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Silicon Curtain

Become a Paid Subscriber: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/siliconcurtain/subscribe A podcast about propaganda, digital disinformation, politics, corruption, hybrid warfare, weaponised conspiracy theories, social echo chambers and digital dystopias. 1984, Authoritarian, Autocracy, Autocrat, Big Brother, Brainwashing, Cold war, Cold war propaganda, Communism, Conflict, Conspiracy theories, Control, Cults, Cyber warfare, Deception, Dictator, Dictatorship, Digital dystopia, Digital media,

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00:08:50

Meat for MONEY - The Mass Sneaky Mobilization of the...

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2026/04/21

2026-04-20 | UPDATES #179 | This is the ultimate case of ‘don’t look up’. Russia’s debt is spiralling, and the banking system is on the verge of a systemic collapse. The Kremlin has built an economic ‘kill switch’ to flip the economy back into a full authoritarian, centralised command economy, one engineered for the digital age. This is the banking crisis nobody will name, the crisis that the Kremlin expects at any moment, because it built the kill switch first, to stay in power and stay in

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00:24:21

Russians LOSE CONTROL of their Money as Putin Builds...

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2026/04/19

2026-04-19 | UPDATES #178 | This episode is about how Russia Is building the infrastructure to seize control of every rouble, every account, every transaction, from its population to fuel Putin’s pointless war. Russia’s population are waking up to the reality that their money is not their money. Their property is not their property. Their resources are not their resources. Everything is on loan from the state – retention of all these is conditional upon their loyalty and compliance. What’s expected

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01:24:11

1038. Putin Loses CRITICAL Support - As War, Economy...

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2026/04/19

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:https://jasonjaysmart.com/ https://www.kyivpost.com/authors/5

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00:18:05

Ukraine STRIKES Tuapse Oil Port - in Defiance of US...

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2026/04/18

Silicon Bites Ep320 | 2026-04-18 | Ukraine's war on Russian oil, the allies who begged them to stop, and the sanctions waiver that proved whose side Washington is on. On the morning of April 16th, a plume of black smoke rose from the Russian port city of Tuapse on the Black Sea coast. It stretched over a hundred kilometres out to sea. It was visible from space. NASA published the satellite image.The Tuapse Oil Refinery — a Rosneft facility, one of the ten largest in Russia, with an annual

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00:19:45

It's NEVER Been THIS Bad for Putin - He's in Trouble...

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2026/04/18

2026-04-18 | UPDATES #177 | Putin has never been weaker — and he knows it. Everything is falling apart for the tyrant of the Kremlin. Putin has never been in a worse position than he is right now. Nothing is going his way — simultaneously, across every front — in the spring of 2026.The front is stalled. Losses are outpacing recruitment. The economy has contracted for the first time since the invasion. His approval rating is falling for the sixth straight week. Two-thirds of Russians want peace

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00:19:24

How Russia IMMEDIATELY Violated the Easter Ceasefire...

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2026/04/18

2026-04-18 | UPDATES #176 | Easter lies, fratricide on the front line, and 667 reasons Ukraine’s air defences are the best in the world. On Easter Saturday, Vladimir Putin declared a thirty-two-hour ceasefire. A humanitarian gesture, the Kremlin called it. The truce would begin at 4pm Moscow time and last through Orthodox Easter Sunday. There is a pattern to Moscow’s announcements – major defeats are always labelled as humanitarian gestures.By 7am the next morning, Russia had violated its own

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00:38:20

1037. Trump is NOT a Friend to Ukraine - and Still...

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2026/04/18

Lev Parnas is a Soviet-born American businessman and former associate of Rudy Giuliani. Parnas, Giuliani, Igor Fruman, John Solomon, Yuriy Lutsenko, Dmytro Firtash and his allies, Victoria Toensing and Joe diGenova, were involved in creating the false Biden–Ukraine conspiracy theory, which was part of the Trump–Ukraine scandal's efforts to damage Joe Biden. As president, Donald Trump said he did not know Parnas nor what he was involved in; Parnas insisted Trump "knew exactly what was going

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00:16:15

Putin's ULTIMATUM and Vance's Hollow Soul - Hands off...

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2026/04/18

Silicon Bites Ep319 | 2026-04-17 | Russia's Donbas ultimatum, America’s contradictions, and why JD Vance doesn't know what he's talking about. How do I know? On April 8th, from Budapest — standing alongside Viktor Orbán — JD Vance looked into a camera and said this: "We're talking about haggling at this point over a few square kilometres of territory in one direction or another. Is that worth losing hundreds of thousands of additional Russian and Ukrainian young men?"A few

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00:18:32

"We Are in TROUBLE and Time is Running Out!" - Elites...

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2026/04/17

2026-04-17 | UPDATES #175 | The economic forum where Russia’s own political and economic scientists said the quiet part out loud. It’s not good news for Putin. Last week, something extraordinary happened in Moscow. In a conference centre in the middle of the capital, at an event the authorities have tolerated for a decade — the Moscow Economic Forum. Tolerated why? Because the regime needs some feedback mechanisms to help shape policy, needs a way to monitor the dissent from its policy course from

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00:16:35

Three Experts SPEAK OUT - Britain Cannot be Defended...

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2026/04/16

Silicon Bites Ep318 | 2026-04-16 | The people who wrote Britain’s latest strategic defence plan just turned on the government that commissioned it. The dam of consensus broke at the Guildhall in Salisbury. A former NATO Secretary General — a man Sir Keir Starmer personally appointed to write Britain's blueprint for national defence — walked to a lectern, looked out at the room, and said:"We are underprepared. We are underinsured. We are under attack. We are not safe. Britain's national

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00:16:32

Russian Economy is Wrecked - Putin Demands Answers...

