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Energy Geopolitics & the Remaking of the Modern World | Helen Thompson

Hidden Forces

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The Middle East - What You're Saying

As a result of the veenom war and the back lash against foreign intervention, domestically within the united states and also abroad, did they rely more on covert action in the middle east? I think that covert action has been there right since the beginning. But i don't think it's simply a case that the new juncture, if you like, from the seventies onwards, really pushes it more into the covert rum. It is as you have regimes in the medal east that become hostile to the united states. And these oil producing regimes. Having sanctions on regimes in the middleEast is a problem. On top of the ability of opec to control the price, or at least to

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