Dean atchison is one of the absolute architects of the cold war. He was eventually secretary of state under truman and president. The creation is a vii nam era, like right before the total collapse of a viit nam. Atchison refers to this rising, and increase ingly like virulent, home grown american anti communism as the attack of the primitives. Like it could not be more condescending. Richard nixon is not a primitive.
Episode three of The Dig’s War on Terror trilogy with Spencer Ackerman: Decadence, Trump, and Biden.
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