Radio War Nerd EP #358 — Syria War Update, feat. Joshua Landis

Slipping into some “whatabouttism” here, apologies: hearing Landis describe the heating shortages in Syria at the moment had me wondering where the public proclamations are in the West to think of the freezing Syrian children (re:Ukraine). Russia’s invasion is fucked up, yet I also get the sense Putin did a huge service to wiping the record clean on the interventions of the past decade by the US+co (we are back to the good vs bad structuring of foreign policy it seems).

Idk if you guys do merch but “(assistant to) a CIA agent” would be some pretty funny merch

orc

One of my new contractors at work is former army current reservist who was stationed at that exact prison riot you guys mentioned early in the interview. Claimed somewhere in the ballpark of 1000 dead 1200 escaped. Extremely grim!

Joe McNiff

Great episode, super informative, always great to hear from Landis. If you guys are interested in covering little covered wars and humanitarian crises, I’d love to hear an episode about Indonesia’s war and occupation of West Papua. Lot of great people yoj coujs have on like Victoria Komang, George Monbiot, John Martinkus and others

jkjkjkj

Really interesting interviews, can’t help feel that the Kurds will get left behind by the us government again

Cameron Young

D'Annunzio is a wild character. The Empire Never Ended did a podcast about him and the Free State of Fiume, and he fits in with their roster of freaks and lunatics better than RWN's. Although to be fair, D'Annunzio was far more successful and charismatic than the usual TENE pod psychos.

a clash of purple

Excellent interview - if Assad won't fall for the U.S. then its sanctions are now punitive and murderous like Yemen and perhaps always were. One hopes more attention can be given to the plight of the Syrian people.

Peter

I have a feeling Annibale would have some unique insight on Fiume, as usual.

A Sentient Katamari of Bad Life Decisions

I think it is great that you are returning to coverage of the Syrian war. Are there any plans to cover the "end" of the Tigray war?

G W

There aren't any "20 minute anarchist rants" in any episode of TENE I'm aware of... They're pretty good at staying on topic. If you just don't like anarchists, say that instead of besmirching their podcaster professionalism.

a clash of purple

I enjoyed every part of Tene except the 20 minute anarchist rants, and they were too frequent and too annoying for me to keep paying then

Welfare state

I share your love for Trieste! Such a beautiful city, with a more than a little of that Austrian-Hungarian flair. I haven’t been there for many years and I really miss it

Davies B. Orck

The Empire Never Ended has a really good episode on Fiume and D'Annunzio

Winston Reid

like mother fucker are you a cop, a soldier, a software contractor, a lawyer, a corporate PI guy? pick like max two of those

etienne

the wikipedia page for Paul Whelan is totally psychedelic lol. every paragraph is significantly more sus than the one before

etienne

Really exicted for this. I'm a few episodes behind but I'm looking forward to this. Not to diminish any war, including Syria (which was brutal on all sides) but I think the peak of this show were the early shows in 2015-2016 focusing on Syria, so it's nice that you're still trying to cover it. I know you both were critical on yourselves about the Ukraine predictions recently, but you completely were right about Syria from day 1, so don't forget that.