

Silicon Curtain
Jonathan Fink
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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
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
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Mar 16, 2024 • 53min
364. Maria Popova and Oxana Shevel - Russia and Ukraine have Tangled Histories, cut Through with Trauma.
In February 2022, Russian missiles rained on Ukrainian cities, and tanks
rolled towards Kyiv to end Ukrainian independent statehood. President
Zelensky declined a Western evacuation offer and Ukrainians rallied to
defend their country. What are the roots of this war, which has upended
the international legal order and brought back the spectre of nuclear
escalation? How did these supposedly “brotherly peoples” become each
other’s worst nightmare?
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Maria Popova is Jean Monnet Chair and Associate Professor of Political
Science at McGill University in Montreal. She holds a BA in Spanish
Literature and Government from Dartmouth College and a PhD in Government
from Harvard University. She has lived and conducted research across
Eastern Europe and Eurasia and its various regime incarnations — to her
current attempt to disentangle real from fake anti-corruption efforts in
Bulgaria, Romania, and Ukraine. The ideal background to explore the
road to war that Putin has taken.
Oxana Shevel is an Associate Professor of comparative politic at
Department of Political Science at Tufts University and Director of
Tufts International Relations program. Her research and teaching focuses
on the post-Soviet region, especially Ukraine and Russia, and issues
such as nation building and identity politics, citizenship policies,
memory politics, church-state relations, and democratization process in
the post-Soviet region. She is a co-author (with Maria Popova) of a book
on the root causes of the Russo-Ukrainian war Russia and Ukraine:
Entangled Histories, Diverging States (2023).
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BOOKS:
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ARTICLES:
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TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:
Save Ukraine
https://www.saveukraineua.org/
Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas
https://superhumans.com/en/
UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in
Ukraine
https://unbroken.org.ua/
Come Back Alive
https://savelife.in.ua/en/
Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen
https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine
UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy
https://u24.gov.ua/
Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation
https://prytulafoundation.org
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Mar 14, 2024 • 50min
369. Peter Pomerantsev - Lessons from WWII in Fighting Propaganda Using Black Disinformation Techniques.
Fighting propagandistic lies with more lies rarely works and runs the
risk of eroding trust in your credibility and undermining your cause.
However, there is a role for so-called Black disinformation in wartime.
This deliberate dissemination of false or misleading information can be
highly effective as part of a military operation. Information campaigns
with the intent to deceive, manipulate, or undermine an adversary during
warfare or conflicts is a tactic used to gain strategic advantages by
sowing confusion and destabilizing the enemy. Classic examples of this
weaponised subterfuge played an important role in Britain’s victory in
WWII and can help to save many lives and shorten conflicts.
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Peter Pomerantsev is a Soviet-born British journalist, author, and TV
producer. He has written two books about Russian disinformation and
propaganda: Nothing Is True, and Everything Is Possible (2014) and This
Is Not Propaganda (2019). Peter was born into a Russian speaking Jewish
family in Kyiv, in 1977. In 1978, he moved with his parents to West
Germany, after his father, broadcaster, and poet Igor Pomerantsev, was
arrested by the KGB for proliferating anti-Soviet literature. They later
moved to Munich and then London where Igor Pomerantsev worked for the
BBC World Service.
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BOOKS:
Nothing is True and Everything is Possible: Adventures in Modern Russia
(2014)
This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality (2019)
Ukraine in Histories and Stories: Essays by Ukrainian Intellectuals
(Ukrainian Voices)
by Volodymyr Yermolenko with Foreword by Peter Pomerantsev (2020)
Black Earth City: A Year in the Heart of Russia (Charlotte Hobson and
Peter Pomerantsev 2017)
How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler
(2024)
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ARTICLES:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/mar/02/the-man-who-tricked-nazi-germany-lessons-from-the-past-on-how-to-beat-disinformation
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SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:
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https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain
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TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:
Save Ukraine
https://www.saveukraineua.org/
Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas
https://superhumans.com/en/
UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in
Ukraine
https://unbroken.org.ua/
Come Back Alive
https://savelife.in.ua/en/
Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen
https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine
UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy
https://u24.gov.ua/
Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation
https://prytulafoundation.org
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PLATFORMS:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon
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Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain
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Welcome to the Silicon Curtain podcast. Please like and subscribe if you
