It's related because silver, as opposed to other metals has massive shorts placed on it, it's already well understood that silver is massively manipulated to be cheap, why that is precisely is speculative, military parts need it in abundance but also bankers would rather have you believe their leveraged paper stuff is worth something when all it's largely backed by is ignorance.

Whether anyone cares or not the reality is silver is pretty much out of stock everywhere, if that squeeze goes all the way up to commercial bullion dealers and banks have to pay out on that shorted silver then... interesting things will happen.