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Dio: “Getting them in is easy. I brought them in over the mountains, through the desert, whatever. The hard part is moving them inside the country. Whenever you get stopped, you’re gonna bribe someone, shoot someone, not good for business. No. Once you’re inside, you wanna hand off as fast as possible. Let the customer deal with it.”

William Walker: “How do they move a shipment?”

Dio: “Hm. I delivered 300 kilos of C4 to Miami about six months ago. He showed up with a dozen of his men. Dead men. He packed C4 into their corpses, figured no-one would search them. Smart guy.”

William Walker: “Where do you get the weapons?”

Dio: “It’s a romantic notion that they all came out of the Pakistan after the collapse. That was a win fallback in ’08, maybe through ’09, but that’s all over. I move weapons, I profit from circulation. You get a cease-fire in Germany, both sides disarmed, you think they slide 2000 tons of guns? No. They sell ‘em to me. I resell ‘em wherever the next war is starting.”

William Walker: “Those are guns from 2008?”

Dio: “That’s about half. The rest mostly come from old European armies. After they abandoned their colonies in the sixties and seventies, you know, French guns, Dutch, Belgium.”

William Walker: “So some of these guns are very old, have been sold, bought, and
sold repeatedly?”

Dio: “ (laughs) They’re not bio-degradable. Only the dead are bio-degradable.”

William Walker: “Why arms, why not car parts, radios?”

Dio: “What’s the difference? Same job, really. You get up, you get on the phone, you meet your clients, you discuss a fair price. You make a delivery, and receive payment. Sounds boring, but it’s not, it’s just... simple. I’m doing what men have been doing for thousands of years: trading
one thing for another. If it’s you who wants to attach morality to it, make it evil? Insane. People working in gun factories in Belgium or the States. They’re unionized, right? You think kids making radios in Bangladesh pull down 40 grand a year on a 40-hour week? You start thinking too much about morality. That’s insane.”

William Walker: “Why the US? People need weapons all over the world, why here?”

Dio: “Every place is somebody’s home, pal. But it doesn’t stop people from going to war. I don’t start wars, I didn’t start this one. It seems like it’s your fellow Americans that want each other dead. Besides, why should I give a shit about your home, why should anyone? You want me to
go somewhere else, so there’s someone’s home you don’t give a shit about?”

William Walker: “What if it was your home?”

Dio: “War is my home.”