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Mar 13, 2024 • 34min
367. Artur Rehi - Why Europe Needs to Scale up Military Support for Ukraine As Quickly as Possible.
Today I’m speaking with Artur Rehi, influential YouTuber, and Estonian
reserve soldier. He completed conscription in 2018 in Kuperjanov
Infantry battalion in company communications and now delivers aid to
Ukraine after every 2 months and generates fundraisers for his viewers
on YouTube. He looks at the war with insight, empathy, and humour, and
brings his audience the latest updates on the Russo-Ukrainian war in
daily videos. Artur also explores his family’s traumatic history as
victims of Soviet repression and imperialism.
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LINKS
https://www.youtube.com/@arturrehi
https://twitter.com/ArturRehi
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SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:
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https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain
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TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:
Save Ukraine
https://www.saveukraineua.org/
Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas
https://superhumans.com/en/
UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in
Ukraine
https://unbroken.org.ua/
Come Back Alive
https://savelife.in.ua/en/
Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen
https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine
UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy
https://u24.gov.ua/
Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation
https://prytulafoundation.org
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PLATFORMS:
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Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain
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Welcome to the Silicon Curtain podcast. Please like and subscribe if you
like the content we produce. It will really help to increase the
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Mar 12, 2024 • 49min
366. Keir Giles - After 2007 Munich Security Conference Moscow’s Intent to Challenge West Became Clear.
After Putin’s Munich Security conference speech in 2007, Moscow’s intent
to challenge the West became clearer. A question arose almost
immediately: how far the country as a whole or its leader was at fault—
whether the world had a Russia problem or a Putin problem. Since the
full-scale invasion of Ukraine analysts have continued to debate the
attitudes of ordinary Russians toward the war. Do a broad majority of
Russians genuinely support the crimes and atrocities committed by their
country’s armed forces? If not, why do they give every appearance of
doing so, and acquiesce to be mobilised?
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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.
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LINKS
Russia's War on Everybody: And What it Means for You (2022)
Moscow Rules: What Drives Russia to Confront the West (2019)
The Turning Point for Russian Foreign Policy (2017)
The State of the NATO-Russia Reset (2011)
Potential Challenges to Public Order and Social Stability in the Russian
Federation (2011)
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SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:
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TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:
Save Ukraine
https://www.saveukraineua.org/
Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas
https://superhumans.com/en/
UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in
Ukraine
https://unbroken.org.ua/
Come Back Alive
https://savelife.in.ua/en/
Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen
https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine
UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy
https://u24.gov.ua/
Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation
https://prytulafoundation.org
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PLATFORMS:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon
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Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/
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Welcome to the Silicon Curtain podcast. Please like and subscribe if you
like the content we produce. It will really help to increase the
popularity of our content in YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now
being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as
Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Mar 12, 2024 • 54min
362. DW Phillips - Film is a Powerful Medium to Counter Russian Propaganda and Disinformation Narratives.
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.
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LINKS:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dw-p-59111859/
https://www.youtube.com/@UkraineStory
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SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:
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TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:
Save Ukraine
https://www.saveukraineua.org/
Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas
https://superhumans.com/en/
UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in
Ukraine
https://unbroken.org.ua/
Come Back Alive
https://savelife.in.ua/en/
Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen
https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine
UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy
https://u24.gov.ua/
Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation
https://prytulafoundation.org
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PLATFORMS:
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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/
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Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/
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Welcome to the Silicon Curtain podcast. Please like and subscribe if you
like the content we produce. It will really help to increase the
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Mar 10, 2024 • 48min
363. Timothy Ash - Make $300 Billion of Russia Central Bank Monies Available to Ukraine to Ensure Victory
Timothy Ash has been arguing for more than 18 months that the $300
billion plus of Russia central bank monies “immobilised” in Western
jurisdictions should be formally frozen, seized and allocated to Ukraine
both to compensate it for the immense damage done by Russia to Ukraine
but also to give it a chance of being able to fund the war, to secure
victory, and subsequent peace and reconstruction. For much of this time
it has appeared as if we have been banging our heads against a brick
wall, but something seems to have changed in recent weeks months, as a
number of G7 countries (the UK, the US and Canada, in particular) appear
to have changed their positions and are now arguing in support of
seizing the assets and allocating them to Ukraine.
