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Jiang argues that U.S. seizure of Iranian-linked shipping would normally be called piracy, but America treats its own control of the sea lanes as rule-setting authority.
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Piracy
The Spanish Empire's South American gold makes Spanish society lazy, allowing Dutch, British, and French industry and piracy to feed on Spanish wealth.
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England becomes wealthy partly through state-sponsored piracy against Spanish silver, with Sir Francis Drake serving under Elizabeth I.
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The Spanish Empire's South American gold makes Spanish society lazy, allowing Dutch, British, and French industry and piracy to feed on Spanish wealth.
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He says the Greek-Persian encounter follows the borderland pattern: Greeks learn Persian tactics as mercenaries, gain wealth through piracy, provoke invasion, and then defeat a much larger empire.
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Jiang frames the Sea Peoples as economic migrants or refugees from famine who teamed up with pirates and overwhelmed existing civilizations.
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Mycenae’s importance comes from sea transport, logistics, piracy, and trade-route control in the Mediterranean system.
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Jiang says the Greeks were mainly pirates at the beginning, and the Mycenaean assault on Troy was driven by Troy’s strategic control of the Aegean Sea.
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Spain's extractive demand gave Protestant France, England, and Holland openings through industry, piracy, naval innovation, and smuggling.
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"...special forces. Okay? And this would be considered an act of piracy. And before the Secretary of War, Peter Hexheff, he before complained that..."
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"...ships with drones and ballistic missiles, that is wrong. That is piracy. Unless the Americans do this, okay? Unless the Americans do this."
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"Okay. So does that make sense? It is wrong for the United States to do this. the world to be pirates and to see..."
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"...it for them, okay? But the third thing that happened was piracy, okay? So all this silver was being transported from the New World..."
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"world to be spies and to explore in order to set up new networks for Venice, because they don't really have a choice in..."
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"...you can take advantage of that. The first, of course, is piracy, where your ships, just steal the gold as this gold is heading..."
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"And so he's very quickly able to overwhelm the other city -states. At this time, the other city -states call for help from mercenaries,..."
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"...empire, the Greeks have an opportunity to get wealthy. How? Through piracy, right? Piracy. And then this will force the Persians now to invade..."
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"All right. But again, as we know, even though this area is extremely globalized, extremely wealthy, only in about 50 years, it completely collapses...."
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"This is another map showing the invasions. Okay? These, again, are the Sea Peoples. These are just economic migrants. These are refugees. Similar to..."
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"...in this system, the best way to make money is actually piracy. So, as you can see, there are lots of islands scattered around..."
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