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"Bitter Lake", 2015 film by Adam Curtis. (A fantastic film giving historic context to the events in Afghanistan.)
Adam Curtis ^ | 2015 | Adam Curtis

Posted on 08/15/2021 3:55:46 PM PDT by PetroniusMaximus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84P4dzow1Bw&t=6s


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1 posted on 08/15/2021 3:55:46 PM PDT by PetroniusMaximus
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84P4dzow1Bw&t=6s

00:03:25 Morrison-Knudsen in Afghanistan & Roosevelt meets Abdulaziz
00:21:50 Cold war in Afghanistan & Faisal’s Exports
00:41:11 Petrodollar & Communism in Afghanistan
00:58:55 Reagan’s fables & Soviet stagnation
01:22:45 Western industrial shift & Iraq
01:33:47 Afghanistan chaos & the far enemy
01:49:17 Democracy, warlords, & corruption
02:10:08 Desert ghosts


2 posted on 08/15/2021 3:56:18 PM PDT by PetroniusMaximus (Jesus, Rex Universalis)
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3 posted on 08/15/2021 4:01:42 PM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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If you sant to see what our greatest were dying for and what our money went to, look up the file Osama. It isn’t about bin ladin, it is about a little girl who has to post as a boy so she can work so her mother and her don’t starve to death.

Animals.


4 posted on 08/15/2021 4:04:35 PM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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