Podcasts, videos, books and tweets of the week 91
Hearts of Iron
I’ve been playing Hearts of Iron IV this week.
In a war in the game, there’s usually a point where you or the enemy have lost even if you haven’t lost much territory and your territory isn’t invaded. You/enemy could actually be deep in hostile territory or succesfully defending borders. But your units are disorganised, stretched thin, you have no reserves, you’ve got exhausted units holding down stretches of front and you’ve run out manpower which means no reinforcements or replacement units. You’ve, or the enemy have got lots of small arms which you can’t use because you don’t have men. Your, or the enemy’s tank and artillery units are depleted of vehicles. Your population is exhausted by war.
The only thing that can help you now is an expeditionary force from your supposed friends.
Will they send it?
Phil will have a choo update this week.
I saw Furiosa today, recommended.
More apocalypse weaponry
Nobody’s laughing at him now
About the supermarket attack (use subtitles)
Ukraine on the ropes
Major Andriy Pidlisnyi (see Part 2 of this bulletin, to follow), a battalion commander who’s been on active service since the first days of the full-scale war, tells me the mood among his troops is “not good”. And, he adds, “They think it’s time for others to go and fight.”
Antisemitism threatens Jews, occupation threatens Judaism.
Sunak doesn’t own an umbrella and has had enough
Our book is still out
Phil has a new book coming out soon
