It Could Happen Here

How To Murder A City

May 8, 2019
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ADVICE

Content Warning: Dark Material Ahead

  • Robert Evans warns the episode covers extreme violence and city-annihilation scenarios.
  • He advises listeners not to continue if they feel it will be emotionally overwhelming.
ANECDOTE

A City Under Constant Barrage

  • The episode opens with a siege scene where dozens of strikes rattle apartment frames and water and power vanish.
  • The narrator describes daily indirect fire, missing basics, and people risking escape northward.
ANECDOTE

Eyewitness To Mosul's Ruin

  • Robert Evans recounts standing on a hill and watching Apaches fire on Mosul, then walking through pulverized neighborhoods.
  • He recalls the moon-like rubble, pervasive dust, and the smell of rotting corpses that lingered in nightmares.
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