I want to welcome everyone back to the Pete Cignoness show, continuing the Cold War series with Thomas 777.

How are you doing, Thomas?

I'm well.

Thank you, man.

Today, I wanted to get in the, this is a somewhat difficult topic to address.

I mean, not for the usual reasons.

People bandied it, but because there's so many misconceptions, both on the left and the right

and then kind of the sensible center.

I'm talking about historians, I mean.

And there's still a lot of people still have a lot of strong feelings about it.

Be that as it may, there's a basic lack of understanding even among a lot of revisionists

of the kind of broader political context of the war world in strategic terms and in ideological

lines and what i think of as apoccal terms i think people who watch our our content they've uh

they've kind of become habituated to some of my vocabulary. When I talk about

apoccal events, you know, I'm not just trying to draw up on highfalutin language or trying

to create my own kind of, you know, revisionist Esperanto. I can't think of a better way to

describe what I'm talking about. And that's a rough translation of a phenomenon that Ernst Nolte describes.

You know, and it basically the way to understand it is kind of practical zeitgeist, you know.

But that's, I just wanted to kind of clarify that.

And, you know, as I've talked about before, as much as much as they esteem guys like Mearsheimer,

they're kind of locked, they're kind of boxed in to the kind of like the Klaus of Witsky and conceptual,

uh, cube as it were.

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