2 Ways of adding Context when Quoting Beau’s Videos:
1) Expanding Blockquote:
Beau reports that media traffic numbers are down from 2020.
As a result, he predicts more sensationalism in 2022.
In an attempt to draw the same viewership as 2020 media are going to have to:
give you something sensational to latch on to. Stories that they can milk and keep in the news cycle. That’s what I’ve got my money on. I would be prepared for a lot of sensationalist content to start coming out
2) Inline Contextual Popup:
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In another video, Beau suggests that the problem in Afghanistan was that the US wanted to keep Afghanistan as a weak client state— We wanted the national government in Afghanistan to be just strong enough to do what we told them
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