John Sweeney - Putin's Uniformed Gangsters have Captured Russian Society, Military, Media, Education

GUEST: John Sweeney - investigative journalist and writer. Orange hat advocate. ---------- SPEAKER: John Sweeney is a British investigative journalist and writer. He worked for The Observer newspaper, and the BBC's Panorama and Newsnight series. Sweeney ceased working for the BBC in October 2019, and is now reporting on the war in Ukraine, as well as creating a Daily war diary. Which I strongly advise you to watch if you’ve not seen it. He’s also been working on a film, documenting the most brutal parts of the conflict – ‘The Eastern Front’, which is released in June this year. ---------- SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISER A 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 frontline towns. buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain/collections ---------- CHAPTERS: 00:02:15 At the moment, Ukraine is fighting Russia with one hand tied behind its back. 00:05:25 Thermobaric bombs are a truly horrible method of war, banned against civilians. 00:07:40 The main problem for Biden firstly is that he’s a child of the Cold War. 00:13:22The Soviet Union was for most of its time an evil dictatorship, feebler at the end. 00:19:01 The other great survivor, KGB has rebranded itself several, no less vile than the SS. 00:25:17 What you're dealing with is a nation that has been captured by its intelligence agency. 00:29:11 Biden's humiliation of Zelensky in Washington was even crueller in a way than Trump’s. 00:34:06 Russians have raped too many people, castrated too many, tortured so many. 00:39:57 There is a real plan B. The problem is they have never even delivered on the plan A. 00:44:00 Trump says he's afraid of the rise of China, but this is helped by siding with Russia. 00:48:24 40% of the Russian state economy is now focused entirely on killing Ukrainians. ---------- LINKS: www.johnsweeney.co.uk/ twitter.com/johnsweeneyroar inews.co.uk/opinion/john-sweeney-vladimir-putin-ch… www.express.co.uk/entertainment/books/1736357/john… pressgazette.co.uk/comment-analysis/john-sweeney-u… ----- BOOKS: Murder in the Gulag: The Life and Death of Alexei Navalny (2024) Killer in the Kremlin (2023) Putin's Prisoner: My Time as a Prisoner of War in Ukraine Taking on Putin with John Sweeney The Useful Idiot The Church of Fear: Inside the Weird World of Scientology Hunting Ghislaine ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation prytulafoundation.org/ NGO “Herojam Slava” heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- Welcome to the Silicon Curtain podcast. Please like and subscribe if you like the content we produce. It will really help to increase the popularity of our content in YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

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