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The Lessons Of Afghanistan — William Dalrymple

The Joe Walker Podcast

CHAPTER

The Russian Threat to India

hawkish foreign policy wonks and so-called experts in London dreamt up this idea. And the Russians could very soon send envoys or troops with great ease through those other empty areas of India. So somebody called Lord Ellenbrough, who was kind of incredibly like the Neocorn hawks Prata 9-11, cooks up a dodgy dossier which played the same function as the yellow cake. You actually get hawks imagining a threat which doesn't exist and by paranoidically pursuing it actually bring it into being.

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