He treats Marx's residence in capitalist Britain and comfortable middle-class life as suspicious facts that raise the question of why a capitalist power tolerated and indirectly supported a revolutionary theorist.
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Britain
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Jiang says Freud protected his Frankist patrons and was rewarded with fame, British protection, and institutional spread.
Jiang differentiates Yamnaya conquest outcomes by local circumstance: genocide in Britain, male-line replacement in Spain, and caste hierarchy rather than full genocide in India.
He argues that anti-immigrant violence in Britain after the Southport attack shows how immigration becomes a civil-conflict trigger even when the accused attacker was not himself an immigrant.
Jiang rejects the democracy-versus-freedom mythology of Britain versus Germany and instead explains British opposition through Mackinder-style fear of a heartland power uniting Eurasia and bypassing sea control with railways.
Jiang says that in 1935 an alliance of America, Britain, and Germany against the Soviet Union looked like the most likely scenario because elites saw Nordic capitalist peoples opposed to Slavic communism.
British foreign policy seeks balance of power in Europe, so the German Empire proclaimed in 1871 becomes a threat Britain must challenge.
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"...I think a lot of that stems from the fact that Britain was an island right in an island you're very provincial you're very..."
"...is a German citizen, but he spent all his time in Britain. He was exiled from Germany because... He advocated for a world revolution...."
"...allow him to do that? That's a question for us, right? Britain is the most capitalist country in the world at this time, 19th..."
"Okay? The entire purpose of parliament and the courts, okay, the judicial system, is to ensure that your private property is protected, no matter..."
"...transferred over to England. He could basically blockade England. So what Britain did was they financed seven wars against Napoleon. And they lost six..."
"...Germany as a regional power increased. So in 1871, for example, Britain produced twice as much steel as Germany, which was a good indicator..."
"Yet all its major waterways that is outside, you know, internally in Germany are patrolled and controlled by the British. It's... It doesn't really..."
"Yet they're supposed to be the only country in Europe which doesn't have a seat at the table. So all these red flags should......"
"Look, I mean, for the past current years, Britain, Great Britain, has been the chief instigator of wars throughout the world. You know, you..."
"And it would negate sea trade. And so Britain would collapse economically, militarily. Demographically. And so for the past 200 years, Britain has been..."
"And of course you have to be canceled immediately. But I thought the Eurasian heartland comment was interesting though. As you said it derives..."
"This is why we did the Crimean war. Against the Russians as well. In the mid 19th century. But now when you push Russia..."
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