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Radio War Nerd #317 — The Year in Africa Coups (Patreon)

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2022-02-18 16:26:51
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Recorded: February 15, 2022

As the War Nerd packs his bags for the Great White North, he walks us through a year in Africa coups across the Sahel. This episode: Guinea Bissau, Burkino Faso, Mali, Niger, Chad, Sudan...

First: Ames and the Nerd discuss border crossings, Ukraine/Atlantic Council follies, Fleetwood Mac human sacrifices...

At 27:45 - the War Nerd discusses Africa's string of recent coups...

Related RWN episodes:

EP #278: Idriss Déby & ChaditudeEP #199: AlgeriaEP #178: Sudan RevolutionEP #172: Sahel InsurgenciesEP #68: GambiaEP #45: LibyaEP #42: South SudanCheck out the Radio War Nerd Merch store here!

Buy John Dolan's book "The War Nerd Iliad" & his audiobook "Pleasant Hell".Total time: 1:20:38

Direct link to this episode's mp3 here 

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NYCM&AHole

If you remember, that 9/11 guy got to Canada and then had the FBI vouch for him to get the Canadian police to let him go.

miltonic

Was that a 'fouls' vs 'fowls' wordplay? Very nice.

Willie Reavis

Born and raised in Bellingham Washington. Nice to hear a shout out from John.

Quincy Priest

Its pronounced ‘tronno’ the first O and second T are silent

Matthew

Hey Canadian here with a sister and friends in Toronto. Weather has been pretty wild there latley lots of snow and generally shitty weather but march is usually the beginning of the end of it. Toronto might surprise you with the level of homelessness which is very sad. But it is also one of the most diverse places in north America and there's no end to good food and culture. Definitely check out the royal ontario musuem which is pretty dope.

Matthew

Definitely post in the fb group if your looking for friends or things to do. Lots of cool people around there. I'm excited to here your impressions of the city lol. If your in Canada for the spring or summer lake huron/bruce peninsula is a great place to explore. That's were I'm from lol

etienne

just fill your whole mouth with Tim Hortons donuts and say "Tirana" like the albanian city

cstenzy

Another stellar ep guys! Safe travels John

Jason Weiser

Gary please start doing yoga.

Jason Weiser

We can’t lose you! This show is too valuable. :)

PapaSoftPenis411

Hey guys, I just recently subbed. Great ep. I binged all of your civil war episodes and I'm loving all your other episodes. Is the civil war series finished or can we look forward to some other episodes in the future? Either way I love the podcast!

Of course

About lying in a way that's "too obvious"... for a long time, the celebrity representatives of state power have lied in a way where they clearly have no interest in duping anyone. The lies now are so contrary to every knowable reality that the lies and the liars are actually destroying the capacity of words, numbers, and grammar to convey meaning. And when that happens, it's very difficult to organize against power. What they're also telling us is: they don't care if they convince us or not... we live in a Skinner box, responding to the basest stimuli. No language needed.

DumbDumDumbDumb

When you get back stateside you'll have a coterie of war nerd athletic trainers

Xander Udo

Alpha Blondie reference made me happy :)

THEKILLERWHALE

There are tons of good eps in the back catalogue. I am partial to Hannibale's guest episodes, especially the 100 Years War.

Connor Francis

I bet my coworker 20$ that Russia wouldn't invade the ukraine by 2 weeks from last Thursday so I stand to make a tidy profit from my listenership

Ander Pierce

Haha nice. I hope you specified that Russian troop presence in the independent republics doesn't count :P

Hugh

After hearing frequent RNW discussions on the "why won't they admit they got it wrong?" topic in recent episodes, I look forward to hearing the discussion of Putin's move today.

Ander Pierce

It's funny because the invasion still hasn't happened, but Russian troop presence in the separatist regions has been cast as 'an invasion' and therefore all of the journalists who have been shrill about an imminent invasion get to pat themselves on the back and claim victory.

xxx

Yes!! Another emergency episode may be in order.

etienne

Alice from Trashfuture had a tweet specifically about that type of denial lawyerism. We've been pre-owned. We're corncobbed. We need to update our priors and adjust now.

radiowarnerd

Thanks! There are definitely more Civil War episodes coming. We have not yet begun to meta-fight!

Edward P Slocomb

I'm sure Brecher and Ames are still right about this somehow, the next ep should explain how you can collect on your bet.

a clash of purple

Whether you call this an 'invasion' or not, are the breakaway regions really that important to Russia to be worth all this? Or is Putin trying to demonstrate to Ukraine that NATO won't help them if they're in trouble? Or what?

twice

lol pay up

twice

sup

twice

after all of Mark's spiking the ball on Russiagate, i can't wait for the apology here

David Andrews

Is Katherine working for the CIA? Why all the exotic travel during a pandemic no less? Or is she made up as a cover for the Nerd who is really James Jesus Angleton? Time to come clean! Seriously, another great episode. But you might want to apologize to the Atlantic Council: Vlad pulled the trigger.

Gabo Goff

So. Maybe little bit of mea (Nossa culpa)

Gabo Goff

It’s not that you were wrong i find so frustrating it’s that you were so confident

Ander Pierce

Lmao well now I get to admit that I was wrong, looks like Russia dialed it up to 11

xxx

The community needs RWN!

Hans Anders

I hope the next ep on Ukraine has a summary of the military manoeuvres. The news is so saturated with the politics that I don’t have a clue on what’s going on on the ground.

Ander Pierce

At least they're not the only ones who have a hat to eat! That's the danger in making concrete predictions, you can be irrefutably wrong :P

Connor Francis

I was betting on Russia wanting to maintain nordstream and turkstream but I guess it just proves what a mugs game trying to predict anything is

Joseph Konieczny

During your time in Toronto be sure to try some of our excellent Ethiopian food 😀