Silicon Curtain

GUEST: Nolan Peterson - Consultant, award-winning journalist, war correspondent, and author. ---------- Nolan Peterson is a non-resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Centre. He is an independent defence consultant, award-winning journalist, war correspondent, and author who has lived in Ukraine since 2014. As an international correspondent, Peterson has covered conflicts around the world. Apart from his work in Ukraine, he has been embedded with US armed forces in Iraq and Afghanistan and with the Kurdish Peshmerga during the battle for Mosul in Iraq. Peterson is a former US Air Force special operations pilot and a veteran of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. After leaving the US Air Force in 2011, Peterson completed a master’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, where he was a McCormick Foundation fellow. Peterson’s work has been published by numerous news outlets including the Wall Street Journal, CNN, Fox News, BBC, Newsweek, the Heritage Foundation, and Coffee or Die Magazine. He is the author of Why Soldiers Miss War: The Journey Home and several fiction collections. #NolanPeterson #warjournalism #ukraine #ukrainewar #russia #zelensky #putin #propaganda #war #disinformation #hybridwarfare #foreignpolicy #communism #sovietunion #postsoviet ---------- LINKS: https://twitter.com/nolanwpeterson https://www.linkedin.com/in/nolanwpeterson/ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/expert/nolan-peterson/ https://coffeeordie.com/nolan-peterson https://ukrainer.net/nolan-peterson/ https://archive.kyivpost.com/author/nolan-peterson ----------

GUEST: Henry J. Hendrix - Retired US Navy captain, defence analyst, historian and curator. ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- INTRO: Russia has apparently routed thin-hulled oil tankers through Arctic for first time. But the use of unreinforced vessels raises risks of environmental disaster. Is Moscow taking greater risks in its desperation to divert sanctions-hit exports. The arctic region has previously been explored and governed by international cooperation and treaties. As Moscow behaves in a way that is ever more at variance to international rule of law, how might its long-term ambitions play out in the Arctic? #jerryhendrix #seadrones #blackseafleet #moskva #ukraine #ukrainewar #russia #zelensky #putin #propaganda #war #disinformation #hybridwarfare #foreignpolicy #communism #sovietunion #ussr ---------- SPEAKER: Henry J. Hendrix is a retired United States Navy captain. He has served as an American defence analyst, an official historian and curator of the Navy and an author. His written work has focused on the composition of the United States Navy force, the structure of the Navy, the role of the aircraft carrier in modern strategic environments and the structure of the carrier air wing. He also publicly supported a recent plan to build a 350-ship Navy. Jerry Hendrix is President of Hendrix and Associates. ---------- LINKS: https://twitter.com/JerryHendrixII https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_J._Hendrix https://sagamoreinstitute.org/dr-jerry-hendrix/ https://www.usni.org/people/jerry-hendrix https://www.cnas.org/people/dr-jerry-hendrix https://www.linkedin.com/in/jerry-hendrix-9599684/ ---------- ARTICLES: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/04/us-navy-oceanic-trade-impact-russia-china/673090/

GUEST: Ian Garner, historian and expert on Russian war propaganda ---------- INTRO: Russia’s slide into authoritarianism has also seen an acceleration to extreme militarism, or perhaps one could characterise it as a regression to a highly militarised society, media, and education system. One of the most disturbing aspects is the indoctrination of youth. Ian Garner wrote with empathy and insight on this topic in his terrifying book Z Generation: Into the Heart of Russia’s Fascist Youth. #iangarner #zgeneration #ukraine #ukrainewar #russia #zelensky #putin #propaganda #war #disinformation #hybrid warfare #foreign policy #communism #sovietunion #postsoviet ---------- SPEAKER: Ian Garner is an historian and analyst of Russian culture and war propaganda. He is motivated by two questions: what drives Russia’s obsession with war, and why have so many Russians in the past and present fallen for militarism. Ian Garner is also a world leading authority on the myths and propaganda surrounding the second world war battle of Stalingrad in Soviet & Russian Literature. Ian has been interviewed for the Washington Post, Rolling Stone, New York Times, BBC, VICE News, Mashable, and many other media channels. ---------- BOOKS: Z Generation: Into the Heart of Russia's Fascist Youth (2023) Stalingrad Lives: Stories of Combat and Survival (2022) Read more at: https://www.igarner.net/ Follow Ian at: https://twitter.com/irgarner ----------

