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Jiang's genetic definition: conquest kills or displaces people so their genes do not survive into the present.
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Conquest
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Napoleon. Who else? Hitler. Hitler. Okay, guys, guys, this is year 1300, okay? So let's not go too far. They don't even know who..."
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Jiang says Alexander and Julius Caesar did the same basic thing as great conquerors who killed many people for personal glory, which makes their different placements a major interpretive problem.
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He says Proto-Indo-European mythology is organized around a conquest logic in which killing the person you love, especially a twin, becomes a route to power.
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He argues that Russia can survive economically without China because it can shift into a total-war economy in which conquest itself becomes the engine of wealth.
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He predicts that post-Putin Russia could spend ten to twenty years conquering outward because few neighboring societies are as militarized as Russia.
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Borderland tribes gain their path to conquest because imperial factions invite them in as mercenaries, giving them wealth, technology, weapons, and political access.
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Jiang says Frank portrays Moses, David, Solomon, and prior religious pillars as slaves who could not see or conquer the true structure of the world.
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Conquest lets winners impose history and identity because the defeated are no longer allowed to speak or think for themselves.
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The steppe mythology replaces mother-goddess harmony with a sky-god religion of conquest, exploitation, killing, and stealing.
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"Napoleon. Who else? Hitler. Hitler. Okay, guys, guys, this is year 1300, okay? So let's not go too far. They don't even know who..."
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"...the world. And they did so with a certain mythology of conquest. Okay? And at the very basis of this mythology is that... You..."
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"...move towards a total war economy and really focus on the conquest of its neighbors, especially Ukraine, but also the Baltic states as well,..."
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"This is a great question. Okay? So first of all, I think Putin's going to live a lot longer than people believe. Okay? I..."
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"is very much an Empire in decline so if you look at all these empires in history and how they behave uh when they..."
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"Now we understand why ultimately the Borderlands, the tribes in the Borderlands, are able to conquer the Empire, or the equilibrium, okay? Does that..."
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"So they'll trade with you, but they'll also steal from you, and they'll also come and fight for you, okay? What's important is that..."
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"Same thing happened with the Macedonians, right? The Macedonians came in and helped one city -state, then they conquered one city -state and moved..."
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"there are a lot, a lot of examples of the Gnostic approach to the way that expanded their body and situated themselves in God's..."
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"And the bear runs away. And this story, it's just a beautiful story, right? But it shows you the power of love. How four..."
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"and so what we need to do is come together as a new nation and conquer these people and lead them for their own..."
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"Keep on reading, Alan. That place to where I go all have knocked so that the door be opened to them. The patriarchs, the..."
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