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Crimean WAR

The Crimean War alliance is presented as a financial trap: British and French support helped the Ottomans militarily but saddled them with debt and foreign tax administration.

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Claim stated in the December 16, 2025 lecture.

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The Crimean War alliance is presented as a financial trap: British and French support helped the Ottomans militarily but saddled them with debt and foreign tax administration.

Timestamped Evidence

Modernity Needs A Scapegoat

2025-12-16, day precision · Secret History #27: Empire of Evil

Transcript

"...1853, Russia attacked the Ottoman Empire. And this led to the Crimean War. The British and the French feared Russian expansionism. And so they..."

Modernity Needs A Scapegoat

2025-12-16, day precision · Secret History #27: Empire of Evil

Transcript

"And so from now on, a third of all revenue, tax revenue, that the Ottoman Empire generated would go directly to the French and..."

Stalin Warped History To His Will

2025-06-10, day precision · Civilization #59: The Man of Steel

Transcript

"...in Europe, in Russian history, because that's when Russia loses the Crimean War to the Ottoman Empire backed by the French and the British...."

Stalin Warped History To His Will

2025-06-10, day precision · Civilization #59: The Man of Steel

Transcript

"But in 1853 and 1856, after Russia loses the Crimean War, Russia understands that It is backward and agricultural compared with Europe. So Alexander..."

Russia And The Mystery Of The Heart

2025-05-20, day precision · Civilization #53: Dostoevsky and the Soul of Russia

Transcript

"...Okay? The Crimea. And this will lead to something called the Crimean War in 1854. Okay? So, Peter the Great, again, he wins because..."

The Empire of Myth

2025-04-29, day precision · Civilization #48: Napoleon's Empire of Myth

Transcript

"...no more wars in Europe, okay? Until maybe 1856 during the Crimean War, okay?"

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Modernity Needs A Scapegoat

2025-12-16, day precision · claims

Reading

A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on transnational capital, British sea empire, Frankist revolutionary theology, Disraeli’s Coningsby, Bolshevism, Marx, Bakunin, and Freud: modernity appears as a machine that hides capital, displays a scapegoat, turns...

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