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Guest: Peter Korotaev, Events In UkraineRecorded: July 14, 2026

With the War Nerd beginning his long odyssey, friend of the show Peter Korotaev joins Ames to talk about the latest gruesome murder, torture and press-gang scandals rocking Ukraine, the deadly rivalry between Ukraine's intelligence agencies, and about the murky battlefield realities in 2026 amid the "Ukraine turning the tide" campaign.

First - Ames update on John's journey, Rochester, and the Iran War At 28:16 - Music interlude by Brendon Anderegg. Check out music from his group Mountains hereAt 30:30 - Peter Korotaev joins Ames to discuss Ukraine and the Ukraine war

Subscribe to Peter's substack Events In Ukraine. Follow EiU on Twitter.

Total time: 2:10:29 Direct link to this episode's mp3 here

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Fivey

"With the War Nerd beginning his long odyssey." I choose to misinterpret this as a secret literary message.

Anderson Cooper's 360 inch shlong

Hope it's not Gout Brendan!! I'm relatively young, started getting gout around 26 while working at a liquor store (and drinking 12 to 18 beers with a fifth of rye every day). I don't drink anymore but still get gout flairs every few years. Terrible swelling, and yeah it feels like your toe/ankle/any joint is broken and full of gravel. Had a flair that lasted a month. If your Doctor thinks your are too young, get him to test your uric acid levels anyway if he hasn't

NYCM&AHole

Long Good Friday vibes about starting a war in Monaco.

Jack Ross

Yet another 6 7 from my favorite boomer Mark Ames, thank you everyone

Hugh Jazz

Am I the only idiot who still has no idea what took place re: Nord stream

D.M.,ME

If only Kubrick was still around, we could get Paths of Glory 2 : Ukraine (banned in Brussels)

ggmacd

I became a paid subscriber so I would never miss a Mark Ames 6 7 drop

ggmacd

the dream of the 90's is alive in Ukraine

CR

Mark’s pronunciation of Monaco is quite something.

CR

Around 1:27:00, the conversation about how lame the criminals’ tastes are, it’s a valuable reminder than criminals are fucking losers. Even the ones idiots come to idolize (real or fictional) are loser pieces of shit. It’s the one thing street criminals and criminals in suits have in common.

JoR

The hit of the Ukrainian agent sounds identical to how they killed Adriana in the sopranos haha

Kendall

Penultimate syllable stressed? Polska gurom!!! 🇵🇱🥟💡

Mark Ames

I'm a Boomer now? Did they move the dates? Them's fightin words.

Mark Ames

I only do it because my kids memed it into my brain last year, and while they let me know this year that it's cringe and no one does it, I take that as my dad-duty to start 6-7ing whenever I can.

Mark Ames

One of the few words I pronounce in Russian. I only realized it midway through recording because Peter was pronouncing it properly-English. Figured I'd stick with it.

ggmacd

Everyone over 40 is a boomer and everyone under 40 is a millennial and so it shall be forever and anon. It's the end of history, we live in the glorious eternal present of the 1990s, unmoored from secular time.

CR

Turns out being antisocial scum in that shortsighted, unthinking, genuinely psychopathic way also renders them incapable of understanding and empathy in the enjoyment of culture, art, or object permanence.

Kyle Erickson

Sil and Bobby arguing about who has to plug 4 bullets into her

Jack Ross

65’? You’re in there by a NOSEHAIR Ames!

John

Awful

Randy Long

I hope you and your family are doing well. I heard the air quality in Rochester is god awful.. stay safe everyone

Martin

Maybe someone else can correct me but originally western press said Russia did it but it ended up being Ukrainians with the knowledge of western intelligence? I think Sy Hersh broke the story

Hugh Jazz

Thank you for putting it in plain words for me lol all id seen was conflicting claims and then it was just sort of off my radar

Martin

Yeah for someone like myself who is only a casual follower of Ukraine Russia and is not on telegram or twitter the litany of names and units and networks of influence get very confusing as well

DominusCaveaVulpes

At 1:60:30 ". . . people called buyers . . ." "Sharpe and Harper then enlist in the South Essex Regiment under assumed names in order to find the 2nd Battalion. They and other recruits are taken to a secret, brutal training camp in Foulness Island, run by the 2nd Battalion's commanding officer, Lieutenant-Colonel Bartholomew Girdwood. Sharpe learns that Fenner, Sir Henry Simmerson (the regiment's disgraced founder and Sharpe's old enemy from Sharpe's Eagle) and Girdwood are secretly selling trained recruits to other regiments and profiting enormously." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharpe%27s_Regiment

Kyle Erickson

Even if the Ukrainians had the components to build Patriot missiles on their own, why wouldn’t Russia just bomb the plant? The real big brain move would be to give the license to some other European country that Russia would be more reticent to attack.

Kyle Erickson

Sy Hersh said that it was the US that blew up the pipeline with Norwegian help. I think the jury is still out on who actually planted the device, but I think whoever did it had the backing of US intelligence.

Martin

Thanks for correcting me

Shane

In American Psycho, Patrick Bateman constantly mentions this giant David Onica painting he has hanging in his living room. He’s really proud of the fact that it’s an “original David Onica”. He mentions it constantly, and like halfway through the book is notified that it has been upside-down the entire time.

MoldyTolge

As a former Rochester resident the intro did not surprise me, abject horror is a regional speciality next to the garbage plate

MoldyTolge

Mark learning more and more about Rochester over the last few years has a bit of a Gothic horror feeling

William

We thank Brendan for maintaining the status of this podcast, as one that regularly suffers casualties

William

it blew up

William

Amazing that the war nerd might be reporting under fire. Stay safe and keep your head down, John

xnfec

Is this the guy behind AMO -the company behind the Tai Chi Walking scam on youTube?

CR

Everything's a fucking remake in late capitalism

etienne

good episode but also world historical pronounciation of Monah-co

Breakaway

Roberto Saviano wrote about acquiring a cammora hitman’s ipod, and discovered it was full of Neapolitan love ballads instead of metal or gangster rap or whatever else he might have expected