Susan Kokinda

And the Great Game was to make sure that nations stay pitted against each other, constantly fighting so that the imperial game masters at the top could continue to play their games.

There you go.

The elements of the Great Game, which Rudyard Kipling outlined in Kim.

And, you know, Central Asia has been, you know, Afghanistan,

you know, Southwest Asia, Central Asia, the Mideast, all of this, you look at the way the British and the French, but primarily the British

rewrote the map after the ottoman empire broke up after world war one it was to keep these you know it was they they divided countries up in the craziest ways that made no sense in terms of the different religious or ethnic or political groupings they they shattered it in such a way it would always be a cockpit for war

And that's how they do it.

You mentioned Iran.

I mean, it's sort of like the classic case.

You had a nationalist leader, Mossadegh, who nationalized the oil industry.

Well, believe me, the British Empire was not going to tolerate that.

So he was overthrown and the Shah was put in.

And then at a certain point, you know, the Shah began operating from the standpoint of what is good for Iran.

He wanted to use the oil revenues to build nuclear power, to actually develop the country as a modern nation.

So he gets overthrown.

You know, the British are really quite, yeah, Kermit Roosevelt was in on that.

And if you actually look at the history, Eisenhower was not exactly happy when he realized what was going on there.

because Eisenhower was somebody who actually had an American outlook, which is why he stopped the British and the French from taking the Suez Canal in 1956.

But again, when you sort of just shift the way you look at the world from these binaries, communism versus capitalism, the West versus Islam, right versus left, these binaries, these binaries are out there

to keep you from looking at, again, what's generating the shadows on the wall.