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Jiang pushes the thought experiment onward by asking what the ally will do once he sees the marriage alliance is secured through family terror rather than ordinary consent.
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Alliance
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The student explicitly raises the possibility that the friend may try to withdraw once the marriage appears morally contaminated and politically unstable.
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The student argues that once the friend sees the coercion, the marriage no longer produces power or alliance but instead destroys the very family and political order it was meant to secure.
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Jiang reinforces that the friend would inherit moral and reputational contamination by aligning himself with a man willing to threaten his own mother.
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The lecture is summarized as showing the alliance between Sabbatean/Frankist networks and the British Empire.
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Intermarriage is a political technology: kings and princes use marriages to form alliances, but marriage can also require religious conversion.
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Caesar forms the First Triumvirate with Pompey and Crassus because all three are blocked by the Senate and can trade political support for each other's goals.
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The First Triumvirate works because Pompey, Crassus, and Caesar each have issues blocked by the Senate, so political expediency lets them cooperate despite being enemies.
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"okay so this is hard okay but i want you guys to imagine this it's really hard but what's happened is the brother says..."
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"fine i surrender what happens to the friend now i think i think he'll feel really bad about it and maybe just like can..."
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"you're that friend it's very hard to go through the marriage right"
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"...he's like why do you want to get married uh for alliance yeah for power right yeah okay so so if"
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"you are a person helping on power and you see the scenario you're like screw this i'm not getting"
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"...that family apart i guess yeah you're not actually forming the alliance that you want what would the people think"
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"of you uh the mother slayer yes and what would what your soldiers think of you yeah yeah cool yeah okay so it's really..."
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"He's ecstatic about it, right? Because the point of this alliance is to build an AI surveillance state in the world. And it's the..."
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"...will be part of a much more larger S outheast Asia alliance You know Vietnam Ph ilipp ines M al ays ia Ind ones..."
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"And they will. Well, and I just think that they've got the ability to pull it off. I mean, you've got a population of..."
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"them or what kind of relationship do they have that they're, and also one thing that I've always said is, Israel, this whole ally,..."
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"reactive alliance to meet its short -term needs you can't think strategically you can't plan ahead and say like more like 20 years time..."
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