Silicon Bites #45 - Careless Match-related Incidents on the Rise Across Russia and Occupied Crimea. 

Thank you, Jonathan for sharing your thoughts with us. Russians started with the double tap technique of killing in Syria, and I was horrified to hear from putin : we are training here in Syria and experimenting our new weapons. Nobody reacted at that horrible remark.

Thank you Jonathan for all your efforts on behalf of gallant Ukraine.

Slava Ukraini. Brave nation of heroes. Ukraine is in a very difficult situation. Without the West it couldn't fight back very well, but it would still have a go. Much respect to them.

Recommendation: That in the near future a 'flock of Angry Birds' pay a visit to the billion $ Palace/compound of Vlad the Terrible, in Gelendzhik Ruzzia.

Jonathan, I appreciate your dedication to your channel, audience and Ukraine’s fight for democratic sovereignty. I look forward to your weekly summation, and editorial, concerning all matters effecting the War in Ukraine. You soldier everyday in your fight against disinformation and propaganda. You never falter or take a step back. Ukraine could not ask for a better supporter or friend. You make this World a better place… Thank you, Jonathan 🙏🏼 Postscript: Have you ever considered interviewing Steve Schmidt? Steve is a political strategist who, at one time, was one the leaders of the Republican Party (GOP). In the 2008 Presidential Campaign, Steve was the Chief Political Strategist for the late John McCain’s failed bid (Sarah Palin wasn’t Steve’s suggestion as Vice President). Then came Trump… Anyway, he’s a staunch supporter for Ukraine since 2014; a renowned Historian, and an avowed critic of Donald Trump and MAGA. I think Steve Schmidt would be a fascinating interview.

You got me with the Pink Floyd reference. The Budapest Memorandum gives the US + UK the legal authority to give Ukraine whatever it takes to protect their sovereignty. No red lines, vladolf putler erased them. . Ψ(AFU) has done a number of 100 drone strikes. So a 1000 drone attack is technically possible, is it physically possible?

Russia managed to shoot down 100 of the 80 drones sent.

Strong words and I agree wholeheartedly

Thank you for your time, expertice and countless effort to keep us informed. I appreciate your work very very much ! All the best from Germany

Thank you Jonathan. I enjoy hearing your thoughts!

Thanks Jonathan. Top Quality as always Slava Ukraini 🦄🤗💖💙💛💖🤗🦄

Using civilians as shields is a very old Russian tactic. Some reported that in WW2 as the Russian army advanced through Eastern Germany Russian tankers strapped captured German women and children to the outside of their tanks to hinder firing on them. Since neither Stalin nor the USSR were ever held accountable for their war crimes we should therefore not be surprised the Russian army is still full of slime. I would credit Communist insurgents in the Philippines in the 1990s with credit for inventing double and triple taps in which they set off one bomb, then a second one timed to go off 4 or 5 minutes later would impact the rescuers. Sometimes even that was followed by a 3rd bomb a few moments later. Thioks discouraged Rescue workers whose own casualties began to climb. Of course during WW2 both the allies and the axis used aerial bombs that had a mix of instant fuzes and time delay fuzes set to go off 15 minutes or 12 hours (or more) later or anything in between. This too discouraged rescue and required expendable oersons be used for any rebuilding of bombed facilities and infrastructure.

Thank you Slava Ukraine

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Great content

Thank you, Jonathan. Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦

Thank you as always, Jonathan. Slava Ukraini! ❤

Thanks Jonathan 😊

The Delicate Sound of Blunder Goodbye, Rus-Sky Set The Controls For the Heart of the Kremlin Does Anyone Remember V. Putin? I could do this all day.

Ace report dude !

I love your work generally, but i am really here for that headline.

SLAVA UKRAINE! 🔱💙💛✌

Great monologue as usual. Great diction and easy pace which is great for us oldies!

Jonathan, you are a good journalist, very interesting content.

Yes, standardized ammo galore. thank you J. Thorough research and well written and scripted as usual. And how important it is that this message reaches out to not just the public but lawmakers and politicians in our realm and beyond as well. Very important role indeed and I applaud your sense of urgency and realism on the matter. Losing is not an option!

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Thnx Mr Fink!😊

Right Johnathon. Everything you have said is true

❤LOVE the title! Maybe "A MOMENTARY LAPSE OF REASON " ??

Thank you!

Excellent update - thank you.

Aways awesome coverages

Stellar Report Jonathan! Love the Georgian updates too, here in U.S.

Tons of info and so well presented - well done !!

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WE need to realise that we are fighting for our Democratic way of life , slowly but surely we are waking up , we should not be surprised at the response of Germany but they too are coming round .

This is a great video. Thank you for your hard work putting this together.

