Konstantin Samoilov - Documenting Russia’s descent into Authoritarianism from the Inside and Outside Silicon Curtain 2024-10-18 | Konstantin Samoilov - Documenting Russia’s descent into Authoritarianism from the Inside and Outside
Joseph Lindsley - Questions on Ukraine No One is Asking the Presidential Candidates Harris and Trump Silicon Curtain 2024-10-17 | 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. youtu.be/DM42QAF2ia4 (07-Nov-23)2. youtu.be/KAGt83FzXmI (26-Jan-24)3. youtu.be/AlD3HUTQAag (20-Feb-24)4. youtu.be/w8Y1XLuhB9Q (04-Apr-24)5. youtu.be/eA6DI5bwrq8 (05-Jun-24)----------LINKS:ukrainianfreedomnews.com/donationen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Lindsleylinkedin.com/in/joseph-lindsley-60087618youtube.com/@jplindsleytwitter.com/JPLindsleyinstagram.com/jplindsleyfacebook.com/josephlindsleyukrainianfreedomnews.com ----------SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtainpatreon.com/siliconcurtain----------TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:Save Ukrainesaveukraineua.orgSuperhumans - Hospital for war traumassuperhumans.com/enUNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukrainehttps://unbroken.org.ua/Come Back Alivehttps://savelife.in.ua/en/Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchenwck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraineUNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyyhttps://u24.gov.ua/Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundationprytulafoundation.orgNGO “Herojam Slava”heroiamslava.orgkharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyślkharpp.comNOR DOG Animal Rescuenor-dog.org/home----------PLATFORMS:Twitter: twitter.com/CurtainSiliconInstagram: instagram.com/siliconcurtainPodcast: open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqmLinkedin: linkedin.com/in/finkjonathanPatreon: patreon.com/siliconcurtain----------Welcome to the Silicon Curtain podcast. Please like and subscribe if you like the content we produce. It will really help to increase the popularity of our 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. Silicon Curtain 2024-10-16 | 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 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 frontline towns.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:buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtainpatreon.com/siliconcurtain~~~~~NEWS SOURCES: kyivindependent.com/russia-plans-to-involve-north-korea-in-war-in-ukraine-this-fall-zelensky-sayskyivindependent.com/north-korea-has-sent-10-000-soldiers-to-russia-western-source-sayseuromaidanpress.com/2024/10/15/us-official-north-korean-troops-in-ukraine-would-show-russian-desperation reuters.com/world/europe/us-concerned-by-reports-north-korean-soldiers-fighting-russia-2024-10-15independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/ukraine-russia-war-updates-map-putin-north-korea-soldiers-b2629954.htmlkyivindependent.com/thaad ~~~~~USEFUL LINKS:Vatnik Souptwitter.com/P_Kallioniemihttp://www.medbat.org.ua/en/ Real World Newskyivindependent.comkyivpost.comhttps://english.nv.ua/themoscowtimes.commeduza.io/enmeduza.iohttps://novayagazeta.eu/https://www.newsweek.com/topic/russia...Analysisft.com/russiaeconomist.comforeignaffairs.comcepa.orgatlanticcouncil.orghttps://www.theatlantic.com/search/?s...~~~~~TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyslkharpp.comSave Ukrainesaveukraineua.orgSuperhumans - Hospital for war traumassuperhumans.com/enUNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukrainehttps://unbroken.org.ua/Come Back Alivehttps://savelife.in.ua/en/Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchenwck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraineUkrainian Freedom Newsukrainianfreedomnews.com/donationUNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyyhttps://u24.gov.ua/Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundationprytulafoundation.orgNGO “Herojam Slava”heroiamslava.orgNOR DOG Animal Rescuenor-dog.org/home~~~~~
Maksym Eristavi - Gaslight, Invade & Extermination - The Mechanics of Russian Colonial Expansionism. Silicon Curtain 2024-10-15 | 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: twitter.com/maksymeristavimaksymeristavi.com istpublishing.org/en/russian-colonialism-101-maksym-eristavi 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:buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtainpatreon.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 Ukrainesaveukraineua.orgSuperhumans - Hospital for war traumassuperhumans.com/enUNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukrainehttps://unbroken.org.ua/Come Back Alivehttps://savelife.in.ua/en/Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchenwck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraineUNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyyhttps://u24.gov.ua/Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundationprytulafoundation.org----------PLATFORMS:Twitter: twitter.com/CurtainSiliconInstagram: instagram.com/siliconcurtainPodcast: open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqmLinkedin: linkedin.com/in/finkjonathanPatreon: patreon.com/siliconcurtain----------
Keir Giles - Russias Next War - Who Will Defend Europe from an Aggressive and Militaristic Russia? Silicon Curtain 2024-10-14 | 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 from 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? Order Keir's new book: amzn.to/4cFI1b6----------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.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras----------CHAPTERS: 00:02:34 There is a problem with Russia - if it’s not addressed, it is going to get worse.00:03:39 Russia's land forces have been built back larger than they were previously.00:06:47 United States as the linchpin of NATO unity is now under question.00:09:15 In my book Moscow Rules, I examine what drives Russia to confront the West.00:12:08 Societal and regime attitudes were frozen in place under communist system.00:14:48 When dealing with Russia, it's not a single objective that they're looking for.00:20:09 Freezing the conflict in Ukraine, leaves Russia free to reconstitute its forces.00:25:33 The problem is that the US is being pulled in so many different directions.00:29:20 Absorbing Ukraine will make Russia immensely stronger for its next attack. 00:31:22 In Finland, there will never be a call for surrender from the central authorities. 00:33:52 Finland and Estonia have poured vast quantities of money into defence. 00:38:05 Over 30 years of cuts to the British army have not at all been addressed yet. 00:42:52 Think of it as countries rejoining the free world after domination by Moscow. 00:46:21 Russia is very capable of dividing and conquering to destabilise adversaries. 00:48:13 Putin assumed process of state capture in Ukraine was sufficiently advanced. ----------BOOKS:Who Will Defend Europe? An Awakened Russia and a Sleeping Continent (2024)Order Keir's new book: amzn.to/4cFI1b6Russia'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:Order Keir's new book: amzn.to/4cFI1b6chathamhouse.org/about-us/our-people/keir-gilesen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keir_Gileslinkedin.com/in/keir-giles-499a489----------SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtainpatreon.com/siliconcurtain----------TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:Save Ukrainesaveukraineua.orgSuperhumans - Hospital for war traumassuperhumans.com/enUNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukrainehttps://unbroken.org.ua/Come Back Alivehttps://savelife.in.ua/en/Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchenwck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraineUNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyyhttps://u24.gov.ua/Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundationprytulafoundation.org----------PLATFORMS:Twitter: twitter.com/CurtainSiliconInstagram: instagram.com/siliconcurtainPodcast: open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqmLinkedin: linkedin.com/in/finkjonathanPatreon: patreon.com/siliconcurtain----------
2024-10-13 | @SiliconWafers | Ramzan Kadyrov Accuses Three Russian Lawmakers of Plot to kill Him. Silicon Curtain 2024-10-13 | 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. @SiliconWafers ----------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.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:kyivindependent.com/kadyrov-claims-group-of-russian-lawmakers-are-plotting-his-assassination 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-murderhttps://www.politico.eu/article/chechnya-warlord-ramzan-kadyrov-blood-feud-russia-mps-dagestan-ingushetia-assassination-plot/themoscowtimes.com/2024/10/10/kadyrov-declares-blood-feud-against-russian-lawmakers-in-first-remarks-on-wildberries-shootout-a86636themoscowtimes.com/2024/10/09/chechnyas-kadyrov-speaks-out-against-russias-medieval-migration-laws-a86625kyivpost.com/opinion/40363----------SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtainpatreon.com/siliconcurtain----------TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:Save Ukrainesaveukraineua.orgSuperhumans - Hospital for war traumassuperhumans.com/enUNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukrainehttps://unbroken.org.ua/Come Back Alivehttps://savelife.in.ua/en/Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchenwck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraineUNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyyhttps://u24.gov.ua/Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundationprytulafoundation.orgNGO “Herojam Slava”heroiamslava.orgkharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyslkharpp.comNOR DOG Animal Rescuenor-dog.org/home----------PLATFORMS:Twitter: twitter.com/CurtainSiliconInstagram: instagram.com/siliconcurtainPodcast: open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqmLinkedin: linkedin.com/in/finkjonathanPatreon: patreon.com/siliconcurtain----------Welcome to the Silicon Curtain podcast. Please like and subscribe if you like the content we produce. It will really help to increase the popularity of our content in YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
