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Bonus: 1983: The Year the World Almost Ended:: The Cold War Overview, the 1940s and 50's
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Contenido proporcionado por Shawn Warswick. Todo el contenido del podcast, incluidos episodios, gráficos y descripciones de podcast, lo carga y proporciona directamente Shawn Warswick o su socio de plataforma de podcast. Si cree que alguien está utilizando su trabajo protegido por derechos de autor sin su permiso, puede seguir el proceso descrito aquí https://es.player.fm/legal.
Part two of what was a "Patreon only series" on the Cold War. Enjoy
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1. Bonus: 1983: The Year the World Almost Ended:: The Cold War Overview, the 1940s and 50's (00:00:00)
2. [Ad] Perspectacles Podcast (00:08:18)
3. (Cont.) Bonus: 1983: The Year the World Almost Ended:: The Cold War Overview, the 1940s and 50's (00:08:58)
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Manage episode 460425621 series 2510314
Contenido proporcionado por Shawn Warswick. Todo el contenido del podcast, incluidos episodios, gráficos y descripciones de podcast, lo carga y proporciona directamente Shawn Warswick o su socio de plataforma de podcast. Si cree que alguien está utilizando su trabajo protegido por derechos de autor sin su permiso, puede seguir el proceso descrito aquí https://es.player.fm/legal.
Part two of what was a "Patreon only series" on the Cold War. Enjoy
Perspectacles PodcastContemplative Edu-tainment for Change
Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify
Capíttulos
1. Bonus: 1983: The Year the World Almost Ended:: The Cold War Overview, the 1940s and 50's (00:00:00)
2. [Ad] Perspectacles Podcast (00:08:18)
3. (Cont.) Bonus: 1983: The Year the World Almost Ended:: The Cold War Overview, the 1940s and 50's (00:08:58)
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Send us a text Welcome back to 1983: The Year the World Almost Ended. In this episode, or miniseries of episodes within the main series, I want to take a look at the Worker’s state, specifically the Soviet Union, but also some of the “workers paradises” that were built in Eastern Europe in the aftermath of World War II. Support the show…
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Send us a text This is a bonus episode introducing "1983" which was a pattern only show about how the world almost ended in 1983 and none of us really knew it. Support the show
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1:13:01Send us a text Today's episode is a bonus one I did for Patreon members WAY back in 2020. I thought it had some relevance to today so here it is. Enjoy. Perspectacles Podcast Contemplative Edu-tainment for Change Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify Support the show
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Send us a text This bonus episode was originally made available way back in 2021 to Patreon members and now it is available for you. Enjoy Perspectacles Podcast Contemplative Edu-tainment for Change Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify Support the show
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Send us a text It was January 16, 1991. Your humble host was an undergraduate in college, and like others in the dorms, watching events unfold live on TV. US media had begun broadcasting the start of the air campaign to “free Kuwait” from the clutches of the evil Saddam Hussein. Looking back on these events 3 decades later, I have to admit, it made for compelling, if disgusting, television. Why do I say disgusting? People were dying in front of our very eyes, and we were treating it like it was just some video game. But, at the age of 20, I was enthralled by all of this. And, embarrassingly enough now, I was for it. But how did the US get to that point? If you learn nothing else from this episode, you should come to realize that American foreign policy, at least when it comes to the Middle east over the last few decades, was characterized by incoherence and confusion. And believe it or not, this bouncing back and forth started with, of all presidents Ronald Reagan. You might find that hard to believe, as even his detractors tend to see him as consistent. Since Reagan, the US has been neither consistent nor has it been guided, when it comes to Iraq and the surrounding area, by shortsighted opportunism. However, he isn’t the only guilty president. Carter, as we shall see, also bears some responsibility for the mess that is American policy in the Middle East. Before we go forward, let’s discuss what was the purpose of all of this. Guided by opportunism, the purpose of our policy in the Middle East was twofold. First, it was to exercise dominion over the core of the Islamic World. But there was more. It was also about cheap oil and gas. In 1970, the year I was born, it was $.36 (or about $1.70 in 2015 dollars). By 1980 it was $1.18 or 2.95 in 2015 dollars. By today’s standard that doesn’t seem too awful, but in 1980, when you are a somewhat unpopular president, and you are facing reelection? That would not do. In fact, by 1984, in real dollars, the price of gas had decreased from $2.95/gal (in 2015 dollars) to $2.23/gallon. Plus, unemployment in the US, as well as inflation had declined. Inflation was 12.5% in 1980, but by 1983 it was down to less than 4%. Needless to say, the last thing Carter wanted in 1980 was increasing fuel costs. Perspectacles Podcast Contemplative Edu-tainment for Change Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify Support the show…
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