Thank you for the update, I always like to hear your take on things concerning Ukraine. Greetings from The Netherlands (Y)

Thank you, Jonathan, for another excellent Silicon Bites episode. Was there a new Roger Waters scandal or is it just an old summary? 🇺🇦 Перемоги і миру всім українцям! 🇺🇦

The Pink Floyd reference...Brill...😅😅😅

The Budapest Memorandum was a way to entice Ukraine to give up its nuclear weapons while cementing its sovereign status. (It should be noted that Ukraine was already committed to relinquishing its nuclear weapons, together with Belarus and Kazakhstan, as a result of the 1991 START Treaty, which had been agreed between President Reagan and Premier Gorbachev months before the collapse of the Soviet Union, and consequently passed along its obligations to the Soviet successor states.). Russian President Yeltsin recognized Ukraine as its own nation-which contradicts Putin’s modern claims that Ukraine was never independent. If Russia attacked Ukraine, it was understood that the U.S. and the UK would extend security assurances. Even though there is nothing explicit in the agreement that stipulates military intervention, Ukraine wanted the memorandum to articulate that the U.S. and UK would come to Ukraine's defense if an enemy breached the new country’s sovereignty. According to Steven Pifer, a former US diplomat who participated in the talks, it was understood that if Ukraine “should become a victim of an act of aggression,” the U.S. and the UK would step in. And while that response was not explicitly defined, Pifer notes that: “there is an obligation on the United States that flows from the Budapest Memorandum to provide assistance to Ukraine, and […] that would include lethal military assistance.” James Timbie, another key U.S. negotiator, noted that “Ukraine’s leaders pushed hard to obtain robust and legally-binding security guarantees from the United States. But the United States, wary of undertaking any new security commitments, was unwilling to provide them. In the end, the negotiators found a politically acceptable compromise by crafting assurances that reiterated pledges to respect Ukraine’s territorial integrity and inviolability of its borders and to refrain from the use or threat of military force.” Perhaps it is easy to understand why the Budapest Memorandum has been absent from most of the existing analysis on the war in Ukraine. There are three simple explanations why the international community is pretending it doesn’t exist: An inconvenient truth Ignoring the Budapest Memorandum may be a conscious decision. Specifically, it may be an inconvenient truth. If the agreement was constantly referenced, it might, in turn, lead to its acceptance and acknowledgment, which might therefore lead to an expected change of behavior to accommodate the fact. If we acknowledge the commitment made to Ukraine by the U.S. and the UK, they would be expected to change their existing behavior-i.e., respond militarily-which might lead to a nuclear exchange.

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Such efficient condensed news, thank u so much!

I like the reference of the title. Great storyline

Bravo Jono Great work!

The news over the past days has been an F5 tornado inside of a Category 5 hurricane. Thank you!

Calculate what area the moscovites have gained compared with the percentage of their population lost. How long could they contain such losses?

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

More amazing content. Thank you!

What a summary. Newer viewers are now much more up to date on the military and political events affecting Ukrainian defense. I hope you can speak through a major U.S. media channel like CNN.

Poo-tin - an accurate verbal and picturesque description of the Russian leader.

That's my second fave Pink Floyd song after "Dogs" from Animals.

Except for Russia, Ukraine was the only other nuclear inheritor state that heavily debated whether to maintain or give up its nuclear weapons.

Great commentary as usual. Thankyou!

Sad that Roger Waters has become a vatnik of late... I guess Russian propaganda has become rather mainstream? Or perhaps abundance, peace, freedom have become boring for Mr Waters? I doubt he and PF would have enjoyed such lofty careers if they had been born under Russian sovereignty.

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Half Man Half Biscuit meets global conflict, that's quite an achievement 🤣

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I agree with you about the misconceived strategy of the US and some Western countries of aiming for two incompatible objectives: a safe and secure Ukraine, and a stable Russia (hopefully a reformed Russia). The reality is that the Kremlin regime will not tolerate a safe and secure Ukraine, and there is no chance of internal democratic reform, even if some form of settlement were negotiated with Ukraine in future. The Putin regime created short term stability in Russia, which is an illusion, because the regime in fact made Russian instability inevitable in the longer term, by centralising power, encouraging criminal corruption and destroying other institutions which help with peaceful transitions of power (free courts, free media, free and fair elections, regional political centres). At some point, Russia will become unstable, regardless of what any other country does. The Putin regime has has hard wired incipient instability into Russian society.

I like the Floydian slip !

