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    Wars America Should Have Avoided

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    13 de nov. de 2025
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    Blythe and Eli dissect America's most disastrous military interventions, from Vietnam to Afghanistan, revealing how the pursuit of global dominance led to tragic miscalculations and unnecessary wars.

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    America's biggest foreign policy disasters come from this pathological need to prove we're still the global hegemon; we're so afraid of appearing weak that we keep making ourselves weaker.

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    Pergunta de entrada

    Las guerras en las que USA no debio de haber intervenido

    Vozes dos apresentadores
    Blytheplay
    Eliplay
    Fontes de conhecimento
    The United States and Military Intervention: A Troubling Legacy
    link
    https://thesciencesurvey.com/editorial/2025/05/12/the-united-states-and-military-intervention-a-troubling-legacy/
    Iraq and the Pathologies of Primacy: The Flawed Logic That Produced the War Is Alive and Well
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    https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/iraq-and-pathologies-primacy
    The American War in Afghanistan
    The best and the brightest
    The Wikileaks Files
    Failed States

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