Behind the Bastards Presents: Weird Little Guys

1519.367 - 1541.3 Molly Conger

He'd actually given the same speech a few weeks earlier in Ghana, but the press didn't pick it up the first time. And I think the whether we like it or not part of that statement matters a lot here. He wasn't advocating for decolonization out of the goodness of his heart. He was reluctantly acknowledging the expensive and bloody political reality of trying to hold on to these colonies at any cost.