Honestly the thing I don't understand about the NATO strategy of limited escalation - we know by now that the result is slow escalation - the kind of escalation that convinces Russia they can keep pace. If Ukraine had gotten everything they needed in the first few months of the war, Russia's entire army would have been swatted like a gigantic fly, and Putin or whoever replaced him in this hypothetical scenario (as getting one's army obliterated is not conducive to dictators retaining power) would be keenly aware that "OK, don't piss off NATO, they're really ****ing scary and there's nothing I can actually do about it short of literally ending human civilization. Since if I do that, I'll probably die too...I'll find some other approach." What we're doing is leading them on, keeping the goal of Russian victory over Ukraine just a little out of reach, in that "maybe I could if I just try harder" range. That's literally a training technique - people who break world records are rarely those who say "I'm going to break a world record" then work their butts off for years, and then finally meet their goal - they're the people who set a more moderate goal and then just keep pushing a little further all the time.

I'm curious if those Russian glide bombs have inertial guidance on them. If they don't, they would be extremely vulnerable to GPS jamming.

I would love to believe that the mysterious algorythm somehow drops this podcast into Roger Water's RU-vid feed!

Love the reference to Ummagumma! The music is still good but Waters stance is hard to swallow or comprehend. The approach of the west has been pusillanimous from the start back in 2014. The shackles need to be taken off for Ukraine, for our own sakes. Scholz stance has never made any sense, and at this point has been comprehensively debunked. Like others he reminds me of Halifax. If Muscovia does not lose, we will have far more unpredictable geopolitics; the source of this fear, the advisors pushing it are hard to comprehend, presupposing they haven't been bought or are covert assets? While I understand the legal arguments and economic fears of the Financial Services sector, most have already been crossed already by freezing the assets in the first place. Total isolation, fully agree. Thank you Jonathan.

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Powerful statements about containment of Russia by driving them out of every civic forum -- social, economic, sport and cultural. If such statements were turned into policies by the West, there would be strong incentives for Russia to stop their aggression and be a responsible member of the family of nations.

23:18 Remember the old joke about the Berlin wall? All you had to do was stand on the wall and see which way the people were running to deduce the superior system. Russia and China writ large.

Germany has no nuclear weapons. France, UK and America does.

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frankly, it's only a matter of diplomacy that Russia is (unlike China, so far) not declared/designated a terrorist state... 😥.

31:40 Why are we not surprised?

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The UK had an awful lot of Russian money in it. Doubtlessly that bought a lot Russian interference in UK politics and finance. Has that much or at all?

Apparently, Ukraine's Air Force has put SEAD and DEAD missions as a highest priority. Meanwhile, Rostec / KRET continue to spend 420 to 560 Million dollars annually on importing Chinese and other(s) electronic components to supply their 50,000-plus employee force building electronic warfare system(s) source: Euromaidan. EW had degraded the effectiveness of HIMARS and ATACMS source: Business Insider. Russian jammers require countermeasures, and Ukraine pilots are training in the Wild Weasel combat environment - the US sent HARM missiles for a reason.

9:20's In 2020 German trade with Russia was $1.7 billion, in 2022 it was $15.5 billion. Do the math.

All you say is true but it appears that Russia is going to lose anyway because they are going to run out of oil, run out of money and run out of hardware by the year end.

man i hope nobody in the west actually thinks Ukraine would/might use those wonderful munitions to actually cause damage to civilian Russia... 😱i think they've proven themselves - especially by now >:|!!!!

Has become ? was always i suspect you meant.

Grant scraps has been useless so far and suddenly in his position he gives lessons to other countries. 😅😅😅

At ~ 10.00 you make a very good point that i hadn’t (fully) grasped… Shulz’s motivation is suspicious now cause his WWIII argument is shown to be baseless. Olive Shulz is unwittingly playing kre M Lins useful idiot parody… … or… WITTINGLY… …

If you dont want your choppers to crash. Build a sustainable society with freedom and rights for all. Build an education system that encourages your citizens to learn engineering and seek employment in helicopter design. Its pretty easy.

One great achievement would be to get rid of Scholz, van der Lying (both Merkel installed) and maybe LaGarde (a convicted criminal). Slava Ukraini

Olaf Schultz went to Russia when he was younger. I wonder if they have any pictures of him, if you know what I mean ?

Probably it's Tomahawk or no Taurus.

This may get nasty

So Ukraine is winning, right?

good content and great accuracy but do you have to talk so slowly!! 42minutes could have been 25

I love your channel. unfortunately I can only tolerate your way of reading for fifteen minutes. In interviews or chats with others, you don't talk so disruptively. No offense intended at all, but I think it's a shame.

Your ranting on youtube won’t change anything. Go to Ukraine and fight for its “democracy “ make Ukraine resilient. It needs “brave “ people like you . Show your braveness on the battlefield instead of showing it in social media . Everyone can do it on social media . Be a real man for once and go to the battlefield !!!

Lately iranian helicopter pilots have started smoking heavily too...

Thanks!

Germany has no nuclear weapons. France, UK and America does.