Scott Lucas https://x.com/ScottLucas_EA Scott Lucas is a political analyst with more than 30 years’ experience including a wide range of interests from academic expertise to journalism, and public media, as well as digital engagement. Scott is a regular contributor to international TV, radio, and digital outlets. He is a Professor at the Clinton Institute, University College Dublin, and Professor Emeritus at the University of Birmingham. ---------- James Ker-Lindsay Professor James Ker-Lindsay i...
Jul 16, 2024•56 min•Season 3Ep. 463
Edition No52 | 13-07-2024 This episode examines the deliberate targeting of a children's cancer hospital in Kyiv, one of the largest in Europe. The immediate consequences were devestating, but the longer-term ones may be even worse. Does our lack of a forceful response give Russia a green-light for genocide on an unparalleled scale in Ukraine? ~~~~~ SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ~~~~~ NEWS SOURCES: KYIV INDEPENDENT https:/...
Jul 14, 2024•46 min
Oleksandr Musienko is a military and political expert, political and legal adviser, and head of the Centre for Military-Law Research. He is a United24 Media ambassador and hosts his own very popular military analytical channel on YouTube in the Ukrainian language. ---------- Interview created in partnership with United24 Media UNITED24 Media is an English-language modern-format digital media offering short content stories and reels on Ukraine, its culture, history, businesses, people, and, most ...
Jul 13, 2024•51 min•Season 3Ep. 458
NATO offers Ukraine a bridge to membership, but has not closed the sky, and from the evidence of Monday’s attack on a children’s cancer hospital, has not d=deterred Putin’s aggression in any way. ---------- General Dick Lodewijk Berlijn is a retired Royal Netherlands Air Force four-star general, who served as Chief of Defence Staff of the Netherlands from 2004. His office saw Dutch military presence in Uruzgan with ISAF, as well as naval contributions to the United Nations Interim Force in Leban...
Jul 12, 2024•52 min•Season 3Ep. 461
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 covere...
Jul 11, 2024•53 min•Season 3Ep. 459
Barely a week goes by without things occurring that would have been inconceivable three years ago. Russian territory being hit by American made munitions, history’s most substantial sanctions in place against Russia, a near coup against the Kremlin, and Putin going cap-in-hand to Kim-Jong-Un to prop up his ailing military. What more can happen before these tensions and conflicts coalesce into World War 3 – especially the expectations that Korea troops will soon be fighting on the territory of Eu...
Jul 10, 2024•39 min•Season 3Ep. 460
Batu Kutelia has over a decade of experience in international relations, and currently serves as a Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. He is a former Ambassador to the USA and former Head of Georgia’s Foreign Intelligence Service. He is a member of the board at the Atlantic Council of Georgia and Professor at the Alte University, Tbilisi, Georgia. He was co-author and TV co-host of the Foreign Affairs talk show at the Mtavari TV in 2020-2021. He is frequent contributor to the...
Jul 09, 2024•50 min•Season 3Ep. 453
Edition No51 | 08-07-2024 ~~~~~ SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ~~~~~ NEWS SOURCES: KYIV INDEPENDENT https://kyivindependent.com/trump-reportedly-considering-making-deal-with-putin-to-foreclose-nato-ukraine-accession-officials-tell-politico/ https://kyivindependent.com/nato-plans-to-establish-new-post-in-kyiv-trump-proof-ukraine-aid-wsj-reports/ https://kyivindependent.com/opinion-cognitive-warfare-is-natos-new-battlefield/ ...
Jul 08, 2024•47 min
Is Ukraine too corrupt to join NATO? Escalation management still holds sway. ---------- Jon Sweet is an accomplished intelligence professional who served for 30 years within the Defence and Intelligence sector as an U.S. Army Military Intelligence Officer. He is now a freelance author, contributor and columnist for The Hill, The Messenger, Washington Examiner, Kyiv Post and FOX News. He provides an experienced military perspective on current world events. Mark Toth is a retired economist, histor...
Jul 07, 2024•1 hr•Season 3Ep. 457
Cormac Smith has worked in Public Relations and Corporate Communications for over three decades. Before moving into the government sector in 2000 I spent most of the 1990’s managing media relations in the pharmaceutical industry. He has held several senior communication management positions in local government, and Whitehall departments, but in 2016 travelled to Ukraine to take up a special appointment as the ‘Strategic Communication Advisor’ to Pavlo Klimkin, then the Foreign Minister of Ukrain...
Jul 07, 2024•58 min•Season 3Ep. 456
Philip Ingram is a journalist and consultant who has built on a long and senior military career as an intelligence, counterintelligence, security officer, and planner. Philip has extensive business experience, especially in steel manufacturing, and has set up companies from scratch, merged companies, taken over companies post sale assets. He also has extensive media experience, appearing on the BBC, Sky News and Radio networks, international networks including Al Jazeera, TRT World, CNN, ABC, CB...
