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Central Asian history is really neat and you basically never learn about any of it unless you specifically study it so it's cool to get a deep dive into it with these uighur eps
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Yeah I'm really glad for these asian history eps. About to listen to the second Uighur one now.
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May 9, 2017 23:15
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May 9, 2017 23:27
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I know they're a bit rambling, but I'm really liking the interviews with Carl Zha. Can't wait for them to do one about the attempted Tang conquest of Korea.
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Nothus posted:I know they're a bit rambling, but I'm really liking the interviews with Carl Zha. Can't wait for them to do one about the attempted Tang conquest of Korea. I'm looking forward to that, because I enjoy giggling like an idiot. 
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May 10, 2017 09:58
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Carl Zha owns. I love this podcast.
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May 10, 2017 19:14
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Not ashamed to admit the only thing Zha spoke of that I've heard of is the Mandate of Heaven because it's the name of the recent Europa Universalis DLC. He's really great at capturing a scene and Ames and Dolan bounce off him well.
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May 11, 2017 05:10
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Mark needs to go on Chapo.
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May 16, 2017 18:23
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Lol I don't know if it was nerves or drugs but this week's episode wasn't very good.
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Carl Zha... goddamn.
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The last two episodes were really drat good. Episode 85 is an interview with William Hogeland about his new book on America's first Indian War in 1790, which was a conflict in which the Indian Confederation actually won a few battles and destroyed the first official American Army. There's even a 23 minute preview up. https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/patreon-posts/14872325247338523836.mp3 Episode 86 has two interviews. Flint Arthur is a member of Friends of Rojava and talks about being there when Erdogan sicced his goons on Kurdish protesters. Then they talk to Max Blumenthal about the Manchester bombing being blowback from Western policy of ME regime change, and how Western intelligence agencies seem to have a duplicitous interest in supporting territorial Islamic States in the ME where they're fighting enemies of the West and Israel, while fighting the "international ISIS" which is actually carrying out attacks in Western nations.
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I'm reading Hogeland's The Whiskey Rebellion and find it accessible and enjoyable, though because I'm economically illiterate I can't understand some of the financial stuff I assume is being put very simply.
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I finally caught up for the first time ever, and then right as I caught up a new pod came out today. 
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The new pod is also really good. Richard Kim talks about the little-known-in-the-West wars where the north Korean kingdom of Goguryeo destroyed one of the mightiest Chinese armies ever assembled. Then the rest is the usual depressing rear end Middle East news that will make you want to kill yourself.
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I've always wondered why the North Koreans refer to themselves and their language as "Choson" while the South Koreans talk about "Han". It's a nuance totally lost on most Westerners. What a cool episode. Edit. I'm looking forward to some background on the Qatar shitstorm, because Western news coverage has been poo poo at explaining what the gently caress is going on.
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Jun 7, 2017 03:23
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Well they're already blaming the scapegoating of Qatar on a fake news story in QNA planted by Russian hackers, so Mark is definitely going to talk about it.
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 FREE EPISODE Episode 85 with William Hogeland has been reposted free for non-patrons. If you'd like to know more about the litte known Northwest Indian War it's a must-listen. https://www.patreon.com/posts/rwn-ep-85-repost-11653095
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The guest on the latest war nerd kinda creeped me out. Elijah Magnier is a hardcore pro-regime guy and I really hope they don't end up going that route.
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Thug Lessons posted:The guest on the latest war nerd kinda creeped me out. Elijah Magnier is a hardcore pro-regime guy and I really hope they don't end up going that route. Do you have any good examples of why his analysis is untrustworthy or should be viewed with particular suspicion?
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Helsing posted:Do you have any good examples of why his analysis is untrustworthy or should be viewed with particular suspicion? I don't think he's necessarily untrustworthy. It's just that his opinions consistently come down as pro-regime and anti-everybody else.
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Thug Lessons posted:I don't think he's necessarily untrustworthy. It's just that his opinions consistently come down as pro-regime and anti-everybody else. Considering the circumstances beng pro-regime is understandable. He seemed pretty fair to YPG in the interview so  .It was a drat good episode.
