As much as the USA helping Ukraine, i feel like Americans dont seem to grasp how Ukraine downfall would gave changed the world. Ukraine actually served western civilisation and more should be done to help them survive

@njswampfox474

5 күн бұрын

The MAGA isolationists are strategic and historic Neanderthals.

@user-mz3in7vo5b

5 күн бұрын

US, is the biggest de-stabilizer.

@elisabethnygaard8525

5 күн бұрын

The election in US is very important. If US still want to enjoy democracy in the west, they must vote blue. Wether they like Biden or not. He will not be in office for so long, but at least he will be replaced with someone how cares about democracy. The other option is catastrophic for our way of living.

@anneallen5207

4 күн бұрын

Lack of education and critical thinking is being exploited by russia.

@jandlouhy6914

3 күн бұрын

It is the game ,Ukraine has been too strong and big to easily manage ,now they are destroyed ,indebted and have not to much choices .

Every word this lady says rings true.

Thank you Jonathan for inviting Ivana Stradner! Very accurate and thorough analysis ! 👍👏💙💛❤️

@j.dunlop8295

5 күн бұрын

(Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.) Francis Bacon (Xi & Putin!) Ukrainians hit 3 more refineries and oil and gas storage complexes! Putin's losses last year $148 billion, first losses in twenty years! 🩵🇺🇦💙 🇹🇼 💱

@eamonnclabby7067

3 күн бұрын

Hear,hear

This woman is really strategically insightful.

@Awibrahor

4 күн бұрын

*insightful

@pcopeland15

4 күн бұрын

@@Awibrahor Of course. Thank you.

It’s hard to imagine how frustrating it must be for this intelligent woman to have to deal with the dolts in the west who aren’t smart enough to understand what she sees so clearly. It is painful to me to see the arrogant stupidity with which the free world is wasting away their position to the thugs.

@moblson

3 күн бұрын

Imagine what it would be like if she were to debate a bunch of Trump supporters. She would lose her mind.

Dr. Ivana Stradner has the aura or a heroic, extremely skilled warrior.

@draganjagodic4056

4 күн бұрын

True. Never felt so captivated, almost enchanted, and our Jonathan had many brilliant people speaking here.

She is absolutely amazing. From those blue eyes to her knowledge of world events and all her knowledge on defence for America and the EU country's.

People like, Dr. Strander should be in charge of our foreign policy and replace legacy national security advisors, like Mr. Sullivan.

@AAB463

5 күн бұрын

She would be great! She should AT THE VERY LEAST have a voice in the Administration.

@darknesswerewolf470

5 күн бұрын

Agreed she have great mind

@CarlMartin-hw3ev

2 күн бұрын

Do you mean Jake The Jack- Arse?

Putins visit was bizarre and certainly did portray weakness.. I hope that there's good communication between the West and China.

Stradner is one of the most brilliant and insightful analysts Jonathan has had as a guest!

Thanks for another great guest 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇦🇬🇧

Another great guest..Irvana is very knowledgeable and speaks the truth. Thanks Jonathan 😊 Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦 ♥️

@user-jp4lt7xu2g

5 күн бұрын

How do you know she speaks the truth?

@jhngfdsdfgkjnbv

4 күн бұрын

you are supporting genocide. remember this. this is a karmic sin for the rest of your miserable life: La Vanguardia believes that Ukraine has lost the demographic war: the population is aging and there are few young people. The average age of the military is 43 years old, the volunteers are already at the front, and the rest have left. Lack of human resources leads to problems with mobilization. Lowering the mobilization age and sending young people to the front threatens a demographic catastrophe: there will be no one to start families and give birth to children. Even after winning the war, Ukraine may lose the peace.

@predragpesic5953

3 күн бұрын

@@user-jp4lt7xu2g Because everything she is saying makes perfect sense.

@davidbrancaleone3039

2 күн бұрын

​@@user-jp4lt7xu2gTROLL INCOMING! Calls Anna from Ukraine "That demented woman". Beed I say more? Which bot farm do you belong to, Ivan? How many operatives? Software used? How often do you receive instructions? What are you paid to lie?

Another excellent interview. This guest knows well what she is talking about. Leaders should listen to this!

