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The recurring pressure on marginal powers that destroys weakness by forcing competition, unity, innovation, and resilience.
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creative destruction
The recurring pressure on marginal powers that destroys weakness by forcing competition, unity, innovation, and resilience.
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Glossary
A recurring British pattern in which conquest and settlement replace elites and bring new cultural tools.
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The Mesopotamian belief, in Jiang's reading, that creating the new requires destroying the old.
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Moscow fits Jiang's recurring model that marginal powers can overwhelm apparent great powers because disadvantage forces creative destruction, toughness, and innovation.
diagnosis
Because Britain was divided, poor, and repeatedly invaded, its elites were constantly replaced and its people were pushed overseas; Jiang treats this as the accidental path into empire.
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Britain's three innovation drivers are open cooperative competition, creative destruction through elite replacement, and colonial expansion caused by pressure to migrate overseas.
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Jiang defines Mesopotamian creative destruction as the belief that to create something new one must destroy the old; Tiamat represents the old that must be destroyed so a new civilization can be built.
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"...the day. Okay? So, for Moscow, it's a constant process of creative destruction."
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"First of all, open, cooperative competition. So, they're always surrounded by these adversaries, and because they don't really lack, and because they don't have..."
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"What Putin himself has said in multiple interviews is there are historical, sociological, philosophical issues at work here. And Westerners don't really understand what..."
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"Remember, when we discussed the Aztecs, the Aztecs were very much a poor, isolated, backward people. But eventually, through innovation, through tenacity, through resilience,..."
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"...the Viking culture with the Anglo -Saxon culture. This process of creative destruction continues with the Norman conquest of England. This is year 1066...."
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"...So throughout its history, Britain had underwent a series of great destruction, where the elites were constantly replaced by new elites. Okay? And because..."
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"And this process of colonial expansion led to the British Empire. Okay? So there's a famous saying that the British Empire was founded by..."
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"...open cooperative competition which I'll explain okay secondly said you have creative destruction meaning the elite is being constantly replaced by a new elite..."
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"...what improvement is. But in Mesopotamia they believe in something called creative destruction. Which is to say in order to create something new you..."
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The lecture starts with Putin and Ukraine, but it does not stay in policy.
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Britain becomes empire not because it begins powerful, but because it begins divided, poor, exposed, and forced to change.
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Mesopotamia turns geography into mythology: where Egypt imagines divine generosity and pyramidal immortality, the land between two uncooperative rivers learns struggle, creative destruction, and the more fragile immortality of being remembered by the people...
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