In this episode, we explore the hidden machinery of the marshall plan. Welcome to today's Deep Dive. I want you to picture this. It's the winter of 1946, heading into 1947, and Europe is just virtually unrecognizable. Right, completely decimated. Exactly. The major cities are just these mountains of rubble, the railways, the ports, the bridges that used to move food and coal. And the people living in this devastation are trying to survive the harshest winter in recent memory on an average of just 1 ,500 calories a day. I mean, if you can imagine trying to rebuild a continent while basically starving and freezing, you get a sense of the baseline here. It is a level of societal collapse that is genuinely hard for us to wrap our heads around today. Like, we're not just talking about a disrupted economy or, you know, a severe recession. Right. We're tal ...