cornered like a rat, Vladimir Putin is more dangerous than ever. We want his regime to be unstable, fragile, and collapsing – but 14 months of war have shown it is remarkably resilient. We wanted the Russian people to rise up against tyranny, but more than a million fled the country instead. Analysts, politicians, and the media have been wrong about so much when it comes to Russia. What are we still getting wrong. ---------- SPEAKER: Mark Galeotti is an author and academic – by training an historian – but in practice an interdisciplinary scholar with interests encompassing politics, criminology, security studies, international relations, and anthropology. He is a specialist in transnational and organized crime, security affairs, Russian Politics, Russian History, Intelligence and Security. Mark has a PhD in Government from LSE and has worked as a Senior Lecturer and Head of Department of History at Keele University. He is a Principal Director at Mayak Intelligence, and is an Honorary Professor, SSEES at UCL. He is a Senior Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute. He has also been Professor of Global Affairs at New York University from 2009 to 2016. ---------- BOOKS: Mark Galeotti: Putin's Wars: From Chechnya to Ukraine (2022) Mark Galeotti: The Weaponisation of Everything: A Field Guide to the New Way of War (2022) Mark Galeotti: A Short History of Russia: From the Pagans to Putin (2021) Mark Galeotti: Storm-333: KGB and Spetsnaz seize Kabul, Soviet-Afghan War 1979 (2021) Mark Galeotti: We Need to Talk About Putin: How the West gets him wrong (2019) Mark Galeotti: Russian Political War: Moving Beyond the Hybrid (2019) Mark Galeotti: The Vory: Russia's Super Mafia (2018) ---------- WAR STUDIES: Putin Takes Crimea 2014: Grey-zone warfare opens the Russia-Ukraine conflict (2023) Russia's Five-Day War: The invasion of Georgia, August 2008 (2023) Afghanistan 1979–88: Soviet air power against the mujahideen (2023) Teutonic Knight vs Lithuanian Warrior: The Lithuanian Crusade 1283–1435 (2023) ---------- #markgaleotti #ukraine #ukrainewar #russia #zelensky #putin #propaganda #war #disinformation #hybridwarfare #foreignpolicy #communism #sovietunion #postsoviet ---------- WATCH NEXT: Fiona Hill https://youtu.be/maBUKuJmQ4M Jade McGlynn https://youtu.be/uc_ak2c4XX0 Peter Pomerantsev https://youtu.be/bIFrJXly9QY Edward Lucas https://youtu.be/Qcfyu_dwHEo Owen Matthews https://youtu.be/1XbmVAaseGM ---------- CHAPTERS: 00:00 Xxx ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

360. Operator Starsky - Starsky's New Project to Counter Russian Disinformation

9 mars 2024 | 53 min

Today I’m speaking with Operator Starsky, a Ukrainian National Guardian, blogger, and inspiration for everyone who is following the war, and supporting a Ukrainian victory. He has created one of the most popular and original YouTube channels dedicated to the international community. I’m not sure you need an introduction – I’m sure most people watching this channel will have seen your videos! ---------- LINKS: https://www.youtube.com/@PropagandaStudyInstitute http://psi-eu.org/ https://www.youtube.com/@StarskyUA https://twitter.com/starskyua?lang=en ---------- OTHER VIDEOS WITH OPERATOR STARSKY ON SILICON CURTAIN: https://youtu.be/ABIIyNa1AOk https://youtu.be/ijqIznyYPYI https://youtu.be/6cRlltDAd8k https://youtu.be/TEeR3-W7p9s ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

359. Jason Jay Smart - Does Ukraine Need to go Beyond Washington DC to Secure More US Military Support?

6 mars 2024 | 56 min

Many Republicans no longer support aid for Ukraine. But is the obstruction of aid to Ukraine being driven by a few radicals at the behest of former president Donald Trump, or is there wider lack to strong support for Ukraine within a highly polarised GOP? Does Ukraine need to go beyond Washington DC to ensure US support, and reach out to Middle America? ---------- Jason Jay Smart is a political adviser who has lived and worked in Ukraine, Moldova, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Latin America. Due to his work with the democratic opposition to Vladimir Putin, Smart was made persona non grata for life by Russia in 2010. Jason is a Special Correspondent at the Kyiv Post and a Managing Partner at American Political Services. It’s the various themes from his recent articles that we will discuss in this episode. ---------- LINKS: https://jasonjaysmart.com/ https://www.kyivpost.com/authors/5 https://americanpoliticalservices.com/ https://www.facebook.com/jasonjaysmart https://twitter.com/officejjsmart ------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

358. Konstantin Samoilov (Inside Russia YouTube channel) - Economic Tsunami Threatens Russia's Ability to Sustain the War

5 mars 2024 | 44 min

Production in the military-industrial complex is squeezing money out of the civilian economy. How much longer can Putin keep burning money, resources and people on a project that is neither creating sustainable wealth for citizens, nor substantial successes in Ukraine. Russia's economic growth relies heavily on state-funded arms and ammunition production and masks a multitude of problems, including poor living standards and rampant inflation. Vladimir Putin claims the economy is developing, and will continue to flourish. He claims Russia can transition away from the West amid sanctions imposed over the Ukraine war, but reality may be far more messy and painful. Russia-based economists say the economy is showing signs of overheating as Moscow ploughs on with what it calls the "special military operation", and that for all the current optimism, stagnation or recession now looms. "If a defence company builds a missile or a shell, they explode somewhere and GDP grows," said economist Sergei Khestanov. "But the civilian economy receives very little benefit from this process." Russia is pumping the economy with one-time, unproductive investments that yield limited future benefit. ---------- Welcome to our monthly conversation with Konstantin, who is one of the most respected voices on YouTube about what is happening Inside Russia. Konstantin Samoilov is a well-known YouTuber whose channel ‘Inside Russia’ comments insightfully on Russia’s decent into authoritarianism over the last few years. But now, like many others, he’s outside Russia, with no idea of when he can return there. ---------- LINKS: https://www.youtube.com/@INSIDERUSSIA ---------- OTHER VIDEOS WITH KONSTANTIN ON SILICON CURTAIN: https://youtu.be/gbINoWwiq-Y https://youtu.be/71CgzWpxf4Y https://youtu.be/L2pEHdrSbJw https://youtu.be/HKF-QaXOCIg https://youtu.be/F6vJGl0169Y https://youtu.be/ogYRqb24ltc https://youtu.be/VhpoQwvEqis https://youtu.be/URzXdRO02ps (29-Jan-2024) ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Silicon Bites - #37 - Russia's Aircraft Losses Increase Dramatically as Kyiv's Strategy Changes.

1 mars 2024 | 46 min

Edition No37 | 01-03-2024 Ukrainian forces shot down the second Russian Su-34 attack plane in a single day on Feb. 27, the Air Force reported. The destruction of the jet is the latest in a recent uptick of downed Russian planes, including two A-50 early warning and control aircraft in the past two months, each costing around $330 million. There are signs that the uptick in aircraft losses has caused Russia to change its aerial strategy, reducing the number of sorties flown by Russia's Air Force, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) said in December 2023. Ukraine reportedly downed a Su-34 on Feb. 21, a Su-34 and a Su-35S plane on Feb. 19, a Su-34 plane on Feb. 18, as well as two Russian Su-34 fighter jets and another Russian Su-35 combat aircraft on Feb. 17. Russia has lost around 340 planes since the beginning of the full-scale invasion on Feb. 24, 2022, the General Staff of Ukraine's Armed Forces reported on the morning of Feb. 27. ~~~~~ SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ~~~~~ KYIV INDEPENDENT https://kyivindependent.com/air-force-ukraine-downs-10-out-of-10-russian-drones-launched-overnight/ https://kyivindependent.com/air-force-ukraine-downs-2nd-russian-su-34-aircraft-in-single-day/ https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-war-latest-ukraine-withdraws-from-2-more-villages-near-avdiivka-downs-2-russian-warplanes-in-single-day/ https://kyivindependent.com/macron-doesnt-rule-out-possibility-of-western-troops-in-ukraine/ https://kyivindependent.com/france-netherlands-back-czech-plan-to-buy-ammunition-for-ukraine-outside-eu/ https://kyivindependent.com/netherlands-requested-9-howitzers-for-ukraine-from-czechia/ https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-pins-hopes-on-home-made-drones-to-counter-russia/ https://kyivindependent.com/who-is-viktor-pavlushchyk-newly-elected-head-of-key-anti-corruption-agency/ https://kyivindependent.com/vsquare-kremlin-leaks-secret-files-reveal-how-putin-pre-rigged-his-reelection/ https://kyivindependent.com/ft-leaked-files-russia-criteria-nuclear-strike/ THE MOSCOW TIMES https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/02/27/i-believe-in-a-better-future-rights-veteran-oleg-orlov-on-his-25-year-sentence-for-opposing-ukraine-war-a84097 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/02/28/public-funeral-for-navalny-set-for-march-1-allies-a84276 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/02/28/navalnaya-urges-eu-politicians-to-target-western-assets-of-putins-inner-circle-a84278 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/02/27/after-navalny-what-next-for-russias-opposition-a84260 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/02/28/pro-russia-separatists-in-transnistria-ask-moscow-for-protection-a84273 OTHER ARTICLES https://www.kyivpost.com/post/28757 https://www.kyivpost.com/post/28765 https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2024/02/25/zelensky-says-ukraine-has-lost-31000-troops-in-past-two-years-of-war-en-news https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/27/ukraine-will-be-on-back-foot-in-war-for-months-says-uk-armed-forces-chief ~~~~~ USEFUL LINKS: Vatnik Soup https://twitter.com/P_Kallioniemi http://www.medbat.org.ua/en/ ~~~~~ TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ~~~~~

357. Denis Zakharov - Brave Individuals Still Speak out Against Tyranny in Russia and Terror in Ukraine.

1 mars 2024 | 69 min

Today I am speaking with a rare and special person – a Russian activist with an unambiguous, strong voice condemning the crimes and horrors being committed in Ukraine by Russia, and who is doing it with humour and passion. It has to be said, that he’s also taking on considerable risk in doing so. Fortunately, he’s also doing this in English, so you can follow his views on Twitter and Telegram. Denis Zakharov is an activist and has a strong, unusually direct, and outspoken voice within opposition movement. Somehow, although he lives in Russia, is still free, un-conscripted, vocal, and angry. ------- LINKS: https://twitter.com/betelgeuse1922 ------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

355. Kostiantyn Koshelenko - Introduces his New Book on Management Forged During the Heat of Conflict.

28 februari 2024 | 59 min

Kostiantyn Koshelenko has created a unique book, on management in times of war. The book emerged not by choice but by necessity, following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. From the beginning of the chaos of war, Kostiantyn felt compelled to record his thoughts and observations. It grew to become a collection of reflections that shaped and refined his management practices, allowing him and his team to adapt strategies and prepare for unexpected challenges. These notes, based on a brutal and fast-changing reality, transformed into a book, forged during the heat of conflict, which forms the basis of today’s interview. ------- Kostiantyn Koshelenko is a Deputy Minister of Social Policy of Ukraine for issues of digital development, digital transformations, and digitalization. He has an MBA degree from the Kyiv-Mohyla Business School and a diploma from the Ukrainian Corporate Governance Academy. Kostiantyn is an honorary professor at the Alfred Nobel University and the IBS-ANU International School of Business, where he lectures on transformational management. Today, in the Ukrainian government, Kostiantyn is responsible for the implementation of the Unified Information System of the Social Sphere and the development of online services for Ukrainian citizens. ------- LINKS: https://www.linkedin.com/in/koshelenko/ https://www.amazon.com/Management-Times-War-Leadership-Government-ebook/dp/B0CQ5DHNH8 https://medium.com/@k.b.koshelenko/digital-transformation-in-social-sector-a-week-of-development-and-collaboration-f96c9ee1d17d https://medium.com/@k.b.koshelenko/digital-transformation-in-social-sector-a-week-of-development-and-collaboration-f96c9ee1d17d ------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

356. Nina Dobrunova - Veterans Struggle to be Reintegrated into Society, with Extreme PTSD and Trauma.

27 februari 2024 | 49 min

Fighting for Ukraine by supporting heroes on the front. Fundraising for frontline supplies and fighting vatniks with NAFO. A volunteer helping UA Defenders on the front --- A member of #NAFO and a Big Fan of #InternationalLegionofUkraine PATCHES ORDER FORM: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScUQkKlaPPTy9fGmhMErp--S-UJhA3UN-vyf6ieAIf2eiyEHA/viewform?pli=1 ------- DONATE: Come Back Alive - https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation - https://prytulafoundation.org ------- LINKS: Insta: @appelle_moi_nina https://twitter.com/ninaselyna https://choko.link/standWithUkraine ------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

354. Katerina Sergatskova - What Ukraine has Learnt About Humanity, Resilience and Freedom During Wartime

27 februari 2024 | 45 min

Katerina Sergatskova is a journalist, writer, safety trainer, and entrepreneur. she is co-founder of Zaborona Media and 2402 Foundation. Katerina is a Kurt Shork Awardee, and works in developing safety culture in Ukraine and globally. She is Exec. Director at Daily Humanity, and is interested in human rights, freedoms, and resilience. Her writing has appeared in Foreign Affairs, NYT, Politiken, Grazia UK, Tablet Mag, and more. Katerina is a contributor to the Wilson Center and runs a Substack on war-related issues https://warzoneua.substack.com ---------- LINKS: 2402 Foundation - https://2402.org/ https://twitter.com/KSergatskova https://www.wilsoncenter.org/person/katerina-sergatskova https://www.linkedin.com/in/katerina-sergatskova-9a031561/ https://www.facebook.com/sergatskova/ https://zaborona.com/en/author/eka/ https://warzoneua.substack.com/ ---------- ARTICLES: https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/07/14/ukraine-independent-journalist-threatened https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/nonprofit-using-virtual-reality-train-ukrainian-journalists-cover-war-safely https://www.wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/there-actionable-strategy-ending-war-ukraine https://zaborona.com/en/has-the-state-of-freedom-of-speech-in-ukraine-deteriorated/ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/08/journalist-expose-russia-atrocities-ukraine ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

353. Anna Danylchuk - Ukraine has been on the Frontline of Resisting Russian Aggression for 10 Years.

24 februari 2024 | 67 min

GUEST: Anna from Ukraine - Anna Danylchuk ---------- Anna Danylchuk has been creating a war diary since the early days of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia in 2022. Anna Danylchuk aims to tell the truth about Ukraine and Russia’s war and cut through the noise and propaganda. Anna is passionate about the beauty and independence of her country, and communicates this powerfully in her videos, in a clear and honest way. ---------- LINKS: https://www.youtube.com/@UCiVefOT4TGW3pOqW6AxmlBQ https://www.buymeacoffee.com/annafromukraine My interview with Anna in Lviv - hosted on her excellent channel- https://youtu.be/daHcnsNQ1S0?si=yHbZ2kJZ3CTVRd8Z ---------- OTHER VIDEOS WITH ANNA ON SILICON CURTAIN: https://youtu.be/x0o1bn-1Yyc https://youtu.be/Hm5_Yb3geQ4 https://youtu.be/x-gUSUG7N6E https://youtu.be/r0PNxM7Xyow https://youtu.be/5AenntkSxIs https://youtu.be/vPT6oZ1FOAw https://youtu.be/0gaK_5TEXXw https://youtu.be/XQJoTAAfxt4 https://youtu.be/J8mge30rxY8 (24-Jan-24) ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Silicon Bites - #36 - Putin's Appetite to Shed Blood for War and Repression Seems to be Limitless.

24 februari 2024 | 41 min

Edition No36 | 23-02-2024 Jailed opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza on Thursday urged Russians to keep fighting for democracy despite the death of Alexei Navalny in an Arctic prison. Navalny's death last week sent shockwaves through Russia's opposition, most of which is either in exile, behind bars, or dead. "I still cannot comprehend what has happened, rationally or emotionally. But if we give in to gloom and despair, that's exactly what they want. We have no right to do that, we owe it to our fallen comrades," Kara-Murza said. ~~~~~ SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ~~~~~ KYIV INDEPENDENT https://kyivindependent.com/avdiivka-defenders-forced-to-leave-wounded-behind-escape-encirclement-by-foot/ https://kyivindependent.com/on-the-front-line-of-ukraines-shell-hunger-as-effects-of-congress-blockade-bite/ https://kyivindependent.com/borrell-kuleba-europe-and-the-world-need-ukraine-to-prevail/ https://kyivindependent.com/russia-firing-shells-recently-produced-shells-on-front-line-officer-says/ https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-war-latest-bbc-reports-ukrainian-himars-strike-in-occupied-donetsk-oblast-kills-dozens-of-russian-troops/ https://kyivindependent.com/uk-to-provide-ukraine-with-200-brimstone-anti-tank-missiles/ https://kyivindependent.com/bundestag-votes-against-taurus-missiles-for-ukraine-supports-motion-on-sending-long-range-missiles/ https://kyivindependent.com/opinion-in-the-past-2-years-of-war-we-all-died-a-little/ https://kyivindependent.com/russias-war-against-ukraine-timeline/ THE MOSCOW TIMES https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/02/22/jailed-kremlin-critic-warns-against-despair-after-navalny-death-a84203 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/02/19/what-can-navalny-teach-us-about-fighting-putins-regime-a84145 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/02/21/fear-is-part-of-life-in-russia-but-navalny-said-we-mustnt-be-afraid-a84167 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/02/22/spain-has-no-doubt-kremlin-behind-russian-helicopter-deserters-death-el-pais-a84204 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/02/22/hopeful-putin-challenger-leaves-russia-as-top-court-rejects-presidential-bid-a84200 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/02/22/kyiv-says-russia-used-n-korean-missiles-in-deadly-attacks-on-ukraine-a84205 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/02/22/britain-announces-new-sanctions-against-russia-over-ukraine-war-a84210 OTHER ARTICLES https://cepa.org/article/putin-murdered-my-friend-alexey-navalny-he-may-murder-me-too/ https://www.economist.com/europe/2024/02/19/vladimir-putin-has-been-fighting-not-just-ukraine-but-his-own-people https://www.kyivpost.com/post/28450 https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2024/02/22/blood-money-en ~~~~~ USEFUL LINKS: Vatnik Soup https://twitter.com/P_Kallioniemi http://www.medbat.org.ua/en/ Real World News https://kyivindependent.com/ https://www.kyivpost.com/ https://english.nv.ua/ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/ https://meduza.io/en https://meduza.io/ https://novayagazeta.eu/ https://www.newsweek.com/topic/russia... YouTube Channels / @timesradio1 / @khodorkovskyru / @popularpolitics / @macknack / @plushev / @tvrain / @fake_news / @feyginlive ~~~~~ TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ~~~~~

352. Joseph Lindsley - Putin let Slip the Real Cause of the War in the Infamous Tucker Carlson Interview.

22 februari 2024 | 75 min

Second in a series of monthly conversations on Silicon Curtain, about how Ukrainians are redefining the ideas of freedom and democracy, and why Ukraine must not be allowed to fall under Russian control. ---------- ABOUT: Joe Lindsley is a traveller and a writer, and American reporting on Chicago's WGN Radio from Ukraine each and every weekday of Russia's full-scale war. He once was protégé to Fox News founder Roger Ailes, but Lindsley escaped that frenzied world where power mattered more than truth. He came to Lviv for a Ukrainian Catholic University journalism conference on Information Overload, AI, and Responsibility. Then the Coronavirus shut down world travel, and he stayed to build a better vision for the media industry. OTHER VIDEOS: https://youtu.be/DM42QAF2ia4 (07-Nov-23) https://youtu.be/KAGt83FzXmI (26-Jan-24) ---------- LINKS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Lindsley https://www.linkedin.com/in/joseph-lindsley-60087618/ https://www.youtube.com/@uafreedomnews https://twitter.com/JPLindsley https://www.instagram.com/jplindsley/ https://www.facebook.com/josephlindsley https://www.ukrainianfreedomnews.com/ ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

351. Harley Whitehead - Saving Limbs and Lives by Demining Territory Formerly Occupied by Russian Forces

20 februari 2024 | 53 min

Harley Whitehead is a British Sapper and Volunteer in the Ukrainian Army. He has played an active role in liberating Ukraine and helps to save limbs and lives through efforts to demine territory occupied by Russian forces. He’s been in Ukraine since 2019, prior to the full-scale invasion. ---------- LINKS: https://twitter.com/EL4UKR_Harley https://www.youtube.com/@Harley-EOD https://www.buymeacoffee.com/el4ukr https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/EastLancs4Ukraine1 ---------- ARTICLES: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-64784173 https://www.burnleyexpress.net/news/people/eastlancs4ukraine-brave-burnley-man-delivering-aid-to-soldiers-on-frontlines-of-ukraine-war-and-fundraising-for-mission-to-clear-booby-traps-4048054 https://metro.co.uk/2022/04/29/british-aid-workers-name-appears-on-russian-list-of-uk-mercenaries-in-ukraine-16557614/ https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13084781/More-100-Brits-placed-wanted-list-Russia-including-volunteers-helped-supply-Ukraine-aid.html ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

350. Jonathan MS Pearce - Journey to Ukraine’s Frontlines and Witness to the Devestation.

19 februari 2024 | 61 min

Jonathan MS Pearce is a philosopher, author, columnist, and public speaker with an interest in writing about almost anything, from scepticism to science, politics, and morality, to the environment. Essentially because everything is philosophy. He is a former teacher and is now battling primary progressive multiple sclerosis. He can no longer play football with his twin boys, but he can still write a good column and book. And remarkably, and very bravely, he has just come back from an arduous journey to Ukraine’s frontlines. His experiences are the subject of today’s conversation. ---------- JONATHAN MS PEARCE LINKS: https://www.youtube.com/@ATPGeo https://twitter.com/ATipplingPhilo https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/Jonathan%20M.S.%20Pearce/author/B004DAVFKC https://onlysky.media/jonathan-pearce/ ---------- GREG TERRY LINKS: https://www.gregterry.org/ https://www.gregterry.org/donate.html https://www.youtube.com/gregterryexperience https://www.buymeacoffee.com/gregterry https://twitter.com/gregoryjterry ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

348. Will Blackburn - Delivering Essential Aid to Ukraine in its Darkest Hours

18 februari 2024 | 57 min

Last year Will Blackburn started writing up his experiences on the Convoys into Ukraine that he's been organising. Those experiences are to be published on March 11th as "The War Next Door". The book is available for pre order from Amazon and all good bookshops now. ---------- LINKS: Link to the book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/WAR-NEXT-DOOR-Journeys-Ukraine/dp/1738497003/ref=sr_1_4?crid=1KGUKC56AHHRM&keywords=the+war+next+door&qid=1707471829&sprefix=the+war+next+door%2Caps%2C162&sr=8-4 Link to Will Blackburn's Fundraising: https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/alan-blackburn-4 Link to Fundacja Igora Tracza - who run the Convoys from Poland to Ukraine: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100091782550378 ---------- Will is among an extraordinary group of people who continue to Stand with Ukraine on LinkedIn, Twitter and other platforms: ~~~ Lee Murray ~~~ Sean Moorhouse ~~~ Jens Mandøe ~~~ Jens Christian Jensen ~~~ Ihor Fesenko ~~~ Josef Wiesner ~~~ Christine Khariv ~~~ Christine Batruch ~~~ Dominic Nicholls ~~~ Pavlo Khazan ~~~ Robin Horsfall ~~~ Taras Panasenko ~~~ Taras Korpaniuk ~~~ Peter Dickinson ~~~ Roman Sheremeta ~~~ Donald Clarke ~~~ Yuriy M. ~~~ Yuriy Jexenev ~~~ Paula Massey ~~~ Ron Ferrin ~~~ Karel Burger Dirven ~~~ Vanda Britton ~~~ Kostiantyn Koshelenko ~~~ Ivan Matveichenko ~~~ Maksym Trykur ~~~ Serhii Kibenko ~~~ Andrew Nedilko ~~~ Dan Rice ~~~ Tony Sztypuljak ~~~ Anastasiia Gavryliuk ~~~ Anastasiia Romaniuk ~~~ Debbie Howard ~~~ Sofiia Gaidamaka ~~~ Tim De Zitter ~~~ Harley Whitehead ~~~ Scott Lucas ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

349. Rick the Ukrainian - What Motivates Russians to come to a Neighbouring Country to kill People?

17 februari 2024 | 60 min

Rick is from Ukraine, and every Sunday gets together with his community online (the Rick Rollers), to make video content and raise funds for the Defense Forces of Ukraine. Rick is originally from Makiivka in the Donetsk area, and lived under Russian occupation for several years following the 2014 invasion of Crimea and Donbas. His weekly streams are attended by different Ukrainian and pro-Ukrainian guests. He talks about the Russian war against Ukraine and its culture, music and historic places. Rick translates and dubs Zolkin and Karpenko's interviews with Russian POWs into English, making them accessible to a Western audience, and providing extraordinary insights into the Russian mindset. ---------- LINKS: YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@ricktheukrainian Raising funds for Land Robots for the 3rd Assault Brigade: https://send.monobank.ua/jar/25Q73j7f8x Video about robots for the 3rd Assault Brigade: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATGA4a45mEE My PayPal (fundraisers donations): [email protected] Buy Me a Coffee (or become a member): https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ricktheukr/membership ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Silicon Bites - #35 - Russian Opposition Leader Alexei Navalny is Dead - the Kremlin is to Blame.

16 februari 2024 | 30 min

Edition No35 | 16-02-2024 Russian state media: Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny died in prison Navalny's spokesperson said the news had not been confirmed yet Michel: 'EU holds Russian regime (solely) responsible for (Navalny's) tragic death' Navalny's mother: 'He was alive, healthy, and cheerful' days ago Independent Russian media to demand footage from Navalny's penal colony Navalny's wife: Putin must be brought to justice for what he did to our country, Navalny ~~~~~ SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ~~~~~ KYIV INDEPENDENT https://kyivindependent.com/breaking-russian-opposition-leader-navalny-reportedly-dies-in-prison/ https://kyivindependent.com/avdiivka-defense-uncertain-as-ukraine-struggles-with-fortification/ https://kyivindependent.com/zelensky-dismisses-commander-in-chief-zaluzhnyi/ https://kyivindependent.com/white-house-responds-to-zaluzhnyi-dismissal/ https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-war-latest-finland-approves-200-million-aid-package-for-ukraine-norway-pledges-more-nasams/ https://kyivindependent.com/syrskyi-appointment/ https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-returns-100-pows-from-russian-captivity/ https://kyivindependent.com/kremlin-bans-unlikely-anti-war-challenger-from-running-against-putin-in-upcoming-elections/ THE MOSCOW TIMES https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/02/09/5-claims-from-putins-tucker-carlson-interview-fact-checked-a84040 KYIV POST https://www.kyivpost.com/post/28139 https://www.kyivpost.com/post/27848 ~~~~~ USEFUL LINKS: Vatnik Soup https://twitter.com/P_Kallioniemi http://www.medbat.org.ua/en/ Real World News https://kyivindependent.com/ https://www.kyivpost.com/ https://english.nv.ua/ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/ https://meduza.io/en https://meduza.io/ https://novayagazeta.eu/ https://www.newsweek.com/topic/russia... Analysis https://www.ft.com/russia https://www.economist.com/ https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ https://cepa.org/ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/ https://www.theatlantic.com/search/?s... YouTube Channels / @timesradio1 / @khodorkovskyru / @popularpolitics / @macknack / @plushev / @tvrain / @fake_news / @feyginlive ~~~~~ TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ~~~~~

340. Armenak Ohanesian - Through Hybrid Informational Warfare Russia Makes A Mockery of International Law

16 februari 2024 | 56 min

2024 and the 2nd anniversary of Russia’s war brings a feeling of uncertainty for Ukrainians and their supporters. This period has seen a significant mood shift, influenced by factors beyond the tactical outcomes of Ukraine's summer counteroffensive. Russia has proved adept at deforming the narrative around Ukraine’s resistance to its aggression, and the amplification of so-called war fatigue. But the ultimate objective for Russia — is to influence fundamental beliefs and alliances, disrupt democratic values, the rule of law and institutions that maintain the democratic order. My guest today argues that through its hybrid informational warfare measures, it’s potentially able to render international justice meaningless and facilitate the collapse of the current architecture of international law. ---------- Armenak Ohanesian is Head of Legal Studies at the Institute for Conflict Studies and Analysis of Russia (IKAR) in Kyiv. He is 2024 Non-Resident Fellow, for the Irregular Warfare Initiative, at Princeton’s Empirical Studies of Conflict Project and the Modern War Institute at West Point. ---------- LINKS: https://www.linkedin.com/in/armenak-ohanesian-6b672818/ https://www.wilsoncenter.org/person/armenak-ohanesian ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

347. Uilleam Blacker - Literature has been Played a Key Role in the Survival and Resilience of Ukraine.

15 februari 2024 | 57 min

Even for avid supporters of Ukraine, like me, Ukrainian literature remains and undiscovered country. Today I’m speaking with Uilleam Blacker who can guide on a journey of discovery, to engage with Ukrainian culture and identity. Ukrainian literature has a strong tradition of folk tales and oral poetry, and it has been influenced by the country's complex political and cultural history, including periods of colonization and national struggle. Russian literature, on the other hand, has been shaped by its own distinct history, including periods of imperial expansion and revolutionary upheaval. Ukrainian writers were persecuted in the 1920s during the period of Soviet rule in Ukraine, as part of a process to suppress Ukrainian national identity and culture and replace it with a new Soviet identity; literature was a key tool for this, as it is also for Russia today. ---------- Uilleam Blacker is an associate professor in the comparative culture of Eastern Europe at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies at University College London. He is the author of Memory, the City, and the Legacy of World War II in East Central Europe (Routledge). He has translated the work of many Ukrainian authors, including Oleg Sentsov’s short story collection Life Went On Anyway (Deep Vellum). His translations of novels by Taras Prokhasko and Maik Yohansen will be published in the Harvard Library of Ukrainian Literature series. His translations have appeared in many anthologies and journals, including The White Review, Modern Poetry in Translation, and Words Without Borders. ---------- LINKS: https://twitter.com/BlackerUilleam https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/people/uilleam-blacker https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/judges/uilleam-blacker https://www.hup.harvard.edu/authors/65551-blacker-uilleam ---------- RECOMMENDED AUTHORS: Taras Shevchenko https://taras-shevchenko.storinka.org/ Nikolai Gogol Lesia Ukrainka https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674291775 Olha Kobylianska https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sunday-Morning-She-Gathered-Herbs/dp/1895571340 Mike Yohansen https://books.huri.harvard.edu/books/maik-yohansen-dr-leonardos-journey Mykhail Semenko Valerian Pidmohylnyi https://books.huri.harvard.edu/books/the-city Yuri Andrukhovych https://www.amazon.co.uk/Moscoviad-Yuri-Andrukhovych/dp/1933132523 Taras Prokhasko https://tarnawsky.artsci.utoronto.ca/elul/Ukr_Lit/Vol02/03-Prokhasko-Unsimple1.pdf and https://tarnawsky.artsci.utoronto.ca/elul/Ukr_Lit/Vol03/06-ProkhaskoUnsimple-Part-2.pdf Yuri Izdryk https://losthorsepress.org/catalog/smokes/ Viktoria Amelina https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/03/poem-about-a-crow-a-work-by-the-killed-ukrainian-writer-victoria-amelina War poetry (pre-2022): https://www.wordsforwar.com/ ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ----------

346. Vlad Vexler - The Strategy the West Needs to Stop Putin's Aggression.

13 februari 2024 | 80 min

GUEST: Vlad Vexler, Social Philosopher, and popular YouTuber. If Putin's aggression towards Ukraine, Europe and NATO members is Relentless, then what should our strategy towards it be, to guarantee the future security and prosperity of Europe? ---------- It’s my pleasure today to welcome back onto the channel Vlad Vexler, Social Philosopher, and unique YouTuber. Our previous three video conversations proved to be extremely popular, and a lot has happened since we last spoke. Please do check out Vlad’s channel on YouTube, as it has a collection of the most thought-provoking and insightful videos on the Russian mindset and the roots of this war. ---------- LINKS: https://www.youtube.com/@UC6-33VO9eerq9MXFaivi0gg https://www.youtube.com/@UCn7XHZiW6EUgSuxItybLLMg ---------- CHAPTERS: 00:00:00 Introduction to Vlad Vexler 00:02:01 Tone and strategy - Constructive critique by Vlad. 00:10:16 The differences between Twitter persona and YouTube 00:15:49 Emerging from the 'Ukrainian' bubble and its limitations 00:23:33 The need for radical change in strategic planning 00:32:08 Moral questions around Tucker Carlson's Moscow trip 00:42:25 Machinery of Putin's speech writing 'political technology' team 00:51:17 Putin's sense of victimhood amplified by propaganda voices 01:00:45 what are the lessons of Ukraine's multiple revolutions 01:07:12 Ukrainians understand that allies are not totally dependable 01:14:45 Is Ukrainian victory dependent on a Russian collapse? ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

345. Yaroslav Riabukha - Powerful YouTube Channel Examining and Demolishing Russian Propaganda Narratives

11 februari 2024 | 40 min

Yaroslav Riabukha is the host of a YouTube channel that does an extraordinary job examining and demolishing Russian propaganda narratives. He’s creating materials which I think are super important to gain a wide audience and should really be watched by those spreading or amplifying Russian propagandistic lies. It’s especially relevant now, in the wake of Tucker Carlsons craven and weak so-called interview with the mass murderer in the Kremlin. ---------- LINKS: https://www.youtube.com/@Savage_Sage https://www.instagram.com/savagesage_eng https://www.coffeebuymeacoffee.com/savagesage https://www.twitter.com/SavageSage ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

344. Mariia Zolkina- Using Negotiations to Pause, Regroup, Rearm and Attack Again is a Core Moscow Tactic

9 februari 2024 | 63 min

Mariia Zolkina is a Ukrainian Researcher and Public Policy Analyst, who joined London School Economics and Political Science as DINAM Research Fellow in 2022. She has been also working as Head of Regional Security and Conflict Studies at one of most authoritative Ukrainian think tanks, the Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives Foundation (DIF), and is Co-Founder of the Kalmius Group. Mariia is focused on research and analysis in the field of regional security, reintegration policies towards conflict-affected areas, public policy regarding occupied territories and wartime diplomacy. Since 2014 she has been producing expertise on socio-political component of Russo-Ukrainian war, especially regarding the Donbas region. Mariia is a frequent contributor to the international media. ---------- LINKS: https://twitter.com/Mariia_Zolkina https://warsawsecurityforum.org/speaker/zolkina-maria/ https://www.lse.ac.uk/international-relations/people/dinam/zolkina-mariia https://www.theguardian.com/profile/maria-zolkina ---------- ARTICLES: https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/there-can-be-no-lasting-peace-with-russia-until-ukraine-liberates-crimea/ https://www.kyivpost.com/post/552 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/25/ukraine-west-russia-kyiv-russian-offensive ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

