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The Bank of England allows Britain to become an empire by guaranteeing national debt through Parliament and financing repeated wars against Napoleon.
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Napoleonic Wars
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...like a Ponzi scheme. And so that's what led to the Napoleonic wars. And again, in the seventh, seventh war, Britain won was, was..."
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He describes British anti-Napoleonic war finance as Ponzi-like because once a war began, investors and the state had to keep fighting or lose everything.
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He uses the Napoleonic wars and Britain's financing of repeated wars against France as an earlier example of this anti-consolidation strategy.
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Jiang presents the post-Napoleonic peace, the 1848 Revolutions, and the later return to interstate war as a historical pattern showing elites choosing external conflict when internal unrest becomes threatening.
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He argues that Europe's current panic over Russia makes more sense when viewed through the Napoleonic Wars, where Britain repeatedly financed anti-French coalitions even after major defeats because it could not allow a rival to consolidate Europe and shut Britain out of trade.
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Jiang argues that the Western way of fighting major wars is debt financing, and he uses the Bank of England in the Napoleonic Wars as the model for why backers keep escalating even when battlefield reality says they are losing.
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The host says British debt from the Napoleonic wars remained payable into the early twenty-first century, illustrating how long this temporal borrowing can bind later generations.
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"...like a Ponzi scheme. And so that's what led to the Napoleonic wars. And again, in the seventh, seventh war, Britain won was, was..."
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"...possible throughout the Eurasian continent. So you go back to the Napoleonic Wars, when Britain's sponsors financed seven major wars against France. Napoleon had..."
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"...that the people choose to rebel against them. So, after the Napoleonic Wars, which killed millions of people in Europe, there's a concept of..."
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"it seemed like every single regime in Europe was about to be overthrown by the emerging bourgeoisie aligned with the proletariat and the peasant..."
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"persecute Catholics um this will lead to many many battles crises between the Catholics and Protestants um James the second is a Catholic king..."
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"Parliament that's borrowing the money the people always have to pay you back okay unless England is destroyed as a nation your uh loan..."
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"...think to understand that you have to look at the um napoleonic wars right so uh napoleon and france fought many wars against seven..."
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"bilateral support of the european nation with a lot of popular research into the south and north is that britain is a financial party..."
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"...financing, okay? So like the example is, you look at the Napoleonic Wars, right, where basically the Bank of England was financing all these..."
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"And that led to like seven wars. Why? Because even though Napoleon was defeating all his enemies, the Bank of England could not afford..."
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"...your population will pay off. The bonds, the debt from the Napoleonic Wars was only paid off or was still getting paid off even..."
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"...profits for the bankers okay so this includes of course the Napoleonic Wars seven of them it includes something called the Great Game a..."
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