
S1 Episode 1 - "Rosebud"
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The Araki Arms Scheme
Arakes got capacity in the first place for chemical weapons from the west. Part of this was because sadam had taken to desocialize the araki economy, moving it away from a centrally planned economic model and letting in western businesses. Arak began develop very expansive business relationships with all sorts of western companies that would sell him the stuff that he wanted to buy. Germanyis actually clarly funny case, because the west german government would sell chemical weapons and materials to a rack, and then they would sell the protective gear against those things to the iranians. But none of this is really contradictory at the end of the day. Because ultimately, the goal of the us
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