Igor Tracz -Terrible Truth of War in the East of Ukraine - its Scale, Brutality and Terrible Impact. Silicon Curtain 2024-10-12 | 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.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras----------Igor Tracz10-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 BlackburnAuthor 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 PhillipsTraveler, 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:linkedin.com/in/dw-p-59111859youtube.com/@UkraineStory----------SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtainpatreon.com/siliconcurtain----------TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:Save Ukrainesaveukraineua.orgSuperhumans - Hospital for war traumassuperhumans.com/enUNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukrainehttps://unbroken.org.ua/Come Back Alivehttps://savelife.in.ua/en/Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchenwck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraineUNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyyhttps://u24.gov.ua/Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundationprytulafoundation.org----------PLATFORMS:Twitter: twitter.com/CurtainSiliconInstagram: instagram.com/siliconcurtainPodcast: open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqmLinkedin: linkedin.com/in/finkjonathanPatreon: patreon.com/siliconcurtain----------Welcome to the Silicon Curtain podcast. Please like and subscribe if you like the content we produce. It will really help to increase the popularity of our 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 | @SiliconWafers | Is Israel at War with Russia After Strike Near Russian Base in Syria Silicon Curtain 2024-10-11 | 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. @SiliconWafers ----------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:telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/10/03/israeli-strike-suspected-near-russian-air-base-in-syria-whi/?ICID=continue_without_subscribing_reg_firstnytimes.com/2024/10/04/world/middleeast/israel-strikes-russian-airbase-syria.htmlenglish.enabbaladi.net/archives/2024/10/israeli-strikes-approach-russias-interests-in-syriaexpress.co.uk/news/world/1956833/israel-attacks-russian-khmeimim-airbase-syria cepa.org/article/israels-decapitation-strikes-leave-russia-trembling ----------SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtainpatreon.com/siliconcurtain----------TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:Save Ukrainesaveukraineua.orgSuperhumans - Hospital for war traumassuperhumans.com/enUNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukrainehttps://unbroken.org.ua/Come Back Alivehttps://savelife.in.ua/en/Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchenwck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraineUNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyyhttps://u24.gov.ua/Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundationprytulafoundation.orgNGO “Herojam Slava”heroiamslava.orgkharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyslkharpp.comNOR DOG Animal Rescuenor-dog.org/home----------PLATFORMS:Twitter: twitter.com/CurtainSiliconInstagram: instagram.com/siliconcurtainPodcast: open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqmLinkedin: linkedin.com/in/finkjonathanPatreon: patreon.com/siliconcurtain----------Welcome to the Silicon Curtain podcast. Please like and subscribe if you like the content we produce. It will really help to increase the popularity of our content in YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
To the Edge of Freedom - A Film Project to Counter Russian Propaganda, Inaction and War Fatigue Silicon Curtain 2024-10-10 | 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.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras----------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:linkedin.com/in/dw-p-59111859youtube.com/@UkraineStory----------SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtainpatreon.com/siliconcurtain----------TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:Save Ukrainesaveukraineua.orgSuperhumans - Hospital for war traumassuperhumans.com/enUNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukrainehttps://unbroken.org.ua/Come Back Alivehttps://savelife.in.ua/en/Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchenwck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraineUNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyyhttps://u24.gov.ua/Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundationprytulafoundation.org----------PLATFORMS:Twitter: twitter.com/CurtainSiliconInstagram: instagram.com/siliconcurtainPodcast: open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqmLinkedin: linkedin.com/in/finkjonathanPatreon: patreon.com/siliconcurtain----------Welcome to the Silicon Curtain podcast. Please like and subscribe if you like the content we produce. It will really help to increase the popularity of our content in YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
Andrey Kurkov - Nothing Bad Ever Happened - How Russia Whitewashes & Repeats Worst Crimes of History Silicon Curtain 2024-10-09 | 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.----------Title of this episode inspired by the brilliant Victoria Amelina, another victim of Russian aggression, and a terrible loss to world literature and humanity:arrowsmithpress.com/journal/nothing-bad----------LINKS:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrey_Kurkovgoodreads.com/author/show/88420.Andrey_Kurkovpenguin.co.uk/authors/184021/andrey-kurkovlondonreviewbookshop.co.uk/booklists/author-of-the-month-andrey-kurkovamazon.co.uk/Books-Andrey-Kurkov/s?rh=n%3A266239%2Cp_27%3AAndrey+Kurkov----------BOOKS:The Silver Bone: The Kyiv MysteriesGrey Bees: A captivating, heartwarming story about a gentle beekeeper caught up in the war in UkraineJimi Hendrix Live in LvivDiary of an InvasionDeath and the PenguinThe Bickford Fuseand many others...----------SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtainpatreon.com/siliconcurtain----------TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:Save Ukrainesaveukraineua.orgSuperhumans - Hospital for war traumassuperhumans.com/enUNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukrainehttps://unbroken.org.ua/Come Back Alivehttps://savelife.in.ua/en/Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchenwck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraineUNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyyhttps://u24.gov.ua/Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundationprytulafoundation.orgNGO “Herojam Slava”heroiamslava.orgkharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyślkharpp.comNOR DOG Animal Rescuenor-dog.org/home----------PLATFORMS:Twitter: twitter.com/CurtainSiliconInstagram: instagram.com/siliconcurtainPodcast: open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqmLinkedin: linkedin.com/in/finkjonathanPatreon: patreon.com/siliconcurtain----------Welcome to the Silicon Curtain podcast. Please like and subscribe if you like the content we produce. It will really help to increase the popularity of our 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 - Schrödingers Terrorist: is Igor Strelkov (Girkin) Alive or Dead? Rumours Abound Silicon Curtain 2024-10-08 | Edition No56 | 08-10-2024 - It seems that finally, Igor Strelkov, (Girkin)’s time has come, and most fortuitously he chose to croak on Putin’s birthday. No coincidence of course. No connection. None. Afterall, it would be utterly barbaric, would it not, to offer a blood sacrifice on the emperor’s birthday. Dark ages stuff. Who would do such a thing in a modern progressive state such as Russia? ~~~~~It’s Putin’s birthday, and is customary, By the Grace of God, gifts are arraigned before the Tsar of all Russia. The Great Sovereign, Tsar, Autocrat of all Great, Little and White Russia, Moscow, Vladimir, Novgorod, Kiev (oh, not that one). Tsar of Kazan, Tsar of Astrakhan, Tsar of Siberia, etc, etc. Ruler of all the Northern Countries Heir, Sovereign, and Possessor. As it was in the 16th century, so it is now. Putin, the emperor with no clothes, holds sway over vast lands and many nationalities, most of them impoverished and neglected. They are treated as little more than His disposable property, sacrificed on a whim and to satisfy his boundless vanity, greed and paranoia. Occasionally one of the so-called elites goes that way too. But… but there is a precedent. Anna Politkovskaya, a journalist and writer, and prominent reporter at the liberal newspaper Novaya Gazeta was found murdered in her apartment in central Moscow back in October 2006. Politkovskaya was shot at point blank range. There was widespread outrage that her murder was likely a contract killing, revenge for her reporting on human rights abuses and corruption, and her extraordinary criticism of the brutality of Putin’s second Chechen war. By a cruel irony, that only an absurd, perverse, and cruel county like Russia could have spawned, the man convicted of her murder has been pardoned after fighting in Ukraine. To get absolution for one murder, other murders were required by the state authorities. Criminals rewarded. Criminality nurtured and protected. ~~~~~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 frontline towns.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras----------SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtainpatreon.com/siliconcurtain~~~~~NEWS SOURCES: pen.org/writer-at-risk/anna-politkovskayatheguardian.com/world/2023/nov/14/russian-convicted-for-anna-politkovskayas-pardoned-after-fighting-in-ukrainehttps://www.politico.eu/article/jailed-russian-nationalist-igor-girkin-fears-he-will-be-eliminated-like-wagners-prigozhin/edition.cnn.com/2024/01/25/europe/igor-girkin-russia-trial-verdict-intl/index.htmltheguardian.com/world/2023/jul/21/russia-arrests-pro-war-putin-critic-igor-girkin-reportsbbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68091877~~~~~USEFUL LINKS:Vatnik Souptwitter.com/P_Kallioniemihttp://www.medbat.org.ua/en/ Real World Newskyivindependent.comkyivpost.comhttps://english.nv.ua/themoscowtimes.commeduza.io/enmeduza.iohttps://novayagazeta.eu/https://www.newsweek.com/topic/russia...Analysisft.com/russiaeconomist.comforeignaffairs.comcepa.orgatlanticcouncil.orghttps://www.theatlantic.com/search/?s...~~~~~TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyslkharpp.comSave Ukrainesaveukraineua.orgSuperhumans - Hospital for war traumassuperhumans.com/enUNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukrainehttps://unbroken.org.ua/Come Back Alivehttps://savelife.in.ua/en/Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchenwck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraineUkrainian Freedom Newsukrainianfreedomnews.com/donationUNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyyhttps://u24.gov.ua/Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundationprytulafoundation.orgNGO “Herojam Slava”heroiamslava.orgNOR DOG Animal Rescuenor-dog.org/home~~~~~
Katia Denysova - Exploring Groundbreaking Modernist Art Made in Ukraine Between 1900 and the 1930s Silicon Curtain 2024-10-07 | Katia Denysova is an Art historian and curator. She is the co-curator of ‘In the Eye of the Storm: Modernism in Ukraine', 2022-24 which is currently running at the Royal Academy, London.(Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid; Museum Ludwig, Cologne; RMFA, Brussels; Belvedere, Vienna; Royal Academy, London)----------LINKS:courtauld.ac.uk/people/kateryna-denysovalinkedin.com/in/katia-denysova-38144545royalacademy.org.uk/exhibition/eye-of-the-storm----------SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtainpatreon.com/siliconcurtain----------TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:Save Ukrainesaveukraineua.orgSuperhumans - Hospital for war traumassuperhumans.com/enUNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukrainehttps://unbroken.org.ua/Come Back Alivehttps://savelife.in.ua/en/Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchenwck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraineUNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyyhttps://u24.gov.ua/Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundationprytulafoundation.orgNGO “Herojam Slava”heroiamslava.orgkharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyślkharpp.comNOR DOG Animal Rescuenor-dog.org/home----------PLATFORMS:Twitter: twitter.com/CurtainSiliconInstagram: instagram.com/siliconcurtainPodcast: open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqmLinkedin: linkedin.com/in/finkjonathanPatreon: patreon.com/siliconcurtain----------Welcome to the Silicon Curtain podcast. Please like and subscribe if you like the content we produce. It will really help to increase the popularity of our 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 - #55 - Russia Commits Another Ecocide with the Poisoning of the Seim and Desna Rivers Silicon Curtain 2024-10-06 | 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 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 frontline towns.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras----------SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtainpatreon.com/siliconcurtain~~~~~NEWS SOURCES: 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-ukrainehttps://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/09/12/7474751/~~~~~USEFUL LINKS:Vatnik Souptwitter.com/P_Kallioniemihttp://www.medbat.org.ua/en/ Real World Newskyivindependent.comkyivpost.comhttps://english.nv.ua/themoscowtimes.commeduza.io/enmeduza.iohttps://novayagazeta.eu/https://www.newsweek.com/topic/russia...Analysisft.com/russiaeconomist.comforeignaffairs.comcepa.orgatlanticcouncil.orghttps://www.theatlantic.com/search/?s...~~~~~TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyslkharpp.comSave Ukrainesaveukraineua.orgSuperhumans - Hospital for war traumassuperhumans.com/enUNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukrainehttps://unbroken.org.ua/Come Back Alivehttps://savelife.in.ua/en/Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchenwck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraineUkrainian Freedom Newsukrainianfreedomnews.com/donationUNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyyhttps://u24.gov.ua/Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundationprytulafoundation.orgNGO “Herojam Slava”heroiamslava.orgNOR DOG Animal Rescuenor-dog.org/home~~~~~
