They saw the North Vietnamese as proxies for the Soviets, who were, in their (misguided) opinion, in league with the Chinese.
relationship with the Soviet Union. They were essentially blind to nationalist movements. They saw the North Vietnamese as proxies for the Soviets, who were, in their (misguided) opinion, in league with the Chinese. This is one reason the Vietnam War went on as long as it did. Nixon is often given credit for ending that war despite the fact that in the opinion of numerous foreign-policy experts it went on for nearly five more years than it needed to. In the end, the U.S. didn’t win significantly more concessions from the North Vietnamese than Lyndon Johnson had been on track to obtain in negotiations in Paris before Nixon had them blown up in order to win the 1968 election.The list of blunders included arming the shah of Iran to the teeth to help him maintain the iron rule that provoked a revolution that’s still bedeviling the U.S.; the cold calculation that led Nixon and Kissinger to not only not intervene in but to abet Pakistani atrocities against Bangladesh; and Nixon’s and Kissinger’s roles in overthrowing a democratically elected government in Chile.
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Michael is a sound recordist. He has a collection far more extensive than any effects library, but something in his past weighs increasingly heavy - he warns us not to believe all that we hear. With Ioan Meredith, Gavin Muir, Rachel Atkins, Tessa Worsley, David Allister, Stephen Critchlow, James Butcher, Yasmin Hickson and Lily Howkins.

















