I feel like the most obvious contenders are Iran and Vietnam. Libya, Chile, and perhaps a broad topic like the Cold War specifically honing in on the US and the Soviets could be really interesting.

Also given that they teased Ukraine at the end of s4 a Soviet season could tie in nicely to ease into talking about Ukraine for season 6 although that really depends on how things play out given the war is still going on and who knows where we’ll be going into 2025. (S5 is totally out of the question for talking about the current war imo) a broad topic like that could prove a challenge fitting it into ten episodes they may have to do some hour and a half episodes for this one as not to feel rushed.

Vietnam would be fun because I feel like all the ho-chi-Minh action would be sick as hell. Lots of intrigue and overlap with what was happening in Vietnam with what was happening with the wider left in the US would be dope as hell.

Iran would be extremely good. The buildup to the fall of the shah could be a whole season in of it’s self without even getting to the contemporary era plus lots of leftist intrigue going on in that period.

  • cynesthesia [any]English
    24•2 years ago

    libya and gaddafi from the 70s-80s through operation open air slave market-ghazi or whatever the 2011 NATO operation was called

    Iran and the shah/the revolution

    the series of Indochina wars in and around vietnam including the precursors to the invasion of vietnam by the Americans

    southern Africa bush wars and how they influenced South Africa’s apartheid system

    American/western support of the KMT and how it influenced modern taiwan

      • cynesthesia [any]English
        10•2 years ago

        plus you could start it with a great media moment that everyone over a certain age has heard but I bet no one today understands - why the fuck are the libyans the bad guys in the original back to the future?