@j.dunlop8295

5 күн бұрын

(Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.) Francis Bacon (Xi & Putin!) Ukrainians hit 3 more refineries and oil and gas storage complexes! Putin's losses last year $148 billion, first losses in twenty years! 🩵🇺🇦💙🇹🇼💱

@user-yt6de9mn3y

4 күн бұрын

Leaders are by and large too self important and woke to take this on board. So is western media; which is why we are listening to this channel. Thank goodness it exists.

@EdwardRLyons

3 күн бұрын

If we had actual leaders, rather than neo-liberal market force ideologues in charge, then they would already know all of this, and be acting on it. Instead, our electorates continue to put more of the same in power, because not only Russia's disinformation but our own consumerism keeps us from wanting to deal with the harsh realities of disruptors like Putin. What Putin calls our decadence, our weakness, and what he is relying on to bring him victory. I do wonder where a Churchill, a Roosevelt, or even a de Gaulle (!) might come from. All we've had instead are Johnson in the UK and Macron in France sticking their heads above the parapet. Well, Johnson is gone from power, while others are deriding or laughing at Macron for his attempts. Instead of leaders, we're relying on "the market" to solve the Russian problem?!

@PandemoniumMeltDown

3 күн бұрын

@@user-yt6de9mn3y Do you know Vlad Vexler's channel (and chat channel)?

@jandlouhy6914

3 күн бұрын

Very informed and educated and misleading , US narrative did not changed : keep Russians out and Europe down ,make a mess and divisions ,rule over all of it .Roman Empire with English instead of latin bit bigger .

Exceptional guest, like all the previous ones. Thanks Jonathan

My God this interview was GOLD! Still can't get over it how PRECISE and CORRECT Miss Ivana was. A TRUE expert!

I've consumed hundreds of hours of content in the past 3 years on the topic of current geopolitics. This is one of the best interviews I've heard.

Thank you, Jonathan. Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦

We need more voices such as Ivana. Excellent interview Jonathan and a far too rarely heard expertise on what's actually happening.

Thank you Jonathan again for your valuable work, and presenting us your high-class guests.

Excellent discussion and analysis of how we got here and what we need to do to help Ukraine to win this war and arm ourselves against the axis of evil against Democracy

I'm late because I was listening to Jonathan's latest interview. Four of the best KZreadrs together? Yes, yes I want this.

thanks for having this stelar and beautiful guest.

@SiliconCurtain

5 күн бұрын

Our pleasure!

@j.dunlop8295

5 күн бұрын

(Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.) Francis Bacon (Xi & Putin!) Ukrainians hit 3 more refineries and oil and gas storage complexes! Putin's losses last year $148 billion, first losses in twenty years! 🩵🇺🇦💙🇹🇼💱

A very special conversation . Thanks so much Ivana Stradner.

Wow do you ever find the most incredible people to talk to! I have never heard of FDD or Dr Stradner but thanks to you, now I have. What a resource you are!

Dear Jonathan, only started to listen this conversation, and already this brilliant Lady has made some crucial, vital points.

Thanks Ivana and Jonathan

Hey Jonathan, a searchable archive of your work might have some real value going forward. Your work has topical depth.

@SiliconCurtain

5 күн бұрын

That’s a great idea!

@pcopeland15

5 күн бұрын

@@SiliconCurtain The Vatnik Soup author, Pekka Kallioniemi, has something like that I believe, just as an example. There may be better platforms than a website. Perhaps behind a paywall for members? Just a thought. Thanks for your work.

Thank you for another great interview.

Thank you, Jonathan and Ivana Stradner for another very engaging conversation. I wish that political representatives would listen to all the expert voices on Silicon Curtain. 🇺🇦 Перемоги і миру всім українцям! 🇺🇦

@eamonnclabby7067

3 күн бұрын

Absolutely

@DarkestAlice

3 күн бұрын

@@eamonnclabby7067 Hello Eamonn and greetings to the Wirral Peninsula 🤗

Excellent guest - lvana Stradner's grasp of reality is as concise as it could possibly be - bravo ❤ nb control of uranium mines & Congo's metals will be crucial to many countries economic functionality. Plus sooner or later immigrants as factory/agricultural workers will soon be a reality.

Thanks Jonathon & Ivana. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

Thanks both of you 👍🙏👏🇺🇦💪

Russia understand 1 language and only 1 and thats STRENGHT,POWER

@taras3702

3 күн бұрын

They understand big Kabooms on their soil better than anything else.