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2026/04/16

2026-04-16 | UPDATES #174 | Putin's wrecked economy – the grandfather in the Kremlin and the elite who want him gone. Yesterday, in a Kremlin meeting room, Vladimir Putin looked across a table at his own ministers and Central Bank chief Elvira Nabiullina — and demanded that they explain to him, in plain Russian, why the economy he built, the war machine he fuelled, the "fortress" he promised, is cracking under his feet. Maybe he is not recognising the full extent of the problem – maybe

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00:08:52

Russia's Gold is GONE! Why is Putin selling it now?

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2026/04/16

Silicon Bites Ep317 | 2026-04-15 | Russia’s gold reserves are going, going, gone. The kremlin starts eating its war chest. For the first time in nearly a quarter century, Vladimir Putin is selling Russia's gold. Not lending it. Not shuffling it from one Kremlin pocket to another. Selling it. On the open market. To pay for a war he cannot win and cannot stop.Here is what just happened, confirmed by The Moscow Times on March 24th and corroborated by the World Gold Council, Euromaidan Press, and

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00:13:28

"Get Ukraine Out of the Way!" Mask Ripped off to...

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2026/04/15

2026-04-15 | UPDATES #173 | This was the plan all along. Get Ukraine out of the way one way or another. If Biden’s administration (and those that preceded it) treated Ukraine as a second-tier ally and Russia as a peer adversary, then Trump’s administration has flipped the script. In their perception, Ukraine is a third or forth tier country, and barely a partner at all, whereas Russia has become a prospective ally, trading partner and a power whose vision of the world is in alignment with that of

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00:14:21

Regime CRUMBLING - As Architect of Putinism Flees...

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2026/04/14

2026-04-14 | UPDATES #172 | The ghost leaves the machine — Surkov’s alleged flight and the unravelling of Putinism. The man who invented "managed reality" for the Kremlin has, reportedly, had to manage his own reality to remain out of prison. Disappeared. A fugitive. That’s the rumour. The subject of a criminal case being — and I quote the phrasing from Russian sources — "being prepared." The ghost-writer of Putin's postmodern autocracy has been ghosted by the system he

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00:18:32

Why is Putin HIDING? Is May 9th Moscow Victory Day...

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2026/04/14

Published on Victory Day - deliberately. While Putin’s tanks roll across Red Square on 9 May (if the parade goes ahead), Ukrainian drone operators are dismantling that same military in real time. The Dark Heart of Russia is published on that date as an ironic statement: the war Russia says it is winning is the war it has already lost.WHO IS IN IT: Four NATO commanding officers. The former NSC Russia director. The man who broke the Kremlin’s money. A chess grandmaster. A Nobel Peace Prize laureate

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00:54:17

784. The Delicate Art of COMBAT Propaganda - How to...

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2026/04/14

Ostap Ukrainats was born in 1994 in Kalush, Ivano-Frankivsk in western Ukraine. He graduated from the National Kyiv-Mohyla University with BA and MA degrees in comparative literature. He made his debut as a writer in 2017 with the novel "Malchut", which was hailed the "debut of the year" by Village magazine. Since then, his novels „Trance” and „Crusade Chancellery” were well received by readers. Ostap writes in the genre of historical and peculiar fiction, often referring to

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00:14:39

Russian Air Logistics Fleet is DONE in just 18 Months...

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2026/04/13

2026-04-13 | UPDATES #171 | Falling out of the sky: Russia’s air power is rusting to oblivion. On the ninth of December last year, a Russian An-22 — the biggest turboprop military transport ever built, one of maybe five still airworthy in the entire Russian fleet — broke apart in mid-air over the Ivanovo region and plunged into a reservoir. Seven crew dead. It had just come out of scheduled repairs. Three and a half months later, on the thirty-first of March, a Russian An-26 fell out of the sky over

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00:12:03

Orban's Downfall - Are Authoritarians on the...

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2026/04/12

Silicon Bites Ep316 | 2026-04-12 | Orbán falls: the strongman who ran out of tricks and cons. Another one bites the dust. Tonight, on the banks of the Danube, tens of thousands of Hungarians are chanting "Russian, go away" — and Viktor Orbán, the European Union's longest-serving leader, the self-styled architect of "illiberal democracy," the man Donald Trump's MAGA movement called the future of the West… has just phoned his rival to concede defeat. After sixteen years

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00:17:35

Putin LOSING Support of Z-Patriots - Hollow Nihilism...

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2026/04/12

2026-04-12 | UPDATES #170 | The moral vacuum at the heart of Putinism and Russian World philosophy is exemplified by Pavel Gubarev. He’s conducted a long interview with the hugely popular online host Yuri Dud. And it reveals that Pavel Gubarev, as well as being a despicable and cowardly functionary of a vile regime, an unashamed agent of chaos and death, who has no remorse for his role in the destruction Russia has wrought, and can barely rationalise that role in any coherent way. But the interview

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00:27:14

1031. Former Superpowers Heading for DEFEAT - US in...

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2026/04/10

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 the Pershing Chair in Strategic Studies, at the Centre for European Policy Analysis, specialising in NATO, Transatlantic relationship and international security. ----------ACTIVE CAMPAIGN:We are raising funds for 5 of 15 Vampire DronesSilicon Curtain for Kupiansk

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