GUEST: Ada Wordsworth - Writer and co-founder of charity operating in Ukraine KHARPP ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- INTRO: Today we’ll especially be focusing on the fascinating and moving article Ada Wordsworth wrote for Granta, entitled: The Soundscape of War. #ukraine #ukrainewar #russia #zelensky #putin #propaganda #war #disinformation #hybridwarfare #foreignpolicy #communism #sovietunion #ussr ---------- SPEAKER: Ada Wordsworth is a writer from London with a focus on Ukraine and other areas which have suffered under Russian imperialism, particularly Uzbekistan. She is also the co-founder and director of KHARPP, a UK registered charity which supports reconstruction efforts in eastern Ukraine, particularly the Kharkiv region. She holds an undergraduate degree from UCL in Russian Studies, and an MSt in Slavonic Studies, specialising in Ukrainian, from Oxford University. She has been published in Granta, the NYRB, the LRB Blog, and 1843 among other publications. ---------- LINKS: https://twitter.com/padochka https://kharpp.substack.com/ ---------- ARTICLES: https://granta.com/soundscape-of-war/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2022/12/08/ukrainian-lessons-at-the-train-station-ada-wordsworth/ https://www.theoldie.co.uk/article/language-lessons-in-ukraine-ada-wordsworth ----------

GUEST: John Foreman CBE - Adviser to UK government on Russian military and security affairs. ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- INTRO: As the UK Defence Attache to the Russian Federation from 2019 to 2022, John Foreman CBE advised senior UK officials and ministers on Russian military and security affairs and represented the UK Chief of Defence Staff to the Russian General Staff. He had a front-row seat for the tense meetings and negotiations that immediately preceded Russia’s full-scale assault on Ukraine in February 2022. #johnforeman #TonyRadakin #ukraine #ukrainewar #russia #zelensky #putin #propaganda #war #disinformation #hybridwarfare #foreignpolicy #communism #sovietunion #ussr ---------- SPEAKER: John Foreman CBE is an independent consultant specialising in Russia, Ukraine, and international security, with over 20 years of diplomatic, operational, and corporate experience in the defence and security sector. He facilitated the largest UK ministerial/defence visit to Moscow since 1944, negotiated a bilateral treaty to reduce operational risk, and informed UK Russia policy and strategy. Currently, he is a visiting lecturer to King's College London, a mentor to future UK defence attaches and advisors, and a RAND Europe associate. He has a lifelong interest in Russia, Ukraine, their languages, peoples, cultures, and histories. He was appointed CBE in the 2023 New Year's Honours for his service. ---------- LINKS: https://twitter.com/exexpat19 https://www.ambassadorllp.com/who-we-are/john-foreman

GUEST: Anastasiya Shapochkina - Founder and president of Eastern Circles, and energy industry expert. ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- INTRO: Grain. Energy. Fuel. There seems to be nothing Russia won’t weaponize to achieve its imperialistic and expansionist ambitions. But are all these strategies now failing? Will Russia face a perfect storm of battlefield losses combined with losses in its hybrid economic warfare? #AnastasiyaShapochkina #ukraine #ukrainewar #russia #zelensky #putin #propaganda #war #disinformation #hybridwarfare #foreignpolicy #communism #sovietunion #ussr ---------- SPEAKER: Anastasiya Shapochkina is Founder and president of Eastern Circles, she has 11 years of experience in consulting and energy industry, where she worked on companies, technologies and market analysis in the renewable energy, utilities, nuclear energy, and e-mobility. She led development of international cross-industry partnership research projects on these subjects and represented business in European industrial and research associations. Anastasiya is a lecturer on geopolitics in Sciences Po Paris since 2012, focusing on the role of business in the EU-Russia relations. Anastasiya is author of articles on the geopolitics and geoeconomics in the Former Soviet Union, she has regular TV and radio appearances. Anastasiya graduated from Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, German, and European Studies Program. ---------- LINKS: https://easterncircles.com/en-about https://www.linkedin.com/in/anastasiya-shapochkina-96081b5/ https://cges.georgetown.edu/profile/anastasiya-shapochkina/ ----------

