America: Secret Wars

023: Thoughts on the 2026 Iran War

America: Secret Wars Season 2 kicks off with Trevor, Roberto, and Ben discussing current events in the 2026 Iran-Israel-US War. We talked a lot about the foreseeable consequences of the conflict, it's place in history, and a relatively long tangent about Muppets to break up the darkness. The History of Saqartvelo Georgia https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/historysaqartvelogeorgia [https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/historysaqartvelogeorgia] Tsar Power https://tsarpowerpod.weebly.com/ [https://tsarpowerpod.weebly.com/] Quest for Power https://quest-for-power.captivate.fm/ [https://quest-for-power.captivate.fm/] Wittenberg to Westphalia https://wittenbergtowestphaliapodcast.weebly.com/ [https://wittenbergtowestphaliapodcast.weebly.com/] Why Tho? A Personal Journey Through my Record Collection https://shows.acast.com/why-tho-podcast [https://shows.acast.com/why-tho-podcast] Step Back - the Iran war is SO much worse than you think - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ovd33yfxoPk [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ovd33yfxoPk] LiveUAMap - https://iran.liveuamap.com/ [https://iran.liveuamap.com/] Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street - https://bookshop.org/p/books/street-gang-the-complete-history-of-sesame-street-michael-davis/c168ea5e423e65c9?ean=9780143116639&next=t [https://bookshop.org/p/books/street-gang-the-complete-history-of-sesame-street-michael-davis/c168ea5e423e65c9?ean=9780143116639&next=t]

022: How Al-Qaeda Invaded Georgia

The years immediately after 9/11 were a weird time. Every adult in the world went a little insane. The US and Putin's Russia were intelligence allies. Al-Qaeda really was inside Georgia - just not that one by Roberto of altogether too many projects to discuss the Pankisi Gorge Crisis, and how US training and advisors helped combat both fundamentalist insurgents and anti-corruption protestors. Roberto is the host of The History of Saqartvelo Georgia (@History_Georgia) and co-host of Tsar Power (@TsarPowerPod) and Quest for Power. Visit https://hopfulmedia.com.co [https://hopfulmedia.com.co] to subscribe, donate, or buy podcast merch! The History of Saqartvelo Georgia https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/historysaqartvelogeorgia [https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/historysaqartvelogeorgia] Tsar Power https://tsarpowerpod.weebly.com/ [https://tsarpowerpod.weebly.com/] Quest for Power https://quest-for-power.captivate.fm/ [https://quest-for-power.captivate.fm/] Leupp - Georgia and the War on Terrorism [https://www.counterpunch.org/2002/05/29/georgia-and-the-war-on-terrorism/] Manning - Folklore and Terror in Georgia’s ‘Notorious’ Pankisi Gorge [https://www.academia.edu/61098923/Folklore_and_Terror_in_Georgia_s_Notorious_Pankisi_Gorge] The AP - Green Berets Land in Georgia For 2-Year Training Program [https://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/20/world/green-berets-land-in-georgia-for-2-year-training-program.html] Bush - Presidential Letter, September 19, 2003 [https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2003/09/20030919-1.html] Bush - Presidential Letter, March 20, 2004 [https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2004/03/20040322-3.html] Cecire - How extreme are the Extremists? Pankisi Gorge as a Case Study [https://www.fpri.org/article/2015/07/how-extreme-are-the-extremists-pankisi-gorge-as-a-case-study/] Civil.ge - Timeline-2005 [https://web.archive.org/web/20161021004718/http://civil.ge/eng/article.php?id=11447] Filkins - U.S. Entangled in Mystery of Georgia’s Islamic Fighters [https://web.archive.org/web/20230409135430/https://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/15/world/us-entangled-in-mystery-of-georgia-s-islamic-fighters.html] GlobalSecurity.org - Georgia Train and Equip Program (GTEP) [https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/gtep.htm] Grennan - Georgia's Pankisi Gorge and the Global War Against Terrorism [https://www.belfercenter.org/publication/georgias-pankisi-gorge-and-global-war-against-terrorism] McGregor - Ricin Fever: Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in the Pankisi Gorge [https://web.archive.org/web/20120714034810/http://www.jamestown.org/single/?no_cache=1&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=330] Menabde - Pankisi Gorge: A Resurgent Flashpoint in Georgia? [https://jamestown.org/program/pankisi-gorge-a-resurgent-flashpoint-in-georgia/] Myers - World Briefing\Europe: Georgia: Region Under Control [https://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/03/world/world-briefing-europe-georgia-region-under-control.html] Quinn-Judge - The Surprise In the Gorge [https://web.archive.org/web/20040826110122/http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101021028/wgeorgia.html] Traynor - Georgia: US opens new front in war on terror [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/mar/20/georgia.iantraynor] USDoS - Country Reports on Terrorism 2021: Georgia [https://www.state.gov/reports/country-reports-on-terrorism-2021/georgia] Welt - Shaking up the System: Georgia and the War on Terror [https://web.archive.org/web/20230202063914/https://home.gwu.edu/~cwelt/Welt-Georgia&WaronTerror.pdf]

021: The Pig War (Canadian Almost War 5)

