With the vote on Ukraine on the cusp, the Pro-Putin wing of the American Far right is pushing a specific narrative designed to enrage Americans and call the Christianity of Speaker Johnson into question. How is Moscow influencing the Right and is there narrative taken seriously in the American political landscape? ---------- DW Phillips is a documentary filmmaker and constitutional attorney with Ukraine Story, a nonprofit foundation for journalism and documentary reporting in Ukraine. He and his...
Apr 12, 2024•46 min•Season 3Ep. 388
Edition No4 | 10-04-2024 ~~~~~ SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ~~~~~ KYIV INDEPENDENT https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-war-latest-ukraine-hits-aviation-training-center-in-russias-voronezh-oblast-source-says/ https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-war-latest-april-6-7-2024/ https://kyivindependent.com/source-russias-engels-air-base-was-hit-by-ukraine-heres-why-its-important/ https://kyivindependent.com/update-4-killed-23-inju...
Apr 10, 2024•45 min
James Ker-Lindsay is an academic and analyst with internationally recognised expertise on Southeast Europe (Balkans, Turkey, Greece, and Cyprus). He has extensive experience working across Government, Private Sector, Higher Education, and Think Tanks. He is also a regular commentator for the international media, including the BBC, CNN and Reuters and was formerly Co-Editor of the Cyprus Review. From 2000-2005, he covered Greek and Cypriot politics for the Economist Intelligence Unit. ---------- ...
Apr 09, 2024•45 min•Season 3Ep. 387
Russia's illegal war of aggression against Ukraine has shattered peace in Europe. NATO's Strategic doctrine states that Russia is the most significant and direct threat to Euro-Atlantic security, peace, and stability. It’s clear Russia wants to establish spheres of influence and control other countries through coercion, subversion, aggression, and annexation. We can now see clearly that Russia uses conventional, cyber and hybrid means – including disinformation – against NATO Allies and partners...
Apr 07, 2024•51 min•Season 3Ep. 386
GUEST: Anastasiia Marushevska - Communications expert, speaker, writer, and traveller. ---------- About the report: This analytical report is dedicated to reviewing the origin and modifications of the Russian history-based propaganda that aims to legitimise the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The research provides a comprehensive analysis of the Russian historical myths that seek to distort Ukrainian history from the middle ages to the ongoing all-out war, covering Russia's claim for Ukraine's m...
Apr 06, 2024•55 min•Season 3Ep. 385
Fourthin a series of monthly conversations on Silicon Curtain, about how Ukrainians are redefining the ideas of freedom and democracy, and why Ukraine must not be allowed to fall under Russian control. ---------- ABOUT: Joe Lindsley is a traveller and a writer, and American reporting on Chicago's WGN Radio from Ukraine each and every weekday of Russia's full-scale war. He once was protégé to Fox News founder Roger Ailes, but Lindsley escaped that frenzied world where power mattered more than tru...
Apr 05, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Season 3Ep. 384
Nigel Gould-Davies is a senior fellow for Russia and Eurasia at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in London. Between 2010 and 2013 he held senior government relations roles in the international energy industry. Previously he has also served in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, where his roles included head of the Economic Section in Moscow, ambassador to Belarus, and project director in the Policy Planning Unit. He is author of Tectonic Politics: Global Political Risk i...
Apr 05, 2024•49 min•Season 3Ep. 383
Edition No39 | 03-04-2024 Ukraine's critical infrastructure targeted in Russian overnight attack. Russia attacked Ukraine with drones and missiles overnight on March 31, damaging infrastructure facilities and killing at least one person. Russian troops hit Ukraine with drones and missiles, including 11 Shahed drones, 14 cruise missiles, an Kh-59 guided missile, and an Iskander-M ballistic missile, the Air Force reported. A total of nine cruise missiles and nine drones were downed. ~~~~~ SUPPORT ...
Apr 03, 2024•40 min
Jonathan MS Pearce is a philosopher, author, columnist, and public speaker with an interest in writing about almost anything, from scepticism to science, politics, and morality, to the environment. Essentially because everything is philosophy. He is a former teacher and is now battling primary progressive multiple sclerosis. He can no longer play football with his twin boys, but he can still write a good column and book. And remarkably, and very bravely, he has just come back from an arduous jou...
Apr 02, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Season 3Ep. 382
Disinformation continues to be a threat to Ukrainian sovereignty and is also targeted at Western democracies and allies of Ukraine. Around the world aggressive information warfare threatens information security and social stability, especially in states which Russia seeks to destabilise or coerce into supporting it. As we saw in the 2016 US elections, it can potentially threaten results of voting, place undue influence on voters’ decisions and undermine democratic processes. This is more importa...
