Thanks for this insightful interview.

Thanks for bringing in the best of the best guests who actually know what they are talking about 😊

Ive stopped watching mainstream news because now i have this great channel please keep up the work

Excellent guest!!! Bring him back again!!!

Thank you, Jonathan and Tom for this interesting talk. Glory to Ukraine.

@SiliconCurtain

25 күн бұрын

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Thanks for this! I am grateful to you, Johnathan, for following this topic, this grave topic, so assiduously. The work you do is so important.

@mike4480

25 күн бұрын

Ditto, and Thanks Johnathan for all your hard work… 💙💛💙

Thank you Jonathan for the fantastic conversation with Tom Keatinge . We need more people like him to make our Peremoha closer ! 👍👏❤️✌️✌️✌️💙💛

Great interview. Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦 😊

Curtain! You are only 2000 away from 100k subscribers! All these shared interviews are great, and informs viewers that there are a lot of examples of sites/researchers/commentators with slightly different foci. Congratulations. You deserve it.

@SiliconCurtain

25 күн бұрын

Almost there! Thank you.

@Cchildr102

23 күн бұрын

It's not Ukraine that must must win, but the principle that borders should be established by agreement, not imposed by force. Moscow has agreed several times to the currently recognized borders of Ukraine and has repeatedly violated those agreements. We need to end the age of conquest and that’s worth fighting for .

@tisme9690

21 күн бұрын

​@@Cchildr102Agreed, but Ukraine must win to help secure this.

Best interviews on KZread! Thanks Jonathon🙏🇺🇦👏💪

Tom Keatinge was clear headed and well spoken. Good interview.

Yes!!! All in, this dilly dallying is costing lives & creating unneeded devasation. "It's not a marathon" sums it up so well. Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦💙💛✨🌻✨💛💙🇺🇦

Another great interview. Thank you so much! ❤️🇺🇦

Excellent conversation covering a topic often neglected by mainstream media. Many thanks.

How lucky we are to have access to what people of the calibre of Tom Keatinge have to say. Thank you Jonathan

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

Excellent, as always.

Absolutely agree another great show

Thanks for another interesting interview .

Thank you, Jonathan and Tom Keatinge, for this very insightful conversation. 🇺🇦 Перемоги та миру всім українцям! 🇺🇦

@SiliconCurtain

14 күн бұрын

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Excellent discussion as always! 🇺🇦✌️

Great work, as always guys. Great info put together as a whole. Very rare and great quality.

@SiliconCurtain

25 күн бұрын

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Thank you

Fantastic speaker 👍

Fabulous discussion with Mr Keatinge, I’ll surely need to watch this Silicon Curtain episode a few more times! Thank You! 🇺🇦🔱$$🔱🇺🇦

In regards to the question on the effect of Brexit around 36:00-37:00. Unfortunately it has only weakened the UK and divided Europe, much to the delight of Putin. We should start on the path to rejoining the EU with all haste to repair the damage Brexit has done.

The notion that Russian assets are somehow protected by international law while Russia breaks every international law up to committing warcrimes is mind boggling.

@RodrickLionheart

25 күн бұрын

...and the United States?

@henriikkak2091

24 күн бұрын

That's the problem with terrorism. It isn't good to stoop to the same level to fight it.

@henriikkak2091

24 күн бұрын

Rodrick the Kremlinheart

@sg5127

24 күн бұрын

@@toi_techno it appears that russian money is worth more than Ukrainian lives and must therefore be given protection under international law. Western business assets in russia bypassed international law when they were suddenly 'sold' at knock down prices.

@arnovriends5873

24 күн бұрын

That is called "hypocrisy" frequently used by morally bankrupt cowardly selfish opportunists also known as "bankers".

We should think a step further. That Putin chosed an economist as an war minister must not mean Russia plans an infinite war. It also could mean the West should think he has endless recources or he simply want somebody without a network in the military to avoid another mutiny.

@henriikkak2091

24 күн бұрын

I think Vlad Vexler is right on this one: It's about Putin's regime security.

Professor Jeffrey Sonnenfeld had a very brief but highly popular appearance on your show and you proposed to invite him back. When will that be?

Comment like and subscribe? Very well! A small price to pay for the best there is..please keep on Master Fink! Chapeau for highlighting with your characteristic insight the deep darkness possessing our enemy..Slava Ukraine! x

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Would the Orcs admit defeat if they were pushed out of Moscow. Probably not if Putin was still alive.

