Podcasts, videos, books and tweets of the week 58

Changes

Some changes in Fallout - we are going forward with Fallout Talks replacing Adjutant’s Lounge during Ben’s busy period. We will see what happens with that in the future.

Phil will mostly host Fallout Talks with historians, analysts (who don’t suck) and authors. We might invite a Nazi on for a cordial and frank exchange of views.

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Remember we have two episodes of Fallout Talks to watch and listen to.

Book

On 24 February 2022, Vladimir Putin ordered a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. He declared a ‘special military operation’, expecting a quick victory. The Ukrainian army countered with a spirited defence that foiled his political aims. Putin’s special operation descended into a brutal slogging match of massacres. The horror of Bucha, rapes, looting, and the mass kidnap of children were discovered in the wake of Russian retreats. Reversals shattered Russia’s army, forcing Putin to unleash his bandit hordes―Chechen thugs and pardoned murderers of the Wagner Group. Russia’s artillery, the God of War, continued to hammer Ukrainian culture, cities, and civilians. Mariupol was devastated in the turmoil of mechanized genocide.

In the first year, western experts filled social media with analogies of irrelevant wars and false predictions of Ukraine’s progress. The authors of this volume challenged institutional orthodoxy and pushed back against this outpouring of social media. They identified a chilling narrative of existential warfare and the struggle for survival.

Putin’s War―Russian Genocide will provoke intense debate, for it uncovers the latitude of Putin’s violence. Readers will learn that Putin’s and Russia’s war comes from a powerful urge to destroy Ukraine. This is the greatest horror of the 21st Century.

Click the link under the cover picture to get the book on Amazon.

Sociopaths aren’t cuddly

Books

As the Middle East is falling into war again, a reminder of how fucked up oil, capitalism, Pakistani & British & American chancers (oh those American lawyers and politicians and bankers), the CIA and idiot sheikhs have made the region.

A friend of Fallout, J.G. Ballard, had a podcast touching on BCCI.

In the course of our conversation will discuss the covert intelligence network known as the Safari Club and the scandalous Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI), Afghan warlords, the mujahedeen and D.C. foreign policy heavyweight Zbigniew Brezinski, Rambo III, the metaphor of the ouroboros (snake eats its own tail) in Blowback Season 4, the influence of Hideo Kojima's acclaimed video game series Metal Gear Solid on Blowback season 4, Clinton/Bush-era Counterterrorism Czard Richard Clarke's curious comments about 9/11, Peter Dale Scott's The Road to 9/11, conspiracy theories and parapolitics, Steve Coll's Ghost Wars, sources used for Blowback season 4, the deep state, torture programs, al Qaeda, jihadism and intel agencies, Seymour Hersh, the double agent Ali Mohammad, and much, much more!

Budd of the week