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Edition No251 | 07-10-2025 - “Happy Birthday, Mr. Putin — Ukraine’s Gift to the Dictator, Long-Range Strikes.” A birthday present for Vladimir Putin, Ukrainian style — deep-strike drone operations timed to his birthday. We’ll unpack the symbolism of this move, the military mechanics behind it, and what it suggests about escalation, deterrence, Kremlin overreach and Ukrainian strength. The Kyiv Pos...

Jukes came to prominence for journalism because of his involvement in and commentary on the News International phone-hacking scandal and the Leveson Inquiry. He live-tweeted the long hacking trial (half a million words over 130+ days) from the Old Bailey. He writes regularly for outlets such as The Independent, New Statesman, Prospect, Newsweek, The Daily Beast, and more, on media, politics, corru...

2025-10-07 | Silicon Wafers 022 | DAILY UPDATES | Today we dig into Vladimir Putin’s latest Valdai address in Sochi, the ominous threats he’s issuing toward Europe, and what it all says about a Kremlin that may be overreaching — doubling down in delusion, preparing for more direct confrontation. We’ll tie together his rhetoric, Medvedev’s inflammatory commentary, the creeping hybrid assaults acros...

John is a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council and Co-founder of Spycraft Entertainment a production firm providing content to the entertainment industry. Spycraft Entertainment connects the worlds of Hollywood and intelligence. John is also a foreign policy and intelligence expert and social media influencer. His articles have been published in the New York Times, The Atlantic, The...

2025-10-05 | Silicon Wafers 020 | DAILY UPDATES | The last 48 hours has seen savage strikes by Russia against Ukraine. They coincide with the annual Valdai press event, which can hardly be a coincidence, but they also smack of desperation. It seems that Russia is taking its vengeance on civilians for its failure to breakthrough on the battlefield. Russian strikes have impacted across Kyiv, Lviv, S...

Yevhen Filyak is Co-founder and CEO at Charity Fund «Group 35» and InSpirito. He has been a Manager of technological projects since 2003 and CEO of companies since 2009. Projects he has been involved with have received 53 grants, including awards from the President of Ukraine, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, and the Lviv IT Cluster. He is a Mentor at the Lviv Tech Startup School.----------T...

2025-10-03 | Silicon Wafers 018 | DAILY UPDATES | Russia’s looming budget crisis. How fuel shortages, collapsing revenues, and war spending are squeezing the Kremlin. Can Putin keep paying his army next year? What happens if he can’t? And what do these pressures mean for the broader alliance between China, Russia and Iran. To understand the immediate danger, we need to map how Russia’s fiscal mode...

David DeBatto is host of the ‘No Delusion Zone’ podcast 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 and too indepen...

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2025-10-02 | Silicon Wafers 017 | Today’s episode focuses on a blistering new front of the war in Ukraine — energy warfare inside Russia — and what this means for Putin’s war machine and his regime. We’ll walk through four interlinked stories:1. Ukraine’s strikes on Russian refineries and the fuel shock inside Russia2. Russia’s pivot to Asian gasoline imports as its refining base crumbles3. Trump’...

Lucy Ash is a British documentary-maker, journalist, broadcaster and author, and has done extensive work for the BBC. Much of it focuses on former Soviet countries, indeed her work in radio started in Russia, as producer in the BBC's bureau in Moscow from 1990. From March 2023 until May 2025, Ash held a fellowship at Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen (Institute for Human Sciences),...

Edition No250 | 01-10-2025 - There has been a dramatic maritime showdown involving a grey fleet oil tanker, with shocking implications for Russia’s hybrid warfare in Western Europe’s backyard. French forces have just boarded a tanker tied to Russia’s “shadow fleet,” suspected of launching drones over Denmark. Moscow fired back, calling the move “provocative.” We’ll trace how these fits into a larg...

