The Lights Go Out—From Rolling Thunder to the 48-Hour Ultimatum

Contemporary Application to the Empire of Liberty: America's Foreign Entanglements from the Founders to the Forever War - Ep. 11

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7iqnKee1TA

This contemporary application episode connects the Vietnam War’s patterns of deception and infrastructure targeting to the ongoing Iran conflict. We examine the intelligence claims that justified the war, the media mechanisms that manufacture consent, the return to overt civilian infrastructure targeting, and the constitutional failures that have allowed executive war-making to proceed unchecked.