Radio War Nerd

Guest: Anatol Lieven Recorded: November 12, 2026 Author Anatol Lieven returns to the pod to discuss the Ukraine war peace talks in Abu Dhabi, such as they were, the dim prospects for peace anytime soon, the dangers of the ongoing war widening, and possible hopeful signs. Further reading: -"Kushner &

Recorded: February 13, 2025 The story of Tecumseh is too big to fit into the War of 1812 episode, so RWN is doing a 2-part series on Tecumseh. This episode: historical context of the hostile world Tecumseh was born into. First - We discuss the Trump Admin's rug-pull on the Ukraine War cause. At 30:5

Guest: Lily Lynch, journalist Recorded: January 23, 2024 Free unlocked repost of our talk with Belgrade-based reporter Lily Lynch on Balkan politics, NATO's secret crush on Serbia's "Putinist" president, unsolved murders & commando raids, NATO expansionism & CIA death-tweets... Would you like to kno

Guest: Lily Lynch, journalist Recorded: January 23, 2024 We take a break from covering Biden's Global Apocalypse to talk with Belgrade-based reporter Lily Lynch about lighter matters: Balkan politics, the Ukraine war & NATO expansion... Previous RWN episodes with Lily: -EP #241 — Sickness & Politics

Guest: Moss Robeson, researcher Recorded: July 12, 2023 Vilnius hosted two wartime summits this past week: the NATO summit, which resulted in a big franchise-expansion victory for Washington, but ended in humiliation for Zelensky; and a few days earlier, the Vilnius NAFO summit, where NATO's troll a

Guest: Jack Murphy, journalist & writer Recorded: January 9, 2023 We talk to journalist & special forces veteran Jack Murphy about his monster scoop on NATO's CIA-run sleeper cells activated since the 2022 invasion of Ukraine to spread chaos inside Russia — and the problems Jack had getting his stor

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: February 24, 2022 Emergency RWN episode on Russia's invasion of Ukraine. *Here's a war map of Russia's battle plan intentions, tweeted out by Michael Kofman, who did call the war right in the months leading up to the invasion. Total time: 53:37 Direct link to this episode's mp3 here

Guest: Annibale Recorded: June 27, 2021 RWN guest Annibale returns for part 2 of our series on the XB-70 Valkyrie (listen to part 1: RWN #284). In this episode, pick up from JFK's decision to cancel the Valkyrie... discuss the CIA's SR-71 spy plane...and the fallout from the cancelation of the Valky

Guest: Annibale Recorded: January 22, 2021 In the second part of our 2-part series on Italy's 1970 Borghese Coup plot (RWN #264), our Years Of Lead expert Annibale describes the political conditions in Italy at the time of the coup, the events, who benefited, the likely goal of the coup plotters, an

Guest: Annibale Recorded: January 21, 2021 We talk to popular RWN guest Annibale about the murky 1970 Borghese Coup, in the early part of Italy's Years Of Lead. In part one, we look at Junio Borghese's background: the famous Borghese family, his wartime heroics & plans to bomb New York harbor, and h

Guest: Lika Zakaryan, journalist Recorded: October 11, 2020 Journalist Lika Zakaryan speaks to us from under Azerbajaini bombardment in her hometown Stepanakert, the capital of Nagorno-Karabakh (also known as "Artsakh"). Lika describes war—and life under existential threat—from a very close-up and p

Guest: Nate Jones, author & director of FOIA Project at the National Security Archive Recorded: August 7, 2018 The War Nerd welcomes FOIA ninja Nate Jones to talk about his frightening discoveries uncovering the secret history of Able Archer 83—when Reagan's Cold War nearly scared the Soviets into l