Let's talk about the 80s, Grenada, and a history quirk....
Belle of the Ranch
Belle of the Ranch
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🗓️ 3 May 2022
⏱️ 7 minutes
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| 0:21.0 | Well, howdy there, internet people people it's bow again so today we're going to talk |
| 0:26.4 | about the 80s and Grenada and a bizarre little historical quirk in the way the United States remembers history. |
| 0:38.6 | In a recent video, I made an offhand comment about there being a military alliance in the Caribbean. |
| 0:46.0 | And it prompted way more questions that I ever would have imagined. |
| 0:50.0 | People asking what it was, why didn't it stop the U.S. invasion of Grenada, so on and so forth. |
| 0:56.6 | So we're going to kind of go through that. |
| 0:58.8 | We're going to talk about the regional security system, that's the alliance, and we're going to talk about Grenada, because in the |
| 1:06.5 | U.S. the perception of Grenada, the collective memory of what happened there is widely shaped by a movie called |
| 1:17.1 | Heartbreak Ridge. |
| 1:19.7 | Why did the U.S. invade Grenada? Right now you're probably saying medical students because |
| 1:26.2 | that's what most the country believes and that's based from that movie. The Marines go ashore, rescue the students, fight troops |
| 1:37.4 | from Grenada, and I want to say some from Cuba, and that's the end of it, right? That's not a good summary of what occurred. |
| 1:47.0 | So, there was a, I don't want to call it a coup because I legitimately believe that large portions of what happened to there |
| 2:00.8 | was an actual accident. They didn't mean for it to. So let's say |
| 2:07.1 | there was a forcible change of government in the country and some of the |
| 2:11.4 | leadership did not make it. That didn't survive that change of |
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