Podcasts, videos, books and articles of the week 99

Out with the old and in with the new

In news - we will drop a new podcast this week!

Subjects might include Putin, Stauffenberg and other thrilling and not depressing subjects.

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A fine podcast episode on Ukraine I enjoyed.

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Podcast conversation on Ukraine, Moldova and Europe's security

Soldiers at the front

Maybe they lack weapons… whose fault is that. I know, we’ve talked about it.

An overview of Soviet and Russian core weaponry

The Russian Navy Sucks

TL:DR They build expensive ships, then don’t maintain them. Admirals steal everything and are drunk. Face-saving kills sailors.

Frank Dux sucks less than John Spencer, the man who ‘saved Ukraine’

Dux’s stolen valor is less offensive.

Mad Max in South America - War Rigs

Step one - have complete air supremacy

And it was tanks that won the war, not planes.

American intelligence incompetence

The reticent Director of the CIA

I’m still reading

American incompetence, hubris and arrogance (see John Spencer)

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Pakistani duplicity and rabid intelligence service insanity trying to cook a steak of a friendly Afghanistan by throwing a million ingredients into a pot and ending up with domestic insurgency

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Karzai and pals corruption, incompetence, and rentiering

Our book is still out

Phil has a new book coming out soon

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