I wish he write more about his day-to-day experiences and less about the history of Tunisia. I find his analyses of countries politics and history to be shallow.
Tunisia is on my short list. In addition to a lot of Roman ruins, it has been used in movie locations. eg Tatooine in Star Wars.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/sponsored/star-wars-tunisia-f...
https://depart-travel-services.com/en/discover-the-iconic-st...
In addition to Roman ruins, one of the best museums I've been to - the Bardo, with lots of roman mosaics.
Is there any analysis why there was major violent conflict in colonial Algeria with the French, but there was not as much in Tunisia.
Probably just because Algeria was a way bigger deal to France than Tunisia was. It was considered an integral part of France (whereas Tunisia never was) and around a million ethnically French people lived there.
Which would the US have fought harder to keep: Hawaii, or the Marshall Islands?
The US asked France to get out of Tunisia. Then they created the country.
I grew up in Tunisia during the Ben Ali dictatorship in the 90s and the conpiracy theory floating around is he was a CIA trained asset.
Great, but I don't see why it was necessary to present the situation surrounding Jeffrey Epstein or whatever as being a loony radical conspiracy theory. Clearly blackmail is a big component of western political life, he says he's from a western country, but I don't know if this is really a partisan issue. Making that sound like some Q cult alien belief is silly.
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It shows the limitations of what you can learn as a tourist. He would have to team up local residents more to go more in depth. The language barrier doesn't help either.
Still, it's good to know about what your first impressions might be like without actually going there.