Hello there history friends and welcome to a special kind of episode, basically to commemorate

the fact that we've been doing this for five whole years. This is what I like to call

a memory lane collage. In other words, it's going to be a kind of mixing and matching of different

audio clips from the five years of when diplomacy fails to really show and illustrate how far we've come since May 2012.

I mean, think of all the wars we've covered. Think of all the times we have had together.

Think of all the times I've asked you guys for support, had some incredible news that you couldn't

wrap your heads around, or made an announcement about my latest war to come. I mean, we've been through a lot.

We really, really have.

So I wanted to use this episode to kind of give you guys a feel for when diplomacy fails

is done and hopefully get you excited for what is to come.

Not just in this fifth birthday spectacular, which you're all, of course, very, very welcome

to, but to everything that comes

after that, from the long war to more Britain goes to war, perhaps, to whatever is going to come

after episode 30. Who knows? I still haven't completely decided, but whatever happens when

diplomacy fails is not going anywhere, and you'll be happy to know that whatever plans we do have,

I'll be there with you for the ride.

Okay, so what should you expect from this episode and how can you be sure if it's really for you?

Well, to be honest, I don't really know because I've never done any episodes like these before.

But if you remember back to some of the other kind of collage work I've done,

for example, the 1916 Rising where I gathered loads of little clips or quotes together and use them to kind of paint a picture of a kind of timeline, then that's pretty much what I'm doing here, except rather than 1916 rising, it's the history of, well, when diplomacy fails. so if that sounds like something you're interested in,

then great, but either way, even if you hate it, I thought it would be a nice way to begin this

whole massive project. And I thought that as a kind of summary of how far we've come, how much

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