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Jiang says Britain defeated Napoleon by financing seven wars, then became a global financial empire with the East India Company extracting wealth from India and China.
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Napoleon
Napoleon's conquest and replacement of the Holy Roman Empire with the Confederation of the Rhine humiliated German intellectuals and pushed them to invent a German national identity.
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Napoleon's conquest and replacement of the Holy Roman Empire with the Confederation of the Rhine humiliated German intellectuals and pushed them to invent a German national identity.
causal-chain
After defeat by Napoleon, Prussia allegedly copied French revolutionary reforms and Humboldt's research university to rebuild stronger.
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The overman is defined as a person above humanity/history who ignores public opinion and imposes what is right to himself, with Napoleon as example and Hitler as later claimant.
diagnosis
Jiang analogizes Trump to Hitler, Napoleon, and Caesar as total expressions of will, ego, and divine mission with little compassion.
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The burning of Moscow looked barbaric to Europeans but heroic to Russians because it sacrificed the cultural heart of the empire to save Russia and Europe from Napoleon.
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Jiang says central banking let Britain borrow from its people, foreigners, and the future through money-printing and bonds, giving it effectively infinite war financing.
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Napoleon would not have been possible without Robespierre.
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"...idea. Okay? Now, the first major test to this system was Napoleon because Napoleon was about to conquer Europe. And England couldn't have that...."
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"So what England will do is they will colonize India and steal all the wealth of India, primarily by de -industrializing India. So India..."
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"And the same idea was... The opium went into China, and then silver and money went back to England, okay? And then, this money..."
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"...in public places and in schools. Okay? So as we discussed, Napoleon will spread French Enlightenment principles throughout Europe. 1805, he defeats both the..."
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"...living in the Holy Roman Empire, this was extremely embarrassing. The... Napoleon will create something called the Confederation of the Rhine, which replaces the..."
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"...steal, the Prussian education system. In 1806, Prussia is defeated by Napoleon. We discussed this. And as a result, Prussia becomes a vassal state..."
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"...reforms, in only a few years, will allow Prussia to defeat Napoleon and establish itself as a great power again. This is Karl von..."
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"That's why God created us, to become gods ourselves. Otherwise, this makes no sense. How do we go from desire to bodies? It only..."
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"...So the ideal, the paragon, the example that Nietzsche uses is Napoleon, right? Who's Napoleon? Napoleon is an individual who can step outside of..."
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"...Hitler, okay? Because Hitler is promising himself to be the next Napoleon, right? That's Hitler's promise to the German people. I will be your..."
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"...very familiar pattern in human history. You can also argue that Napoleon was the same way, okay? And what makes these people different from..."
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"...ego, and no sympathy, no empathy, no compassion. That's Hitler and Napoleon. Yeah, that's a great question. So, won't people rebel against us? Won't..."
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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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Britain becomes empire not because it begins powerful, but because it begins divided, poor, exposed, and forced to change.
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Robespierre is not read as a dictator who simply loses control.
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The French Revolution is not introduced as politics first.
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