The United States Is a Puppet President

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I said the united states would leave sooner or later, and then you people can nurse your wounded rhetoric at home. She couldn't reply. She said, no, well, without the united states, i said, we'll there. So you're completely tied to what the us. Motives are. And this is what's hurting them, germans, the brits and others, that they couldn't do anything without the us. But it was a us Initiative after all. There was no other there was no other alternative.

Legendary socialist scholar Tariq Ali on the long history of Afghanistan: the 19th and early 20th-century wars against the British Empire; the communist coup, Soviet invasion, and US-backed mujahideen war; the rise of the Taliban; and the 2001 US-led NATO invasion through the recent US defeat and withdrawal. Plus, a lot about Pakistan. Pre-order Ali's forthcoming book The Forty-Year War in Afghanistan: A Chronicle Foretold versobooks.com/books/3939-the-forty-year-war-in-afghanistan Support this podcast at Patreon.com/TheDig and receive our weekly newsletter