343. Hanna Hopko - Russia has Weaponized Violence Against Civilians, Especially Women, as a War Strategy.

9 februari 2024 | 51 min

The ongoing war in Ukraine continues to take a toll on the lives of millions of women who have fled Ukraine and on those displaced within the country. My guest today is a Ukrainian civil society leader, who has spoken out about the need to restore a faith in humanity that Ukrainian women and children have lost in the war. Russia not only tries to strip Ukraine of its sovereignty, but the country’s people of their agency and dignity. Women and girls are especially affected by the war, and an increased risk of life-threatening gender-based violence. Russia has weaponized violence against women, as a strategy of war, a weapon of terror, but Ukrainians refuse to submit to the aggressor, or to be afraid. ---------- Hanna Hopko is a Ukrainian civil society leader and politician, a former Member of Parliament, and head of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of Ukraine's Verkhovna Rada. She is the founder and Head of the Board of ANTS National Interests Advocacy Network, Head of the Democracy in Action Conference, co-founder of the International Centre for Ukrainian Victory, and Warsaw Security Forum International Advisory Council member. Hanna is an expert in advocacy, on Russian expansionism and hybrid warfare. She was one of the civic leaders of the EuroMaidan – Ukraine’s Revolution of Dignity. ---------- LINKS: https://twitter.com/hopkohanna?lang=en https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanna_Hopko https://uadia.org/ https://ants.org.ua/en/reporting/ https://warsawsecurityforum.org/speaker/hopko-hanna/ https://ukrainianvictory.org/experts/hanna-hopko/ https://uadia.org/ ---------- ARTICLES: https://www.aa.com.tr/en/politics/ex-ukrainian-mp-stresses-need-to-restore-faith-in-humanity-of-women-children/2799038 https://www.usaid.gov/ukraine/news/mar-22-2023-hanna-hopko-it-our-duty-defeat-authoritarian-regimes ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

342. Gregory Terry - Getting Aid to the Zero Line - Right Supplies, Right People, Right Place, Right Time

6 februari 2024 | 50 min

Gregory Terry has worked in Ukraine for 26 years, facilitating the delivery of aid to frontline areas of the country. Like me, he uses YouTube as a tool to advocate for Ukraine and demonstrate the amazing work of his team on the ground. Greg has always been fascinated by the cultures, history, and languages of the region, growing up in an era which saw the opening up of the Soviet Union. I’ll let him tell the story of his family, and how he came to be connected to Russia and Ukraine. Greg now runs an NGO in Ukraine and considers the country his second homeland. ---------- CHANNEL: https://www.youtube.com/gregterryexperience "Welcome to our channel dedicated to supporting Ukraine! We're here to provide you with the latest news, updates, and first hand witnesses to Ukraine's resilience. Join us to learn about volunteer efforts, charitable giving opportunities, and ways to make a positive impact. Together, let's stand in solidarity and support Ukraine in their journey towards peace and prosperity." ---------- LINKS: https://www.gregterry.org/ https://www.gregterry.org/donate.html https://www.youtube.com/gregterryexperience https://www.buymeacoffee.com/gregterry ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

341. Scott Lucas - Russian Propaganda is Shameless and Relentless but its Lies have Deadly Consequences.

5 februari 2024 | 56 min

Scott Lucas is a political analyst with more than 30 years’ experience including a wide range of interests from academic expertise to journalism, and public media, as well as digital engagement. Scott is a regular contributor to international TV, radio, and electronic outlets. He is currently a Professor at the Clinton Institute, University College Dublin, and Professor Emeritus at the University of Birmingham. ---------- LINKS: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/impact/heroes/previous-heroes/scott-lucas.aspx https://www.linkedin.com/in/scott-lucas-827ba0a/?originalSubdomain=uk https://twitter.com/ScottLucas_EA https://www.ucdclinton.ie/our-staff/scott-lucas https://eaworldview.com/about/the-editor/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EA_WorldView ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

338. Andrew Wilson - 'Political Technology' Developed in Russia is Being Used to Dismantle Democracies.

4 februari 2024 | 49 min

'Political technology' is a Russian term for the professional engineering of politics. It has turned Russian politics into theatre and propaganda – and now transformed the country into spectacle of blood, circuses, fear, and hatred. But once developed, these techniques for mass manipulation, that build parallel universes of alternative political reality, can be shared by authoritarian regimes. Political technology is being used to dismantle democracy in countries such as Hungary and is now about much more than online disinformation: it is about whole new industries of political engineering. ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- Andrew Wilson is Professor of Ukrainian Studies at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies. Andrew’s area of expertise is the comparative politics of democratisation in the post-Soviet states and political technology. He is a Senior Policy Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations. He is author of a remarkable series of books, and the most recent of these will form the basis of our discussion today: “Political Technology: The Globalisation of Political Manipulation (2023)”. ---------- LINKS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Wilson_(historian) https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-wilson-88b48720/ https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/people/andrew-wilson https://www.coleurope.eu/andrew-wilson https://rusi.org/people/wilson ---------- BOOKS MENTIONED: Political Technology: The Globalisation of Political Manipulation (2023) The Ukrainians: Unexpected Nation (2015) Ukraine Crisis: What It Means for the West (2014) Ukraine’s Orange Revolution (2014) Belarus: The Last European Dictatorship (2011) Virtual Politics – Faking Democracy in the Post–Soviet World (2005) Ukrainian Nationalism in the 1990s: A Minority Faith (1996) ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

339. Roman Osadchuk - Beehive vs Mammoth - How Ukraine Fights a Relentless Flow of Russian Disinformation

4 februari 2024 | 42 min

Together with Jakub Kalenský, Roman Osadchuk is the author of a fascinating paper, “How Ukraine fights Russian disinformation: Beehive vs mammoth,” This detailed and compelling work forms the basis of today’s interview. ---------- Roman Osadchuk is a research associate for Eurasia at the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab). Roman Osadchuk research disinformation narratives and technology uses for their spread in the region. He is interested in the role of information policy and media cycle in the spread of disinformation. Before joining DFRLab, he held several positions in Ukraine Crisis Media Centre (UCMC), where he was involved in communications of decentralization reform. Roman received a master’s in public administration degree from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs of Syracuse University, where he focused on information policy. ---------- LINKS: https://twitter.com/r_osadchuk https://www.linkedin.com/in/roman-osadchuk-mpa-5a0a879b/ https://dfrlab.org/2024/01/24/how-ukraine-fights-russian-disinformation-beehive-vs-mammoth/ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/event/how-ukraine-fights-russian-disinformation-beehive-vs-mammoth/ https://www.voanews.com/a/the-digital-front-of-ukraine-s-fight-against-russia-/6981776.html ---------- BOOKS MENTIONED: https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/occupation/ ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Silicon Bites - #34 - Ukraine Takes the Fight to Russia - Wreaking Havoc with Energy Infrastructure.

2 februari 2024 | 38 min

Edition No34 | 01-02-2024 Unable to break the so-called deadlock on the frontlines of the conventional war, Ukraine is engaging in ‘smart warfare’ to attack the enemy’s oil and gas supply lines. Over the past three weeks, Ukraine has wreaked havoc with Russia’s energy infrastructure. Soon after the new year, someone attached explosives to train carriages in the Urals city of Nizhny Tagil. A blast took place next to facilities owned by Gazprom Neft, the country’s third biggest oil producer. Next, a kamikaze drone crashed into an oil depot in the Oryol region. On 18 January, another oil terminal, in St Petersburg – Vladimir Putin’s home city – came under attack. It was the first time since the invasion in February 2022 that unmanned aerial vehicles had reached the Leningrad region. There was more to come. A large-scale fire broke out at an oil depot in the town of Klintsy, not far from Belarus and Ukraine. ~~~~~ SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ~~~~~ OTHER ARTICLES https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/27/ukraine-levels-up-the-fight-with-drone-strikes-deep-into-russia KYIV INDEPENDENT https://kyivindependent.com/breaking-ukraine-facility/ https://kyivindependent.com/history-behind-russian-lands-recognized-by-zelensky-decree-as-historically-inhabited-by-ukrainians/ https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-war-latest-january-30/ https://kyivindependent.com/ex-nato-chief-not-inviting-ukraine-to-join-alliance-gives-putin-incentive-to-continue-the-war/ THE MOSCOW TIMES https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/01/23/hope-for-change-or-kremlin-spoiler-who-is-boris-nadezhdin-the-presidential-hopeful-uniting-pro-peace-russians-a83824 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/01/24/we-must-accept-the-truth-western-academics-are-russian-intelligence-targets-a83837 NOVAYA GAZETA EUROPE https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2024/01/30/hope-in-hell-en ~~~~~ USEFUL LINKS: Vatnik Soup https://twitter.com/P_Kallioniemi http://www.medbat.org.ua/en/ Real World News https://kyivindependent.com/ https://www.kyivpost.com/ https://english.nv.ua/ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/ https://meduza.io/en https://meduza.io/ https://novayagazeta.eu/ https://www.newsweek.com/topic/russia... Analysis https://www.ft.com/russia https://www.economist.com/ https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ https://cepa.org/ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/ https://www.theatlantic.com/search/?s... YouTube Channels / @timesradio1 / @khodorkovskyru / @popularpolitics / @macknack / @plushev / @tvrain / @fake_news / @feyginlive ~~~~~ TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ~~~~~

337. Brandon Mitchell - Ukraine Opposes the Evil of Russian Aggession - But Ukraine's War is Our War Too.

31 januari 2024 | 49 min

Brandon Mitchell is a Canadian who is deeply involved and invested in the Ukraine war. As a member of the Hospitaller crew, he has been evacuating people and the wounded since the beginning of the war. Brandon was born in a small Canadian town near the Atlantic Ocean. At the age of 17, he joined the army, and served first in Canada and then in the UK. When the full-scale war began in Ukraine, Brandon could not stand aside. He decided that this was his war too. “I couldn't think of anything but Ukraine. We all know that Russia is bad, and your whole country opposes this evil in the first days so strongly that I realized that I should be with the Ukrainians. A few days later I was in Lviv.” ---------- LINKS: https://www.youtube.com/@ukraine_tbic/ ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

336. Konstantin Samoilov - Russia has Been Hit by a Perfect Winter Storm that may Affect War's Outcome.

31 januari 2024 | 57 min

Russia has been hit be a perfect storm, that may affect the outcome of the war. Crumbling infrastructure combined with a cold winter. Strikes on strategic military energy infrastructure by Ukraine, and growing war fatigue among the domestic population. The move to a war economy, rampant inflation, and a growing deficit of some staple goods. ---------- Welcome to our monthly conversation with Konstantin, who is one of the most respected voices on YouTube about what is happening Inside Russia. Konstantin Samoilov is a well-known YouTuber whose channel ‘Inside Russia’ comments insightfully on Russia’s decent into authoritarianism over the last few years. But now, like many others, he’s outside Russia, with no idea of when he can return there. ---------- LINKS: https://www.youtube.com/@INSIDERUSSIA ---------- OTHER VIDEOS WITH KONSTANTIN ON SILICON CURTAIN: https://youtu.be/gbINoWwiq-Y https://youtu.be/71CgzWpxf4Y https://youtu.be/L2pEHdrSbJw https://youtu.be/HKF-QaXOCIg https://youtu.be/F6vJGl0169Y https://youtu.be/ogYRqb24ltc https://youtu.be/VhpoQwvEqis ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

335. Joseph Lindsley - Politicians on Left and Right are Both Avoiding Issue of how to Achieve a Victory.

26 januari 2024 | 69 min

First in a new series of monthly conversations on Silicon Curtain, about how Ukrainians are redefining the ideas of freedom and democracy, and why Ukraine must not be allowed to fall under Russian control. Politicians across the political spectrum are not taking the threat to the international order seriously enough. The war in Ukraine, despite it scale and intensity is still being classed as a regional conflict between neighbouring countries, not as a global struggle for values and power. We are in a dangerous place, where politicians see freedom as a political football, as a commodity and a weapon to be traded and weided. The concept of freedom is being used to grow pivilege and wealth of the few, rather than the many, and to diminish, rather than multiple the sum total of freedom in the world. Politicians are 'freedom signalling', but not taking actions that enhance and expand freedom. ---------- ABOUT: Joe Lindsley is a traveller and a writer, and American reporting on Chicago's WGN Radio from Ukraine each and every weekday of Russia's full-scale war. He once was protégé to Fox News founder Roger Ailes, but Lindsley escaped that frenzied world where power mattered more than truth. He came to Lviv for a Ukrainian Catholic University journalism conference on Information Overload, AI, and Responsibility. Then the Coronavirus shut down world travel, and he stayed to build a better vision for the media industry. OTHER VIDEOS: https://youtu.be/DM42QAF2ia4 (07-Nov-23) ---------- LINKS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Lindsley https://www.linkedin.com/in/joseph-lindsley-60087618/ https://www.youtube.com/@UCktP66I2pV8LCoRnS-scx_A https://twitter.com/JPLindsley https://www.instagram.com/jplindsley/ https://www.facebook.com/josephlindsley https://www.ukrainianfreedomnews.com/ ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

334. Dr Darin Gerdes - What are the Implications for Ukraine of a Trump Victory in the 2024 US Election?

25 januari 2024 | 44 min

333. Anna Danylchuk - Russian Strategic Infrastructure Catches Fire - "Moscow, we Have a Serious Problem"

24 januari 2024 | 53 min

GUEST: Anna from Ukraine - Anna Danylchuk ---------- Anna Danylchuk has been creating a war diary since the early days of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia in 2022. Anna Danylchuk aims to tell the truth about Ukraine and Russia’s war and cut through the noise and propaganda. Anna is passionate about the beauty and independence of her country, and communicates this powerfully in her videos, in a clear and honest way. ---------- LINKS: https://www.youtube.com/@UCiVefOT4TGW3pOqW6AxmlBQ https://www.buymeacoffee.com/annafromukraine My interview with Anna in Lviv - hosted on her excellent channel- https://youtu.be/daHcnsNQ1S0?si=yHbZ2kJZ3CTVRd8Z ---------- OTHER VIDEOS WITH ANNA ON SILICON CURTAIN: https://youtu.be/x0o1bn-1Yyc https://youtu.be/Hm5_Yb3geQ4 https://youtu.be/x-gUSUG7N6E https://youtu.be/r0PNxM7Xyow https://youtu.be/5AenntkSxIs https://youtu.be/vPT6oZ1FOAw https://youtu.be/0gaK_5TEXXw https://youtu.be/XQJoTAAfxt4 ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

332. Ilya Ponomarev - "We Have to Capture the Kremlin" to Defeat Putinism and End the Senseless Invasion.

23 januari 2024 | 50 min

Ilya Ponomarev is a Russian-Ukrainian politician who was a member of the Russian State Duma from 2007 to 2016. After the 2022 Russian invasion, Ponomarev joined Ukraine's Territorial Defence Forces, and categorically denounced the invasion. While a member of the Russian State Duma, he was the only deputy not to vote in favour of the Russian gay propaganda law and to vote against Russia's annexation of Crimea in March 2014. In 2015, while in the US, Ponomarev was formally charged in Russia with embezzlement, which he called politically motivated. In 2016, he was impeached for not performing his duties, and he went into exile in Ukraine, where he obtained Ukrainian citizenship in 2019. Ilya Ponomarev has endorsed acts of sabotage and arson in Russia and claims to be a spokesman with insurgent Russian forces (National Republican Army) fighting on the side of Ukraine. ---------- ARTICLES: https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/01/19/ilya-ponomaryov-we-have-to-capture-the-kremlin-there-is-no-other-way-a83772 ---------- BOOKS: Does Putin Have to Die? The Story of How Russia Becomes a Democracy after Losing to Ukraine (Hardcover – 19 Jan. 2023) ---------- LINKS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya_Ponomarev ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- WATCH NEXT: Yuri Felshtinsky https://youtu.be/PWGC2il6svU Konstantin Samoilov https://youtu.be/ogYRqb24ltc Grigor Atanesian https://youtu.be/oxDAieyJt9I Maria Snegovaya https://youtu.be/qL6lAj2UsPk Olga Solovyeva https://youtu.be/ABNXnXV-7ic ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

331. Andrew Mercado - From Minneapolis to Ukraine - A Personal Journey into Independent Frontline Media

21 januari 2024 | 60 min

Andrew Mercado is a U.S. Army Veteran who served both on active duty and in the reserves as an 88M motor transport operator from 2012 - 2020 with one tour overseas. His journey into journalism began when George Floyd was murdered in his home city of Minneapolis in 2020 and I had the desire to report on the subsequent riots, unrest, and protests. It’s a journey that led him to Ukraine, where he’s become a powerful voice in bringing the war to life on his YouTube channel. ---------- LINKS: https://www.youtube.com/@MercadoMedia ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- WATCH NEXT: Ben Hodges https://youtu.be/hFv81-liMhA Anders Puck Nielsen https://youtu.be/A10Hl913qgg Gustav Gressel https://youtu.be/_qoLtnRG3Dg Jerry Hendrix https://youtu.be/u7HTzZWbFzs Richard Shirreff https://youtu.be/aERNNxqS7L8 ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

330. Anna Arutunyan - Moscow Waged a Covert Invasion of Ukraine Using Rogues, Businessmen and Mercenaries

20 januari 2024 | 54 min

The Russian government’s deniable use of rogues, businessmen, enthusiasts, mercenaries, and political technologists confounded policymakers as Moscow waged a covert invasion of Ukraine in 2014. Did the war in Crimea and Donbas reveal the Kremlin’s ‘hybrid war’ playbook – or did Moscow quickly lose control over the forces it had unleashed? What’s clear, is that the international community dramatically misunderstood the very nature of this war and was unprepared for the Kremlin’s sudden and brutal escalation to full-scale war in 2022. ---------- Anna Arutunyan is a Russian American journalist, analyst, and author. She is a global fellow at the Wilson Centre. Her acclaimed research and analysis focusses on Putin’s volunteer militants, the pro-Russian insurgency in Donbas, and the war it escalated into in eastern Ukraine. ---------- BOOKS: Hybrid Warriors: Proxies, Freelancers and Moscow’s Struggle for Ukraine (2022) The Putin Mystique (2014) The Media in Russia (2009) ---------- LINKS: https://twitter.com/scrawnya https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/hybrid-warriors/ ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- WATCH NEXT: Yuri Felshtinsky https://youtu.be/PWGC2il6svU Konstantin Samoilov https://youtu.be/ogYRqb24ltc Grigor Atanesian https://youtu.be/oxDAieyJt9I Maria Snegovaya https://youtu.be/qL6lAj2UsPk Olga Solovyeva https://youtu.be/ABNXnXV-7ic ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

329. Yaroslav Azhnyuk - Serhiy Korolyov was the Genius who Launched Humanity into Space, Born in Zhytomyr

19 januari 2024 | 43 min

This episode is dedicated to Serhiy Korolyov, the genius who launched humanity into space, born in Zhytomyr and who studied in Odesa & Kyiv. Three of the most significant achievements at the dawn of the space era were masterminded by him. Sputnik. Gagarin. And Leonov’s first-ever spacewalk. Korolyov was the genius behind the technology that made these and many other leaps possible. By his contemporaries, he was simply called “The Chief Engineer.” ---------- ABOUT: Yaroslav Azhnyuk is an Entrepreneur and geek, who’s working towards an accelerating victory for Ukraine and the democratic world. Yaroslav Azhnyuk is the co-founder of IT companies Petcube, Spend With Ukraine, fuel finance, and Ozero Design. ---------- ARTICLE: https://kyivindependent.com/yaroslav-azhnyuk-an-untold-story-of-serhiy-korolyov-the-ukrainian-who-launched-humanity-into-space/ ---------- LINKS: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yaroslavazhnyuk/ ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- WATCH NEXT: Orest Zub https://youtu.be/A7MrcwdDvPQ Aliona Hlivco https://youtu.be/yGLUBCfTkD8 Olga Tokariuk https://youtu.be/D5onDse6WJs Anna Danylchuk https://youtu.be/5AenntkSxIs Roman Sheremeta https://youtu.be/olrTPku8EMM ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Silicon Bites - #33 - Is Belarus at Risk of Being Thrown into Meat Grinder of Russian War in Ukraine

17 januari 2024 | 48 min

Edition No33 | 17-01-2024 Russia plans Belarus 'absorption' by 2030 — according to media reports. A Russian presidential document was obtained, in February 2023, by a group of international journalists who believe it to be authentic. It reportedly dates back to the summer of 2021. ~~~~~ SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ~~~~~ KYIV INDEPENDENT https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-war-latest-january-16-2024/ https://kyivindependent.com/border-guard-polish-truckers-unblock-the-last-crossing-at-ukraine-border/ https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-shoots-down/ https://kyivindependent.com/opinion-the-unseen-scars-of-ukraines-mental-health-crisis/ https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-war-latest-january-14-2024/ THE MOSCOW TIMES https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/01/15/a-ukrainian-call-to-davos-ban-russian-fossil-fuel-exports-to-bring-peace-a83724 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/01/16/estonia-arrests-russian-university-professor-suspected-of-spying-for-moscow-a83733 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/01/16/us-envoy-says-frozen-russian-assets-could-be-easy-ukraine-funding-a83732 KYIV POST https://www.kyivpost.com/post/26819 https://www.kyivpost.com/post/26817 NOVAYA GAZETA EUROPE https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2024/01/15/back-to-the-drawing-board-en https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2024/01/11/exit-strategies-en OTHER ARTICLES https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/15/ukraine-shoots-down-two-russian-aircraft-in-disastrous-day-for-kremlin https://www.economist.com/europe/2023/12/17/ukraines-army-is-struggling-to-find-good-recruits https://www.economist.com/leaders/2024/01/04/how-backing-ukraine-is-key-to-the-wests-security ~~~~~ USEFUL LINKS: Vatnik Soup https://twitter.com/P_Kallioniemi http://www.medbat.org.ua/en/ Real World News https://kyivindependent.com/ https://www.kyivpost.com/ https://english.nv.ua/ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/ https://meduza.io/en https://meduza.io/ https://novayagazeta.eu/ https://www.newsweek.com/topic/russia... Analysis https://www.ft.com/russia https://www.economist.com/ https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ https://cepa.org/ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/ https://www.theatlantic.com/search/?s... YouTube Channels / @timesradio1 / @khodorkovskyru / @popularpolitics / @macknack / @plushev / @tvrain / @fake_news / @feyginlive ~~~~~ TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ~~~~~

328. Yaroslav Trofimov - Russia's Invasion was an Existential Threat to Ukraine, but People Fought Back.

15 januari 2024 | 53 min

Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Yaroslav Trofimov has spent months on end at the heart of the conflict, very often on its front lines. In this authoritative account, he traces the war’s decisive moments—from the battle for Kyiv to more recently the gruelling and bloody arm wrestle involving the Wagner group over Bakhmut—to show how Ukraine and its allies have turned the tide against Russia in a modern-day battle of David and Goliath. ---------- BOOKS: Our Enemies Will Vanish – The Russian Invasion and Ukraine's War of Independence (2023) Faith at War (2005) Siege of Mecca (2007) ---------- GUEST: Yaroslav Trofimov is the chief foreign-affairs correspondent of The Wall Street Journal and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in international reporting for two consecutive years, in 2022 and 2023. Before covering the Russian war on Ukraine, he reported on most major conflicts of the past two decades, serving as the Journal's bureau chief in Afghanistan and Pakistan and correspondent in Iraq. He holds an MA from New York University and is the author of several highly critically acclaimed books. ---------- ABOUT "OUR ENEMIES WILL VANISH" Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Yaroslav Trofimov has spent months on end at the heart of the conflict, very often on its front lines. In this authoritative account, he traces the war’s decisive moments—from the battle for Kyiv to more recently the gruelling and bloody arm wrestle involving the Wagner group over Bakhmut—to show how Ukraine and its allies have turned the tide against Russia in a modern-day battle of David and Goliath. Putin had intended to conquer Ukraine with a vicious blitzkrieg, in a few short weeks. But in the face of this existential threat, the Ukrainian people fought back, turning what looked like certain defeat into a great moral victory, even as the territorial battle continues to seesaw to this day. This is the story of their epic bravery in the face of almost unthinkable aggression. For Trofimov, this war is deeply personal. He grew up in Kyiv and his family has lived there for generations. He tells the story of how everyday Ukrainian citizens—doctors, computer programmers, businesspeople, and schoolteachers—risked their lives and lost loved ones. At once heart-breaking and inspiring, and combining vivid reportage with expert military analysis and rare insight into the thinking of Ukrainian leadership, Our Enemies Will Vanish tells the riveting story Ukraine’s fight for survival and refusal to surrender as it has never been told before. ---------- LINKS: https://twitter.com/yarotrof https://www.wsj.com/news/author/yaroslav-trofimov https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/72796/yaroslav-trofimov/ https://www.pulitzer.org/finalists/yaroslav-trofimov-and-james-marson-wall-street-journal ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- WATCH NEXT: Julia Tymoshenko https://youtu.be/mLqB7ShA2l4 Anastasiya Shapochkina https://youtu.be/AUbSEiqJk1o Luke Harding https://youtu.be/YRgCJ4HqIbo Yuri Felshtinsky https://youtu.be/_Jhj4Z32e_Q Ian Garner https://youtu.be/j9l4PYBD0_o ----------

327. Christopher Miller - Seeds of Russia's War Against Ukraine and West were Sown More Than a Decade Ago

14 januari 2024 | 50 min

Christopher Miller is an American journalist covering foreign affairs, national security, global conflicts, crises, and politics, with a special focus on Ukraine, where he’s lived and worked since 2010. Author of the book, “The War Came To Us: Life And Death In Ukraine,” published by Bloomsbury in July 2023. Christopher Miller is the Ukraine Correspondent for the Financial Times. ---------- When Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his unprovoked, full-scale invasion of Ukraine just before dawn on 24 February 2022, it marked his latest and most overt attempt to brutally conquer the country, and reshaped the world order. Christopher Miller, the Ukraine correspondent for the Financial Times and a foremost journalist covering the country, was there on the ground when the first Russian missiles struck and troops stormed over the border. But the seeds of Russia's war against Ukraine and the West were sown more than a decade earlier. This is the definitive, inside story of its long fight for freedom. Told through Miller's personal experiences, vivid front-line dispatches and illuminating interviews with unforgettable characters, The War Came To Us takes readers on a riveting journey through the key locales and pivotal events of Ukraine's modern history. From the coal-dusted, sunflower-covered steppe of the Donbas in the far east to the heart of the Euromaidan revolution camp in Kyiv; from the Black Sea shores of Crimea, where Russian troops stealthily annexed Ukraine's peninsula, to the bloody battlefields where Cossacks roamed before the Kremlin's warlords ruled with iron fists; and through the horror and destruction wrought by Russian forces in Bucha, Bakhmut, Mariupol, and beyond. ---------- LINKS: https://www.ft.com/christopher-miller https://twitter.com/ChristopherJM https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/war-came-to-us-9781399406857/ ---------- BOOKS: The War Came To Us: Life and Death in Ukraine (2023) ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- WATCH NEXT: Julia Tymoshenko https://youtu.be/mLqB7ShA2l4 Anastasiya Shapochkina https://youtu.be/AUbSEiqJk1o Luke Harding https://youtu.be/YRgCJ4HqIbo Yuri Felshtinsky https://youtu.be/_Jhj4Z32e_Q Ian Garner https://youtu.be/j9l4PYBD0_o ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

326. Halyna Yanchenko - Within the UN Russia is Now a Political Representative of Tyrants and Terrorists.

13 januari 2024 | 48 min

Since February 24, 2022, Ukraine has enjoyed bipartisan support from the United States, and for that entire time, Russia has been looking for cracks in this support. Russia failed to achieve any downsizing in aid through military and diplomatic means. The Kremlin is now seizing the opportunity of the fractious upcoming election period to refresh another time-tested tactic: information-psychological special operations. ---------- ABOUT: Halyna Yanchenko is a member of the Ukrainian parliament, elected in 2019. She has authored a number of legislative initiatives and is the primary author of 22 bills, of which 7 have been enacted into law. One of the bills concerned restrictions of parliamentary impunity, and another streamlined procedure for the investigation and accountability of members of Parliament. Halyna also has extensive experience in the business sector, specializing in sociological and marketing research. ---------- LINKS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halyna_Yanchenko https://twitter.com/HalynaYanchenko https://www.wilsoncenter.org/person/halyna-yanchenko https://www.linkedin.com/in/halynayanchenko/ https://cepa.org/author/halyna-yanchenko/ ARTICLES: https://www.wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/us-aid-ukraine-helps-american-economy-and-boosts-us-jobs ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- WATCH NEXT: Orest Zub https://youtu.be/A7MrcwdDvPQ Aliona Hlivco https://youtu.be/yGLUBCfTkD8 Olga Tokariuk https://youtu.be/D5onDse6WJs Anna Danylchuk https://youtu.be/5AenntkSxIs Roman Sheremeta https://youtu.be/olrTPku8EMM ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Silicon Bites #32 - Russian Infrastructure Crumbling as it Spends Billions on Murdering Ukrainians.

12 januari 2024 | 38 min

Edition No32 | 11-01-2024 Central heating pipe laid down in 1974 ruptured and flooded in Novosibirsk, Russia. Multiple districts without heating nor hot water in -25°C (-13°F) night temperature. Is Russia falling apart? ~~~~~ SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ~~~~~ KYIV INDEPENDENT https://kyivindependent.com/russia-attacks-kharkiv-9-injured/ https://kyivindependent.com/zelensky-arrives-in-vilnius-as-part-of-visit-to-baltics/ https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-war-latest-january-10-2024/ https://kyivindependent.com/nato-members-pledge-further-support-to-ukraine/ https://kyivindependent.com/scholz-criticizes-eu-for-providing-insufficient-aid-to-ukraine/ https://kyivindependent.com/ukrainian-poet-maksym-kryvtsov-killed-on-front-line/ KYIV POST https://www.kyivpost.com/post/26556 https://www.kyivpost.com/analysis/26351 https://www.kyivpost.com/post/26570 https://www.kyivpost.com/videos/26527 THE MOSCOW TIMES https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/01/10/total-disgrace-anger-frustration-as-mass-heating-failures-across-russia-leave-thousands-in-the-cold-a83676 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/12/11/rising-egg-prices-show-cracks-in-sanctions-hit-russian-economy-a83385 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/12/15/russias-central-bank-raises-key-rate-to-16-amid-growing-inflation-a83442 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/12/25/foreign-shareholders-suspend-participation-in-russias-arctic-lng-2-project-kommersant-a83553 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/12/22/us-starts-targeting-banks-that-help-russian-war-in-ukraine-a83539 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/01/10/unprecedented-cross-border-strikes-rattle-russias-belgorod-a83679 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/01/10/zelensky-says-western-hesitation-on-ukraine-aid-emboldens-putin-a83683 OTHER ARTICLES https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow,_third_Rome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_world https://twitter.com/igorsushko/status/1745341741832822872 https://meduza.io/en/news/2023/12/13/russian-aviation-authority-says-incidents-in-russia-have-decreased-while-independent-and-foreign-media-report-the-opposite https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/jan/10/russia-ukraine-war-sanctions-zelenskiy-latest-news ~~~~~ USEFUL LINKS: Vatnik Soup https://twitter.com/P_Kallioniemi http://www.medbat.org.ua/en/ Real World News https://kyivindependent.com/ https://www.kyivpost.com/ https://english.nv.ua/ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/ https://meduza.io/en https://meduza.io/ https://novayagazeta.eu/ https://www.newsweek.com/topic/russia... Analysis https://www.ft.com/russia https://www.economist.com/ https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ https://cepa.org/ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/ https://www.theatlantic.com/search/?s... YouTube Channels / @timesradio1 / @khodorkovskyru / @popularpolitics / @macknack / @plushev / @tvrain / @fake_news / @feyginlive ~~~~~ TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ~~~~~

325. Tetyana Denford - 20 Days in Mariupol Documents the Struggle of People in a Beseiged Ukrainian City.

11 januari 2024 | 62 min

Guest: Tetyana Denford (Бісик) Ukrainian author - ‘Child of Ukraine’ & ‘The Soldier’s Child’. Translator, ‘20 Days in Mariupol’ and ‘Battle for Ukraine’. Writing courses on Substack. YouTube host. As the Russian invasion began, a team of Ukrainian journalists were trapped in the besieged city of Mariupol. The searing and harrowing film 20 Days in Mariupol documents their struggle to continue working to record the war's atrocities, under the brutal assault of Russia’s army. ---------- ABOUT: Tetyana Denford is a Ukrainian-American fiction author, translator for Frontline PBS, freelance writer as well as YouTube channel host with a 20+ year history of working in the writing and editing world. Her first novel, self-published in 2020 as 'Motherland' has been re-published in July 2022 with the team at Hachette/Bookouture as 'The Child of Ukraine'. It reached #1 on the Amazon New Release list. Tetyana used to write freelance for Elle and Vogue, and has been featured in The New York Times, The Telegraph, The Paris Review, Flock Magazine, and Medium. ---------- LINKS: https://twitter.com/tetyanaukrainka https://www.linkedin.com/in/tetyana-denford/ https://20daysinmariupol.com/ https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/20-days-in-mariupol/ ARTICLES: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/oct/07/20-days-in-mariupol-review-a-gruelling-documentary-of-life-inside-the-besieged-ukrainian-city ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- WATCH NEXT: Orest Zub https://youtu.be/A7MrcwdDvPQ Aliona Hlivco https://youtu.be/yGLUBCfTkD8 Olga Tokariuk https://youtu.be/D5onDse6WJs Anna Danylchuk https://youtu.be/5AenntkSxIs Roman Sheremeta https://youtu.be/olrTPku8EMM ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

324. Stephen Douglas - Russia Mythical Falsehoods Have Fooled Foreign Policy Professionals & Politicians.

9 januari 2024 | 79 min

For more than a decade Russia has pumped poison into the bloodstream of our civilisation, in the form of hypnotic lies and myths, that Stephen Douglas calls Disinfolklore. These human-crafted, mythical falsehoods are a form of simplistic, yet impactful fairytale nonsense. They have fooled many foreign policy professionals, politicians, diplomats, as well as lay people, into repeating patently absurd, yet endlessly recycled bogus Russian narratives. There is a strategic purpose behind the contemporary Russian Disinfolklore, says Stephen, to prevent allies coming to the aid of Ukraine, to provide what it needs, and enforce its inherent right to self-defence.

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Stephen Douglas is a self-described expert in combat propaganda (is a former diplomat), and creator of Decoding Trolls and Disinfolklore. The latter has been described in a Byline Times review as a “brilliant new analytical method to parse and counter disinformation”.

