The Tapes of The Phantom Pain

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Support the Channel on Patreon for exclusive content, selected works cited, higher resolution vids, & more: www.Patreon.com/Futurasound Become a member on YouTube for early access to videos and exclusive videos! "SKELETONS IN OUR CLOSET" It's been eleven long years, and still no end in sight to the debate surrounding Hideo Kojima's final contribution to 'METAL GEAR', arguably his magnum opus, "MGSV: THE PHANTOM PAIN". In this long-form EVE (electronic virtual essay) series, join Jorin Lee of Futurasound Productions as he walks you through all the secrets still left to uncover about MGSV, with the game's many intel tapes serving as the focus. Our goal is also to achieve the deepest possible understanding of this landmark game, and its many mysteries. In our sixth entry, we cover something that's been at the periphery of MGSV and this channel all along: primarily, the birth of the age of the War on Terrorism, and what it has to do with MGSV, set as the game is during the Afghan-Soviet war throughout the 1980s. We've already covered fairly extensively other crucial aspects to Afghanistan for MGSV, like the relevance of Osama bin Laden, and the history of its many wars. But this is the first video on the channel to explore the 'Safari Club', the private networks that the CIA used to covertly fuel this Cold War proxy conflict, and the involvement of Saudi Arabia. By the end, hopefully you'll better understand MGSV - its civil war, sudden betrayals, and its conveniently perpetual war economy. MGSV, in a dark mirror of our own recent history, depicts a world where political power has grown so great and decentralized that no one person or faction controls the whole thing or sees the whole picture. It's a post-truth world where profits trump people, where war has changed into a new kind of business. In short, it's "a society that murders the innocent". 0:00 - Introduction 02:55 - Part One "Summary" 04:34 - Part Two "Ocelot's Briefing [3]" 15:23 - Part Three "Afghanistan Today [2]" 18:55 - Part Four "Historical Context [1]" 32:02 - Part Five "Historical Context [2]" 44:18 - Outro "National security spending has grown nearly 50% since 2000, and the Pentagon budget alone will soon reach the trillion-dollar threshold." "The Ugly Truth About the Permanent War Economy" https://www.stimson.org/2024/the-ugly-truth-about-the-permanent-war-economy/ "Pakistani and Saudi spies...joined Afghan commanders...in [the Soviet-Afghan Conflict], a regional war that shifted so often, it existed in a permanent shroud. Some of these local powers and spies were partners of the CIA. Some pursued competing agendas. Many did both at once." - Ghost Wars by Steve Coll (2004)