How Western empires meddled to exploit Indonesia's huge gold reserves (with historian Aaron Good)
Geopolitical Economy Report
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The Suez Crisis
In Egypt, the Suez was a very valuable choke point for world trade and the petroleum trade. In Indonesia, there were also these enormous reserves in West Papua of oil and gold and copper. And only a select few people like Allen Dulles knew about these. The day you want of all this was basically the Suez crisis. But as I said, the US staged a hostile takeover of the British Empire. It's our job as sort of critical historians to gather up these things to put a narrative about the empire," he says.
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