Podcasts, videos, books and articles of the week 97

I just uploaded the PDF of Phil on WW2tv for our VIP subscribers.

I really wish Bluesky was integrated into Substack.

We can't even embed code

Snipers!

When we were in the country that cannot be named for YouTube algorithm purposes we interviewed a highly talented and successful marksman by the name of REDACTED. He even came with his own pixelated face.

No sheepdog, wolf and sheep bullshit.

Saff Efrikan tanks

A Soviet laptop

Today, we present one of the rarest pieces of vintage computer hardware you can find in 2023: the Electronika MS1504, also known as PC300 — the first and only laptop computer made in the USSR. They produced so few of them that perhaps only around one hundred have survived to the present day. Join us for a comprehensive exploration of its design, hardware, software, and, of course, the history of its creation... ... and its eventual lack of success.

Not a Russian Me 262

The Soviet Union made a slow start in the jet age. They did, however, capture several examples of Nazi German jet fighters. This video investigates why they didn't simply copy and then develop the ME-262 and provides an overview of the twin-pod fighters that were developed as competition to the MiG-9.

A Polish furry tank

One a lighter note, those funny Russkis replying to a privateer

PS Buzzers are strange radio stations that occupy frequencies for unknown purposes. Espionage? Deadhead nuke signals? Fascinating subject. There’s a war in the ether between Ukrainians and Russians with unlicensed activists exchanging insults and propaganda as well as going after stations.

American journalists are deeply at fault over their reporting

A Journalistic Failure During the Presidential Debate

Fearless reporting, a behind-the-curtains look at how journalism is made — and an unabashed point of view. Welcome to Chills. The presidential debate, despite Biden's unfortunate, uninflected, mealy-mouthed tired-soundin…

Chills, by Lauren Wolfe

Greg O Lear isn’t at fault

Debate This!

After three weeks of hiatus, during which all hell broke loose, the PREVAIL podcast returns today, with the great “Bad” Brad Berkwitt, who is bad in name only:

PREVAIL by Greg Olear

The roots are Mitzwah war, which I wrote about in an early book draft

Tracing the roots of Israel’s Gaza war strategy

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The Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey

The French voted away the Nazis for now

A Divine Surprise

“When the republic is threatened, the word 'republican' changes its meaning. It takes on its old historic and heroic significance.” —Léon Blum, 1934 The choice of title for today’s newsletter is both slightly blasphemous and a little perverse: “divine surprise” was how Charles Maurras, anti-Dreyfusard arch-reacti…

Unpopular Front

Another view

Britain's back - but France in turmoil

History of the Present (week ending 7 July 2024) Britain’s back engaging with Europe, but now it's France that’s in turmoil It was a good week for Europe. It was a bad week for Europe. Good because Britain now has a strong, stable centrist government keen to reset relations with the EU, and

History of the Present

On a lighter note

Wish this was out in cinemas

I’m reading

Our book is still out

Phil has a new book coming out soon

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