A quarter century after 9/11, Nathan Radke makes the case that understanding what happened requires going back to a Cold War strategy most people never learned about, one built entirely around bleeding the Soviet Union dry in Afghanistan rather than helping the country recover.
That strategy left behind orphaned children, trained fighters, and a power vacuum that a group called the Taliban, a word meaning something far more ordinary than most people assume, eventually filled. Nathan connects that history directly to the rise of a wealthy Saudi man whose name would later become synonymous with the attacks.
He also walks through some of the most common conspiracy claims about that day and explains why the questions are worth asking, while naming the specific ones he believes still deserve real answers, including a claim involving two prominent families that has never been fully resolved.
Topics: 9/11 conspiracy theories explained, Taliban history, Osama bin Laden origin, questioning official narratives, Cold War proxy wars
GUEST: Nathan Radke | @theuncoverup
Originally aired on2026-09-09
