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The Crimean War alliance is presented as a financial trap: British and French support helped the Ottomans militarily but saddled them with debt and foreign tax administration.
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Ottoman Empire
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Nationalism makes multi-ethnic empires such as the Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian empires untenable, leading Balkan and Slavic national struggles into the chain that starts World War I.
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Spain's search for maritime routes is framed as a response to Christian reconquest, loss of Islamic trade integration, and Ottoman control of the old routes through Constantinople.
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War with the Ottoman Empire and the age of exploration pushed European science because conquest required navigation tools, compasses, and astrolabes.
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Newton is described as a Christian Zionist because he believed Jesus's return required conditions, including the return of Jews to Jerusalem under Ottoman control.
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The Balfour Declaration is framed as part of a longer Christian Zionist project to bring Jews back to Jerusalem after the Ottoman Empire's defeat.
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Jiang argues that Dönmeh families embedded themselves in upper Ottoman power and became central to the Young Turk movement, extending their relevance into modern Turkish state formation.
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Jiang's model is that the British could recruit Sabbateans inside the Ottoman Empire through Freemasonry, making Sabbatean networks a useful covert asset against imperial rivals.
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"...time, they embed themselves into up echelons of power in the Ottoman Empire, so much so that they became the Young Turks, which overthrew..."
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"...undermine nations. And their biggest opponent at that time was the Ottoman Empire. And now, in the Ottoman Empire, you have these crypto Jews,..."
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"And this was the Ottoman Empire at its height in 1683. Remember, in 1666 is when Sabrelai Zevi declared himself the Messiah. And remember..."
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"...now on, a third of all revenue, tax revenue, that the Ottoman Empire generated would go directly to the French and British bankers. And..."
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"polythesis religion at this time in history most people in that area was polypistic and people got along really well with that um that's..."
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"...since 1700 1800 jerusalem the lebanon is being controlled by the ottoman empire right so the empire is a great steel political rival to..."
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"...in 1492 when the spaniards expelled the jews it was the ottoman empire that took them in um the jews um you know climbed..."
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"literally bringing apart families and this has never happened before in human history I mean this has ever happened before and so this created..."
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"and Zionism as a way to destabilize the Ottoman Empire right because the Ottoman Empire was a real what was a great threat to..."
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"...it's a creation of the British Empire initially to destabilize the Ottoman Empire, which was the main threat that the British faced in the..."
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"...the nation -state and of nationalism. Okay? So, this is the Ottoman Empire. They're based in Istanbul. Okay? But they also occupy what we..."
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"it may surprise you to hear, like, most of its history, the Greeks didn't consider themselves as one people, as one culture, as one..."
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Danny asks whether Jiang's Iran-war prediction is now playing out.
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The host begins by asking who Jiang is and what Predictive History means.
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Jiang opens by saying 2026 is not yet the final explosion but the year the whole machine visibly speeds up: a Ponzi-like global economy, imperial consolidation around trade routes and resources, and nation-states losing...
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