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yeah he was fairly explicit about mentioning who wants regime change and why. if he is as pro regime change as you say he is, i didn't hear much about that in the episode.
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:Considering the circumstances beng pro-regime is understandable. He seemed pretty fair to YPG in the interview so ehh, i can understand his reasoning(most of the rebel groups now are just AQ/ISIS/turkesh puppets for various sects of wahabism and any other better groups are fighting isis or making new kurdistan) but i hate Assad with a loving passion and darkly hope him and his relatives get captured by ISIS somehow and i got tired of them talking about the lion of syria and how magical he is.
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Jun 18, 2017 18:13
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We're well aware of your weird lust for child murder.
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Jun 18, 2017 18:18
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Dapper_Swindler posted:but i hate Assad with a loving passion and darkly hope him and his relatives get captured by ISIS perhaps it is you with the bias good sir
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NewForumSoftware posted:perhaps it is you with the bias good sir he has murdered thousands of his own people and has loving mass graves and camps right next to his palace. gently caress him Pener Kropoopkin posted:We're well aware of your weird lust for child murder. they will grow up to be as bad as he is, if not worse.
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lmao
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Dapper_Swindler posted:he has murdered thousands of his own people http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2009/09/new-study-finds-45000-deaths-annually-linked-to-lack-of-health-coverage/ at least Syria has UHC
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:Considering the circumstances beng pro-regime is understandable. He seemed pretty fair to YPG in the interview so I don't really think so. He said they're basically going to be unable to govern and don't even have the support of most Kurds, let alone Arabs. He wasn't overtly hostile though.
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Phone posted:yeah he was fairly explicit about mentioning who wants regime change and why. if he is as pro regime change as you say he is, i didn't hear much about that in the episode. Pro-regime, as in supporting the regime, not pro-regime change.
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The media has done an amazing job of demonizing Assad as some sort of psychotic turbo-Hitler even though he's really just a run-of-the-mill dictator of the sort the US supports all over the place, and it's been so effective that I really don't see any hope of challenging it if they've already managed to brainwash someone.
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Thug Lessons posted:I don't really think so. He said they're basically going to be unable to govern and don't even have the support of most Kurds, let alone Arabs. He wasn't overtly hostile though. I think it's still an open question whether ethnic Arab areas would accept a Kurdish-lead (or at least Kurdish-backed) local government. Magnier is obviously more pessimistic than Western leftist opinions (including Dolan and Ames).
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https://twitter.com/TheWarNerd/status/876490520251465728 Next episode sounds really good can't wait
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Nothus posted:I think it's still an open question whether ethnic Arab areas would accept a Kurdish-lead (or at least Kurdish-backed) local government. Magnier is obviously more pessimistic than Western leftist opinions (including Dolan and Ames). Because Democratic Confederalism revolves around local rule it's a lot easier for the YPD to de-essentialize the Kurdish character of Rojava as a political entity. Although, a lot of people aren't going to see it that way.
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:Because Democratic Confederalism revolves around local rule it's a lot easier for the YPD to de-essentialize the Kurdish character of Rojava as a political entity. Although, a lot of people aren't going to see it that way. True. I think the Kurds have been extremely reasonable in re-branding as the SDF and trying to play up their inclusiveness of Arab groups. I hope it works, becuase it's basically the best bet for a non-lovely outcome for whatever state emerges out of the non-Alawite parts of Syria.
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War Nerd, with emphasis on the Nerd.
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I was hoping they'd dive into Africa, especially with the number of missions the US seems to be running covertly on the continent. I'm way behind on the show, but the Carl Zha stuff has be-- lol Because I'm a history dork I did enjoy the fact that Zha spent time on Chinese historiography, I'm always interested in how China's come to terms with its past through the Cultural Revolution to present day. Dreylad has issued a correction as of 16:45 on Jun 22, 2017 |
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