Cold War Fuckery
This cold warrior labelled the USSR the "Evil Empire" and "The focus of evil in the modern world"
Hint: this person also created the "star wars" program
Who is Ronald Reagan
The Department of Defense (the pentagon) is under what branch of government?
What is the executive department?
The Reagan administration gave weaponry to these "freedom fighters" that would later become the Taliban
Hint: Osama Bin Laden became famous during his time as a leader in this group
what is the Mujahadeen?
China has built seven artificial islands in an attempt to project its power into the region and provide stability to this body of water
What is the South China Sea
This is the strategy of mutually assured destruction
The idea that two nuclear powers with enough nuclear weapons to destroy the world would deter any conflict
The United States has around this many military bases
What is more than 700 but we don't really know?
This area is used as an American naval base where suspected terrorists (and those *possibly* in the know) are tortured and surveilled.
What is Guantanamo Bay?
CIA Black Sites would also work for this answer
This organization of 30 European states and the US was created as a collective defense from the USSR and still exists today?
What is NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)?
This operation to assassinate Fidel Castro had the CIA enlisting the help of the America mafia, building lethal (and possibly explosive) cigars and inspiring a revolution with a fireworks display off of the coast of Cuba among other plots
What is Operation Mongoose?
The US military successfully tested this sci-fi weapon in 2020, downing a drown
What is a laser cannon?
"It is throwing massive amounts of photons at an incoming object," Hughes said. "We don't worry about wind, we don't worry about range, we don't worry about anything else. We're able to engage the targets at the speed of light."
Lt. Cale Hughes
This object was thrown at George W Bush during a press conference in Iraq
This man was an Iranian military officer who served in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and was assassinated during the Trump administration sparking fears of a larger Iran-American conflict.
Who is Qasem Soleimani?
These Brothers are responsible for orchestrating coups in Guatemala and Iran (both democratic countries prior to the coups) and greatly helping drag the US into Vietnam.
(Hint: there is an airport named after one of these men)
Who is Allen and John Foster Dulles (the Dulles Brothers)
These are the worst of the worst with personal ties to United Fruit Company (probably the reason we coup-ed Guatemala), orchestrating the MK Ultra mind control program, and The Bay of Pigs. More people should know about these two.
Our current secretary of defense served on the board of directors for this weapons manufacturer
What is Raytheon Technologies?
This piece of U.S. legislation was passed by Congress in response to 9/11 and signed into law by Pres. George W. Bush in October. It significantly expanded the search and surveillance powers of federal law-enforcement and intelligence agencies.
What is the US Patriot Act?
These are the BRICS countries
Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa
These are the "newly advanced" economies in the world. It is now an economic and political institution as well as just a term
This innocent named theory was embraced by President Truman when he pledged to contain (the supposed) communist threats in Greece and Turkey.
What is Rotten Apple Theory?
Similar to the domino effect, this theory compared a communist state to a rotten apple that could spread its infection to an entire barrel if not removed immediately. This thought process would be integral in bringing the US into Vietnam, funding rebel "freedom fighter" groups, and orchestrating coups across the globe.
$43 million of taxpayer money was spent on this service building in Afghanistan
What is a gas station?
a comparable gas station in Pakistan costs around $500,000 for context. When this news broke in 2015, the pentagon could not even confirm that the gas station was operational and was slammed as evidence of corruption in the pentagon and an absurd waste of money.
WFKATGWOT stands for this
hint: it is a title of a conflict
What is he war formerly known as the global war on terrorism?
This man, who acted as the president of Russia from 2008-2012 and prime minister until 2020, recently said that “time hasn’t spared" the 78-year-old President Biden and cited Sigmund Freud as saying, “Nothing costs so much in life as illness and stupidity.”
Who is Dmitry Medvedev?