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Russian eastward expansion is presented as an escape from oppression, misery, and slavery, not as state-planned opportunity-seeking; this makes Russian fatalism different from American optimism.
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Russian eastward expansion is presented as an escape from oppression, misery, and slavery, not as state-planned opportunity-seeking; this makes Russian fatalism different from American optimism.
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The American Revolution is explained through three pressures: British limits on westward expansion, British attempts to tax colonists for defense, and mercantilist trade restrictions.
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Han conflict with northern steppe peoples gradually becomes cooperation and dependency through trade, intermarriage, and mercenary use.
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"This is basically Ukraine. This is what's driving the invasion, because historically, most of the wealth in Russia has been located in the Ukraine..."
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"So, that's what's driving this. And what will happen is, as these people move further eastwards, the state will follow them in order to..."
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"So, these people who are being conquered, they're either being ethnic cleansed, or they're being forced to immigrate, or they're being enslaved. It's a..."
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"...forced to move out west to settle territory in the western frontier of these colonies. Okay? But as you know, these areas are inhabited..."
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"In fact, at this stage in history, it is the British people, not the American people, that are paying for the defense of these..."
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"Mercantilism is the idea that all trade should be directed by the state for the purpose of generating wealth for the state. And so..."
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"steps people have proven to be the most daunting challenge for civilizations they are extremely they're ferocious warriors and the step people were the..."
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"a lot of trade, there will be a lot of intermarriage, and the steppe people will be hired as mercenaries for internal conflicts within..."
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"...come and gone several times. Since the treaties of Vienna, our frontiers have been ill -designed for a healthy body politic. Not through speeches..."
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"that the frontier has been settled, now that the borders have been controlled, a few people are now controlling all the money, which leads..."
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"...about one incident where a Roman legion went off to a frontier. And the natives confronted them, and they were outnumbered. So the Roman..."
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"...come and gone several times. Since the treaties of Vienna, our frontiers have been ill -designed for a healthy body politic. Not through speeches..."
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America begins here as a cure for civilization: a clean-slate game built from Enlightenment rights, self-help, property, and fair rules.
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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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