Lesia Dubenko - Israeli Strike Shows its not Afraid of Russia when Upholding its Security Interests Silicon Curtain 2024-10-05 | 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 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. ----------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 frontline towns.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras----------SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtainpatreon.com/siliconcurtain----------TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:Save Ukrainesaveukraineua.orgSuperhumans - Hospital for war traumassuperhumans.com/enUNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukrainehttps://unbroken.org.ua/Come Back Alivehttps://savelife.in.ua/en/Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchenwck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraineUNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyyhttps://u24.gov.ua/Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundationprytulafoundation.orgNGO “Herojam Slava”heroiamslava.orgkharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyślkharpp.comNOR DOG Animal Rescuenor-dog.org/home----------PLATFORMS:Twitter: twitter.com/CurtainSiliconInstagram: instagram.com/siliconcurtainPodcast: open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqmLinkedin: linkedin.com/in/finkjonathanPatreon: patreon.com/siliconcurtain----------Welcome to the Silicon Curtain podcast. Please like and subscribe if you like the content we produce. It will really help to increase the popularity of our content in YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
John Sweeney - Putins Uniformed Gangsters have Captured Russian Society, Military, Media, Education Silicon Curtain 2024-10-04 | 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 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 frontline towns.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extraspatreon.com/siliconcurtain/collections----------CHAPTERS:00:02:15 At the moment, Ukraine is fighting Russia with one hand tied behind its back.00:05:25 Thermobaric bombs are a truly horrible method of war, banned against civilians.00:07:40 The main problem for Biden firstly is that he’s a child of the Cold War.00:13:22The Soviet Union was for most of its time an evil dictatorship, feebler at the end.00:19:01 The other great survivor, KGB has rebranded itself several, no less vile than the SS.00:25:17 What you're dealing with is a nation that has been captured by its intelligence agency.00:29:11 Biden's humiliation of Zelensky in Washington was even crueller in a way than Trump’s. 00:34:06 Russians have raped too many people, castrated too many, tortured so many.00:39:57 There is a real plan B. The problem is they have never even delivered on the plan A. 00:44:00 Trump says he's afraid of the rise of China, but this is helped by siding with Russia.00:48:24 40% of the Russian state economy is now focused entirely on killing Ukrainians.----------LINKS:johnsweeney.co.uktwitter.com/johnsweeneyroarinews.co.uk/opinion/john-sweeney-vladimir-putin-chance-1972364express.co.uk/entertainment/books/1736357/john-sweeney-ukraine-war-vladimir-putinpressgazette.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 UkraineTaking on Putin with John SweeneyThe Useful IdiotThe Church of Fear: Inside the Weird World of ScientologyHunting Ghislaine----------SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtainpatreon.com/siliconcurtain----------TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:Save Ukrainesaveukraineua.orgSuperhumans - Hospital for war traumassuperhumans.com/enUNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukrainehttps://unbroken.org.ua/Come Back Alivehttps://savelife.in.ua/en/Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchenwck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraineUNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyyhttps://u24.gov.ua/Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundationprytulafoundation.orgNGO “Herojam Slava”heroiamslava.orgkharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyślkharpp.comNOR DOG Animal Rescuenor-dog.org/home----------PLATFORMS:Twitter: twitter.com/CurtainSiliconInstagram: instagram.com/siliconcurtainPodcast: open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqmLinkedin: linkedin.com/in/finkjonathanPatreon: patreon.com/siliconcurtain----------Welcome to the Silicon Curtain podcast. Please like and subscribe if you like the content we produce. It will really help to increase the popularity of our content in YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
Mark Galeotti - 90s Style Gangster Shootout in Central Moscow within Sight of the Kremlin Walls. Silicon Curtain 2024-10-03 | GUEST: Mark Galeotti - historian, author, security expert and academic. In this episode 90's Style Shoot-out in Moscow and Russian Opposition Descends into Destructive Squabbles & Battles.----------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 frontline towns.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extraspatreon.com/siliconcurtain/collections----------CHAPTERS:00:02:35 The wife who really was the power powerhouse behind the creation of Wildberries.00:04:26 The overt criminality of the 1990s, now actually taking place in the centre of Moscow. 00:07:29 Promotion / fundraiser: for Ukrainian documentary project. 00:13:16 When the state wants to use violence, it has umpteen methods at its disposal. 00:14:34 It's more a symptom of the state's inability to control its unruly agents in Chechnya. 00:16:32 There’s very little likelihood of the Russian Federation in its entirety breaking apart.00:19:41 It's clear that China as a state is supporting Russia, through a plethora of businesses. 00:23:54 Every country is interested in its own self-interest, and we shouldn't pretend otherwise. 00:28:19 Trump has committed himself to imposing a ceasefire, very much to Russia’s benefit. 00:30:00 USSR was a state that committed itself to militarization and neglected quality of life.00:34:15 Russia is the first mafia that owns a country as well.00:35:21 Belousov is not the right person. You need a tough, brutal enforcer to do that job.00:40:35 Ukrainians could bite off a big chunk of Kursk region surprisingly, amazingly quickly.00:55:04 Prigozhin was a violent, vicious thug. Do ends justify means in undermining Putin?----------LINKS:inmoscowsshadows.wordpress.compodcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/in-moscows-shadows/id1510124746twitter.com/MarkGaleottirusi.org/people/galeottien.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)----------SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtainpatreon.com/siliconcurtain----------TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:Save Ukrainesaveukraineua.orgSuperhumans - Hospital for war traumassuperhumans.com/enUNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukrainehttps://unbroken.org.ua/Come Back Alivehttps://savelife.in.ua/en/Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchenwck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraineUNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyyhttps://u24.gov.ua/Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundationprytulafoundation.orgNGO “Herojam Slava”heroiamslava.orgkharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyślkharpp.comNOR DOG Animal Rescuenor-dog.org/home----------PLATFORMS:Twitter: twitter.com/CurtainSiliconInstagram: instagram.com/siliconcurtainPodcast: open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqmLinkedin: linkedin.com/in/finkjonathanPatreon: patreon.com/siliconcurtain----------
Anders Puck Nielsen - Russias Military Strength and Reserves of Equipment may have Already Peaked Silicon Curtain 2024-10-02 | 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 Will Russia’s war machine collapse before the resolve of Ukraine's allies?00:01:27 Denmark has just become the largest contributor by GDP to Ukraine.00:04:32 It's important for Danish security that Russia does not win the war. 00:06:33 We don't have our own defence industry, so this is the best way to contribute.00:09:52 In war, to get something that works, you also must invest in many things.00:11:58 Do we have the sovereignty to decide how weapons components are used?00:14:49 You earn ridiculous amounts of money fighting for Russian army in Ukraine.00:19:31 It’s not that Russian don't learn, but they still have some very crude tactics.00:22:39 We don't know how long Russian economy will be able to continue at this pace----------LINKS:@anderspuck youtube.com/@anderspuck twitter.com/anderspucklinkedin.com/in/anderspucknielsenapnielsen.info/en/frontpage----------SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtainpatreon.com/siliconcurtain----------TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:Save Ukrainesaveukraineua.orgSuperhumans - Hospital for war traumassuperhumans.com/enUNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukrainehttps://unbroken.org.ua/Come Back Alivehttps://savelife.in.ua/en/Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchenwck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraineUNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyyhttps://u24.gov.ua/Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundationprytulafoundation.orgNGO “Herojam Slava”heroiamslava.orgkharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyślkharpp.comNOR DOG Animal Rescuenor-dog.org/home----------PLATFORMS:Twitter: twitter.com/CurtainSiliconInstagram: instagram.com/siliconcurtainPodcast: open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqmLinkedin: linkedin.com/in/finkjonathanPatreon: patreon.com/siliconcurtain----------Welcome to the Silicon Curtain podcast. Please like and subscribe if you like the content we produce. It will really help to increase the popularity of our content in YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
Oz Katerji - The Challenges of Conflict Reporting in Ukraine and Communicating Scale of Russias War Silicon Curtain 2024-10-01 | Oz Katerji is an independent Correspondent in Ukraine. British-Lebanese conflict journalist & filmmaker based in Kyiv. Director of a forthcoming film: The Battle For Kyiv. ----------LINKS:https://x.com/OzKaterji/highlightsinstagram.com/ozkaterji/?hl=ennewstatesman.com/author/oz-katerjithecritic.co.uk/author/oz-katerjiforeignpolicy.com/author/oz-katerji----------SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtainpatreon.com/siliconcurtain----------TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:Save Ukrainesaveukraineua.orgSuperhumans - Hospital for war traumassuperhumans.com/enUNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukrainehttps://unbroken.org.ua/Come Back Alivehttps://savelife.in.ua/en/Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchenwck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraineUNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyyhttps://u24.gov.ua/Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundationprytulafoundation.orgNGO “Herojam Slava”heroiamslava.orgkharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyślkharpp.comNOR DOG Animal Rescuenor-dog.org/home----------PLATFORMS:Twitter: twitter.com/CurtainSiliconInstagram: instagram.com/siliconcurtainPodcast: open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqmLinkedin: linkedin.com/in/finkjonathanPatreon: patreon.com/siliconcurtain----------Welcome to the Silicon Curtain podcast. Please like and subscribe if you like the content we produce. It will really help to increase the popularity of our content in YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
