Eight out of ten major ports in europe are owned by the chinese. They've attempted to buy hotels right on the edge of very major naval bases. And elsewhere you've got as a form of intelligence collect em inwy does hotels. The short inciden is, we don't really know. R and i asked that question, like, what's gong on here actually?
This month will mark a year since the Taliban takeover of Kabul in August 2021 and the chaotic withdrawal of western forces from Afghanistan. In this archive discussion from 2020, we discuss the nature of past Western interventions and the guerrilla warfare resistance that has followed with David Kilcullen, former soldier, diplomat, and senior counterinsurgency adviser for the US during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. He joined Carl Miller, Research Director at the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media at the think tank Demos, to discuss his book: The Dragons and the Snakes: How the Rest Learned to Fight the West.
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