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Timothy Ash, who has been professional economist for more than 30 years,
with two thirds of that in the banking industry. Timothy’s specialism
is emerging European economics, and he writes and blogs extensively on
economic challenges for leading publications such as the Kyiv Post,
Atlantic Council, the Financial Times, and the United Business Journal.
He is also an Associate Fellow in the Russia and Eurasia programme at
Chatham House and has advised various governments on Ukraine-Russia
policy and specifically on the impact of sanctions.
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LINKS:
https://twitter.com/tashecon
https://www.linkedin.com/in/timothy-ash-83a87158/
https://www.chathamhouse.org/about-us/our-people/timothy-ash
https://cepa.org/author/timothy-ash/
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ARTICLES:
https://timothyash.substack.com/
https://kyivindependent.com/author/timothy-ash/
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TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:
Save Ukraine
https://www.saveukraineua.org/
Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas
https://superhumans.com/en/
UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in
Ukraine
https://unbroken.org.ua/
Come Back Alive
https://savelife.in.ua/en/
Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen
https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine
UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy
https://u24.gov.ua/
Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation
https://prytulafoundation.org
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PLATFORMS:
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Mar 9, 2024 • 1h 8min
361. Mark Galeotti - The Russian Ways of War are as Likely to Bring Defeat as Victory History Suggests.
GUEST: Mark Galeotti - historian, author, security expert and academic.
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Cornered like a rat, Vladimir Putin is more dangerous than ever. We want
his regime to be unstable, fragile, and collapsing – but 14 months of
war have shown it is remarkably resilient. We wanted the Russian people
to rise up against tyranny, but more than a million fled the country
instead. Analysts, politicians, and the media have been wrong about so
much when it comes to Russia. What are we still getting wrong.
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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.
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BOOKS:
Mark Galeotti: Putin's Wars: From Chechnya to Ukraine (2022)
Mark Galeotti: The Weaponisation of Everything: A Field Guide to the New
Way of War (2022)
Mark Galeotti: A Short History of Russia: From the Pagans to Putin
(2021)
Mark Galeotti: Storm-333: KGB and Spetsnaz seize Kabul, Soviet-Afghan
War 1979 (2021)
Mark Galeotti: We Need to Talk About Putin: How the West gets him wrong
(2019)
Mark Galeotti: Russian Political War: Moving Beyond the Hybrid (2019)
Mark Galeotti: The Vory: Russia's Super Mafia (2018)
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WAR STUDIES:
Putin Takes Crimea 2014: Grey-zone warfare opens the Russia-Ukraine
conflict (2023)
Russia's Five-Day War: The invasion of Georgia, August 2008 (2023)
Afghanistan 1979–88: Soviet air power against the mujahideen (2023)
Teutonic Knight vs Lithuanian Warrior: The Lithuanian Crusade 1283–1435
(2023)
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#markgaleotti #ukraine #ukrainewar #russia #zelensky #putin #propaganda
#war #disinformation #hybridwarfare #foreignpolicy #communism #sovietunion #postsoviet
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WATCH NEXT:
Fiona Hill
https://youtu.be/maBUKuJmQ4M
Jade McGlynn
https://youtu.be/uc_ak2c4XX0
Peter Pomerantsev
https://youtu.be/bIFrJXly9QY
Edward Lucas
https://youtu.be/Qcfyu_dwHEo
Owen Matthews
https://youtu.be/1XbmVAaseGM
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Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain
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Welcome to the Silicon Curtain podcast. Please like and subscribe if you
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Mar 9, 2024 • 53min
360. Operator Starsky - Starsky's New Project to Counter Russian Disinformation
Today I’m speaking with Operator Starsky, a Ukrainian National Guardian,
blogger, and inspiration for everyone who is following the war, and
supporting a Ukrainian victory. He has created one of the most popular
and original YouTube channels dedicated to the international community.
I’m not sure you need an introduction – I’m sure most people watching
this channel will have seen your videos!
