Geoguessr pro goes Israel on Nicaragua 🇳🇮 — Transcript

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1. 0:00Lieutenant Dan thanks for the five
2. 0:01gifted wooden door structural damage oh
3. 0:04wait are those Israeli Galil rifles we
4. 0:05got to be over here in
5. 0:07Israel what why are there Israeli
6. 0:10weapons in the middle of
7. 0:12Nicaragua in 1981 the Reagan
8. 0:14Administration illegally sold weapons to
9. 0:16its adversary Iran through its proxy
10. 0:19State Israel Iran was losing a war with
11. 0:21Iraq but Israel wanted them to remain
12. 0:23preoccupied so they acted as the
13. 0:25middleman shipping us-made weapons to
14. 0:27Iran and restocking from the US the fun
15. 0:30received from these arms were illegally
16. 0:31funneled to the farri right Nicaraguan
17. 0:33contous who had only recently been cut
18. 0:35off from military aid by Jimmy Carter
19. 0:37because of their incessant human rights
20. 0:39violations including the televised
21. 0:41murder of a journalist but somehow this
22. 0:43wasn't even the first time the US had
23. 0:45covertly armed this violent group in
24. 0:471981 the director of the CIA William
25. 0:50Casey met with the chief of staff of the
26. 0:52Argentine military to work out an
27. 0:54agreement where Argentina could oversee
28. 0:56the contras and the US would provide
29. 0:58funding and weapons is Israeli military
30. 1:00advisers worked alongside Argentine and
31. 1:02US forces to train not just the contras
32. 1:05but nearly all other Central American
33. 1:07militaries led by far-right regimes
34. 1:10Israel would put on workshops for
35. 1:12torture to train interrogators in the
36. 1:14most efficient methods and provided
37. 1:16computer technology to help compile
38. 1:18death lists of dissidents but you know
39. 1:20what at the end of the day the leftist
40. 1:22sandin still ended up kicking their
41. 1:23asses