Apr 01, 2024•46 min•Season 3Ep. 378
In Collisions, Michael Kimmage, traces the origins of the Russia-Ukraine war. He unpicks the development of Ukraine and Russia's fractious relationship back to the end of the Cold War, through the central events that led to Vladimir Putin seizing Crimea in 2014 and, eight years later, initiating the most intensive and widescale military confrontation of the post-WWII era. This conflict ushers in a new age of global instability, and a collision between Russia and the Western alliance that is far ...
Mar 31, 2024•54 min•Season 3Ep. 380
Strikes on Russian oil refineries have a significant impact on Russia’s ability to conduct warfare. Lieutenant General Ben Hodges, Commander of U.S. Forces Europe in 2014-17, stated this during the 16th annual Kyiv Security Forum. “Of course, attacks on oil refineries have a significant impact. Russia is less able to pay for this war, and it also deprives it of the necessary fuel to continue hostilities. I would recommend ignoring the calls for an end to such attacks.” The Lieutenant General emp...
Mar 30, 2024•47 min•Season 3Ep. 381
Marci Shore asks the vital question: What is worth dying for? While the world watched the uprising on the Maidan as an episode in geopolitics, those in Ukraine during the extraordinary winter of 2013–14 lived the revolution as an existential transformation: the blurring of night and day, the loss of a sense of time, the sudden disappearance of fear, the imperative to make choices. The Maidan was an illumination of the human capacity for natality, the ability to act, to begin anew at this moment....
Mar 30, 2024•44 min•Season 3Ep. 379
Washington’s likely failure in Ukraine shows the US needs a new national security strategy. Andrew A. Michta is senior fellow and director of the Scowcroft Strategy Initiative at the Atlantic Council of the United States. The views expressed here are his own: "The United States Senate’s failure to pass an aid package for Ukraine last month will likely be remembered as the first domino to fall in Russia’s war of aggression, potentially setting the stage for Russian President Vladimir Putin’s vict...
Mar 29, 2024•50 min•Season 3Ep. 378
Edition No38 | 27-03-2024 Ukrainian drones “have knocked out 600,000 to 900,00 barrels” of Russia’s daily oil-refining capacity. Industry experts estimate that Ukraine’s campaign of long-range drone strikes on Russia’s energy industry has already succeeded in knocking out between 600,000 and 900,000 barrels of Russia’s daily oil-refining capacity, Bloomberg reports. Ukraine launched a bombing campaign against Russia’s oil and gas industry in January 2024 using domestically produced long-range dr...
Mar 27, 2024•34 min
The UK government is providing a range of economic, humanitarian, and defensive military assistance to Ukraine – often leading the way with supply of new capabilities and categories of munition, to encourage allies to scale up their commitments. Britain seems to be less intimidated by Russia’s so-called ‘red lines’, which time have proved to be illusory – just the bluff and bluster of a bully. Overall, the European Union has provided the most to Ukraine in terms of military, financial and humani...
Mar 26, 2024•52 min•Season 3Ep. 373
Dr Yuri Felshtinsky is a prominent author, historian, and journalist, and expert on Russia and the former Soviet Union. He has appeared in hundreds of print, TV, and radio interviews worldwide, and is widely known as co-author of the book “Blowing Up Russia” with Alexander Litvinenko, a former Lieutenant Colonel in the FSB who was poisoned with radioactive polonium in London in 2006. His latest book – “Blowing up Ukraine: The Return of Russian Terror and The Threat of World War III”, was researc...
Mar 25, 2024•1 hr 25 min•Season 3Ep. 377
As the UK Defence Attache to the Russian Federation from 2019 to 2022, John Foreman advised senior UK officials and ministers on Russian military and security affairs and represented the UK Chief of Defence Staff to the Russian General Staff. He had a front-row seat for the tense meetings and negotiations that immediately preceded Russia’s full-scale assault on Ukraine in February 2022. ---------- John Foreman is an independent consultant specialising in Russia, Ukraine, and international securi...
Mar 25, 2024•46 min•Season 3Ep. 376
Prof. Olga Onuch has written what has been described as the definitive portrait of Volodymyr Zelensky, an extraordinary book called “The Zelensky Effect”. In this book, she explains the paradox of Zelensky as a leader and but also entertainer, businessman and risk-taker. She explores Ukraine’s national history to show how its now-iconic president reflects the hopes and frustrations of the country’s first ‘independence generation’. Interweaving social and political background with compelling epis...
Mar 23, 2024•1 hr•Season 3Ep. 374
Instead of what he thought would be a ‘short victorious war’, Putin has mired Russia in a protracted and costly struggle that may not only end Putin’s tenure in the Kremlin, but also threaten the integrity of the Russian Federation itself. The stakes could not be higher, and history shows that change in Russia moves like tectonic plates – nothing for decades, and then pent up forces are released in violent, dramatic and unpredictable changes. Some academics and politicians are starting to think ...
