Best Civilian Roles In Security Podcasts (2025)

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919. What Ukraine is Fighting for - Freedom, Independence, Culture & Identity 1:01:04

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Here at Dzyga’s Paw Charity Fund, we understand that the work of this scale can’t be accomplished alone. The collaboration shared vision, and collective efforts of dedicated Ukrainian and foreign businesses and individuals enable us to make a lasting impact on the lives of Ukrainian Heroes protecting our freedom.----------LINKS:https://x.com/dzygas…

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Is Putin Losing His Grip?! - As the Gap Between Propaganda and Reality Widens 11:38

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Silicon Bites Ep280 | 2025-12-23 | Is Putin losing his grip? His press event last week has generated reams of commentary – and from those not well disposed towards him, the verdict has been brutal. In this episode we cover his “Results of the Year” press spectacle, the glitches, the gaslighting, the challenging questions, or rather lack of them — a…

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915. How Russia Hacks Narratives to Bend Adversaries to Its Will and Objectives 38:57

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Liubov Velychko is a Ukrainian investigative journalist with over 15 years of experience uncovering corruption, crime, and human rights violations. She Specializes in exposing disinformation campaigns, and has conducted numerous investigations into Russian propaganda, revealing the networks behind its spread and dismantling the information operatio…

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Eliminated in Moscow! Was Ukraine Behind Dramatic Car Bomb? 10:01

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Silicon Bites Ep279 | 2025-12-22 | Moscow car bomb kills Lt Gen Fanil Sarvarov: the covert war moves deeper into Russia. At least most analysts are suggesting this was a hit by Ukraine’s fearsome intelligence services. But was it? Sarvarov may have had many more enemies than Ukraine only. This was not a drone strike at the front. This is a car bomb…

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914. We've Got Russian Wrong! Is it's Aggression Part of a Continuum? 48:16

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Lesia Ogryzko is a visiting fellow with the Wider Europe programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations. She leads a Ukrainian think-tank on security and defence, Sahaidachnyi Security Center, and is board member of Ukraine’s biggest expert coalition on the country’s reconstruction, RISE Ukraine. Previously, Ogryzko served as international …

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Why Did Russia's Biggest Plane Just Fall From The Sky? 8:41

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Silicon Bites Ep278 | 2025-12-21 | Russia has lost myriad aircraft and helicopters over Ukraine, in combat and on the ground in strikes, but it takes a very different kind of event to really grab the world’s headlines. And the last Antonov An-22 “Antei” heavy military transport, breaking apart and falling out of the sky is just such a headline grab…

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911. The Drone Teams Holding Back Russia's Invasion - Ordinary People at War 53:04

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Here at Dzyga’s Paw Charity Fund, we understand that the work of this scale can’t be accomplished alone. The collaboration shared vision, and collective efforts of dedicated Ukrainian and foreign businesses and individuals enable us to make a lasting impact on the lives of Ukrainian Heroes protecting our freedom.----------LINKS:https://x.com/dzygas…

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Putin's Army is Exhausted - But Will Brittleness Lead to Collapse or More Grind? 16:07

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Silicon Bites Ep277 | 2025-12-20 | “Russia’s Army Is Exhausted” — we examine some major articles that have come out that claim the Russian army is reaching a significant point of degradation in morale, cohesion and effectiveness. We unpack what that claim means, what the evidence is, and what it changes.----------Silicon Curtain is a part of the Ch…

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912. The Unseen War - Propaganda, Culture, Fear and Trauma - And How to Fight Back! 1:28:49

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@ricktheukrainian is from Ukraine, and every Sunday gets together with his community online (the Rick Rollers), to make video content and raise funds for the Defense Forces of Ukraine. Rick is originally from Makiivka in the Donetsk area, and lived under Russian occupation for several years following the 2014 invasion of Crimea and Donbas. His wee…

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Putin is so 'Screwed' - As Urals Crude Drops Below $35 Per Barrel 9:48

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Silicon Bites Ep276 | 2025-12-19 | Tonight, a single number with regime-shaking implications: Urals crude at roughly thirty-five dollars a barrel — miles below global benchmarks, and catastrophically below what the Kremlin needs to fund its war-state on schedule. This is Russia’s flagship export grade trading like a sanctioned pariah — because it i…

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Ukraine's Boldest Move?! Fightback Goes Global Against Russia Illegality and Impunity 9:45

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2025-12-19 | UPDATES #083 | Ukraine is expanding the maritime war — not just in the Black Sea, but now out into the Mediterranean. A tanker burns at Rostov-on-Don. A “shadow fleet” vessel gets hit off Libya. And then comes the rumour: that a senior GRU figure — Major General Andrei Averyanov — may have been on board. Could this be Ukraine’s boldest…

