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The force by which used or subordinated nations eventually seek independence and resist empire.
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nationalism
The force by which used or subordinated nations eventually seek independence and resist empire.
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Persian civilizational pride as a reason Iranians know what they are fighting for.
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French revolutionary armies defeated monarchic professional armies because citizens animated by the new sovereign theory were willing to fight and die while mercenaries mainly wanted pay and intimidation.
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Germany's rival nationalism arose as a way to defeat France by grounding the nation-state in language, culture, race, and iron and blood rather than social contract theory.
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Jiang argues that nationalist states pursued population growth because wars fought by peoples required ever more people willing to fight and die.
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He argues the plan will fail because nationalism makes subordinate nations seek independence, while corruption and polarization weaken America internally.
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The Third Rome strategy is to keep Russia coherent through territory, nationalism, religion, faith, war, and allies while the United States, China, Europe, and the Middle East collapse.
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America will need to move from secular global Pax Americana to a national, community-centered Christian identity that Jiang calls an American Holy Empire.
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Iran's three major advantages are Shia faith and martyrdom, mountainous fortress terrain, and deep Persian civilizational nationalism.
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He says capitalism's real enemies are monarchy, theocracy, nationalism, and democracy rather than communism.
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"People with no military experience, who are not professional soldiers. What's happening was that they were losing to these citizen armies. And the question..."
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"...French. And they recognized that we also need a theory of nationalism. We also need a theory of a nation -state. But they didn't..."
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"...in the 19th century. Okay? But of course, the problem of nationalism, the problem with populations that want to fight and die is that..."
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"Why? Well, because of something called nationalism, okay? Because when you do this, when you are an empire and you impose your will on..."
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"...you're going to have insurgencies. All right? And this three problems, nationalism, corruption, and division means that when America actually tries to implement this..."
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"...to defend its territory. It needs to unify its people through nationalism, through religion, through faith. And then what Russia needs to do is..."
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"...All right? So you're using war in order to increase the nationalism, the religion of your society, which will allow you to weather the..."
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"Every other nation, basically, there has to be wars in order for the young to arrive to power. Alright. The American Holy Empire. The..."
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"past -Americana, which is a secular, global idea, to one that is much more nationalistic, that is more focused on community and nation. That..."
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"...a fortress. And the last issue is, the last advantage is nationalism. All right. So, the Iranians are Persians. And the Persians go back..."
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"...that the Americans will have a hard problem invading the country. Nationalism means that the people of Iran know what they're fighting for. All..."
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"And these disadvantages are huge. The lack of political will, the lack of manufacturing, and the lack of... America cannot afford to lose that..."
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A source-grounded reading of the nation-state as war machine: Rousseau turns liberty into sovereignty, Fichte turns language into blood, Bismarck turns welfare into war infrastructure, Mussolini turns myth into death, and 21st-century war turns...
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A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central reversal: if Trump's goal is to preserve the old American empire, the Iran war looks insane.
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Fukuyama's end of history becomes, in this lecture, a temporary American spell: Pax Americana, science-priesthood, and dollar worship.
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The law of asymmetry says the obvious winner may be the side structurally set up to lose.
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on the false capitalism-communism dialectic: communism appears not as capitalism's opposite but as a weapon that clears away monarchy, religion, nationalism, democracy, and social democracy so capital can...
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on America as the world game: Britain invents the imperial board but cannot scale it, the dollar turns wealth into an idea, the Constitution keeps the game above...
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