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Wesley Clark's Seven Countries in Five Years
from Depths of Self-Deception · #30
Audio-only archive episode — no video to seek.
1 minRecounting Wesley Clark's claim about a Pentagon plan to destabilize seven countries after 9/11, and noting the overlap with countries on the travel ban list.
- 50:52Tim explains how physically controlling oil flow with boots on the ground is a fundamentally different operation than just buying it.
- 51:20Paul Bremer's British imperial aesthetic—tea, suit, building massive military bases—made the occupation look like textbook imperialism in an Arab country after overthrowing its leader.
- 51:35Tim argues this pattern of occupation and base-building is how America has always operated.