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Jiang's label for small trade powers such as Venice that extract advantage from larger imperial systems.
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Empire parasite
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Venice becomes powerful precisely because it lacks resources and must use trade, piracy, diplomacy, and imperial parasitism to survive.
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"It's a private bank. It's a private interest. They print money, and the government, how's it gonna spend money? It borrows from the Federal..."
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"All right, so this is Venice today. And as you can see, it would be very hard to invade. Also, remember, at this time,..."
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"...small city -states do that's very effective is that they become parasites on the empire, okay? So Venice can take its wealth and bribe..."
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