Benjamin Radd
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So I think of Vietnam, I think classic proxy wars.
Right.
Right.
Khrushchev gave that speech, I think 1963, whenever it was, about wars of national liberation.
And that they would be fought in what was then called the Third World, Vietnam being a classic case.
There I see absolutely, right?
First you had the French, you know, in French Indochina, and then the United States bailing the French out.
Arguably the French were maybe a proxy for US interests.
They were part of that firewall that were keeping the dominoes from falling.
But again, I'm struggling to I'm trying to understand the Israel United States proxy.
angle here.
Um and that's a unique definition of proxy, I guess,
Okay, so I gotta butt in with an example.
You
Yeah.
Iraq war the two thousand which the George
You think the Iraq War was an attempt to weaken Iran?
United
to weaken Iran?
The Iraq.
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