Radio War Nerd EP #610 — World of Wars: Iran's Forever Ceasefire, Hezbollah's FPV Guerrillas
Recorded: May 30, 2026
Trump struggles with himself over when and how to capitulate to Iran, while the IDF drives deeper into Hezbollah's fpv quagmire...
Total time: 51:12
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Comments (24)
This one does sort of end on a happy note. I'm glad Hezbollah has been causing a lot of damage to the IDF.
Was wrong of Hezbollah to violate the international ban on whaling, disavow!
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* The Kurds were gonna go in and defeat the Iranian army… and then install Ahmadinajead after a smart bomb liberated him from House jail.. this should be the plot of Gary Brecher ‘s next novel
This is something I really wonder about - assuming these guys got their way and overthrew the regime in Iran, then what? Like, either the country becomes divided between multiple factions, or a new regime seizes power... in either scenario, is the new leadership going to be any friendlier towards the U.S. and Israel? I mean, even if they *wanted* to cooperate, what kind of legitimacy would they have? Isn't the most likely scenario something like Iraq, where the military breaks up into a bunch of militias? That hasn't really been a great outcome for the Blob in Iraq, and they'd have a whole lot less control over anything going on in Iran. Like, as far as I can see, the only actor who seems to be behaving rationally on the U.S. side is Netanyahu. He wants to avoid peace at all costs in order to avoid being prosecuted by Israeli courts, and he doesn't care about anything else. Everyone else, I have no idea what they think they're getting out of this.
Still think Trump will actually stay in the do nothing phase for the rest of his presidency. There's plenty of ways to get rich off a global recession and that's better than admitting he lost. And who knows maybe he genuinely thinks he'll be offed by Israel if he makes a deal
I’d like to believe a renewed Iran War isnt imminent but I won’t believe it until Hegseth gets fired, since that moron was one of the main proponents
One thing I haven't seen discussed anywhere is the number of successful Hezbollah drone infiltrations/strikes on IDF targets *in Israel* and the capacity that demonstrates to do drone terror bombing on the Israeli border towns. It seems like at the current burn rate of 10-20 drone operations a day that Hezbollah could announce say, a retaliatory ambulance-for-ambulance, civilian-vehicle-for-civilian-vehicle campaign (with the huge backlog of Lebanese suffering to be avenged first) and spark a pretty massive evacuation that would be politically and logistically destabilizing. The fact that they haven't is a real testament to restraint, either strategic/political or humanitarian.
I really like these guys, been listening for years. because I want to believe i want to hear what is really going on. But they have told me Ukraine is days away from falling for 4 years, UAE is so smart until a couple weeks ago now they are the biggest loser in the middle east. The Palestinians have got israel on the ropes the last couple years. And Iran is in total control. I'm not saying the west doesn't deserve a bloody nose but I'm really not sure it has happened. And maybe this is just wish casting news that a certain group wants to hear.
Yea maybe, Im just getting the feeling I'm listening to the upside down of fox News lately
Favorite comment regarding the thumbnail: “what drone hit her? A Boeing 747?”
Surprised that Ames and Dolan didn't mention how very sci-fi it is that modern warfare features so many soldiers filming themselves to try and amass clout, even though in the process they open themselves up to war crimes prosecution and outright targeted assassination. For the IDF especially, It's like they learned in school about the Holocaust being the most documented atrocity in history, and decided to one-up the Nazis. Also makes me really skeptical about all the endless whining throughout history from people saying war is hell, etc.. Seems to me like war is actually fun and cool, as long as you're not some wimpy civilian. Maybe combat veterans should stop complaining so much.
they're like the Affronter from Iain Banks - Excession at that point lol. The Culture take contact with them and go like okay we get it you're like that but we have technology to make it less cruel if you insist and the Affronter respond like oh CHRIST no we really prefer it that way
Was rofl when they got the fatty whale. FAFO indeed.
Who did you get that parrot from bro??
Just goes to show a starving guerilla force will defeat colonial sturmtruppen fattened on mcdonald's any day
Stupidist own goal in modern US history
Trump struggles with himself alright.
The episode image: BEASTMODE! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
can't wait for the congress to pass another Israel aid package that explicitly includes a sub clause for ozempic
The thumbnail 😂
Do you have any context, what am I looking at? 😅
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