@henriikkak2091

24 күн бұрын

It'd be a start

Giving Ukraine everything it needs to win this war and Ukrainian integration into the EU and NATO is the west’s best self defense.

@J7463kl3

24 күн бұрын

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The yanks gave Moscow eight years of practice after ‘14 with minimal sanctions (while Berlin rewarded moscow) continuing the practice

@henriikkak2091

24 күн бұрын

To my recollection, the American and Western European policy of appeasement towards Moscow goes back longer

Non governmental assets of oligarchs must far transcend 300 billion in gov assets. Maybe after the first week of November US can tighten legislation further and head in on a trillion or so. I suspect a lot of these assets truly are in Russia. Also, a multi national governmental research and prosecution team with plenary powers and lots of money freezing, seizing and litigating ill gotten gains. Temporarily seizing assets is absolutely a no brainer. Look at WWII. Ukraine is Russia’s Poland, 1939.

Interesting conversation. The Chinese bond issues targeting Russian investment/repayment is speculation I have heard of lately. It fits. I see Xi, the CCP, and other internal interests inflicting a thousand cuts to heal humiliations. Can you say 海參崴 ?

I thought the delivery of more air defence to Ukraine was exactly because to protect the future rebuilding projects. But it seems that i was wrong in thinking that there was a strategy behind this

Happy Independence Day from across the pond. 😂 I am still laughing that your PM from California called for election on July 4th.

I'm your broken record....the west does not want to defeat russia. All the discussions in the world will not change this, but its interesting to hear them and they mostly confirm my view - so thank you!

@henriikkak2091

24 күн бұрын

This is true for the USA and most of Western Europe. Not necessarily the rest. Frontline states? Most certainly not.

@sg5127

24 күн бұрын

@@henriikkak2091 I completely agree with you that the frontline states of central and Eastern Europe don't think this way. They have a similar historical experience with the russians as Ukraine has had and they understand what russians are, how they think and how they behave. It's the USA and western Europe who don't want the russian empire to collapse. For different reasons, Germany falls under this category too, despite having experienced some of the worst russian atrocities (I'm sure many elderly Germans in their late 80s and 90s will remember them).

Why not use block chain technology to ensure integrity and accountability in Ukraine (....and elsewhere)?

The UN is a better lever, if the impostor the representatives of an impostor were not being enabled to stop it.

Sunak strengths were not fairly explored. Maybe he didn’t think he should explore them? Don’t know. He lost. But he was good at rallying and putting in what we could. Maybe it is too scary for voters to be so committed to helping Ukraine so the politician keep quiet

Wuzup Jonathan. I've got Lei's Real Talk channel 😊. She's worried China might go through a civil war

I always thought it would happen because i plan it,don't wait to get robbed by a stranger,well hell im 53 and im still learning,sometimes you need to change the deck c,,,,not the hand.

This gentleman is talking sense. There's no point in reconstruction unless Ukraine wins. And Ukraine can not win. So, there's no point.

Let's face it, rasputin is the new version of bin laden, the anti Democrat western tyrant of modern age

We just don’t think we ourselves are at war with Russia. We’re not in a war. Even if Ukraine is

Agree mostly but here in America any D or R replacement candidate might do better in Swing states and with independent voters or minorities or women voters or Hispanics? I😮I

Thank you, Jonathan. Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦

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Looking forward to the EU & UK to adopt and enforce the level of sanctions the United States has imposed to punish Russia for its aggression against the Ukraine! Quit being so two faced and do the right things!!

This is one of those videos that will not age well...

Ah good old global community. 1.4 1.3 billion people of the west

@EEX97623

25 күн бұрын

Inversely the new axis of isolationist authoritarian regimes, most heavily sanctioned countries, failing economies, population crises, and massive poverty?

@Myanmartiger921

24 күн бұрын

@@EEX976236.6 billion remaining people. F 15ex is amazing beast but its headed to democratic saudi arabia not ukraine. The rafales are going to uae

Why are the eu and Britain still buying Russian gas

@martinlatvian5538

25 күн бұрын

Not anymore

@martinlatvian5538

25 күн бұрын

Only Spain, France and Belgium from Europe are still buying Russian gas in 2024

@sallywilton2236

25 күн бұрын

@@martinlatvian5538its still being sold as lpg by tanker. Through secret routes. Sky did a documentary about it

@RodrickLionheart

25 күн бұрын

@@martinlatvian5538 yup, the EU and Britain would rather pay 3 to 4 times more . good luck with that

@martinlatvian5538

25 күн бұрын

@@RodrickLionheart wtf You talking about? Gas in Latvia now costs as much as in 2021. :D

The junkyard dogs keep barking and the wagon keeps rolling 😂

a comment section full of mindless automatons...