The international response to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine is scaling up, with the expected provisions of ATACMS and F16s, but remains inadequate to the task of achieving a full victory and often lags dangerously behind requirements, which causes the war to be more protracted, resulting in a greater loss of life on the Ukrainian side. Russia poses a serious threat to the rules-based international order, but is the West’s response insufficiently robust in defence of the values it espouses? A recent Chatham House report rang alarm bells and recommended that Western military support to Kyiv should be redoubled before it is too late. ---------- James Sherr OBE has been a senior fellow of the International Centre for Defence & Security in Tallinn since 2019. He also is an associate fellow and former head of the Russia and Eurasia Programme at Chatham House (2008–11). He was a member of the Social Studies Faculty of Oxford University from 1993 to 2012; a fellow of the Conflict Studies Research Centre of the UK Ministry of Defence from 1995 to 2008; and director of studies of the Royal United Services Institute (1983–85). He has published extensively on Soviet and Russian military, security, and foreign policy, as well as energy security, the Black Sea region, and Ukraine’s efforts to deal with Russia, the West, and its own domestic problems. He was awarded an OBE in the 2020 New Year’s Honours List for his services to British interests overseas. ---------- LINKS: https://www.chathamhouse.org/2023/06/how-end-russias-war-ukraine ----------

GUEST: Dr Jade McGlynn - Russia specialist, researcher and author. ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- INTRO: In just a few years, Russia has moved from a narrative about ‘brotherly peoples’, to genocidal rhetoric and actions in Ukraine. How was historical memory manipulated to make this happen? #jademcglynn #russiaswar #ukraine #ukrainewar #russia #zelensky #putin #propaganda #war #disinformation #hybridwarfare #foreignpolicy #communism #sovietunion #ussr ---------- SPEAKER: Dr Jade McGlynn is a Russia specialist and experienced researcher. She is Senior Research Associate (Non-Resident) at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies. She is also a Research Fellow at the Department of War Studies at King’s College London. Jade is a Polyglot political analyst with experience of living and working in several European countries. She has a PhD in Russian from the University of Oxford, with academic fellowships from Leverhulme, AHRC, Marie Curie, and Carnegie and has held positions in Russia, the UK, and US. She is the author of scholarly works as well as media articles and has a new book coming out in March 2023 – Russia’s War and Memory Makers. ---------- LINKS: https://jademcglynn.com/ https://twitter.com/DrJadeMcGlynn https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-jade-mcglynn-341357209/ https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ceelbas/jade-mcglynn-oxford https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/dr-jade-mcglynn https://www.csis.org/people/jade-mcglynn ---------- BOOKS: Memory Makers: The Politics of the Past in Putin's Russia (2023) Russia's War (2023) Rethinking Period Boundaries: New Approaches to Continuity and Discontinuity in Modern European History and Culture (2022)

GUEST: Dr Allyson Edwards - Lecturer and expert in Russian militarism and patriotic education. ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- INTRO: In today’s interview we are exploring the militarisation of youth and manipulation of history with Allyson Edwards. This is an incredibly important issue, as rather than seeking a way out of is disastrous and brutal war in Ukraine, Russia seems to be doubling down, and preparing its people for future conflicts through patriotic education – for a society built on eternal warfare and confrontation. #allysonedwards #militarisation #youtharmy #indocrtrination #militarism #radicalisation #ukraine #ukrainewar #russia #zelensky #putin #propaganda #war #disinformation #hybridwarfare #foreignpolicy #communism #sovietunion #ussr #conscription ---------- SPEAKER: Dr Allyson Edwards is a Lecturer at Bath Spa University and expert in Russian militarism, youth, memory & patriotic education. Specifically, she researches militarism in Post-Soviet Russia. She is currently working on turning her thesis into book, and her research interests include militarism, cultural Militarisation in Russia and Eurasia, the Cold War, as well as the commemoration and use of memory in politics and educational spaces. ---------- LINKS: https://twitter.com/AllysonEdwards1 https://www.bathspa.ac.uk/our-people/allyson-edwards/ https://www.fpri.org/contributor/allyson-edwards/ https://ridl.io/auth/allyson-edwards/

Edition No17 | 08-09-2023 Is Elon Musk collaborating with Russia, and have his actions given then an advantage in the war? ~~~~~ NEWS LINKS: Kyiv Independent https://kyivindependent.com/ https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-war-latest-russia-moving-troops-to-southern-front-line-to-strengthen-defense-kyiv-says/ The Moscow Times https://www.themoscowtimes.com/ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/09/08/drones-target-russian-microchip-plant-reports-a82397 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/09/08/vote-fraud-reported-as-russian-local-regional-elections-get-underway-a82399 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/09/07/advocating-for-war-is-wrong-russian-teachers-resign-over-refusal-to-allow-ukraine-veterans-in-class-a82388 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/09/07/russia-pressures-migrant-workers-with-raids-military-summons-a82303 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/09/05/the-wests-reliance-on-russian-nuclear-fuel-funds-moscows-war-a82356 Russian Media Monitor https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews