#1750 "America's Backyard" - The War on Terror Meets the War on Drugs
Description
Air Date 11/7/2025
The United States claiming a divine (and imperialist) right to tamper in the politics of South American countries is nothing new. As is so often the case with Trump, the biggest difference is that he’s doing proudly and in the open what used to be done only shamefully and in secret.
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KEY POINTS
KP 4: Bailing on Farmers to Bail Out Argentina: Two to Tango Part 1 - UNFTR - Air Date 10-6-25
(00:53:59 ) NOTE FROM THE EDITOR
On the long history of messing with Latin America
DEEPER DIVES
(00:59:42 ) SECTION A: HISTORY AND NARRATIVE
(01:20:49 ) SECTION B: MILITARY PRETEXT
(01:58:37 ) SECTION C: US AGGRESSION
(02:28:44 ) SECTION D: REGIONAL ECHOES
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Description: Image of a topographical globe of the Earth, only showing North America and South America.
Credit: “Globe-world-earth-planet” by quimono, Pixabay | Pixabay license
Produced by Jay! Tomlinson
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