Thank you Jonathan, another great guest!

Surprisingly good interview, a big thank you for both of you.

Incredible insight into our policy. I'm sharing this with everyone, we have to build resilience against Putin desinformation and secure our home.

It's NOT government, it's us who are sitting back, waiting for someone else to solve problems WITHIN our own countries. We're lax in support of the local, state/provincial and federal politicians and government. Yes we can disagree, yes we can criticize, but we're ALL in this together. There's NO alternatives to bringing human rights, freedoms to love whomever you want, to ask for people to do better, try to achieve a better village, town, city, state, country. We're ALL in this together. Thank you for a very deep perspective on how much our own countries can FALL unless WE are NOT going to allow that to happen.

Amazingly impressive and wise lady.

Dear Jonathan, our dear Jonathan, allow me to be "local patriot" now, for this brilliant, stellary brilliant Lady has spoken the very essence of wisdom on these troublesome times we all experience now. May She be heeded among the western leaders. Currently, EU has entered the pact with Serbian fascist leaders and one of Her crucial messages here is: Democracies should not enter compromises with totalitarian leaders. Thank You Jonathan for this precious conversation.

@predragpesic5953

3 күн бұрын

Yeah, she is awesome. Had no idea she is from Serbia. Honestly, that makes me quite proud and gives me hope for the future. 👍👍

More than ever democracy needs to be defended from both external threats like Putin and internal threats from people who admire Putin.

@coodudeman

5 күн бұрын

very true... my family and even some of my friends admire someone who admires Putin.... difficult to handle at times

@goenzoy712

5 күн бұрын

Democracy has nothing to do with Putin

@asynchronicity

5 күн бұрын

@@goenzoy712 Boy you have that right.

@coodudeman

5 күн бұрын

@@goenzoy712 we aren't talking about Putin, sooooo.....

@mylessalmon2569

5 күн бұрын

Russia and North Korea are attacking Western values and culture.

Democracy is doomed to be taken for granted because it is based upon short term values. Its greatest stregth, regular, fair elections is also its greatest weekness.

I fully agree with Dr. Stradner. She akes excellent points about what must do in order to stand up to Putin.

Thanks Jonathan 😊

I do appreciate your lean, clear-eyed reporting, brother. I utterly despise the transparently dishonest, brought, and paid for American media, which put a shine on hypocrisy. 7:44

Thanks Jonathan and Ivana, here on Merseyside, Fire and Rescue Area manager,Paul Murphy awarded an MBE for services to citizens of Ukraine...also despite being skint, sending what we can to our brave colleagues in Ukraine...cheers...E...

@thestraightroad305

4 күн бұрын

Bravo!

💛💙💜💙💛 Macron knows first hand what RussianZ do to Ukrainians because Russian PMCs have been doing in every African country for the last 20 years. 🇺🇦 🇫🇷 🌏 🇬🇧 🇺🇸

Thanks for such enlightened conversation Jonathan. Truly appreciate your effort. Slava Ukraini! 💪 🇺🇦

Awesome Guest. Thanks

very good

Thanks Ivana and Johnathan, very informative and on point.

@SiliconCurtain

5 күн бұрын

Glad you liked it!

Im very curious to hear Ivana's thoughts on Farage and Reform. Nobody can deny he is a professional disrupter. He will deny it but action speaks louder than words.

Ivana really makes good points. One thing I might add that wasn’t said is that she strongly promotes democracy, and it is a great thing, but we should understand that the rule of law to support liberty is even more important than democracy. A dictator can be elected in a democracy. So the understanding of the principles of liberty and the laws to support and maintain liberty which includes the rights of the individual are even more important than the establishment of democracy. Perhaps when she promoted the rule of law (which is so vitally important) that is what she was talking about.

Great interview. I really enjoyed how Dr Stradner was able to tie a lot of threads together. Id love a deep dive into Putin's ties to the middle east as it relates to the UAE hiring Wagner in Libya etc. In terms of Russian colonialism I like to point out that Russia was a signatory to the Great Act that arose from the Berlin Conference of 1884.. aka "the Scramble for Africa."

Auwtsj, this is probably your most painful interview I've seen up to now. Straight to the heart! Ivana Stradner is GOOD! Now, question: We are all discussing how to save democracy. Why are we not discussing how to destroy autrocacy?

