To be honest the documentary is quite entertaining enough, but due to its excessively biased viewpoint (hidden by an air of neutrality) it frankly made the whole program a worthless endeavour on an educational front. A more realistic neutral outlook of the US and what would happen to the world without the US would have been better. Its really A 1.5 hr long justification of US military imperialism.
The whole program is merely geared towards justifying US occupation of other nations on the 3 grounds 1) The world needs the US to police it, as no one else is willing to do it 2) US is doing it out of global interests including the invading peoples interests, and other countries benefit. And these people want them there. 3) The world would descend into ww3 if the US became isolationary
Frankly I found the documentary to be just to ridiculous. While it makes a few interesting points its really all just propaganda.
Examples of its biased arguments are
1) Kuwaitis live better than Americans, therefore invasion of Iraq and liberation of Kuwait was a good thing and not about stealing oil.
Completely ignores how Iraqis' were murdered in their millions due to the occupation and their oil was and is being stolen by the billion. It's just disappearing. Completely ignores the fact that Kuwaitis number only a million people, and stealing trillions of dollars of oil from Iraq and Kuwait, whilst keeping a million Kuwaitis happy with no taxes is not hard. Try doing that to a nation the size of Iraq, and the whole of Middle East it's not so easy.
2) If US does not interfere genocide will occur in these countries like in Yugoslavia, that is why the US interferes militarily. And the people of these countries want them to save them.
It delves into the collapse of Yugoslavia and justifies US military interference of other nations, on the reasoning US was the only one that stopped the civil war there, no one else did. And tries to imply that is why the US is invading other countries. But then brushes over the fact that the US chose not to interfere in many other instances of genocides. Which occurred before and after Yugoslavia and still do to this day.
3) WW2 started in Asia with the invasion by Japan? Where the hell did they get this oxford professor from?
The oxford professor (Niall ferguson - who seems to have this habit of justifying the crimes of western imperialists too often from rothchilds to kissinger) they use in this program really has a skewered version of history, it's almost laughable if it wasn't for the fact he is being taken seriously as a professional. WW2 started in Europe, anyone with half a brain knows that. WW2 militarily started in Europe with the axis and allies forming their little groups, which then guaranteed war. They were militarising their armies and industries 10 years before the war even started, both sides, both the allies and the axis. WW2 economic and political causes lay in WW1 another world war started by Europe. Japan joined the axis, but did not start the war. This program tries to lie about this.
4) Israel will be wiped off the face of the map quite easily if the US did not protect it, due to its weak and small military.
This is such a HUGE lie. The Israeli military has NUCLEAR weapons, state of the art military navy, air and land force. The entire Middle East could not stand more than 1 week against the Israeli military, and that is a fact that this program lies completely about.
5) Middle east would descend into chaos, and the Middle Eastern people want the US there. They do not feel it is right for the US to benefit from their oil, without guaranteeing civil peace there.
Again another huge lie. The vast majority of people in the Middle East do not want the US or any western country on their soil. Whilst it is true if the US left, the Middle East would potentially descend into chaos. That chaos would not last for more than a few years if not more than a few months. The Middle East does not have a manufacturing industry unlike the west, and a sustained war is not possible without bullets, guns, tanks, grenades, missiles, choppers etc. So none of the nations in the Middle East would last long in a war with their neighbouring nation for long. If they had to rely on their own military and manufacturing industries. They would be forced into becoming 1 giant nation either by 1 side winning, or by the need for peace.
This of course assumes the US also leaves the Middle East militarily and financially by not selling arms to both sides, etc. One of the reason the Iran Iraq war last for nearly a decade was due to the fact that the US-EU were selling arms ILLEGALLY to both sides, Iraq and Iran, so no side gained an advantage. And trying to drag the war out for as long as possible to destroy their industries and get them into usury debt. Known as the Iran-contra affair.
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The whole program is merely geared towards justifying US occupation of other nations on the 3 grounds 1) The world needs the US to police it, as no one else is willing to do it 2) US is doing it out of global interests including the invading peoples interests, and other countries benefit. And these people want them there. 3) The world would descend into ww3 if the US became isolationary
Frankly I found the documentary to be just to ridiculous. While it makes a few interesting points its really all just propaganda.
Examples of its biased arguments are
1) Kuwaitis live better than Americans, therefore invasion of Iraq and liberation of Kuwait was a good thing and not about stealing oil.
Completely ignores how Iraqis' were murdered in their millions due to the occupation and their oil was and is being stolen by the billion. It's just disappearing. Completely ignores the fact that Kuwaitis number only a million people, and stealing trillions of dollars of oil from Iraq and Kuwait, whilst keeping a million Kuwaitis happy with no taxes is not hard. Try doing that to a nation the size of Iraq, and the whole of Middle East it's not so easy.
2) If US does not interfere genocide will occur in these countries like in Yugoslavia, that is why the US interferes militarily. And the people of these countries want them to save them.
It delves into the collapse of Yugoslavia and justifies US military interference of other nations, on the reasoning US was the only one that stopped the civil war there, no one else did. And tries to imply that is why the US is invading other countries. But then brushes over the fact that the US chose not to interfere in many other instances of genocides. Which occurred before and after Yugoslavia and still do to this day.
3) WW2 started in Asia with the invasion by Japan? Where the hell did they get this oxford professor from?
The oxford professor (Niall ferguson - who seems to have this habit of justifying the crimes of western imperialists too often from rothchilds to kissinger) they use in this program really has a skewered version of history, it's almost laughable if it wasn't for the fact he is being taken seriously as a professional. WW2 started in Europe, anyone with half a brain knows that. WW2 militarily started in Europe with the axis and allies forming their little groups, which then guaranteed war. They were militarising their armies and industries 10 years before the war even started, both sides, both the allies and the axis. WW2 economic and political causes lay in WW1 another world war started by Europe. Japan joined the axis, but did not start the war. This program tries to lie about this.
4) Israel will be wiped off the face of the map quite easily if the US did not protect it, due to its weak and small military.
This is such a HUGE lie. The Israeli military has NUCLEAR weapons, state of the art military navy, air and land force. The entire Middle East could not stand more than 1 week against the Israeli military, and that is a fact that this program lies completely about.
5) Middle east would descend into chaos, and the Middle Eastern people want the US there. They do not feel it is right for the US to benefit from their oil, without guaranteeing civil peace there.
Again another huge lie. The vast majority of people in the Middle East do not want the US or any western country on their soil. Whilst it is true if the US left, the Middle East would potentially descend into chaos. That chaos would not last for more than a few years if not more than a few months. The Middle East does not have a manufacturing industry unlike the west, and a sustained war is not possible without bullets, guns, tanks, grenades, missiles, choppers etc. So none of the nations in the Middle East would last long in a war with their neighbouring nation for long. If they had to rely on their own military and manufacturing industries. They would be forced into becoming 1 giant nation either by 1 side winning, or by the need for peace.
This of course assumes the US also leaves the Middle East militarily and financially by not selling arms to both sides, etc. One of the reason the Iran Iraq war last for nearly a decade was due to the fact that the US-EU were selling arms ILLEGALLY to both sides, Iraq and Iran, so no side gained an advantage. And trying to drag the war out for as long as possible to destroy their industries and get them into usury debt. Known as the Iran-contra affair.
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