Chris Hedges: Trump ripped the mask off of US imperialism
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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges traces America's history of military interventions and argues that, unlike past administrations, Washington's imperial project now operates with no self-reflection, no accountability, and no ability to read its adversaries or its allies. #Heat #US #imperialism #military #interventions 0:00 Chris Hedges on the fragile US-Iran ceasefire 0:47 Iran's Strait of Hormuz leverage and Trump's erratic policy 2:01 250 years of US military interventions 3:06 The birth of American imperialism in 1898 4:09 Latin America and the Monroe Doctrine 6:56 Venezuela seized and Cuba threatened 8:13 US imperialism machinery never changed 9:09 Korea, Vietnam, and the Cold War's hot wars 10:00 A fiction-based foreign policy 10:39 Why the US economy depends on wars 12:01 Agent Orange and millions dead in Southeast Asia 14:12 US operations in Iraq and Afghanistan 15:36 Asymmetric warfare defeats military dominance 16:38 The inability to read adversaries 17:06 How
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