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

Hidden Forces

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What Is the Legacy of the 19 Seventies?

The fall out of the seventies is to turn the middle east into a different kind of problem for western governments. The british have acted as an imperial power in ways that haven't always worked. And then i think what you see from the second irat war is an attempt actually o say, ok, no, we'r get to use our military power to try to reshape the middle east in ways that are conducive to western energy interest. It's quite problematic what they doing from their point of view.

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