One of the "great" wars we were lied into, along with WWI, Vietnam, and Iraq War Two: Electric Boogaloo, among others.

Joe, if you move to Armenia, you might have to deal with Soviet power plugs and running on 220 power. That said, the mountains are fantastic.

The Spaniards were the most vicious empire until Belgium ran the Congo Free State. We took over the "most vicious empire" title thanks to Vietnam-Laos-Cambodia, that and the last twenty years of US history.

That's why US-South Vietnamese concentration camps were called "Agrovilles" or "strategic hamlets." It all fell apart by 1964, paving the way for the Phoenix Program, America's Gestapo in South Vietnam.

Sources:
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/world-war-ii/ivan-pavlovich-soviet-soldier.html?chrome=1
https://www.rbth.com/history/326983-5-soviet-superheroes-in-ww-2
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/russian-rambo-of-wwii.html?chrome=1

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Episode 171 - The Soviet Axe Berserkers of World War II

The Ottoman Empire trips over its own dick into WWI, orders an army to attack up a mountain in the middle of winter without shoes, and commits a genocide. 

sources: 
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/60960/wwi-centennial-turkish-debacle-sarikamish
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew39InPunOY
https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pathways/firstworldwar/spotlights/armenian.htm
https://www.armenian-genocide.org/1915-1.html
https://fx.substack.com/p/today-in-caucasian-history-the-battle-4ab

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Episode 172 - The Battle of Sarikamish

Part 1 of 3 as we explore the birth of American Empire.

Sources for all 3 episodes: 
Empire by Default: The Spanish-American War and the Dawn of the American Century
The War Lovers: Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst, and the Rush to Empire, 1898 
https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/1998/spring/roosevelt-and-medal-of-honor-3.html
https://www.houstonpress.com/arts/how-buffalo-soldiers-helped-win-the-spanish-american-warand-saved-teddy-roosevelt-7716090

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Episode 174 - The Spanish American War Part 1: Maybe Don't Remember the Maine

Typhus! Yellow Fever! Malaria! And more!

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Episode 175 - The Spanish American War Part 2: The One With All of the Diseases

Baron Roman Von Ungern-Sternberg is one of the most insane men to ever live. 

*clarification: Estonians aren't slavic people. However, Russian and Baltic German nobility saw them as slavs due to their peasant status. No, this makes no sense.

Sources for all related shows:

The Bloody White Baron by James Palmer 

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/02/ungern-sternberg-buddhist-isis/459327/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNUq7IUU300

Willard Sunderland (2014) The Baron’s Cloak, A History of the Russian Empire in War and Revolution


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Episode 177 - The Bloody White Baron Part 1: Wolf Rehab

Roman invades Mongolia, becomes a legally reincarnated god, murders thousands.

Sources:

The Bloody White Baron by James Palmer 
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/02/ungern-sternberg-buddhist-isis/459327/

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Episode 178 - The Bloody White Baron Part 2: The God of Opium and Mass Murder

Joe is joined by Robert Evans, the host of Behind the Bastards to talk about that time the US sparked a race war within its own army during WWII. 

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Sources:
https://www.blackpast.org/global-african-history/events-global-african-history/the-riot-of-bamber-bridge-1943/
https://www.stripes.com/history/2021-06-24/bamber-bridge-race-riot-blacks-wwii-1792183.html
https://theconversation.com/black-troops-were-welcome-in-britain-but-jim-crow-wasnt-the-race-riot-of-one-night-in-june-1943-98120
https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/85/a3677385.shtml

Episode 179 - The Battle of Bamber Bridge

Bulgaria (possibly) starts a war with Greece over a dog that strays over the border (maybe) and a bad dictator seizes on it as an opportunity to shore up a crumbling government. 

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sources:
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/wars-fought-stupid-reasons-stray-dog-caused-war-greece-bulgaria-1925.html
https://militaryhistorynow.com/2012/09/07/roll-over-and-play-dead-the-ridiculous-war-of-the-stray-dog/
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/desires-of-a-modern-indian/war-of-the-stray-dog-a-war-sparked-by-ridiculous-reasons/?source=app&frmapp=yes
http://www.thathistorynerd.com/2017/03/war-of-stray-dog.html

Episode 182 - The War of the Stray Dog

The most British man ever went into battle against tanks armed with an umbrella and wearing a bowler hat. 

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sources:
https://www.history.co.uk/article/ww2-heroes-the-story-of-major-digby-tatham-warter
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/digby-tatham-warter-disabled-a-german-tank-with-an-umbrella.html
https://www.saxonlodge.net/getperson.php?personID=I0973&tree=Tatham#cite1

Episode 183 - Digby Tatham-Warter

Mussolini attempts to recreate the Roman Empire, killing thousands of his own soldiers in the mountains. 

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Sources:
https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/2017/07/20/the-greco-italian-war-one-of-benito-mussolinis-biggest-failures/
https://www.historynet.com/greek-tragedy-invading-greece-wwii.htm
Cervi, Mario (1971). The Hollow Legions. Mussolini's Blunder in Greece, 1940–1941

Episode 185 - The Greco-Italian War Part 1: Tooth and Nail

Germany gets involved and throws its entire airborne corps into a woodchipper. 

*correction, England has won a World Cup.  In 1966.

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Episode 186 - The Greco-Italian War Part 2: The Battle of Crete

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