Radio War Nerd EP #408 — World of Wars: Myanmar, Ethiopia, Ukraine, Gaza

War is just a racket to fool people to fight for the rich man's gold. https://the-spark.net/

Mark you gotta stop being so bashful about the Hersch interview you did a good job and he barely yelled at you guys far as I can tell he’s just cantankerous haha

anybody have a source on those bibi quotes from max hastings at the end? are the only available in the biography or are there any articles? Edit: found an article where its mentioned if anyones interested https://portside.org/2018-08-30/sea-same-sea-biography-netanyahu

The neocons are playing the hits. “ACTUALLY, it’s Russia, China. And Iran committing genocide” https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articles/who-is-committing-genocide

volodymir zelynskyy go on chapo

Hypocrisy is the privilege of the powerful. Hearing people focus on is is pathetic.

“It was not the Lord offering that command to destroy Amalek, but a prophet anxious to place a king on the throne.” https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2023/11/michael-hudson-were-the-prophets-anti-semitic-debunking-netanyahus-distorted-biblical-justifications-for-genocide.html

Mark's never going to get over getting chewed out by Hersh lol. Thanks for the updates on all the wars that aren't the big two.

Not to be that stupid, asshole, dork, but the movie was Shivers and I think the actress was Barbara Steele. I just hate to hear Mary Woronov defamed! Sorry for being that stupid, asshole dork.

There was a story on NHK (very tame Japanese public channel), saying IDF found weapons at al Shifa but no tunnels yet, with footage of an AK47 behind a MRI scanner. The inept hasbara stuff gets torn apart online, but it's not for that. It's for news outlets to cut together as background footage while they recite the IDF line. That and we all have to talk about hospital tunnels and other obviously ridiculous stuff, rather than the real issue which is the genocide. The tunnels aren't relevant. Children are dying. It's not a complex issue fundamentally. The hasbara is for obfuscating, not for convincing. Even if normies don't buy the bullshit, they'll just avoid the topic cause it seems complicated. Thankfully no one under 35 watches tv or reads newspapers, cause its only Al Jazeera doing journalism at this point.

One thing that has gotten me about the Israeli propaganda is the level of pornography about it. No, not Taija Rae stuff. We're talking Der Stürmer here. The bogus rape stories have gained a level of luridness, and the stories about women having to get the sperm of their dead husbands is just … I really don't have a good word for it. Sick? Creepy? Squick? But the only thing that really came to mind was the sickness of impurity, the whole Streicher schtick of "Jews turning good German women into prostitution" or David Duke's love of "pornography unbecoming of a racist" (which I read as "black dicks in white chicks"). A repulsion not at fictitious rape but at the evil impure person putting his seed in a good Jewish woman, and we have to bomb him to death and carry on our line with our pure sperm and overcome the "demographic issue."

Anybody have an idea of what book John is talking about at 12:10 about Chinese minority groups? Very interested in that topic. Edit - If what John says about the Wa is true it represents a pretty significant shift in the Burmese conflict. The Wa are the largest, richest and best armed of all the ethnic militias, and their ceasefire agreement with the Tatmadow was a key factor allowing the regime to maintain power over the last decade. If the Wa are newly restive, the regime may not be long for this world.

You guys will ever mention Palestinian attitudes towards Shia? Nah?

"On that wretched note" has become my default conversation ender.

John at 49:25 on the hive mind radio dial shift of attention: "Where have all the flowers gone?... GODZILLA!!!"

damn, crazy how 'peace through superior firepower' isn't working for israel all of a sudden maybe it never worked???

Re: the extreme racism against Arabs and Middle Eastern people generally…. I think some old racists have the idea Arabs are white and thus “you can’t be racist towards them” because cultural racism isn’t ‘real’ racism. I remember some horrible ex-roommate and ex-friend railing on FB in the 2010s about how some Muslim guy looked white and therefore couldn’t possibly be a victim of racism. And the guy saying this was Jewish!

I love hearing Gary’s 70s horror movie references but the viruses=love line is from “Shivers”! “Rabid” is also good though!!

Shout out to the Exile on the Jordan Peterson podcast episode 392.

Regrettably the absurdly detailed openburma.org map from the previous Burma episode is no longer accessible ;(

So, is Zelensky at the "Steiner will launch a counterattack" stage? Is there any chance he starts blabbing now that America has gone back to its spouse Israel and is hanging him out to dry?