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Radio War Nerd EP #584 - World of Wars: US/UK Grotesque, Looming Iran War (Patreon)

Published:
2026-02-27 21:33:25
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2026-02-27 21:33:41
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Recorded: February 25, 2026

Grapes, SOTU, crumbling Democrats, collapsing Labour, Huckaburger, Iran War...

*Maps-Strait of Hormuz

-Neocon FDD map to collapse Iran's economy

Total time: 1:22:56Direct link to this episode's mp3 here

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Sound production by Telescope Audio

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NYCM&AHole

I barely drink wine. I drink scotch or rye.

NYCM&AHole

Smart naming of the episode

blazed uncle

This might end up being War Nerd’s quickest “there might be a war” episode to emergency “there is now a war” episode turnover

Sean Enright

I think you guys would enjoy Tim Heidecker‘s interview with Graham Platner. He’s pretty good at explaining this past in general, he talks like a genuine lefty

hispeedboats

In Puglia, the grape Americans call Zinfandel is known as Primitivo. It originally comes from the Dalmatian Coast of Croatia where it is known as Tribidrag. California grows it by the tons. Some of the oldest vines are in Lodi and Amador County CA dating back to the 19th century. It can be pretty heavy and tannic, but lighter versions as well.

Kamran Husain

maine is crazy i was constantly being lectured about the patriot act by guys who were about to join the marines

Kamran Husain

also didn’t the f22 miss one of the birthday balloons

JoR

One Iran counter measure not mentioned today, that you guys always use to mention: turning the Saudi oil fields and water desalination plants into glass. Since Iran and Saudi had their “peace deal”, do we think this is no longer on the table? If push comes to shove I feel like even some of irans old missiles could wipe out the Saudi economy overnight. Might be a smart follow up to closing the strait. Would our economy survive the Saudi’s collapsing (genuinely asking, I’m not sure how important their “oil” is)

David Andrews

Nice timing. I looks like you'll have to do an emergency follow up episode.

Matt

Welp, here we go...

Professor Jokes

52 minutes of talking about trump and still waiting to hear about iran

teh_drewski

*sigh* I look forward to the episode detailing exactly what the fuck is going on right now.

William

China’s imports and exports do not rely on this conflict “not getting too bad”. Iran has its own hypersonic missiles, why would they need Chinese ones You seem to cherry pick a few examples why the Iranian intel services are “bad”, along with very powerful statements like, “it seemed like” Idk what your question is?

William

Honestly, what has changed since the twelve day war

William

Yeah, why the fuck do I want to know about the only guy who is able to start the war

Ira Lewy

Platner is not anti-war. He very carefully says he’s anti- bad/pointless wars. But he’s for rearming for war with China

drizzly_november

Somewhere in Fresno, the original Gary Brecher is cracking open a Diet Coke and salivating at the thought of carriers sliding to the floor of the Persian Gulf right now.

William

I don’t think there’s any way the war goes on for long- the US has no stomach for casualties, be it planes, or ships. Iran has shown the ability to attrit missile defenses and cause damage without even resorting to their best weapons; it sounds like they just want Iran to capitulate so where’s the resolve for a long campaign?

William

Dawg, who isn’t

GC

yyyyyyep good call

Jason Thompson

Uhh… on a brighter note, John, what old science fiction novels have you been enjoying? (I remember I liked Brian Aldiss’s “Graybeard”)

Jason Thompson

I wonder if Iran would be wise to focus their attacks on the UAE, the more shamelessly pro West & pro Israel of the two big Gulf powers

NYCM&AHole

Lol a day early! the war nerd curse lives!

GC

Khamenei apparently killed in the initial wave of strikes, RWN episode soon plz

GC

He's got a lot more data to enter today and his supervisor keeps saying threatening things about AI

JoR

I think the co hosts would agree but let’s say they did kill Khamenei. Seems like a good case scenario for Iran. He’s older, he’s a spiritual leader for a culture that promotes martyrdom in defense of the nation. He’s far from some irreplaceable guy. To me this just consolidates internal power for the regime. (“You oppose the Islamic republic? Okay, look, they just assassinated our leader!”).

JoR

Someone here called it that it was gonna be the shortest time between an episode previewing a war and the war occurring. Was probably less then a 12 hour gap lol

JoR

If the close the strait I, I feel like that’ll probably neuter UAE. Or maybe that’s Qatar. They definitely haven’t shyed from hitting all of these places so far

GC

Book of the New Sun, anyone? Genuinely weird. I have an uncertain memory of John mentioning it at some point but who knows if that actually happened

Jimothy Realname

At this rate, a "potential WW3" episode will come out, I'll download it, and while i'm walking my dog listening to it we'll get vapourized by a nuke

Aditya V

Very timely . And you predicted it right that Trump would attack Iran. Wapo mentioned today that MBS had urged Trump in multiple phone conversations to attack Iran. His brother did the same in January. MBS lobbied with Biden to let Israel kill Nasrallah.

Kevin Hickey

What was the book on Iran that shortchanged Manicheans?

Mathew Muntz

Croatian nationalists take credit for the entire California wine industry because (allegedly) Zinfandel was brought to Napa valley by one Miljenko “Mike” Grgić in the 50s. Would you be surprised to know that his company still puts the Ustashe coat of arms on every bottle?

Mark Ames

Axworthy's book History of Iran

Mark Ames

we've said numerous times Iran is well penetrated and its counter-intel has not been effective to say the least, but the past few days' targeting have shown that IRI intelligence is far more robust than (I at least) expected