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The British imperial game works because it incentivizes local elites in India and China to cooperate: help Britain steal, and Britain helps them move wealth and children abroad.
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Local Elites
The British imperial game works because it incentivizes local elites in India and China to cooperate: help Britain steal, and Britain helps them move wealth and children abroad.
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Money laundering is defined as the process by which Britain and its offshore centers disguise stolen or illicit wealth as legitimate assets such as restaurants, real estate, or overseas investments.
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"...answer is, England simply set up a game that incentivized the local elites to cooperate with England, okay? So this is the way... This..."
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"And the reason why is... Remember, last class, the local elites aren't confident with each other anyway, okay? And what they're looking for is..."
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"...So this is a global money laundering system that encourages the local elites to be corrupt, okay? It protects them in a corruption, and..."
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"...rights. And when Britain became an empire, this was important because local elites in China, in India, in Southeast Asia would help the British..."
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"...to everyone else and that limited its capacity to work with local elites, okay? So in other words, eventually India rebelled to establish its..."
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"...it works really well, okay? This is an indoctrination system for local elites. And it works really well because remember, if you're a really..."
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"...The same strategy happened in China as well. Where the Chinese local elites were helping the British establish open trade networks, throughout the country,..."
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"...throughout Persia he also has diplomats throughout Persia negotiating with the local elites okay so he's now ready to go and conquer uh Persia..."
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"...with small army which tells us that he needed cooperation from local elites okay remember at this time in history Persia has reached an..."
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"...that if you have a very effective administration, that allows for local elites to focus their energies on trying to join this administration as..."
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"...empire okay because these mystery schools are where the elite the local elite hang out so now what happens is now they become secret..."
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"...the best way to do that is by co -opting the local elite, by bribing the local elite, okay? And the best way to..."
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Chinese students are chasing English, dollars, and Western immigration because they are already inside a British-made world game.
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