Mance welcomes Will Porter back to the Free Man Beyond the Wall podcast. Will and his friend Kyle Anzalone wrote an article reporting on the record opium crop in 2017 the Taliban will use the proceeds from to fund their “Spring Offensive” against U.S. forces. Will talks about the article and what the funds raised could mean for tensions in the region.
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$200 billion is not a rounding error, it’s a signal that Washington is settling in for a long Iran war while pretending it can buy its way out of the consequences. We walk through the Pentagon’s latest funding push, why leaders keep hinting the price tag will rise,...
The part that doesn’t get said out loud often enough is this: you can be “aligned” in a war and still be on a collision course. We dig into why U.S. goals in Iran and Israel’s goals in Iran don’t just differ, they actively clash and how that clash shows up in...