America: Secret Wars is back with a five part series about the skirmishes between the US and Canada that almost led to a third war with the British Empire in the 1830s. In Part 5, Trevor is joined Bailey and Nic from Totalus Jeffianus (@jeffianus.bsky.social) to discuss the Pig War and the boundary disputes that gave us Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia. Visit https://hopfulmedia.com.co [https://hopfulmedia.com.co] to subscribe, donate, or buy podcast merch! Totalus Jeffianus – https://pod.link/1689272611 [https://pod.link/1689272611] Unfortunately, production on this series has been a nightmare and the full bibliography was lost in a technical error (not realizing my laptop had disconnected from wifi and stopped auto-saving). Here is an abbreviated version: Coleman - The Pig War: The Most Perfect War in History [https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Pig_War.html?id=kvgXAQAAMAAJ] Shewmaker - Daniel Webster and the Oregon Question Available to Purchase [https://doi.org/10.2307/3638529] Polk - Inaugural Address [https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/inaugural-address-30] Polk - First Annual Message to Congress [https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/first-annual-message-6] Vancouver - A chart shewing part of the coast of N.W. America [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vancouver1798map-SanJuan-Gulf.png] Wilkes - Map of the Oregon Territory [https://www.loc.gov/resource/g4240.ct000908/?r=-0.04%2C0.011%2C1.081%2C0.628%2C0] Oregon Treaty, 1846 [https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Oregon_Treaty] Treaty of Washington, 1871 [https://www.trans-lex.org/502000/_/treaty-between-the-united-states-and-great-britain-1871-/]

20: The Creole Case (Canadian Almost War 4)

America: Secret Wars is back with a five part series about the skirmishes between the US and Canada that almost led to a third war with the British Empire in the 1830s. In Part 4, Trevor is joined Bailey and Nic from Totalus Jeffianus (@jeffianus.bsky.social) to discuss the Creole Case, the struggle for emancipation in antebellum America, and how the slaver states wanted to use a war against British Canada to their own advantage. Visit https://hopfulmedia.com.co [https://hopfulmedia.com.co] to subscribe, donate, or buy podcast merch! Totalus Jeffianus – https://pod.link/1689272611 [https://pod.link/1689272611] Douglass - The Heroic Slave [https://web.archive.org/web/20100118183827/http://itech.fgcu.edu/faculty/wohlpart/alra/douglass.htm] Home - Negro Comrades of the Crown: African Americans and the British Empire Fight the U.S. Before Emancipation [https://books.google.com/books?id=XTLFKrmJPgcC&vq=] Jervey and Huber - The Creole Affair [https://doi.org/10.2307/2717095] Jones - The Influence of SLavery on the Webster-Ashburton Negotiations [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2955259] Momodu - The Creole Case [https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/creole-case-1841/] National Archives - The Amistad Case [https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/amistad] Rediker - The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom [https://archive.org/details/amistadrebellion00redi] Sorrell and Berry - This 1841 Rebellion at Sea Freed More Than 100 Enslaved People [https://www.history.com/news/creole-most-successful-slave-rebellion-1841] US DOS - The Amistad Case, 1839 [https://history.state.gov/milestones/1830-1860/amistad] Webster-Ashburton Treaty [https://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/br-1842.asp]

019: The Patriot War (Canadian Almost War 3)

America: Secret Wars is back with a five part series about the skirmishes between the US and Canada that almost led to a third war with the British Empire in the 1830s. In Part 3, Trevor is joined Bailey and Nic from Totalus Jeffianus (@jeffianus.bsky.social) to discuss the Patriot War, a failed Canadian Revolution where the US somehow managed to fight and lose on both sides. Visit https://hopfulmedia.com.co [https://hopfulmedia.com.co] to subscribe, donate, or buy podcast merch! Totalus Jeffianus – https://pod.link/1689272611 [https://pod.link/1689272611] Guillet - The lives and times of the patriots; an account of the Rebellion in Upper Canada [https://archive.org/details/livestimesofpatr0000unse/mode/2up] The Webster-Ashburton Treaty [https://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/br-1842.asp] Bonthius - The Patriot War of 1837-1838: Locofocoism with a Gun? [https://www.jstor.org/stable/25149383] Dictionary of Canadian Biography [https://www.biographi.ca/en/] Ducharme - Closing the Last Chapter of the Atlantic Revolution [https://www.americanantiquarian.org/proceedings/44539644.pdf] Forcese - Destroying the Caroline: The Frontier Raid that Reshaped the Right to War [https://books.google.com/books/about/Destroying_the_Caroline.html?id=7N6atAEACAAJ] Kilbourn - The Firebrand: William Lyon Mackenzie and the Rebellion in Upper Canada [https://books.google.com/books?id=McMvWY0aJLsC] Kinchen - The Rise and Fall of the Patriot Hunters [https://archive.org/details/risefallofpatrio0000kinc/mode/2up] Read - The Rising in Western Upper Canada 1837-8: The Duncombe Revolt and After [https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/j.ctvcj2tw7] Sewell: Mackenzie: A Political Biography [https://books.google.com/books?id=_Dln_PbvYtUC] Waxman - The Caroline Affair in the Evolving International Law of Self-Defense [https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/faculty_scholarship/2507/]