Chris Hedges: Trump ripped the mask off of US imperialism

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 Israel lobbied the US into war with Iran

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