rant · moment 16 of 45
America's Track Record of Foreign Interventions
from The Joe Rogan Experience | The Tim Dillon Show #422 · #422
5 min
Tim runs through a bleak history of US foreign policy failures (Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya) and argues nobody can point to interventions besides WWII that worked out, plus the Clinton bombing-Sudan-during-Lewinsky comparison.
- Tim lists failed democratization efforts in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya, contrasting them with current claims that Ukraine will be different.
- Bill Clinton bombed a chemical factory in Sudan for no reason while the Monica Lewinsky scandal was breaking—a distraction tactic.
- America compared to a woman who was powerful for decades, mistreated everyone, and now in her 60s demands attention while not understanding the world has changed.
- Tim explains that Ukraine has been and will remain a U.S. State Department client state, not a country the U.S. cares about for its people's dignity.
- BlackRock and other companies have contracts to rebuild Ukraine's infrastructure and secure mineral wealth and farmland for profit.
- As a young adult you believe the world runs on ideas, but you realize as you age it actually runs on trade routes, minerals, energy, and physical resources.
- If Ukraine didn't have mineral wealth, strategic importance to NATO, and energy infrastructure, no one would care about it—the ideas are built around material interests.
LibyaVietnamIraqAfghanistanSudanBill ClintonMiddle EastRussiaBlack RockMonica LewinskyUkraineLindsey GrahamBurismaNATOMike Benz