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Iran, via third parties that included Israel. In a further refinement of capitalist spy-craft, the proceeds of these sales were used to finance the right-wing Contra rebels, who were attempting to topple the socialist Sandinista government in Nicaragua
Egypt’s new ruler, Field Marshal Sisi, is fawned over by the West, who see him as a vital intermediary between Israel and the Palestinians. Without Riyadh’s approval, there would probably be no President Sisi: Egypt is dependent on Saudi money. The
Czechoslovakia. Brezhnev had ordered the invasion out of a sense of vulnerability—the fear that the “Prague spring” reforms could spread—but the intervention
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