A friend suggested this was worth a watch and defo if you've got the time it does make a convincing narrative for why today is so screwed up based on some interlinked events a generation+ ago coupled with weak politicians in the UK and US in the intervening years who were happy to pretend the world was simpler than it actually was. In short it traces the path from Kissinger screwing the Palestinians over in the '70s through the financial crashes to where we are today with huge swathes of the Arab world destabilised and the most unlikely inept leaders either side of the Atlantic.
Any readers of Private Eye will be familiar with some of the material and it does miss the manipulations of Saudi out of the equation.
Any readers of Private Eye will be familiar with some of the material and it does miss the manipulations of Saudi out of the equation.