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Radio War Nerd EP #634 — Ansarallah's Yemen Offensive + Soviet-Finnish Wars, Pt. 3: The Finland-Nazi Invasion & Siege of Leningrad, feat. Annibale (Patreon)

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2026-09-11 18:41:28
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Guest: AnnibaleRecorded: September 10, 2026

Annibale joins to discuss Ansarallah's stunning sweep of Saudi-backed forces and seizure of the Bab al-Mandab Strait and the unraveling of the US empire + part 3 of our Soviet-Finnish Wars series, taking us into the first months of Finland's key role in Nazi Germany's Operation Barbarossa and one of the worst war crimes of WWII: the Siege of Leningrad.

First - Ames and Annibale discuss events of the past hours and days: the Houthi-led Ansarallah offensive in southwest Yemen, spiking debt rates (ie, falling bond prices), America's increasingly dangerous decline & more...At 1:00:50 - Music interlude by Brendon Anderegg. Check out music from his group Mountains hereAt 1:02:24 - Part 3 of Annibale's Soviet-Finnish Wars series

*Map of Ansarallah's offensive

*Perim Island, Bab al-Mandab Strait

Finnish-Nazi invasion of Soviet Union, 1941

*Eve of Finnish-Nazi invasion of USSR, summer 1941

*Karelian Isthmus offensive, 1941, enforcing siege of Leningrad (map from Finland's War of Choice: The Troubled German-Finnish Alliance in World War II by Henrik O. Lunde)

*Finnish advance into East Karelia, tightening siege on Leningrad and creating Greater Finland

Further listening*RWN 630 - Soviet Finnish Wars, Pt. 1: Introduction*RWN 632 - Soviet Finnish Wars, Pt. 2: The Winter War*Annibale's Operation Barbarossa Series

Total time: 1:45:07Direct link to this episode's mp3 here

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Subscribe to Radio War Nerd at patreon.com/radiowarnerd

Sound production by Telescope Audio

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Everett

I have never opened a notification so fast

Mungo Franczak

Finland “I ain’t axis but I ain’t exactly allies neither”

ploob

LFG!!

CR

It's a crime that Finland wasn't punished like Germany after the war and it's a tragedy that the Red Army didn't march into Finland and kill everything east of the Gulf of Bothnia.

Hugh Jazz

Official petition to have John go one calendar month without an injury or major surgery

ggmacd

Ansarallah truly chose an auspicious date for giving it to the Saudis

Matt McCartney

Shades of the rapid collapse of the Syrian Arab Army to the Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham. Never underestimate the Fremen.

Jack Ross

Sparking up a massive Bob-Marley joint for this one fellas

Aaron Meland

I am going insane! Why do I see Charlie Kirk on the cover art? 🤣

Jimothy Realname

Upside, inside out The Houthis have taken Mocha

Garibaldi

With regards to the map; is Sana'a not the capital of the Ansarallah government? The map makes it seem as though it is outside of their control.

Ben

Most enticing episode title ever.

Blake

Intrigued by Annibale’s offhand comment that something could be popping off soon in North Africa

CR

I should say "Punished" because the Nazis just became Nafoids.

Lojban Chauvinist

Djibouti and its US + international military contingent are just a few miles away from Houthi territory. I'd never realized that

William

Us bond yields are going up primarily because they’re getting crowded out by the big tech companies’ bond offerings. The size of the debt never really matters to these people; if Google is going to offer you 2-3% premium, yeah, you take it

William

What do you mean *petition*? You’d need to do a go fund me for a team of operators and corpsmen to watch him for the month

Hugh Jazz

You’re describing a sort of War Nerd Praetorian Guard, and in that case where do I sign up

Tom Warner

"never fuck with Ansarallah" has got to be up there with "never get involved in a land war in Asia" among the Classic Blunders...... and yet people keep fucking with Ansarallah!!

