This is Above Average Intelligence, a production of the DSR Network.

Each week, host Mark Polymeropoulos is joined by leading voices in the intelligence community

for expert analysis on the biggest security challenges around the world.

Welcome to the podcast. I'm Mark Polymeropolis and this is DSR's Above Average Intelligence Show. Today I am very happy. Actually, no, I'm thrilled to welcome as my guest, Mr. Nuno Felix, former Portuguese Army Special Operations Sergeant with six years of military service, was operational, was operational in what we all know. And of course, he does as well as an operational attachment, Alpha and ODA for more than

three years. Sniper instructor, special operations instructor, weapons sergeant for his K-4 detachment,

and frankly, someone who I speak with often on events in Ukraine. Someone I respect deeply

based on, of course, his prime military experience, but also

taking a look at what's happening in Ukraine from a European perspective. Currently,

Nuno is working in industry for a German multinational and doing consulting work. And most

importantly, of course, as people who are fans of this show know about my kind of crazy

obsession with heavy metal, Nuno is also a heavy metal aficionado.

And when him and I talk and some of these chats about Slipknot, everyone thinks we're crazy.

But I think we're not.

I think we're actually, we're the normal ones, Nuno.

We've introduced, first of all, it's thrilled to be here.

Mark, we do again for the first uh with you again um for the first time not again

for the first time it's great to be here man um this was uh i don't have the category of some other

high profile guess you had here but uh great to talk to you, man.

But I think you do. And in a sense, one of the things that I've wanted for this show,

and I'm going to start kind of broadening kind of the horizons for the guesses,

I wanted to bring some allied former special operations and intelligence personnel again because of the of kind of the

different perspective and you know you're someone who I think really does bring something

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