What do you folks think blowback s5 should be about?
What do you folks think blowback s5 should be about?
I feel like the most obvious contenders are Iran and Vietnam. Libya, Chile, and perhaps a broad topic like the Cold War specifically honing in on the US and the Soviets could be really interesting.
Also given that they teased Ukraine at the end of s4 a Soviet season could tie in nicely to ease into talking about Ukraine for season 6 although that really depends on how things play out given the war is still going on and who knows where we’ll be going into 2025. (S5 is totally out of the question for talking about the current war imo) a broad topic like that could prove a challenge fitting it into ten episodes they may have to do some hour and a half episodes for this one as not to feel rushed.
Vietnam would be fun because I feel like all the ho-chi-Minh action would be sick as hell. Lots of intrigue and overlap with what was happening in Vietnam with what was happening with the wider left in the US would be dope as hell.
Iran would be extremely good. The buildup to the fall of the shah could be a whole season in of it’s self without even getting to the contemporary era plus lots of leftist intrigue going on in that period.
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Libya would be a really good one. Fits well with the previous seasons and gets ignored by the US media.
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Yeah, I think one on the South African Bush Wars would be good, considering the Rhodesiaboos and the Afrikaners who cry out mass white farmowner genocide in that area...
Vietnam would be a good choice. You could go all the way back to WWI and Wilson denying an audience with Ho Chi Minh at Versailles. One of history's greatest betrayals. Culminate with the time Vietnam got sick of the Khmer Rouge's shit, invaded Cambodia, liberated the country and then still had skirmishes with Khmer guerrillas that were hiding near the Thai border unto the 80s. Ted Kennedy and Reagan supported them. Fucking bastards.
I've told this story before but my aunt basically lost her entire family because of Pol Pot. She was rescued by the Vietnamese soldiers. Her father starved himself to death so he could pass his children his food allotment. Vietnam had to ship extra food to their soldiers because they gave their rations to all those starving people. Shits bleak but it's a story that needs wider attention.
The Philippines
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They've mentioned wanting to do Gladio before. That gets my vote.
Either Gladio and political terrorism in Europe, or COINTELPRO and domestic terrorism in the US.
Curveball guess? Maybe something covering the Balkans/Caucasus depending on the conflict in Armenia turns out and maybe dabbling down into Greece and Italy, get some Gladio in there if things get a little sparse.
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(curveball was the pseudonym of one of the iraq WMDs sources mentioned in blowback)
Balkans would be interesting. Some Mujahideen fighters were actually sent there by the US to stir up trouble, but they were stabbed in the back and forced to either return to their countries of origin or be arrested. I've heard (though unfortunately, I can't for the life of me think where) that this was one of the real reasons for 9/11 - Bin Laden was pissed off that the CIA fucked him and his friends over.
Idk about you but that sounds like it'd be part of the show...
besides that, the Yugoslav wars would be interesting as a small part of the show, perhaps like "Red-Handed Sleight of Hand" where they focus on Socdem Guatemala's coup d'etat, in context of Revolutionary Cuba's actions...
I’d love for it to be Libya, in fact that was my S4 guess before they announced Afghanistan. That’s such a forgotten topic despite how much of a boogeyman Libya and Gaddafi were for the US in the 80s (“Libyan nationalists” in Back to the Future, Gaddafi expy in Transformers etc.)
Honestly maybe it's outside the stated subject domain but I think East Germany would be a cool topic