2025-10-01 | Silicon Wafers 016 | DAILY UPDATES | Lately, there’s been a flood of voices in Russian circles admitting that things on the front are nowhere near as rosy as state television makes them out to be. Complaints about high casualties, poor equipment, and a shortage of manpower are everywhere. And crucially, aside from the most die-hard propagandists, almost everyone admits that victory in...

2025-10-30 | Silicon Wafers 015 | DAILY UPDATES | Tonight, the voices from Moscow we prefer not hear from, unless they are prophesying the fall of the Putin regime and doom for the Russian military operation in Ukraine. It’s not Western politicians or Ukrainian commanders — but the Kremlin’s chorus of hawks, genocidal sycophants, propagandist talk-show stars and death-cult nationalist influencers....

The Third World War we warned about feels closer at hand than the last time we spoke, and deterrent actions that could have been taken were largely ignored. We’re now in a rerun of the cold war, but this time it’s much hotter, there are no rules to bound and limit the offensive actions of Russia, and it no longer seems to care whether we think of it as a barbarous nation or not. We’ve left it to f...

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Go to https://ground.news/Silicon for a better way to stay informed. Subscribe for 40% off unlimited access to world-wide coverage through my link. ----------DESCRIPTION:Expert Insights on Drones in the Ukraine War: Technology and Strategy with Alex FergussonIn this episode, Alex Fergusson, a leading expert on drones, joins the discussion to delve deep into the technological advancements and strat...

2025-09-28 | Silicon Wafers 013 | DAILY UPDATES | Today’s episode energy warfare: how Russia is threatening Ukraine’s lights this winter, and for the fourth winter in a row, but this time, Kyiv is also threatening to darken Russia in turn, and with the scaled-up production of the Flamingo missile complex, may have that capability. The contested space over energy production, distribution and export...

Edition No249 | 28-09-2025 - Today we turn the spotlight squarely on Russia’s propaganda machinery — and how its most vicious threats now extend even to Britain’s ancient universities. Solovyov has threatened to wipe out the town where I live in an atomic inferno, for no other reason that we refuse to allow Russia to erase Ukraine from the world map. Perhaps he’s also upset he can’t get to his Ita...

2025-09-27 | Silicon Wafers 012 | Wafers daily is a round-up of news over the last 1-2 days, with a particular focus on the resurgence of authoritarian regimes in the 21st century, great power competition, democracy on the defensive, the Russian imperial project, and how Ukraine is leading the fightback for values and freedom. In this short video format, I hope to bring some light to dark times. T...

Live stream with Yuri Rashkin. ----------SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISERA project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to Ukraine's front-line towns.https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras----------SILICON CURTAIN LIVE EVENTS - FUNDRAISER CAMPAIGN Events in 2025 - Advocacy for a Ukrainian victory...

Go to https://ground.news/Silicon for a better way to stay informed. Subscribe for 40% off unlimited access to world-wide coverage through my link. ----------Ben Hodges is a retired United States Army officer, who became commander of United States Army Europe in November 2014, and held that position for three years until retiring from the United States Army in January 2018. Until recently he was t...

2025-09-26 | Silicon Wafers 011 | Wafers daily is a round-up of news over the last 1-2 days, with a particular focus on the resurgence of authoritarian regimes in the 21st century, great power competition, democracy on the defensive, the Russian imperial project, and how Ukraine is leading the fightback for values and freedom. In this short video format, I hope to bring some light to dark times.“T...

Nataliya Bugayova is a non-resident Russia Fellow at ISW. Nataliya previously led ISW’s Russia research team where she helped build the analytical framework that serves as the foundation for ISW’s in-depth reporting on Russia. Her analytical work focuses on the Kremlin’s decision-making, information operations, and global campaigns from Ukraine to Africa. She also serves as the Director of Strateg...

Go to https://ground.news/Silicon for a better way to stay informed. Subscribe for 40% off unlimited access to world-wide coverage through my link. ----------ABOUT: Edward Lucas was one of the first journalists to raise the alarm about Putin’s actions and motivations. While most of the world still thought of Putin as ‘someone we could do business with’, Edward published a prescient and insightful...