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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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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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"...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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"...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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"...and so you target things that have huge impact on the civilian uh population as well"
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"...this is going to create a lot of pressure on the civilian population they'll be very angry they might protest against the government okay..."
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"...so create as much havoc as possible over time so the civilian population gets very angry so my best"
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"...blackouts, all right? So again, the intention is not to kill civilians. The intention is not to fight a war. The intention is to,..."
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"Civilians? Civilians? Well, my understanding is that the... There was an Iranian cargo ship that was making transit out of the Strait of Hormuz..."
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A source-grounded reading of the nation-state as war machine: Rousseau turns liberty into sovereignty, Fichte turns language into blood, Bismarck turns welfare into war infrastructure, Mussolini turns myth into death, and 21st-century war turns...
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