Chuck Pfarrer - Ukraines Strategy in Kursk is Correct: to Fight Russia Where its most Vulnerable Silicon Curtain 2024-10-01 | 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:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Pfarrerhttps://x.com/chuckpfarrer?lang=ennavyseals.com/ns-overview/notable-seals/chuck-pfarrer----------SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtainpatreon.com/siliconcurtain----------TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:Save Ukrainesaveukraineua.orgSuperhumans - Hospital for war traumassuperhumans.com/enUNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukrainehttps://unbroken.org.ua/Come Back Alivehttps://savelife.in.ua/en/Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchenwck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraineUNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyyhttps://u24.gov.ua/Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundationprytulafoundation.orgNGO “Herojam Slava”heroiamslava.orgkharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyślkharpp.comNOR DOG Animal Rescuenor-dog.org/home----------PLATFORMS:Twitter: twitter.com/CurtainSiliconInstagram: instagram.com/siliconcurtainPodcast: open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqmLinkedin: linkedin.com/in/finkjonathanPatreon: patreon.com/siliconcurtain----------Welcome to the Silicon Curtain podcast. Please like and subscribe if you like the content we produce. It will really help to increase the popularity of our content in YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
Michael Andersen & Brian Bonner - A Conspiracy of Defeatism by Media & Analysts Disguised as Realism Silicon Curtain 2024-09-30 | 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:twogrumpyoldmenonukraine.substack.comyoutube.com/@ukraine_callinglinkedin.com/posts/brianbonner_two-grumpy-old-men-on-ukraine-substack-activity-7187382236466327552-wixHlinkedin.com/in/brianbonner----------SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtainpatreon.com/siliconcurtain----------TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:Save Ukrainesaveukraineua.orgSuperhumans - Hospital for war traumassuperhumans.com/enUNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukrainehttps://unbroken.org.ua/Come Back Alivehttps://savelife.in.ua/en/Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchenwck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraineUkrainian Freedom Newsukrainianfreedomnews.com/donationUNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyyhttps://u24.gov.ua/Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundationprytulafoundation.orgNGO “Herojam Slava”heroiamslava.orgkharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyślkharpp.comNOR DOG Animal Rescuenor-dog.org/home----------PLATFORMS:Twitter: twitter.com/CurtainSiliconInstagram: instagram.com/siliconcurtainPodcast: open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqmLinkedin: linkedin.com/in/finkjonathanPatreon: patreon.com/siliconcurtain----------Welcome to the Silicon Curtain podcast. Please like and subscribe if you like the content we produce. It will really help to increase the popularity of our content in YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
Elisabeth Braw - Could Floating Bombs Become Putins Next Weapon of Mass Intimidation Against West? Silicon Curtain 2024-09-29 | 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: twitter.com/elisabethbrawlinkedin.com/in/elisabethbrawrusi.org/people/brawaei.org/profile/elisabeth-braweuropeanleadershipnetwork.org/person/elisabeth-brawforeignpolicy.com/author/elisabeth-brawreutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/people/elisabeth-brawcepa.org/author/elisabeth-braw----------ARTICLES:politico.com/news/magazine/2022/01/16/russia-ukraine-gray-zone-warfare-autocrats-democracy-527022ft.com/content/0ac9e1a9-2aad-47d9-83fb-4839e9b31b33thetimes.co.uk/article/china-is-master-of-grey-zone-aggression-t6z2khp69prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/60291/create-a-psychological-defence-agency-to-prebunk-fake-newsaei.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: twitter.com/CurtainSiliconInstagram: instagram.com/siliconcurtainPodcast: open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqmLinkedin: linkedin.com/in/finkjonathanPatreon: patreon.com/siliconcurtain----------Welcome to the Silicon Curtain podcast. Please like and subscribe if you like the content we produce. It will really help to increase the popularity of our content in YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
Victorious Ukrainian Athletes at Paris Olympics - Untold Stories of Heroism & Triumph over Adversity Silicon Curtain 2024-09-28 | 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 Orthodox Church. ----------LINKS:linkedin.com/in/dw-p-59111859youtube.com/@UkraineStory----------SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtainpatreon.com/siliconcurtain----------TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:Save Ukrainesaveukraineua.orgSuperhumans - Hospital for war traumassuperhumans.com/enUNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukrainehttps://unbroken.org.ua/Come Back Alivehttps://savelife.in.ua/en/Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchenwck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraineUNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyyhttps://u24.gov.ua/Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundationprytulafoundation.org----------PLATFORMS:Twitter: twitter.com/CurtainSiliconInstagram: instagram.com/siliconcurtainPodcast: open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqmLinkedin: linkedin.com/in/finkjonathanPatreon: patreon.com/siliconcurtain----------Welcome to the Silicon Curtain podcast. Please like and subscribe if you like the content we produce. It will really help to increase the popularity of our content in YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
Darth Putin (Master Strategist) - A Confidential Converstion with Putins Parody Nemesis from X Silicon Curtain 2024-09-27 | 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/darthputinkgbyoutube.com/@UCuxW6yJwi_nxP5sS-znVxLg amazon.co.uk/Darth-Putin-Guide-Master-Strategist-ebook/dp/B0CVYFPZ5Npodcasts.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:buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtainpatreon.com/siliconcurtain----------TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:Save Ukrainesaveukraineua.orgSuperhumans - Hospital for war traumassuperhumans.com/enUNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukrainehttps://unbroken.org.ua/Come Back Alivehttps://savelife.in.ua/en/Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchenwck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraineUNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyyhttps://u24.gov.ua/Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundationprytulafoundation.orgNGO “Herojam Slava”heroiamslava.orgkharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyślkharpp.comNOR DOG Animal Rescuenor-dog.org/home----------PLATFORMS:Twitter: twitter.com/CurtainSiliconInstagram: instagram.com/siliconcurtainPodcast: open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqmLinkedin: linkedin.com/in/finkjonathanPatreon: patreon.com/siliconcurtain----------Welcome to the Silicon Curtain podcast. Please like and subscribe if you like the content we produce. It will really help to increase the popularity of our content in YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
Anna Danylchuk, Operator Starsky & Cormac Smith - The Dangerous Delusion of a Quick and Easy Peace Silicon Curtain 2024-09-26 | 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:@AnnafromUkraine @StarskyUA buymeacoffee.com/annafromukraineyoutube.com/@PropagandaStudyInstitutehttp://psi-eu.orgyoutube.com/@StarskyUAtwitter.com/starskyua?lang=endefencebrink.ukhttps://x.com/CormacS63----------SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtainpatreon.com/siliconcurtain----------TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:Save Ukrainesaveukraineua.orgSuperhumans - Hospital for war traumassuperhumans.com/enUNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukrainehttps://unbroken.org.ua/Come Back Alivehttps://savelife.in.ua/en/Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchenwck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraineUNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyyhttps://u24.gov.ua/Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundationprytulafoundation.orgNGO “Herojam Slava”heroiamslava.orgkharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyślkharpp.comNOR DOG Animal Rescuenor-dog.org/home----------PLATFORMS:Twitter: twitter.com/CurtainSiliconInstagram: instagram.com/siliconcurtainPodcast: open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqmLinkedin: linkedin.com/in/finkjonathanPatreon: patreon.com/siliconcurtain----------Welcome to the Silicon Curtain podcast. Please like and subscribe if you like the content we produce. It will really help to increase the popularity of our content in YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
Casey Michel - Foreign Agent Lobbyists are Acting as Foot-Soldiers for Brutal Authoritarian Regimes Silicon Curtain 2024-09-25 | 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:buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtainpatreon.com/siliconcurtain----------LINKS: http://www.caseymichel.comhttps://x.com/cjcmichellinkedin.com/in/caseymichelrusi.org/people/michelhudson.org/experts/1381-casey-michel----------BOOKS: read.macmillan.com/lp/american-kleptocracyAmerican 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)----------CHAPTERS:00:00:00 Discussing he explosion of foreign lobbying industry in Washington.00:01:21 How post-Soviet dictatorships target and manipulate Western audiences.00:03:38 Paul Manafort in the foreign policy space, is certainly one of the most visible.00:06:35 The more esteemed white shoe law firms or even politicians are implicated. 00:10:03 Putin was shocked by the pushback and unity from the Western powers. 00:11:45 Bob Dole left office and became the most prominent foreign agent at the time.00:15:04 It began in the 1930s and absolutely exploded in the post-Cold War period. 00:18:42 The golden age of foreign lobbying is perhaps the 1990s and the 2000s. 00:24:32 In regime after regime we see similar forces at play, consolidation of power.00:30:10 Again there's a whole range of services these lobbyists provide governments.00:38:51 Data shows every country that has lobbied the US for economic aid received it. 00:42:47 The Foreign Agents Registration Act wasn't enforced for decades/00:46:22 Places like Venezuela are leading on the influence and infiltration operations. 00:57:37 Even those Americans, Brits and Europeans have a price that can be met.----------TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:Save Ukrainesaveukraineua.orgSuperhumans - Hospital for war traumassuperhumans.com/enUNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukrainehttps://unbroken.org.ua/Come Back Alivehttps://savelife.in.ua/en/Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchenwck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraineUNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyyhttps://u24.gov.ua/Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundationprytulafoundation.orgNGO “Herojam Slava”heroiamslava.orgkharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyślkharpp.comNOR DOG Animal Rescuenor-dog.org/home----------
