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Become a Paid Subscriber: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/siliconcurtain/subscribe A podcast about propaganda, digital disinformation, politics, corruption, hybrid warfare, weaponised conspiracy theories, social echo chambers and digital dystopias. 1984, Authoritarian, Autocracy, Autocrat, Big Brother, Brainwashing, Cold war, Cold war propaganda, Communism, Conflict, Conspiracy theories, Control, Cults, Cyber warfare, Deception, Dictator, Dictatorship, Digital dystopia, Digital media, Disinformation, Echo chambers, Economic sanctions, Fascist, Fake news, Foreign correspondents, Foreign policy, Fossil fuel sanctions, George Orwell, History, Hybrid warfare, Industrial disinfo

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

44 mins; January 19, 2025

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

26 mins; January 18, 2025

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

12 mins; January 17, 2025

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

55 mins; January 17, 2025

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

76 hours 15 mins; January 16, 2025

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

56 mins; January 15, 2025

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

7 mins; January 15, 2025

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

86 hours 33 mins; January 14, 2025

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

78 hours 34 mins; January 14, 2025

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

51 mins; January 14, 2025

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

16 mins; January 13, 2025

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

49 mins; January 13, 2025

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

7 mins; January 11, 2025

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

33 mins; January 11, 2025

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

64 hours 1 min; January 10, 2025

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

21 mins; January 09, 2025

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

46 mins; January 09, 2025

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

97 hours 23 mins; January 08, 2025

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

37 mins; January 08, 2025

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

10 mins; January 07, 2025

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

35 mins; January 06, 2025

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

35 mins; January 06, 2025

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

8 mins; January 05, 2025

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

14 mins; January 04, 2025

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

30 mins; January 02, 2025

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

20 mins; January 01, 2025

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

65 hours 38 mins; December 31, 2024

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

52 mins; December 30, 2024

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

72 hours 30 mins; December 28, 2024

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

12 mins; December 26, 2024

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

10 mins; December 26, 2024

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

84 hours 54 mins; December 25, 2024

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

53 mins; December 24, 2024

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

65 hours 0 mins; December 21, 2024

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

105 hours 29 mins; December 21, 2024

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

103 hours 59 mins; December 21, 2024

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

42 mins; December 20, 2024

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

48 mins; December 19, 2024

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

88 hours 15 mins; December 18, 2024

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

60 hours 42 mins; December 18, 2024

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

43 mins; December 18, 2024

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

76 hours 32 mins; December 18, 2024

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

52 mins; December 17, 2024

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

92 hours 1 min; December 16, 2024

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

47 mins; December 16, 2024

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

75 hours 30 mins; December 14, 2024

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

47 mins; December 13, 2024

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

65 hours 24 mins; December 12, 2024

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

63 hours 38 mins; December 11, 2024

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

42 mins; December 10, 2024

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

45 mins; December 09, 2024

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

20 mins; December 08, 2024

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

57 mins; December 07, 2024

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

19 mins; December 07, 2024

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

49 mins; December 05, 2024

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

31 mins; December 04, 2024

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

108 hours 20 mins; December 03, 2024

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

46 mins; December 02, 2024

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

30 mins; December 01, 2024

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

41 mins; November 30, 2024

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

59 mins; November 29, 2024

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

15 mins; November 28, 2024

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

54 mins; November 27, 2024

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

63 hours 4 mins; November 26, 2024

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

27 mins; November 25, 2024

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

25 mins; November 24, 2024

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

19 mins; November 23, 2024

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

33 mins; November 22, 2024

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

75 hours 44 mins; November 21, 2024

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

40 mins; November 20, 2024

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

18 mins; November 19, 2024

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

66 hours 39 mins; November 17, 2024

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

70 hours 12 mins; November 16, 2024

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

57 mins; November 15, 2024

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

56 mins; November 14, 2024

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

34 mins; November 14, 2024

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

45 mins; November 13, 2024

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

37 mins; November 11, 2024

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

67 hours 0 mins; November 11, 2024

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

50 mins; November 09, 2024

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

49 mins; November 08, 2024

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

32 mins; November 07, 2024

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

32 mins; November 06, 2024

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

59 mins; November 05, 2024

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

37 mins; November 03, 2024

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

34 mins; November 03, 2024

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

38 mins; October 31, 2024

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

54 mins; October 30, 2024

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

52 mins; October 29, 2024

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

47 mins; October 28, 2024

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

56 mins; October 27, 2024

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

39 mins; October 26, 2024

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

37 mins; October 25, 2024

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

41 mins; October 24, 2024

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

49 mins; October 24, 2024

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

32 mins; October 24, 2024

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

17 mins; October 24, 2024

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

19 mins; October 24, 2024

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

32 mins; October 20, 2024

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

15 mins; October 20, 2024

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