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S6 Episode 8 - "Cut Off Their Hands"

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Society & Culture

4.83.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2026

⏱️ 77 minutes

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The Reagan Doctrine puts Angola in the crosshairs as aid to UNITA is uncorked. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:10.1

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0:18.5

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0:23.5

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0:29.8

Now this does not mean, as some would have us, believe, that we're in imminent danger of nuclear war.

0:35.8

We're not. As long as we maintain the strategic balance

0:39.5

and make it more stable by reducing the level

0:41.6

of weapons on both sides,

0:43.5

then we can count on the basic prudence

0:45.4

of the Soviet leaders to avoid that kind of challenge to us.

0:49.6

They're presently challenging us with a different kind of weapon,

0:52.9

subversion and the use of surrogate forces,

0:56.0

Cubans, for example.

0:57.0

We've seen it intensifying during the last 10 years as the Soviet Union and its surrogates

1:02.0

moved to establish control over Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia,

1:07.0

Cambodia, South Yemen, Afghanistan, and recently closer to home in Nicaragua and now El Salvador.

1:16.5

It's the fate of this region, Central America, but I want to talk to you about tonight.

1:21.7

The issue is our effort to promote democracy and economic well-being in the face of Cuban

1:26.8

and Nicaraguan aggression,

1:28.3

aided and debated by the Soviet Union. It is definitely not about plans to send American

1:34.3

troops into combat in Central America. Each year, the Soviet Union provides Cuba with $4 billion

1:41.3

in assistance, and it sends tons of weapons to foment revolution here in our

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