“Russia doesn’t care about international law & norms”. 😂😂😂 The emperor is naked. Look in the mirror.

Are you fit and kit ready or will the Russian Orks use your basement

Silicon curtain. Why don’t you do Israel?

@terryhand

22 күн бұрын

Maybe because this is a blog about Ukraine.

Keep ignoring BRICS+

@ricky1231

20 күн бұрын

It’s a loose collection of collapsing economies. Not one of them have an internationally tradable currency. Only India 🇮🇳 is on positive economic footing. India 🇮🇳 & China 🇨🇳 are mortal enemies. Don’t keep your hopes up about BRICS +. Just like the non aligned movement before BRICS 😅.

Lo

poachers-turned-gamekeepers is too British a phrase for your audience, most of whom are aren't British. I am Canadian, but I know what it means, as my grandfather was a gamekeeper.

Just as expected, this speaker didn’t recognize the fact that the sanctions have failed, but instead called for doubling down on said failing sanctions. If you want to know about why they failed, listen to Chichvarkin (Russian businessman who fled to London 15 years ago). But in a nutshell: 1. These sanctions are the first in history which didn’t target the country’s exports, but instead targeted imports. Case in point, when they sanctioned Iraq and Iran, they banned all oil exports. Meanwhile, Russia is free to export as much oil, gas, grain, fertilizer, and timber, as people are willing to buy. And people are willing to buy them, including westerners. Needless to say, the Russian government is making bank. Enough bank for them to buy whatever they need. 2. Sanctioning imports to Russia. You wouldn’t need to do this if you would have put an embargo on their exports, as they wouldn’t have any money to buy foreign goods. 3. Barring Russians from the west. Chichvarkin puts a LOT of emphasis on this. But this guy here totally misses the point. The fact that various Londongrads existed actually hurt Putin, because the drivers of the Russian economy could park their money away from his control. Now, that has gone out of the window, and capital flight from Russia almost impossible. Meaning that money made in Russia, stays in Russia, and works towards the war effort. Compounding this is the fact that it is nearly impossible for Russians to immigrate to the west, transferring their capital. Take a successful businessman, engineer, IT professional, etc. A lot of them wanted to move to the west after the war started. However, they have difficulties getting visas, registering businesses, opening bank accounts, etc. If they want to move to the west, their only option is to leave everything in Russia, flee as a refugee, and start from scratch somewhere in Europe, working odd jobs just to barely get buy. In fact, a lot of them went through this and decided to move back. Imagine going from making $150k+/year to bagging groceries at a Walmart. The result? Most of them ended up staying or returning to Russia, and they are now contributing to the Russian economy, either directly or indirectly fueling the war effort. Therefore, it is the western sanctions that prevented a capital flight as well as a brain drain. Why am I so fixated on Chichvarkin? There is a quote he made, “The West basically put up an iron curtain, preventing anything from leaving Russia and coming to the west, while at the same time throwing large sums of money over that curtain”. On top of that, he noted that apart from the occasional lip service, the west rarely engages with the Russian opposition. For example, they didn’t facilitate the creation of a government-in-exile. This is why he, as am I, are convinced that the west not only wants to keep an open door with Putin, but they would prefer to deal with him than anyone else on matters regarding Russia. And this makes sense as for 22 years, they have been reliably doing business with him. They don’t care about “democracy” or “freedom”. All western leaders have ever cared about is a reliable flow of goods and capital. Saudi Arabia is another good example of this. They can turn their opposition into minced meat (literally), but as long as the oil flows for a good price, nobody cares. Furthermore, and you can hate on me all you want, I am 99% sure that Russia will win this war. Not because they are powerful or anything, but because judging by their actions, the leaders of the west don’t want a Ukrainian victory. Nor is the western public for that matter. The speaker brought up secondary sanctions. And yes, combined with an embargo on exports from Russia, it will probably work. But nobody is going to do that because it will tank the western economies. Nobody in power is going to sign off on such a thing, as it means losing the next elections.

@SiliconCurtain

25 күн бұрын

I do tend to think these are valid points, and I do indeed listen to some of chichvarkin’s interviews.

@user-ws7qo3zu1o

25 күн бұрын

Horse waste.

@user-ws7qo3zu1o

25 күн бұрын

Not failed but they working over several years.

@bobouzala

24 күн бұрын

@@SiliconCurtaindid he hit the text limit??