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https://twitter.com/DecodingTrolls

https://www.decodingtrolls.net/

https://www.disinfolklore.net/

https://www.bylinesupplement.com/p/disinfolklore

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Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas

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UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine

https://unbroken.org.ua/

Come Back Alive

https://savelife.in.ua/en/

Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen

https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine

UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy

https://u24.gov.ua/

Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation

https://prytulafoundation.org

NGO “Herojam Slava”

https://heroiamslava.org/

kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemysl

https://kharpp.com/

NOR DOG Animal Rescue

https://www.nor-dog.org/home/

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Carl Miller

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https://youtu.be/0BY82QBE-Js

Oleksandra Tsekhanovska

https://youtu.be/xfyr4XvLguM

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323. Jaanika Merilo - A Review of 10 Key Events that Shaped Russia's Brutal War Against Ukraine in 2023.

9 januari 2024 | 65 min

This year has been mentally exhausting for Ukraine and those that have been helping Ukraine, but only Ukrainians have the right to be tired, and they are not. ---------- Jaanika Merilo is an Estonian-Ukrainian reformer, IT innovator, and philanthropist. Since October 2019, Merilo has been an advisor to Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine and Minister of Digital Transformation Mykhaylo Fedorov. She served as advisor to two Ministers of Infrastructure of Ukraine, the mayor of Dnipro, and the mayor of Lviv. She has served as expert advisor to the Ukrainian State Agency of E-Government and is the founder of charity programmes BookAngel and SoundAngel, and a co-founder of NGO Herojam Slava (heroiamslava.org). She has a Masters in Global Security from King's College London and studied Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare at MIT. ---------- LINKS: https://heroiamslava.org/ https://twitter.com/jaanikamerilo https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaanikamerilo/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaanika_Merilo https://ebs.ee/en/contacts/jaanika-merilo https://forumkyiv.org/en/speakers/yanika-meril ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- ARTICLES: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/10-events-shaped-shook-us-2023-jaanika-merilo-lipmf/ ---------- 10 KEY EVENTS IN 2023 1. Ukrainian counteroffensive did not happen, but Russia was stopped. 2. Ecocide at the Kakhovka Dam. 3. Patriots arrived to defend the skies of Ukraine. 4. Drones over Moscow. 5. Grain corridor functions are supported by Ukrainian drones. 6. Hundreds of Thousands of children deported to Russia. 7. Painful lessons from Bakhmut. 8. Mutiny and death of Yevgeny Prigozhin. 9. Blockade of the Polish-Ukrainian border. 10. West has let Ukraine down. ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- WATCH NEXT: Orest Zub https://youtu.be/A7MrcwdDvPQ Aliona Hlivco https://youtu.be/yGLUBCfTkD8 Olga Tokariuk https://youtu.be/D5onDse6WJs Anna Danylchuk https://youtu.be/5AenntkSxIs Roman Sheremeta https://youtu.be/olrTPku8EMM ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

322. Ben Goldhagen - Interview with Documentary Film Director about Russia's Destructive War in Ukraine.

6 januari 2024 | 60 min

A documentary about the horrific and destructive war that is currently taking place in Ukraine. The film tells the true stories of Ukrainians who have been forced to flee their homes, lose loved ones, and live in fear for their lives. It is a story about the courage, strength of will, and resilience of the Ukrainian people...If you can, please send the link to a friend or two. FILM: To the Zero Line - Brave Hearts in Dark Hours Director - Benjamin I. Goldhagen (2023) – 2h 26m https://www.tothezeroline.com/ WATCH FOR FREE NOW - AND SHARE THE LINK WITH FRIENDS AND FAMILY. ---------- In war, the mind gets focused on the essence of life. Family, friends, food, heritage, what you'll fight for, what you might die to keep. The choices one makes each morning when the sun rises. To The Zero Line takes place during a time of war, during the full-scale invasion of a European country, Ukraine. At stake are the hospitals, churches, music, art, children, pregnant women, expectant fathers, against a force determined to murder all of it. Genocide. You experience the perpetual cycle of life of the invaded, the birth of two children, a wedding, death, the loss of a loved one, Soldiers in battle on the zero line, and back in the cities, towns, and villages each person has his or her own personal zero line. You experience people from outside the country flooding in to help in what ways they can. Each adding a small part to a big puzzle. If you're in the UK, USA, Germany, or France, you might ask yourself, How am I so different? What would I do if death comes knocking on my door or my parents' door or my school door or my church's door. The film is an opportunity to think for yourself. Everybody in life is going to the Zero Line. The point of contact with your worst fears. Where the enemy is. Horrible hours, and brutal seconds. Where you need true friends and your best moments. ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- WATCH NEXT: Orest Zub https://youtu.be/A7MrcwdDvPQ Aliona Hlivco https://youtu.be/yGLUBCfTkD8 Olga Tokariuk https://youtu.be/D5onDse6WJs Anna Danylchuk https://youtu.be/5AenntkSxIs Roman Sheremeta https://youtu.be/olrTPku8EMM ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

286. Mariia Kravchenko - Image Gallery and Personal Testimony about the Terrible Impact of Russia's War.

5 januari 2024 | 45 min

Mariia Kravchenko is the Fulbright Program officer and a Historian. Established in 1946, the Fulbright Program is the oldest and most prestigious international program for the exchange of scholars and students funded by the United States government. Today it supports academic exchanges with 155 countries of the world. ---------- LINKS: https://twitter.com/MariiaK54469057 https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariia-kravchenko-1a65b7177/ https://fulbright.org.ua/en/contacts/ https://trafo.hypotheses.org/48669 ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- WATCH NEXT: Orest Zub https://youtu.be/A7MrcwdDvPQ Aliona Hlivco https://youtu.be/yGLUBCfTkD8 Olga Tokariuk https://youtu.be/D5onDse6WJs Anna Danylchuk https://youtu.be/5AenntkSxIs Roman Sheremeta https://youtu.be/olrTPku8EMM ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Silicon Bites - #31 - Weak Language Gets Weaker: From "As Long as it Takes" to "As Long as We Can".

3 januari 2024 | 32 min

Edition No31 | 03-01-2024 Joe Biden says US will back Ukraine ‘as long as we can’ - Zelenskyy visits Washington to appeal for further aid but meets Republican resistance. “We’ll continue to supply Ukraine with critical weapons and equipment as long as we can . . . but without supplemental funding, we’re rapidly coming to an end of our ability to help Ukraine respond to the urgent operational demands that it has,” Biden said. ~~~~~ SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ~~~~~ KYIV INDEPENDENT https://kyivindependent.com/update-5-killed-119-injured-in-russian-jan-2-large-scale-attack-against-ukraine/ https://kyivindependent.com/russian-missile-reportedly-hits-voronezh-oblast-village-amid-latest-mass-attack-on-ukraine/ https://kyivindependent.com/hit-the-kremlin-kyivans-dont-hold-back-after-russias-mass-attack-kills-9-wounds-30-in-the-capital/ KYIV POST https://www.kyivpost.com/post/26205 https://www.kyivpost.com/post/26229 https://www.kyivpost.com/post/26223 https://www.kyivpost.com/post/26058 THE MOSCOW TIMES https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/12/31/putin-praises-army-in-scaled-back-new-years-eve-address-a83620 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/01/02/half-of-putins-decrees-classified-in-2023-mediazona-a83631 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/01/01/st-petersburg-police-round-up-thousands-of-migrant-workers-in-new-years-raids-reports-a83624 NOVAYA GAZETA EUROPE https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2023/12/31/war-goes-unmentioned-in-new-year-address-as-putin-keeps-it-vague-en-news https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2023/12/25/the-cipher-en https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2023/12/31/a-second-year-of-russias-war-en OTHER ARTICLES https://www.ft.com/russia https://www.ft.com/content/c5b8a94f-4bf9-422f-b4de-db5dcfc7ca0a https://www.cnbc.com/2023/12/28/russias-lavrov-claims-the-west-is-shifting-strategy-on-ukraine.html https://www.msn.com/en-xl/news/other/open-to-ceasefire-putin-quietly-signals-willingness-for-ukraine-ceasefire-talks-reports/vi-AA1lYYuV# https://www.economist.com/united-states/2023/12/20/a-majority-of-congressmen-want-more-military-aid-for-ukraine https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2023/12/10/vladimir-putin-is-running-russias-economy-dangerously-hot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOwQ3PYw8wY ~~~~~ USEFUL LINKS: Vatnik Soup https://twitter.com/P_Kallioniemi http://www.medbat.org.ua/en/ Real World News https://kyivindependent.com/ https://www.kyivpost.com/ https://english.nv.ua/ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/ https://meduza.io/en https://meduza.io/ https://novayagazeta.eu/ https://www.newsweek.com/topic/russia... Analysis https://www.ft.com/russia https://www.economist.com/ https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ https://cepa.org/ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/ https://www.theatlantic.com/search/?s... YouTube Channels / @timesradio1 / @khodorkovskyru / @popularpolitics / @macknack / @plushev / @tvrain / @fake_news / @feyginlive ~~~~~

282. Lesa Melnyczuk - Ukraine Commemorates the 90th Anniversary of the Holodomor Genocide in 2022–23

3 januari 2024 | 43 min

In 2022–2023, Ukraine commemorated the 90th anniversary of the Holodomor genocide. It comes at a time when Ukraine is facing a new struggle for its survival. Russia is committing a new genocide – with the full-scale war it launched in Feb-2022. Methods to suppress Ukrainian nationhood differ, - a man-made famine, terror, and deportation in the 1930, and war in the 21st century, but the intent remains the same – and the source of this misery is Russia once more. But the Ukrainian nation perseveres, and Ukrainians themselves seem to be irrepressible, resilient, inventive, and indomitable. ---------- Lesa Morgan is a Ukrainian Holodomor researcher based in Western Australia, writing about the period of Russian genocide from 1932-1933. She has always been passionate about Ukrainian history, and her latest project is based around eyewitness interviews. Since the full-scale war she has been fundraising for Ukraine as well as assisting those who have arrived in Perth Western Australia since the war began. ---------- LINKS: https://serenitypress.org/authors/lesa-melnyczuk/ https://www.ukrainiansinperth.com/2019-dr-lesa-melnyczuk-holodomor https://www.amazon.com/Books-Lesa-Melnyczuk/s?rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_27%3ALesa+Melnyczuk https://www.uwa.edu.au/news/article/2022/december/new-scholarship-to-provide-an-opportunity-for-displaced-ukrainian-female-national-at-uwa https://www.waterstones.com/book/silent-memories-traumatic-lives/lesa-melnyczuk/9781459666733 https://ewjus.com/index.php/ewjus/article/view/679/342 https://store.museum.wa.gov.au/products/silent-memories-traumatic-lives ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- ARTICLES: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/non-fiction/best-books-ukraine-russia-2023/ https://granta.com/soundscape-of-war/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2022/12/08/ukrainian-lessons-at-the-train-station-ada-wordsworth/ https://www.theoldie.co.uk/article/language-lessons-in-ukraine-ada-wordsworth ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- WATCH NEXT: John Sipher https://youtu.be/h_0Wbn3T0XE David Satter https://youtu.be/Fi9ubrm1Yk8 Mark Galeotti https://youtu.be/KJl6C2WQ8cE Vlad Vexler https://youtu.be/1nRItDXm1LA ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

319. Ada Wordsworth - Review of the Best Books of 2023 to Understand Ukrainian Resilience to Aggression

1 januari 2024 | 71 min

Ada Wordsworth is a writer from London with a focus on Ukraine and other areas which have suffered under Russian imperialism, particularly Uzbekistan. She is also the co-founder and director of KHARPP, a UK registered charity which supports reconstruction efforts in eastern Ukraine, particularly the Kharkiv region. She holds an undergraduate degree from UCL in Russian Studies, and an MSt in Slavonic Studies, specialising in Ukrainian, from Oxford University. She has been published in Granta, the NYRB, the LRB Blog, and 1843 among other publications. ---------- KHARPP LINKS: https://kharpp.com/how-to-donate/ https://kharpp.com/ https://www.instagram.com/kharpproject/ https://kharpp.substack.com/ https://twitter.com/padochka ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- ARTICLES: https://granta.com/soundscape-of-war/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2022/12/08/ukrainian-lessons-at-the-train-station-ada-wordsworth/ https://www.theoldie.co.uk/article/language-lessons-in-ukraine-ada-wordsworth ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- WATCH NEXT: John Sipher https://youtu.be/h_0Wbn3T0XE David Satter https://youtu.be/Fi9ubrm1Yk8 Mark Galeotti https://youtu.be/KJl6C2WQ8cE Vlad Vexler https://youtu.be/1nRItDXm1LA ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

321. Dr Sasha Dovzhyk - "Imagine a World Without Ukraine." It's Horrific - Now we Must Support it to Win.

31 december 2023 | 68 min

Dr Sasha Dovzhyk is a London-based author from Zaporizhzhia and a special projects curator at the Ukrainian Institute London. She holds research affiliations with Goldsmiths and Birkbeck, University of London. Since February 2022, she has been dividing her time between London and Ukraine. Sasha has written on topics as diverse as the legacies of Chornobyl, transnational decadent aesthetics, and Ukrainian literature for various publications, including Los Angeles Review of Books, The Guardian, CNN, The Ecologist, openDemocracy. Sasha regularly gives public talks, interviews, and moderates events on the topics of Ukraine's fight against Russia's invasion and Ukrainian traditions of resistance. ---------- LINKS: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sasha-dovzhyk-3a907b25/ https://twitter.com/sasha_weirdsley https://www.sashadovzhyk.com/ https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/people/olexandra-dovzhyk https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/author/sasha-dovzhyk/ ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- ARTICLES: https://www.londonukrainianreview.org/ https://theecologist.org/profile/dr-sasha-dovzhyk https://www.theguardian.com/profile/sasha-dovzhyk https://lareviewofbooks.org/contributor/sasha-dovzhyk/ https://newlinesmag.com/writers/sasha-dovzhyk/ ---------- BOOKS: Ukraine Lab: Global Security, Environment, Disinformation Through the Prism of Ukraine (Ukrainian Voices, 39) Paperback – 4 Sept. 2023 by Sasha Dovzhyk (Editor), Rory Finnin (Foreword), Olesya Khromeychuk (Contributor), Sofia Cheliak (Contributor), & others. ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

320. Konstantin Samoilov - Egg Shortages and Food Queues - Will 2024 be a Tough Year for Russian Economy?

30 december 2023 | 64 min

318. Operator Starsky - Tackling Propaganda Narratives and the West's 2023 'Wobble' in Supporting Ukraine

30 december 2023 | 63 min

Silicon Bites - #30 - Planes, Warships and Communication Centres - Russia is Losing Badly to Ukraine

28 december 2023 | 43 min

Edition No30 | 27-12-2023 It is suspected that nearly 80 Russian sailors were aboard the Novocherkassk landing ship during the strike by Ukraine. The missile hit the bow of the ship, leading to a massive explosion and fire. British defense minister claims Ukraine has destroyed 20% of Russian Black Sea fleet in just 4 months. Loud explosions were heard in the port area of Feodosia in temporarily occupied Crimea in the early hours of Dec. 26. Air Force Commander Mykola Oleschuk reported a strike on the large landing ship Novocherkassk, expressing gratitude to Ukrainian pilots. The Ukrainian Air Force later confirmed that the attack was carried out with cruise missiles - most likely the Storm Shadow supplied by Great Britain. ~~~~~ SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ~~~~~ KYIV INDEPENDENT https://kyivindependent.com/christmas-comes-early-this-year-for-ukraine-as-cultural-distancing-from-russia-continues/ https://kyivindependent.com/zaluzhnyi-government-did-not-submit-request-for-mobilization-of-500-000-people/ https://kyivindependent.com/zelensky-russia-attacked-kherson-railway-station-evacuation-train-victim-number-unknown-yet/ https://kyivindependent.com/ukraines-effort-to-isolate-russias-economy-through-international-sponsors-of-war-list/ https://kyivindependent.com/investigation-italian-company-makes-sure-russian-war-machine-has-the-steel-it-needs/ https://kyivindependent.com/wsj-patrushev-ordered-prighozins-assassination/ THE MOSCOW TIMES https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/12/26/kremlin-confirms-russian-warship-hit-by-ukrainian-strike-a83568 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/12/23/ukraine-says-it-shot-down-3-russian-su-34-fighters-a83545 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/12/26/ukrainian-army-says-retreated-to-outskirts-of-town-claimed-by-moscow-a83574 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/12/13/seize-the-moment-seize-russian-assets-for-ukraine-a83349 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/12/26/russian-pop-stars-apologize-on-camera-after-naked-party-sparks-conservative-uproar-a83573 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/12/23/cures-for-the-morning-after-the-night-before-a83521 NOVAYA GAZETA EUROPE https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2023/12/20/bullish-zelensky-makes-confident-showing-at-end-of-year-press-conference-en-news https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2023/12/20/mother-russia-en ~~~~~ PARIS EVENT: https://easterncircles.com/ukrainefrontsofwar https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7138842136157806592/ USEFUL LINKS: Vatnik Soup https://twitter.com/P_Kallioniemi http://www.medbat.org.ua/en/ Real World News https://kyivindependent.com/ https://www.kyivpost.com/ https://english.nv.ua/ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/ https://meduza.io/en https://meduza.io/ https://novayagazeta.eu/ https://www.newsweek.com/topic/russia... Analysis https://www.ft.com/russia https://www.economist.com/ https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ https://cepa.org/ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/ https://www.theatlantic.com/search/?s... YouTube Channels / @timesradio1 / @khodorkovskyru / @popularpolitics / @macknack / @plushev / @tvrain / @fake_news / @feyginlive ~~~~~

315. Kateryna Gupalo - The Legal Case for Seizing Russia's Frozen Central Bank Assets to Help Ukraine Win

26 december 2023 | 51 min

317. Anna Danylchuk - Remember Ukraine at Christmas Holding back Ravaging Army of a Brutal Fascist Regime

25 december 2023 | 66 min

GUEST: Anna from Ukraine - Anna Danylchuk ---------- Anna Danylchuk has been creating a war diary since the early days of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia in 2022. Anna Danylchuk aims to tell the truth about Ukraine and Russia’s war and cut through the noise and propaganda. Anna is passionate about the beauty and independence of her country, and communicates this powerfully in her videos, in a clear and honest way. ---------- LINKS: https://www.youtube.com/@UCiVefOT4TGW3pOqW6AxmlBQ https://www.buymeacoffee.com/annafromukraine My interview with Anna in Lviv - hosted on her excellent channel- https://youtu.be/daHcnsNQ1S0?si=yHbZ2kJZ3CTVRd8Z ---------- OTHER VIDEOS WITH ANNA ON SILICON CURTAIN: https://youtu.be/x0o1bn-1Yyc https://youtu.be/Hm5_Yb3geQ4 https://youtu.be/x-gUSUG7N6E https://youtu.be/r0PNxM7Xyow https://youtu.be/5AenntkSxIs https://youtu.be/vPT6oZ1FOAw https://youtu.be/0gaK_5TEXXw ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

314. Christopher Forsbäck - Russia is not as Strong as we Fear - It's Time to Take the Gloves off to Win.

23 december 2023 | 60 min

316. Ben Hodges - Mobilising Industry to Support Ukraine and Defeat Russia is Imperative but far too Slow

22 december 2023 | 53 min

Ben Hodges is a retired United States Army officer, who became commander of United States Army Europe in November 2014, and held that position for three years until retiring from the United States Army in January 2018. He was most recently a Senior Advisor to Human Rights First, until summer 2023, and serves as NATO Senior Mentor for Logistics. Until recently was the Pershing Chair in Strategic Studies, at the Centre for European Policy Analysis, specialising in NATO, the Transatlantic relationship and international security. ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- LINKS: https://twitter.com/general_ben https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Hodges https://cepa.org/author/ben-hodges/ https://warsawsecurityforum.org/speaker/hodges-ben-lt-gen/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-hodges-1674b1172/ ---------- CHAPTERS: 00:01:25 Summary of the year - War in Ukraine hits 'Stalemate' 00:04:27 Ukrainian successes have been played down by the media 00:06:15 Symbolism of Storm Shadow attack on Black Sea Fleet HQ 00:09:04 Are we limiting Ukraine's ability to achieve military success? ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

313. Anton Tarasyuk - the Putin Regime Widely Exploiting Vulnerabilities of Global Social Media Platforms

22 december 2023 | 46 min

The Putin regime has been widely exploiting the vulnerabilities of global social media platforms, using bots and trolls to promote specific stories and narratives. But they are not alone once developed the same techniques can be used by other powers, international and local to subvert democratic institutions and to warp public perception of the news and politics in their countries. ---------- ABOUT Anton Tarasyuk is Co-Founder and Expertise Lead at Mantis Analytics. Mantis Analytics is an AI-driven real-time information field monitoring platform. It collects information from media, social networks, and other sources, analyses it, and provides insights into who communicates what and how. ---------- LINKS: https://www.linkedin.com/in/antontarasyuk/ https://mantisanalytics.com/ ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

312. Maksym Eristavi - The Russia Empire and it's Destructive Behaviour has no Place in the 21st Century.

20 december 2023 | 46 min

Russia is tearing itself away from modern civilization and its associated values, norms, and comforts. What demons have resurfaced from Russia’s past, and what is driving a form of sado-masochistic self-destruction and flagellation, that seems to be propelling Russia backwards in a painful civilisational decline. And where will this out-of-control Troika stop – possibly at an era that pre-dates Peter the Great’s efforts to punch a window onto Europe in the façade of Russia’s feudal-military despotism, established by the khans of the Mongol Horde. But what is the role of such a state in the modern world, and how to defend against it? ---------- Maksym Eristavi is the Russian colonialism storyteller-in-chief. An award-winning author of the book “Russian colonialism 101” and founder of Ukrainian Spaces. Maksym is a Ukrainian journalist and writer and champion of global awareness about the Russian colonial legacy. ---------- LINKS: https://twitter.com/maksymeristavi https://www.maksymeristavi.com/ https://istpublishing.org/en/russian-colonialism-101-maksym-eristavi ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- ABOUT: Maksym Eristavi is a Ukrainian journalist, writer, and author of “Russian Colonialism 101,” an illustrated guide to Russian colonial crimes. A self-described 'Russian colonialism storyteller in chief,' he champions global awareness about the Russian colonial legacy. This mission is personal: a mixed Ukrainian with Asian, Roma, and Georgian roots, several generations of his family suffered from genocides, assimilation, and identity erasure throughout centuries of Russian colonial rule. Eristavi has a two-decade journalism career behind his back that included championing mainstream English-language coverage of Eastern Europe by indigenous voices. He went from covering both Ukrainian pro-democratic revolutions, being the country’s youngest news anchor and newsroom manager to founding international operations at the leading news startup covering Eastern Europe, and becoming a contributor to leading global outlets, such as RFERL, BBC, CNN, Al-Jazeera, Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, Politico and the Washington Post. At the same time, Bild and The New York Times called his social media reporting an essential source on the region. He led pioneering English-language coverage of the Russian disinformation warfare, Russian colonialism, and human rights violations in Eastern Europe. His work and anti-colonial bridge-building made Eristavi a featured speaker at leading universities, many parliaments, and foreign ministries, including hearings at the US Congress and the European Parliament. ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

311. Jake Broe - Russian Aggression seems Relentless - will Putin ever Stop Attacking Until he's Stopped?

18 december 2023 | 66 min

Today I’m speaking with Jake Broe, a United States Air Force veteran who served for six years as a Nuclear and Missile Operations Officer. But you may know him better as one of the most prominent voices on YouTube throughout the war, someone with absolute moral clarity about who the victim of the war is – spoilers, it’s Ukraine – and who brings direct military experience to his detailed analysis of the unfolding conflict. Do please subscribe to his channel for videos updates on the war in Ukraine as well as conversations with engaging speakers, expert guests, and other YouTubers. ---------- LINKS: www.youtube.com/@ZacktheRussian Instagram - instagram.com/zacktherussian PayPalpay - pal.me/zackdarussian?country.x=GE&locale.x=en_US Patreon - patreon.com/zacktherussian ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

310. Zack the Russian - Protesting the War Forced Zach to Flee Russia Firstly to Tbilisi, Georgia then US

18 december 2023 | 74 min

Zack The Russian, aged 22 and from Siberia, was forced to flee his homeland after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. He started creating YouTube content while in Russia, to introduce Russian culture and life to his audience. As a student in Moscow, he participated in protests against the invasion of Ukraine, risking arrest and conscription into the war. In March 2022, he left Russia for the Republic of Georgia, where he lived in Tbilisi for a year. He is now studying in the US, and works as a You Tube content creator and is a strong voice protesting the war through his channel. He advocates for Ukrainian independence, and gives voice to fellow Russians who are calling for a democratic and peaceful Russia. He offers information on how the war affects Russians and hopes, through YouTube to further peace and understanding. ---------- LINKS: www.youtube.com/@ZacktheRussian Instagram - instagram.com/zacktherussian PayPalpay - pal.me/zackdarussian?country.x=GE&locale.x=en_US Patreon - patreon.com/zacktherussian ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

309. Lesia Dubenko - Kremlin Puppet Orban Asked to Leave Room to Allow Ukraine EU Accession Vote to Pass.

16 december 2023 | 52 min

Silicon Bites - #29 - As Putin Crowned Eternal Tsar he has Restated the Ambition to Conquer Ukraine.

15 december 2023 | 52 min

Edition No29 | 14-12-2023 The certainty of Putin’s re-election calls into question for many the very terminology of ‘elections’ – of ‘competition’, ‘running’ and ‘winning’. The Kremlin has made the playing field unlevel in so many ways over so many years that the language of a presidential ‘coronation’ might be more appropriate. Indeed, Dmitry Peskov – Putin’s press secretary – admitted to the New York Times that the ‘presidential election is not really democracy, it is costly bureaucracy’, with Putin to be ‘re-elected next year with more than 90 per cent of the vote’. Russian society has, according to Peskov, consolidated itself so firmly around Putin that the outcome is beyond doubt, making the election itself theoretically obsolete, even though it will go ahead. But we should still pay attention to the election, regardless of its certain outcome. ~~~~~ SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ~~~~~ PARIS EVENT: https://easterncircles.com/ukrainefrontsofwar https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7138842136157806592/ RUSSIAN MEDIA MONITOR https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEDMbF-F4lo https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews http://www.russialies.com/ ARTICLES: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/12/7/russia-to-hold-presidential-election-in-march-2024 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/08/vladimir-putin-to-run-for-russian-president-again-in-march-2024 https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2023/12/13/deaths-candidate-for-president-en THE MOSCOW TIMES https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/12/11/navalny-missing-for-6-days-after-serious-health-related-incident-team-says-a83376 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/12/14/russias-election-gives-ukraine-an-opportunity-to-rebuild-forces-a83426 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/12/14/putins-end-of-year-press-conference-a83418 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/12/14/why-is-your-reality-different-from-ours-viewers-challenge-putin-at-press-conference-a83425 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/12/08/russias-environmental-activists-targeted-with-soviet-style-punitive-psychiatry-a83239 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/12/13/seize-the-moment-seize-russian-assets-for-ukraine-a83349 KYIV INDEPENDENT https://kyivindependent.com/putin-peace-comes-only-when-russia-achieves-its-goals/ https://kyivindependent.com/update-53-injured-in-russian-attack-on-kyiv/ https://kyivindependent.com/massive-hacker-attack-reported-on-ukrainian-bank-monobank/ https://kyivindependent.com/tusks-return-pledges-stability-in-ukraine-ties-as-economic-challenges-persist/ https://kyivindependent.com/general-staff-russia-has-lost-342-800-troops-in-ukraine/ https://kyivindependent.com/eu-determined-to-pass-aid-package/ https://kyivindependent.com/media-austria-posing-obstacle-to-eus-12th-sanctions-package-against-russia/ https://kyivindependent.com/zelensky-trip-to-dc-ends-in-disappointment-as-further-aid-remains-at-risk/ ~~~~~ USEFUL LINKS: Vatnik Soup https://twitter.com/P_Kallioniemi http://www.medbat.org.ua/en/ Real World News https://kyivindependent.com/ https://www.kyivpost.com/ https://english.nv.ua/ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/ https://meduza.io/en https://meduza.io/ https://novayagazeta.eu/ https://www.newsweek.com/topic/russia... Analysis https://www.ft.com/russia https://www.economist.com/ https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ https://cepa.org/ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/ https://www.theatlantic.com/search/?s... YouTube Channels / @timesradio1 / @khodorkovskyru / @popularpolitics / @macknack / @plushev / @tvrain / @fake_news / @feyginlive ~~~~~

308. Mykola Kuleba - Returning Children from Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine and from Russia.

13 december 2023 | 50 min

Mykola Kuleba is the founder of Save Ukraine an organisation helping to save families and children from the war and was the Ombudsman for Children for the President of Ukraine (2014-2021). Mykola has been supporting the rights of children since 2000, as a founder of the International Charitable Organization «Child Rescue» he created a network of specialized centres for the rehabilitation of children in difficult circumstances, street children and those without care and support. He has played a key role in reforming the Children's Rights Protection System, Education, Health, Social Protection and Social Services systems, and promoted institution change for childcare in Ukraine. ---------- LINKS: https://www.saveukraineua.org/ https://twitter.com/SaveukraineUs https://twitter.com/MykolaKuleba ---------- ARTICLES: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ukrainian-grandmother-rescues-grandson-in-russian-occupied-territory-60-minutes/ https://www.magnitskyawards.com/about/the-magnitsky-awards/ https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2023/09/18/kiev-perd-peu-a-peu-la-trace-des-enfants-ukrainiens-deportes-en-russie_6189828_3210.html#xtor=AL-32280270-%5Bdefault%5D-%5Bandroid%5D https://www.economist.com/1843/2023/09/11/russia-has-taken-thousands-of-ukrainian-kids-some-dont-want-to-go-home ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

307. Olena Halushka - Liquidating $300bn in Frozen Russian Assets could Provide Crucial Funds for Ukraine

12 december 2023 | 48 min

Liquidating $300bn in frozen Russian assets, could provide more funds for Ukraine. Western allies are running short of cash, but they could help release billions and hurt Putin’s war effort at the same time. Confiscation would also be a lawful act of self-defence. Article 51 of the UN charter recognises the right of individual or collective self-defence if an armed attack occurs against a UN member. Russia’s aggression has an obvious economic impact on Ukraine via attacks on such things as energy, exports, civil infrastructure and economic facilities. In 2022, Ukraine’s GDP decreased by 29.1%. In order to continue defending itself, Ukraine should be able to access frozen Russian assets to correct this imbalance caused by the Russian invasion. Guardian article: https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2023/dec/11/ukraine-russia-300bn-frozen-assets-west-cash-putin-war ---------- ABOUT: Olena Halushka is a is a board member of the Ukrainian NGO “Anti-corruption Action Centre”, and co-founder of the International Centre for Ukrainian Victory. She has also worked as a chief of international advocacy at the post-Maidan coalition of 80 CSOs “Reanimation Package of Reforms”. Olena is a contributor to the Atlantic Council, Kyiv Independent. She has also written op-eds for the Washington Post, the Foreign Policy, and the EU Observer – but it’s a major article she wrote for the UK’s Guardian newspaper that we’ll be discussing today. ---------- LINKS: https://twitter.com/OlenaHalushka https://twitter.com/AntAC_ua https://twitter.com/ICUVua https://www.linkedin.com/in/olena-halushka-b7342259/?originalSubdomain=ua https://ukrainianvictory.org/experts/olena-halushka/ https://www.fpri.org/contributor/olena-halushka/ https://cepa.org/author/olena-halushka/ https://archive.kyivpost.com/author/olena-halushka https://foreignpolicy.com/author/olena-halushka/ ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Silicon Bites - #28 - The Blockade of Ukrainian Trucks is Immoral and Likely Coordinated from Moscow

10 december 2023 | 30 min

Silicon Bites - #27 - Authoritarian Franchise Opens in Serbia - is Russia the McDonald's of Tyranny?

