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The vietnam war most of them were born after 1905 the majority of the population there. Are living costs rarely exceed 2000. 00 a month which is. You know the average cost for health care here for retirees even and its a lot of things are very expensive out of pocket out of network all that sort of stuff so he said quote the cost of living is so low its a communist country but if i blind folded you and put you in downtown saigon you wouldnt know it and im going to say that america is technically a capitalist country but if i blindfolded you and put you in downtown new york you wouldnt know it because there is you know the central bank is printing money a command and control to keep the stock markets afloat to keep the banks afloat so the same could go back and forth and thats why i think we have americans moving to vietnam also cambodia the article mentions for the cheaper the better standard of living but also are only capitalism versus communism right its an autocracy versus a klepto
Past week weve heard a lot about escalation deescalation and what is proportionate weve also heard the words war this is how the u. S. Ran complex describe what is not talked enough about is the necessity of ending the American Military presence in the middle east these endless wars must cease. Talking the us around conflict im joined by my guest Mohammad Marandi and to him hes a professor at the university of toronto in washington we have christopher and i when he is founder of American Veterans policy network and in iraq war veteran and in sydney we cross the alley risk he is a middle east expert as well as contributor with a monitor all right crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate when home and let me go to you 1st here if you were to believe the media things are settling down a little bit after this tumultuous week involving the United States iran and the entire region and were going to talk a lot about iraq here where do thing