Jul 05, 2024•55 min•Season 3Ep. 455
Whatever mistakes he has made in the war Vladimir Putin has retained the Escalation Initiative, always proving he can push the war to a new level of brutality, with the Western allies constantly playing catch-up, and in many ways placing restrictions and delays on Ukraine in terms of how it fights back. What are the implications of this dynamic for the war and a potential Ukrainian victory? ---------- Terron Sims, II is a combat veteran, businessman, political leader, and a graduate of the Milit...
Jul 04, 2024•49 min•Season 3Ep. 450
Tom Keatinge is the founding Director of the Centre for Finance & Security (CFS) at RUSI. According to The Economist, Tom Keatinge is one of a small group of '‘White collar vigilantes and poachers-turned-gamekeepers’. Tom’s research focuses on matters at the intersection of finance and security, including the use of finance as a tool of intelligence and disruption. He has a Master’s in Intelligence and International Security from King’s College London, where his research focused on the effec...
Jul 03, 2024•47 min•Season 3Ep. 452
Ukraine Must Win: pre-election panel conversation with the participation of: - Edward Lucas - Paul Mason - Macer Gifford and moderated by Jonathan Fink (Silicon Curtain) ---------- Organiser: SupportUkraine.UK (Instagram @supportukraine.uk). Thanks to the Association of Ukrainians in Great Britain (AUGB) London Branch for hosting the event. All funds raised from this event will be directed to help frontline medics in Ukraine. Date: Friday, June 28 · 7 - 9pm (GMT+1) Host: Ukrainian Cultural Centr...
Jul 03, 2024•1 hr 16 min
Ukraine Must Win: pre-election panel event - Audience Q&A - with the participation of: - Edward Lucas - Paul Mason - Macer Gifford and moderated by Jonathan Fink (Silicon Curtain) ---------- Organiser: SupportUkraine.UK (Instagram @supportukraine.uk). Thanks to the Association of Ukrainians in Great Britain (AUGB) London Branch for hosting the event. All funds raised from this event will be directed to help frontline medics in Ukraine. Date: Friday, June 28 · 7 - 9pm (GMT+1) Host: Ukrainian ...
Jul 02, 2024•40 min
EXAMPLE MEMBERS' CONTENT - FREE FOR 24 HOURS. ---------- 2024-06-03 | Tax increases will hit everyone (in Russia) by Michael Naki and Vladimir Milov | Translated from the original Russian by Jonathan Fink ---------- What has become clear about the Russian economy over the past week. Now we won’t be able to tell how petrol production fell, since it was defined as classified, which, of course, is a sure sign that everything is fine and under control, but a lot of other things were happening. Let's...
Jun 30, 2024•25 min•Season 3Ep. 3
Barely a week goes by without things occurring that would have been inconceivable three years ago. Russian territory being hit by American made munitions, history’s most substantial sanctions in place against Russia, a near coup against the Kremlin, and Putin going cap-in-hand to Kim-Jong-Un to prop up his ailing military. What more can happen before these tensions and conflicts coalesce into World War 3 – especially the expectations that Korea troops will soon be fighting on the territory of Eu...
Jun 29, 2024•55 min•Season 3Ep. 451
Whatever mistakes he has made in the war Vladimir Putin has retained the Escalation Initiative, always proving he can push the war to a new level of brutality, with the Western allies always playing catch-up, any in many ways placing restrictions and delays on Ukraine in terms of how it fights back. What are the implications of this dynamic for the war and a potential Ukrainian victory? ---------- Steven Moore is a political strategist, who spent seven years as a chief of staff and senior leader...
Jun 29, 2024•47 min•Season 3Ep. 449
Dr Benjamin Tallis is a research fellow at the German Council on Foreign Relations. He runs the project “Action Group Zeitenwende” on the transformation of Germany’s security and foreign policy, and where he hosts the podcast "Berlin Inside Out". He previously worked for the EU on security missions in Ukraine and the Balkans and was policy officer at the European Centre of Excellence for Civilian Crisis Management in Berlin. Benjamin spent five years at the Institute of International Relations P...
Jun 27, 2024•42 min•Season 3Ep. 448
Edition No50 | 26-06-2024 ~~~~~ SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ~~~~~ NEWS SOURCES: KYIV INDEPENDENT https://kyivindependent.com/washington-post-new-data-shows-large-suspected-north-korean-munitions-transfers-to-russia/ https://kyivindependent.com/russias-su-57-hype-versus-reality/ https://kyivindependent.com/ft-serbia-hints-its-artillery-shells-are-making-their-way-to-ukraine/ https://kyivindependent.com/satellite-images-sh...
