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Silicon Bites Ep261 - Day 1,338 - 2025-10-23 | In this episode we follow the fumes: fires and explosions at refineries in Hungary and Romania, rumors of an apparent accident in Slovakia, and what unites all three refineries – their handling of Russian crude oil. Also, fresh U.S. and U.K. sanctions on Russia’s oil giants, pressure on India’s bulk buys of Russian crude, and Europe’s newest squeeze o...

2025-10-23 | Silicon Wafers 039 | Elon Musk’s SEWER of Destruction and Despair. I didn’t ask to see this, and do not follow these people, so why is X showing it to me? Between the choir of conformity, and the cacophony of division.1) The propagandists’ orchestration of manufactured narratives across multiple voices, channels and tones of voice to create the illusion of plurality.2) Democratic medi...

Silicon Bites Ep260 - Day 1,337 - 2025-10-22 | Like the worst of James Bond’s villains, like any genocidal tyrant, Putin is obsessed with ‘wonder weapons’ – instruments of terror and destruction on a massive scale. This episode explores rumours and boasts of Vladimir Putin’s new “wonder weapons”.Putin Hints at a New Wunderwaffe. We begin with the headlines. On October 10, 2025, the Kyiv Post publi...

2025-10-22 | Silicon Wafers 038 | What is Ukraine’s spymaster Kyrylo Budanov saying about deep strikes on Russia’s energy system; how those strikes are reshaping the battlefield and the very conduct of 21st century warfare. Unmanned capabilities are redefining the concept of attrition and vulnerability in modern warfare, and in this confrontation, Russia’s size is not necessarily an advantage. Rus...

2025-10-21 | Silicon Wafers 037 | Trump Stop Europe’s €140bn Lifeline to Ukraine? Europe thinks it’s found a legal-financial hack to turn Russia’s frozen billions into a €140 billion, interest-free “reparations loan” for Ukraine. And just as leaders line up to back it, reports say the Trump White House is balking — raising “market stability” fears and casting doubt on G7 unity. What’s the plan, wh...

2025-10-21 | Silicon Wafers 036 | DAILY UPDATES | Is Russia’s Hybrid War on Europe a precursor to a full incursion on European territory, or even the invasion of a European country? This is Silicon Wafers. Today: why Russia is probing and testing Europe, how hybrid attacks work, and what happens if the Kremlin pushes further escalating to a full invasion — and how we can deter it. Why the probing...

Silicon Bites Ep259 - Day 1,336 - 2025-10-21 | Why the Budapest summit won’t happen and why “peace” is still the last thing that Vladimir Putin has on his mind. It’s Day 1,336 of Russia’s criminal war against Ukraine. Why the Budapest summit won’t happen (and what that really tells us). After last week’s Trump–Putin call, the White House floated a rapid “peace” summit in Budapest. Since then: no d...

2025-10-20 | Silicon Wafers 034 | DAILY UPDATES | Trump’s meeting with Zelenskyy did not go well. We are starting to find out exactly how not well, as insiders start to report the details of the threats, coercion and cursing from Trump’s side, and implacable, yet polite resistance from Zelenskyy. “The meeting between the US and Ukrainian presidents descended many times into a “shouting match”, wit...

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Silicon Bites #258 - Early reports of Trump’s meeting with Zelenskyy were negative. But now we are getting more details, and some off-the-record comments from insiders, and it’s so much worse. Reports are coming in of the negative meeting the White House Friday. It seems that the approach on Trump’s side has devolved to threats and lies once more – the repetition of Kremlin talking points, myths,...

Silicon Bites #257 - Breaking news episode – there’s been a blast at a Russian chemical factory, thought to be a key facility for chemicals manufacture for munitions. On October 18, a deadly blast at a Russian chemical / munitions factory in the Russian republic of Bashkortostan, the city of Sterlitamak. What happened? Why does it matter? And what does it tell us about Russia’s war‑machine, its vu...

2025-10-18 | Silicon Wafers 032 | Trump’s dangerous reversal in U.S. support for Ukraine, - predictable, yet somehow these reversions to weakness and appeasement of Russia surprise most commentators and the media every time. Why did we think this time would be any different? We explore that other narrative the media seems to fall for, that there is a peace process to salvage, that a viable peace w...

