Why the US Lost in Afghanistan (w/Jon Lee Anderson, the Journalist Who Saw the Taliban Rise Twice)

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Why the US Lost in Afghanistan (w/Jon Lee Anderson, the Journalist Who Saw the Taliban Rise Twice)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huk5XUm2p34

The Pentagon’s Unprecedented Plan for Venezuelan Oil

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Before becoming president, Trump regularly said the US should have taken Iraq’s oil, ignoring the sovereignty of Iraq and proposing that the US just take other countries’ national resources by force.

It would have been wrong to dismiss comments like this by taking Trump seriously not literally. Trump literally meant that, and as president he has implemented similar policies by using military force to remove Venezuela’s former leader and actively trying to take a percentage of Venezuela’s oil for the US.

Getting Venezuela’s oil production up and running will take a tremendous amount of investment, and its unlikely that right-minded investors will invest in such a thing because it is too much money and risk if political winds change in the US or Venezuela. This means, it will likely require taxpayer money or the president strong-arming US companies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Baz2pNyH0DU

Blockade and Sanctions: How the US Plans to Win the Iran War

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The US strategy in Iran is one of economic warfare through sanctions and blockade forcing: Iran to give in or a revolution in Iran. There doesn’t appear to be the forces necessary in Iran to create a successful revolution, but it’s not impossible.

The war isn’t the US economy VS Iran’s economy, it’s Iran’s economy and a regime willing to let its people take extreme suffering VS something breaking in the international economy that forces the US to give up.

The Fight for the West Bank

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Israeli settlers in the West Bank have been stealing people’s homes and harassing those who try to stay. The IDF tends to protect settlers and not sufficiently punish settler crime against Palestinians. Leaders will condemn settler violence, but not actually enforce the law against them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYcetG52YCo

The Supreme Court’s Secret Documents, and an Unusual Order From the C.D.C. Director

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With Supreme Court justices hiding their personal deliberations and keeping their notes secret for decades after their deaths or even destroyed, and with a heavy amount of rulings coming from the shadow docket where they don’t have to explain themselves…the Supreme Court has a transparency problem.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GZMk-JIpQU