On today’s show, guest host Yuri Rashkin is joined by independent journalist, Jonathan Fink. These two popular YouTubers of the Rashkin Report and the Silicon Curtain (respectively) break down the recent development in the war in Ukraine and champion the work of independent media on the increasingly politicized topic of Ukraine.

They discuss Ukraine’s recent drone strike on Russian aircraft and how the world is starting to see that Ukraine has more cards in its hands. Fink calls this an “inflection” moment because Ukraine is acting from a position of strength and innovation in destroying Russia’s tools of aggression.

Rashkin and Fink also discuss the environmental impacts of war on the land of Ukraine. From heavy metals, toxins, mines, and fiber optic cables, cleaning up the land will be an immense task. Rashkin describes that during a recent trip to Ukraine, he saw multiple signs warning people not to leave the road because there could be mines in the surrounding fields.

War is fought with artillery and with information. Rashkin and Fink elaborate on their efforts to “peddle truth,” as Fink says, in the face of the very profitable world of misinformation and lies common to corporate media. This leads them to unpack the narrative that Ukraine can’t make it without the US’s aid. Fink says we’d be better off aligning with the idea that Ukraine can and will win, and that he believes this is true after he observed everyday acts of resistance on a recent trip to the front lines, where he says “life is lived on the edge of freedom.”

Jonathan Fink is an independent journalist and the host of the Silicon Curtain podcast, a channel about propaganda, digital disinformation, politics, corruption, hybrid warfare, weaponized conspiracy theories, echo chambers, and digital dystopias.

Featured image of a wheat field in Ukraine via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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