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Stalin could survive catastrophic-looking mistakes because the Great Purge made his authority absolute and eliminated any possibility of challenge.
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Divide AND Conquer
Stalin could survive catastrophic-looking mistakes because the Great Purge made his authority absolute and eliminated any possibility of challenge.
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The standard scholarly explanation for Spanish conquest is a three-factor model: epidemic disease, divide-and-conquer exploitation of internal conflicts, and European superiority in weapons and technology.
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Starting around the Song, emperors solve the elite-threat problem by localizing elites and using divide-and-conquer against them.
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"...spying on these spies. Okay? So he created this, like, divide -and -conquer system within the Soviet Union, which made his power absolutely absolute...."
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"this morning is, how did a few thousand conquistadors, Spanish mercenaries, basically, how were they able to conquer millions and millions, millions of indigenous..."
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"...of the Song, he's actually figured out a way to divide and conquer the elite, okay? So, the elite, when they are united, they..."
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"...localize the elites, you can implement a policy we call divide and conquer. Okay? So you get the elites in this province to fight..."
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"...strangle... Sorry. When they destroy your infrastructure. And when they divide and conquer, according to game theory, there's only one response. Okay? There's only..."
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"...the establishment loved him the left always hated him because divide and conquer is what the establishment does but um that now they he"
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"...infiltrated by the deep state and control that it's all divide and conquer. And so this, like the union, so it's going to be..."
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"...on maintaining and protecting its core strategic interests. That means divide and conquer, okay? Divide and conquer, divide and rule, okay? I'll explain this..."
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"...happened was that they built different strategies in order to divide and conquer Europe. What they would do is promote revolutionary movements using transnational..."
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"...soldiers, right? Kill civilians. Destroy supply lines. Overstretch your enemy. Divide and conquer. Strike fear in your enemy. Kill their gods. Okay? If you..."
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"Okay, so Persia wanted to divide and conquer the Levant, okay? They're afraid that if the Levant becomes too stable, the Levant might settle..."
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"...for the emperor, for the political class to unite, to divide and conquer us. So, you are free to separate your religion, you are..."
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Disease, steel, horses, and divide-and-conquer matter.
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China had the technologies that made modernity possible, then built a political culture that made those technologies inert.
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