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War-cost transfers imposed on the defeated side; Jiang uses the Napoleonic example to frame a hoped-for future attempt to dump Ukraine-war debts onto Russia.
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indemnities
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...financing the war it wins the war and it can exact indemnities on France right it's like going to a casino you lose a..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...financing the war it wins the war and it can exact indemnities on France right it's like going to a casino you lose a..."
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Jiang characterizes Britain's imperial base as financial and says that once such a power commits capital to war, it becomes trapped into continuing because retreat would lock in losses and foreclose the chance to recover them through victory and indemnities.
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"...financing the war it wins the war and it can exact indemnities on France right it's like going to a casino you lose a..."
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"until you win it back okay and and that's what Britain did during the Napoleonic Wars and really could do that because the Bank..."
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"be forced on to Russia in the same way that the debt from the Napoleonic Wars were forced on France and that's the entire..."
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Jiang's through-line is that American decline will not end in a peaceful handoff to China or Russia.
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