Matthew Luxmoore
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75 appearances
4 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 13 Apr
Matthew Luxmoore’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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sometimes use Russian SIM cards or Russian cell towers.
But most Russians believe that this is simply a way of restricting people's access to information and also testing an internet infrastructure, censorship infrastructure that would be crucial to the Russian government if ever there's a time of major political upheaval.
People who follow the development of tech say that what we're seeing is the emergence of what they call a splinternet, which is an internet that is now being kind of subdivided by authoritarian governments into separate fiefdoms or separate small sectors of the internet that are being controlled and policed.
Essentially, this technology that was once
created to allow people to freely exchange information and instantly talk to people across the world is now being used by strongman leaders to surveil people and wall themselves off from information that's coming from the rest of the world that is deemed politically dangerous to those leaders.
And that is really where Max fits in.
Well, in many ways, Zelensky is hoping they agree to nothing.
Zelensky doesn't want anything to be agreed about Ukraine without Ukraine's involvement.
He's really rallied European leaders, the world leaders, since this summit was announced to try and get them to prevail on Trump and get him to agree to essentially not agree on anything with Putin when it comes to Ukraine.
Everyone's noticed that Trump initially was talking about land being swapped between the two countries, saying that this is something that is going to be necessary for this war to end.
The White House has really wrote back on those statements in the last couple of days.
So he's already told Zelensky and the Europeans that he will not be involved.
kind of hashing out any land agreements with Putin.
So really, for Trump, as he's put it himself, this is a kind of feel out meeting.
As the White House has said, it's a kind of way for the two leaders to get together and for Trump to better understand what Putin's position is, because he feels like Putin has kind of been dragging this process on.
And I think he wants to understand how serious Putin is about striking a peace deal in Ukraine.
Yeah, the exchange of tens of thousands of prisoners since the beginning of the war, something that's really unprecedented for two countries during the course of a conflict and not after it, is a kind of fascinating subplot of this war and one that really hasn't been covered very much because these exchanges are taking place quietly, often away from the glare of the media outlets.
and the attention of journalists, hundreds of people on a weekly basis recently crossing the border from Russia and Ukraine, many of them emaciated, barely clinging to consciousness.
And the reason the story is so fascinating is because this regular exchange of prisoners and the secret channels that are being used to arrange these swaps are kind of the one thin wire that still connects these two warring countries.
to each other.
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