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Show 322 - Betting on Long Shots

Common Sense with Dan Carlin

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Afghanistan - The Best Explanation

There are ripples of pain in the society, folks. I mean, this is what war really costs. And as far as the afghan military goes, 300 thousand men, an air force, armor. Taliban maybe has a little armor, no air force. 75000 men, maybe. Come onand listen. This is something goes back way into history. Mean, this this practice of having imperial powers or great powers go into places, destroy oror dissipate some local army and then get them to build up their forces. And it fails a lot of times. It's absolutely a case of, they never really had their hearts in it to begin with,. You can't say what

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