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"oh no" posted:Radio War Nerd EP #374 — Understanding Putin, with Philip Short
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# ? Apr 21, 2023 21:19 |
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# ? May 28, 2024 00:05 |
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i swear they complain about putinologists all the time, this better be loving good
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# ? Apr 21, 2023 21:22 |
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Mark Ames seemed pretty close this episode to asking if Hemedti was a fremen.
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# ? Apr 27, 2023 21:58 |
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runaway pancake posted:i swear they complain about putinologists all the time, this better be loving good
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# ? Apr 27, 2023 22:22 |
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I feel like I'd have to read the book to really judge, the guy came off better than I expected for "former bbc correspondent" but that's a low bar
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# ? Apr 27, 2023 22:28 |
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there were some sweeping generalities of soviet era daily life that seemed a bit weird
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# ? Apr 27, 2023 22:30 |
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the bit about Putin not doing the apartment bombings and the CIA and MI6 supporting that felt like a missed opportunity for Mark and John to probe further on why Short feels so differently about the subject than most (all?) of his other Western biographers. it was getting there but never went as far as I wanted, maybe the book itself goes deeper. The end was funny too - do you think Putin might use nukes? Well probably not but you never know, maybe! Real enlightening stuff there.
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# ? Apr 27, 2023 22:59 |
I’m trying that Anthony Bourdain show and I think a John Dolan travel vlog would be interesting. Dude is in a different country every month somehow even though he’s constantly injured and now old. He got ran out of Indonesia, that’s gotta be some street cred.
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# ? Apr 29, 2023 07:11 |
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The Putin episode was less bad than I feared and I like the BBC guy, but honestly why is every foreign corespondent who doesn't get the locals to bitch about Brezhnev convinced that he discovered the fabled totalitarism? You're the last guy they are going to talk to! The KGB is turning over your garbage bins!
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# ? Apr 29, 2023 19:13 |
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skooma512 posted:I’m trying that Anthony Bourdain show and I think a John Dolan travel vlog would be interesting. Dude is in a different country every month somehow even though he’s constantly injured and now old. He got ran out of Indonesia, that’s gotta be some street cred. There was an episode of No Reservations where Bourdain went to Italy and some locals had them out on the water while a snorkeler was diving for shellfish and octopus, etc. but there was another local on the boat throwing fish from the market into the water for the snorkeler. That evening they made a meal out of the day's "catch." I can see this happening to The War Nerd
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# ? Apr 29, 2023 19:21 |
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Fleetwood posted:There was an episode of No Reservations where Bourdain went to Italy and some locals had them out on the water while a snorkeler was diving for shellfish and octopus, etc. but there was another local on the boat throwing fish from the market into the water for the snorkeler. That evening they made a meal out of the day's "catch." I can see this happening to The War Nerd wait what? he was diving for oysters and coming up with frozen tilapia?
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# ? Apr 29, 2023 20:06 |
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i say swears online posted:wait what? he was diving for oysters and coming up with frozen tilapia? I remember a guy on the boat throwing a dead octopus into the water and the snorkeler pretended he caught it e: it was in Sicily lol
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# ? Apr 29, 2023 20:13 |
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Dolan would get attacked by the frozen octopus
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# ? Apr 29, 2023 20:15 |
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Clark Nova posted:Dolan would get attacked by the frozen octopus lol
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# ? Apr 29, 2023 20:19 |
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bourdain speaking about the food hes enjoying while john talks about how he almost died
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# ? Apr 29, 2023 20:20 |
Clark Nova posted:Dolan would get attacked by the frozen octopus Allergic reaction and reactivated octopus. Despite all this, he'll be in Tangier next month.
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# ? Apr 29, 2023 20:32 |
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oh dear. age really creeps up on you, mark. staring at the departure board i accidentally mistook 'khartoum' for 'restroom' and now katherine has joined the janjaweed
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# ? Apr 29, 2023 20:42 |
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i say swears online posted:oh dear. age really creeps up on you, mark. staring at the departure board i accidentally mistook 'khartoum' for 'restroom' and now katherine has joined the janjaweed lol
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# ? Apr 29, 2023 21:12 |
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i say swears online posted:oh dear. age really creeps up on you, mark. staring at the departure board i accidentally mistook 'khartoum' for 'restroom' and now katherine has joined the janjaweed
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# ? Apr 29, 2023 22:06 |
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i say swears online posted:oh dear. age really creeps up on you, mark. staring at the departure board i accidentally mistook 'khartoum' for 'restroom' and now katherine has joined the janjaweed
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# ? Apr 30, 2023 00:36 |
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i say swears online posted:oh dear. age really creeps up on you, mark. staring at the departure board i accidentally mistook 'khartoum' for 'restroom' and now katherine has joined the janjaweed
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# ? Apr 30, 2023 16:22 |
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The Kremlinology episode was really bad, he's the exact kind of guy they used to make fun of at the exile. I don't mind guests with dissenting/differing opinions as long as they are interesting. I think the boys are at their best when they're talking about stuff where they aren't directly involved.
