The Reading Junkie

Hello everyone, new podcast on Blowback. This time I give my perspective on the Iranian retaliation against Israel, updates on the Russell Bentley disappearance in Donetsk, and direction of the Ukraine conflict in general.

Last month, retired Lt. Col. Alex Vershinin published an article about lessons learned from Ukraine, mainly, that the era of dramatic territorial gains through “maneuver warfare” might be over, using the same arguments and citing the same historical examples I made in early 2022. What’s particularly interesting about Vershinin saying this is that I cited … Read more

Two Minutes of Hate. When I first read George Orwell’s 1984 as a kid, I was confused by the scene in the movie theater, where the masses are watching video clips of military helicopters destroying boats full of unarmed refugees, and then projecting their hatred onto the regime’s worst enemy, Goldstein. Why show the army mowing down … Read more

Alex Garland’s Civil War takes place in a dystopian world where telescopic camera lenses have been outlawed and journalists have to take photos of war five inches away from the soldiers. Basically, the movie is a 100 minute answer to the nail-biting theme “What if there was a war in a civilized white country?” But … Read more

Some people were just arrested at the Pushkin Institute in Moscow. If the allegation is true, when a migrant failed the exam, it was possible to just bribe the employees to give him a fake certificate. I don’t know if this sting is directly related to the Crocus City Hall shooting, or if authorities are … Read more