
How Western empires meddled to exploit Indonesia's huge gold reserves (with historian Aaron Good)
Geopolitical Economy Report
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Centralization of the Indonesian Military
The real goal was to unify the Indonesian military. The US at times intervenes in ways to consolidate and do a hostile takeover of other areas of other Western countries, Imperial sphere of influence. This is the transition from colonialism to neo-colonialism, which the US called de-colonization. Okay, so not only was this a way to this outer islands rebellion, this huge CIA operation, was a way to centralize the Indonesian military in order to oust the Dutch from Netherlands,. But it also would pave the way later for regime change because if the regime are centralized then you have the opportunity to turn the military against Sukarno possibly.
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