Vietnam would be a good choice. You could go all the way back to WWI and Wilson denying an audience with Ho Chi Minh at Versailles. One of history's greatest betrayals. Culminate with the time Vietnam got sick of the Khmer Rouge's shit, invaded Cambodia, liberated the country and then still had skirmishes with Khmer guerrillas that were hiding near the Thai border unto the 80s. Ted Kennedy and Reagan supported them. Fucking bastards.

I've told this story before but my aunt basically lost her entire family because of Pol Pot. She was rescued by the Vietnamese soldiers. Her father starved himself to death so he could pass his children his food allotment. Vietnam had to ship extra food to their soldiers because they gave their rations to all those starving people. Shits bleak but it's a story that needs wider attention.

it should be about the citations needed subreddit getting quarantined and banned

The Philippines

They've mentioned wanting to do Gladio before. That gets my vote.

Either Gladio and political terrorism in Europe, or COINTELPRO and domestic terrorism in the US.

Curveball guess? Maybe something covering the Balkans/Caucasus depending on the conflict in Armenia turns out and maybe dabbling down into Greece and Italy, get some Gladio in there if things get a little sparse.

I’d love for it to be Libya, in fact that was my S4 guess before they announced Afghanistan. That’s such a forgotten topic despite how much of a boogeyman Libya and Gaddafi were for the US in the 80s (“Libyan nationalists” in Back to the Future, Gaddafi expy in Transformers etc.)

Honestly maybe it's outside the stated subject domain but I think East Germany would be a cool topic