The Hello and welcome to another episode of the lines led by Donkeys podcast I'm Joe and with me today as always is beautiful is Nick the beautiful Joe thank you

We're in part five the ending of the winter war finally

We'd made it it's been five weeks and I have learned how to pronounce at least five finished words incredibly badly.

How did your sober January go? It's not going well.

I've actually have a I've discovered a superpower and that is I cannot drink for a month and I did not lose a single pound

Which is like most people was like,

oh yeah, I quit drinking, I did a sober month

and I lost 20 pounds.

Like, how?

Whatever.

So when we left you last week, General Haglund was about to launch his

legendary Mahdi attacks, a term that would become so well known. It has forced most of the military historian community to learn at least one finish word.

So thanks a lot, asshole.

I'm still probably pronouncing it, right?

Wrong, whichever. Cool. Now the Mahdi is nothing new.

It's kind of like the German Blitz Creek and that it's something of a propaganda term that became

so popular that has long since swallowed the historical discourse. The Mahdi is simply a unique evolution of a classic encirclement technique.

Because as long as humans have been killing each other over stupid shit,

they have learned that if you surround their enemy, they

kill him a whole lot better.

That's it.

That's the trick.

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