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910. Russian Orthodoxy - It's Pivotal Role in Russian Militarism and Imperialism 50:32

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Dr Pär Gustafsson Kurki is a seasoned analyst who has worked in academia, civil service and in the private sector. He has 25+ years of experience as a Russia observer. Since February 2020, he has worked full-time for the Swedish Defence Research Agency as a researcher and analyst. His main area of expertise is Russian security policy. From Septembe…

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Would Trump Start a War to Cover Up his Alleged Crimes and Mistakes? 22:56

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2025-12-18 | UPDATES #082 | Trump shits on everything and everyone when they cease to be useful to him. We will go back to his first chaotic administration to understand the patterns and see what he’s learned in his second to avoid dirty laundry in public and the revolving door of sacked and disgraced aids, supporters and sycophants. We’ll also ask…

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Trump Takes a Dump on Everything that America Used to Value 14:10

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Silicon Bites Ep275 | 2025-12-18 | Trump shits on everything and everyone when they cease to be useful to him. We will go back to his first chaotic administration to understand the patterns and see what he’s learned in his second to avoid dirty laundry in public and the revolving door of sacked and disgraced aids, supporters and sycophants. We’ll a…

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908. Cognitive Warfare Scaling Up - Is Europe Ready for the Consequences? 59:31

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Christine Khariv is Business Development Manager at DLF attorneys-at-law Ukraine. Christine writes eloquently and passionately about Ukraine on LinkedIn and Twitter, exposing Russian falsehoods, and advocating for Ukraine’s cause.----------LINKS:https://www.linkedin.com/in/christine-khariv-qris/https://twitter.com/2QriShttps://pen.org.ua/en/100-kny…

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They Think It's All Over - It Is Now, for Roman Abramovich's Billions 12:07

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2025-12-17 | UPDATES #081 | The clock is ticking for Abramovich and his Chelsea Billions. How much, why now and what it means. Three and a half years. That’s how long £2.5 billion — money publicly promised for Ukraine — has sat frozen in a UK bank account after Roman Abramovich’s forced sale of Chelsea. Today, Keir Starmer has finally stopped treat…

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903. Freezing Russian Assets Essential for Ensuring the Survival of Ukraine 55:56

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Olena Kuzhym is a representative of Brussels-based Ukrainian civil society and a member of the Ukrainian–European Civil Society Initiative Frozen Assets Action. Since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion, she has been actively engaged in civic advocacy, public campaigning, and street actions in Brussels in support of Ukraine. An urbanist by tr…

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898. Masks Off - Trump is Betraying the West in Favour of Oligarchs and Autocrats 53:55

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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 co…

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901. The Mask is off - Trump is Aligned with Autocrats and is Ceding Europe to Russia 39:35

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Livestream with Yuri Rashkin----------Silicon Curtain is a part of the Christmas Tree Trucks 2025 campaign - an ambitious fundraiser led by a group of our wonderful team of information warriors raising 110,000 EUR for the Ukrainian army. https://car4ukraine.com/campaigns/christmas-tree-trucks-2025-silicon-curtainThe Goal of the Campaign for the Sil…

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904. Trump is Carving up the World - to the Benefit of Autocrats and Kleptocrats 1:40:43

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Livestream with Jonathan MS Pearce. ----------Silicon Curtain is a part of the Christmas Tree Trucks 2025 campaign - an ambitious fundraiser led by a group of our wonderful team of information warriors raising 110,000 EUR for the Ukrainian army. https://car4ukraine.com/campaigns/christmas-tree-trucks-2025-silicon-curtainThe Goal of the Campaign for…

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906. Russian Language and Culture and Not Neutral - Treat Them Like a Controlled Substance 1:17:43

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Ostap Ukrainets 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 „Cru…

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Peace Process Promises Security Guarantees - But is it Creating Foundations for Betrayal?! 13:48

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2025-12-16 | UPDATES #080 | A post on X caught my eye, the gist of which was “Only a Russian official can invade and bomb you while simultaneously calling themselves a peacemaker and the victim a warmonger.” The author is referring to Kiril Dmitriev, one of the key so-called ‘negotiators’ from the Russian side, and it highlights the absurdity of tr…

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895. Following Illegal Orders is NOT a Legal Defense Argues Ben Hodges 28:34

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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, Tr…

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907. Putin is Simpler Than we Imagine - Motivated by Greed, Security and Power 59:30

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Ilya Ponomarev is a Russian-Ukrainian politician who was a member of the Russian State Duma from 2007 to 2016. After the 2022 Russian invasion, Ponomarev joined Ukraine's Territorial Defence Forces, and categorically denounced the invasion. While a member of the Russian State Duma, he was the only deputy not to vote in favour of the Russian gay pro…

