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4 timestamped hits 3 source readings 2 extracted notes Newest source: 2026-03-09, day precision Aliases: knive, knives, night-long-knive, night-long-knives, night-of-the-long-knive

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Night of the Long Knives

Glenn Diesen asks Jiang the practical questions first: what is this war for, who is exhausting whom, where is the weak point, and why would Washington choose such a disaster?

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Glenn Diesen asks Jiang the practical questions first: what is this war for, who is exhausting whom, where is the weak point, and why would Washington choose such a disaster?

Most recent Jiang source touching this topic: A War Without Purpose Becomes Imperial Suicide (2026-03-09, day precision).

Most connected source readings: A War Without Purpose Becomes Imperial Suicide; The Will That Survives the Destroyed City; Caesar's Death Made Octavian Emperor.

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Night of the Long Knives

Glossary

The purge Jiang frames as the army eliminating the extreme right-wing brown shirts and making army/Nazi power symbiotic.

2025-05-22 lecture claim

causal-chain

Jiang claims the army and Nazi Party assumed power together; the Night of the Long Knives made them symbiotic, with the party ensuring domestic unity by suppression and the army conquering abroad.

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Caesar's Death Made Octavian Emperor

2024-11-19, day precision · Civilization #16: Julius Caesar's Will and Octavian's Birth of Empire

Transcript

"...in the Senate. There were 60 conspirators. Okay? They all brought knives. They hit the knives, the daggers, and the toga. Okay? They were..."

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