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The Mongols are modeled as borderland people with energy, openness, and opportunism fighting empires with mass, organization, and depth.
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The Mongols are modeled as borderland people with energy, openness, and opportunism fighting empires with mass, organization, and depth.
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An empire has mass, organization, and strategic depth; a borderland lacks those but has compensating advantages that make interaction explosive.
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Borderlands compensate for weakness through energy, openness, cooperative competition, and opportunism.
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"Okay, remember, the Mongols are a borderland people and they're fighting empires. And remember, if you're a borderland, okay, borderland, empire, you have three..."
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"...the energy of the empire will start to transfer to the borderlands. And the borderlands itself will expand. Okay? And until it comes into..."
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"An empire and a borderland culture, they are almost complete opposites of each other. Their advantages mirror their disadvantages. They compensate for each other's..."
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"...That's the three major advantages of empire. If you are a borderland, you have none of these advantages. Okay? But you have three other..."
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"...pillage across Europe. Okay? So that's the main advantage of the borderlands. Okay? Does that make sense? Okay. Okay. So, again, the borderlands have..."
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"...make sense? So these are the three major advantages of the borderlands. And I want you to remember this idea because it will repeat..."
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Genghis Khan is not explained by saying the Mongols were uniquely evil.
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