Silicon Curtain

Silicon Bites Ep418 | 2026-10-11 | The colouring in Red Diesel is now Ukrainian blood, the blood of children. The aging abuser and parasite, Donald Trump is acting fully to the benefit of Putin’s Russia and its genocidal war. He is now all-in, in the war that Putin is all-in until the end of his life, committed to attacking Ukraine until it capitulates, and attacking the democratic Western allies....

Silicon Bites SW26-227 | 2026-10-10 | Consequences for its aggression are starting to bite in Moscow. Ukraine’s drones and balloons shut Moscow’s skies, apparently forcing the tsar to circle his own capital until it’s safe to land. Can you even imagine having to be the minion on board that jet that must deliver the bad news to Putin – sir, we cannot protect you in the capital – because Ukraine con...

Silicon Bites Ep417 | 2026-10-10 | Consequence have arrived for a group of Russia’s leading propagandists. Montenegro detains and expels Rybar's Mikhail Zvinchuk — how he thought he could get away with filming propaganda reels in a NATO country is confusing a lot of people, not least other Z-Patriots. It’s also promoted former Russian president Medvedev to crawl out of a vodka bottle and issue...

Silicon Bites Ep416 | 2026-10-09 | Primarily, he’s working for himself of course. But in serving his own ends, Trump is now overtly helping the enemy to win their genocidal war. After a phone call with Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump announces Russia will pump millions of tonnes of diesel into American and global markets. Within minutes, the US Treasury issues a general licence to make it legal. Puti...

Silicon Bites SW26-226 | 2026-10-09 | HELL IN SOCHI. The sea is safe and clean insists the Kremlin. As the horizon burns with a menacing glow and a monstrous cloud of black smoke. Putin's Riviera burns – and the Kremlin's answer is to swear the sea is clean, despite the evidence that everyone can see for themselves. Sochi. The jewel of Putin's Russia. An Olympic city. Summer court of t...

Silicon Bites Ep415 | 2026-10-08 | Putin has bet the farm on this war. And today the drones came calling – for the server farms, that is. Ukraine hits Yandex’s Sasovo data centre — in a new phase of the war of consequences for Moscow — Putin tried to make Kyiv unliveable. Now the mirror strategy flips toward Moscow. Did Putin really think he could strike Ukraine without being struck back? --------...

Lisa Woods is Founder and Executive Director of the MedPsy Foundation Inc and MedPsy Foundation Ukraine, focused on psychedelic therapy research and mental health advocacy in Ukraine. She has over 13 years of experience in humanitarian health, including serving as Deputy Health Cluster Coordinator for the World Health Organization (WHO) in Ukraine.----------LINKS:https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisanw...

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:https://www.youtube.com/@PKurzinhttps://www.youtube.com/@UCSody-jKZxozgjTP2xddWhQ https://www.linkedin.com/in/pyotrkurzin/ --------------------SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:https://www.buymeacof...

Silicon Bites Ep414 | 2026-10-07 | What do you give the killer Tsar for his birthday? A tyrant that has everything, and enough money to buy anything, and almost anyone. It’s simple, you give him a pile of dead kids and babies. Putin turns 74 — and his court of sick minions and slaves sought to flatter his ego by flattening an apartment block. This resulted in three dead one-year-olds, five kids ki...

Silicon Bites SW26-225 | 2026-10-07 | Russia is Testing the locks. Probes on NATO’s sovereign borders are intensifying, and with them comes increased risk, from a bolder and more desperate Russia. Testing the locks: armed men on Latvia’s border, drones exploding in Moldova, a Russian helicopter over Poland. Putin is probing NATO for the weakest seam in the defensive cloth. The only question is whe...

Today I’m speaking to David Satter, journalist, and historian with unique insights into how the 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...

Julia Ilnytska is a Ukrainian people-and-operations professional, interviewer, and the founder and host of iUkraine, an English-language podcast focused on the people building modern Ukraine. The project was created to shift international attention beyond the war itself and towards the entrepreneurs, technologists, defence innovators, communicators, investors and civic leaders shaping Ukraine’s fu...

