Radio War Nerd EP #558 — Serbia Protests, pt. 1: Alexandar Vucic, feat. TENE
Guests: Boris Mamlëz and Rey Katula, The Empire Never Ended
Recorded: October 28, 2025
The War Nerd is temporarily out of action, the same wound but new terrors for a future episode. In the meantime, we have a great 2-part series on the little-understood Serbian protests with previous guests Boris & Rey from The Empire Never Sleeps podcast. In part one, we trace the rise of Serbia's president Alexandar Vucic, whose career tracks Serbia's own political transformations in the post-communist era.
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Total time: 1:47:15
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Comments (23)
It’s a wired name to give to a parrot. It’s like calling your pet Derek or Frederick.
Think Dragomir was from the Balkans.
Re: Mark’s Zetas comment - It’s about time for RWN to address the mexican cartel wars!
Where is the RSS feed for the podcast?
Are there any RWN episodes about Moldova? My parents are from there and I know nothing about it, I figure if anyone would it'd be you guys
At the top of their Patreon there’s a post that indexes every episode and topic. I would recommend checking there , from my memory they definitely didn’t have a topic on Moldova at all
I don't know why it didn't come to me sooner, but someone needs to put Dr. D in a room with David Cronenberg. Body Horror ^2
Wishing John all the best and a swift recovery
Most Zionists aren’t Nazis, but Kahanists definitely are. (Kahanism originated the taboo against Nazi comparisons, because the lady doth protest too much.)
Tbf kahanism rules the day ATLeast in Israel so it's a mute point as so far the major players in the military are concerned but I do agree alot of liberal and labor Zionism while crazy isnt at that level yet. (Definitely insane tho)
love my two favorite pods collabing
Looking forward to listening, and hoping John gets better quickly, God willing.
The Red Berets episodes are some of my absolute favorites. Have re listened to those probably three times, it's such an incredible story
Oh snap love TENE
I used to listen to Tenepod and forgot about these guys. Great guests thanks for reminding me. Feel better John!
Jeb Buščić
Oh hey. Did the ebook come out for subscribers yet?
Good to hear from Rey and Boris!
Look around. Nerds are evil until proven otherwise.
When I was in Serbia a right wing guy told me he thought Vucic was actually pro Albanian for even engaging diplomatically w govt of Kosovo at all
Yeah that's why he's cooked when that situation inevitably resolves
Did we ever find out if Nepal was a colour revolution?
Great interview BTW.