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# ? May 3, 2023 15:05 |
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Not sure about the last guy they had on. Did we ever get any solid proof that it was the Russians that hacked the mails or really that it was Northkorea that hacked Sony? Guess I'd have to read the book. From the interview we have the Israelis handing out tje emails while claiming they took them off the Russians. And I'd guess there's another place they could have gotten them from.
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# ? May 15, 2023 10:29 |
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new ep up
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# ? May 26, 2023 16:14 |
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AnimeIsTrash posted:The Kremlinology episode was really bad, he's the exact kind of guy they used to make fun of at the exile. I don't mind guests with dissenting/differing opinions as long as they are interesting. I just came across a book that would combine some of their best stuff from the past two years, Italy and the ACW: Civil War and Agrarian Unrest: The Confederate South and Southern Italy Between 1861 and 1865, both the Confederate South and Southern Italy underwent dramatic processes of nation-building, with the creation of the Confederate States of America and the Kingdom of Italy, in the midst of civil wars. This is the first book that compares these parallel developments by focusing on the Unionist and pro-Bourbon political forces that opposed the two new nations in inner civil conflicts. Overlapping these conflicts were the social revolutions triggered by the rebellions of American slaves and Southern Italian peasants against the slaveholding and landowning elites. Utilizing a comparative perspective, Enrico Dal Lago sheds light on the reasons why these combined factors of internal opposition proved fatal for the Confederacy in the American Civil War, while the Italian Kingdom survived its own civil war. At the heart of this comparison is a desire to understand how and why nineteenth-century nations rose and either endured or disappeared. The first systematic comparison of aspects of the American Civil War with a contemporaneous civil war in another country: Italy Utilizes the comparison between the Confederate States of America and the Kingdom of Italy to shed light on the reasons for the rise (and survival or fall) of nineteenth-century nations Provides a valuable contribution comparative history and the study of nineteenth-century nationalism and nation-building Frosted Flake has issued a correction as of 17:17 on May 26, 2023 |
# ? May 26, 2023 17:15 |
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i say swears online posted:new ep up anemic!
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# ? May 26, 2023 17:31 |
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wow my dude finally brought Pleasant Hell back for sale https://www.johndolanwrites.com/store/p/the-war-nerd-newsletters-package
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# ? Jun 3, 2023 15:43 |
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I love when Dolan couldn't help himself and had to correct Aamer that the quote was from von Clausewitz not Bismark.
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# ? Jun 5, 2023 16:19 |
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adebisi lives posted:I love when Dolan couldn't help himself and had to correct Aamer that the quote was from von Clausewitz not Bismark. Loved the last one about the punitive expedition, it's like the US sending soldiers to interfere in the Russian civil war in the next year, with equal success. Totally memory holed, I vaguely knew that Villa did some poo poo on American soil but didn't know much beyond that, and for some reason never thought about it.
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# ? Jun 5, 2023 16:26 |
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I knew that they basically fruitlessly hosed around for a bit with some famous and soon-to-be famous people pissing about, but I hadn't considered the military toy testrun angle before.
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# ? Jun 5, 2023 17:16 |
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Mike Duncan did a series on the Mexican revolution that covered a lot of Pancho Villa that I remember being decent
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# ? Jun 6, 2023 00:21 |
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enjoying the listing of all the football hooligan firm names
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# ? Jun 6, 2023 12:49 |
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https://twitter.com/Annibal97783312/status/1666903097057107977#m
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# ? Jun 9, 2023 10:17 |
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gently caress yeah
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# ? Jun 9, 2023 14:28 |
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radio warned
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# ? Jun 9, 2023 15:18 |
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a piece of writing i often return to because it makes me laugh is john dolan's review of a million little pieces, entitled, a million pieces of poo poo: https://exiledonline.com/a-million-pieces-of-poo poo/
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# ? Jun 9, 2023 15:24 |
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I think about that part with the beaver and chuckle every so often
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# ? Jun 9, 2023 15:38 |
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I remember that some 10 years back or so Frey was basically the owner of a writer sweatshop churning out cheap, steady ghost-written workpiles. Not gonna google it and get depressed, but I'd bet my ring finger that he's deep into chatGTP, crypto and other scams presently. And, on that cheeerful note!
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# ? Jun 10, 2023 15:46 |
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Oprah making him eat poo poo on tv was cool though, it’s like the only time a tv personality acted like a journalist.
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# ? Jun 11, 2023 01:11 |
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# ? May 28, 2024 00:05 |
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an hour and forty minutes of Annibale talking about nukes. it’s Christmas in June
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# ? Jun 13, 2023 03:56 |