Episode 249 - How the US Almost Annexed the Dominican Republic

Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast

Lions Led By Donkeys

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4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2023

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Once upon a time the United States came shockingly close to annexing the Dominican Republic. support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2717114 https://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/61771?lang=en https://news.yahoo.com/1871-us-almost-acquired-dominican-135435379.html https://www.insider.com/annexation-of-santo-domingo-act-ulysses-grant-dominican-republic-2022-7 CORRECTION: Samuel Doe was murdered by Prince Johnson, an ally of Charles Taylor, but not Charles Taylor himself.

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0:35.6	Crow today, and now back to the show. Hello, and welcome to The Lines Led by Donkey's Podcast.
0:42.4	I am Joe, and as per usual, lately with me is Nate. How you doing, Nate?
0:48.4	I'm doing really well. It's about 7.06 a.m. in lovely Lawrence County, Indiana, where I'm visiting
0:54.9	my parents. I don't know if just going basically to Helen back on Jetlag the last time that I
1:04.1	traveled by air, which was touring Australia with the Trash Future Podcast, and then visiting New
1:10.5	Zealand, and then flying all the way back from New Zealand to the UK. Somehow, to my brain,
1:15.3	I've just developed some better coping strategies for Jetlag, because I stayed up to almost 11 p.m.
1:23.2	last night, and I woke up at 6, and I was fine. I have no idea what the fuck's going on.
1:28.0	Normally with Jetlag, I'm like, I'm so tired, and I fall asleep at like 8.30, and I wake up at 2,
1:33.9	completely awake. I didn't happen this time. I have no idea what's going on, but yeah,
1:39.5	I feel like I'm kind of beasting Jetlag, so your guess is as good as mine.
1:42.7	When last time I made the flight from when I was living in Hawaii to Armenia, when I came to
1:49.2	Armenia, I had no Jetlag at all, and when I flew back to Hawaii, it was like getting hit in the
1:54.3	face of the fucking baseball bat. I was Jetlagged for like a week and a half. It was really bad,
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