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4: The currency that cuts crime

Lateral with Tom Scott

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The Soccer Fields Mean War

The story goes that Henry Kissinger, the National Security Advisor, storms into Nixon's office with this photo. He puts it down and says, the soccer fields mean war. Cubans play baseball. Russians play soccer. And the idea was that there's a soccer pitch there, and the only reason they're going to build that is if the Russians are coming to Cuba.

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