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He argues that the nation-state idea became so powerful that defeating it required destroying civilian populations, not merely killing soldiers.
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...more soldiers with more weapons. So we need to destroy the civilian population. That's how you win the war, okay? And that's how they..."
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"...more soldiers with more weapons. So we need to destroy the civilian population. That's how you win the war, okay? And that's how they..."
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"So as you can see, because of the rise of the nation state, we had to kill more and more people in order to..."
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"...States and Israel are going to do is start targeting critical civilian infrastructure, such as power plants, such as bridges, such as railways, such..."
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"...to cross that line? It would lead to destruction of the civilian population, okay? And then Israel doesn't really need to destroy Iran. Israel..."
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"...out my question for the final exam is if an ai civilian state"
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"Yeah. Explain that American needs an AI civilian state, operations dreaded a Stargate to manage domestic rebellion against a coming national draft. You also..."
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"...there's going to be a lot of resistance towards an AI civilian state. This is exactly right, okay? And there's really nothing anyone can..."
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"...and fight exactly next the world will move towards an ai civilian state so if you do online it's being recorded to figure out..."
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"...lanes. And it tries not to use infantry because that creates civilian casualties and that pisses everyone off in America, okay? The Israelis are..."
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"...is really and so the point is to kill as many civilians as possible before you want to kill as many soldiers as possible..."
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"...is to use the population against the state, to turn the civilians against the government by sowing as much discord and dissent as possible..."
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"...different peoples in Iran, okay? And the third thing is destroy civilian infrastructure. Basically, I want to destroy people's capacity to access water, electricity,..."
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