Silicon Bites Ep413 | 2026-10-06 | TERRITORIAL SURRENDER AS NEGOTIATING FRAMEWORKThe policy did not stop at the dismantling. It escalated into affirmative acceptance of the maximalist Russian territorial agenda. April 2025: The U.S. peace proposal, developed through envoy Steve Witkoff and leaked to Reuters, proposed:- Legal U.S. recognition of Crimea as Russian territory.- De facto recognition of...

Silicon Bites Ep412 | 2026-10-05 | The treachery is parading in plain sight. These patterns of implicit betrayal of Ukraine were there from the very start of the Trump regime, but we’ll unpack them in more detail in this episode. And there is a new plan to let Putin off the hook, even before the aggression against Ukraine ends. Easing sanctions on Russia in exchange for the release of Russian poli...

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David DeBatto is host of the ‘No Delusion Zone’ podcast @NoDelusionZone 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...

Cormac Smith is a former UK government communications specialist and diplomat with extensive experience of Ukraine, Russian disinformation and strategic communications. He served as a strategic communications adviser to Ukraine’s foreign minister while attached to the British Embassy in Kyiv, becoming the first foreign national embedded within Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. During roughly...

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. It’s the state of US support for Ukraine that we will discuss today.----------LINKS:ht...

Silicon Bites SW26-224 | 2026-10-02 | Putin seizes Nestlé, Auchan and Leroy Merlin assets. One part of me wants to cheer, as this is predictable and inevitable punishment for those companies that thought they could remain in Russia and profit from death. On the other hand, it marks a new low in Russia’s slide away from a market economy and towards criminal, kleptocratic authoritarianism. ---------...

Silicon Bites Ep411 | 2026-10-04 | Holy bones cannot save Putin – his curse is upon Russia. And now in a development of profound absurdity, those same saint’s bones from the 14th century, dug up and sent to the front, to save Mother Russia from the misfortune it brought upon itself have been lost. Abandoned at the front as Russian troops chaotically fled from Ukrainian advances. This episode is ab...

Silicon Bites Ep410 | 2026-10-03 | Trump is doing everything to help Putin win his war, before summer of next year. Does he have a sense that Russia will struggle to mount new offensive operations beyond that point? Or do his hubris and delusion suggest to him that Ukrainians will capitulate after a cold winter of being battered daily? He could not be more wrong – every strike, every atrocity only...

Silicon Bites Ep409 | 2026-10-01 | Trump wants compliant allies – supine, dependent, insecure – and possibly divided. Now his animosities and resentments, intrigues and plotting may finally be tearing NATO apart. In this episode: the Pentagon's club of the obedient: why Eldridge Colby's formation of a NATO inner circle heralds the death of the alliance by other means, and why Europe must r...

Lt. Gen. (retired) Ben Hodges is the former Commanding General of United States Army Europe, a post he held from 2014 to 2017 during the initial Russian invasion of Ukraine and NATO's subsequent reinforcement of its eastern flank. A 1980 West Point graduate and infantry officer, he commanded at company, battalion and brigade level, including the 1st Brigade Combat Team of the 101st Airborne Di...

Silicon Bites Ep408 | 2026-09-30 | This terror will come to you. And not in the sneaky hybrid way, that happens just out of the corner of your eye. Out of sight and sound, with no direct impact on your lives, so you can forget and move on with your cosy lives. You have been warned. Such murder and mayhem are coming to your – to your factories, your businesses, your homes and your special places. Y...

James Sherr OBE is an Associate Fellow of Chatham House’s Russia and Eurasia Programme, which he headed from 2008–11. He currently is a Honorary Fellow at the International Centre for Defence & Security in Tallinn, Estonia, and he was previously Senior Fellow of the Estonian Foreign Policy Institute there. His background stretches across the UK Defence Academy, Oxford, RUSI, extensive advisory...