I’ve got to find a transcript for this (browser issues). In the meantime, I’m OK with spoilers…did the results end up being used by Fox News, OANN, Clear Channel Communications, or all of the above? 
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This video spends more time on the fallout for many folks who had been experimented on without their knowledge. Some are still seeking reparations, IIRC.
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Three-letter agencies…
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Background and an exhibition about Malitzen (La Malinche), a woman who influenced the history of Mexico and became a controversial figure. More recent accounts of her life add more context to her actions:
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MREs - three lies for the price of one!
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Makes sense, but still doesn’t tell us what the original real estate developers put in their brochures.
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There you go, trying to tie this conversation up in knots again.
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Slow down there, I can’t quipup.
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Interesting take on the war… makes sense to me, from that article… I’ll have to check out the book.
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I agree with you. The thesis proposed in this book makes a lot of sense if we think in terms of empires and colonies. There was no way for Germany and Japan to create their own colonies without clashing with the British, French, and even the Americans.
Of course, that doesn’t justify anything the Nazis or the Japanese military did. Otherwise we would be justifying the adventures of Mr. Putin.
I would like to read more books like this. I’ve read a few books about the second war, but they were the ones I liked the most battle diaries, which only explore the horrors and heroic acts of the soldiers. None of them tried to explain what drove the world into that madness.
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Yeah, absolutely not. One set of crimes against humanity doesn’t justify the other. That’s what some people seem to get caught up in - the blame game rather than looking at the whole thing together, and seeing what we can to do fix that shit.
True. I’ve read plenty on the nazis and their tyrannical rule over Germany, and then europe. Timothy Snyder attempts to explain what happened in central Europe between the Soviet and Nazi empire, but pulling it out to include the Japanese, American, and British empire gives it a whole new spin.
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That’s right. The German people were no more or less evil than the British. The Nazis promised many things to the people and everyone was happy to have gains from the war. “Hey, now we are respected and feared”.
I remember the history classes in high school that dealt with German and Italian unification and how the disorganization of these countries made them arrive late for the imperialist party. But this link with World War II went unnoticed at the time. At most the teachers spoke of the Germanic resentment caused by the defeat in 1918 and that was all. We were under the impression that the Nazis came out of nowhere and only did what they did because they were naturally evil.
The part about decolonization was covered even more quickly. I learned a lot on my own and to this day I am amazed by what I read. I think I will take my nephew´s books on loan one of these days, he has some syuff covering these issues.
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