Radio War Nerd EP #515 — World of Wars: Iran, Ukraine

Listening to the part about Iran and hoping for a future episode laying out what a conflict would like/wargaming it out similar to the recent Canada episode.

Mark on the rudderless Democrats: “Say what you will about the tenets of Russiagate, but it was at least an organizing principle!”

John: ”I’m sure there’s a lot of seething, suppressed, macho dreams in Swedish male demographics anyway” . After having lived in Sweden a while, I’d say this is spot on. And I doubt most would actually go fight.

we pakistanis do love jokes

Clearly some brainiac who is smart enough to send email threats to the President is smart enough to build a drone 🙄

In the Netherlands we've been told to 'prep' as well. Scaremongering is definitely ramping up. And regarding the western European politicians maintaining public support: on top of the scaremongering, our public is under the influence of broadly served up propaganda. And it's all pro US empire. Alternative opinions are suppressed and mocked across basically all major media. And that goes for most politicians too, I reckon.

Re: ames' comments on drones around an hr in- would really appreciate a broad view on current drone use (or i guess 'doctrine?' iunno) given that stuff like this is just the latest example of stuff being advertised to the west as Freedom Weapons while of course being used to do this simultaneously https://x.com/qudsnen/status/1913783253325988053 - i remember following the announcements (in the recent anti RSF gains) of both anti RSF military units celebrating drone hits against RSF in again, a very similar use case; less than a day later, followed by an announcement of sudanese civilians and journalists being drone assassinated by (amongst others) the RSF in same area. I get that there's a lot of informational fog if not outright misinfo around them, (witnessing a spat between various gruntfluencers at the moment about 'best drone takedowns' and 'drone defence' being some of the more ridiculous examples), but think RWN would cut through it all well. I know drones have already been commented on and covered on a case by case thing here recently, but the more I see the different coverages of the same broad phenomenon, the more intrigued / concerned I get about the black mirror spectacle makebelieve many people talk about when they say they are discussing 'drones' (and what an obfuscation-ally broad category!).

The left-conservative party in Germany you mentioned is Sahra Wagenknecht's outfit, which came within an agonizingly scrawny whisker of clearing the 5% hurdle in the recent election. The other Ukraine-skeptical party is the AfD, which you call "post-nazi". Well it certainly has some nazoid members, but it's hardly alone in this on the German political scene. It's basically an anti-immigration party. By the way, it was set up by ferociously austerian economic ideologues & its leader, Alice Weidel (veteran of Goldman Sachs), is "in a long-term relationship" with a Sri Lankan woman.

I think this is one of the handful of times I've ever heard John drop the f-bomb.

I checked in on serpent head James Carville's YouTube channel a month ago and he is still pushing "pee tape" Russiagate nonsense. The DNC has no idea what to do with Trump 2: This Time it's Personal.

Wondering what is the study showing Dems knew they'd lose over Gaza? Thanks!

BOSTON MENTIONED 🔥🔥🔥

Great episode but a comment around the 31 min mark.. while third parties like the Populist Party got crushed, let’s not forgot that the most successful third party/breakaway party is the Republican Party. And they won the presidency within 2 elections of their formation and accomplished their purpose (abolition) within a decade.

Re: Ukraine: I did see a funny post from a Ukraine simp crying about how Russia kept going around strongholds, like, “they’re too cowardly to stand and fight the UAF, they just keep going around them until the UAF is forced to pull back!”

Re: jd Vance comments: since it is a difference without a difference to me, I just say he’s a fucking moron, because nothing is worse for a thin- skinned “intellectual” than having their attempts at sarcasm and “wit” misunderstood as their actual position

The long, narrow shape of the Hudson Valley is indeed very strange, in that NYC is closer to Philadelphia than it is to Albany.

im biased as im from boston but i think we have the best regional accent in America ;}

Hello from Merida 👋

Is there a current war in the world that the hosts enjoy following? It's all pretty grim lol. Whats a war the war nerd would actually want to see? How about Ireland?

Boston is the best city if you were also born in Massachusetts

Enjoy your stay in Boston! Jonathan Richman played around here less than a month ago

Dropping “commandos” in Iran has some “parachute bandarites into Ukraine in 1945” energy

Brb, going to Cheeto’s oblong office and calling an airstrike on my position

Welcome to Boston Mark!

Insert shipping up to Boston by Dropkick Murphy’s