I enjoyed the show for a bit and I was generally tolerant about the host's dislike of the USSR because they were still somewhat left adjacent. But now that Liam is pretty much the defacto co-host every episode that includes Russia amplifies the shit-take-meter. I get that Joe is Armenian so he's probably got some legitimate grievances with the USSR but motherfucker calls himself a socialist and calls out US propaganda all the time but can't even take the time to do some self-crit of his sources?
The usual orientalism and anachronistic history. The "evil white imperialist europeans were launching an unjustified war on the poor innocent 3rd worlders by conquring the holy land" crap, like that's not even wrong its a frame of reference wrong and perceptually wrong. The condensing like 500 years of history into a few discrete events and then interpreting those events from a 19th century eurocentric lense.