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"Feels like a valuable primer. Suggests US that Iran (the shah) rightly viewed US as more friendly/principled/helpful than either Britain or USSR late in WWII, which were eager to take its oil wealth (both) and its territory (USSR). That kicking Soviets out of Azerbaijan in 1946 was politically tricky, & was the first real action in the Cold War…" — Mar 10, 2026 01:04AM
"Feels like a valuable primer. Suggests US that Iran (the shah) rightly viewed US as more friendly/principled/helpful than either Britain or USSR late in WWII, which were eager to take its oil wealth (both) and its territory (USSR). That kicking Soviets out of Azerbaijan in 1946 was politically tricky, & was the first real action in the Cold War…" — Mar 10, 2026 01:04AM
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"The ignorance of this author punches you in the face in Chapter 1 and keeps punching. Maybe it’s an act?
This is the man who led the Jewish Battalion in Palestine, 1917-18. He thinks the Balfour Declaration was a clear statement of an unambiguous policy of his gov’t. & that European Jews who oppose a Jewish nation in the Holy Land are ignorant. He presents as sincere, honest, honorable, and dumb as a rock." — Mar 10, 2026 12:54AM
"The ignorance of this author punches you in the face in Chapter 1 and keeps punching. Maybe it’s an act?
This is the man who led the Jewish Battalion in Palestine, 1917-18. He thinks the Balfour Declaration was a clear statement of an unambiguous policy of his gov’t. & that European Jews who oppose a Jewish nation in the Holy Land are ignorant. He presents as sincere, honest, honorable, and dumb as a rock." — Mar 10, 2026 12:54AM
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