Bitter Lake (2015)

Directors

Adam Curtis

The story

Bitter Lake attempts to explain several complex and interconnected narratives. One of the narratives is how past governments, including Russia and the West, with their continued, largely failing, interventions in Afghanistan, have kept repeating such failures, without properly understanding the country's cultural background or its past political history and societal structure. The film also outlines the US's alliance with Saudi Arabia, especially the US's agreement to buy Saudi oil, for control of a key energy supplier during the cold-war era, with Saudi Arabia gaining wealth and security in return.

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