10 december 2023 | 27 min

Edition No27 | 08-12-2023 A branch of the pro-Russian organization "Other Ukraine," founded by the exiled Ukrainian oligarch Viktor Medvedchuk, was registered in Serbia. Medvedchuk, who was long thought to be Russian dictator Putin’s right-hand man in Ukraine, was charged with high treason and placed under house arrest in 2021, only to flee as Russia launched its full-scale invasion. He was subsequently re-arrested in April 2022. In September, he was handed over to Russia as part of a prisoner exchange. The Serbian branch of the organization is headed by Dragan Stanojevic, a Serbian politician and public figure known for his pro-Russian, anti-Ukrainian views. Stanojevic was sanctioned by Ukraine in 2021 and banned from entering the country. ~~~~~ SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ~~~~~ Kyiv Independent https://kyivindependent.com/us-domestic-politics-threaten-to-overwhelm-support-for-ukraine/ https://kyivindependent.com/rfe-rl-medvedchuks-pro-russian-movement-opens-branch-in-serbia/ https://kyivindependent.com/as-sanctions-bite-russia-eyes-ukraines-mineral-resources-to-fund-its-invasion/ https://kyivindependent.com/im-afraid-well-never-find-them-russia-holding-thousands-of-ukrainian-civilians-hostage/ The Moscow Times https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/12/07/uk-accuses-moscow-of-cyber-campaign-against-top-politicians-a83353 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/12/07/russia-sets-presidential-election-for-march-17-a83342 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/12/07/new-aid-pledges-to-ukraine-at-lowest-level-since-war-began-study-a83347 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/12/07/families-ask-putin-to-return-mobilized-troops-from-ukraine-a83350 The Economist https://www.economist.com/europe/2023/11/23/russia-is-starting-to-make-its-superiority-in-electronic-warfare-count https://www.economist.com/briefing/2023/11/30/how-putin-is-reshaping-russia-to-keep-his-war-machine-running https://www.economist.com/europe/2023/12/04/grief-camps-help-ukrainian-children-face-the-loss-of-parents ~~~~~ USEFUL LINKS: Vatnik Soup https://twitter.com/P_Kallioniemi http://www.medbat.org.ua/en/ Real World News https://kyivindependent.com/ https://www.kyivpost.com/ https://english.nv.ua/ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/ https://meduza.io/en https://meduza.io/ https://novayagazeta.eu/ https://www.newsweek.com/topic/russia... Analysis https://www.ft.com/russia https://www.economist.com/ https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ https://cepa.org/ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/ https://www.theatlantic.com/search/?s... YouTube Channels / @timesradio1 / @khodorkovskyru / @popularpolitics / @macknack / @plushev / @tvrain / @fake_news / @feyginlive ~~~~~

306. Francis Farrell - Zaluzhnyi Wasn't Given the Weapons Needed to Break Through and now Faces Stalemate

9 december 2023 | 44 min

Francis Farrell is a journalist and photographer, as well as a reporter at the Kyiv Independent. He is a recent international studies graduate and Russia & Eurasia area specialist with interest and experience in areas of elections, media freedom, regional and hybrid conflicts. He is a native English and Hungarian speaker with fluent Russian and Ukrainian languages. Ukraine could still lose the war. Let’s get some things straight. https://kyivindependent.com/francis-farrell-failing-to-empower-ukraines-victory-the-west-makes-possible-its-defeat/ November 28, 2023 – Francis Farrell – Reporter. https://kyivindependent.com/membership/ ---------- DETAILS: 1. Zaluzhnyi is right. The front line across Ukraine has become static, and taking territory is becoming harder and harder for both sides. 2. The main reason Ukraine finds itself in this position is because it wasn't given the weapons it needed to change the game before the war settled into this positional tussle. 3. While it remains taboo to admit, it’s now nearly impossible to deny that the West, in particular Washington, does not want a complete Ukrainian victory. 4. The West’s unwillingness to empower a Ukrainian victory is no clearer than in the issue of providing long-range missiles. 5. Ukraine’s war effort depends most of all on Washington, where bipartisan support for Ukraine is openly faltering in Congress, and a presidential election could bring it all down. 6. Even if Western military support continues to trickle in, Ukraine cannot fight a war at this intensity on its own forever. 7. The high cost of war on both sides means eventual peace negotiations are not unthinkable, but discussions about them usually get everything wrong. 8. Russia’s mission to destroy independent Ukraine hasn’t changed. Moscow has little left to lose, and its strategy of tiring out the West is slowly working. 9. To end the war with an independent Ukraine, the West must provide honest answers to two questions. Note from the author: Hi, this is Francis Farrell, thank you for hearing me out in what might have not been the happiest of reads. Trust me, it wasn't fun to write either. But as I have said before a few times, keeping in touch with reality is one of the most important parts about keeping one's head above water in these times, as an individual or as a country. However dark that reality might get, it won't stop us from working. Please consider supporting our reporting. https://kyivindependent.com/membership/ ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

305. Anders Puck Nielsen - If Russia's War Ambitions Haven't Changed are Peace Talks or Deals Meaningless

4 december 2023 | 55 min

GUEST: Anders Puck Nielsen - YouTuber and military analyst. ---------- At the beginning of November, Zaluzhnyi suggested in an interview with the Economist that Ukraine’s summer counter-offensive was stalling. “Just like in the first world war we have reached the level of technology that puts us into a stalemate,” he said, prompting a debate about whether the statement was correct. Timothy Snyder, a Yale professor, responded by arguing that war is not a game of chess, and that the quantity of resources or weaponry available to each side is not limited, as it is in a game. The west can help Kyiv by “dropping five more queens on the board” (at any time), he said – military aid that could allow Ukraine to break the deadlocked, as happened in Kherson and Kharkiv in 2022. ---------- SPEAKER: Today I’m speaking with Anders Puck Nielsen, military analyst and influential YouTuber based in Denmark. He specialises in naval warfare and strategy; in today’s video we are going to be talking about Ukrainian successes against Russia’s Black Sea fleet and state of the ground war in Ukraine. #communism #anderspucknielsen #ukraine #ukrainewar #russia #zelensky #putin #propaganda #war #disinformation #hybridwarfare #foreignpolicy #communism #sovietunion #postsoviet ----------
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298. Ielyzaveta Kozlenko - Unify, Connect & Collaborate to Defeat the Huge Threat that Russia Represents.

3 december 2023 | 45 min

Silicon Bites - #26 - Beware the Trap of an Illusory Peace that may Disadvantage Ukrainian Statehood

3 december 2023 | 32 min

Edition No26 | 02-12-2023 As the clamour for peace at any price escalates, we need to ask in whose interests would this be? Who is pushing for peace, and is the Kremlin a credible negotiator for a potential peace deal? ~~~~~ SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ~~~~~ The Economist https://www.economist.com/europe/2023/11/27/ukraines-new-enemy-war-fatigue-in-the-west https://www.economist.com/leaders/2023/11/30/putin-seems-to-be-winning-the-war-in-ukraine-for-now https://www.economist.com/briefing/2023/11/30/how-putin-is-reshaping-russia-to-keep-his-war-machine-running https://www.economist.com/europe/2023/11/28/russia-is-poised-to-take-advantage-of-political-splits-in-ukraine Kyiv Independent https://kyivindependent.com/border-guard-russian-sabotage-groups-activity-rising-in-kharkiv-oblast/ https://kyivindependent.com/francis-farrell-failing-to-empower-ukraines-victory-the-west-makes-possible-its-defeat/ https://kyivindependent.com/ukraines-victory-will-send-a-message-to-all-dictatorships-umerovs-speech-at-ramstein/ https://kyivindependent.com/olenivka-pow-camp-where-ukrainians-were-tortured-was-likely-supervised-by-a-high-ranking-official-from-moscow/ https://kyivindependent.com/stoltenberg-european-nato-allies-canada-provide-half-of-military-support-for-ukraine/ https://kyivindependent.com/russias-supreme-court-declares-lgbt-movement-an-extremist-organization/ https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-war-latest-november-28/ https://kyivindependent.com/media-more-than-25-russian-marines-allegedly-killed-by-ukrainian-strike-on-awards-ceremony/ The Moscow Times https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/11/30/dont-jump-to-conclusions-about-chechen-succession-a83138 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/11/30/russian-lawmakers-to-consider-nationwide-ban-on-abortions-in-private-clinics-a83269 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/11/30/putin-russian-officials-react-to-henry-kissingers-death-a83261 Novaya Gazeta https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2023/11/30/ukrainian-media-says-train-fire-in-russias-longest-tunnel-was-special-operation-en-news https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2023/12/01/ukrainian-political-parties-unanimously-agree-to-postpone-elections-until-war-ends-en-news https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2023/11/28/russian-soldiers-increasingly-using-bribery-to-avoid-combat-or-to-be-discharged-after-injury-en-news https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2023/12/01/russian-lgbt-groups-begin-process-of-dissolution-in-wake-of-supreme-courts-extremist-ruling-en-news https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2023/11/18/matters-of-state-en Atlantic Council https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/putin-debunks-his-own-propaganda-by-disarming-russias-nato-borders/ ~~~~~ USEFUL LINKS: Vatnik Soup https://twitter.com/P_Kallioniemi http://www.medbat.org.ua/en/ Real World News https://kyivindependent.com/ https://www.kyivpost.com/ https://english.nv.ua/ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/ https://meduza.io/en https://meduza.io/ https://novayagazeta.eu/ https://www.newsweek.com/topic/russia... Analysis https://www.ft.com/russia https://www.economist.com/ https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ https://cepa.org/ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/ https://www.theatlantic.com/search/?s... YouTube Channels / @timesradio1 / @khodorkovskyru / @popularpolitics / @macknack / @plushev / @tvrain / @fake_news / @feyginlive ~~~~~

304. Pekka Kallioniemi - Firehose of Kremlin Lies, Manipulations and Weaponised Conspiracies Never Stops.

30 november 2023 | 44 min

Vatnik soup is a Twitter thread series where Pekka Kallioniemi introduces pro-Russian actors and propagandists from around the world. This includes so-called “independent journalists”, politicians, military personnel and of course just regular grifters looking to make money. The series has introductions and deeper insights on how online propaganda and disinformation works and is spread. There are now 200 Vatnik soups, which introduce bad actors along with the strategies they employ to pollute the information space. As Pekka states: the first victim of war is the truth, and Russia considered itself at war with the US, and its perceived vassals, the collective West, EU, and NATO. ---------- Pekka Kallioniemi has a PhD in interactive technology and is an expert on social media platforms, algorithms, and disinformation. He is a #NAFO activist, and runs a series on Kremlin assets, agents, and oligarchs, called vatnik soup. ---------- LINKS: https://vatniksoup.com/ https://twitter.com/P_Kallioniemi ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

300. Anna Danylchuk - Immediately after 'Euromaidan' Putin began Gathering Forces for Invasion of Ukraine

29 november 2023 | 55 min

GUEST: Anna from Ukraine - Anna Danylchuk ---------- Anna Danylchuk has been creating a war diary since the early days of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia in 2022. Anna Danylchuk aims to tell the truth about Ukraine and Russia’s war and cut through the noise and propaganda. Anna is passionate about the beauty and independence of her country, and communicates this powerfully in her videos, in a clear and honest way. ---------- LINKS: https://www.youtube.com/@UCiVefOT4TGW3pOqW6AxmlBQ https://www.buymeacoffee.com/annafromukraine My interview with Anna in Lviv - hosted on her excellent channel- https://youtu.be/daHcnsNQ1S0?si=yHbZ2kJZ3CTVRd8Z ---------- OTHER VIDEOS WITH ANNA ON SILICON CURTAIN: https://youtu.be/x0o1bn-1Yyc https://youtu.be/Hm5_Yb3geQ4 https://youtu.be/x-gUSUG7N6E https://youtu.be/r0PNxM7Xyow https://youtu.be/5AenntkSxIs https://youtu.be/vPT6oZ1FOAw ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

303. Paul Hansbury - A Brutal Crackdown After Mass Protests Erupted in Belarus in 2020 Shocked the World.

29 november 2023 | 51 min

In 2020, mass anti-government protests erupted across Belarus. The brutal crackdown that followed shocked the international community: the authorities arrested tens of thousands of citizens, shut down independent media and NGOs, and fomented a migrant crisis on the European Union's border. But where many thought Belarus's dictator, Alyaksandr Lukashenka, would fall, he instead turned to Moscow for support, intensifying repression. Many of his opponents fled the country. Then, in February 2022, Belarus provided a staging area for Russia's invasion of Ukraine, allowing troops and missile systems to be based on its territory as large-scale war returned to Eastern Europe once again. ---------- ABOUT: Paul Hansbury is the author of "Belarus in Crisis: From Domestic Unrest to the Russia-Ukraine War". He works with a number of Belarusian organisations, including Sense Analytics, a political consultancy. He also teaches International Relations. Paul was educated at Birkbeck, University of London and St Antony's College, University of Oxford. ---------- LINKS: https://www.paulhansbury.com/blog https://twitter.com/paulhansbury1 https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-hansbury/ https://www.hurstpublishers.com/profile/paul-hansbury/ ---------- ARTICLES: https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/belarus-in-crisis-paul-hansbury-book-review-amy-knight/ https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/author/paul-hansbury/ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/06/07/author-paul-hansbury-puts-belarus-back-on-the-map-a81382 ---------- BOOKS: Belarus in Crisis: From Domestic Unrest to the Russia-Ukraine War (Hurst Publishers, April 2023) https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/belarus-in-crisis/ https://www.amazon.co.uk/Belarus-Crisis-Domestic-Unrest-Russia-Ukraine/dp/1787389383 ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

302. Konstantin Samoilov - Will Russian Economy Buckle & Break Before Western Resolve to Support Ukraine?

27 november 2023 | 62 min

Welcome to our monthly conversation with Konstantin, who is one of the most respected voices on YouTube about what is happening Inside Russia. Konstantin Samoilov is a well-known YouTuber whose channel ‘Inside Russia’ comments insightfully on Russia’s decent into authoritarianism over the last few years. But now, like many others, he’s outside Russia, with no idea of when he can return there. ---------- LINKS: https://www.youtube.com/@INSIDERUSSIA ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- THEMES: - General overview of the economy. - How Elvira Nabiullina and the Russian Central Bank deal with economic challenges. - Credit and bankruptcy for ordinary citizens (the halving of month income in real terms). - Drop in car production – what other outputs suffering? - The devastating effect of sanctions – but holes, major gaps and loopholes remain. - Oil export volumes and revenues rebound. Grey fleet of tankers / sanctions breakers. - Western companies breaking components embargo and trading in Russia. - War economy – is there no turning back? Too many benefit from a 'forever war'. - Cars, planes, computers, and drills – when will infrastructure start to buckle & break? - Schrodinger dictator – doubles and intrigues. Patrushev’s growing role. - The antisemitic mob that stormed Makhachkala Airport in Dagestan. ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

299. Richard Woodruff - A 'British Cossack' Volunteering in Ukraine Since June 2022 for Front Line Kit.

26 november 2023 | 48 min

301. Col. Vladimir Popov - The Cheka and Successors Fought a Bitter Struggle to Control the Russian State

26 november 2023 | 40 min

The history of Russia after 1917 is traditionally written as the rise of the Communist Party, and its entrenchment in power throughout the 20th century. But is this missing a key piece of the equation? Yuri Felshtinsky and Vladimir Popov have written a stunning book, that benefits from the trove of new historical sources available from inside the Russian secret services. It retells the familiar story from an entirely new angle – starting with the pivotal role of Felix Dzerzhinsky, the leader of the Communist Secret Service, the Cheka. It then traces the intense and bitter struggles of the Cheka to wrest state control from the Communist party. With the presidency of Vladimir Putin in 1999, Dzerzhinsky’s ultimate goal finally came to fruition. It explains why modern Russia, a state without ideology, is the world’s only mafia-state programmed to forever extort, pillage and loot it’s people and the world. ---------- ABOUT: Colonel Vladimir Popov was a high-ranking officer in the secret Fifth Directorate of the KGB, where he worked from 1972-1991 and kept copies of case files in his personal archives. He left the KGB a month after the August 1991 coup against USSR leader Mikhail Gorbachev and emigrated to Canada. ---------- LINKS: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Red-Terror-Mafia-State-Intelligence/dp/1783342501/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3AZ4FJFR61BZ1&keywords=popov&qid=1699637170&sprefix=popov%2Caps%2C148&sr=8-1 ---------- BOOKS: From Red Terror to Terrorist State: Russia’s Secret Intelligence Services and Their Fight for World Domination from Felix Dzerzhinsky to Vladimir Putin Hardcover – 4 Nov. 2023 by Yuri Felshtinsky (Author), Vladimir Popov (Author) Publisher: Gibson House ----- WATCH NEXT: Denis Zakharov https://youtu.be/HCVPAJrAoyI Vlad Vexler https://youtu.be/RDQ92lLLwyM Konstantin Samoilov https://youtu.be/gbINoWwiq-Y Boris Bondarev https://youtu.be/-fP-vggvDXo Konstantin von Eggert MBE (Hon) https://youtu.be/Rj6pTGVlG1E ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

297. Hans Petter Midttun - Is Western War Fatigue an Overhyped Idea to Cover up for Inaction & Indecision

25 november 2023 | 47 min

296. Yuri Felshtinsky - Russia Went from Red Terror to a Terrorist State led by the Intelligence Services

24 november 2023 | 71 min

INTRO: The history of Russia after 1917 is traditionally written as the rise of the Communist Party, and its entrenchment in power throughout the 20th century. But is this missing a key piece of the equation? Yuri Felshtinsky and Vladimir Popov have written a stunning book, that benefits from the trove of new historical sources available from inside the Russian secret services. It retells the familiar story from an entirely new angle – starting with the pivotal role of Felix Dzerzhinsky, the leader of the Communist Secret Service, the Cheka. It then traces the intense and bitter struggles of the Cheka to wrest state control from the Communist party. With the presidency of Vladimir Putin in 1999, Dzerzhinsky’s ultimate goal finally came to fruition. It explains why modern Russia, a state without ideology, is the world’s only mafia-state programmed to forever extort, pillage and loot it’s people and the world. ---------- ABOUT: Dr Yuri Felshtinsky is a prominent author, historian, and journalist, and expert on Russia and the former Soviet Union. He has appeared in print, TV, and radio interviews worldwide, and is widely known as co-author of the book “Blowing Up Russia” with Alexander Litvinenko, a former Lieutenant Colonel in the FSB who was poisoned with radioactive polonium in London in 2006. ---------- LINKS: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Red-Terror-Mafia-State-Intelligence/dp/1783342501/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3AZ4FJFR61BZ1&keywords=popov&qid=1699637170&sprefix=popov%2Caps%2C148&sr=8-1 ---------- BOOKS: From Red Terror to Terrorist State: Russia’s Secret Intelligence Services and Their Fight for World Domination from Felix Dzerzhinsky to Vladimir Putin Hardcover – 4 Nov. 2023 by Yuri Felshtinsky (Author), Vladimir Popov (Author) Publisher: Gibson House ----- WATCH NEXT: Denis Zakharov https://youtu.be/HCVPAJrAoyI Vlad Vexler https://youtu.be/RDQ92lLLwyM Konstantin Samoilov https://youtu.be/gbINoWwiq-Y Boris Bondarev https://youtu.be/-fP-vggvDXo Konstantin von Eggert MBE (Hon) https://youtu.be/Rj6pTGVlG1E ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Silicon Bites - #25 - Weaponising Food and Energy to Destroy the Ukrainian Nation, Identity and Will

23 november 2023 | 39 min

Edition No25 | 23-11-2023 As winter comes hard upon Ukraine, Russia is again weaponising energy as an instrument of war. Targeting civilian electricity and heating infrastructure is still a war crime, but that does not stop Russia. At the same time, evidence is emerging that Russia planned already in 2021 to use theft of grain as an instrument of war - weaponising starvation to overcome Ukrainian resistance. ~~~~~ SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ~~~~~ The Moscow Times https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/11/20/russian-theft-of-ukrainian-grain-likely-a-war-crime-legal-analysis-says-a83147 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/11/20/anti-mobilization-protests-by-russian-soldiers-wives-and-mothers-quashed-a83159 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/11/22/russian-actress-killed-while-performing-in-occupied-donetsk-a83177 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/11/21/russian-satanist-jailed-for-ritual-murders-released-after-fighting-in-ukraine-a83172 Kyiv Independent https://kyivindependent.com/zelensky-marks-holiday-day-of-dignity-and-freedom-commemorating-euromaidan-revolution/ https://kyivindependent.com/how-ukrainian-identity-evolved-since-euromaidan/ https://kyivindependent.com/military-russia-dramatically-increasing-assaults-airstrikes-in-southern-front/ https://kyivindependent.com/border-guard-slovakia-temporarily-unblocks-checkpoint-at-slovakia-ukraine-border/ https://kyivindependent.com/despite-strong-russian-influence-bulgaria-to-provide-ukraine-with-arms/ https://kyivindependent.com/switzerland-approves-export-of-leopard-2-tanks-under-condition-they-are-not-sent-to-ukraine/ https://kyivindependent.com/harvard-historian-serhii-plokhy-the-better-we-prepare-for-the-long-war-the-sooner-it-will-end/ Other sources: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-attacks-ukrainian-energy-system-60-times-ahead-winter-kyiv-2023-11-08/ https://euromaidanpress.com/2023/11/16/the-independent-russia-planned-to-starve-ukrainian-population-before-the-2022-invasion-evidence-finds/ https://texty.org.ua/projects/111159/#communism ~~~~~ USEFUL LINKS: Vatnik Soup https://twitter.com/P_Kallioniemi http://www.medbat.org.ua/en/ Real World News https://kyivindependent.com/ https://www.kyivpost.com/ https://english.nv.ua/ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/ https://meduza.io/en https://meduza.io/ https://novayagazeta.eu/ https://www.newsweek.com/topic/russia... Analysis https://www.ft.com/russia https://www.economist.com/ https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ https://cepa.org/ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/ https://www.theatlantic.com/search/?s... YouTube Channels / @timesradio1 / @khodorkovskyru / @popularpolitics / @macknack / @plushev / @tvrain / @fake_news / @feyginlive ~~~~~

295. John Sweeney - Putin has been Getting away with Murder for Two Decades Enabled by Western Countries.

22 november 2023 | 54 min

GUEST: John Sweeney - investigative journalist and writer. Orange hat advocate. ---------- SPEAKER: John Sweeney is a British investigative journalist and writer. He worked for The Observer newspaper, and the BBC's Panorama and Newsnight series. Sweeney ceased working for the BBC in October 2019, and is now reporting on the war in Ukraine, as well as creating a Daily war diary. Which I strongly advise you to watch if you’ve not seen it. He’s also been working on a film, documenting the most brutal parts of the conflict – ‘The Eastern Front’, which is released in June this year. ---------- LINKS: https://www.johnsweeney.co.uk/ https://twitter.com/johnsweeneyroar https://inews.co.uk/opinion/john-sweeney-vladimir-putin-chance-1972364 https://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/books/1736357/john-sweeney-ukraine-war-vladimir-putin https://pressgazette.co.uk/comment-analysis/john-sweeney-ukraine-front-line/ ----- BOOKS: Killer in the Kremlin Putin's Prisoner: My Time as a Prisoner of War in Ukraine Taking on Putin with John Sweeney The Useful Idiot The Church of Fear: Inside the Weird World of Scientology Hunting Ghislaine ---------- #johnsweeney #bbc #oligarchs #bungabunga #genocide #warcrimes #ukraine #ukrainewar #russia #zelensky #putin #propaganda #war #disinformation #hybridwarfare #foreignpolicy #communism #sovietunion #postsoviet ---------- WATCH NEXT: Fiona Hill https://youtu.be/maBUKuJmQ4M Jade McGlynn https://youtu.be/uc_ak2c4XX0 Peter Pomerantsev https://youtu.be/bIFrJXly9QY Edward Lucas https://youtu.be/Qcfyu_dwHEo Owen Matthews https://youtu.be/1XbmVAaseGM ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

294. Shaun Pinner - Captured by Russians After Fighting in Mariupol, he was Tormented, Beaten and Starved

20 november 2023 | 84 min

292. Bohdana Neborak - Ukrainians Remain Creative and Defiant Refusing to be Defined by War or Victimhood

19 november 2023 | 53 min

293. Julia Tymoshenko - Ukraine has been Transformed into the Most Active Volunteer Society in the World.

19 november 2023 | 64 min

Silicon Bites #24 - Cynical Kremlin Elite Seeks to Avoid 'Afghan Syndrome' and Revolt on Home Front.

18 november 2023 | 41 min

Edition No24 | 18-11-2023 In order to avoid criticism of its handling of the war, the Kremlin tries to prevent conscripts from ever returning to Russia. Only martyrs required - No Russians get out of this war alive. ~~~~~ SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ~~~~~ WARNING - Graphic and distressing content https://twitter.com/JayinKyiv/status/1725220710220521767 https://twitter.com/JayinKyiv/status/1724546144712184275 https://twitter.com/JayinKyiv/status/1724463635949408359 The Kyiv Independent https://kyivindependent.com/general-staff-russia-has-lost-316-760-troops-in-ukraine/ https://kyivindependent.com/ukrainians-step-up-efforts-to-cross-dnipro-tie-up-russian-forces-in-kherson/ https://kyivindependent.com/none-of-it-made-any-sense-understanding-russias-disastrous-offensive-on-avdiivka/ https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-war-latest-russia-admits-ukrainian-troops-operate-on-dnipro-rivers-occupied-east-bank/ https://kyivindependent.com/zelensky-artillery-munition-deliveries-to-ukraine-have-decreased-since-israel-hamas-war/ https://kyivindependent.com/biden-signs-temporary-spending-bill-without-aid-for-ukraine-israel/ https://kyivindependent.com/we-cant-allow-putin-to-prevail-says-speaker-johnson-after-being-elected-but-his-track-record-says-opposite/ https://kyivindependent.com/bbc-20-000-ukrainian-men-have-illegally-crossed-border-since-february-2022/ https://kyivindependent.com/video/?slug=explaining-polish-trucker-protests-at-ukrainian-border https://kyivindependent.com/zelensky-kremlin-planning-campaign-to-destabilize-ukraine-potential-coup/ https://kyivindependent.com/putins-liberal-team-economic-geniuses-or-accomplices-in-aggression/ The Moscow Times https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/11/16/what-does-the-conflict-in-the-middle-east-mean-for-ukraine-a83134 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/11/17/is-russia-heading-toward-an-abortion-ban-a83144 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/11/16/i-just-wanted-to-stop-the-war-russian-artist-sentenced-to-7-years-for-price-tag-protest-a83019 ~~~~~ USEFUL LINKS: Vatnik Soup https://twitter.com/P_Kallioniemi http://www.medbat.org.ua/en/ Real World News https://kyivindependent.com/ https://www.kyivpost.com/ https://english.nv.ua/ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/ https://meduza.io/en https://meduza.io/ https://novayagazeta.eu/ https://www.newsweek.com/topic/russia... Analysis https://www.ft.com/russia https://www.economist.com/ https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ https://cepa.org/ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/ https://www.theatlantic.com/search/?s... YouTube Channels / @timesradio1 / @khodorkovskyru / @popularpolitics / @macknack / @plushev / @tvrain / @fake_news / @feyginlive ~~~~~

291. Dr Stephen Hall - What are the Preconditions for Renewing Dialogue with Moscow and Lifting Sanctions

17 november 2023 | 60 min

INTRO: There are many scenarios of what a post-Putin Russia would look like, especially following a substantial defeat in Ukraine. The obvious one, is to assume that a humiliated Russia would blame the West for its defeat and seek revenge, forcing the collective West to rearm and prepare for the next act of aggression by the Russian imperium. But reality has a way of throwing surprises, and we can’t discount the scenario of a weak and fragmented Russia actually embarking on reforms and changes that begin the process of democratic transition and reconciliation. While seemingly unlikely, should we nonetheless be preparing to engage if Russia takes this course, and is there anything we can do to promote an outcome that will be far more beneficial for us, and potentially for Russians themselves? ---------- ABOUT: Dr Stephen Hall is an Associate Fellow at the Henry Jackson Society. Dr Stephen Hall is a Lecturer (and Assistant Professor) in Russian and Post-Soviet Politics, at the Department of Politics, Languages, and International Studies at the University of Bath. He is a specialist on Russia, Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus, Central Asia, and the South Caucasus and on authoritarian regions. He received his PhD from the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, UCL and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Cambridge. He has published extensively in Europe-Asia Studies, Problems of Post-Communism, East European Politics, Post-Communist Economies, Russian Politics, and the Journal of Eurasian Studies. His book entitled The Authoritarian International: Tracing how Authoritarian Regimes Learn in the Post-Soviet Space came out in 2023 with Cambridge University Press. ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- ARTICLES: https://henryjacksonsociety.org/publications/getting-a-foot-in-the-door-creating-a-future-russia-now/ ---------- LINKS: https://henryjacksonsociety.org/staff/dr-stephen-g-f-hall/ https://twitter.com/stephengfhall https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephen-g-f-hall-7313b942/ ---------- BOOKS: Authoritarian International https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/authoritarian-international/4B49766C0CC9ACE7F2522ECB5AB804B8#fndtn-metrics ---------- WATCH NEXT: Sir Richard Shirreff https://youtu.be/UMi1Y3iF710 Operator Starsky https://youtu.be/ABIIyNa1AOk Anders Puck Nielsen https://youtu.be/2TJTUuu_cM0 Ben Hodges https://youtu.be/gpzfEVhdNp0 John Spencer https://youtu.be/2lmAOWfQvdE ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ ----------

290. Jerry Hendrix - The Window for a Full-scale Invasion of Taiwan by China may be Closing Permenantly

16 november 2023 | 54 min

289. Benjamin Tallis - Russia will Keep Prosecuting its Genocidal War in Ukraine for as Long as we Let it

15 november 2023 | 51 min

Dr Benjamin Tallis is a research fellow at the German Council on Foreign Relations. He runs the project “Action Group Zeitenwende” on the transformation of Germany’s security and foreign policy, and where he hosts the podcast "Berlin Inside Out". He previously worked for the EU on security missions in Ukraine and the Balkans and was policy officer at the European Centre of Excellence for Civilian Crisis Management in Berlin. Benjamin spent five years at the Institute of International Relations Prague where he headed the Centre for European Security, advised numerous European governments, edited the journal New Perspectives. Benjamin regularly appears in the media, and has been published in Foreign Policy, Politico, The Independent, and in leading academic journals. He is the author of the books To Ukraine with Love: Essays on Russia’s War and Europe’s Future (2022) and Identities, Borderscapes, Orders: (In)Security, (Im)Mobility, and Crisis in the EU and Ukraine (2023). ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- LINKS: https://twitter.com/bctallis?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor https://www.linkedin.com/in/benjamin-tallis-b02a386/ https://berlinsideout.podigee.io/ https://dgap.org/en/user/28265 https://foreignpolicy.com/author/benjamin-tallis/ https://www.opendemocracy.net/ru/author/benjamin-tallis/ ---------- ARTICLES: https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/germany-should-create-a-new-stereotype-for-itself-team-power/ https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-leopard-2-tanks-zeitenwende-russia-ukraine-war-nato/ https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/07/14/europe-military-alliance-britain-poland-ukraine/ ---------- LINKS: https://ecfr.eu/profile/gustav_gressel/ https://twitter.com/GresselGustav ---------- WATCH NEXT: Sir Richard Shirreff https://youtu.be/UMi1Y3iF710 Operator Starsky https://youtu.be/ABIIyNa1AOk Anders Puck Nielsen https://youtu.be/2TJTUuu_cM0 Ben Hodges https://youtu.be/gpzfEVhdNp0 John Spencer https://youtu.be/2lmAOWfQvdE ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ ----------

288. Jon Sweet and Mark Toth - Has Ukraine’s Counteroffensive Strategy Reached a Pivotal Inflection Point

14 november 2023 | 55 min

Ukraine’s counteroffensive has reached a transition point – not a point of failure, as it has been labelled by some commentators and media sources. We are 20 months into a war that Gen. Mark Milley said would last three days. Russian planners estimated 10 days. A Ukrainian military once considered inferior to Russia’s has militarily defeating Russians on every battlefield in Ukraine. They have killed more than 300,000 Russian soldiers, and according to Secretary of State Antony Blinken, “recaptured half the territory that Russia initially seized in its invasion.” That is not failure. ---------- Jon Sweet is an accomplished intelligence professional who served for 30 years within the Defence and Intelligence sector as an U.S. Army Military Intelligence Officer. He is now a freelance author, contributor and columnist for The Hill, The Messenger, Washington Examiner, Kyiv Post and FOX News. He provides an experienced military perspective on current world events. Mark Toth is a retired economist, historian and entrepreneur and has lived in US diplomatic and military communities around the world. Mark writes on issues of National Security and Foreign Policy and is a regular contributor to The Hill, BBC, Washington Examiner, Fox News, Kyiv Post and The Messenger. ---------- ARTICLES: https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/4299756-its-decision-time-in-ukraine-will-biden-make-the-right-choice/ https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/4133192-putin-is-losing-his-war-but-his-threats-of-armageddon-keep-working/ https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/4007441-the-collapse-of-russian-influence-is-widening/ https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/4202074-putins-kingdom-of-the-dead/ https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/4166675-for-ukraine-its-crimea-or-bust/ ---------- WATCH NEXT: Sir Richard Shirreff https://youtu.be/UMi1Y3iF710 Operator Starsky https://youtu.be/ABIIyNa1AOk Anders Puck Nielsen https://youtu.be/2TJTUuu_cM0 Ben Hodges https://youtu.be/gpzfEVhdNp0 John Spencer https://youtu.be/2lmAOWfQvdE ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com

287. Alexander Motyl - Is the Idea that Russia is Too Big to Fail Holding Back Western Strategic Support?

14 november 2023 | 56 min

“As the world watches two Russian thugs fight it out, it’s important to remember that both of them have been, and still are, implicated in Russia’s ongoing genocide in Ukraine.” This is taken from an article written by Alexander Motyl in The Hill, dated 28th June 2023. ------- Alexander Motyl is an American historian, political scientist, poet, writer, translator, and artist. He lives in New York and is a professor of political science at Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey. Alexander is a specialist on Ukraine, Russia, and the Soviet Union. He has taught at Columbia University, Lehigh University, the Ukrainian Free University, the Kyiv-Mohyla University, and Harvard University. Aside from academic work, he also writes opinion columns in publications such as Foreign Policy, Forty-Five, The Hill and the Kyiv Post. ------- LINKS: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexander-motyl-9847877/ https://sasn.rutgers.edu/about-us/faculty-staff/alexander-motyl https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_J._Motyl ------- ARTICLES: https://thehill.com/opinion/international/4303178-why-do-russian-soldiers-keep-marching-into-slaughter/ https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/11/05/russia-ukraine-empire-imperialism-war/ https://thehill.com/opinion/international/4283716-reports-of-putins-death-might-not-be-greatly-exaggerated/ https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/01/07/russia-ukraine-putin-collapse-disintegration-civil-war-empire/ https://euobserver.com/opinion/156539 https://thehill.com/opinion/international/4233203-when-foreign-policy-realists-are-naive/ https://thehill.com/opinion/international/3873506-why-doesnt-the-global-south-support-ukraines-anti-colonial-struggle/ https://thehill.com/opinion/international/4264589-is-russia-a-civilization/ https://thehill.com/opinion/international/4162176-the-wrong-way-to-talk-about-ukraines-counteroffensive/ https://thehill.com/opinion/international/3884025-its-not-nato-putin-always-has-had-expansionist-designs/ https://thehill.com/opinion/international/3818390-in-ukraine-nothing-except-for-a-great-emptiness-inside/ ------- BOOKS: Academic books The Turn to the Right: The Ideological Origins and Development of Ukrainian Nationalism, 1919-1929 (1980) Will the Non-Russians Rebel? State, Ethnicity, and Stability in the USSR (1987) Sovietology, Rationality, Nationality: Coming to Grips with Nationalism in the USSR (1990) Dilemmas of Independence: Ukraine after Totalitarianism, (1993) Revolutions, Nations, Empires: Conceptual Limits and Theoretical Possibilities (1999) Imperial Ends: The Decline, Collapse, and Revival of Empires (2001) Ukraine vs Russia: Revolution, Democracy, and War (2017) Bits and Pieces (2020) National Questions: Theoretical Reflections on Nations and Nationalism in Eastern Europe (2022) Editor Between America and Galicia: The Memoirs of Maria and Alexander Motyl (2019) The Great West Ukrainian Prison Massacre of 1941: A Sourcebook (2016) The Holodomor Reader: A Sourcebook on the Famine of 1932-1933 in Ukraine (2012) Russia’s Engagement with the West: Transformation and Integration in the Twenty-First Century, co-edited with Blair Ruble and Lilia Shevtsova (2005) The Encyclopedia of Nationalism, 2 vols. (2000) -------

Silicon Bites - #23 - Russia Flaunts its Nuclear Capabilities to Intimidate the Allies of Ukraine.

