How Proxy Wars Took Over the World
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The world’s great powers have found a new way to fight for dominance. It’s called proxy war – and it’s remaking our world.
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Jeremy Shapiro, Research Director at the European Council on Foreign Relations
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-- VIDEO CHAPTERS --
0:00 Intro
2:29 Proxy Wars Are Different?
9:15 Proxy Wars IRL
16:13 Proxy Wars Today
23:00 Ukraine
25:23 Where’s China?
Correction:
18:57 A map in an earlier version of this video mistakenly highlighted Zambia as one of several countries to have intervened in the Democratic Republic of Congo. It has been fixed to correctly indicate Zimbabwe, not Zambia.
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Johnny Harris is an Emmy-winning independent journalist and contributor to the New York Times. Based in Washington, DC, Harris reports on interesting trends and stories domestically and around the globe, publishing to his audience of over 5 million on Youtube. Harris produced and hosted the twice Emmy-nominated series Borders for Vox Media. His visual style blends motion graphics with cinematic videography to create content that explains complex issues in relatable ways.
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