Russia Should be Treated as a Zone of Contagion - It's 'Culture' May Just Kill You!
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The episode discusses the dangers of romanticizing Russian culture amidst ongoing aggression and war.
Silicon Bites Ep366 | 2026-07-14 | the book and movie Stalker: enter at your own risk, assume everything is hazardous, and stop looking for redemption in the rubble. You may find things of use in the Zone of contagion, but what you find may also corrupt and kill you. ZONE OF CONTAGION: In a single fortnight, the IOC has reinstated the Russian Olympic Committee, Netflix has expanded a Russian cartoon empire into more than a hundred countries, and the Venice Biennale has already spent a season laundering the pavilion of a state that bombs museums and conducts daily human safaris in Kherson Oblast. All while Russian glide bombs hit bus stops in Sumy and ballistic missiles land in Kyiv's residential districts. The West keeps searching for the "good Russia" — the culture, the art, the sport — as if finding it would redeem the state committing the crimes. This is weakness and naivety that will get us all killed. And it is based on extraordinary weakness that verges on complicity with evil. This fictitious good Russia is a convenient excuse for us to take no action to defeat the real Russia – the one attacking Ukraine and us. This blindness to Russia’s evil intent must stop…
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