12 november 2023 | 34 min

Edition No23 | 11-11-2023 Russia returns to terror threats, as it flaunts its Nuclear capabilities to intimidate the Allies supporting Ukraine militarily. ~~~~~ SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ~~~~~ NEWS ITEMS: https://metro.co.uk/2023/11/08/russian-singer-shaman-simulates-a-nuclear-attack-during-concert-19781777/ https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-russia-post-video-simulation-nuclear-attack-us-1841172 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/03/vladimir-putin-withdraws-russia-ratification-nuclear-test-ban-treaty-criticism https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/8/19/russias-lavrov-says-west-needs-continual-reminder-of-risks-of-nuclear-war https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/putin-filmed-china-accompanied-by-officers-with-russian-nuclear-briefcase-2023-10-18/ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/11/09/stalemate-in-ukraine-is-the-hesitant-wests-fault-a83049 https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-moves-one-step-closer-to-joining-eu-whats-next/ https://kyivindependent.com/ukrainians-step-up-efforts-to-cross-dnipro-tie-up-russian-forces-in-kherson/ https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-war-latest-eu-unlikely-to-deliver-1-million-artillery-shells-to-ukraine-by-march-2024-bloomberg-reports/ https://kyivindependent.com/poll-44-of-ukrainians-have-war-zone-experience/ https://kyivindependent.com/investigative-stories-from-ukraine-authorities-yet-to-seize-assets-of-putins-ex-right-hand-man/ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/11/10/kremlin-says-convicts-fighting-in-ukraine-atone-for-crimes-with-blood-a83070 https://edition.cnn.com/2023/11/08/opinions/ukraine-russia-stalemate-nato-mcglynn/index.html ~~~~~ USEFUL LINKS: Vatnik Soup https://twitter.com/P_Kallioniemi http://www.medbat.org.ua/en/ Real World News https://kyivindependent.com/ https://www.kyivpost.com/ https://english.nv.ua/ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/ https://meduza.io/en https://meduza.io/ https://novayagazeta.eu/ https://www.newsweek.com/topic/russia...Analysis https://www.ft.com/russia https://www.economist.com/ https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ https://cepa.org/ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/ https://www.theatlantic.com/search/?s... YouTube Channels / @timesradio1 / @khodorkovskyru / @popularpolitics / @macknack / @plushev / @tvrain / @fake_news / @feyginlive ~~~~~

284. Gustav Gressel - Does Western Hesitancy, Disunity, Fear and Weakness Put Ukrainian Victory at Risk?

11 november 2023 | 60 min

285. Robin Horsfall - Are we Underestimating how Destructive and Long-lived Moscow's Aggression could be?

10 november 2023 | 55 min

GUEST: Robin Horsfall, soldier, writer, campaigner and keynote speaker. ---------- The existence of the USSR over many decades unfortunately shows that tyranny can be tenacious, and the extreme barbarism it deploys to suppress freedoms can last a long time and exact a huge toll of human suffering. That is why our weak strategy towards a decisive Ukrainian victory and complacency in the face of a revanchist, totalitarian (even fascistic) Russian World ideology is so very dangerous. We underestimate how pernicious, destructive, and long-lived this new wave of illiberal aggression from the Moscow swamplands could be. ---------- SPEAKER: Robin Horsfall joined the British Army at the age of fifteen in 1972. He served with the Parachute Regiment and 22 Special Air Service. He left the British Army in 1984 and worked as a mercenary, bodyguard and as a medical officer is many active zones around the world. He then built London Karate for twenty years, teaching thousands the art and discipline of karate. He retired and went to Surrey University aged 56 and graduated in English Literature and Creative Writing three years later. He is the author of several books including his hugely successful autobiography Fighting Scared - which I highly recommend you read. ---------- LINKS: https://robinhorsfall.co.uk/books/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/robin-horsfall-52243220/ ---------- BOOKS: - Slava Ukraini! Who Dares Shares (2023 - Signed hardback) - Fighting Scared - The Words of the Wise Old Paratrooper - Warrior Poet: A Soldier’s Songs Find out more about Robin's extraordinary life and achivements here, as well as an online shop to buy his books: https://robinhorsfall.co.uk/ ---------- #robinhorsfall #sas #britisharmy #paratrooper #ukraine #springoffensive #ukrainewar #russia #zelensky #putin #propaganda #war #disinformation #hybrid warfare #foreign policy #communism #sovietunion #postsoviet ---------- WATCH NEXT: Sir Richard Shirreff https://youtu.be/UMi1Y3iF710 Operator Starsky https://youtu.be/ABIIyNa1AOk Anders Puck Nielsen https://youtu.be/2TJTUuu_cM0 Ben Hodges https://youtu.be/gpzfEVhdNp0 John Spencer https://youtu.be/2lmAOWfQvdE ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

283. Joseph Lindsley - Only Democracies are Plagued by Coincidences. Dictators Don’t Tolerate Serendipity

9 november 2023 | 59 min

This week Russia attacked Odesa with missiles and drones, seriously damaging the Odesa National Art Museum building, a designated UNESCO monument (which was 124 years old yesterday). Missiles also hit the city centre damaging several multi-story residential buildings. Eight people were injured by shrapnel wounds. Night after night, Russia hits vital infrastructure, residential building, transport links and cultural objects. Russia is exacting an ever-greater toll on Ukrainian heritage and lives, wealth, and industry. When will fascist Russia be stopped and held to account for its crimes? ---------- ABOUT: Joe Lindsley is a traveller and a writer, and American reporting on Chicago's WGN Radio from Ukraine each and every weekday of Russia's full-scale war. He once was protégé to Fox News founder Roger Ailes, but Lindsley escaped that frenzied world where power mattered more than truth. He came to Lviv for a Ukrainian Catholic University journalism conference on Information Overload, AI, and Responsibility. Then the Coronavirus shut down world travel, and he stayed to build a better vision for the media industry. ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- LINKS: YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@uafreedomnews Website: UkrainianFreedomNews.com Truth to the World. Supplies to Ukraine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Lindsley https://www.linkedin.com/in/joseph-lindsley-60087618/ https://twitter.com/JPLindsley https://www.instagram.com/jplindsley/ https://linktr.ee/ufnews ---------- Please like and subscribe to see more great speakers and content on the Silicon Curtain channel, and check you are still subscribed to the channel, as many YouTubers covering the war in Ukraine have reporting losing subscribers, in a way that is unexplained, perhaps as part of some algorithmic change or process; I’d hate for you to miss out on some of the great greats we have lined up. Please also consider becoming a patron to support the work of the channel, or ‘Buy me a Coffee’. ----------

279. Michael Sheridan - Does Xi Jinping's Iron Grip Over CCP & China come at the Cost of Economic Growth?

6 november 2023 | 48 min

In this episode, we explore how the “black box” of Chinese politics operates. How Xi Jinping seized power, and how he maintains control. We examine China's soft authoritarian power and the apparatus of the absolutist state. Does Xi's iron grip over the CCP and China come at a cost - is it stifling innovation and economic growth? ---------- ABOUT THE GUEST: Michael Sheridan is the Author of a new history of Hong Kong and China, and a long-time foreign correspondent in Asia, Middle East, and Europe. He was the Far East Correspondent for the Sunday Times for 20 years, based in Hong Kong, and later Bangkok. He delivered political and economic news from China, Japan, North & South Korea, southeast Asia, and Pakistan. He covered the rise of China and the handover of Hong Kong, upheaval in Burma and the fall of Suharto in Indonesia. Her reported on the 2011 Japan earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown, and covered multiple assignments to natural disasters involving mass casualties, including the Asian tsunami of 2004. Michael has also interviewed key figures in Asia, including Lee Kuan Yew and Aung San Suu Kyi. ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- BOOKS: The Gate to China: A New History of the People’s Republic & Hong Kong (2021) by Michael Sheridan, Daniel York, et al. The Red Emperor by Michael Sheridan (2024) ---------- LINKS: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-sheridan-4a7499109/ https://www.independent.co.uk/author/michael-sheridan ---------- ARTICLES: https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/china-foreign-minister-qin-gang-netflix-b2384179.html https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/china-wuhan-covid-lab-leak-trump-b2351132.html https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/japan-asia-sushi-fukushima-nuclear-plant-b2399551.html https://cepa.org/article/portugal-steps-off-the-silk-road/ ---------- Please like and subscribe to see more great speakers and content on the Silicon Curtain channel, and check you are still subscribed to the channel, as many YouTubers covering the war in Ukraine have reporting losing subscribers, in a way that is unexplained, perhaps as part of some algorithmic change or process; I’d hate for you to miss out on some of the great greats we have lined up. Please also consider becoming a patron to support the work of the channel, or ‘Buy me a Coffee’. ----------

280. Elina Beketova - Brainwashing, Terror and Lawlessness is what Russia Brought to Occupied Territories

5 november 2023 | 57 min

277. Taras Kuzio - Russia Looking to Replace International Rules-based Order with Lawless, Violent Chaos.

5 november 2023 | 59 min

Dr Taras Kuzio is a British academic and Professor of Political Science at the National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy, and an expert on politics, crime and security in Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia. Taras Kuzio is of Ukrainian descent and received a BA in economics from the University of Sussex, an MA in Soviet studies from the University of London and holds a doctorate in political science from the University of Birmingham; he was a postdoctoral fellow at Yale University. His most recent book is Russian Nationalism and the Russian-Ukrainian War (2022), which was published prior to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. This follows two other books on Russia-Ukraine relations. In total, he is the author and editor of sixteen books. He is an associate research fellow at the UK Henry Jackson Society thinktank and has contributed to the Atlantic Council, Foreign Affairs, Kyiv Post, New Eastern Europe, and E-International Relations. ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- ARTICLE: https://henryjacksonsociety.org/publications/russia-and-the-anti-western-axis-must-be-militarily-defeated-shifting-the-western-consensus-toward-ending-russias-military-threat-to-ukraine-and-the-west/ ---------- LINKS: https://henryjacksonsociety.org/staff/dr-taras-kuzio/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taras_Kuzio https://twitter.com/TarasKuzio https://www.linkedin.com/in/taras-kuzio-3811583a/ https://archive.transatlanticrelations.org/fellows/taras-kuzio/ https://www.amazon.co.uk/Books-Taras-Kuzio/s?rh=n%3A266239%2Cp_27%3ATaras+Kuzio ---------- Please like and subscribe to see more great speakers and content on the Silicon Curtain channel, and check you are still subscribed to the channel, as many YouTubers covering the war in Ukraine have reporting losing subscribers, in a way that is unexplained, perhaps as part of some algorithmic change or process; I’d hate for you to miss out on some of the great greats we have lined up. Please also consider becoming a patron to support the work of the channel, or ‘Buy me a Coffee’. ----------

278. Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges - Far from a Stalemate, Ukraine is Making Crimea Untenable for Russia to Defend.

3 november 2023 | 55 min

276. Lesia Dubenko - Without Proportional Punishment, the World Risks a Repeat of Russia's 2022 Invasion.

2 november 2023 | 68 min

Silicon Bites - #22 - Has Russia Opened a Pandora's Box of Violence, Hatred & Chaos Around the World

1 november 2023 | 38 min

275. Kateryna Babkina - Optimism is not Enough to Defeat Russia and Remain a Vibrant, Independent Country

29 oktober 2023 | 49 min

100 years ago, few in Western Europe cared about Ukraine – or its disappearance as an independent state – swallowed up as the newly born tyranny of the USSR flexed its imperial muscles; but that has now changed. Putin’s Russian World revanchism and violence have accelerated the evolution of Ukrainian identity and increased the pressure for social, political, and economic change. Perhaps the most perverse Russian invasion narrative, is that Ukraine is not old, and is not distinct from Russia in any case. But Ukraine is not just a footnote to Russian imperial history. And at the end of this war, Ukraine could prove to be the rock upon which the decrepit, brittle hull of the Russian imperial ship tears itself apart and sinks from history. ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- Kateryna Babkina is a Ukrainian poet, short story writer, novelist, playwright, and screenwriter. She is the winner of Angelus Central European Literature Award (2021) for her book ‘My Grandfather Danced’. Kateryna was born in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine and attended Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv to study journalism, graduating in 2007, after which she worked as a freelance journalist. Babkina's novella for children "Cappy and the Whale" was published in translation by Penguin Random House, UK. In April 2023. Kateryna was the first Ukrainian author to have her readings at the Library of Congress, US. ---------- LINKS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kateryna_Babkina https://twitter.com/babkina https://www.penguin.co.uk/authors/295414/kateryna-babkina https://pen.org.ua/en/members/babkina-kateryna https://www.instagram.com/babkina ---------- POETRY St Elmo's Fire (2002) The Mustard (2011) Painkillers and Sleeping Pills (2014) Charmed for Love (2017) Does not hurt (2021) SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS Lilu After You (2008) Schaslyvi holi lyudy (Happy Naked People) (2016) ---------- NOVELS Sonia (2013) My Grandfather Danced the Best (2019) ---------- SCREENPLAYS Evil, as part of the 2013 Kinofest NYC festival ---------- PLAYS Hamlet.Babylon (2016), an adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet ---------- CHILDREN'S STORIES Harbuzovyi rik (The Pumpkin Year) (2014) Шапочка і кит (The Hat and the Whale) (2015) Girls's power (2018, co-authored with Mark Livin) Snow heaty (2022) ----------

Silicon Bites - #21 - Russian Propagandists turn on each other like Cannibalistic Spiders in a Jar

28 oktober 2023 | 37 min

Edition No21 | 28-10-2023 The Hamas attacks on Israel seem to have divided Russian propagandists. Are some of them starting to realise the high price of siding with a genocidal regime, that sponsors terrorism? ~~~~~ SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ~~~~~ NEWS LINKS: Russian Media Monitor https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews ~~~~~ The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/27/pro-moscow-ukrainian-politician-oleg-tsaryov-in-critical-condition-after-apparent-assassination-attempt ~~~~~ Kyiv Independent https://kyivindependent.com/ https://kyivindependent.com/polands-opposition-victorious-in-elections-proposes-new-government/ https://kyivindependent.com/none-of-it-made-any-sense-understanding-russias-disastrous-offensive-on-avdiivka/ https://kyivindependent.com/this-week-in-ukraine-ep-31-why-murderers-of-euromaidan-protestors-still-enjoy-impunity/ https://kyivindependent.com/ft-eu-leaders-back-using-profits-of-frozen-russian-assets-for-ukraine-aid/ https://kyivindependent.com/eu-returns-to-organizing-online-film-festival-in-russia/ https://kyivindependent.com/opinion-its-time-to-ban-russian-athletes-from-the-2024-olympic-games/ https://kyivindependent.com/as-bakhmut-counteroffensive-lags-soldiers-burnt-out-from-horrors-of-war/ https://kyivindependent.com/these-ukrainian-artists-writers-were-killed-by-russias-war/ https://kyivindependent.com/opinion-russias-defeat-must-be-democracies-goal/ ~~~~~ The Moscow Times https://www.themoscowtimes.com/ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/10/27/how-russian-propaganda-built-an-alternate-reality-in-occupied-ukraine-a82900 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/10/27/russian-prosecutors-seek-3-year-jail-term-for-memorial-co-chair-a82918 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/10/27/russia-raises-interest-rates-to-15-on-inflation-fears-a82916 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/10/27/are-russians-really-living-like-theres-no-war-a82906 ~~~~~ USEFUL LINKS: Vatnik Soup https://twitter.com/P_Kallioniemi http://www.medbat.org.ua/en/ Real World News https://kyivindependent.com/ https://www.kyivpost.com/ https://english.nv.ua/ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/ https://meduza.io/en https://meduza.io/ https://novayagazeta.eu/ https://www.newsweek.com/topic/russia... Analysis https://www.ft.com/russia https://www.economist.com/ https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ https://cepa.org/ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/ https://www.theatlantic.com/search/?s... YouTube Channels / @timesradio1 / @khodorkovskyru / @popularpolitics / @macknack / @plushev / @tvrain / @fake_news / @feyginlive ~~~~~

274. Sir Richard Shirreff - Conflict and Chaos are Advantageous for Russia's Neo-imperialist Ambitions.

27 oktober 2023 | 46 min

273. Jack Barsky - Russian Sleeper Agents Infiltrated the US - But their Missions were of Limited Success

25 oktober 2023 | 52 min

272. Robert Hicken - “Hospital in the Cloud” Service Provides Free Medical Advice for 1000s of Ukrainians

24 oktober 2023 | 50 min

Ukrainian CrisisCare Telehealth Service "It's infinitely easier to take a life, than save a life” --------- ABOUT GPNOW UKRAINE Today, we hear from Robert Hicken – President of the PII Foundation who will provide an update on their GPNow Ukrainian CrisisCare “hospital in the cloud” Telehealth Service which provides free medical advice, comfort and care for thousands of Ukrainian citizens to provide FREE medical advice, comfort care for thousands of Ukrainian families in Ukraine (including occupied territory), across Europe & around the world. Together with John Spiteri & Kirsty Macaulay who are about to release a song “Party-Z” to raise awareness and funding to support the service on: https://bandcamp.com/ PII Foundation - (a 501 9 (c)(3) non-profit organisation EIN: 92-1201579) --------- LEARN MORE: https://www.gpnow.net/ukrainian-crisiscare/ Fund GPNow: https://rebrand.ly/gpn_web Join GPNow: https://rebrand.ly/gpnow_teaming - join our Ukrainian CrisisCare Support Team Follow GPNow: https://rebrand.ly/gpnow_twitter_ua on X (Formerly Twitter) GPNow on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@gpnowtelehealthchannel --------- CONTACT Email Us: [email protected] Corporate program sponsorship welcomed With thanks to: Robert Hicken: https://rebrand.ly/robert_linkedin John Spiteri: https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-spiteri-a7047a90 Kirsty Macaulay: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirsty-macaulay-667905b5 --------- INTRO Currently there are more than 7 million refugees who have fled the conflict in Ukraine. There is a dire need to ensure these citizens can access timely and free telehealth consultations. Robert Hicken is working closely with business leaders across every industry in asking them to commit corporate donations to Ukrainian CrisisCare, and its high-impact and life-changing program. Transparency in the charitable sector in Ukraine is important and GPNow’s Ukrainian CrisisCare, ensures each corporate sponsor gets valuable recognition for supporting the Ukrainian telehealth program, as well as transparency on how the funds or allocated and used. --------- Robert Hicken is President of the PII Foundation as well as being Founder and CEO of GPNow. He is focused on ensuring the world’s most vulnerable people can access secure high-definition low-bandwidth multi-lingual telehealth and virtual care services that they desperately need. --------- LINKS https://www.gpnow.net/home https://www.gpnow.net/pii-foundation/ https://twitter.com/rhicken --------- CONTACT Robert Hicken (President - PII Foundation) Mobile: +1 720 738 0774 Mobile: +65 8351 2580 (Whatsapp) Email: [email protected] Website: www.gpnow.net/pii-foundation "VirtualCare for the most Vulnerable" PII FOUNDATION is a 501 9(c)(3) non profit organisation EIN: 92-1201579 Donations are tax-deductible in the US. --------- Details of songs mentioned in the episode: Links to purchase them will be provided, as soon as they are available. 'Party Z' Writer / producer / lead vocals / guitarist - John Spitteri Co- producer / media / 2nd Female vocalist - Kirsty Macaulay Lead female vocalist - Margaret Ryder Lead Guitarists - Andrew Dockerty Drums / bass guitar - Andrew Rankin Produced and recorded by Andrew Rankin at Black Cave Recording Studio 'No War in Ukraine' Written and sung by John Spiteri Violinist - Sheila Sapkota Engineered and mixed by Andrew Rankin at Black Cave Recording Studio Artwork / Media - Kirsty Macaulay ---------

271. David Satter - Russia's Contempt for International Laws and Norms Went Unchallenged for Two Decades.

24 oktober 2023 | 57 min

269. Andrew Hural - Putin's Hybrid Cyber Warfare Exploits Vulnerabilities of our Global Digital Ecosystem

22 oktober 2023 | 52 min

268. Zakhar Protsiuk - The Kyiv Independent is Known for its Fearless Investigative Journalism in Ukraine

21 oktober 2023 | 50 min

270. Aliona Hlivco - Russian World Brings with it Weaponised Lies as well as Fear, Death and Destruction.

20 oktober 2023 | 47 min

267. Operator Starsky - They're here, and They're Deadly. FAFO with Russian Airforce. Z-patriots Go Nuts.

20 oktober 2023 | 59 min

266. Alexander Vindman - Why People Willing to Resist Abuses of Power are Lifeblood of Healthy Democracy.

18 oktober 2023 | 43 min

Silicon Bites - #20 - Day 600 of Russia's War - Putin's Army Founders in Avdiivka as Strategy Fails.

18 oktober 2023 | 36 min

Edition No20 | 16-10-2023 Day 600 of Putin's War in Ukraine has brought a flood of news, from delivery and deployment of ATACMS, to Ukraine's successes in the Black Sea, and Russia's floundering offensive in Avdiivka, using the same wasteful tactics that have failed time and again since the war began. ~~~~~ SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ~~~~~ RUSSIAN RECRUITMENT ADS: https://twitter.com/yarotrof/status/1703762022582612247 https://twitter.com/Biz_Ukraine_Mag/status/1605314907418886145 ~~~~~ NEWS LINKS: Kyiv Independent https://kyivindependent.com/ https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-uses-atacms-in-strikes-against-russia-first-time-missiles-used-in-battle/ https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-war-latest-intelligence-says-russia-gives-hamas-weapons-captured-in-ukraine/ https://kyivindependent.com/reintegration-ministry-over-67-000-people-evacuated-from-liberated-kherson-kharkiv-oblasts/ https://kyivindependent.com/lithuania-repairing-leopard-tanks-damaged-in-ukraine/ https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-war-latest-oct-16/ https://kyivindependent.com/parliament-approves-measure-strengthening-financial-monitoring-of-politicians/ https://kyivindependent.com/proving-our-worth-ukraines-female-soldiers-and-their-fight-for-equality/ https://kyivindependent.com/exit-poll-polands-ruling-party-wins-parliamentary-elections-but-loses-majority-to-liberal-opposition/ ~~~~~ The Moscow Times https://www.themoscowtimes.com/ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/10/16/putin-speaks-to-netanyahu-over-conflict-with-hamas-kremlin-a82783 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/10/17/russia-says-no-proof-north-korea-sending-weapons-a82790 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/10/17/half-of-russian-soldiers-wounded-in-ukraine-require-amputation-official-a82798 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/10/17/ignoring-russian-colonialism-has-deadly-consequences-a82795 ~~~~~ The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/15/russia-avdiivka-offensive-failing-top-ukrainian-officer-donetsk ~~~~~ Business Insider https://www.businessinsider.com/sea-baby-ukraine-experimental-sea-drone-russia-black-sea-fleet-2023-10?r=US&IR=T ~~~~~ Russian Media Monitor https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews ~~~~~

262. Georgijs Ivanovs - War Fatigue must be Battled to Ensure Ukraine Triumphs Against Russian Aggression

17 oktober 2023 | 60 min

243. Andrey Buzarov - Why did Russia Start it's Full-scale War in 2022, and what did it Hope to Achieve?

16 oktober 2023 | 38 min

265. Beverly Ochieng - Wagner is Active in Africa Extracting Resources to Fuel Russia’s Global Ambitions.

14 oktober 2023 | 51 min

263. Nicolas Tenzer - History Warns that the Cost of Fighting Unchallenged Aggression Only Ever Increases

11 oktober 2023 | 54 min

Silicon Bites - #19 - How Russia Benefits from Insurrections, Terrorism and Chaos Around the World

11 oktober 2023 | 30 min

261. Tetyana Filevska - By Killing Modernist Artists in their Prime, Russia Wanted to Control the Future.

8 oktober 2023 | 53 min

GUEST: Tetyana Filevska - Art manager, curator, writer, and researcher. ---------- By Killing Modernist Artists and Appropriating their Works, Russia Tried to Control and Manipulate the Future. ---------- Today I’m speaking with Tetyana Filevska, art manager, curator, writer, and researcher of 20th century Ukrainian art. Her experience encompasses festivals, conferences, exhibitions, educational courses, books, and films. She has worked in various art institutions, particularly the EIDOS Arts Development Foundation, Contemporary Art Centre, IZOLYATSIA. Platform for cultural initiatives, Mystetskyi Arsenal. Co-founder of the NGO Malevich Institute. Teyana is the author of some of the leading books about “Kazimir Malevich”, especially focusing on his ‘Kyiv period 1928-1930’, and she has sought to reverse the cultural appropriation that leads him to be labelled as a Russian artis and reclaim his Ukrainian provenance and identity. Tetyana teaches at the Ukrainian Catholic University, and the Diplomatic Academy of Ukraine. ---------- LINKS: https://ui.org.ua/en/team-2/ https://ukrainianinstitute.org.uk/events/avant-garde-in-ukraine-and-decoloniality/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmO0raWceWw https://twitter.com/TetyanaFilevska https://www.instagram.com/tetyanafilevska/?hl=en ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- WATCH NEXT: Orest Zub https://youtu.be/A7MrcwdDvPQ Aliona Hlivco https://youtu.be/yGLUBCfTkD8 Olga Tokariuk https://youtu.be/D5onDse6WJs Anna Danylchuk https://youtu.be/5AenntkSxIs Roman Sheremeta https://youtu.be/olrTPku8EMM ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

260. Konstantin Samoilov - Russia's Economy Shows Signs of Strain and Fragility as Fuel Inflation Bites

6 oktober 2023 | 52 min

259. Olena Tregub - Democratic Oversight for Defence Spending and Transparency have Never been More Vital

2 oktober 2023 | 52 min

GUEST: Olena Tregub - Ukrainian expert in policy analysis, policy design and reform implementation. ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- INTRO: The potential for abuse and infringement of civil rights is huge and is a risk for any country at war. On top of that are the tens of thousands of war crimes being committed by the invaders. My guest today is an expert on Reform, Transparency, Governance, Civil Society and Corruption. We will be talking about how Ukraine is progress on these fronts, to defend individual rights and liberty even in wartime, and we will loom at the importance of striving for Modernity in Ukrainian culture and institutions. #olenatregub #ruleoflaw #ukraine #ukrainewar #russia #zelensky #putin #propaganda #war #disinformation #hybridwarfare #foreignpolicy #communism #sovietunion #ussr ---------- SPEAKER: Olena Tregub is a Ukrainian expert in policy analysis, policy design and reform implementation, with a special focus on corruption prevention in economic and security sectors. Since 2017 Olena has been Secretary General of NAKO (the Independent Defence Anti-Corruption Committee) – an international oversight body created by Transparency International. It’s her mission to strengthen democratic oversight over defence spending, increase accountability and transparency of the sector, which is critical in wartime, and has become a hotly debated topic in the run-up to the 2024 US election. Before joining the Ukrainian government, Olena built her career abroad in journalism, policy analysis, education, and international development. Olena has worked in the UN Headquarters in New York, taught International Relations in American universities, and cooperated with The New York Times and Kyiv Post. ---------- LINKS: https://twitter.com/OTregub https://www.linkedin.com/in/olenatregub/ https://cepa.org/author/olena-tregub/ https://archive.kyivpost.com/author/olena-tregub https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/expert/olena-tregub/ https://nako.org.ua/en/about ----------

Ben Hodges - Compilation of 4 Silicon Curtain Interviews with Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges - Oct-22 to Jun-23

1 oktober 2023 | 111 min

258. Anna from Ukraine - Are we Letting Russia off the Hook? Is our Softness Prolonging War in Ukraine?

30 september 2023 | 74 min

Silicon Bites - #18 - Putin's Minions: Dead or Alive? Failure in War Makes Russians Dead Men Walking

27 september 2023 | 32 min

Edition No18 | 26-09-2023 The status of many of Russia's elite is uncertain (are they alive or dead?). Ill-health, 'accidents', purges and targeted Ukrainian actions are taking their toll on Russia's elite. ~~~~~ SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ~~~~~ RUSSIAN RECRUITMENT ADS: https://twitter.com/yarotrof/status/1703762022582612247 https://twitter.com/Biz_Ukraine_Mag/status/1605314907418886145 ~~~~~ NEWS LINKS: The Moscow Times https://www.themoscowtimes.com/ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/09/19/explainer-reports-of-kadyrovs-death-may-have-been-greatly-exaggerated-a82507 Explainer: Reports of Kadyrov’s Death May Have Been Greatly Exaggerated By Charlie Hancock | Sep. 20, 2023 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/09/18/the-cult-of-the-red-terror-executioner-lives-on-a82501 The Cult of the Red Terror Executioner Lives On By Polly Jones | Sep. 18, 2023 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/09/21/nagorno-karabakh-shows-russia-has-no-credibility-as-a-regional-peacekeeper-a82531 Nagorno-Karabakh Shows Russia Has No Credibility as a Regional Peacekeeper By Mikhail Turchenko | Sep. 21, 2023 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/09/21/russian-officials-fighting-in-ukraine-seek-profile-boost-career-advancement-a82532 Russian Officials Fighting in Ukraine Seek Profile Boost, Career Advancement By Leyla Latypova | Sep. 21, 2023 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/09/22/russia-is-preparing-the-next-generation-to-die-for-their-country-a82536 Russia is Preparing the Next Generation to Die for Their Country By Jade McGlynn | Sep. 22, 2023 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/09/21/scores-of-ukrainian-drones-downed-over-annexed-crimea-western-russia-a82529 Mobilized Russian Troops Endure Quick Losses in Ukraine War – Report Sep. 21, 2023 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/09/21/russia-curbs-gas-diesel-exports-to-stabilize-fuel-prices-a82534 Russia Curbs Gas, Diesel Exports to Stabilize Fuel Prices Sep. 21, 2023 ~~~~~ Kyiv Independent https://kyivindependent.com/ https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-comes-close-to-getting-atacms-how-will-it-change-the-war/ US will reportedly give ATACMS to Ukraine. Will it change the war? by Dinara Khalilova | Sep. 23, 2023 https://kyivindependent.com/zelensky-confirms-first-abrams-tanks-arrived-in-ukraine/ Zelensky confirms first Abrams tanks already in Ukraine by Dinara Khalilova | Sep. 25, 2023 https://kyivindependent.com/military-ukraine-has-achieved-a-breakthrough-in-verbove/ Military: Ukraine has achieved a breakthrough in Verbove Sep. 23, 2023 https://kyivindependent.com/russian-proxies-claim-missile-strike-on-black-sea-fleet-headquarters-in-sevastopol/ Ukrainian military strikes Russia's Black Sea Fleet headquarters by Dinara Khalilova | Sep. 22, 2023 https://kyivindependent.com/russia-steadily-loses-advanced-air-defense-systems-making-occupied-crimea-vulnerable/ Uncertain Triumph: Ukraine picks apart Russia's best air defenses in Crimea by Igor Kossov | Sep. 20, 2023 https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-war-latest-september-21/ WAR UPDATE: Ukraine war latest: Russia launches mass missile attack on energy infrastructure; Ukraine reportedly hits airbase in Crimea by Alexander Khrebet | Sep. 22, 2023 https://kyivindependent.com/bloomberg-russia-plans-massive-hike-in-defense-spending-in-2024/ Bloomberg: Russia plans massive hike in defense spending in 2024 by Martin Fornusek | Sep. 22, 2023 ~~~~~ Russian Media Monitor https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews ~~~~~

256. Annette Bohr - Ukraine's Fight is Our Fight - Victory is Key to Resolving many Other Global Problems

25 september 2023 | 44 min

257. Iryna Kopanytsia - Ukrainian Victory means Hundreds of Thousands of Abducted Childen Need to Return.

24 september 2023 | 43 min

GUEST: Iryna Kopanytsia - Women's rights advocate and public speaker, CEO and Advisory Board Member of White Ribbon, Ukraine. ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- INTRO: Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians have had to evacuate through Russia or were forcibly deported there. They have experienced terrible things like the “filtration” camps on the borders, separation from families, cruel interrogations by Russians, and being forced to live in another country (the enemy country) without money or documents in many cases. Left stranded and struggling to leave Russia by themselves. Some, like children do not even have the option to try to return home or go to Europe. Ukraine been able to find and return a few hundred children – but for victory to be achieved, must locate, and return many thousands. Even when the fighting ends, victory will not be achieved until all the children return home to Ukraine. #IrynaKopanytsia #ukraine #ukrainewar #russia #zelensky #putin #propaganda #war #disinformation #hybridwarfare #foreignpolicy #communism #sovietunion #ussr ---------- SPEAKER: Iryna Kopanytsia is a women rights advocate and public speaker, CEO and Advisory Board Member of White Ribbon Ukraine an organisation that campaigns against domestic violence, and woman rights. Iryna was CEO of Miss Ukraine and is a successful TV presenter of numerous shows on Ukrainian TV channels. She is an acclaimed human rights advocate and psychologist actively supporting different charities including David Lynch Foundation in Ukraine, One Hope Foundation, children hospitals and medical facilities, and has participated in developing a number of laws about women’s rights and other causes. White Ribbon has campaigned in Ukraine since 2017 for a new law criminalizing domestic violence and coordinating with European Parliament members on women rights. ---------- LINKS: https://www.linkedin.com/in/irina-kopanytsia/ https://whiteribbonukraine.org/en/teameng/

253. Volodymyr Kukharenko - Short History of Russian Imperialism - The Russian Empire: Prison of Nations.

22 september 2023 | 59 min

255. Nolan Peterson - Ukraine has the Determination to Defeat Russia - Willpower, Logistics and Material.

22 september 2023 | 53 min

254. Jerry Hendrix - Russia's Maritime Piracy - How will Moscow's Long-term Ambitions Play out in Arctic.

20 september 2023 | 54 min

252. Ian Garner - Russia’s Slide to Authoritarianism has also Seen an Acceleration to Extreme Militarism.

19 september 2023 | 45 min

249. Ada Wordsworth - Moved to Kharkiv in Autumn 2022, one Month After Liberation of the Surrounding Area

18 september 2023 | 37 min

250. John Foreman CBE - Russia's Leaders Lied About Their Intentions: Now Putin's War is Consuming Russia

17 september 2023 | 52 min

251. Anastasiya Shapochkina - Grain. Energy. Fuel. There's Nothing Russia won’t Weaponize in Order to Win

16 september 2023 | 54 min

248. James Sherr - Russia’s Sovereignty is not Directly Threatened so Why is Putin Embracing Total War?

14 september 2023 | 53 min

247. Dr Jade McGlynn - The Kremlin sees Historical Memory as Potent, Malleable, Controllable & Dangerous.

13 september 2023 | 56 min

245. Dr Allyson Edwards - The Red Fortress Returns - Militarisation of Youth and Manipulation of History.

13 september 2023 | 59 min

Silicon Bites - #17 - Comrade Musk Apparently Intervenes in Favour Russia - will he Prolong the War?

