Silicon Curtain

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 Europ...

15 Dec 202513min

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...

14 Dec 202510min

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 ...

13 Dec 202530min

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 spin...

12 Dec 202514min

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 o...

12 Dec 20251h 3min

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 hu...

11 Dec 202525min

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 Init...

11 Dec 202538min

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 ...

9 Dec 202533min