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Remember King Abdullah Economic City? https://www.google.com.au/maps/plac...38!4d39.1335583
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Also throwing in a vote for Episode 106, which has the History of Byzantium guy talking about that very topic in a war nerd context. They tease a 7th century Islamic conquests episode which I really hope they do one day.
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snoremac posted:I’m more inclined to think Sanders will lose because Dolan is hoping for him. By the transitive property I now expect to see Bernie getting locked in bathrooms.
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Seconding Ep 147 with Isa Blumi, that guy is just non stop capital I Insight. I also enjoyed Ep 106 with Robin Pierson who runs History of Byzantium. They tease a history of the formation of Islam ep at the end which I wish they’d do.
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John probably needs to stop telling that A-10 traitor story.
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can see why no one will sell John drugs but Mark has fewer problems
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I’m only half way through but the new ep is a classic - great guest talks about the dynamism of the fifties non aligned movement as well as Indonesia. as an Australian I know slightly more about Indonesia than the layman they describe but even what I knew was pretty wrong. also features new John almost dying due to meekness story.
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The Indonesia/Sukarno one recently was amazing too.
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yeah the various conversations about the willingness of different cultures to accept different levels of casualties in war as acceptable for example is very interesting, but it’s turns into ‘the x are a warrior people’ in ways that feel like an RPG statbook.
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Debunk posted:along with poo poo like confederacy of dunces John talking in one show about not having to imagine what it would be like to be Ignatius was a good and illuminating moment.
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Not So Fast posted:I don't think it's a political shift so much as a perspective shift. During History of Rome and the early parts of Revolutions his approach is very hands-off and dry but around Haiti is where it hits home how awful these states were to the people enslaved under them and how revolution ends up happening as an inevitablity. You can hear how frustrated he is with how cruel and disconnected Louis XVI or the Romanovs are. Haiti is also where he notices that every time the US enters the narrative it’s to make things worse.
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Ben is such a good guest, his area of expertise is right in their blind spot.
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i say swears online posted:i think both these points can be correct. i could hear mark and john making scooby doo noises when he said estonia was right to join nato but in general i appreciated his perspective. i'm not sure how to square "russia is the #x exporter of y and without these commodities the world is hosed when russia retaliates with trade barriers" and "wow russia is about to make a killing by exporting commodities!!" though. he absolutely got a side-eye out of me two or three times I heard it as the commodities will go to China in non USD transactions. Agree he had some weird takes (he said 'the US started the war' a few too many times) but I like the finance reporter version of war nerd.
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:My one complaint about the new episode is how they keep bringing up the "rules based order" like it's a real thing, and not something that only applies to Europe. yeah there was a bit of what Mark would have called “Davos talk” in another context.
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yep I hope Iran takes them for trillions.
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I know it’s a week old now but I love that johns first instinct once the war kicked off was to think ‘oh wow I better read the white guard again to get a handle in things’
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take a shot every time the war nerd tells the A10 story or suggests a political assassination.
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Apr 21, 2022 09:36
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hell yeah 90 minutes of nothing but scene setting
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there’s a good episode guide they released on 20/9/22 if you scroll back in the Patreon feed
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Phone posted:what an absolute ball buster lmao yeah that was great, just keeping him on the phone was worth an award.
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listened again, hilarious to end with ‘the debt is paid’ from hersh.
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Ben aris is a neoliberal business journalist, I think his views are consistent with that outlook and one shouldn’t be surprised that he isn’t a socialist or something. the thing that’s good about him is he is a neoliberal business journalist without being a US patriot which is pretty unique.
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yeah I remember Chomsky saying something about financial media being the most reliable mainstream news because they have to have some connection to reality to make money.
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The plane carrying out the secret operation wasn't on FlightRadar 24/7 so Seymour Hersh is a liar.
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we may have a new winner for most intolerable interviewee
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maybe I was just not in the mood but it seemed like just 20 minutes of her complaining about people she didn’t like on twitter. does it get better later on?
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yeah might just be me, maybe it was just starting the interview with complaining about people before they get to the substance that annoyed me. mark complaining about twitter drama will get me to hit that 30 second skip button every time.
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lobster shirt posted:still less of a problematic fave than celine lol callback to anibale telling them about the fascist groups named after authors, one of whom was celine.
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Annibale explaining 40k to the guys at the start is on someone's bingo card.
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:https://twitter.com/markamesexiled/status/1683508014932807681?s=46&t=UyfxoSAUKW7QZlR_GhkuYA nice, I’ve been hoping they’d get Bret on for a while so hopefully this is a sign.
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someone needs to go to John’s house and fix his wifi, or maybe he just can’t grasp not going to a hotel.
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:I liked the part at the very end where Jon admits he was hoping Trita Parsi would say that there's a rational explanation for Biden's Israel policy, but no Biden is actually insane and everyone in DC can tell. “everything is exactly as stupid as it appears, except where it is more so”
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I remember him talking about the importance of ~strong institutions~ and a lot of what mark later described as ‘davos talk’. just the standard neolib nonsense.
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pangstrom posted:Yeah he led with it and he closed with it and it was rough. Like at least he seemed faithful to basic facts of the specific topic of his book but if he ever walked the lens back a bit it got real dicey. when I hear this sort of ‘actually my area of knowledge is the most important and understudied’ stuff from academic historians I assume it’s a hangover from writing grant applications, not a coherent world theory or something data driven.
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:really appreciate the special attention being drawn to the Kaiser and his dumbass failsons, as well as the dipshit idiot German officer corps yep this was great, “the problem was he was a loving idiot” is usually a reductive unhelpful view of history so it’s awesome when it’s true.
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