@user-yc9fw7pq2r

5 күн бұрын

This is not about hearts, feelings, emotions nor democracy. This is about the BRICS threatening the free us$ printer. It has been decided that the ferocious combat between Russian and us military industriel complexes and the competition between their respective currencies must be happening in ukraine. Now you can tell me who is the real aggressor!?

@_Stroda

4 күн бұрын

Should democratic countries be aiming to 'destroy' autocracy? Is autocracy universally unpopular? Is it universally bad (or otherwise worse than democracy) for the majority of citizens under it? Isn't there a clear difference between a leader like Putin, who is a clear threat to Russia's neighbours, and an 'autocrat' like Lee Kuan Yew, whose focus was essentially improving Singapore. When it comes to intervention aimed at bringing about democracy, the track record of 'The West' is mixed but has often been pretty dire. Promotion of democracy in ex-Soviet states has been relatively successful. But these are the neighbours of European states. They've kept the attention of The West because of this. There are clear, tangible benefits to promoting democracy here. When it comes to meddling further afield? Eh. I could see Afghanistan, even Iraq, having turned out differently BUT it would have required many, many years of effort, during which significantly greater resources would need to have been expended. E.g. the level of involvement the US showed, and continues to show, in Japan and South Korea. It's simply not realistic to expect this in more than a handful of strategically important countries. Hal- hearted interventions push the countries which suffer them, and those that can identify with them, away from democracy and The West. In most instances, I'd argue that a more effective approach would be to leave them alone politically and focus upon providing well targeted, meaningful aid, whilst doing something to get western countries in order. Stagnating, if not declining, living standards, the rise of populist types like Trump, Johnson and Le Pen, along with the instability they cause and are a symptom of, does very little to promote democracy.

Excellent analysis from Ivana

What a refreshing guest, Ivana. Clear sighted, insightful. I must go back and find the old interview you mentioned.

Fantastic interview, thank you Jonathan.

Thankyou for brilliant content 👏👏

It’s good to see you , Eamonn ! 🤗

Another amazing interview. Thanks for bring us this content.

Good episode

Why does it so long for the appeasing weak Europe to wake up?

Golly I love this guest ❤❤❤❤

Keep up your great work. 😊

Now this person is, without a doubt, one of the most well-balanced strategic world thinkers alive today! Why have I just now discovered this gem? Don't let that pretty face fool you. She is brilliant, articulate, succinct, and grounded in reality. I will now follow her closely.

Thanks for the update and views 🇺🇲🇺🇦 Oklahoma USA 🇺🇦🇺🇲

slava ukraine! 🔱✌💙💛🌻😊

I am very impressed with Dr. Stradner, she knows what she's talking about, and she is also a very charming lady. I hope she will be a guest again in the future. People like her should be the ones making policy, or at the very least assisting policy makers in the West to make wise decisions. She appears to be Polish or Ukrainian at least partially, she's definitely Slavic looking.

I guess we lack Margareth Thatcher 2.0 concearning foreign polecy....

Extremely well thought out l, thank you for outlining Putin's mindset and his thinking around North Korea, threats to the West about the possibility of arming them and Iran.

I hope the CIA and MI5 are watching this for tips on new necessary initiatives

So much logic being presented here. Please shout your messages louder and more often. There is an ignorant mass needing to hear your wisdom, learning, experiences. Thank you. I arrived at this offering of the opinion that, unbendingly, Tsar Putrid must be stopped. By the end of this I understand Tsar Putrid must be stopped no matter the cost, the methods, the risk or even the outcome. It cannot be worse than doing nothing.

Convincing analysis.

Here endeth the lesson. Even Jonathan looked uneasy with the truth.

greetings from germany. I am a bi in a bubble of people who swallow with pleasure what the kremlin delivers. I try to question that in a kind and subtle way. social mediais a demeritorical good in my view. there is more harm in it than gain, especially in free speech-societies. because bad actors abuse that massively.

Smart and beautiful lady. I’m in love

@draganjagodic4056

4 күн бұрын

Tell me about it. Would tear my knees in front of this brilliant , stellar Lady, proposing on Her.

@taras3702

3 күн бұрын

She is a beautiful lady, inside and out.....I would be very surprised if she's not married to a guy worthy of her. She has amazing eyes.

@squashum778

3 күн бұрын

Oh god yes !

Solid 🙌

Great interview.

