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Recorded: July 28, 2026

The War Nerd's odyssey continues from Colombo, Sri Lanka: omens of doom, wars merging, Lindsey Graham's demonic Gomer Pyle, and insights into the conscience of The Blob...

Further listening: RWN #211 — The JVP: Sri Lanka's Communist Insurgency

Total time: 56:12Direct link to this episode's mp3 here

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Joshua

The timeline on his death makes truly no sense. He was last pictured in a drone factory in Kiev less than 20 hours before he died. The same drone factory that was hit by a Russian missile.

Rahula Anoir

Was just scrounging around for a RWN episode to relisten to, great timing god bless

NYCM&AHole

Next we need Mitch unplugged

Sam

Mark's combination of embarassment and pride whenever he drops a Six-Seven always makes me smile.

William

“Can he D O that?” -every stupid as fuck, credulous rube, who thought Trump was on t h e i r side, as they watch him go back on every single promise

Sam

And Graham-maxxing dropped later, you're spitting with the kids now Mark!

William

It is a s t o n i s h i n g to see how repeatedly dipshit centrist “libs” like nick kristoff continuously step on rakes, walk into doors right as they swing closed, just run full speed at tunnels painted on walls. I feel like I’m watching the 900 be landed for the first time and shaking my head in disbelief at their accomplishments in self-owning

Joe McNiff

agreed about AMK Mapping glad you guys name dropped him he’s doing good work

William

From life support, or like an acoustic guitar thing

Kyle Erickson

Some sad shit. Mf said he didn’t wanna live no more

GC

But if someone's in the room playing "Mere Pseud Mag. Ed." on a cheap Epiphone while it happens that's also fine

William

“I was wrong, i screwed up” - these are barely acceptable things to say when you make a minor fuck up in a relationship. “Maybe the Libya war was a bad idea.” Did you come to that conclusion before, or after, the open air slave markets returned? There is no redemption for these freaks. They deserve to hear the screams and cries of the men, women, and children their “policies” maimed and murdered, every second of every minute, for the rest of their lives

Cole

6 🫴 7 🫴

T

6-7 mentioned

J P 3

Some great clips. The Lindsay Graham bit sounded like a confession in a criminal trial from an unrepentant serial killer. The Rhodes clip was also instructive. Although the real problem remains the incentive structure in the political system. One measure of our political health will be if there is some level of accountability for genuinely catastrophic policy choices. e.g. for a brief period of time there was a kind of litmus test for the Iraq War in 2006 and 2008, at least within the Democratic Party; Trump kind of capitalized on it in 2016. However, the fact that Hillary Clinton and Biden were eventually rehabilitated to such a degree that they were even allowed to be presidential nominees for the party speaks to something pretty rotten. Although things may be turning in connection with Israel policy and ongoing primaries.

That Guy

Please get Ben back on to explain why oil dropped below 90 after Abqaiq and Jazan got hit

Larry Dimes

Finger Lakes mentioned! I used to live in Ithaca and I'd sail tiny boats on Cayuga lake.

Lord-Admiral of the Pyrenees

Hey you still have to tell us what that illustrated copy of The Iliad you read to you kids was

Andrew

The Finger Lakes are beautiful but Rochester proper is definitely not in the same region. Might as well throw Buffalo in there at that point

Hilary is Pant-suited Syphilis

I have to feel Saudi’s sticking their hands in the beehive could be a substitute for recognizing Israel as part of the potential enrichment deal. Doesn’t make sense otherwise.

etienne

for a republican warmonger that's barely early adulthood, he had at least another century in him of being one of the top worst people on earth

Owen

Ordered your Iliad book to my folks house, my dad got to it first-and won’t give it up now till he finishes it.

Self-Replicate

I did not consent to hearing that interaction between Graham and Netanyahu

Benj

Damn straight

Ian J

What was the source of those clips of Graham again? A documentary I think Mark said?

DominusCaveaVulpes

Ah, Brendon! You're a mind-reader! I love you! As soon as I hear about all this screaming and a terrified John, I started wondering what I missed and wishing Mark would talk about it, and you up and egg him on! Thaaank yuuuu!

Schaeffer Mallory

Isn't it beautiful that Lindsay Graham got to see America utterly humiliated just before he croaked

Henry Ermer

Monitors are the smartest lizard

Jason Thompson

Re: the current war, I’m most curious what is up with Oman. In round one they seemed like Iran’s only gulf friend. Now they’re arguing. Did the USA get to them, or is Iran asking for too much, or is the apparent feud a big nothing, or…?

JoR

It’s really not that unbelievable for a 71 year old man to had a heart attack. If the factory was the cause wasn’t Zelenskyy with him for that visit? He’s alive and well. Plus why would we hide him dying this way if it happened? He’d be a martyr . Also he’s a deeply closeted man and a GOP senator from SC. That has to put immense stress on the arteries