Mar 23, 2024•58 min•Season 3Ep. 372
After the Cold War, globalization accelerated at breakneck speed. Manufacturing, transport, and consumption defied national borders, companies made more money, and consumers had access to an ever-increasing range of goods. But in recent years, a profound shift has begun to take place. Business executives and politicians alike are realising that globalization is no longer working. Supply chains are imperilled, Russia has been expelled from the global economy after its invasion of Ukraine, and Chi...
Mar 21, 2024•55 min•Season 3Ep. 371
Geopolitical competition in the Black Sea is redefining regional order and shaping relations between states in the wider region. It has also challenged the idea of regional order based on regional ownership and laid bare how the security of different regions is interlinked. The Black Sea and Eastern Mediterranean have increasingly merged into one geopolitical space, where regional and great power rivalries play out. ---------- Henry J. Hendrix is a retired United States Navy captain. He has serv...
Mar 21, 2024•53 min•Season 3Ep. 368
About Dietmar Pichler - Analyst and Advocate for Disinformation Resilience Passionate about building resilience against disinformation and propaganda - dedicated to protecting our democracy from autocratic regimes and extremist groups. Russian propaganda is the "elephant in the room" that we need to address when discussing Media Literacy. ---------- LINKS: https://twitter.com/DietmarPichler1 https://www.linkedin.com/in/dietmar-pichler-26a75649/ https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/3696358-dietma...
Mar 19, 2024•53 min•Season 3Ep. 365
This is a recording of the Marathon event in support of Ukraine that was jointly run in Berlin on 15th March 2024 by Silicon Curtain and the European Resilience Initiative Center: https://www.youtube.com/@EuroResilience https://www.youtube.com/@SiliconCurtain ---------- The online TV marathon was hosted to mark the second anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine and 10 years of the Russo-Ukrainian war. Hosted in a recording studio in Berlin, by the European Resilience Initiative Ce...
Mar 19, 2024•1 hr 33 min
This is a recording of the Marathon event in support of Ukraine that was jointly run in Berlin on 15th March 2024 by Silicon Curtain and the European Resilience Initiative Center: https://www.youtube.com/@EuroResilience https://www.youtube.com/@SiliconCurtain ---------- The online TV marathon was hosted to mark the second anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine and 10 years of the Russo-Ukrainian war. Hosted in a recording studio in Berlin, by the European Resilience Initiative Ce...
Mar 19, 2024•11 min
This is a recording of the Marathon event in support of Ukraine that was jointly run in Berlin on 15th March 2024 by Silicon Curtain and the European Resilience Initiative Center: https://www.youtube.com/@EuroResilience https://www.youtube.com/@SiliconCurtain ---------- The online TV marathon was hosted to mark the second anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine and 10 years of the Russo-Ukrainian war. Hosted in a recording studio in Berlin, by the European Resilience Initiative Ce...
Mar 18, 2024•15 min
This is a recording of the Marathon event in support of Ukraine that was jointly run in Berlin on 15th March 2024 by Silicon Curtain and the European Resilience Initiative Center: https://www.youtube.com/@EuroResilience https://www.youtube.com/@SiliconCurtain ---------- The online TV marathon was hosted to mark the second anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine and 10 years of the Russo-Ukrainian war. Hosted in a recording studio in Berlin, by the European Resilience Initiative Ce...
Mar 18, 2024•30 min
This is a recording of the Marathon event in support of Ukraine that was jointly run in Berlin on 15th March 2024 by Silicon Curtain and the European Resilience Initiative Center: https://www.youtube.com/@EuroResilience https://www.youtube.com/@SiliconCurtain ---------- The online TV marathon was hosted to mark the second anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine and 10 years of the Russo-Ukrainian war. Hosted in a recording studio in Berlin, by the European Resilience Initiative Ce...
Mar 18, 2024•30 min
This is a recording of the Marathon event in support of Ukraine that was jointly run in Berlin on 15th March 2024 by Silicon Curtain and the European Resilience Initiative Center: https://www.youtube.com/@EuroResilience https://www.youtube.com/@SiliconCurtain ---------- The online TV marathon was hosted to mark the second anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine and 10 years of the Russo-Ukrainian war. Hosted in a recording studio in Berlin, by the European Resilience Initiative Ce...
Mar 18, 2024•34 min
Michał Rachoń is a Polish TV presenter, who worked for many years on the public broadcaster TVP. In the past he was an activist for PiS, the Law and Justice party that led Poland's previous government. His coverage of the Ukraine war has been described as courageous, informative, and refreshing, and he has been a guest on Joseph Lindsley’s channel, who will be familiar to people watching Silicon Curtain. ---------- LINKS: https://rockrachon.substack.com/ https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micha%C5%82...
Mar 17, 2024•50 min•Season 3Ep. 370
