The US government sponsored a political coup against Pakistan's democratically elected Prime Minister Imran Khan due to his non-aligned foreign policy and neutrality in the Ukraine proxy war. Ben Norton analyzes the substantial evidence.
VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=wBc5YLW8h74
Topics:
0:00 Well known US-backed coups
1:37 Coup against Pakistan's PM Imran Khan
7:38 Imran Khan's non-aligned foreign policy
14:14 Coup regime reverses independent foreign policy
15:31 Coup regime's authoritarian crackdown
19:44 Another US-backed coup in Pakistan, in 1977
21:58 Similarities to Brazil and Peru
23:38 Iran and Mohammad Mosaddegh
27:14 The US "war on terror"
30:00 Smoking gun: leaked embassy cable
47:01 IMF bailout and inflation crisis
50:00 Outro
Check out some of our previous coverage:
- Pakistan’s prime minister accuses US diplomat of ‘conspiracy’ to overthrow his elected government (from April 2022): https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2022/04/04/pakistan-imran-khan-us-diplomat-conspiracy
- Pakistan coup regime bans Imran Khan, dissidents killed, as US eyes China ties, Israel normalization: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2022/10/26/pakistan-coup-imran-khan-china-israel
- Pakistan warns of foreign-backed regime-change attempt, to disrupt China/Russia alliance (from March 2022): https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2022/03/31/pakistan-foreign-regime-change-china-russia
