Radio War Nerd EP #369 — Georgia Protests & NGO Colonialism, feat. Sopo Japaridze

ukrainian soldiers tell western press that russians are using human wave tactics, but for the size of the russian forces and wager, that's an insane notion. The soldiers talking to the Kyiv Independent say they mainly use small recon groups to spot artillery targets. That sounds more plausible and it's not in Russia's interests to spend soldiers like cheap fodder since the US wants that to happen anyways, so I think that's probably more accurate. if the story russian media is telling is accurate, one potential flash point that could change the course of the war is the SBU trying to shut down that Orthodox Church in Kyiv. It probably depends on how big the explosion of public anger is *if* this blows up in the govt's face. I'm probably just reading too much into it though.

Doug Cartel

this frigging war in ukraine would not have happened if literally anybody in the state department had bothered doing any diplomacy at all, but the very fact that they overthrew the ukrainian government in 2014 - that fact by itself is proof enough that they wanted this war because they hoped to turn it into Afghanistan 2 for them. Everyone in the state dept who helped make this happen should be thrown out of a C130 over the war zone, but if it were me flying the plane then they'd have to buy their own parachutes.

Doug Cartel

Is now really the time to focus on "russophobia"? Perhaps it has something to do with ruZZia's colonial policy and genocidal propaganda rhetoric on ALL their channels? Nah. Its all US/NATO. You guys.....

Ilya Fishman

for those who speak Spanish about the NGO industry, it is old but still funny, valid and to the point https://www.voltairenet.org/article152980.html

Good interview. I'm sure Mark and John remember how upset Soros was after his foundation democracy money couldn't buy him an interest in the telecom privatization.

Sorry guys. Too much time spent on a subject that isn't that interesting or current.

David Andrews

Sopo’s description of the NGO-ization of leftist activists who fall in line and embrace the trappings of the international NGO lifestyle is right on target…have unfortunately seen it so many times.

The Ghost of Rochester

Jimothy Realname

There's Ames being a ghost again...

a clash of purple

Wagner intentionally modeled themselves after Blackwater. Erik Prince bragged about it: https://sofmag.com/blackwater-founder-erik-prince-talks-about-wagner-group/

Brandon

I ran the start of the audio through an AI autotranscription program: Hello, and welcome to another episode of Radial Warner. Today. Today is March 10th, 2023, and this is episode 369. I'm the Ghost Mark Games coming to you in from Rochester, New York, where winter finally arrived in March, weirdly enough. And, uh, you're listening to Radio Warner. Subscribe to us at patreon.com/radio Warner. And I'm on the line, of course, with the Warner himself. Gary Butcher, a k a John Dolan.

She's great.

Hampus Bystrom

Roy is well worth reading. I understand she has found it difficult to publish under BJP governments.

Jacob Vardy

The quote from Arundhati Roy can be read here: https://kanaanonline.org/en/2018/02/07/the-ngo-ization-of-resistance-by-arundhati-roy/ Apparently it’s from Arundhati Roy, The End of Imagination (Haymarket Books, 2016)