Radio War Nerd

Guest: Annibale Recorded: January 23, 2026 Once again, it's "Munich 1938" in warmongering punditville, as it has been since the end of World War II, especially since the end of the Cold War. But it turns out the actual Munich 1938 history has little to do with the mythologized fake history version u

Guest: James Jackson, journalist From National-Socialism to Psycho-Zionism, Germany's come a long way, baby. We talk to Berlin-based freelance journalist James Jackson, host of the Mad In Germany podcast, to help make sense of one of the ongoing mysteries we've been trying to make sense of on RWN: W

Guest: Mark Karau, historian Recorded: April 25, 2024 With all the popular comparisons today between the Russo-Ukraine War and the First World War, we talk to historian Mark Karau about the most obvious question that's been oddly ignored: Why did Germany lose World War I? First — We discuss neti pot

Guest: Seymour Hersh Recorded: February 11, 2023 We talk to legendary Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Seymour Hersh about his latest bombshell scoop: the United States, on President Biden's orders, blew up the Nord Stream pipelines that were foundational to Germany's export economy until last year.

Guest: Ben Aris, editor BNE IntelliNews Recorded: July 13, 2022 First, we update the latest from Ethiopia's insurgencies in Tigray and Oromia...then we discuss some of the latest grim war news out of Ukraine & consider the not-so-deeper meaning of NPR's attempt at historical war analogy + the Kagan

Guest: Ben Aris, editor BNE IntelliNews Recorded: February 12, 2022 Journalist Ben Aris clears the methane-soaked air on Russian gas & pipeline politics, helping us understand the deeper politics of the Russia-Ukraine crisis. Read Ben Aris's article on Russia's pipeline politics: "How a V-shaped mar