12 september 2023 | 23 min

244. Grigor Atanesian - Putin Believes the Digital Information Space is a Battlefield - That We're at war

12 september 2023 | 50 min

GUEST: Grigor Atanesian - investigative journalist at the BBC. ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- INTRO: Vladimir Putin believes that the digital information space is a battlefield, yet we in the West are perhaps late to realise that fact. The rise of the internet in the 21st century has been accompanied by unprecedented levels of polarisation, division, and coercion. At the same time democracies are being hit by a huge range of different, and rapidly evolving hostile state activities. Not all of them have their origins in Russia, though clearly many do, and the scale of the threat is only likely to increase in future. #ukraine #ukrainewar #russia #zelensky #putin #propaganda #war #disinformation #hybridwarfare #foreignpolicy #communism #sovietunion #ussr ---------- SPEAKER: Grigor Atanesian is an investigative journalist with the BBC. He was producer for the “Trauma Zone” documentary series by Adam Curtis (BBC Film), and the Associate Producer for “Can't Get You Out of My Head” documentary series by Adam Curtis (BBC Film). As part of the team that created the unique and powerful 'Trauma Zone' BBC documentary, he was awarded a BAFTA for Specialist Factual programmes in 2023. ---------- LINKS: Putin’s Influencers: The bloggers selling Russia’s War - BBC News https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_8tYjsFKFw Russian pro-war influencers are generating big advertising revenues from their social media coverage of the conflict, the BBC’s Global Disinformation Team has found. Known in Russia as “Z Bloggers”, they spread fake news about the war by embedding with military units, sharing exclusive footage from the frontline, and calling upon young Russians to enlist in the army. Graphics: Kako Abraham Film Editor: Ismail Guluev Narrator: Jack Goodman Assistant Producers: Sucheera Maguire, Jake Tacchi Editor: Juliana Gragnani Executive Editor: Rebecca Skippage Written & Produced by: Grigor Atanesian

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173. Svitlana Biedarieva - Documentation of War in Ukrainian Art - Decolonisation and Ukrainian Identity.

5 september 2023 | 52 min

SPEAKER: Today I’m speaking with Dr Svitlana Biedarieva is an award-winning art historian, artist, and curator. She has conducted research on Ukraine's decolonization, as well as the documentation of the war in Ukrainian art. Her recent edited books include Contemporary Ukrainian and Baltic Art: Political and Social Perspectives, 1991-2021 and At the Front Line. Ukrainian Art, 2013-2019 (co-edited with Hanna Deikun). She received her PhD in History of Art from the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. ---------- LINKS: https://svitlanabiedarieva.com/ https://twitter.com/SBiedarieva https://www.linkedin.com/in/svitlana-biedarieva-55828b45/ https://post.moma.org/decolonization-and-disentanglement-in-ukrainian-art/ ---------- LIST OF WORKS AND ARTISTS: Dana Kavelina 1-2. Letter to a Turtledove, 2020. 3-4. From the series Communications. Exit to the Blind Spot, 2019. Vlada Ralko 5-6. From the series Kyiv Diary, 2013-2014. 7. Demarcation Line, 2018. 8-10. From the series Lviv Diary, 2022. Zhanna Kadyrova 11-12. Palianytsia, 2022. 13. From the series Behind the Fence, 2014. 14. Data Extraction. Irpin, 2022. Kateryna Lysovenko 15. Untitled, 2022. 16. Propaganda of The World of My Dreams. The Last Day of The Last Totalitarianism, 2022. 17. Being Under Knowledge, 2022. 18. Woman and Death, 2022. Svitlana Biedarieva 19-20. From the series The Morphology of War, 2017. Alevtina Kakhidze 21-22. From the series Through the War with Strawberry Andreevna, 2014-2019. 23. Russian Culture is Looking for an Alibi that It Is Not a Killer, 2022. 24. Bucha. Me. 42 Minutes by Car, 2022. Maria Kulikovska 25. 254”, 2015. 26. Stardust, 2018. 27. The Forgotten (Recreation of Homo Bulla destroyed by DPR in 2014), 2019. ---------- WATCH NEXT: Orest Zub https://youtu.be/A7MrcwdDvPQ Aliona Hlivco https://youtu.be/yGLUBCfTkD8 Olga Tokariuk https://youtu.be/D5onDse6WJs Anna Danylchuk https://youtu.be/5AenntkSxIs Roman Sheremeta https://youtu.be/olrTPku8EMM

225. Noel Tock - Animal Rescuer at NOR DOG - Helping Animals that lost Everything during the Ukraine War.

5 september 2023 | 19 min

235. Olha Honchar - Russia has Failed to Acknowledge the Crimes of its Imperialistic Totalitarian History

2 september 2023 | 50 min

Russia’s war against Ukraine has escalated significantly this year, but did not start in February last year, or even in 2014. Its roots are far deeper, and more malign than just territorial ambitions. Today I am exploring how tyranny left unchallenged with continue to fester and project aggression towards its neighbours. Russia’s attempts to dominate Ukraine have deep roots in its Soviet and imperialist past and are very much a result of the failure to acknowledge the crimes of its totalitarian history. ---------- Olha Honchar is CEO of the “Museum Crisis Centre” initiative, which arose in the first days of the Russian war against Ukraine. Co-founder of the NGO “New Museum” and the Charitable Organization “Cultural Heritage Fund of Ukraine”. Olha is a culturologist, anti-crisis manager and Director of the Memorial Museum of totalitarian regimes “Territory of Terror” in Lviv. Ahe is an internationally recognised curator of interdisciplinary projects in the field of historical memory and trauma. ---------- LINKS: https://museumterror.com/en/publications_category/all/ https://www.instagram.com/honchar_o/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/olha-honchar-b7b63374/ https://bookforum.ua/en/participants/13271 ---------- ARTICLES: https://trafo.hypotheses.org/39379 https://www.frieze.com/article/olha-honchar-ukraine-dossier-232 https://uacrisis.org/en/62144-olha-honchar https://atmos.earth/ukraine-war-culture-art-musem-loss-destruction/ https://www.csmonitor.com/Daily/2022/20220314/Art-and-the-telling-of-Ukraine-s-story https://tvoemisto.tv/en/exclusive/we_want_to_survive_not_starve_to_death_and_preserve_the_museum_exhibits_137772.html https://newlinesmag.com/reportage/ukraines-war-museums-are-documenting-history-as-it-happens/ https://www.aargauerzeitung.ch/kultur/krieg-in-der-ukraine-schutz-von-kulturguetern-gibt-es-fuer-ukrainische-kunstschaetze-asyl-in-schweizer-museen-ld.2272530 https://hyperallergic.com/719347/this-group-is-helping-museum-workers-in-ukraine/ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/09/ukrainians-in-race-to-save-a-nations-cultural-heritage https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/08/arts/design/ukraine-museums-art-protection.html https://artreview.com/art-workers-at-war-how-the-ukrainian-artworld-has-rallied-to-protect-cultural-heritage/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fD--hKZPjQ ----------

242. Kateryna Busol - Getting Justice and Restitution for Russian War Crimes is Important Part of Victory

31 augusti 2023 | 49 min

GUEST: Kateryna Busol - Ukrainian lawyer, Senior lecturer and Robert Bosch Stiftung fellow at Chatham House. ---------- Calls to treat as legitimate the ‘security concerns’ raised by Russia, and to account for these in a future settlement of the war in Ukraine, disregard the fact that Moscow’s requirements are fundamentally incompatible with European security. Proponents of a settlement in the war on Ukraine often put forward the idea that Russian ‘security concerns’ must be taken into account in any such settlement, but also in broader revisions to the European security system. These proposals echo the Russian information campaign over the past 30 years to persuade European publics that there can be ‘no security in Europe without Russia’. They provide false support to the argument that Western security policy after the collapse of the USSR unnecessarily encroached on core Russian interests by expanding NATO and forcing Moscow to militarize its foreign policy. In this telling, Russia was merely challenging what it viewed as an unjust European security order. ---------- SPEAKER: Kateryna Busol is a Ukrainian lawyer. She is a senior lecturer at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and a fellow at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law. Kateryna has worked on various issues relating to Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, with a particular focus on the weaponization of cultural heritage, conflict-related sexual violence, reparations, and Ukraine’s transitional justice process. She has worked with the Clooney Foundation for Justice, UN Women, the Global Survivors Fund and Global Rights Compliance. Kateryna has collaborated with Ukrainian NGOs such as the Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union and Truth Hounds and has advised Ukrainian prosecutors and judges on war-related proceedings. She was a visiting researcher at the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies, a Robert Bosch Stiftung fellow at Chatham House, and a visiting professional at the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. ---------- LINKS: https://www.biicl.org/people/kateryna-busol https://www.ukma.edu.ua/eng/index.php/studies/departments/faculty-of-law/international-law/staff/61-dr-kateryna-busol https://www.linkedin.com/in/kateryna-busol-68b4271a9/ https://twitter.com/KaterynaBusol ---------- SUMMARY: Moscow’s war of reconquest against Ukraine has confirmed in the most brutal terms how Russia rejects the values underpinning European security – the same values agreed between Moscow and the West at the end of the Cold War. As a revisionist power, Russia has made itself the primary obstacle to peace and security in Europe and beyond. For stability to be restored and protected, it is essential that the outcome of the war in Ukraine leads to a situation in which – in addition to the expulsion of occupying forces – the exercise of Russian power is contained rather than encouraged. Over time, Russia’s leadership must also be persuaded to renounce its expansionist ambitions. It’s now or never for Ukraine. A protracted or frozen conflict benefits Russia and hurts Ukraine, as does a ceasefire or negotiated settlement on Russia’s terms. If Ukraine is to avoid these outcomes and turn tenacious defence and incremental battlefield gains into outright victory, it needs far more ambitious international military assistance than it has received to date. This report presents the case for an immediate and decisive increase in such support, seeks to dispel overhyped concerns about provoking Russia, and counsels against accommodating Moscow’s demands. ---------- #katerynabusol #chathamhouse #ukraine #ukrainewar #russia #zelensky #putin #propaganda #war #disinformation #hybridwarfare #foreignpolicy #communism #sovietunion #postsoviet ----------

241. Anna Danylchuk - Ukrainians are Fighting for the Right to Even Exist in their Country as Ukrainians.

31 augusti 2023 | 68 min

239. Olha Mukha - Put Ukrainians first: Ukraine is not Just a Footnote to the Imperial History of Russian

29 augusti 2023 | 60 min

100 years ago, nobody cared about Ukraine – or its disappearance as an independent state – swallowed up as the newly born tyranny of the USSR flexed its imperial muscles; but that has now changed. Putin’s Russian World revanchism and violence have accelerated the evolution of Ukrainian identity and increased the pressure for social, political, and economic change. Perhaps the most perverse Russian invasion narrative, is that Ukraine is not old, and is not distinct from Russia in any case. But Ukraine is not just a footnote to Russian imperial history. As a nation, it is old, different, and diverse. And at the end of this war, Ukraine could prove to be the rock upon which the decrepit, brittle hull of the Russian imperial ship tears itself apart and sinks from history. ---------- Olha Mukha is a culturologist, academic editor and compiler, project manager and curator in the sphere of culture and education, civil rights and freedoms activist. She was born on 31 March 1981 in Lviv. Olha has been the curator of congresses, committees and new centres of PEN International (London, UK) since 2018. Chairwoman of the Lviv: UNESCO’s City of Literature Office (2014–2017), co-founder of Ukrainian Association of Culturologists in Lviv (Program Director since 2019) and Academic Religious Studies Workshop (since 2004). Member of the British Society of Aesthetics. She taught at the Franko National University (2003–2011) in Lviv and Drahomanov National Pedagogical University (2011–2018) in Kyiv. Since 2008 she has been curator of a number of academic and cultural projects (i.a.,Religious Scholar’s Handbook, Human in Contemporary World, Narrative War, Tolerance in Theory and Practice, Kitsch Angels, History of Ukrainian Culture in Achievements and Victories, Basia in the City of Literature multiplication series, and others). She is expert counseling at Territory of Terror Museum (since 2017) and member of editorial board at Religious Essays Journal. Olha Mukha is the author of over 80 academic publications, numerous articles and columns. Compiler and co-author of the illustrated literary encyclopedic guide "Lviv: An Inspirational City. Literature" (Old Lion Publishing, 2017). ---------- LINKS: https://pen.org.ua/en/members/muha-olga https://www.linkedin.com/in/olha-mukha-67a443211/ https://twitter.com/OlhaMukha https://twitter.com/pen_int ----------

240. Keir Giles - Why we should not Fear that Russian Defeat would be more Dangerous than Russian Victory

29 augusti 2023 | 41 min

Calls to treat as legitimate the ‘security concerns’ raised by Russia, and to account for these in a future settlement of the war in Ukraine, disregard the fact that Moscow’s requirements are fundamentally incompatible with European security. Proponents of a settlement in the war on Ukraine often put forward the idea that Russian ‘security concerns’ must be taken into account in any such settlement, but also in broader revisions to the European security system. These proposals echo the Russian information campaign over the past 30 years to persuade European publics that there can be ‘no security in Europe without Russia’. They provide false support to the argument that Western security policy after the collapse of the USSR unnecessarily encroached on core Russian interests by expanding NATO and forcing Moscow to militarize its foreign policy. In this telling, Russia was merely challenging what it viewed as an unjust European security order. ---------- SPEAKER: Keir Giles is a senior consulting fellow with the Russia and Eurasia Programme at Chatham House. Keir has supported Chatham House in its Russia-focused research since 2013 and previously worked with the BBC Monitoring Service and the UK Defence Academy, where he wrote and advised on Russian military, defence, and security issues – including human factors influencing Russian security policy, Russian strategy and doctrine, the Russian view of cyber and information security, and Russia’s relations with its neighbours in northern Europe. Keir is the author of multiple publications explaining the Russian approach to warfare. These include NATO’s Handbook of Russian Information Warfare; and Moscow Rules: What Drives Russia to Confront the West. He examined consistent patterns of Western success and failure in deterring Russian aggression. His most recent book is Russia’s War on Everybody: And What it Means for You, which describes the human impact of Russia’s campaigns to acquire power and influence around the world. ---------- BOOKS: Russia's War on Everybody: And What it Means for You (2022) Moscow Rules: What Drives Russia to Confront the West (2019) The Turning Point for Russian Foreign Policy (2017) The State of the NATO-Russia Reset (2011) Potential Challenges to Public Order and Social Stability in the Russian Federation (2011) ---------- LINKS: https://twitter.com/KeirGiles https://www.chathamhouse.org/2023/06/how-end-russias-war-ukraine ----------

222. Andriy Sadovyi - Lviv is now a Leading Centre of Ukrainian Cultural and Economic Life and Resistance

26 augusti 2023 | 11 min

238. Konstantin Samoilov - Inside RussianEconomy - Impact of Sanctions - Collapse of Rouble - Instability

26 augusti 2023 | 45 min

Silicon Bites - #16 - First Among Barbarians - only the Brutal, Sly and Vindictive Survive this Game

25 augusti 2023 | 27 min

236. Bogdan Khorzhenko - Ukrainians came Together to Fight for Freedom from Across the Political Spectrum

23 augusti 2023 | 52 min

228. Live in Lviv - Panel 1 - Volunteer Society - with speakers Johnny FD, Noel Tock, and Brooks Newmark.

22 augusti 2023 | 57 min

229. Live in Lviv - Panel 2 - Reporting in Wartime - with Alina Poliakova, John Sweeney, Julia and Taras.

22 augusti 2023 | 70 min

Silicon Curtain Panel Discussion - Live in Lviv, Ukraine on 10th August 2023 PANEL 2 (12:30-13:30) – Reporting the war ---------- SPEAKERS: Alina Poliakova - Managing Editor of the English version of "Ukrainska Pravda" John Sweeney - Investigative journalist and writer Julia Tymoshenko - Editor in Chief at Saint Javelin Taras Yatsenko - Director of "Tvoe Misto" portal ---------- Challenges of reporting on the conflict and countering Russian disinformation. Western media bias, lack of local knowledge and weaponised social media information. #AlinaPoliakova #JohnSweeney #JuliaTymoshenko #TarasYatsenko #reporting #lviv #victory #ukraine #ukrainewar #russia #zelensky #putin #propaganda #war #disinformation ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NOR DOG Animal Rescue - Our mission is to help the animals suffering from the war in Ukraine. https://www.youtube.com/@nordoganimalrescue3564 ---------- WATCH NEXT: Alina Poliakova https://youtu.be/YmMohd59VLI John Sweeney https://youtu.be/ElS2J4DHbXE Julia Tymoshenko https://youtu.be/mLqB7ShA2l4

237. Steven Moore - Republicans are Divided over Military Aid for Ukraine, says the GOP’s "Man in Kyiv".

21 augusti 2023 | 53 min

227. Orest Zub - Ukrainian Dacha - Rural Tranquility Shows what Ukraine is Fighting for - Peace and Land.

20 augusti 2023 | 10 min

Silicon Curtain Panel Discussion - Live in Lviv, Ukraine on 10th August 2023 Trip into the countryside, a day after the event. Idyllic peace and tranquility of a Ukrainian dacha. ---------- The military cemetery we visited opened in Lviv at the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It already contains many hundreds of graves, with a capacity that is far greater. The longer Western allies dither about supporting Ukraine to win, the faster this (and similar) cemetaries will expand. ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NOR DOG Animal Rescue - Our mission is to help the animals suffering from the war in Ukraine. https://www.youtube.com/@nordoganimalrescue3564 ---------- INTRODUCTION: Silicon Curtain features dozens of Ukrainian voices and experts in English, to support Ukraine’s struggle against Russian aggression and disinformation warfare. On August 10th we held a panel event in Lviv, to show our solidarity with Ukraine and generate awareness of its struggle for survival and liberty against Russian aggression. Through YouTube, social media, and press coverage we aim to get a million people to view the content, and focus on how Ukraine can win this war, and what support it needs in order to do so. The event features some of the most accomplished journalists and experts on Ukraine. Not only the future of Ukraine rests on its victory, but the very survival of democracy across Europe is under threat. The contagion of Russian authoritarian control, and toxic informational warfare is aggressively pushing out across the world, and will do so with renewed vigor, if Putin is allowed to claim a victory against Ukraine. This is not just Ukraine’s fight, but involves anyone who values liberty, democracy, diversity, and the rule of law. See the event website at: https://siliconcurtain.co.uk/lviv ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

223. Live in Lviv - Delays Supplying Weapons to Ukraine Costs Lives - Tragically many Thousands of Lives.

20 augusti 2023 | 7 min

Silicon Curtain Panel Discussion - Live in Lviv, Ukraine on 10th August 2023 Interviews and reportage recorded which in Lviv, 9th August 2023 ---------- The military cemetery we visited opened in Lviv at the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It already contains many hundreds of graves, with a capacity that is far greater. The longer Western allies dither about supporting Ukraine to win, the faster this (and similar) cemetaries will expand. ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NOR DOG Animal Rescue - Our mission is to help the animals suffering from the war in Ukraine. https://www.youtube.com/@nordoganimalrescue3564 ---------- INTRODUCTION: Silicon Curtain features dozens of Ukrainian voices and experts in English, to support Ukraine’s struggle against Russian aggression and disinformation warfare. On August 10th we held a panel event in Lviv, to show our solidarity with Ukraine and generate awareness of its struggle for survival and liberty against Russian aggression. Through YouTube, social media, and press coverage we aim to get a million people to view the content, and focus on how Ukraine can win this war, and what support it needs in order to do so. The event features some of the most accomplished journalists and experts on Ukraine. Not only the future of Ukraine rests on its victory, but the very survival of democracy across Europe is under threat. The contagion of Russian authoritarian control, and toxic informational warfare is aggressively pushing out across the world, and will do so with renewed vigor, if Putin is allowed to claim a victory against Ukraine. This is not just Ukraine’s fight, but involves anyone who values liberty, democracy, diversity, and the rule of law. See the event website at: https://siliconcurtain.co.uk/lviv ----------

234. Elizabeth Braw - Russia and China are Adept at Weaponizing Information for Foreign Policy Objectives

19 augusti 2023 | 51 min

We are at risk of losing the information war. The widespread normalisation of disinformation as a political tool is accelerating distrust in democratic institutions and processes. Greyzone warfare is gaining the edge over open, pluralistic societies. Russia and China have also proved adept at weaponizing information for their foreign policy objectives. Governments have held off intervening strongly in the online media sphere, for fear of wrecking classical liberalism, but at what cost? #ElisabethBraw #greyzonewarfare #ukraine #ukrainewar #russia #zelensky #putin #propaganda #war #disinformation #hybridwarfare #foreignpolicy #communism #sovietunion #postsoviet ---------- SPEAKER: Elisabeth Braw is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where she focuses on defence against emerging national security challenges, such as hybrid and Greyzone threats. She is also a columnist with Foreign Policy, where she writes on national security and the globalised economy. Before joining AEI, Elisabeth was a Senior Research Fellow at RUSI, where she led the Modern Deterrence project. Elisabeth is also a member of the steering committee of the Aurora Forum, a member of the National Preparedness Commission (UK) and an Associate Fellow at the European Leadership Network. She is often published in a wide range of publications, including Politico, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (writing in German), The Times and The Wall Street Journal. Elisabeth is also the author of two highly regarded books. - Monthly columnist – POLITICO (Feb 2023 – Present) - Advisory Board Member - GALLOS Technologies Limited (Aug 2022 – Present) - Commissioner – UK National Preparedness Commission (Nov 2020 – Present) - Member of the Advisory Group – Centre for Information Resilience (Feb 2021 – Present) - Senior Fellow – American Enterprise Institute (Oct 2020 – Present) - Columnist – Foreign Policy (Feb 2020 – Present) - Member of the Steering Committee – Aurora Forum (Dec 2019 – Present) - Op-ed contributor – The Times (Dec 2016 – Present) - Non-resident Associate Fellow – European Leadership Network (ELN) (Aug 2017 – Present) - Senior Research Fellow – Royal United Services Institute (Sep 2019 – Oct 2020) - Adjunct Fellow – Centre for European Policy (Jul 2018 – Jul 2019) - Senior Consultant – Control Risks (Jun 2016 – Aug 2018) - Non-resident Senior Fellow – Atlantic Council (Apr 2016 – Jun 2018) ---------- LINKS: https://twitter.com/elisabethbraw https://www.linkedin.com/in/elisabethbraw/ https://rusi.org/people/braw https://www.aei.org/profile/elisabeth-braw/ https://www.europeanleadershipnetwork.org/person/elisabeth-braw/ https://foreignpolicy.com/author/elisabeth-braw/ https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/people/elisabeth-braw https://cepa.org/author/elisabeth-braw/ ---------- ARTICLES: https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/01/16/russia-ukraine-gray-zone-warfare-autocrats-democracy-527022 https://www.ft.com/content/0ac9e1a9-2aad-47d9-83fb-4839e9b31b33 https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/china-is-master-of-grey-zone-aggression-t6z2khp69 https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/60291/create-a-psychological-defence-agency-to-prebunk-fake-news https://www.aei.org/podcast/elisabeth-braw-on-gray-zone-warfare/ ---------- BOOKS: ‘God’s Spies: The Stasi’s Cold War Espionage (2019) The Defender's Dilemma: Identifying and Deterring Gray-zone Aggression (2022) Goodbye Globalization: The Return of a Divided World (2024)

230. Live in Lviv - Panel 3 - Culture Vs Tyranny - Marta Trotsiuk, Oleksandr Pronkevych, Maria, and Sofia

17 augusti 2023 | 63 min

233. Olga Solovyeva - Technology, Politics, Censorship and Leadership. Yandex (RU Google) and the Kremlin

15 augusti 2023 | 53 min

231. Live in Lviv - Panel 4 - Freedom and Victory - with Anna Danylchuk, Olena Halushka & Joe Lindsley

15 augusti 2023 | 64 min

226. Oleksandra Romantsova - Ukraine is Defending its Independence, and European Security and Democracy.

14 augusti 2023 | 36 min

218. Orysia Lutsevych - Russian Hybrid Warfare, Agents of Russian World, Imperial Ambitions & Aggression.

14 augusti 2023 | 43 min

232. Silicon Curtain LIVE in Lviv | Q&A

14 augusti 2023 | 79 min

221. Oleksiy Goncharenko (Олексій Гончаренко) - What Will it Take to Achieve Victory over Russian Empire.

9 augusti 2023 | 29 min

220. John Lough - Moscow’s Bogus ‘Security Concerns’ are Fundamentally Incompatible with European Security

6 augusti 2023 | 46 min

219. Simon Smith - Territorial Concessions by Ukraine Would Simply Reward Russian Crimes and Aggression.

5 augusti 2023 | 50 min

217. Dr Tracey A. Parnell - She has treated both combat related wounds and provided primary care for those in the battle zones, alternating with immigration and refugee work.

3 augusti 2023 | 49 min

216. James Nixey - It’s now or never to Supply Ukraine. Frozen Conflict Benefits Russia and Hurts Ukraine

1 augusti 2023 | 52 min

Silicon Bites - Russian Violence and Terror Mark a Return to the Worst Periods of Imperial History

30 juli 2023 | 24 min

214. Nina Dobrunova - Supporting Ukraine by Fundraising for Frontline Supplies & Fighting Vatniks in NAFO

30 juli 2023 | 57 min

215. Dan Kaszeta - Chemical Agents are far Less Effective as Weapons of War then as Instruments of Terror

29 juli 2023 | 71 min

213. Timothy Ash - 3-day war extends to 2 years – can Putin’s Economy Continue to Power his War Machine?

22 juli 2023 | 57 min

212. Konstantin Samoilov - Mutiny, Insurgency, Arrests and Economic Pressures - Is Russia Imploding?

19 juli 2023 | 58 min

211. Dr Sasha Dovzhyk - Invasion and Violence Accelerated the Evolution of Ukrainian Resilience and Identity.

17 juli 2023 | 51 min

100 years ago, nobody cared about Ukraine – or its disappearance as an independent state – swallowed up as the newly born tyranny of the USSR flexed its imperial muscles; but that has now changed. Putin’s Russian World revanchism and violence have accelerated the evolution of Ukrainian identity and increased the pressure for social, political, and economic change. Perhaps the most perverse Russian invasion narrative, is that Ukraine is not old, and is not distinct from Russia in any case. But Ukraine is not just a footnote to Russian imperial history. As a nation, it is old, different, and diverse. And at the end of this war, Ukraine could prove to be the rock upon which the decrepit, brittle hull of the Russian imperial ship tears itself apart and sinks from history. ---------- SPEAKER: Dr Sasha Dovzhyk is a London-based author from Zaporizhzhia and a special projects curator at the Ukrainian Institute London. She holds research affiliations with Goldsmiths and Birkbeck, University of London. Since February 2022, she has been dividing her time between London and Ukraine. Sasha has written on topics as diverse as the legacies of Chornobyl, transnational decadent aesthetics, and Ukrainian literature for various publications, including Los Angeles Review of Books, The Guardian, CNN, The Ecologist, openDemocracy. Sasha regularly gives public talks, interviews, and moderates events on the topics of Ukraine's fight against Russia's invasion and Ukrainian traditions of resistance. #SashaDovzhyk #ukrainianinstitute #ukraine #ukrainewar #russia #zelensky #putin #propaganda #war #disinformation #hybridwarfare #foreignpolicy #communism #sovietunion #postsoviet ---------- LINKS: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sasha-dovzhyk-3a907b25/ https://twitter.com/sasha_weirdsley https://www.sashadovzhyk.com/ https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/people/olexandra-dovzhyk https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/author/sasha-dovzhyk/ ---------- ARTICLES: https://www.londonukrainianreview.org/ https://theecologist.org/profile/dr-sasha-dovzhyk https://www.theguardian.com/profile/sasha-dovzhyk https://lareviewofbooks.org/contributor/sasha-dovzhyk/ https://newlinesmag.com/writers/sasha-dovzhyk/

210. Mark Temnycky - Vilnius was a Chance to End Ambiguity & Incrementalism that Left Ukraine Vulnerable.

15 juli 2023 | 48 min

The July 2023 NATO Summit in Vilnius, Lithuania was a chance to end the ambiguity and incrementalism that has left Ukraine vulnerable to Russian aggression and continues to feed Putin’s delusions that he can win the war and beat the Western alliance. The NATO summit, Ukraine's summer counter-offensive, and the recent instability between Russia and the Wagner Group have ensured that the Russo-Ukrainian war remains in the headlines. But what discussions are happening behind closed doors and what events on the ground may be influencing the direction of the war and its aftermath? Will the clear moral stance of supporting Ukraine in wartime, descend into messy compromises in peacetime, and ethical trade-offs with the pariah terror state, Russia? ---------- SPEAKER: Mark Temnycky is a Ukrainian-American freelance journalist, based just outside of New York City, and is a non-resident fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Centre. He has covered Eastern European affairs and energy security matters for seven years, with articles published in The New York Times, Forbes, Daily Mail, EUobserver, Kyiv Post, Atlantic Council, Wilson Centre, and other US and European news outlets and think tanks. His works have been cited and shared by European Parliament, NATO, Helsinki Commission, RAND Corporation, Transparency International, and other government institutions, nongovernmental organizations, and been widely interviewed in UK, US, and EU media. ---------- LINKS: https://twitter.com/MTemnycky https://www.linkedin.com/in/marktemnycky/ https://bylinetimes.com/author/mtemnycky/ https://cepa.org/author/mark-temnycky/ https://www.wilsoncenter.org/person/mark-temnycky https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/expert/mark-temnycky/ ---------- ARTICLES: https://www.kyivpost.com/opinion/16845 https://bylinetimes.com/2023/05/09/ukraine-and-georgia-should-be-welcomed-into-nato/ https://cepa.org/article/weapons-and-ammunition-need-to-be-higher-on-nato-agenda/ https://www.carnegiecouncil.org/media/series/the-doorstep/ukraine-next-move-mark-temnycky

209. Hans Petter Midttun - The Incremental Supply of Weaponry to Ukraine won't Defeat Russian Aggression.

15 juli 2023 | 56 min

207. General David H. Petraeus, US Army (Ret.) - Ukrainians Able to “Out-suffer” Russia to Final Victory.

13 juli 2023 | 51 min

208. Sir Richard Shirreff - Incremental Supply of Weapons, Capabilities and Munitions is Still an Issue.

10 juli 2023 | 39 min

Silicon Bites - 500 Days of Russian Criminality and Barbarism in its Imperial War Against Ukraine.

9 juli 2023 | 20 min

Edition No13 | 07-07-2023 500 Days of Russian Criminality and Barbarism in its Imperial War Against Ukraine ~~~~~ NEWS LINKS: The Moscow Times https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/07/08/zelensky-hails-brave-ukraine-on-500th-day-of-war-a81776 Zelensky Hails 'Brave' Ukraine on 500th Day of War July 7, 2023 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/07/07/us-reporter-gershkovich-marks-100-days-in-russian-detention-a81775 U.S. Reporter Gershkovich Marks 100 Days in Russian Detention July 7, 2023 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/07/05/standing-by-or-choosing-sides-wagner-mutiny-deepens-divides-in-russian-opposition-a81732 Standing By or Choosing Sides: Wagner Mutiny Deepens Divides in Russian Opposition By Leyla Latypova | July 7, 2023 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/06/28/we-were-called-in-for-a-meeting-and-handed-weapons-how-the-russian-elites-survived-the-prigozhin-rebellion-a81682 ‘We Were Called In for a Meeting and Handed Weapons’: How the Russian Elites Survived the Prigozhin Rebellion By Farida Rustamova and Maxim Tovkaylo | June 29, 2023 Ground News https://ground.news/article/us-will-provide-ukraine-with-cluster-munitions-white-house-says_4bf8d7 US will provide Ukraine with cluster munitions, White House says July 7, 2023 https://ground.news/article/turkeys-erdogan-hosts-zelenskyy-says-ukraine-deserves-membership-in-nato_94bb70 Turkey's Erdogan hosts Zelenskyy, says Ukraine deserves membership in NATO July 7, 2023 https://ground.news/article/nato-leaders-set-to-offer-ukraine-major-support-package-but-membership-is-off-the-table-for-now_b14337 NATO leaders set to offer Ukraine major support package but membership is off the table for now July 7, 2023 The Economist https://www.economist.com/ukraine-crisis https://www.economist.com/leaders/2023/07/06/a-new-era-of-high-tech-war-has-begun A new era of high-tech war has begun Jul 6th 2023 https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2023/07/03/can-russias-navy-thwart-attacks-by-repainting-its-ships Can Russia’s navy thwart attacks by repainting its ships? Jul 3rd 2023 ~~~~~

206. Sean McFate - Prigozhin and Wagner Rose as a Force to Challenge Reputation of Russia's Main Military

7 juli 2023 | 57 min

Historically, U.S. firms dominated the private security company market, in places like Afghanistan and Somalia. But in recent years they have been emerging in other countries. Warlords and militias have restyled themselves as private security companies, and in Russia we have seen the incredible consequences of PMC Wagner rising as a force to challenge the reputation of the regular military. Mercenaries were common in the European Middle Ages and contract warfare the norm. The proliferation of private military forces is having a profound effect on international relations, meaning the twenty-first century may have more in common with the twelfth century than the twentieth. ---------- SPEAKER: Dr Sean McFate is a strategist and expert on international relations. He is a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council, and a professor at: Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service, Syracuse University's Maxwell School, and the National Defence University’s College of International Security Affairs. His career began as a paratrooper and officer in the US Army’s 82nd Airborne Division. He served under Stan McChrystal and David Petraeus, and graduated from elite training programs, such as Jungle Warfare School in Panama. Sean has held many roles in a long and distinguished career, including private military contractor, business consultant and author of several successful books, including ‘The New Rules of War’ and ‘Goliath: Why the West Doesn't Win Wars. And What We Need to Do About It’. Dr McFate a consultant to the Pentagon, CIA, and Hollywood. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal, and he has been interviewed on CNN, Fox, MSNBC, BBC, NPR, Vice on Home Box Office, and The Discovery Channel. #seanmcfate #mercenaries # wagner #yevgenyprigozhin #prigozhin #privatemilitarycompany #pmc #ukraine #ukrainewar #russia #zelensky #putin #propaganda #war #disinformation #hybridwarfare #foreignpolicy #communism #sovietunion #postsoviet ---------- LINKS: https://www.seanmcfate.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/seanmcfate/ https://twitter.com/seanmcfate https://www.youtube.com/@seanmcfate826 https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/00336000014TYDIAA4/sean-mcfate https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/expert/sean-mcfate/ https://cisa.ndu.edu/About/Faculty-and-Staff/Article-View/Article/2168026/dr-sean-mcfate/ ---------- ARTICLES: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ux98Xl_lIWk https://www.rferl.org/a/military-strategist-mcfate-what-could-stop-russia/32180030.html https://www.newsweek.com/how-defeat-russias-mercenaries-opinion-1785481 https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/3757281-irregular-warfare-will-win-strategic-competition/ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/commentary/podcast/defeating-the-wagner-group/ ---------- BOOKS: The Modern Mercenary: Private Armies and What They Mean for World Order (2014) Goliath: What the West got Wrong about Russia and Other Rogue States (2019) ----------

205. Alexander Motyl - Putin and Prighozin are Both Implicated in Russia’s Ongoing Genocide in Ukraine.

5 juli 2023 | 58 min

204. Ian Bond - Ukraine's Progress Towards NATO Membership - Why the Vilnius NATO Summit is so Important.

4 juli 2023 | 39 min

203. Anna Ackermann - Why are we Still Shocked by Russian Crimes Against the Environment and Humanity?

3 juli 2023 | 50 min

202. Pekka Kallioniemi - 200 Vatnik Soups - Who are Putin's Agents, Assets and Useful Idiots Among us?

3 juli 2023 | 68 min

201. Alexander Etkind - Does Russia Know where its Borders Lie? Will the Imperial Obsession Destroy it?

1 juli 2023 | 64 min

Much of Russian history was shaped by the “imperial experience”. Alexander Etkind suggests the process was a simultaneous of internal colonization as well as the more obvious external one. The characteristic phenomena of colonialism, such as missionary work, exotic journeys, and ethnographic scholarship, were directed inwards toward the interior provinces of the Russian empire – villages and timeless peasant lifestyles, as well as outwards and overseas. To an extent Russia is still an ‘undiscovered country’ from the perspective of its urban elites, and we see this starkly in the current war – with the burden of fighting and dying falling on minorities and the impoverished. We also see a radical lack of empathy for other people within the empire experiencing violence, whether that be Belgorod or Buryatia. It even leads us to ask, can Russia even be compared to the modern nation states of Europe? #alexanderetkind #colonisation #ukraine #ukrainewar #russia #zelensky #putin #propaganda #war #disinformation #hybridwarfare #foreignpolicy #communism #sovietunion #postsoviet ---------- SPEAKER: Alexander Etkind is a historian and cultural scientist. Alexander Etkind was born in 1955 in St. Petersburg, Russia, and is a professor at CEU Vienna. He was formerly a professor of history and the Chair of Russia-Europe relations at the European University Institute in Florence. He is fellow of the European Institute for International Law and International Relations. Etkind's research focuses on European and Russian intellectual history, memory studies, natural resources and the history of political economy, empire and colonies in Europe, and Russian politics, novels, and film in the 21st century. His has written many compelling books, including Russia Against Modernity, Rethinking the Gulag and Nature's Evil: A Cultural History of Natural Resources. Links will be added to the video description. ---------- LINKS: Alexander Etkind on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Sasha_Etkind Alexander Etkind on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Etkind Alexander Etkind at the Moscow Times: https://www.themoscowtimes.com/author/alexander-etkind-2 ---------- BOOKS: Russia Against Modernity (2023) Rethinking the Gulag: Identities, Sources, Legacies (2022) Nature's Evil: A Cultural History of Natural Resources (2021) Eros Of the Impossible: The History of Psychoanalysis In Russia (2019) Development and Dystopia: Studies in Post-Soviet Ukraine and Eastern Europe (2018) War and Memory in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus (2017) Cultural Forms of Protest in Russia (2017) Warped Mourning: Stories of the Undead in the Land of the Unburied (2013) Internal Colonization: Russia's Imperial Experience (2011) Remembering Katyn (2013) ----------

199. Nolan Peterson - Reporting the War since 2014 - Countering Russian propaganda narratives and aggression

29 juni 2023 | 55 min

198. Nicolas Tenzer - Ukraine is Fighting for Universal Values, not only Survival, Freedom & Independence

29 juni 2023 | 58 min

200. Ben Hodges - After the Wagner Coup what is the Likely Future for Vladimir Putin and the Russian Army

27 juni 2023 | 30 min

Silicon Bites - Ukraine's 3rd Front - Do Chaos & Insurgency in Russia Hold Key to Ukrainian Victory.

27 juni 2023 | 29 min

197. Georgijs Ivanovs - Ukraine really matters - why Ukraine must achieve complete victory in order to get justice for crimes committed against it by Russia

25 juni 2023 | 60 min

Silicon Bites - A bridge to nowhere - Ukraine Targets Supply Routes into Crimea as part of Offensive

25 juni 2023 | 20 min

Edition No11 | 20-06-2023 A bridge to nowhere - Ukraine targets supply routes into Crimea as part of its offensive ~~~~~ NEWS LINKS: The Moscow Times https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/06/22/russia-accuses-kyiv-of-attacking-bridge-linking-crimea-to-mainland-ukraine-a81586 Russia Accuses Kyiv of Striking Bridge Linking Crimea to Mainland Ukraine June 22, 2023 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/06/23/in-photos-cleanup-efforts-in-kherson-following-kakhovka-dam-breach-a81608 In Photos: Cleanup Efforts in Southern Ukraine Following Kakhovka Dam Breach June 23, 2023 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/06/22/20-russian-volunteer-units-sign-military-contracts-defense-ministry-a81588 Zelensky Claims Russia Preparing Radiation Leak at Nuclear Plant June 22, 2023 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/ukraine-join-nato-fast-track-britain-vilnius-summit-b2361817.html Britain backs fast-track Nato membership for Ukraine ‘We have seen Ukraine evolve quickly’ says James Cleverly Kim Sengupta - World Affairs Editor https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/06/22/kazakhstan-and-kyrgyzstan-to-share-data-with-moscow-on-anti-war-russians-conscripts-a81594 Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan to Share Data with Moscow on Anti-War Russians, Conscripts https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/06/20/moscow-ally-kyrgyzstan-sours-on-russian-anti-war-emigres-a81558 Moscow Ally Kyrgyzstan Sours on Russian Anti-War Emigres Updated: June 20, 2023 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/06/23/prize-winning-author-owen-matthews-on-the-origins-and-future-of-the-war-and-russia-a81610 Prize-Winning Author Owen Matthews on the Origins and Future of the War - and Russia https://www.rferl.org/a/armando-iannucci-interview-putin-russia/32467856.html Armando Iannucci: Putin Is A 'Sad Figure' Who Is Fed 'Facts That Aren't Facts' By Vazha Tavberidze June 20, 2023 ~~~~~ USEFUL LINKS: Vatnik Soup https://twitter.com/P_Kallioniemi http://www.medbat.org.ua/en/ Real World News https://kyivindependent.com/ https://www.kyivpost.com/ https://english.nv.ua/ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/ https://meduza.io/en https://meduza.io/ https://novayagazeta.eu/ https://www.newsweek.com/topic/russia... Analysis https://www.ft.com/russia https://www.economist.com/ https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ https://cepa.org/ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/ https://www.theatlantic.com/search/?s... YouTube Channels / @timesradio1 / @khodorkovskyru / @popularpolitics / @macknack / @plushev / @tvrain / @fake_news / @feyginlive ~~~~~

196. Frank Ledwidge - Is the West still Backing Ukraine to Survive only but not to Win a Complete Victory

22 juni 2023 | 60 min

195. Olia Hercules - Intentional Flooding of the Kakhovka Dam by Russia is an Act of Monumental Depravity

21 juni 2023 | 55 min

GUEST: Olia Hercules - Food writer, food stylist and chef. ---------- Today I’m talking to one of Ukraine’s leading cultural figures and most creative minds, about a very personal and difficult subject – the intentional flooding of, Kakhovka by Russia in an act of monumental depravity and barbarism. We’ll also be talking about how culture and food fortify the Ukrainian identify and strengthen their spirit of resistance against tyranny. #OliaHercules #ukrainiancusuine #borscht #ukraine #ukrainewar #russia #zelensky #putin #propaganda #war #disinformation #hybridwarfare #communism #sovietunion #postsoviet ---------- SPEAKER: Olia Hercules is a food writer, food stylist and chef who spent her early childhood in the town of old Kakhovka. She is author of many award-winning cookbooks including Mamushka, Kaukasis, Summer Kitchen and Home Food. She settled in the United Kingdom at the age of 18 to study international relations and Italian at Warwick University. Olia Hercules began working as a chef after completing a course at Leith's School of Food and Wine in 2010. In response to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Hercules raised money to privately send bullet-proof vests to civilian volunteers in the Ukrainian army, including her brother. With her friend, the chef Alissa Timoshkina, she established the #CookForUkraine social media initiative, encouraging businesses and individuals to raise money for UNICEF by cooking Ukrainian cuisine. She has won many awards, include The Observer Rising Star in Food 2015 and was Winner of Fortnum & Mason's Debut Food Book Award 2016. ---------- BOOKS: Mamushka: Recipes from Ukraine & Beyond (Octopus Publishing (2015) Kaukasis: The Cookbook – A Journey Through the Wild East (Octopus Publishing (2017) Summer Kitchens Inside Ukraine's Hidden Places of Cooking and Sanctuary (2020) Home Food (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022) ---------- LINKS: https://twitter.com/Olia_Hercules https://www.linkedin.com/in/olia-hercules-2097925a/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olia_Hercules ---------- WATCH NEXT: Orest Zub https://youtu.be/A7MrcwdDvPQ Aliona Hlivco https://youtu.be/yGLUBCfTkD8 Olga Tokariuk https://youtu.be/D5onDse6WJs Anna Danylchuk https://youtu.be/5AenntkSxIs Roman Sheremeta https://youtu.be/olrTPku8EMM ---------- CHAPTERS: 00:00 Introduction ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Silicon Bites - Is the Russian Empire Rotten to the Core? Will the Elite's Feuding Tear it Apart?

21 juni 2023 | 30 min

194. Olena Halushka - Why are Countries Reluctant to Designate Russia a State Sponsor of Terrorism, Depsite their Brutal Invasion and War Crimes in Ukraine, and what are the Implications.

19 juni 2023 | 62 min

193. Maria Drutska - Will Ukraine’s counter offensive finally bring a stable peace after Russia’s genocidal and pointless war?

18 juni 2023 | 58 min

192. Anna Kvit - Thousands of Women are Serving in the Ukrainian Military and Fighting on the Front Lines

16 juni 2023 | 47 min

190. Christine Khariv - In the Scale and Audacity of its Lies Modern Russia is Truly the USSR's Successor

12 juni 2023 | 55 min

189. Vitalii Poberezhnyi - Destruction of the Kakhovka dam by Russia is Ecocide - Environmental Violence.

11 juni 2023 | 15 min

Videos and photos by Bogdan Logvynenko and Yurii Stefanyak from Ukraїner. ---------- LINKS: https://www.youtube.com/@UkrainerinEnglish https://ukrainer.net/en/ ---------- Ukraїner English language social media links: https://www.instagram.com/ukrainer_en https://www.facebook.com/ukrainer.eng https://twitter.com/ukrainer_en https://www.linkedin.com/company/ukrainer/ ---------- Ukrainian language links: https://twitter.com/logvynenko https://twitter.com/ukrainer ---------- Most prominent Ukrainian Charities on the ground: United24 https://u24.gov.ua/ United24 was founded in May 2022 by Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy to raise funds and support for Ukraine amidst the Russian-Ukrainian war. Razom for Ukraine https://www.razomforukraine.org/ Razom for Ukraine was founded in 2014 to respond to the humanitarian crisis. Their initial fundraising efforts brought in over $100,000 to support protesters in Ukraine during the ongoing conflict. Since then, they’ve carried out various international projects to support Ukraine and Ukrainians abroad. Prytula Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org/en The Prytula Foundation was founded in 2020 by Serhiy Prytula, a Ukrainian presenter and activist, to provide aid to Ukrainians in need. Since then, the organization has shifted their efforts to provide military supplies and support to the Ukrainian army after the Russian invasion. Today, they maintain their headquarters in Kyiv, Ukraine. ---------- #ukraine #ukrainewar #russia #zelensky #putin #propaganda #war #disinformation #hybridwarfare #foreignpolicy #communism #sovietunion #postsoviet ---------- WATCH NEXT: Orest Zub https://youtu.be/A7MrcwdDvPQ Aliona Hlivco https://youtu.be/yGLUBCfTkD8 Olga Tokariuk https://youtu.be/D5onDse6WJs Anna Danylchuk https://youtu.be/5AenntkSxIs Roman Sheremeta https://youtu.be/olrTPku8EMM ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Silicon Bites - War Comes to Russia - It has Sowed the Wind, now its Reaping the Whirlwind - Karma.

10 juni 2023 | 26 min

Edition No9 | 09-06-2023 Sow the Wind, Reap the Whirlwind, as War Comes to Russia ~~~~~ FEATURED ARTICLES: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/has-ukraine-launched-a-special-military-operation-in-russia/ Has Ukraine launched a ‘special military operation’ in Russia? Svitlana Morenets | 22 May 2023, 2:01pm https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/ukraines-next-move-can-putin-be-outsmarted/ Ukraine’s next move: can Putin be outsmarted? Mark Galeotti | 27 May 2023 ~~~~~ NEWS LINKS: The Moscow Times https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/06/02/why-is-the-russian-regime-ignoring-the-moscow-drone-attacks-a81360 Why Is the Russian Regime Ignoring the Moscow Drone Attacks? By Tatiana Stanovaya | Updated: June 2, 2023 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/06/03/russian-border-region-residents-flee-as-shelling-kills-4-a81387 Russian Border Region Residents Flee as Shelling Kills 4 By AFP | June 3, 2023 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/06/02/ukraine-says-downed-all-missiles-drones-in-new-attacks-on-kyiv-a81375 Ukraine Says Downed All Missiles, Drones in New Attacks on Kyiv By AFP | June 2, 2023 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/06/01/two-children-killed-in-russian-strike-on-kyiv-a81353 Three Killed in Russian Strike on Kyiv By AFP | Updated: June 1, 2023 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/05/30/moscow-hit-by-swarm-of-drones-in-wartime-first-a81324 Moscow Hit By Swarm of Drones in Wartime First Updated: May 30, 2023 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/05/30/downed-drones-near-putins-residence-rattle-russias-elite-a81333 Downed Drones Near Putin’s Residence Rattle Russia’s Elite By Pyotr Kozlov | Updated: May 30, 2023 ~~~~~ USEFUL LINKS: Vatnik Soup https://twitter.com/P_Kallioniemi http://www.medbat.org.ua/en/ Real World News https://kyivindependent.com/ https://www.kyivpost.com/ https://english.nv.ua/ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/ https://meduza.io/en https://meduza.io/ https://novayagazeta.eu/ https://www.newsweek.com/topic/russia... Analysis https://www.ft.com/russia https://www.economist.com/ https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ https://cepa.org/ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/ https://www.theatlantic.com/search/?s... YouTube Channels / @timesradio1 / @khodorkovskyru / @popularpolitics / @macknack / @plushev / @tvrain / @fake_news / @feyginlive ~~~~~

188. Anna Proskurina - Russian Territorial and Cultural Appropriation Often go Hand-in-hand with Genocide

7 juni 2023 | 51 min

187. Jerry Hendrix - Black Sea is an Overlooked Factor in Understanding Russia’s Motivations for Invading

6 juni 2023 | 55 min

185. Ksenia Turkova - The Forced Deportation and Filtration of Ukrainians from the Occupied Territories

6 juni 2023 | 51 min

186. Mark Hertling - How Fragile would Russia’s Autocratic System be After a Major Battlefield Defeat

5 juni 2023 | 53 min

163. Roman Horbyk - Putin's 'Second Best Army' in Ukraine has Proved to be very Weak at Classical Warfare

4 juni 2023 | 52 min

184. Yuriy Sak - West Needs to Arm Ukraine to Win the War and Bring Prosecutions Against War Criminals

3 juni 2023 | 45 min

183. Steven Hassan - Does Reliance on Cult-like Personalities Over Reality Always end in Total Disaster

2 juni 2023 | 57 min

179. Oleksii Prytula - While Performing a Combat Mission Oleksii came Under Fire and Lost Both Legs.

1 juni 2023 | 49 min

181. Olena Sotnyk - Ensuring Ukraine Makes Progress in Judicial Reform to Defend Individual Rights in War

1 juni 2023 | 44 min

182. Sergej Sumlenny - Lingering War Guilt Made Many Germans Prior to 2022 Seek Accommodation with Russia

31 maj 2023 | 65 min

180. Mariana Oleskiv - Tourism will be an Important Part of Ukrainian Economy to help with Reconstruction

30 maj 2023 | 55 min

177. Christian Borys - Supporting Ukraine as a Fundraising Innovator – Founder of Saint Javelin

29 maj 2023 | 48 min

178. Konstantin Samoilov - Russia has no borders. But Ukraine has turned the tables on this idea and shown that Russia’s vast border regions are undefended, and in some ways undefendable.

27 maj 2023 | 59 min

175. Graeme Robertson - "We came here in vulgarity and trampled over their territory looking for Nazis."

26 maj 2023 | 55 min

Prighozhin’s calculated outbursts, the incursion into Belgorod, the fall and then encirclement of Bakhmut by Ukraine… everything seems to be happening all at once. What is going on – and could this war be over much sooner than most military experts predict? Here’s a quote from the latest video dropped by Prighozhin, and he says a lot in it that Ukrainians could actually concur with: “We came here in vulgarity and trampled all over their territory looking for Nazis. While we were searching for Nazis, we nailed anyone else we could find. We approached Kyiv, and then, as is said in Russian, shat ourselves and retreated. Came upon Kherson, shat ourselves and withdrew… We conducted the Special Military Operation to de-nazify and demilitarise Ukraine, but instead of denazification we turned Ukraine into a country that the whole world knows about.” ---------- SPEAKER: Graeme Robertson is a Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Director of the Centre for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies. His work focuses on political protest and regime support in authoritarian regimes. As well as Putin v. The People, Graeme is also the author of Revolution and Reform in Ukraine, and The Politics of Protest in Hybrid Regimes: Managing Dissent in Post-Communist Russia, published by Cambridge University Press. He has published articles in many academic journals including the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, The Journal of Politics, and the British Journal of Political Science, as well as contributing regularly to the media on Russia and Ukraine. ---------- BOOKS: Putin v the People: The Perilous Politics of a Divided Russia. by Graeme Robertson and Samuel Greene (2023) Moscow in Movement: Power & Opposition in Putin’s Russia Samuel Greene (2014) The Politics of Protest in Hybrid Regimes: Managing Dissent in Post-Communist Russia by Graeme Robertson (2010) ---------- LINKS https://www.linkedin.com/in/samuel-greene-27aab56/ https://twitter.com/samagreene https://politicalscience.unc.edu/staff/graeme-robertson/ https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/samuel-greene ----------

176. Operator Starsky - Ukrainian National Guardian, blogger, and creator of the most popular and original YouTube channels dedicated to the international community who support Ukraine in its struggle

25 maj 2023 | 58 min

174. John Sweeney - "Instead of Denazification we Turned Ukraine into a Country that the Whole World Knows About"

24 maj 2023 | 62 min

173. Iryna Matviyishyn - Interview with UK Volunteer Working with Mission to Evacuate Frontline Civilians

20 maj 2023 | 64 min

172. Maria Snegovaya - 60% of Russia's Top Leadership Comes from Soviet Elites - with Even More Checkists

19 maj 2023 | 56 min

60% of Russia's top leadership comes from the Soviet elites – the nomenklatura. The number of Chekists (KGB/FSB) in powerful positions has increased several times over, and no longer has a communist party that provided a crude counterweight to prevent them monopolising power in the Soviet Union. Putin's elites are nostalgic for the Stalin-Brezhnev ideals, because most of them made their careers in the Soviet Union, and they are trying to reshape Russian society and Russian minds to fit the repressive ideas of that period. Maria Snegovaya argues that this made not only a dictatorship but also a war inevitable, and that the Soviet-educated Moscow elite believes it can lay claim to the entire post-Soviet space. The solution to deter Russia's aggression is not just a change of government, but fully-fledged lustration. ----------
SPEAKER:
Maria Snegovaya is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Georgetown University's Walsh School of Foreign Service. She is a Senior Fellow with the Europe, Russia, and Eurasia Program at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies, and a Fellow at the Illiberalism Studies Program at George Washington University. Maria’s research interests include public opinion, political economy, and foreign policy. She explores the ongoing authoritarian slide in post-communist Europe and the tactics used by Russian actors and proxies who circulate disinformation to exploit these dynamics in the region. Her research has been referenced by the New York Times, Bloomberg, the Wall Street Journal, the Economist, and BBC. Maria has also written for the Washington Post, the New Republic, Foreign Policy, and others.
#ukraine #ukrainewar #russia #zelensky #putin #propaganda
#war #disinformation #hybridwarfare #foreignpolicy #communism #sovietunion #postsoviet
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LINKS: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maria-snegovaya-2760b18/ https://twitter.com/MSnegovaya https://t.me/mariasnegovaya https://mariasnegovaya.com/ ---------- ARTICLES:
https://www.csis.org/podcasts/russian-roulette/escalating-waves-repression
https://theins.ru/en/opinion/maria-snegovaya/250988
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/why-russians-support-putin%E2%80%99s-war-against-ukrainians-201196
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/russia-great-transformational-failure
https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/07/08/vladimir-putin-backs-down-russia-ukraine/
https://www.csis.org/analysis/out-stock-assessing-impact-sanctions-russias-defense-industry ----------

Silicon Bites - Happy Vyshyvanka Day! Spring Heats up: Sabotage, Survival and Ukrainian Successes

18 maj 2023 | 22 min

Edition No8 | 18-05-2023 Spring heats up - Sabotage, Survival and Ukrainian Successes ~~~~~ FEATURED ARTICLES: TEXTY.ORG.UA https://texty.org.ua/ https://texty.org.ua/d/2023/germs_v2/en/ https://texty.org.ua/articles/109555/whats-that-got-to-do-with-soledar-death-and-renaissance-of-russian-occupation-telegram-channels/ ~~~~~ NEWS LINKS: The Moscow Times https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/05/18/crimea-railway-blast-derails-russian-train-reports-a81187 Crimea Railway Blast Derails Russian Train – Reports https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/05/18/russia-has-lost-50k-scientists-in-5-years-ras-a81196 Russia Has Lost 50K Scientists in 5 Years – RAS https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/05/10/for-ambitious-russian-officials-the-war-has-failed-to-become-a-career-elevator-a81070 For Ambitious Russian Officials, the War Has Failed to Become a Career Elevator https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/05/18/russia-defends-finnish-embassy-bank-account-freeze-a81193 Russia Defends Finnish Embassy Bank Account Freeze The Kyiv Independent https://kyivindependent.com/ukraines-military-reports-breakthrough-on-bakhmut-outskirts/ Ukraine's military reports breakthrough in Bakhmut outskirts https://kyivindependent.com/ex-supreme-court-head-detained-for-60-days/ Ex-Supreme Court Head detained for 60 days https://kyivindependent.com/inside-the-mission-to-evacuate-civilians-from-ukraines-front-lines-interview-with-uk-volunteer/ Inside the mission to evacuate civilians from Ukraine's front lines: Interview with UK volunteer (VIDEO) ~~~~~ USEFUL LINKS: Vatnik Soup https://twitter.com/P_Kallioniemi http://www.medbat.org.ua/en/ Real World News https://kyivindependent.com/ https://www.kyivpost.com/ https://english.nv.ua/ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/ https://meduza.io/en https://meduza.io/ https://novayagazeta.eu/ https://www.newsweek.com/topic/russia... Analysis https://www.ft.com/russia https://www.economist.com/ https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ https://cepa.org/ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/ https://www.theatlantic.com/search/?s... YouTube Channels / @timesradio1 / @khodorkovskyru / @popularpolitics / @macknack / @plushev / @tvrain / @fake_news / @feyginlive ~~~~~

171. Oleksiy Goncharenko - Challenging Russian Propaganda Narratives, Influence and Aggression in Europe

17 maj 2023 | 56 min

170. Gennadiy Druzenko - Saving Lives by Treating and Evacuating Injured Ukrainians on the Frontline

15 maj 2023 | 54 min

Timothy Ash - The Slow Impact of Economic Sanctions and Unreliable Allies in Struggle Against Russia

12 maj 2023 | 56 min

Mariia Kravchenko- Revolutions in Ukraine and the Struggle with Russia Empire over Historical Memory

12 maj 2023 | 45 min

Ksenia Turkova - Russia Propaganda Myths and Suppression of Ukrainian Language, Culture and Identity

12 maj 2023 | 57 min

Anders Åslund - Russia's Lurch to Stalinist Repression and the Risks of a Frozen Conflict in Ukraine

11 maj 2023 | 50 min

David H. Ucko - Infiltration, Ideation and the Subversion of Democracy. Threat of Insurgency in USA?

11 maj 2023 | 69 min

Alina Poliakova - Reporting the Unimaginable Scale of Russia's Human Losses in Putin's Pointless War

11 maj 2023 | 46 min

Anders Puck Nielsen - How fragile will Russia’s autocratic, propaganda-controlled system actually be after a major humiliation on the battlefield?

10 maj 2023 | 54 min

Volodymyr Yermolenko - Putin’s Tyranny and Violence have Accelerated Evolution of Ukrainian Identity

9 maj 2023 | 58 min

Maria Shuvalova - Literature was a Key Tool for Soviet Propaganda, as it also is for Russia Today.

9 maj 2023 | 56 min

Ryan McBeth - Modern, Sophisticated Weapons Key to the Success of Ukraine’s Spring Counter-offensive

7 maj 2023 | 66 min

Yana Rudenko - One of the most Vocal and Effective Voices Telling the Truth about Russian Aggression

7 maj 2023 | 67 min

Olga Solovyeva - Tech Companies can’t Ignore their Responsibilities to Support Democratic Resilience

4 maj 2023 | 43 min

Owen Matthews - The regime Putin has turned distinctly carnivorous in 2023, and that process ratcheted up by degrees after massive protests gripped the streets in 2012

3 maj 2023 | 67 min

Silicon Bites - The Challenges and Problems of Alexei Navalny and the Russian Liberal Opposition

2 maj 2023 | 49 min

Yuliia Dukach - Aggressive Info Warfare still Threatens Democratic Institutions and Social Stability

2 maj 2023 | 66 min

Russian Disinformation is relentless. Like floodwaters it envelops all low-lying and unprotected things and when it recedes, leaves them coated with a filthy, foul-smelling taint. We are all of us vulnerable. Russian disinformation continues to be a threat to Ukrainian sovereignty and unity, though is perhaps not as effective as it was in the years 2014-2022. Nonetheless new narratives are created and propagated continuously to try and divide, confuse, and delay the allies supporting Ukraine, and to erode support for Ukraine’s cause around the world. Aggressive information warfare still threatens information security and social stability, especially in states which Russia seeks to destabilise, confuse, or coerce politicians into supporting it. Russia is still a malign influence in the world. ~~~~~ Yuliia Dukach is a full-stack data journalist at Texty.org.ua and has extensive experience in creating a range of data-driven stories and investigating disinformation in the Ukrainian news media. Texty.org.ua is a Ukrainian Data Journalism Agency that promotes transparency and accountability by developing high-quality journalism and data journalism. Their activities include analysis and presentation of big data in an interesting and comprehensive way, in the form of interactive infographics and web applications. They investigate and research socially important topics that other media do not often raise for a number of reasons. Yuliia has a Ph.D. in Sociology and uses her sociological background and insights to bring to life text, statistics, and network data to fight Russian disinformation operations in the Ukrainian media. ~~~~~ ARTICLES & RESOURCES: https://texty.org.ua/ https://texty.org.ua/tag/disinfomonitor/ https://texty.org.ua/projects/109040/a-year-of-war/ https://texty.org.ua/projects/108323/germs-russian-world-who-supports-russia-europe/ https://texty.org.ua/projects/108161/telegram-occupation-how-russia-wanted-breed-media-monster-ended-paper-tiger/ LINKS: https://twitter.com/ydukach https://www.linkedin.com/in/yuliia-dukach/ https://euvsdisinfo.eu/sanctions-do-not-work-russian-disinfo/ ~~~~~

Mark Hollingsworth - Agents of Influence - How the KGB Subverted Western Democracies

2 maj 2023 | 59 min

Keir Giles - Russia's Hostile Intent - Why does Russia Behave like this? What does it achieve?

29 april 2023 | 57 min

Dmytro Khutkyy - Ukraine's Digital Transformation, Democratic Resistance & Technological resilience.

28 april 2023 | 60 min

Professor Dina Khapaeva - Reanimating the Corpse and Mythology of the Soviet Empire in 21st Century

28 april 2023 | 63 min

Mark Galeotti - Russia has Defied Predictions of Analysts and Media. What are we Still Getting Wrong

25 april 2023 | 74 min

Volodymyr Dubovyk - War in Ukraine forces Geopolitical Shifts in the Black Sea Region and Baltic Sea

24 april 2023 | 59 min

Konstantin Eggert MBE (Hon) - Putin's Small Victorious War and its Momentous Consequences for Russia

23 april 2023 | 68 min

Denys Gurak - Innovative Ukrainian Tech Companies Supporting the War Effort and Powering the Economy

23 april 2023 | 45 min

Maria Popova - Post-Soviet Political Development - Freedom of Speech Vs Authoritarian Consolidation.

23 april 2023 | 51 min

Sean McFate - Terror Weapons and Terrorism - is Putin Grasping at Straws in Desperation not to Lose?

23 april 2023 | 52 min

Robin Horsfall - The Spring Offensive has Begun - Can Ukraine Surprise with Bold and Decisive Gains?

21 april 2023 | 55 min

Dinara Khalilova - The Forced Deportation and Filtration of Ukrainians from the Occupied Territories

21 april 2023 | 55 min

Scott Lucas - Russia's Failed Invasion - What Helped Crucial Ukrainian Resilience in February 2022

21 april 2023 | 55 min

Maria Nizzero - Why it May be Impossible to use Frozen Russian Assets to pay for Rebuilding Ukraine.

14 april 2023 | 62 min

Paul Mason - The British Left and the Struggle Between Open Society and Aggressive Authoritarianism.

14 april 2023 | 47 min

David Satter - Russia Starts to Clamp down on Free Speech of Foreigners with Arrest of US Journalist

12 april 2023 | 43 min

Olha Poliukhovych - Ukrainian Literature has been Influenced by its Complex History and Colonialism.

11 april 2023 | 59 min

Oleksandra Romantsova - What can International Community do to Hold Russia Accountable for Crimes?

9 april 2023 | 60 min

Taras Topolia - Ukrainian Rock Band Antytila Joined the Territorial Defence Forces before the War.

8 april 2023 | 43 min

Marnie Howlett - What Peace Settlement would be Acceptable to Ukrainians to End the Violence.

7 april 2023 | 60 min

Silicon Bites - Russia has Inflicted Huge Trauma on Ukraine in A Year of Aggression and Lies

6 april 2023 | 34 min

Yuri Felshtinsky - Day by day Russia Seems to be Turning Back the Clock to Darker Times from History

4 april 2023 | 72 min

Day by day Russia seems to be turning back the clock to darker times. Pick the worst periods of Russian history and you will find echoes of them in the present day – whether that be the economic and mafia chaos of the 90s, the privations and exceptionalism of the Soviet period, nuclear threat of the Cold War era, Stalin’s repressions and purges, the slaughter of WWII, poverty of the 19th century or unrelenting imperial expansionism of Ivan the Terrible’s times. In its political mythology and with its weaponed education system, Russia is a country whose focus is on the past more than the future, and daily reminds us why looking forward can sometimes be healthier than looking backwards. ---------- SPEAKER: Dr Yuri Felshtinsky is a prominent author, historian, and journalist, and expert on Russia and the former Soviet Union. He has appeared in print, TV, and radio interviews worldwide, and is widely known as co-author of the book “Blowing Up Russia” with Alexander Litvinenko, a former Lieutenant Colonel in the FSB who was poisoned with radioactive polonium in London in 2006. His latest book – “Blowing up Ukraine: The Return of Russian Terror and The Threat of World War III”, was researched before the invasion of Ukraine and is the first comprehensive investigation into the lethal methods Russia has used since 1999 to take over Ukraine – culminating in the full-blown unprovoked war in 2022 and mounting atrocities. More recently he has warned of the risk of a nuclear strike from the territory of Belarus, and it’s the topic of strategic nuclear blackmail that we’ll be discussing today. ---------- BOOKS: Blowing Up Ukraine: The Return of Russian Terror and the Threat of World War III (2022) The Putin Corporation: The Story of Russia's Secret Takeover (2012) Lenin and His Comrades (2010) The KGB Plays Chess: The Soviet Secret Police and the Fight for the World Chess Crown (2010) The age of assassins (2008) Corporation: Russia and the KGB in the Age of President Putin (2008) Blowing Up Russia (2002)

Valeria Kovtun - Building Resilience to Russian Disinformation on a Mass Scale -Lessons for the West

2 april 2023 | 41 min

Jenny Mathers - Why Experts Underestimate Ukraine’s Potential and Over-estimating Russia’s Strengths

2 april 2023 | 63 min

Emma L Briant - The Woman Exposing the Propaganda Puppet Masters - Leading Expert on Information War

2 april 2023 | 56 min

The Putin regime has been widely exploiting the vulnerabilities of global social media platforms, using bots and trolls to promote specific stories and narratives. But they are not alone once developed the same techniques can be used by other powers, international and local to subvert democratic institutions and to warp public perception of the news and politics in their countries. But Russian propaganda does not work how most people think it does. The interventions of the trolls and agitators often fail to directly promote pro-regime narratives in political discussions but do succeed in distracting people from having open discussions that are critical of the state. The mechanics of disinformation operations are often counter-intuitive – and we’ll unpack this topic in today’s episode. ---------- SPEAKER: Emma L Briant is an internationally recognized expert and scholar of information warfare and propaganda who helps policy makers, governments, business leaders, journalists and the general public understand and respond to the challenge of contemporary online threats. Emma is a fellow of Bard College. She has been called “The woman exposing the propaganda puppet masters” by Index on Censorship in 2022, and “One of the world's leading experts in information wars.” by Der Spiegel in 2023. Her research and solutions on the rapid evolution of surveillance driven propaganda and its implications for democracy were central in exposing the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Her work continues to inform policy including through US Congress, UK Parliament, Canadian Parliament and the European Parliament. ---------- BOOKS: Propaganda and counterterrorism: Strategies for global change (2015) Bad News for Refugees by Greg Philo, Emma Briant, et al. (2013) ---------- LINKS: Emma Briant blog and website: https://emma-briant.co.uk/ Emma Briant on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Briant Emma Briant on Twitter: https://twitter.com/EmmaLBriant Emma Briant on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emmalbriant/ Emma Briant on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/emmalbriant Emma Briant at Open Democracy: https://www.opendemocracy.net/es/author/emma-l-briant/ Emma Briant at Bard College: https://www.bard.edu/faculty/details/?id=4601 Reading list: https://www.patreon.com/posts/78981573 About Cambridge Analytica: https://www.propagandamachine.tech/ UK Parliamentary committee report: https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/96662/html/ ----------

Hein Goemans - It’s Going to take More Dying and Destruction Before Russia is Prepared to make Deal

1 april 2023 | 46 min

After the first anniversary of the full-scale war, a febrile and impatient media is asking the question “when will the war end” with greater frequency. There are many reasons for this – of course a concern for the loss of life, the destruction, and the economic pain. But also, war fatigue, misunderstanding the combatant’s motivations and actions, and a general lack of historical perspective, leading them to misunderstand the mechanics and practice of warfare. My guest this week is Hein Goemans, an expert in war termination theory (in other words, how wars end). He explains that “It’s going to take a lot more dying and destruction before both sides are prepared to make a deal, or even start defining what a deal could like”. So is there any clear end to this war in sight, or are the two sides too far apart, with radically different objectives. ---------- SPEAKER: Hein Goemans, professor at the University of Rochester in the United States. His academic specialism is war termination theory. Hein is a specialist in the politics of war, war termination and territorial disputes. His first book, War and Punishment (2000), and asks what keeps wars going and what makes them stop, and focuses on the role of leaders in war termination – with an empirical focus on World War I. His second book, Leaders, and International Conflict (2011) and focuses on the role of leaders in war initiation, a very relevant area of study in the context of the Ukraine war. Goemans' publications have appeared in the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, and other publications. Goemans has discussed his work on war termination in the context of the war in Ukraine in articles in The New Yorker and the Monkey Cage as well as in international media, such as the BBC's The Inquiry, Cable News CBC, Euronews, CNN Portugal, France 24, and other outlets as well as in print media such as The Financial Times, Der Spiegel, and Die Zeit. ---------- LINKS: https://www.ft.com/content/b3f7ea51-dcc2-4011-b3ac-45faabdc35c7 Ukraine series: how long will the war last? What history tells us about why some conflicts endure, and others end quickly. https://www.rochester.edu/college/faculty/hgoemans/ https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691049441/war-and-punishment ----------

Julia Davis - Russian Disinformation Operations Populated by Rogue’s Gallery of Toxic Propagandists.

24 mars 2023 | 65 min

Alexander Etkind - Putin is Propelling Russia Backwards in a Self-Destructive Civilisational Decline

24 mars 2023 | 62 min

Russia is tearing itself away from modern civilization and its associated values, norms and comforts. Putin and his coterie of incompetent sycophants seem to be happily destroying the foundations of everything that has been built in the past 30 years. Instead, he’s embracing an alternative future tied to eastern despotism as a vassal state of China – a source of assets to be mined, without any value-added production. What demons have resurfaced from Russia’s past, and what is driving a form of sado-masochistic self-destruction and flagellation, that seems to be propelling Russia backwards in a painful civilisational decline. And where will this out-of-control Troika stop – possibly at an era that pre-dates Peter the Great’s efforts to punch a window onto Europe in the façade of Russia’s feudal-military despotism, established by the khans of the Mongol Horde. But what is the role of such a state in the modern world? ---------- SPEAKER: Alexander Etkind is a historian and cultural scientist. Alexander Etkind was born in 1955 in St. Petersburg, Russia, and is a professor at CEU Vienna. His book Russia against Modernity is forthcoming with Polity Press. He was formerly a professor of history and the Chair of Russia-Europe relations at the European University Institute in Florence. He is fellow of the European Institute for International Law and International Relations. He completed his B.A. and M.A. in 1978 in Psychology and English at Leningrad State University. Etkind taught at the European University at St. Petersburg then at Cambridge University where he was also a fellow of King's College. He was a visiting fellow at New York University, Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin, and other places. Etkind's research focuses on European and Russian intellectual history, memory studies, natural resources and the history of political economy, empire and colonies in Europe, and Russian politics, novels, and film in the 21st century. His has written many compelling books, including Russia Against Modernity, Rethinking the Gulag and Nature's Evil: A Cultural History of Natural Resources. ---------- LINKS: Alexander Etkind on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Sasha_Etkind Alexander Etkind on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Etkind Alexander Etkind at the Moscow Times: https://www.themoscowtimes.com/author/alexander-etkind-2 ---------- BOOKS: Russia Against Modernity (2023) Rethinking the Gulag: Identities, Sources, Legacies (2022) Nature's Evil: A Cultural History of Natural Resources (2021) Eros Of the Impossible: The History of Psychoanalysis In Russia (2019) Development and Dystopia: Studies in Post-Soviet Ukraine and Eastern Europe (2018) War and Memory in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus (2017) Cultural Forms of Protest in Russia (2017) Warped Mourning: Stories of the Undead in the Land of the Unburied (2013) Internal Colonization: Russia's Imperial Experience (2011) Remembering Katyn (2013) ----------

Ben Hodges - Now is Ukraine's Turn to Strike Back, but When, Where, and How Hard will they Strike?

21 mars 2023 | 58 min

Through the winter, Ukrainian and Western officials had warned Russia was preparing to launch a new offensive. Apparently, it was “mustering forces beyond the Urals”, according to General Valery Zaluzhny, Ukraine’s army chief. Rumours circulated, that Russian forces, bolstered by Belarussian divisions, could even try to storm Kyiv once more. Russia had gathered half a million fresh mobilised troops and would “make a push” around the anniversary of the war, suggested the defence minister, Oleksii Reznikov. But it seems that Russia’s offensive began weeks ago, around the meat grinder of Bakhmut, and is already running out of steam – a damp squib. Intercepted communications and the ravings of angered mil bloggers suggest Russia is running out of ideas and ammunition. Now it seems is the turn of Ukraine to strike back. But when, where, and how hard will they hit the Russians? ---------- SPEAKER: Ben Hodges is a retired United States Army officer, who became commander of United States Army Europe in November 2014, and held that position for three years until retiring from the United States Army in January 2018. Ben Hodges has been Senior Advisor to Human Rights First since June 2022 and also serves as NATO Senior Mentor for Logistics. Until recently Ben Hodges was the Pershing Chair in Strategic Studies, at the Centre for European Policy Analysis, specialising in NATO, the Transatlantic relationship and international security. ---------- LINKS: Ben Hodges - Twitter: https://twitter.com/general_ben Ben Hodges - Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Hodges Ben Hodges - CEPA: https://cepa.org/author/ben-hodges/ Ben Hodges - New Statesman: https://www.newstatesman.com/the-weekend-interview/2023/02/ben-hodges-hope-russians-west-loses-will-keep-supporting-ukraine Ben Hodges - The Telegraph: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/b/ba-be/ben-hodges/ Ben Hodges - Defence IQ: https://www.defenceiq.com/contributor/ben-hodges Ben Hodges - BBC HardTalk interview: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/n3ct0c38 Ben Hodges - Globsec: https://www.globsec.org/who-we-are/our-people/lieutenant-general-ben-hodges Ben Hodges - Atlantic Council Q&A: https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/content-series/ac-turkey-defense-journal/qa-with-lieutenant-general-retired-ben-hodges/ ----------

Ian Garner - Generation Z - Russia’s Fascist Youth Movement Perpetuates the Idea of Eternal Tyranny

21 mars 2023 | 60 min

Yuri Felshtinsky - A Regime of Assassins - How the KGB/FSB Came to Dominate Power Vertical in Russia

21 mars 2023 | 64 min

Anastasia Edel - Once Again Western World Entirely Failed to Predict or Understand Russia’s Actions.

21 mars 2023 | 73 min

Phumzile Van Damme - Digital Disinformation Undermines Global Democratic Processes and Institutions.

20 mars 2023 | 54 min

The rise of the internet in the 21st century has been accompanied by unprecedented levels of polarisation, division, and weaponised information. At the same time democracies around the world are being hit by a huge range of different, and rapidly evolving hostile state activities. The focus of this channel is primarily Russia, but this problem is not confined to countries that oppose Russia’s expansionism and influence in Europe and the US. This is a global problem, with many countries learning and adopting the techniques of digital manipulation for electoral advantage. Once the ‘technology’ and methodology of malign influence through social platforms has been developed, it can be used by local as well as international players, to undermine opponents and their values, and democratic institutions. ---------- SPEAKER: Phumzile Van Damme is an Award-Winning Counter-Electoral Disinformation Expert, digital rights activist, Changemaker, and authority on Platform Accountability. Van Damme is a consultant in South African and former Member of Parliament representing South Africa’s official opposition, the Democratic Alliance and described as a “Young MP with a mission.” She was first elected at the 2014 South African general election and re-elected in 2019. She served as a Whip in the National Assembly and was the Shadow Minister of Communications and Digital Technologies Committee. She also serves on boards and advisory councils of organisations dedicated to fighting disinformation and online violence against women and holding social media companies for harms emanating from their platforms. Van Damme has received many accolades for her achievements and work, such as the 2022 Vital Voices Global Leadership Award, Forbes Magazine Top 20 Youngest Power Women in Africa, 2019/20 Vital Voices fellowship, and 2021/Munich Security Conference Young Leader. ---------- LINKS: https://twitter.com/zilevandamme https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phumzile_van_Damme https://www.linkedin.com/in/phumzile-van-damme/ https://www.vitalvoices.org/fellow/phumzile-van-damme/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adDXhacRlds https://www.independent.co.uk/author/phumzile-van-damme ----------

Oleksandra Tsekhanovska - Russia's Shifting Red Lines, Disinformation and the Politics of Terrorism.

20 mars 2023 | 52 min

David Satter - Failure to Memorialise the Victims of Stalin's Terror and its Terrible Consequences

20 mars 2023 | 44 min

Aleksandar Djokic - Struggle Against Creeping Authoritarianism and Russification has not been Won

20 mars 2023 | 61 min

Inna Sopronchuk - Ukrainian language is a Crucial Aspect of Ukraine's Struggle to Remain Independent

17 mars 2023 | 57 min

The Ukrainian language is a crucial aspect of Ukraine's struggle to remain independent of Russia. Preserving the Ukrainian language is essential for maintaining Ukraine's distinct cultural and national identity, and in the current context, to resisting efforts by Russia to control and dominate it politically. During Ukraine's history, there have been efforts to suppress the use of the Ukrainian language, particularly during the Soviet era when Russian was promoted as the primary language of communication. However, since Ukraine gained independence in 1991, there has been a renewed emphasis on the Ukrainian language and its role in shaping the country's national identity. The Ukrainian government has taken steps to strengthen the status of the Ukrainian language, including passing laws to promote its use in public life, education, and government institutions. It has also sought to counter Russian propaganda efforts by promoting Ukrainian-language media and cultural events. Russian propaganda has labelled this process as persecution and Russophobia. The ongoing conflict between Ukraine and Russia has further highlighted the importance of the Ukrainian language as a symbol of Ukraine's sovereignty and independence. The Russian government and pro-Russian separatists have attempted to promote the use of Russian in eastern Ukraine, leading to tensions between Ukrainian and Russian speakers in the region. In conclusion, the Ukrainian language is a crucial element of Ukraine's struggle to remain independent of Russia. Its preservation and promotion are essential for maintaining Ukraine's national identity and sovereignty.

Inna Sopronchuk is creator and host of the popular YouTube channel — “Speak Ukrainian” and has made it her mission to be a guide to the language and culture of her Ukrainian ancestors. She created the online school “Speak Ukrainian”. As well as the free course, she has created Textbooks, Flashcards, and structured Online Classes to help her audience reach their language goals. The course is intended both for interested foreigners, but also for Ukrainians to help connect with their ancestral roots. Inna regularly posts video lessons about Ukrainian grammar, vocabulary, and phonetics.

Links:

https://www.youtube.com/@SpeakUkrainian

Kateryna Pavlevych -There will be no Victory until many Thousands of Children Return Home to Ukraine

12 mars 2023 | 63 min

Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians have had to evacuate through Russia or were forcibly deported there. They have experienced terrible things like the “filtration” camps on the borders, separation from families, cruel interrogations by Russians, and being forced to live in another country (the enemy country) without money or documents in many cases. Left stranded and struggling to leave Russia by themselves. Some, like children do not even have the option to try to return home or go to Europe. Ukraine been able to find and return a few hundred children – but for victory to be achieved, must locate, and return many thousands. Even when the fighting ends, victory will not be achieved until all the children return home to Ukraine.

Kateryna Pavlevych is a PR Specialist by day and writer by night. She is a Ukrainian native that lives in New York. Kateryna’s skills are independent PR, Comms & Advocacy. She is a contributor to the PR Army of Ukraine, a Volunteer at RAZOM for Ukraine, and a strong speaker and advocate in the campaign ‘Where Are Our People’, and recently spoke at the UN in New York on this issue.

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Links:

WhereAreOurPeople

https://deportation.org.ua/

Razom for UKraine

https://razomforukraine.org/

Helping to leave (evacuation from Russia)

https://helpingtoleave.org/en

Human rights:

https://zmina.ua/en/

https://ccl.org.ua/en/(human rights)

https://www.thereckoningproject.com/

Missing children:

https://childrenofwar.gov.ua/

The podcast at NYT mentioned in the video:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/03/podcasts/the-daily/russia-ukrainian-children-adoption.html

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https://twitter.com/Kpavlevych

https://twitter.com/WAOPUA

https://twitter.com/prarmyua

https://twitter.com/razomforukraine

https://twitter.com/search?q=%23WhereAreOurPeople&src=hashtag_click

https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1lPKqBRbkqmGb?s=20

https://ukrainer.net/russia-russified/

https://medium.com/the-ukrainian-view/11-tips-for-journalists-covering-russian-war-against-ukraine-a70bc51d684a

Where Are Our People? @WAOPUA - A campaign by @prarmyua aimed at returning Ukrainians who were illegally deported to Russia during the Russian-Ukrainian war #WhereAreOurPeople deportation.org.ua

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Lt. General Ben Hodges - As Putin's Army Loses on the Battlefield he's Resorting to Terror Threats

12 mars 2023 | 53 min

Anastasiya Shapochkina - State of Lawlessness: Russia Resorts to Energy Terrorism in its Ukraine War

12 mars 2023 | 62 min

Londongrad - Vast Wealth was Stripped from Russia by the Oligarchs, and Flaunted in London

12 mars 2023 | 59 min

Silicon Bites - A Terrible Anniversary Passed on 24th Feb in Putin’s Pointless War Against Ukraine

12 mars 2023 | 27 min

Nataliya Mykolska - Dattalion is her Chosen Weapon in this War for the Future of her Country Ukraine

11 mars 2023 | 61 min

Tetyana Denford - How Art, Music, Literature, Culture and Fashion are Reinforcing Ukrainian Identity

6 mars 2023 | 57 min

Elina Beketova - Behind the Lines in Temporarily Occupied and Recently Liberated Ukrainian Territory

6 mars 2023 | 56 min

Henry Marsh - Innovative Neurosurgeon Shares A Doctor's View of the War and Ukrainian Resilience

5 mars 2023 | 47 min

Oliver Bullough - Russian Money in London Permeated its Service Sector & Secured Political Influence

4 mars 2023 | 54 min

Dr Stephen Hall - How Authoritarian Regimes Learn from Each Other Spreading Intolerance like a Virus

2 mars 2023 | 58 min

Silicon Bites - Putin is Preparing Russia for a Long War and Systemic shift to a Militarised Society

25 februari 2023 | 30 min

Artur Rehi - Will Defeat of Russia’s Poorly Trained and Equipped Forces in 2023 Bring End to the War

24 februari 2023 | 52 min

Anna Danylchuk - Anna from Ukraine Explains why Ukraine is Different, why it Resists and will Endure

24 februari 2023 | 87 min

Andreas Umland - Will Peace with Russia Depend on who Suceeds Putin, as Regime Becomes more Fragile.

22 februari 2023 | 52 min

Bill Browder - Putin’s Kleptocratic System Brought to the Edge of Collapse by Putin's Disastrous War

22 februari 2023 | 51 min

Boris Bondarev - An Undiplomatic Voice of Dissent Rejecting Putin's Crimes against Ukraine & Russia.

19 februari 2023 | 58 min

Andrei Soldatov - How GULAG Economics and Repression is Dragging Russia Back to Worst Days of USSR

18 februari 2023 | 61 min

Denis Zakharov -"Every Russian is Responsible"- On Choosing to Stay and Fight Putin's Violent Regime

18 februari 2023 | 56 min

James Rodgers - How Reporting from the Former Soviet Sphere has been Turned on its Head since Feb-22

18 februari 2023 | 37 min

Vasilina Orlova - History may Show the Disintegration of the USSR was not Avoided, Merely Postponed.

18 februari 2023 | 65 min

Anton Shekhovtsov - It's Russia's Imperial War but with Putin's Genocidal Obsessions Driving Hatred.

18 februari 2023 | 48 min

SiliconBites - NAFO Special Episode - Viewing is Non-negotiable

17 februari 2023 | 33 min

Edition No3 | 15-02-2023 NAFO special edition

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Pekka Kallioniemi - Vatnik Soup - Keeping Watch on Kremlin Assets, Agents, Useful Idiots & Oligarchs

13 februari 2023 | 54 min

Anastasiya Shapochkina - Are Energy Sanctions Effective at Blunting Russian War Machine and Economy?

13 februari 2023 | 78 min

Denis Zakharov - Russia is Committing Worst Crimes Imaginable in Ukraine and Occupied Territories

13 februari 2023 | 76 min

Silicon Bites - Summary of Latest news from Ukraine and Russia from a Wide Variety of Media Sources.

9 februari 2023 | 41 min

Silicon Bites - Summary of Latest news from Ukraine and Russia from a Wide Variety of Media Sources.

9 februari 2023 | 21 min

Orest Zub - Informing the Global Community on Ukraine & Providing Informational Resistance to Russia

9 februari 2023 | 59 min

Iryna Subota - Hybrid Warfare Threats - Science of Countering Russian Disinformation and Aggression.

6 februari 2023 | 47 min

Konstantin Samoilov - Documenting Russia’s descent into Authoritarianism from the Inside and Outside

6 februari 2023 | 60 min

Luke Harding - On the Frontline of Ukraine's Struggle to Survive Russia's Illegal and Bloody Assault

6 februari 2023 | 45 min

Aliona Hlivco - Fighting Corruption and Oligarch Influence on Ukrainian Politics & Media in Wartime.

4 februari 2023 | 63 min

Carl Miller - Confronting Information Threats Online, from Disinformation to Hate, and Conspiracies

3 februari 2023 | 55 min

Fiona Hill - Rather than a Real Threat NATO was an Irritating Barrier to Putin's Imperial Ambitions.

2 februari 2023 | 44 min

From 2007-08 Putin came to believe that the West was in decline, degenerate and weak. It’s at that moment he pronounced a more assertive Russia, and started to act accordingly on the world stage, and in relations to neighbouring countries, with the invasion of Georgia in 2008, and Crimea in 2014. NATO provocation is one excuse given for Russian aggression and is prominent in domestic Russian propaganda. But it’s unlikely he saw NATO as a threat and must have known they had neither the intent nor capability to directly threaten Russian territory. Afterall, why would they when Europe’s economy depended on Russian gas and oil? Rather he may have seen NATO as an irritating barrier to his new imperial ambitions to unite the Russian speaking world, and former colonial territories.

Dr Fiona Hill is a British-American foreign affairs specialist and author. She is a former official at the U.S. National Security Council, specializing in Russian and European affairs, and was a witness in the November 2019 House hearings during the first impeachment of Donald Trump. She earned a Ph.D. in history from Harvard University in 1998. She currently serves as a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington and will take up office as Chancellor of Durham University in England in summer of this year. She recently served as deputy assistant to the president and senior director for European and Russian affairs on the National Security Council from 2017 to 2019. From 2006 to 2009, she served as national intelligence officer for Russia and Eurasia at The National Intelligence Council. She is author of “There Is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the 21st Century” and co-author of “Mr. Putin: Operative in the Kremlin” (Brookings Institution Press, 2015). Hill has researched and published extensively on issues related to Russia, the Caucasus, Central Asia, regional conflicts, energy, and strategic issues.

Julia Tymoshenko - Saint Javelin and Ukrainer - Fighting for Ukraine on the Informational Frontline.

2 februari 2023 | 63 min

Oksana Semenik - Ukrainian Artists Labelled as ‘Russian’ -Decolonizing American and European Museums

31 januari 2023 | 49 min

John Spencer - Putin's Imperialist War has put a Tax on the World - A Massive Economic & Energy Levy

29 januari 2023 | 57 min

Johnny FD - Without Heat, Without Light, Without Food and Water or Without Russia - Without Russia!

29 januari 2023 | 55 min

Bohdan Krawchenko - How Russia uses Famine, Terror, and Deportation to Suppress Ukrainian Nationhood

29 januari 2023 | 57 min

Jade McGlynn -The Myths Fuelling Acquiescence, Indifference and Support for Russian's War in Ukraine

29 januari 2023 | 58 min

Sir Richard Shirreff - Give Ukraine Tools it Needs to get the Job Done and Achieve Decisive Victory.

25 januari 2023 | 56 min

Operator Starsky - Russian Lies are Accompanied by Brutality such as Theft, Murder, Rape and Torture

22 januari 2023 | 72 min

Brooks Newmark - Putin's Humanitarian Catastrophe - People Risking their Lives to Rescue Civilians

21 januari 2023 | 51 min

Andrew S Weiss - The Life and Lies of Putin - and the Disasterous Culmination of a Toxic Character

21 januari 2023 | 52 min

Nina Jankowicz - Normalisation of Disinformation as Political Tool Accelerating Distrust in Democracy

20 januari 2023 | 54 min

Anastasiia Marushevska- Using PR to Amplify the Truth and Raise Awareness in International Community

19 januari 2023 | 74 min

Dana Pavlychko - Ukraine’s Diaspora Playing an Extraordinary Role in Supporting Ukraine in Wartime

19 januari 2023 | 36 min

Marta Trotsiuk - How Art is Helping Fight Back Against Russian Aggression and Cultural Imperialism

18 januari 2023 | 46 min

Anders Puck Nielsen - Violence is being Privatised by Mercenary Groups as the Ruling Elite Fragments

16 januari 2023 | 44 min

James Bruno - 1st hand Insights from Georgia, where Russians are Increasingly Unpopular and Resented

16 januari 2023 | 61 min

Adam Ure - How UK Government Leverages Open-source Intelligence in Foreign Policy Work after Feb '22

16 januari 2023 | 53 min

Peter Pomerantsev - Imperial Ambition, Autocracy and the Compulsion to Humiliate Drives Russia's War

13 januari 2023 | 52 min

Vlad Vexler - Tyranny in Search of an Idea - How Russia's Increasingly Autocratic Regime Lacks Ideas

12 januari 2023 | 72 min

Anna from Ukraine - Video Diary of Anna Danylchuk Provides an Honest and Personal Perspective on War

10 januari 2023 | 57 min

Rahim Rahimov - How 1917 Revolution Casts a long Shadow over Russian Politics and Imperial Ambitions

10 januari 2023 | 66 min

Edward Lucas - Is Putin the Architect of his own Destruction - or does West Bear Some of the Blame?

10 januari 2023 | 37 min

Precious N Chatterje-Doody - Strategic Application of Terror in Russian Foreign & Security Policies

9 januari 2023 | 58 min

Paul Niland - Invasion Trauma: Ukraine's Struggle Against Russia's Illegal Occupation and Aggression

9 januari 2023 | 50 min

Owen Matthews - Has Putin Turned into a Reckless Gambler - Risking Everything in his War on Ukraine?

6 januari 2023 | 66 min

Vlad Vexler - Capricious Conscription: Social, Political and Psychological impact of Mobilisation

6 januari 2023 | 70 min

Dr Allyson Edwards - Militarisation of Youth, Radicalisation of Society and Manipulation of History

6 januari 2023 | 59 min

Ben Hodges - Ukrainian Bravery and Russian Blunders - Putin's Endgame in a War he's Starting to Lose

6 januari 2023 | 47 min

Monique Camarra - Italy's Lurch to the Right, and its Implications for Ukrainian Support in Europe

6 januari 2023 | 40 min

Olga Tokariuk - Putin Hopes commitment of West to Ukraine will Decline as Horror Drags on for Months

6 januari 2023 | 62 min

Alya Shandra - Post-Soviet transformation - Changes in Ukrainian society after Euromaidan revolution

5 januari 2023 | 68 min

Dmytro Zolotukhin - How Ukraine Pioneered Open Source Intelligence to fight Hybrid Info Warfare

5 januari 2023 | 65 min

Yuri Felshtinsky – Blowing up Ukraine: The Return of Russian Terror and the Threat of World War III

5 januari 2023 | 60 min

Nina Zakharkina–Berezner - How Independent Candidates are Resisting Autocracy in Municipal Elections

5 januari 2023 | 45 min

Stephen Hutchings - Origins of 'Russia Today' the Kremlin's Hard-Edged Soft Power Propaganda Channel

5 januari 2023 | 64 min

The Hybrid Media Propaganda System that Enables Russian Authoritarianism - Maxim Alyukov Interview

5 januari 2023 | 66 min

Vlad Vexler - The Long War: Defending Society, Rule of Law, and Democracy from Assaults and Nihilism

5 januari 2023 | 73 min

Weaponised Social Media and the Radical MAGA Cult Threaten to Destroy US Democracy - David DeBatto

5 januari 2023 | 68 min

Mila Krutchenko - Information Assault: How Ukrainian Media Companies United to Resist Disinformation

5 januari 2023 | 40 min

Edward Lucas - Russia's Descent into Authoritarianism and Imperial Delusion: Inevitable or Avoidable

5 januari 2023 | 41 min

How EUvsDisinfo Combats pro-Kremlin Disinformation Campaigns Affecting EU and Europe" - Peter Stano

4 januari 2023 | 36 min

Danylo Globa - YouControl is Ukrainian Tech helping Local and Western Companies avoid Russian Money.

4 januari 2023 | 43 min

Hysteria, Fear and Lies – the Role of Russian TV in Suppressing Dissent - Olga Irisova Interview

4 januari 2023 | 63 min

Mark Galeotti - Criminality, Conflict and Deception: Russia's Hybrid Warfare Transforms to Total War

3 januari 2023 | 65 min

The invasion of Crimea and the Donbas in 2014 has now been overshadowed by the full-scale war across Ukraine. But understanding the shadowy and obscure ways in which the conflict began and developed prior to 2022 may help to highlight potential risks for a post-conflict order. Russia’s hybrid warfare strategy may have played a leading role in igniting and fuelling the conflict, but crime and insurgency are intimately interconnected in the Kremlin playbook. The boundaries between mafia criminality, the security forces and government are hopelessly blurred in Russia, and nowhere more so than in the occupied territories of Ukraine. The Kremlin is opportunistic and co-opts all kinds of actors, from businesses and gangsters to politicians and educators as tools and proxies. A Ukrainian victory will not only require the seizing back of territory, but an effort to root Russian assets, networks and accomplices and roll back propagandist media and the penetration of the occupied territories by criminal elements. I’m joined by world-renowned academic Mark Galeotti today to unravel this murky and terrifying Ruskii Mir.

Mark Galeotti is an author and academic – by training an historian – but in practice an interdisciplinary scholar with interests encompassing politics, criminology, security studies, international relations, and anthropology. He is a specialist in transnational and organized crime, security affairs, Russian Politics, Russian History, Intelligence and Security. Mark has a PhD in Government from LSE and has worked as a Senior Lecturer and Head of Department of History at Keele University. I can’t list all his numerous achievements, but he is a Principal Director at Mayak Intelligence, and is an Honorary Professor, SSEES at UCL. He is a Senior Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute. He has also been Professor of Global Affairs at New York University from 2009 to 2016. Make Galeotti has written on a dizzying array of topics and published numerous books covering Russian foreign and security policy, the Soviet war in Afghanistan, Soviet and Russian militaries, organised crime, as well as the Russian leaders: Mikhail Gorbachev and Vladimir Putin. At present Mark is working on a survey of Russia’s military since 1991 – which is likely a challenge given the rapid degradation of that military in Ukraine since February, and he’s also researching the security and intelligence services and their impact on Russian politics and society.

Ryan McBeth - Will Defeat in 2023 Finally Bring Home to Russians the Folly of their Full-scale war?

3 januari 2023 | 67 min

Foreign Relations are Crucial for Ukraine’s Victory and Future Rebuilding - Oleksandr Kraiev

2 januari 2023 | 53 min

Toxic Narratives and Russia’s Influence around the World - with Marketing Expert Julia Karpushina

1 januari 2023 | 50 min

Anna Danylchuk - 2023 - a Traumatic Year for Ukrainians, but one which has Brought Hope of a Victory

31 december 2022 | 87 min

Fighting Russian Disinformation through Media Literacy Training - with FILTER founder Valerie Kovtun

31 december 2022 | 51 min

Russian Colonial Aggression and the Evolution of Ukrainian Identity - Interview with Yehor Brailian

31 december 2022 | 57 min

Fighting Fakes & Delusions - Eugen Fedchenko on Ukraine's Struggle for Survival and War against Lies

30 december 2022 | 54 min

Horizontal versus Vertical Power and the Fight Against Russian Disinformation - with Olga Tokariuk

30 december 2022 | 64 min

Maria Romanenko - Uncovering Russian Crimes in Crimea and Occupied Territories and Raising Awareness

30 december 2022 | 53 min

Resurgence of Soviet Terror and Manipulation of History - David Satter explains the current conflict

30 december 2022 | 57 min

Russia’s war against Ukraine has escalated significantly this year, but did not start in February, or even in 2014. Its roots are far deeper, and more malign than just territorial ambitions. Today I am exploring how Russia got to this point, and where is goes next, with the person perhaps best equipped to answer this question, and a long-standing critic of The Kremlin – David Satter. Russia’s attempts to control, coerce and dominate Ukraine have deep roots in its Soviet and imperialist past, and are very much a by-product of the weaknesses and internal dynamics its aging, totalitarian regime. David Satter is a journalist and historian who has written extensively about Russia and the Soviet Union, especially the decline and fall of the USSR and rise of post-Soviet Russia. David Satter became the first American journalist to be expelled from Russia since the Cold War in December 2013. This was perhaps not a surprising move, given that his books have covered topics such as the FSB’s role in the apartment bombings that brought Putin to power, and the criminalization of Russia under Boris Yeltsin. David’s core theme is why a pluralist and progressive state did not emerge from the collapse of the Soviet Union, and how this understanding guides it’s current policies and actions.

From 1976 to 1982 David was the Moscow correspondent of the Financial Times, and then became a special correspondent on Soviet affairs for The Wall Street Journal. He is currently a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and a fellow of the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. He has been a research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and a visiting professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. As well as numerous articles, he is also the author of several books that are essential reading to help understand the origins of the current crisis, including the brilliantly named books: - It Was a Long Time Ago, and It Never Happened Anyway: Russia and the Communist Past - Darkness at Dawn: The Rise of the Russian Criminal State - The Less You Know, The Better You Sleep: Russia's Road to Terror and Dictatorship under Yeltsin and Putin

Foreign Agents Law and Russian’s War Against Truth - with Jenny Mathers Russian Politics Expert.

30 december 2022 | 55 min

How Russia Leverages Division and Crisis to Destroy its Adversaries - Interview with Monique Camarra

29 december 2022 | 66 min

Russia's Lawfare Offensive Part Two - Combat by Other Means - Weaponising the Law - with Mark Voyger

29 december 2022 | 31 min

Peter Dickinson - Ukrainian on the Front Line of Freedom - Fighting for A Democratic European Future

29 december 2022 | 71 min

Russia's Lawfare Offensive Part One - Combat by Other Means - Weaponising the Law - with Mark Voyger

29 december 2022 | 50 min

Cyber Warfare and Perpetual Conflict - Interview with Chris Windley, Cyber Security Industry Expert

29 december 2022 | 61 min

Global Hybrid Warfare and Russian Disinformation Narratives - Oleksandra Tsekhanovska interview

28 december 2022 | 60 min

Colour Revolutions – Power, Paranoia, and the Technology of Regime Change - Ivana Stradner Interview

28 december 2022 | 65 min

‘Colour Revolutions’ is a concept that is central to how Russia interprets the intentions of the Western allies – which it perceives to be its enemies. This term is not discussed much in the media but is central to and intrinsic to how it makes foreign policy decisions – including its aggression against Ukraine since 2014. A monograph was published in 2015 by two political sciences and experts in Geopolitics from Russia. This paper has apparently been very influential in Russia foreign policy circles, and it provides a window into the thinking of the Russian elite and foreign policy establishment that is totally alien to a Western way of thinking and foreign policy foundations. Today I am unpacking this concept of ‘Colour Revolutions’ with the help of Ivana Stradner.

Dr. Ivana Stradner serves as an advisor to FDD’s Barish Center for Media Integrity and is a Jeane Kirkpatrick Visiting Research Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. Her research broadly focuses on the intersection of international law and security. Specifically, she concentrates on cyberspace, cyberattacks, and Russian hybrid warfare. She also lectures on international law, international institutions, EU law, international security, and comparative legal history. Before joining AEI, Dr. Stradner worked as a visiting scholar at Harvard University and a lecturer for a variety of universities, including the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law and the Faculty of Law at the University of Belgrade. She also served as a legal associate in the Serbian Ministry of Public Administration and Local Self-Government. Dr. Stradner has been published in several academic journals and the popular press, including The Washington Post, The National Interest, RealClearWorld and Defense, Newsweek, National Review, and Foreign Policy. Because of her work to better understand Russian hybrid warfare in Eastern Europe, Dr. Stradner has been asked to testify before the EU Parliament and brief various government officials on the threat posed by revisionist powers such as Russia.

Theft, destruction, deportations, torture, and murder. Welcome to Russkiy Mir - with David DeBatto.

28 december 2022 | 69 min

Russia Must not be Allowed to Beat Ukraine - John Sipher - ex-CIA expert on the Threat from Russia.

28 december 2022 | 63 min

There was great optimism about Russia in the 90s as it emerged from decades of authoritarian control. The collapse of communism led to the Russian economy becoming far more integrated into the world economy, and a reduction of proxy conflicts around the world. Europe became hooked on Russia energy and raw materials. In turn millions of Russians were able to travel to the west, something unimaginable for earlier generations. Many thousands from the elites invested in Western property, sent their children to private schools, and lived luxurious lifestyles in Western countries. This have all gone into reverse since 2014, and this messy geopolitical divorce is accelerating. I’m speaking today with John Sipher about how much worse this can get.

John is a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council and Co-founder of Spycraft Entertainment a production firm providing content to the entertainment industry. Spycraft Entertainment connects the worlds of Hollywood and intelligence. John is also a foreign policy and intelligence expert and social media influencer. His articles have been published in the New York Times, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Politico, Foreign Affairs, Newsweek, Slate, Lawfare, and Just Security, among others. He regularly appears on the PBS NewsHour, CNN, NPR, MSNBC, BBC and speaks to corporate, academic and governmental groups. John retired in 2014 after a 28-year career in the Central Intelligence Agency’s National Clandestine Service. At the time of his retirement, he was a member of the CIA’s Senior Intelligence Service, the leadership team that guides CIA activities globally. John served multiple overseas tours as Chief of Station and Deputy Chief of Station in Europe, Russia, Asia, and in high-threat environments. He has significant experience working with foreign and domestic partners to solve national security challenges. John also served as a lead instructor in the CIA’s clandestine training school and was a regular lecturer at the CIA’s leadership development program. He is the recipient of the Distinguished Career Intelligence Medal.

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