2025-10-17 | Silicon Wafers 031 | DAILY UPDATES | Today: Why Russia’s War Machine Is Cracking, and it fails to fundamentally reform. Is the Russian military failing? What systemic, strategic, technical, and economic fractures are eating it from within? And what does that mean for Ukraine and Russia’s imperial dreams? Here are the angles we’ll explore: 1. Strategic misalignment & flawed doctrin...

Edition No256 ||| Day 1,342 ||| 17-10-2025 - This is your Silicon Bites Daily Geopolitics Brief, with a rundown of news stories on 17th October 2025. We cover Ukraine, Russia, China and the global struggle against autocracy. Welcome to Groundhog Day. We seem to be stuck in a loop, of threat, reversal, appeasement and then the whole cycle repeats. It creates the illusion that positions have changed...

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Edition No255 ||| Day 1,341 ||| 16-10-2025 - This is your Silicon Bites Daily Geopolitics Brief, with a rundown of news stories on 16th October 2025. We cover Ukraine, Russia, China and the global struggle against autocracy. Tonight’s rundown of the authoritarian front: Russia pounds Ukraine’s grid again; Kyiv’s drones torch refineries and substations deep inside Russia; London hammers the “shadow...

2025-10-16 | Silicon Wafers 030 | The Cracks Are Showing in the Russian economy. Loyalist economists on state TV now warn the economy is sliding into a hole the Kremlin can’t paper over. Alarm bells inside Russia’s own information space are ringing. We’ll dig into the numbers—tax hikes, corporate losses, shuttered factories, and cash-starved regions—and why it matters for Putin’s war machine. What...

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. ----...

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...

Edition No254 ||| Day 1,339 ||| 15-10-2025 - This is your Silicon Bites Daily Geopolitics Brief, with a rundown of news stories on 15th October 2025. We cover Ukraine, Russia, China and the global struggle against autocracy. We start with a moment of extraordinary weakness, a comment that could act as a red rag to a bull, as far as Putin is concerned, because he is provoked to aggression by weakne...

2025-10-15 | Silicon Wafers 029 | DAILY UPDATES | Tonight: the Kremlin’s intimidation tour—veiled threats to Moldova, unmarked Russian troops skirting Estonia’s border, and Vladimir Putin’s extraordinary admission that Russian air defense fired near an Azerbaijani passenger jet in 2024. We connect the dots: coercion, deniability, and the authoritarian habit of pushing the boundaries of the rules-b...

Georgijs Ivanovs started the Ukraine Matters channel in 2007, and it has garners 11.5 m views. He started the channel to explain the situation surrounding the war in Ukraine in simple terms. Like myself, he is not Ukrainian, nor is he a military expert. But he has been to Ukraine many times and seen it almost fully (except for Odesa region). He has a lot of good friends in Ukraine, and in fact his...

2025-10-14 | Silicon Wafers 028 | DAILY UPDATES | Right-wing authoritarian populism is gaining sway around the world, exemplified in the US by the phenomenon of Trump’s MAGA movement, across Europe and in the UK by Farage’s latest pop-up populist part Reform, and by Tommy Robinson. This episode explores the assets, agents and useful idiots of the Kremlin, how they seek to leverage populism, and wh...

Edition No253 ||| Day 1,339 ||| 14-10-2025 - This is your Silicon Bites Daily Geopolitics Brief, with a rundown of news stories on 14th October 2025. We cover Ukraine, Russia, China and the global struggle against autocracy. Russia’s winter playbook returns — mass strikes on Ukraine’s grid — while Ukraine pushes the war deep into Russia’s energy heartland. Moscow’s markets wobble, the World Bank t...

Jeffrey Hartman is the Founder & CEO of Ukrainian Action, a volunteer-run non-profit dedicated to supporting the survival of Ukrainian citizens and development of Ukraine. Twenty years after serving as a US Peace Corps Volunteer in Ukraine, he responded to the full scale invasion by leaving his day job trading commodities to focus on building a non-profit organization to address Ukraine's...