I want to welcome everyone back to the Pekignano show.

Thomas is back.

And we're going to jump into some new material here that Thomas has really been itching to talk about.

So I know this has a lot to do with your manuscript and you added it in because you thought that it was really important.

So I'm just going to let you run

with it as normal. Yeah, that's affirmative. And just there's a couple of housekeeping things.

I set up an X account, which I've been reluctant to do because I don't like X. I think it's

garbage. But it seemed like it might be timely to promote the book which is now you know i got a

i'm sending it off to antelope hill this week i thought it might be you know well placed to

utilize social media to promote it and stuff but um i uh people have been clamoring for me to set up a timeline. So I did it. So I mean, I engaged with it or I'm just going to nuke it. That's not me being cantankerous. It's just not worth it to me if people don't engage with it. You know, I mean, don't feel obligated if you don't want to fuck with Twitter either. But it just be advised people don't utilize it. It's not worth it to me. So just keep that at mind. But yeah, I, one of

things that delayed the completion of the manuscript is I, you know, as a political theory writer whose primary concentration is the 20th century and the ideological conflict cycle they're in, you know, in treating these things in Higalian terms, the Vietnam War is as grossly ill understood as

War II, in my opinion, in America at least.

And obviously, outside of America, there's not the same emphasis on the Vietnam War

or many other things.

But even people supposedly on the right of a,

where revision is coded, they don't understand it in meaningful ways.

And they don't, they don't understand what the stakes were.

And they, they don't understand the significance of certain key engagements there.

First and foremost is KSON.

I'll get know what I mean by that at the minute.

But there's also these myriad mythologies,

some of which were deliberately curated by the Pentagon as a face-saving measure.

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