Jun 26, 2024•49 min
It’s been a year since Prighozhin’s mutiny and 10 months since his death, or murder, as some believe it to be. Today we will be asking how this has affected Wagner’s operations in Africa. --------- Beverly Ochieng is an experienced journalist and commentator on socio-political, economic and security developments in Sub-Saharan Africa. She analyses political developments in the region, as well as security developments in West Africa and the Sahel. Until recently Beverly was a Senior Digital Journ...
Jun 25, 2024•48 min•Season 3Ep. 447
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 Ukrainia...
Jun 24, 2024•1 hr 11 min•Season 3Ep. 445
Dr Ivana Stradner is a Research Fellow at The Foundation for Defence of Democracies (FDD) a non-partisan institution focusing on national security and foreign policy. She is a Special Correspondent @KyivPost and expert on Russia’s information security. Ivana has been published in many academic journals and the media, including The Washington Post, The National Interest, Real Clear World and Defence, Newsweek, National Review, and Foreign Policy. ---------- LINKS: https://www.fdd.org/team/ivana-s...
Jun 22, 2024•43 min•Season 3Ep. 446
GUESTS: Anna from Ukraine - Anna Danylchuk and Jonathan MS Pearce ---------- Anna Danylchuk has been creating a war diary since the early days of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia in 2022. Anna Danylchuk aims to tell the truth about Ukraine and Russia’s war and cut through the noise and propaganda. Anna is passionate about the beauty and independence of her country, and communicates this powerfully in her videos, in a clear and honest way. Jonathan MS Pearce is a philosopher, author, ...
Jun 21, 2024•1 hr 24 min•Season 3Ep. 444
Edition No49 | 20-06-2024 ~~~~~ SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ~~~~~ NEWS SOURCES: KYIV INDEPENDENT https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-war-latest-over-80-states-organizations-sign-peace-summits-joint-communique/ https://kyivindependent.com/everyone-knows-putins-proposals-for-peace-in-ukraine-not-meant-seriously-scholz-says/ https://kyivindependent.com/putin-names-ceasefire-demands-full-ukrainian-withdrawal-from-four-oblast...
Jun 20, 2024•39 min
GUEST: Mark Galeotti - historian, author, security expert and academic. ---------- Yevgeny Prigozhin emerged as one of the most dangerous warlords in the world and as one of Vladimir Putin's chief rivals in Russia's tumultuous political climate, exiled after leading Wagner's attempted coup and killed in a mysterious plane crash. But what is the truth about this enigmatic figure, his role in the war with Ukraine, and the chaos unleashed across Russia by his turn against Putin? And, in the afterma...
Jun 19, 2024•1 hr 7 min•Season 3Ep. 443
Oleksandr Musienko is a military and political expert, political and legal adviser, and head of the Centre for Military-Law Research. He is a United24 Media ambassador and hosts his own very popular military analytical channel on YouTube in the Ukrainian language. ---------- Interview created in partnership with United24 Media UNITED24 Media is an English-language modern-format digital media offering short content stories and reels on Ukraine, its culture, history, businesses, people, and, most ...
Jun 18, 2024•50 min•Season 3Ep. 442
Monthly conversation with Konstantin Samoilov of the @INSIDERUSSIA channel. US expands Russia secondary sanctions, prohibits supply of IT services, extends export controls, and designates over 300 targets. ---------- Welcome to our monthly conversation with Konstantin, who is one of the most respected voices on YouTube about what is happening Inside Russia. Konstantin Samoilov is a well-known YouTuber whose channel ‘Inside Russia’ comments insightfully on Russia’s decent into authoritarianism ov...
Jun 17, 2024•38 min•Season 3Ep. 441
Aliide Naylor is a British journalist, author, and editor who has specialised in Russia and frontline European nations since 2011. Her freelance reportage has been published by a variety of outlets, including Vice, The Times, the Guardian, Tortoise, POLITICO Europe, and many more. Whilst she has extensive experience working on Russia, Europe, and international affairs, she also covers topics as diverse as technology, society and culture. Her first book, 'The Shadow in the East: Vladimir Putin an...
Jun 16, 2024•35 min•Season 3Ep. 439
An ordinary Ukrainian trying to help his country. He runs Dzyga's Paw to purchase tech equipment for 🇺🇦 Ukrainian Defenders. He is a former software engineer, in civilian life. ---------- LINKS: https://dzygaspaw.com/galka-uas-to-14th-regiment https://dzygaspaw.com/support https://www.patreon.com/dimko https://x.com/dim0kq ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: kharpp - Recon...
Jun 13, 2024•41 min•Season 3Ep. 440
