Radio War Nerd

Recorded: August 22, 2024 Update on Ukraine's incursion into Kursk and Russia's accelerating push in Donetsk towards Pokrovsk and Toretsk... Total time: 59:52 Direct link to this episode's mp3 here * Subscribe to Radio War Nerd at patreon.com/radiowarnerd Sound production by Telescope Audio Check ou

Recorded: November 15, 2022 Nine months into Russia's disastrous war on Ukraine, we try making sense of Putin's strategy as Russian forces abandon Kherson and the right bank of the Dniepr, just weeks after Putin declared Kherson was "forever" part of Russia. Defeat & failure, somehow we always wind

Recorded: August 11, 2022 The War Nerd & Ames update the latest in Russia's invasion of Ukraine — the mysterious attack on Russia's Saki airbase in Crimea; possible failed Ukrainian counteroffensives in Kherson region; controversies over Amnesty International report, Olenivka POW camp bombing, Zapor

Recorded: June 10, 2022 The War Nerd and Ames discuss the latest grim news out of Ukraine, where the war isn't going the way the West intended...after the break, we look at Ethiopia's artificial famine strategy in Tigray, quietly memory-holed in the western media-foreign policy world. ***RWN IN NYC!

Recorded: March 24, 2022 This episode, the War Nerd & Ames discuss the latest in Russia's war on Ukraine. At 52:00 - Ames goes back a few centuries in the long gory history of the Russian-Chechen Wars, from Sheikh Mansur in the late 18th-c. up to Dzhokhar Dudayev's return to Chechnya as its independ

Recorded: March 17, 2022 First: the War Nerd & Ames catch up on the last week of Russia's war on Ukraine. At 1:10:00 - Ames introduces the Chechen Wars series, with some surprising parallels between Yeltsin's western-financed invasion of Chechnya in 1994, and Putin's war on Ukraine today. Total time

Recorded: December 21, 2021 Looking back at another miserable year in humanity's oldest profession. The War Nerd & Ames discuss the Ethiopia-Tigray conflict, Afghanistan, Cold War sequels & the end-of-the-year Russia/Ukraine hysteria. Thanks to the mighty RWN community for making the show happen, we

Guest: Leonid Ragozin, journalist Originally recorded: November 29, 2021 Hysteria about an imminent Russia-Ukraine war—almost entirely manufactured from the bowels of certain DC/London thinktanks—has only worsened since we recorded this excellent, wide-ranging discussion with Riga-based journalist L

Recorded December 29, 2019 Images: *One of Steven Sotloff's last tweets. 2 months later, he was kidnapped & sold to ISIS. *John McCain posing with Sotloff's soon-to-be-kidnapper, Mohamed Nour of the Northern Storm Brigade (holding gun). May 2013. Total time: 1:48:47 Direct link to this episode's mp3

Recorded: July 30, 2019 The War Nerd tells the incredible epic & tragic story of The Liberator of South America, Simón Bolívar. . . At 1:52:00 — Ames tells the anti-epic, anti-tragic story of Ukrainian neofascist loonball Nadia Savchenko, hero of liberal western hacks — to illustrate how the electio