Putin looked seriously ill during the meeting, heavily drugged and exhausted, which of course makes him weaker in every sense. The North Korean leaders exposed a heavy show, with a lot of imposing music, but in spite of being heavy, it also looked utterly primitive, not totally well coordinated and rather cheap. Most of the music were just repetitions of the same simple tonal and rhythmical phrases. Furthermore, everybody looked weak from starvation, except the political and military leaders.

Great explanation. Ukraine helped reveal many details about the evilness of rusian regime. Bulgaria seems to be prepared for something, but it is not on the world's information map.

Intelligent woman are ❤❤❤

Over a thousand Russian soldiers a day are being killed or injured in Ukraine. Are Russians concerned at all? How long can Russia feed the military forces with men?

@waynegordon2628

5 күн бұрын

I saw a stat that only about 1% of Russian losses have come from Moscow & St. Petersburg!

@taras3702

3 күн бұрын

​@@waynegordon2628Exactly, Russia views non-Russians as bullet stoppers and cannon fodder. They send THOSE people to the meat grinder, forcing Ukraine to fight them.

I really hope this lady speaks to government leaders and policy makers.

@SiliconCurtain

Күн бұрын

She does, fortunately.

Күн бұрын

You are willing to risk nuclear annihilation, for Ukraine? Psychotic.

Libya is involved with Russia and part of Syria is a training ground for Russian troops.

Dr Stradner gave what I thought was a very good understanding of the situation, featuring a realist bent. As escalation management slips, we see the spill over into Asia with the rearming of NK. This is entirely unsurprising.

30:35 Pro-Democracy political groups MUST MERGE!! UNITE!! Do we want democracies as much as Fascists want absolute power???

Ivana, are you happy?

❤❤❤❤ 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 ❤❤❤❤❤

I'm bumfuzzled by whatever "multi - polarity" is in their brains.

@taras3702

3 күн бұрын

Chaos is what multipolar is a codeword for.

Putin said his desire to occupy Ukraine that was bizarre and Incorrect and he demanded apologies😅 how Did that turn out?🤪

I will agree .

Ivana for President.

@arnoterhorst

Күн бұрын

That might really be a good option

🇳🇴🤝🇺🇦

Wise words. Have you thought about interviewing that info weapon farage?

Slava Ukraine. From Indonesia.

👍

America, the land of the boldly ignorant. Thanks Jonathan, another brilliant interview with an integral guest. Love, Tracija Wrights, Latvian/Washingtonian

@PandemoniumMeltDown

5 күн бұрын

Naaa, like all things, in the US, Canada... with liberty, civic rights... comes the possibility of spectrums being everywhere, as opposed to the absolute supreme leader one point of view, hive mind, persistent fear... nope: Spectrums. If one tried to depict so called "American" culture, one must assess and compute all spectrums and represent them in real time and as woven into a mass too scary to even imagine, in authoritarian regimes. To use one qualificative to represent an infinity of morphing points of views and many things not even represented yet... is an exercise in futility, an insult to life itself. Being depicted as one thing doesn't make this depiction reality; grunt work to consider all things in real time might depict a much better picture and bring an understanding worthy of consideration. There are brilliant people, and people collaborate with other brilliant people, in "America" and is a sharp contrast to any and all autocratic regimes, and will always be the ideal of these anti-democratic regimes, wanting to have it all but through slavery, destruction, terror... a death cult. NK, CCP Land, Putin Land populations, the majority, is maintained absolutely ignorant by design. A little bit of this is quite true ass well in the West, as a spectrum, but the knowledge is available and protected; not systematically suppressed and replaced by fictions.

@taraswertelecki3786

5 күн бұрын

More like arrogantly ignorant.

@marcusparkus682

5 күн бұрын

heck, this is a right old word salad

@PandemoniumMeltDown

5 күн бұрын

@@taraswertelecki3786 The percentage of people with shit for brains varies greatly from country to country!

@tracywright6908

5 күн бұрын

@@PandemoniumMeltDown Huh?

Ivana analyses a very important topic. But using the term global south trigger the assumtion have a lot in common. This is however not the case. BRICS is not more than a debate circle but the interests of the countries are dividing very much.

No one is going to get what they want. Putin's peace proposal is a starting point, why don't you work from there?

Putin's threats using Iran etc could be called the 'Magwitch tactic': see Great Expectations.