David Gioe, Huw Dylan & Elena Grossfeld: Putin’s (mis)Management of Russian Intelligence Assessments Silicon Curtain 2024-09-24 | 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. Russian intelligence failed President Vladimir Putin in supporting the most consequential decision of statecraft, war, before Russia’s 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine but has since recovered, possibly redeeming itself in Putin’s estimation by securing his regime nearly two and a half years since his shambolic invasion. This article explores Russian intelligence’s traditional areas of (relative) competence in the period following the full-scale invasion, we consider the categories of espionage, sanctions evasion, active measures, and repression, and conclude that Putin’s security and intelligence organs have reasserted themselves with terrible vigour, domestically and internationally. Despite notable failings, they have been indispensable to Putin by securing his regime, at least through mid-2024.----------CHAPTERS:00:00:00 Paper: Mismanagement of Russian Strategic Assessment in the Ukraine War.00:03:47 Putin's KGB past didn't help him with intelligence in Ukraine. 00:05:36 Putin's intelligence and security apparatus kept him in power in Russia.00:08:38 In the 1990s you have KGB culture mixed in with the poison of corruption. 00:12:46 The murdered journalist Anna Politkovskaya called him the strutting Chekist.00:16:42 How do you get to a prime assignment in the KGB? Connections help.00:20:13 One of the Putin was doing in East Germany was handling ‘illegal officers.’00:25:26 The intelligence setup he has is really geared up to help Putin survive.00:30:22 The GRU was saying they don’t want us in Ukraine. It won’t be a picnic. 00:37:12 It seems everybody is taking everything at face value in the system. 00:42:40 Putin thought this was going to be a short, sharp ‘special military operation.’00:48:59 In Russia the economy and the system are set up in an almost medieval way. 00:54:32 Longer trends in Russian intelligence show they struggle with the big picture.----------LINKS:washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/03/17/putins-kgb-past-didnt-help-him-with-intelligence-ukrainejournals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13691481241258108 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:buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtainpatreon.com/siliconcurtain----------TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:Save Ukrainesaveukraineua.orgSuperhumans - Hospital for war traumassuperhumans.com/enUNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukrainehttps://unbroken.org.ua/Come Back Alivehttps://savelife.in.ua/en/Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchenwck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraineUNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyyhttps://u24.gov.ua/Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundationprytulafoundation.orgNGO “Herojam Slava”heroiamslava.orgkharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyślkharpp.comNOR DOG Animal Rescuenor-dog.org/home----------
Christopher Forsback - Nowhere on Russias Western Heartlands is Safe from Ukrainian Drone Fragments Silicon Curtain 2024-09-23 | Christopher 'Swede' Forsbäck is Swedish volunteer and was wounded in the line of duty serving with the Armed Forces of Ukraine.----------SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtainpatreon.com/siliconcurtain----------TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:Save Ukrainesaveukraineua.orgSuperhumans - Hospital for war traumassuperhumans.com/enUNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukrainehttps://unbroken.org.ua/Come Back Alivehttps://savelife.in.ua/en/Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchenwck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraineUNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyyhttps://u24.gov.ua/Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundationprytulafoundation.org----------PLATFORMS:Twitter: twitter.com/CurtainSiliconInstagram: instagram.com/siliconcurtainPodcast: open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqmLinkedin: linkedin.com/in/finkjonathanPatreon: patreon.com/siliconcurtain----------Welcome to the Silicon Curtain podcast. Please like and subscribe if you like the content we produce. It will really help to increase the popularity of our content in YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
Pekka Kallioniemi (Vatnik Soup) - Follow the Money to See how Russia Poisons the Information Space Silicon Curtain 2024-09-23 | 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:vatniksoup.comtwitter.com/P_Kallioniemiyoutube.com/@TheSoupCentral@TheSoupCentral ----------SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtainpatreon.com/siliconcurtain----------TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:Superhumans - Hospital for war traumassuperhumans.com/enUNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukrainehttps://unbroken.org.ua/Come Back Alivehttps://savelife.in.ua/en/Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchenwck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraineUNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyyhttps://u24.gov.ua/Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundationprytulafoundation.org----------PLATFORMS:Twitter: twitter.com/CurtainSiliconInstagram: instagram.com/siliconcurtainPodcast: open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqmLinkedin: linkedin.com/in/finkjonathanPatreon: patreon.com/siliconcurtain----------Welcome to the Silicon Curtain podcast. Please like and subscribe if you like the content we produce. It will really help to increase the popularity of our content in YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
David Satter - Putins Regime has its Origins in Blood and Fear. Apartment Bombings 25th Anniversary Silicon Curtain 2024-09-22 | 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. ----------CHAPTERS:00:00:00 25th anniversary of the apartment bombings which preceded Putin's presidency.00:02:12 Putin had no chance whatsoever of being elected president without the bombings. 00:04:27 Doubts about what happened and who blew up the buildings never disappeared. 00:06:39 It was an act of terror carried out by Russian government against its own people. 00:11:36 We're giving Russia impunity to commit these crimes and not defining punishment. 00:14:30 When you're acting with self-imposed limits the consequences are very serious.00:17:18 Napoleon said there are two countries in Europe, Russia and everyone else. 00:19:33 It's unrealistic to think it’ll be easy to convince Russians that this war must end.00:25:19 The truth about the apartment bombings is key to Russia's future and peace.00:30:21 We're fighting Russian disinformation with one hand behind our backs.00:32:48 The terrorist essence of the Russian regime, including its roots in 90s criminality.----------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:davidsatter.comtwitter.com/davidsatter?lang=enen.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Satterhudson.org/experts/362-david-satterfpri.org/contributor/david-satterforeignaffairs.com/authors/david-satter----------SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtainpatreon.com/siliconcurtain----------TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyślkharpp.comSave Ukrainesaveukraineua.orgSuperhumans - Hospital for war traumassuperhumans.com/enUNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukrainehttps://unbroken.org.ua/Come Back Alivehttps://savelife.in.ua/en/Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchenwck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraineUkrainian Freedom Newsukrainianfreedomnews.com/donationUNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyyhttps://u24.gov.ua/Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundationprytulafoundation.orgNGO “Herojam Slava”heroiamslava.orgNOR DOG Animal Rescuenor-dog.org/home----------PLATFORMS:Twitter: twitter.com/CurtainSiliconInstagram: instagram.com/siliconcurtainPodcast: open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqmLinkedin: linkedin.com/in/finkjonathanPatreon: patreon.com/siliconcurtain----------Welcome to the Silicon Curtain podcast. Please like and subscribe if you like the content we produce. It will really help to increase the popularity of our content in YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available
Terron Sims - Kamala Harris has made Freedom Part of her Campaign - But is she for Ukrainian Victory Silicon Curtain 2024-09-21 | The Trump team’s peace plan for Ukraine seems to overlap with the Kremlin approved Chin peace plan. Suffice it to say, this plan is not a win for Ukraine, and would significantly weaken the economic, political and military agency of Ukraine in future. It would also gift the dictator of Russia, Vladimir Putin the perception of a victory, and reinforce the idea that the West lacks will and the conviction of its own professed values – namely the sanctity of sovereignty, rule of rule, freedom, innovation and the rights of small countries not to fall within the spheres of influence / control of bullying neighbours. ----------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/experiencehttps://x.com/terroniilinkedin.com/in/terron-sims-ii-637b358ARTICLES:businesswire.com/news/home/20230131005439/en/Terron-Sims-II-Joins-Merit-as-Executive-Director-of-Military-Veterans-Affairswtkr.com/virginia-democrats-veterans-press-conference-trump-rally----------SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtainpatreon.com/siliconcurtain----------TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyślkharpp.comSave Ukrainesaveukraineua.orgSuperhumans - Hospital for war traumassuperhumans.com/enUNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukrainehttps://unbroken.org.ua/Come Back Alivehttps://savelife.in.ua/en/Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchenwck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraineUkrainian Freedom Newsukrainianfreedomnews.com/donationUNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyyhttps://u24.gov.ua/Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundationprytulafoundation.orgNGO “Herojam Slava”heroiamslava.orgNOR DOG Animal Rescuenor-dog.org/home----------PLATFORMS:Twitter: twitter.com/CurtainSiliconInstagram: instagram.com/siliconcurtainPodcast: open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqmLinkedin: linkedin.com/in/finkjonathanPatreon: patreon.com/siliconcurtain----------Welcome to the Silicon Curtain podcast. Please like and subscribe if you like the content we produce. It will really help to increase the popularity of our content in YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
Anna Danylchuk - Ukraine Taking the Fight to Russia with Strike on Vast Ammo Dump @AnnafromUkraine Silicon Curtain 2024-09-20 | 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 buymeacoffee.com/annafromukraineMy interview with Anna in Lviv - hosted on her excellent channel- youtu.be/daHcnsNQ1S0?si=yHbZ2kJZ3CTVRd8Z----------OTHER VIDEOS WITH ANNA ON SILICON CURTAIN:12. youtu.be/APTdfyqnyAI (15-Aug-24)11. youtu.be/xUsxXcc97m8 (03-Jun-24)10. youtu.be/eQ5fJCFATM0 (18-Apr-24)9. youtu.be/Y59nUd8B5pY (21-Feb-24)8. youtu.be/J8mge30rxY8 (24-Jan-24)7. youtu.be/XQJoTAAfxt4 (24-Dec-23)6. youtu.be/0gaK_5TEXXw (28-Nov-23)5. youtu.be/x0o1bn-1Yyc (29-Sep-23)4. youtu.be/Hm5_Yb3geQ4 (30-Aug-23)3. youtu.be/r0PNxM7Xyow (23-Feb-23)2. youtu.be/5AenntkSxIs (31-Dec-22)1. youtu.be/vPT6oZ1FOAw (21-Oct-22)----------SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtainpatreon.com/siliconcurtain----------TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:Save Ukrainesaveukraineua.orgSuperhumans - Hospital for war traumassuperhumans.com/enUNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukrainehttps://unbroken.org.ua/Come Back Alivehttps://savelife.in.ua/en/Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchenwck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraineUNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyyhttps://u24.gov.ua/Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundationprytulafoundation.orgNGO “Herojam Slava”heroiamslava.orgkharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyślkharpp.comNOR DOG Animal Rescuenor-dog.org/home----------PLATFORMS:Twitter: twitter.com/CurtainSiliconInstagram: instagram.com/siliconcurtainPodcast: open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqmLinkedin: linkedin.com/in/finkjonathanPatreon: patreon.com/siliconcurtain----------Welcome to the Silicon Curtain podcast. Please like and subscribe if you like the content we produce. It will really help to increase the popularity of our content in YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
