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This week Robert sits down with James Stout to weave the story of the worst military leader in human history: Francisco Solano Lopez. Also known as 'El supremo', he nearly annihilated his own country through sheer incompetence.

Sources:

https://www.jstor.org/stable/26494384?googleloggedin=true&seq=22

https://www.historyisnowmagazine.com/blog/2021/11/22/the-paraguayan-president-who-brought-his-country-to-military-catastrophe-part-1-francisco-solano-lopezs-earlier-life

https://www.historyisnowmagazine.com/blog/2021/12/8/the-paraguayan-president-who-brought-his-country-to-military-catastrophe-part-2-the-start-of-the-war-of-the-triple-alliance#.YcJFwy2cZAY=

https://www.historyisnowmagazine.com/blog/2021/12/23/the-paraguayan-president-who-brought-his-country-to-military-catastrophe-part-3-devastating-battles-for-both-sides#.Yd9N0i2cZAY=

https://www.historyisnowmagazine.com/blog/2022/1/12/the-paraguayan-president-who-brought-his-country-to-military-catastrophe-part-4-how-the-war-ended#.Yd9N0i2cZAY=

https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/war-of-the-triple-alliance-bloodbath-in-paraguay/

https://www.thecollector.com/francisco-solano-lopez-paraguayan-war/

https://countrystudies.us/paraguay/10.htm

https://mitpressbookstore.mit.edu/book/9780742537552

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With Palantir now off the ground, Alex Karp turns himself into the spokesman and salesman for Palantir, a company that threatens to destroy everything he pretends to believe in.

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Robert begins his exploration of the early life of Alex Karp, current CEO of Palantir and best friend to Peter Thiel. He traces Alex's journey from left-wing academic to overlord of an "Anti-Woke" defense contractor.

Sources:

Robert Evans

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https://translated.turbopages.org/proxy_u/ru-en.en.26d95273-6a62c822-5da570ba-74722d776562/https/www.juedische-allgemeine.de/politik/philosoph-des-cyberkriegs/

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/alex-karp-from-dyslexic-outsider-ai-war-ceo-michael-murphy-asslc/

https://archive.is/mITxe#selection-2543.0-2557.72

https://archive.is/aVOyY#selection-1659.0-1671.192

https://kristindemontfort.substack.com/p/alex-karps-aggression-in-the-lebenswelt

https://kristindemontfort.substack.com/p/alex-karps-aggression-in-the-lebenswelt

https://www.wired.com/story/palantir-what-the-company-does/

https://medium.com/@alfredas/leaving-the-shire-a-farewell-letter-to-my-colleagues-at-palantir-5275b28ce09b

https://medium.com/coriers/can-palantir-take-over-the-entire-data-stack-e9a40b842d0c

https://www.bobinsun.cn/assets/pdf/Palantir-Redefining-Analytics,%20Augmenting-Intelligence%20&%20Unlocking-Secrets.pdf

https://archive.is/QVBtT#selection-2347.0-2347.346

https://fpif.org/americas-ai-war-has-no-civilian-stop-rule/

https://www.reuters.com/technology/palantir-faces-challenge-remove-anthropic-pentagons-ai-software-2026-03-04/

https://www.wired.com/story/ice-palantir-immigrationos/

https://lieber.westpoint.edu/warification-illusion-precision-ai-targeting-increasing-civilian-harm/

https://www.business-humanrights.org/es/%C3%BAltimas-noticias/palantir-spacex-allegedly-complicit-in-war-crimes-amid-israels-war-in-gaza/

https://en.defence-ua.com/analysis/security_risks_emerge_how_us_based_palantirs_systems_could_endanger_ukraines_defense_data-16804.html

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After World War One, the British Mandate takes over in Palestine- and shit really starts to hit the fan, leading to a series of riots, pogroms, assassinations and the dissolution of the communities that has existed in harmony for generations.

Sources:

https://www.jpost.com/blogs/my-nation-lives/this-week-in-israeli-history-operation-moses-raful-eitan-and-the-patria-disaster-435421

https://www.972mag.com/the-first-political-murder-in-jewish-palestine-lessons-of-intolerance/

https://archive.is/Rdwny#selection-1141.0-1141.321

https://www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1654849

https://rense.com/general76/zan.htm

https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/40692

https://anumuseum.org.il/blog/patria/

https://waqarahmed.org/menachem-begin-israeli-terrorist-who-became-prime-minister-won-nobel-peace-prize

https://research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk/bitstream/handle/10023/24114/hoffman_2020_swi_bombingkingdavid_aam.pdf?sequence=1

https://www.mideastjournal.org/post/jewish-arab-relations-a-deep-dive-into-the-history

https://www.972mag.com/before-zionism-the-shared-life-of-jews-and-palestinians/

https://jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-arabs-in-palestine

https://palestinenexus.com/articles/conflict-palestine-bw-jews-arabs-zionism

https://thecjn.ca/news/jews-muslims-coexisted-peacefully/

https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/jabotinsky-vladimir/?format=pdf

https://www.jstor.org/stable/41857736?seq=19wwf

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