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LINKS:
https://www.youtube.com/@PropagandaStudyInstitute
http://psi-eu.org/
https://www.youtube.com/@StarskyUA
https://twitter.com/starskyua?lang=en
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OTHER VIDEOS WITH OPERATOR STARSKY ON SILICON CURTAIN:
https://youtu.be/ABIIyNa1AOk
https://youtu.be/ijqIznyYPYI
https://youtu.be/6cRlltDAd8k
https://youtu.be/TEeR3-W7p9s
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SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain
https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain
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TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:
Save Ukraine
https://www.saveukraineua.org/
Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas
https://superhumans.com/en/
UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in
Ukraine
https://unbroken.org.ua/
Come Back Alive
https://savelife.in.ua/en/
Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen
https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine
UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy
https://u24.gov.ua/
Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation
https://prytulafoundation.org
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PLATFORMS:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/
Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain
----------
Welcome to the Silicon Curtain podcast. Please like and subscribe if you
like the content we produce. It will really help to increase the
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being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as
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Mar 6, 2024 • 56min
359. Jason Jay Smart - Does Ukraine Need to go Beyond Washington DC to Secure More US Military Support?
Many Republicans no longer support aid for Ukraine. But is the
obstruction of aid to Ukraine being driven by a few radicals at the
behest of former president Donald Trump, or is there wider lack to
strong support for Ukraine within a highly polarised GOP? Does Ukraine
need to go beyond Washington DC to ensure US support, and reach out to
Middle America?
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Jason Jay Smart is a political adviser who has lived and worked in
Ukraine, Moldova, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Latin America. Due
to his work with the democratic opposition to Vladimir Putin, Smart was
made persona non grata for life by Russia in 2010. Jason is a Special
Correspondent at the Kyiv Post and a Managing Partner at American
Political Services. It’s the various themes from his recent articles
that we will discuss in this episode.
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LINKS:
https://jasonjaysmart.com/
https://www.kyivpost.com/authors/5
https://americanpoliticalservices.com/
https://www.facebook.com/jasonjaysmart
https://twitter.com/officejjsmart
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TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:
Save Ukraine
https://www.saveukraineua.org/
Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas
https://superhumans.com/en/
UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in
Ukraine
https://unbroken.org.ua/
Come Back Alive
https://savelife.in.ua/en/
Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen
https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine
UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy
https://u24.gov.ua/
Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation
https://prytulafoundation.org
NGO “Herojam Slava”
https://heroiamslava.org/
kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and
Przemyśl
https://kharpp.com/
NOR DOG Animal Rescue
https://www.nor-dog.org/home/
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PLATFORMS:
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Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain
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Welcome to the Silicon Curtain podcast. Please like and subscribe if you
like the content we produce. It will really help to increase the
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Mar 5, 2024 • 44min
358. Konstantin Samoilov (Inside Russia YouTube channel) - Economic Tsunami Threatens Russia's Ability to Sustain the War
Production in the military-industrial complex is squeezing money out of
the civilian economy. How much longer can Putin keep burning money,
resources and people on a project that is neither creating sustainable
wealth for citizens, nor substantial successes in Ukraine.
Russia's economic growth relies heavily on state-funded arms and
ammunition production and masks a multitude of problems, including poor
living standards and rampant inflation. Vladimir Putin claims the
economy is developing, and will continue to flourish. He claims Russia
can transition away from the West amid sanctions imposed over the
Ukraine war, but reality may be far more messy and painful.
Russia-based economists say the economy is showing signs of overheating
as Moscow ploughs on with what it calls the "special military
operation", and that for all the current optimism, stagnation or
recession now looms. "If a defence company builds a missile or a shell,
they explode somewhere and GDP grows," said economist Sergei Khestanov.
"But the civilian economy receives very little benefit from this
process." Russia is pumping the economy with one-time, unproductive
investments that yield limited future benefit.
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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.
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LINKS:
https://www.youtube.com/@INSIDERUSSIA
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OTHER VIDEOS WITH KONSTANTIN ON SILICON CURTAIN:
https://youtu.be/gbINoWwiq-Y
https://youtu.be/71CgzWpxf4Y
https://youtu.be/L2pEHdrSbJw
https://youtu.be/HKF-QaXOCIg
https://youtu.be/F6vJGl0169Y
https://youtu.be/ogYRqb24ltc
https://youtu.be/VhpoQwvEqis
https://youtu.be/URzXdRO02ps (29-Jan-2024)
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