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905. Ukraine is Not Perfect - But Shows How to Resist Aggressors and Live in Hope?! 1:00:10

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The Steel Porcupine https://www.thesteelporcupine.com/I’m proud to say that this series of ‘Ukrainian advent’ interviews is supported by The Steel Porcupine – a unique and powerful film about a country that refuses to lie down, a people who turned themselves into a fortress of needles when Russian tanks rolled in. The Steel Porcupine is an unforget…

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Trump's New World Disorder - An Age of Distrust, Wars and Chaos?! 13:45

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2025-12-15 | UPDATES #079 | “Pax Americana is over.” We’ve known this for a while, but Chancellor Merz’s speech still dropped like a bomb going off. And it was a warning flare from the centre of Europe’s security architecture. In this episode we cover Chancellor Merz’s speech, the Berlin peace push, and the emerging European fear that Washington is…

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Turkish Ships Struck by Russia - Putin Tests Erdoğan in New Confrontation 10:30

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2025-12-14 | UPDATES #078 | A Russian drone hits Turkish cargo vessel VIVA in the Black Sea. This matters for Turkey, maritime security, and Ukraine’s campaign against Russia’s “shadow fleet.” We look at the increased risk for shipping in the black sea, both those that serve Ukraine’s legitimate and legal export needs, and those that form part of R…

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902. Trump's Gangster Peace Demands are a Mockery of Just, Durable Peace?! 30:45

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Sir Richard Shirreff is Co-founder and Managing Partner at Strategia Worldwide. After graduating from Oxford, he served in the British Army for 37 years commanding soldiers on operations or in combat at every level from platoon to division and rising to the highest rank before retiring from the Army as NATO’s Deputy Supreme Commander Europe. In 201…

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Permanent Freezing of Russian Assets has Incensed and Regime Minions 14:57

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2025-12-12 | UPDATES #076 | The financial battlefield is intensifying — the hidden front where the Kremlin is taking blow after blow, and where Europe may finally, belatedly, be rediscovering its spine. Talk about leaving it to the last minute as well. We must ask whether it’s Ukraine’s financial issues, their budgetary gap, that spurred Europe on,…

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900. Peace Deal is Total Pizdyets - Demand for Capitulation Cooked up in Moscow?! 1:03:36

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Today I’m speaking with Operator Starsky, a former Ukrainian National Guardian, blogger, and inspiration for everyone who is following the war, and supporting a Ukrainian victory. He has created one of the most popular and original YouTube channels dedicated to the international community. I’m not sure you need an introduction – I’m sure most peopl…

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The Russian Economic Crisis will be "Huge and Inevitable" in 2026 25:23

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2025-12-11 | DAILY UPDATES #075 | Russia’s war economy is running out of road. It helps explains why such pressure is coming from the Kremlin, via Donald Trump, to find a deal that can be sold as a humiliation of Ukraine that temporarily gets Putin off the hook. Are they intent on a stable and sustainable peace? Has the Kremlin disavowed its ambiti…

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899. Putin is Winning the Information War, Plus the Cognitive and Geopolitical Wars 38:49

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Glen Grant worked as a defence and reform expert in Ukraine working for the Ukrainian Institute for the Future. He is also a Senior Fellow in the UK Institute for Statecraft on Building Integrity Initiative countering Russian influence. Glen graduated from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, the Junior Staff Course Warminster and the Joint Staff …

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Civilian Service & Defence Leadership with HCol Corinne MacLellan 38:19

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In this episode of Purpose & Protection, host Barry Pitcher, CEO of Commissionaires Nova Scotia, speaks with Corinne MacLellan, a communications strategist and Honorary Lieutenant Colonel of the Halifax Rifles, about the essential role of civilian leadership in Canada’s defence and security landscape. Corinne shares her journey of service, includin…

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896. SHOCK: Europe Surrendered to Russian Sphere of Influence by Trump's US?! 33:22

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Keir Giles has spent his career watching, studying, and explaining Russia. Keir’s work has appeared in a wide range of academic and military publications across Europe and in North America, and he is a regular contributor and commentator on Russian affairs for international print and broadcast media. He is a Senior Consulting Fellow at the UK's Roy…

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894. Europe is Closer to War with Russia - And is Now on its Own 34:37

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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, Tr…

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Appeasement of Putin, Dithering and Cowardice Will Destroy Europe 18:46

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2025-12-07 | DAILY UPDATES #073 | Tonight, we’re in Brussels, breaking down the comments of a pusillanimous and pathetic excuse for a leader, that’s holding the financial keys to a war he claims can’t be won. Yet he’s not prepared to take a risk for the sake of Ukraine’s or Europe’s freedom. It’s clowns like this that will destroy the European proj…

