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Demystifying the Petrodollar Scheme with Alex Gladstein (WiM082)

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Defeating the Communists in the Colt War

In exchange, they got protection from the us. Which had this obviously military apparatus that had been financed by the treasury bill, standard. And they got tons of weapons. We were able to sell them weapons. This, this relationship, am persists to day, and estill persisted. I mean, you have both trump and bide and bas y refused to investigate the soudes for the murder of jamalkashogi, the washington post colonist. Both of them publicly said it would be too costly. Was there too costly, was what they said, right? So you had, you had us move from, again, the gold standard to canelike a pseudo gold standard

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