Podcasts, videos, books and tweets of the week 82
I’m watching Shogun.
Its quite good though I hate the blue color scheme.
Japanese armies were vibrantly colored, so were Japanese cities and many villages.
More like this technicolor from Shogun 1980 than the tiresome Nolan blue. War is rarely blue.
Of course this is black and white but I can feel the color here…
I don’t like the main actress for a variety of reasons, mainly because her only expression is something like bemused constipated pouting.
Fugiko’s actress is a lot more expressive and has a range of expressions apart from her stunning aethereal beauty.
Anyway this week we had a huge terrorist attack in Moscow.
I said on Bluesky I thought it was Putin, another staged attack on his own people, to justify crackdowns at home and genocide war abroad.
I admitted I was wrong after ISIS provided proof that the terrorists were their own.
I’m not going to tinfoil say that Putin had infiltrated ISIS. I will however say that I doubt the terrorists were caught at Bryansk, especially that they were on their way to Ukraine.
Here’s a good piece:
Podcast glee
On this edition of Parallax Views, Middle East scholar Prof. James Dorsey, the man behind The Turbulent World w/ James M. Dorsey blog and Substakc, returns for a Gaza War update. We discuss the clans in Gaza that may or may not end up collaborating with Israel against Hamas and their own unsavory nature, the bombing of Gaza and its infrastructure like hospitals, Israel's information war, Benjamin Netanyahu, Joe Biden's vision for the Middle East and the political obstacles he faces, the 1948 war and what came after it, the two-state vs. one-state solution, and much, much more.
Illegal Lego
Music from my bro Kwazar
Intervene now
Phil called for intervention before it was fashionable:
Putin's Anaconda Plan: One Year On
Putin’s Anaconda Plan: One Year On Image: Aljazeera News/Institute for the Study of War Just under a year ago (24 March 2022 to be precise), I wrote that Putin’s strategy had formed an ‘Anaconda Plan’. This was not an endorsement of the Russian way of war, but an objective assessment based upon known facts. I will reiterate once again: I do not support Ru…
Funny how French views have evolved - https://www.rfi.fr/en/france/20240322-france-military-chief-backs-macron-over-possibility-of-sending-troops-to-ukraine-war
Perun Piorun
I’m not reading anything worthwhile, just some so-so sci-fi, so I won’t recommend it.
Our book is still out
Phil has a new book coming out soon
Dustin, I started listening to what I thought was a recent podcast by you, and wanted to finish it. Now I can't find it. Started talking about how people are speaking more Ukrainian than Russian, Ukrainians with Polish accents. Maybe I happened on an old one? Hope you are doing okay.