To understand how backwards our current situation is, we need to look to history to give us context.
What is the Iran-Contra Scandal?
Why did America arm Saddam Hussein in the Iran-Iraq war?
The Iran-Iraq War took a million lives over eight years. But why did it really happen? Why do most Americans not even KNOW about it? Did America arm both sides?
These bizarre situations and more are explained in the brand new hilarious Hypocrite Twins episode,
Backwards American Empire:
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U.S. troops are training for chemical and nuclear fallout while fresh forces and warships surge toward the Middle East, and I can’t shake the feeling that those “routine drills” are happening for a reason. We walk through what the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit’s...
It was 250 years ago that Adam Smith published The Wealth of Nations. In it, he looked back on the contact that various distant peoples had had with Europeans, following the discoveries of Christopher Colombus and Vasco de Gama. The results, by Smith’s time in 1776,...
A blockade of the Strait of Hormuz sounds like a clean, decisive move until you run it through the real world: geography, international law, ship insurance, and the uncomfortable question of what happens when the other side shoots back. We sit down with Lt Col Karen...
