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🔺 Hasan Illaik explains how Washington exerts control over Lebanon through financial influence, sanctions, and security priorities, rather than through a traditional military presence. Watch in full #BlackBox @PresstvPrograms

🔺"...an addiction to American aid." Hasan Illaik describes how Washington uses military support as a tool of control. Watch in full #BlackBox @PresstvPrograms

🔺“The ultimate goal of the US is to exert complete control over the Lebanese army.” Hasan Illaik reveals how US actions blocked Russian military aid to Lebanon, highlighting Washington’s influence over the country’s sovereignty. Watch in full #BlackBox @PresstvPrograms

🔺 Hasan Illaik says that despite the desperate need for modern arms, Lebanon was steered by US diplomacy to reject Russian military aid, using cost and utility as pretexts. Watch in full #BlackBox @PresstvPrograms

🔺 Hasan Illaik says Putin's donation of military equipment to Lebanon in late 2008 offered the country a chance to rebuild its Air Force, which had declined since before the civil war. Watch in full #BlackBox @PresstvPrograms

🔺 Hasan Illaik exposes how British colonial atrocities in Kenya were justified through racist logic and collective punishment—a mentality echoed in modern Israeli policies. Watch in full #BlackBox @PresstvPrograms

🔺Hasan Illaik explains how the British Empire killed tens of thousands, built mass detention camps, and engineered famine to crush Kenya’s struggle for land and freedom. Watch in full #BlackBox @PresstvPrograms

🔺“Requerimiento remained the guiding document” Hasan Illaik emphasizes that the Requerimiento has been a guiding document in the Global South, symbolizing a history of colonial genocide and ongoing colonial politics that blame victims for colonizers' actions. Watch in full #BlackBox @PresstvPrograms

🔺Illaik argues that, despite international law, colonial politics persist under the control of the collective West and the Global North against the Global South. Watch in full #BlackBox @PresstvPrograms

🔺Britain’s brutal response to Kenya’s uprising Hasan Illaik notes that colonial Britain’s suppression of Kenya’s freedom movement mirrors modern-day occupation violence. Watch in full #BlackBox @PresstvPrograms

🔺“Victims of all crimes… are now being held accountable.” Hasan Illaik highlights how this approach mirrors colonial history, where oppressors blamed the victims to justify their own violence. Watch in full #BlackBox @PresstvPrograms

🔺"This colonial mindset... is not a relic of the past. It's a policy that remains in effect today." Hasan Illaik argues that the justification used by Spanish conquerors to massacre and enslave indigenous peoples is not historical but a continuing policy. Watch in full #BlackBox @PresstvPrograms