John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War

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Author and journalist Stephen Kinzer on his book The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War in an interview for Readara.com
John Foster Dulles and Allen Welsh Dulles not only represented the priorities of the Eastern establishment but also the popular anxieties of their times in the 1940s and 1950s. The two Cold War warriors leveraged America’s pervasive paranoia about a communist expansion and the solid grip of U.S. elites on the country’s power structure by exaggerating views of the Soviet power.
The Dulles brothers came to represent the interest of Big Business as the interest of America, viewed the world through the Christian fundamentalism prism and diluted down the nation’s foreign policy to communism versus American capitalism, all this with a fervent belief in American exceptionalism. At that point there was no room for neutral nations in their vision of the world.
In their efforts to project power, the Dulles brothers led the U.S. intervention in Vietnam, Guatemala, Indonesia, Iran, Congo and Egypt with disastrous consequences for these vulnerable nations. While the operations seemed to have succeeded in the short term, they certainly hurt U.S. foreign policy in the long run. Had John Foster Dulles not been involved in the Geneva negotiations in the 50s, the U.S. would have most likely avoided the disastrous war in Vietnam.
Even six decades after the Dulles era, the question of America's role in foreign affairs and how this dominant military and economic power should conduct itself in global politics is still guided by the same narrow interests and prejudices.

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@readara5107 Жыл бұрын

How did Allen Dulles and John Foster Dulles shape U.S. foreign policy for decades ahead? Who was behind their phenomenal rise to power? What were the key factors that shaped their views on the world? Find these and many more answers in our interview with Stephen Kinzer, who explains in detail how the overt and covert sides of American foreign policy became a family affair. Let us know your thoughts in the comment section!

@jumboshrimp5193 Жыл бұрын

And they named an airport after those genocidal maniacs 😂

@readara5107 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for your comment! (Technically speaking, the airport was named after only one of the two brothers.)

@jumboshrimp5193 Жыл бұрын

@@readara5107 whatever

@marceljaff2131 8 ай бұрын

Can the name of the airport not be changed?

@StellarFella 4 ай бұрын

John Foster Dulles died in 1959. The airport was completed when JFK was the new president. It was built in Chantilly, Virginia and was going to be named Chantilly Airport. But Eisenhower, Allen Dulles and others put pressure on JFK to name it after John Foster Dulles.

@ANHNGUYEN-ee5ov Жыл бұрын

Key players in the JFK assassination. Hell awaits.

@chokkan7 Жыл бұрын

While the assasination was in and of itself regrettable, in many respects, JFK brought it upon himself. The whole notion of the White House as Camelot for the 'beautiful people', having the Secret Service run interference while he banged the wives of Senators, the bumbling and inept foreign (and in many cases, domestic) policy, taking MLK and the Black vote for granted, and provoking Hoover and Johnson at every turn...the man (and his brother) made enemies as fast as he could, and he did so with the sense of entitlement characteristic of the Boston Brahmin (which is to say, insufferably). That's not a nod of approval for the work of the Dulles brothers and their network, but an acknowledgment that JFK was a poor chess player.

@badmanskill1112 Жыл бұрын

Key players: Allen Dulles (planning), George HW Bush (Led ground team), J. Edgar Hoover (Cover up), LBJ (Installed after coup).

@Stufftowatch21 Жыл бұрын

And the low level players were Oswald, Rubi , Tippit , etc .

@ANHNGUYEN-ee5ov Жыл бұрын

@@Stufftowatch21 ...Oswald never knew he was being set up,...being a CIA low level operative....Rubi was given a do it or else request to take out Oswald. Gov. connections allowed him into the police garage.

@badmanskill1112 Жыл бұрын

@@Stufftowatch21 Wasn't Tippet the officer that was taken out on the street? And his friends called him JFK as his nickname. I think they planned on using him for the body double because JFKs body had too many holes in it for a single gunman. But they ended up using the magic bullet theory.

@astrogumbo Жыл бұрын

Enjoyed it. Thank you

@readara5107 Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@aboveusall22 Жыл бұрын

An excellent book I purchased and read a few years ago and it excellent interview.

@readara5107 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for your feedback!

@davidchunkyonion Жыл бұрын

Another great book and excellent interview. Can the interviewer please buy a proper microphone? They aren't difficult to find.

@StellarFella 4 ай бұрын

Great point. Many people don't endure the difficulty in listening.

@baylorsailor 2 ай бұрын

Rude much?

@indigenousnorwegianeuropa4145 Жыл бұрын

The Caretakers of the Overlook

@readara5107 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for posting! Life is stranger than fiction...

@baylorsailor 2 ай бұрын

Watertown has a building called the Dulles State Office Building.

@abramgaller2037 Жыл бұрын

Was there a relationship between the Dulles brothers and Prescott Bush ?

@ThillerKillerX Жыл бұрын

Obviously, they always groom the next phycopaths to brainwash them into continuous control for Isreal

@andersahlstroem6415 4 ай бұрын

Yes, there was a relationship between the Dulles brothers (John Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles) and Prescott Bush. John Foster Dulles served as the Secretary of State under President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1959, while his brother Allen Dulles was the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from 1953 to 1961. Both brothers held influential positions in the United States government during the Cold War era, shaping American foreign policy and intelligence operations. Prescott Bush, on the other hand, was a prominent Republican Senator from Connecticut. He served in the Senate from 1952 to 1963. Prescott Bush was also the father of George H. W. Bush, who later became the 41st President of the United States. While there was no direct familial relationship between the Dulles brothers and Prescott Bush, they were all influential figures within the Republican Party and had significant roles in shaping American politics and foreign policy during the mid-20th century. Additionally, they may have interacted professionally or politically due to their positions of power and influence within the government and the Republican Party.

@Pablosky1968 8 ай бұрын

Thank you very much from Spain 😌☀️

@readara5107 8 ай бұрын

You are welcome.

@Pablosky1968 8 ай бұрын

@@readara5107 🤗☀️

@StellarFella 4 ай бұрын

In so many instances, people in foreign countries understand our national history much better than we do ourselves. When dealing with U.S. citizens, their ignorance should be a first given reality to deal with.

@Pablosky1968 4 ай бұрын

@@StellarFella I think this is very real, same happens in Spain with our Civil War ( 1936-1939 ),,, 😌

@StellarFella 4 ай бұрын

Power + Persuasion = OOPS! SUPER OOPS!

@greenvelvet 9 ай бұрын

Please get a sound engineer because I cannot hear the questions. Otherwise this would have been a great interview

@baylorsailor 2 ай бұрын

You must be the only one who could not hear the questions.

@js_guyman Жыл бұрын

Notes for myself 17:25 JFD on Hitler

@readara5107 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for posting!

@js_guyman Жыл бұрын

@Readara thanks for the interview! Love the channel. I make little bookmarks for myself in comments' sections of videos sometimes. Forgot to denote that

@readara5107 Жыл бұрын

@@js_guyman Thanks for your feedback! We really appreciate it.