I want to welcome everyone back to the Pekignano show.

How you doing, Thomas?

I'm doing well, man. Thanks for hosting me, as always.

Of course. I'm going to start something new here.

Don't really know, have an idea of how many episodes you have in mind for this,

but this is a pretty big topic and a requested

topic. So Operation Gladiow. Yeah, I suggest we play it by ear figuratively and literally

and see how long it takes us to cover the material and not just what we consider a more than adequate capacity,

but that the subs like want to hear about.

Gladio is one of these misunderstood things.

You know, there was a great deal of brutality of a particular sort.

I mean, the Cold War,

the Cold War was in condition of neither war nor peace.

So even behind the verbal lines of peace in divided Europe,

you know, there was a certain callousness that bled into contemplation of what was not just necessary, but also reasonable.

You know, the moral metric shifted.

Okay.

I mean, obviously in Southeast Asia,

what was very much late bear was that, you know,

okay, the face of modern warfare

very much reduces attrition

to a,

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