Vance slays another high-ranking historian with a tweet
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Need to start talking about the Master Narrative and how it was and is constructed. How many Americans know that HW ran the CIA? How many of them know what a “client state” is? The answer to Bush’s response lies in there.
Most Americans don't even know a thing about HW, let alone his actions. He is from "the before time" in modern discourse and that leaves him entirely up in the air for any media narratives.
is that anything like a vassal state?
Yes, in fact for a country the size of Kuwait vassal state is probably a better descriptor.
honestly, i feel like ninety percent of the nations the u.s. is involved with, especially the ones in the middle east, are vassal states in all but name...
Agreed. The House of Saud is an old line ruling family and Saudi Arabia would be a client state, but the rest that are under our umbrella are better called vassal states. I think Iran would have been a client state until Ayatollah came in. You know, when one country calls you Great Satan they might just be an asshole, but when 77 countries call you Great Satan and you look into the teachings of the Ayatollah, contrary to what the news said, he isn't entirely wrong.