Putin's Mistakes that are Regime Ending - Internet Shutdown and Oil Offline!

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Mark Galeotti is an author and academic – by training an historian – but in practice an interdisciplinary scholar with interests encompassing politics, criminology, security studies, international relations, and anthropology. He is a specialist in transnational and organized crime, security affairs, Russian Politics, Russian History, Intelligence and Security. Mark has a PhD in Government from LSE and has worked as a Senior Lecturer and Head of Department of History at Keele University. He is a Principal Director at Mayak Intelligence, and is an Honorary Professor, SSEES at UCL. He is a Senior Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute. He has also been Professor of Global Affairs at New York University from 2009 to 2016. ---------- BOOKS: Forged in War: A military history of Russia from its beginnings to today (2026) Homo Criminalis: How crime organises the world (2025) Downfall: Prigozhin, Putin, and the new fight for the future of Russia by Mark Galeotti and Anna Arutunyan (2024) Mark Galeotti: Putin's Wars: From Chechnya to Ukraine (2022) Mark Galeotti: The Weaponisation of Everything: A Field Guide to the New Way of War (2022) Mark Galeotti: A Short History of Russia: From the Pagans to Putin (2021) Mark Galeotti: Storm-333: KGB and Spetsnaz seize Kabul, Soviet-Afghan War 1979 (2021) Mark Galeotti: We Need to Talk About Putin: How the West gets him wrong (2019) Mark Galeotti: Russian Political War: Moving Beyond the Hybrid (2019) Mark Galeotti: The Vory: Russia's Super Mafia (2018) ---------- LINKS: https://inmoscowsshadows.wordpress.com/ https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/in-moscows-shadows/id1510124746 https://twitter.com/MarkGaleotti https://www.rusi.org/people/galeotti https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Galeotti ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- DESCRIPTION: Mark Galeotti on Putin’s 19th‑Century Power Politics, Russia’s Internet Crackdown, and the Regime’s Growing Brittleness The host interviews historian and Russia specialist Mark Galeotti about how Putin views power primarily as coercion and great‑power privilege, and how the Ukraine war is burning through Russia’s resources, modernity, legitimacy, and technological dynamism, echoing a “late Ivan the Terrible” decline. They discuss Russia’s accelerating digital repression—mobile internet disruptions, VPN targeting, blocked app payments—and argue it is driven largely by competing security agencies rather than a single coherent “regime,” creating internal struggle with technocrats and business elites worried about economic and political costs. The conversation links Russia and Ukraine’s high digital integration to drone and electronic warfare, contrasting Ukraine’s bottom‑up innovation with Russia’s ability to scale production amid factional incentives. They also examine propagandist Ilya Remeslo apparent anti‑Putin comments as a sign of uncertainty and hollowing support, concluding Russia is strong but brittle and may outlive Putin while losing elite confidence. ---------- CHAPTERS: 01:15 Putin and Great Power Status 03:36 Power as Coercion 06:29 Ivan the Terrible Parallel 07:58 Russia’s Shabby Decline 09:19 Internet Crackdown Accelerates 11:19 Security Services vs Technocrats 14:54 Shutdowns Hit Daily Life 17:07 Drones and Digital States 19:20 Innovation vs Arms Industry 23:04 Ukraine’s Scaling Challenge 26:25 Defense Primes and Tank Debate 27:26 Ukraine Drone Production Shift 28:15 Basement Builds to Battlefield Data 29:40 War Forging Ukrainian Nation 32:00 Russia Transformed Backwards 32:50 Propagandist Breaks the Taboo 33:49 Inside the Mislaw Theories 41:28 Internet Controls and War Options 46:45 Frontline Impact and Workarounds 50:14 Brittle Regime and Black Swans ----------