CR

It is God's will and sense of humor that Saudi Arabia is getting its ass kicked today

CR

Almost as if that's why all those forces are in the Horn of Africa

Ian H

NATO, or Nazis After the Trials were Over

Ian H

"Chent-com!"

mark

Why not bring issa blumi back?. He was great in the old episode on Yemen.

a clash of purple

Insane... I still remember early RWN episodes with guests talking about the humanitarian crisis and untold suffering in Yemen caused by the Saudi blockade, which they carried out because they couldn't face Ansarallah on the battlefield. Years ago now, Dolan said that the Saudi's effort to take over Yemen was one of the great military disasters of history. And somehow, the war has only gone *downhill* for the Saudis since then. There are no words for this farce.

FB

Any evidence Mannerheim et al were handed financial rewards by the Nazis?

Mathew Muntz

The mystery procedure was turning him into an immortal sand worm god emperor, or at least a futurama head in a jar

Mathew Muntz

The mystery procedure was turning him into an immortal sand worm god emperor, or at least a futurama head in a jar

Annibale

Not that I'm aware of, but he may well have, considering that Hitler was quite keen on handsomely bribing his allies/cohorts (and his generals).

Animals in Motion

Hello Mark and John, you know what I think would be great? An episode on the great interesting Austrian writer Karl Kraus, especially his work The Last Days of Mankind.

a clash of purple

"East of the Gulf of Bothnia?" You're really going to let Sweden off the hook?

Schaeffer Mallory

Ironic that the "Vietnam syndrome" was actually the most effective US imperial policy

Martin

There are cathedrals everywhere for those with eyes to see…

Martin

I’m sorry but the Yuan hit the 67 on the dollar????? Lmfao

Martin

The resistance report on EI next week is going to be 🔥🔥🔥

Moe Ski

I have to chime in a out the canadian politics. The liberals spent ten years ruining this country. Trump is trying to kick down the door and hoping the foundation will buckle.

Alan Fulcher

Saudi dismantling of STC was a blunder. People won’t fight to reconquer the north for the Saudis

Riley Bloomer-Ludwig

What a great episode. Can’t wait for the next one. Bless you guys.

Blake

Go back in history and extend that to North Yemen writ large. It’s like an island of Afghanistan in Arabia

ploob

You've been infected with woke mind virus!

Tom Warner

great powers be like "not us though, we're built different"

etienne

I grew up during Bush and came of age during Obama and I used to genuinely think that most people were for peace but now I understand that the vast majority of people are constantly foaming at the mouth in a desperate death drive for the sweet release of war. Only a crushing defeat on the battlefield can temporarily embarass them into thinking they're for peace

Doug Cartel

Gary Brecher is well on his way to bring a cyborg at this point

Doug Cartel

CENTCOM is America's Baghdad Bob

Jacob Kreier

I think something that Amerikanets did not make clear enough was that you do not *need* satellite ISR to be able to launch a ballistic missile at a carrier, all you *need* is up to date intel on where the carrier is. And that can be done by a drone, a boat, a submarine or any other platform as long as it is able to get close enough without being detected and destroyed. Or it can be done by someone on the carrier wittingly or unwittingly transmitting their location.

MirrorOooMirror

Minus the extreme minority of literal psychopaths, NOBODY who has experienced war, both directly or indirectly, wishes for war. Don’t let those who live comfy lives in the belly of the beast, watching Netflix and stuffing their faces with bacon cheeseburgers and zyn fool you. They do not know what it is they wish for, and if they got it. they would crumble faster than a Saudi ghost army.

Joe McNiff

Don’t siege Leningrad. Take it immediately.

ancrapistan

New look at the proposed design of the Trump Victory Arch

Manic Exposure

For those interested there’s an interesting article by kimmo rentola “finnish communists and the winter war” which paints interesting picture of situation for the finnish left during that time, interesting anecdotes etc.

Ander Pierce

The competition from tech companies plays a role, but anyone who can do arithmetic can see that the US needs to increase the M2 money supply (print) to pay the interest on the (growing) debt. Whether you're an adherent to MMT or more orthodox monetary theory, unproductive money printing creates inflation, which eats at the real return of bond yields. With the US running so much short term debt it has to refinance a LOT each year (I heard $30 trillion this year, though that was just a sound bite so take with salt), and foreign central banks are not net buyers. In short you have a lot of supply, little demand, and high inflation, which all drive yields up. Meanwhile, high yields are poison to US fiscal because the debt is uncomfortably large compared to tax receipts.

Andrew Rego

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