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892. Moscow is Wired for Violence - Why do so Many Believe Putin Wants Peace?! 54:09

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This video is part of a Ukrainian Advert series, celebrating Ukrainian voices, culture and resilience, ahead of Christmas Day. The project is kindly supported by maker of the film: The Steel Porcupine.#ONE: Andrew Chakhoyan is a Ukrainian American based in the Netherlands and is a vocal and articulate champion of Ukraine and its cause. ----------Th…

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Under Trump Doctrine Europe is the Enemy Blocking Relations with Russia?! 14:41

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2025-12-06 | DAILY UPDATES #072 | We continue our analysis of the National Security Strategy of the Trump regime, a document that claims to defend the West, by turning its guns on Europe. It’s a malign document, that fleshes out Vance’s speech at the 2025 Munich Security Forum. In that speech, Vance argued that Europe's principal danger came from e…

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Was This a Russian Plot to Take Down Zelenskyy's Plane?! 11:11

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Silicon Bites Ep273 | News Update - Day 1,382 - 2025-12-06 | Zelenskyy was flying into Dublin for his first official state visit to Ireland on a cold December night this last week. The red carpet had been rolled out, the cameras were ready, but out over the Irish Sea, four — or maybe five — large, military-grade drones quietly slip into a declared …

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891. The Peace Business -Trump, Witkoff and Kushner Negotiating to Cash In 1:24:17

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Livestream with Jonathan MS Pearce. ----------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----------https://car4ukraine.com/campaigns/autumn-harvest-sil…

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889. Russia Is Hunting Civilians In Kherson - For Intimidation, Sport & Training 31:53

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The United Nations has confirmed what residents of Kherson, and Zarina Zabrisky, revealed nearly a year ago: Russia’s drone attacks on civilians were systematic, premeditated and intended to instil terror and forcibly displace the population. A deliberate war crime. ----------Zarina Zabrisky is an American writer based in the Bay Area, California. …

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890. Rewarding Russia's Terrorist Regime by Not Passing Financial Assets to Ukraine 1:03:16

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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 co…

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893. Divide and Conquer - the Eternal Mechanism of Russian Imperialism 41:05

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Livestream 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----------https://car4ukraine.com/campaigns/autumn-harvest-silicon-cur…

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Shadow fleet vessels 'hunted down' and destroyed - Is Russian Oil Over?! 9:42

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Silicon Bites Ep272 | News Update - Day 1,377 - 2025-12-01 | Two things went boom, but not in Crimea. Not Sevastopol. We’re 30–40 nautical miles off Turkey’s coast, in supposedly “safe” waters, watching two aging oil tankers from Russia’s sanctions-busting shadow fleet burn in the dark. Beautiful, in a sinister kind of way. Ukraine does not deny it…

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Regime Eats its Own - As Struggle for Resources and Status Intensifies 14:30

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2025-11-30 | DAILY UPDATES #069 | The civil war has broken out in Russia – but not the one you perhaps imagined. It’s a weird civil war between objectionable characters – one happening inside the pro-war camp. Z-Patriots and propagandists are turning on each other.The Z-patriots, “turbo-patriots,” Telegram war-bloggers and Kremlin talking heads who…

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887. Putin Wants War - Why This Invasion is Not Over 23:25

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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 Ukr…

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886. Surrender is NOT Peace - But US is Advocating Harder for the Aggressor 47:39

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Livestream 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----------https://car4ukraine.com/campaigns/autumn-harvest-silicon-cur…

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Russian Civil War - Among Z-Patriots & Propagandists - Has Begun 13:47

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2025-11-27 | DAILY UPDATES #068 | The civil war has broken out in Russia – but not the one you perhaps imagined. It’s a weird civil war between objectionable characters – one happening inside the pro-war camp. Z-Patriots and propagandists are turning on each other.The Z-patriots, “turbo-patriots,” Telegram war-bloggers and Kremlin talking heads who…

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713. Fighting Corruption, Nepotism and Oligarchy is the Long War we Need to Win 28:08

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Andriy Borovik is Executive Director of Transparency International Ukraine.NOTE: The first half of the video is audio only (with a still image of the guest) - apologies, this is due to a corrupted video file. ----------LINKS:https://acrec.org.ua/en/news/the-first-in-ukraine-master-s-program-anti-corruption-studies-is-open/LVIV MEDIA FORUM:The NGO L…

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If Trump and Witkoff are Not Russian Agents, Then What's Going On?! 14:10

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2025-11-26 | Silicon Wafers #067 | The man sent to sell peace in Russia’s war against Ukraine turns out to have been helping the competition polish their sales pitch. He’s gone from witless and hapless amateur diplomat to become Witkoff the Kremlin whisperer. On the surface this appears to be a treasonous act – but it seems that Trump doesn’t reall…