Phil Ittner - Support Ukraine to Win the War, not Only to Survive the Genocidal Assault by Russia Silicon Curtain 2024-09-19 | 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/IttnerPhiliplinkedin.com/in/phil-ittner-4180271aphilipittner.com/aboutpodcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/45-the-big-interview-philip-ittner-on-the-realities/id1617276298?i=1000610636024----------SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtainpatreon.com/siliconcurtain----------TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:Save Ukrainesaveukraineua.orgSuperhumans - Hospital for war traumassuperhumans.com/enUNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukrainehttps://unbroken.org.ua/Come Back Alivehttps://savelife.in.ua/en/Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchenwck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraineUNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyyhttps://u24.gov.ua/Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundationprytulafoundation.orgNGO “Herojam Slava”heroiamslava.orgkharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyślkharpp.comNOR DOG Animal Rescuenor-dog.org/home----------PLATFORMS:Twitter: twitter.com/CurtainSiliconInstagram: instagram.com/siliconcurtainPodcast: open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqmLinkedin: linkedin.com/in/finkjonathanPatreon: patreon.com/siliconcurtain----------Welcome to the Silicon Curtain podcast. Please like and subscribe if you like the content we produce. It will really help to increase the popularity of our content in YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
Konstantin Samoilov - There is no Way Out of Economic Tsunami Striking Putins Regime@INSIDERUSSIA Silicon Curtain 2024-09-18 | 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:00:02:12 The crisis started on February 24th, 2022, when the first missile flew into Ukraine.00:03:32 They're trying to keep inflation under control, but they cannot achieve that.00:07:27 Elvira Nabiulina had orders to sugarcoat the reality. And she did for some time. 00:09:27 The collapse of global oil prices was the final straw that broke the Soviet Union. 00:10:30 It's a perfect storm, an economic tsunami that is hitting Russia right now.00:12:31 Why in the world does Russia think that Trump is going to help them this time? 00:14:50 They get the control of resources and don't have to make products or process them. 00:20:08 Remaining oil storage facilities in Rostov are on sale and go for pennies on a dollar.00:22:25 Numbers coming out of the Russian government are cooked, but IMF is using them. 00:25:32 Russia simply can't find people. Millions of people are needed for the economy. 00:32:48 The tsunami is not around the corner anymore. It's here. The storm is above Russia.00:42:21 What is happening with Kursk is beyond crazy. I think the regime is also panicking.00:44:31 I don't understand why Russian people are keeping silent about Kursk. Total apathy? ----------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.comGet your access to daily news updates at patreon.com/INSIDERUSSIA@INSIDERUSSIA patreon.com/insiderussia----------OTHER VIDEOS WITH KONSTANTIN ON SILICON CURTAIN:youtu.be/2Pz9wGeCzXc (13-Aug-24)youtu.be/xV_cXBA12tw (22-Jul-24)youtu.be/lnIgKQRHM8o (15-Jun-24)youtu.be/XX3zU5QNvCw (22-May-24)youtu.be/qXcfjra6KGI (16-Apr-24)youtu.be/FTuvRZQMCN8 (04-Mar-24)youtu.be/URzXdRO02ps (29-Jan-24)----------SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtainpatreon.com/siliconcurtain----------TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:Save Ukrainesaveukraineua.orgSuperhumans - Hospital for war traumassuperhumans.com/enUNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukrainehttps://unbroken.org.ua/Come Back Alivehttps://savelife.in.ua/en/Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchenwck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraineUNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyyhttps://u24.gov.ua/Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundationprytulafoundation.orgNGO “Herojam Slava”heroiamslava.orgkharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyślkharpp.comNOR DOG Animal Rescuenor-dog.org/home----------PLATFORMS:Twitter: twitter.com/CurtainSiliconInstagram: instagram.com/siliconcurtainPodcast: open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqmLinkedin: linkedin.com/in/finkjonathanPatreon: patreon.com/siliconcurtain----------Welcome to the Silicon Curtain podcast. Please like and subscribe if you like the content we produce. It will really help to increase the popularity of our content in YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
Katsiaryna Shmatsina - Lukashenkos Regime is an Experiment in Tyranny that is Beholden to Moscow Silicon Curtain 2024-09-17 | 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/kshmatsinalinkedin.com/in/kshmatsinacarnegieendowment.org/people/katsiaryna-shmatsinaeksperty.org/experts/katsiaryna-shmatsinalawfaremedia.org/contributors/kshmatsinaprisoners.spring96.org/en/person/kacjaryna-szmacinawilsoncenter.org/person/katsiaryna-shmatsina----------SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtainpatreon.com/siliconcurtain----------TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:Save Ukrainesaveukraineua.orgSuperhumans - Hospital for war traumassuperhumans.com/enUNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukrainehttps://unbroken.org.ua/Come Back Alivehttps://savelife.in.ua/en/Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchenwck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraineUNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyyhttps://u24.gov.ua/Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundationprytulafoundation.orgNGO “Herojam Slava”heroiamslava.orgkharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyślkharpp.comNOR DOG Animal Rescuenor-dog.org/home----------PLATFORMS:Twitter: twitter.com/CurtainSiliconInstagram: instagram.com/siliconcurtainPodcast: open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqmLinkedin: linkedin.com/in/finkjonathanPatreon: patreon.com/siliconcurtain----------Welcome to the Silicon Curtain podcast. Please like and subscribe if you like the content we produce. It will really help to increase the popularity of our content in YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
Cormac Smith & Philip Ingram - Dithering and Delay by Allies is Causing Ukraine to Slowly Bleed Out Silicon Curtain 2024-09-16 | 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:defencebrink.ukhttps://x.com/philipingmbehttps://x.com/CormacS63----------SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtainpatreon.com/siliconcurtain----------TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:Save Ukrainesaveukraineua.orgSuperhumans - Hospital for war traumassuperhumans.com/enUNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukrainehttps://unbroken.org.ua/Come Back Alivehttps://savelife.in.ua/en/Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchenwck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraineUNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyyhttps://u24.gov.ua/Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundationprytulafoundation.orgNGO “Herojam Slava”heroiamslava.orgkharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyślkharpp.comNOR DOG Animal Rescuenor-dog.org/home----------PLATFORMS:Twitter: twitter.com/CurtainSiliconInstagram: instagram.com/siliconcurtainPodcast: open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqmLinkedin: linkedin.com/in/finkjonathanPatreon: patreon.com/siliconcurtain----------Welcome to the Silicon Curtain podcast. Please like and subscribe if you like the content we produce. It will really help to increase the popularity of our 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 Silicon Curtain 2024-09-15 | 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:instagram.com/marta_trotsiukf6s.com/member/marta-trotsiuklinkedin.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/orestzubyoutube.com/user/orestzubinstagram.com/orestzuborestzub.comnomadmania.com/orest-zub----------SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtainpatreon.com/siliconcurtain----------TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:Save Ukrainesaveukraineua.orgSuperhumans - Hospital for war traumassuperhumans.com/enUNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukrainehttps://unbroken.org.ua/Come Back Alivehttps://savelife.in.ua/en/Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchenwck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraineUNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyyhttps://u24.gov.ua/Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundationprytulafoundation.orgNGO “Herojam Slava”heroiamslava.orgkharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyślkharpp.comNOR DOG Animal Rescuenor-dog.org/home----------PLATFORMS:Twitter: twitter.com/CurtainSiliconInstagram: instagram.com/siliconcurtainPodcast: open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqmLinkedin: linkedin.com/in/finkjonathanPatreon: patreon.com/siliconcurtain----------Welcome to the Silicon Curtain podcast. Please like and subscribe if you like the content we produce. It will really help to increase the popularity of our content in YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
David DeBatto - No More Delusions and Gaslighting Trump Fully Intends to Throw Ukraine Under the Bus Silicon Curtain 2024-09-14 | 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 @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:@NoDelusionZone youtube.com/@NoDelusionZoneprotectingtherepublic.com/podcasthttps://x.com/ddebattokyivpost.com/authors/743----------SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtainpatreon.com/siliconcurtain----------TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:Save Ukrainesaveukraineua.orgSuperhumans - Hospital for war traumassuperhumans.com/enUNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukrainehttps://unbroken.org.ua/Come Back Alivehttps://savelife.in.ua/en/Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchenwck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraineUNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyyhttps://u24.gov.ua/Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundationprytulafoundation.orgNGO “Herojam Slava”heroiamslava.orgkharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyślkharpp.comNOR DOG Animal Rescuenor-dog.org/home----------PLATFORMS:Twitter: twitter.com/CurtainSiliconInstagram: instagram.com/siliconcurtainPodcast: open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqmLinkedin: linkedin.com/in/finkjonathanPatreon: patreon.com/siliconcurtain----------Welcome to the Silicon Curtain podcast. Please like and subscribe if you like the content we produce. It will really help to increase the popularity of our content in YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
Ian Garner - Russia has Constructed a Self-selecting Digital Gulag to Stifle Opposition to Putin Silicon Curtain 2024-09-13 | 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: igarner.netFollow Ian at: twitter.com/irgarner----------SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtainpatreon.com/siliconcurtain----------TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:Save Ukrainesaveukraineua.orgSuperhumans - Hospital for war traumassuperhumans.com/enUNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukrainehttps://unbroken.org.ua/Come Back Alivehttps://savelife.in.ua/en/Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchenwck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraineUNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyyhttps://u24.gov.ua/Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundationprytulafoundation.orgNGO “Herojam Slava”heroiamslava.orgkharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyślkharpp.comNOR DOG Animal Rescuenor-dog.org/home----------PLATFORMS:Twitter: twitter.com/CurtainSiliconInstagram: instagram.com/siliconcurtainPodcast: open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqmLinkedin: linkedin.com/in/finkjonathanPatreon: patreon.com/siliconcurtain----------Welcome to the Silicon Curtain podcast. Please like and subscribe if you like the content we produce. It will really help to increase the popularity of our 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 | @SiliconWafers | Is NATO Really at War with Russia as Ukraine Blitz Grows in Scale Silicon Curtain 2024-09-13 | 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. @SiliconWafers ----------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: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 theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/13/russia-revokes-accreditation-british-diplomats-spyingtheguardian.com/world/2024/sep/13/ukraine-daily-briefing-russia-accused-of-unprecedented-missile-attack-on-grain-ship-in-black-seakyivindependent.com/russian-cities-left-defenseless-as-ukraine-ramps-up-drone-attackskyivindependent.com/the-long-range-missiles-ukraine-could-soon-be-firing-deep-into-russia kyivindependent.com/irans-fath-360-ballistic-missile-what-we-know-about-the-weapon-now-in-russias-hands ----------SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtainpatreon.com/siliconcurtain----------TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:Save Ukrainesaveukraineua.orgSuperhumans - Hospital for war traumassuperhumans.com/enUNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukrainehttps://unbroken.org.ua/Come Back Alivehttps://savelife.in.ua/en/Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchenwck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraineUNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyyhttps://u24.gov.ua/Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundationprytulafoundation.orgNGO “Herojam Slava”heroiamslava.orgkharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyślkharpp.comNOR DOG Animal Rescuenor-dog.org/home----------PLATFORMS:Twitter: twitter.com/CurtainSiliconInstagram: instagram.com/siliconcurtainPodcast: open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqmLinkedin: linkedin.com/in/finkjonathanPatreon: patreon.com/siliconcurtain----------Welcome to the Silicon Curtain podcast. Please like and subscribe if you like the content we produce. It will really help to increase the popularity of our content in YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
Operator Starsky - Episode 500 - Kursk is a Multi-Layered Campaign Utilising Secrecy and Surprise Silicon Curtain 2024-09-12 | 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:youtube.com/@PropagandaStudyInstitutehttp://psi-eu.orgyoutube.com/@StarskyUAtwitter.com/starskyua?lang=en----------SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtainpatreon.com/siliconcurtain----------TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:Save Ukrainesaveukraineua.orgSuperhumans - Hospital for war traumassuperhumans.com/enUNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukrainehttps://unbroken.org.ua/Come Back Alivehttps://savelife.in.ua/en/Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchenwck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraineUNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyyhttps://u24.gov.ua/Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundationprytulafoundation.org----------PLATFORMS:Twitter: twitter.com/CurtainSiliconInstagram: instagram.com/siliconcurtainPodcast: open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqmLinkedin: linkedin.com/in/finkjonathanPatreon: patreon.com/siliconcurtain----------Welcome to the Silicon Curtain podcast. Please like and subscribe if you like the content we produce. It will really help to increase the popularity of our content in YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
Michael Sheridan - Documents Suggest that Xi Jinping Secretly Distrusts and Hates Russia Silicon Curtain 2024-09-11 | 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: 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:buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtainpatreon.com/siliconcurtain----------TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:Save Ukrainesaveukraineua.orgSuperhumans - Hospital for war traumassuperhumans.com/enUNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukrainehttps://unbroken.org.ua/Come Back Alivehttps://savelife.in.ua/en/Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchenwck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraineUNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyyhttps://u24.gov.ua/Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundationprytulafoundation.orgNGO “Herojam Slava”heroiamslava.orgkharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyślkharpp.comNOR DOG Animal Rescuenor-dog.org/home----------PLATFORMS:Twitter: twitter.com/CurtainSiliconInstagram: instagram.com/siliconcurtainPodcast: open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqmLinkedin: linkedin.com/in/finkjonathanPatreon: patreon.com/siliconcurtain----------Welcome to the Silicon Curtain podcast. Please like and subscribe if you like the content we produce. It will really help to increase the popularity of our 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 | @SiliconWafers | Russian Propaganda Film Pulled from Canadian Film Festival Program Silicon Curtain 2024-09-11 | 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. @SiliconWafers ----------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:kyivindependent.com/opinion-russian-soldiers-in-ukraine-are-ordinary-guys-who-commit-horrific-war-crimes kyivindependent.com/outrage-erupts-over-canadian-tax-dollars-funding-russians-at-war-documentary ----------SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtainpatreon.com/siliconcurtain----------TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:Save Ukrainesaveukraineua.orgSuperhumans - Hospital for war traumassuperhumans.com/enUNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukrainehttps://unbroken.org.ua/Come Back Alivehttps://savelife.in.ua/en/Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchenwck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraineUNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyyhttps://u24.gov.ua/Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundationprytulafoundation.orgNGO “Herojam Slava”heroiamslava.orgkharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyślkharpp.comNOR DOG Animal Rescuenor-dog.org/home----------PLATFORMS:Twitter: twitter.com/CurtainSiliconInstagram: instagram.com/siliconcurtainPodcast: open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqmLinkedin: linkedin.com/in/finkjonathanPatreon: patreon.com/siliconcurtain----------Welcome to the Silicon Curtain podcast. Please like and subscribe if you like the content we produce. It will really help to increase the popularity of our content in YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
Susan Grunewald - Treatment and Repatriation of German POWs by the USSR at the End of World War Two Silicon Curtain 2024-09-10 | 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:susangrunewald.com https://x.com/susangrunewaldlinkedin.com/in/susangrunewaldhttps://www.worldhistory.pitt.edu/people/ant-24https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501776021/from-incarceration-to-repatriation/ ----------SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtainpatreon.com/siliconcurtain----------TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:Save Ukrainesaveukraineua.orgSuperhumans - Hospital for war traumassuperhumans.com/enUNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukrainehttps://unbroken.org.ua/Come Back Alivehttps://savelife.in.ua/en/Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchenwck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraineUNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyyhttps://u24.gov.ua/Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundationprytulafoundation.orgNGO “Herojam Slava”heroiamslava.orgkharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyślkharpp.comNOR DOG Animal Rescuenor-dog.org/home----------PLATFORMS:Twitter: twitter.com/CurtainSiliconInstagram: instagram.com/siliconcurtainPodcast: open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqmLinkedin: linkedin.com/in/finkjonathanPatreon: patreon.com/siliconcurtain----------Welcome to the Silicon Curtain podcast. Please like and subscribe if you like the content we produce. It will really help to increase the popularity of our 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 | @SiliconWafers | Criminal Mil-Blogger Thirteenth Attacks Traitors in the Kremlin Silicon Curtain 2024-09-10 | 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. @SiliconWafers ----------“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:newsweek.com/russian-miltary-blogger-slams-putin-traitors-kremlin-1950611https://x.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1832806091773599982 ----------SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtainpatreon.com/siliconcurtain----------TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:Save Ukrainesaveukraineua.orgSuperhumans - Hospital for war traumassuperhumans.com/enUNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukrainehttps://unbroken.org.ua/Come Back Alivehttps://savelife.in.ua/en/Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchenwck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraineUNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyyhttps://u24.gov.ua/Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundationprytulafoundation.orgNGO “Herojam Slava”heroiamslava.orgkharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyślkharpp.comNOR DOG Animal Rescuenor-dog.org/home----------PLATFORMS:Twitter: twitter.com/CurtainSiliconInstagram: instagram.com/siliconcurtainPodcast: open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqmLinkedin: linkedin.com/in/finkjonathanPatreon: patreon.com/siliconcurtain----------Welcome to the Silicon Curtain podcast. Please like and subscribe if you like the content we produce. It will really help to increase the popularity of our content in YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
Kevin Leach - Russia has Shown in Response to Kursk Offensive it Cant Engage in Manoeuvre Warfare Silicon Curtain 2024-09-09 | 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 sabretag.org/donate instagram.com/sabre_tag podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mriyareport/episodes/Kevin-Leach--Sabre-Advisory-Training-on-Key-Elements-of-Training---May-29--2024-e2kavap----------SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtainpatreon.com/siliconcurtain----------TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:Save Ukrainesaveukraineua.orgSuperhumans - Hospital for war traumassuperhumans.com/enUNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukrainehttps://unbroken.org.ua/Come Back Alivehttps://savelife.in.ua/en/Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchenwck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraineUNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyyhttps://u24.gov.ua/Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundationprytulafoundation.orgNGO “Herojam Slava”heroiamslava.orgkharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyślkharpp.comNOR DOG Animal Rescuenor-dog.org/home----------PLATFORMS:Twitter: twitter.com/CurtainSiliconInstagram: instagram.com/siliconcurtainPodcast: open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqmLinkedin: linkedin.com/in/finkjonathanPatreon: patreon.com/siliconcurtain----------Welcome to the Silicon Curtain podcast. Please like and subscribe if you like the content we produce. It will really help to increase the popularity of our content in YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
Svitlana Morenets - Safety is Relative in Ukraine Where Russia Targets all its Cities and Civilians. Silicon Curtain 2024-09-08 | Svitlana Morenets is a Ukrainian journalist and a staff writer at The Spectator. She was named Young Journalist of the Year in the 2024 UK Press Awards. She is author of the weekly newsletter ‘Ukraine in Focus’. ----------LINKS:https://x.com/SvMorenetsUkraine in Focus: spectator.co.uk/ukrainespectator.co.uk/writer/svitlana-morenets linkedin.com/in/svitlana-morenets ----------SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtainpatreon.com/siliconcurtain----------TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:Save Ukrainesaveukraineua.orgSuperhumans - Hospital for war traumassuperhumans.com/enUNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukrainehttps://unbroken.org.ua/Come Back Alivehttps://savelife.in.ua/en/Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchenwck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraineUNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyyhttps://u24.gov.ua/Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundationprytulafoundation.orgNGO “Herojam Slava”heroiamslava.orgkharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyślkharpp.comNOR DOG Animal Rescuenor-dog.org/home----------PLATFORMS:Twitter: twitter.com/CurtainSiliconInstagram: instagram.com/siliconcurtainPodcast: open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqmLinkedin: linkedin.com/in/finkjonathanPatreon: patreon.com/siliconcurtain----------Welcome to the Silicon Curtain podcast. Please like and subscribe if you like the content we produce. It will really help to increase the popularity of our content in YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
2024-09-07 | @SiliconWafers | Soft Appeasement of Russia. Biden, Sullivan, EU Etc Wake the **** Up Silicon Curtain 2024-09-07 | 2024-09-07 | 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. @SiliconWafers ----------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-enkyivindependent.com/ukraine-war-latest-27kyivindependent.com/death-toll-of-poltava-attack-riseskyivindependent.com/as-ukrainian-children-return-to-school-russia-launches-missiles-at-educational-facilitieskyivindependent.com/she-was-the-culture-kharkiv-mourns-18-year-old-artist-killed-in-russian-attackkyivpost.com/opinion/38452kyivindependent.com/lithuanian-fm-west-chose-to-be-caught-off-guard-by-russiayoutube.com/watch?v=xc1zRzICjfkkyivpost.com/post/38459kyivindependent.com/ukraines-deep-drone-strikes-aim-to-break-russias-war-machine-sow-discontentkyivpost.com/post/38440kyivindependent.com/germany-orders-17-iris-t-air-defense-systems-for-ukraine-sholz-says----------SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtainpatreon.com/siliconcurtain----------TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:Save Ukrainesaveukraineua.orgSuperhumans - Hospital for war traumassuperhumans.com/enUNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukrainehttps://unbroken.org.ua/Come Back Alivehttps://savelife.in.ua/en/Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchenwck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraineUNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyyhttps://u24.gov.ua/Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundationprytulafoundation.orgNGO “Herojam Slava”heroiamslava.orgkharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyślkharpp.comNOR DOG Animal Rescuenor-dog.org/home----------PLATFORMS:Twitter: twitter.com/CurtainSiliconInstagram: instagram.com/siliconcurtainPodcast: open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqmLinkedin: linkedin.com/in/finkjonathanPatreon: patreon.com/siliconcurtain----------Welcome to the Silicon Curtain podcast. Please like and subscribe if you like the content we produce. It will really help to increase the popularity of our content in YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
Anastasiia Zagoruichyk - Russian Nuclear Blackmail Threatens Ukraines Green and Resilient Recovery Silicon Curtain 2024-09-05 | 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:smithschool.ox.ac.uk/news/green-politics-ukraine-smith-school-msceuromaidanpress.com/author/anastasiiazagoruichykearthjournalism.net/fellows/anastasiia-zagoruichykscotsman.com/news/world/ukraine-russia-we-are-a-freedom-loving-people-but-we-are-fighting-back-in-this-information-war-says-ukrainian-journalist-3612922independent.co.uk/voices/ukrainians-putin-russia-war-victory-b2042175.htmleuromaidanpress.com/2023/12/08/cop28-shows-growing-rift-between-wests-green-vision-and-russian-oil-alliance----------SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtainpatreon.com/siliconcurtain----------TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:Save Ukrainesaveukraineua.orgSuperhumans - Hospital for war traumassuperhumans.com/enUNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukrainehttps://unbroken.org.ua/Come Back Alivehttps://savelife.in.ua/en/Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchenwck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraineUNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyyhttps://u24.gov.ua/Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundationprytulafoundation.orgNGO “Herojam Slava”heroiamslava.orgkharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyślkharpp.comNOR DOG Animal Rescuenor-dog.org/home----------PLATFORMS:Twitter: twitter.com/CurtainSiliconInstagram: instagram.com/siliconcurtainPodcast: open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqmLinkedin: linkedin.com/in/finkjonathanPatreon: patreon.com/siliconcurtain----------Welcome to the Silicon Curtain podcast. Please like and subscribe if you like the content we produce. It will really help to increase the popularity of our content in YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
Georgijs Ivanovs - Ukraines Bold Counter-Offensive in the Kursk Region Changes Rules of the Game Silicon Curtain 2024-09-04 | 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:youtube.com/@UCvgxquzwLOWDTR9eq578Ecg https://x.com/MattersUkraine----------PREVIOUS VIDEOS:youtu.be/exCNgEKhVRE (25-Jun-23)youtu.be/5Fi38Zv8ROo (09-Oct-23)----------CHAPTERS: 00:00:58 There are so many bad takes on the Kursk offensive throughout the media. 00:01:47 Possibility of negotiated solution was narrative Kremlin worked on for a year.00:03:32 Putin is acting and speaking like nothing is really happening in Kursk. 00:07:45 If you are in the Ukrainian military, do not send me classified information.00:10:35 Destruction was raining down on Ukrainian territory, shells, mines, missiles. 00:13:39 Whatever is happening in Ukraine it's not going according to Russia’s plan.00:21:49 Just having access to free information does not protect us from propaganda.00:24:38 Syrskyi, head of Ukraine’s army is known to be a mathematician of war.00:35:19 Stockpiles of weapons that the Soviet Union amassed over 50 years.00:44:15 Unfortunately, I wouldn't expect Russia to run out of manpower anytime soon.----------SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtainpatreon.com/siliconcurtain----------TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:Save Ukrainesaveukraineua.orgSuperhumans - Hospital for war traumassuperhumans.com/enUNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukrainehttps://unbroken.org.ua/Come Back Alivehttps://savelife.in.ua/en/Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchenwck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraineUNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyyhttps://u24.gov.ua/Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundationprytulafoundation.orgNGO “Herojam Slava”heroiamslava.orgkharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyślkharpp.comNOR DOG Animal Rescuenor-dog.org/home----------PLATFORMS:Twitter: twitter.com/CurtainSiliconInstagram: instagram.com/siliconcurtainPodcast: open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqmLinkedin: linkedin.com/in/finkjonathanPatreon: patreon.com/siliconcurtain----------Welcome to the Silicon Curtain podcast. Please like and subscribe if you like the content we produce. It will really help to increase the popularity of our content in YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
Pyotr Kurzin @theglobalgambit - The Old World Rules-Based Order is Crumbling - Will a New One Emerge Silicon Curtain 2024-09-03 | 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:@theglobalgambit linkedin.com/in/pyotrkurzin ----------SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtainpatreon.com/siliconcurtain----------TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:Save Ukrainesaveukraineua.orgSuperhumans - Hospital for war traumassuperhumans.com/enUNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukrainehttps://unbroken.org.ua/Come Back Alivehttps://savelife.in.ua/en/Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchenwck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraineUNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyyhttps://u24.gov.ua/Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundationprytulafoundation.orgNGO “Herojam Slava”heroiamslava.orgkharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyślkharpp.comNOR DOG Animal Rescuenor-dog.org/home----------PLATFORMS:Twitter: twitter.com/CurtainSiliconInstagram: instagram.com/siliconcurtainPodcast: open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqmLinkedin: linkedin.com/in/finkjonathanPatreon: patreon.com/siliconcurtain----------Welcome to the Silicon Curtain podcast. Please like and subscribe if you like the content we produce. It will really help to increase the popularity of our content in YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
Andrew Chakhoyan - Incrementalism is the Enemy of Freedom and is a Creating Killing Zone in Ukraine Silicon Curtain 2024-09-03 | 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/ChakhoyanAndrewweforum.org/agenda/authors/andrew-chakhoyanhttps://www.politico.eu/article/ukraine-incrementalism-russia-war-president-volodymyr-zelenskyy-truth/ ----------SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtainpatreon.com/siliconcurtain----------TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:Save Ukrainesaveukraineua.orgSuperhumans - Hospital for war traumassuperhumans.com/enUNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukrainehttps://unbroken.org.ua/Come Back Alivehttps://savelife.in.ua/en/Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchenwck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraineUNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyyhttps://u24.gov.ua/Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundationprytulafoundation.orgNGO “Herojam Slava”heroiamslava.orgkharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyślkharpp.comNOR DOG Animal Rescuenor-dog.org/home----------PLATFORMS:Twitter: twitter.com/CurtainSiliconInstagram: instagram.com/siliconcurtainPodcast: open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqmLinkedin: linkedin.com/in/finkjonathanPatreon: patreon.com/siliconcurtain----------Welcome to the Silicon Curtain podcast. Please like and subscribe if you like the content we produce. It will really help to increase the popularity of our content in YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
