Part One: The Dumbest Colonizer in History

All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. The Truth Behind the Alleged Terror Plot at the White House UFC Fight An Update from Belfast The Condition of the Trans Working Class in America Executive Disorder: Prairieland Sentencing, DOGE De ...  Show more

Robert concludes the life story of Ian Smith by explaining the Rhodesian Bush War, and how prejudice led to military disaster.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

In the mid-1800s, the United States was a young nation awash with mercenaries, adventurers, and entrepreneurs looking to take advantage of the country’s ever-expanding boundaries. Into this chaotic atmosphere stepped a young lawyer and newspaper editor from Tennessee named Willia ...  Show more

The infamous Boston Tea Party sees colonists dressed as Native Americans dump British tea in the surrounding waters. Calls of “the British are coming!” rally untrained militias to stand together against one of the most advanced militaries in the world. The two sides have their fi ...  Show more

“America, late the strength, now the foe to Britain, dismembered, torn, I fear forever lost to England, whence she sprung.” The American Revolution came about due to growing tensions between the American colonies and Great Britain, primarily over issues of taxation and representa ...  Show more

“Come on, you Wolverines!” The story of the American Indian Wars of 1862-68 is an enthralling tale of hubris, politics, recklessness, and the merciless assault of industrialisation and modernity on an old world, nearly extinguished. An immense tragedy, it is also a story of great ...  Show more