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Wall Street backs the current elite and Silicon Valley backs the counter-elite, making control of Washington a financial fight between status quo and revolution.
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Wall Street
Jiang describes the current U.S.-China arrangement as China sending cheap goods to America while America sends dollars that the Communist Party stores in American banks.
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Jiang claims that killing the Romanovs benefited foreign banks because Romanov wealth held in London and Wall Street became effectively controlled by those banks after the family died.
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Jiang claims Wall Street and the City of London paid Bolshevik mercenaries, and that the Bolsheviks repaid them through Red Terror extraction from Russian wealth holders.
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Jiang cites Richard Spence for the argument that Wall Street financed the Bolsheviks to destroy Russia's economy and extract its wealth and resources.
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Jiang claims Wall Street and the City of London bankrolled the Soviets, raising the question of why capital would fund communists.
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Richard Spence's account is used to argue Wall Street had pro-Bolshevik pitchmen who publicly described Bolshevik Russia as a democratic and excellent business environment.
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Jiang says Wall Street used Bolshevik gold to shape American opinion about the revolution.
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Jiang frames the 2008 crisis as a rigged Ivy League and Wall Street system that Obama promised to change but ultimately protected through elite economic appointments.
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"This is the Peter Turchin idea. And he argues that what leads to the election is the election. What leads to civil war is..."
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"Okay? And AI. Okay? So, in other words, Wall Street are the main backers of the current elite. And then Silicon Valley are the..."
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"They didn't do that. They just stuck around. So the question then is, why would they just stick around? The answer is, they never..."
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"...dollars in foreign banks, okay? In the city of London on Wall Street, okay? A lot of their wealth, billions and billions of dollars,..."
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"This is one of the great controversies of the 20th century. The government of Russia has been trying for a long time to get..."
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"And the answer is, well, Wall Street, guys. Wall Street and the City of London gave the Bolsheviks money to pay these mercenaries. It..."
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"...the whites, okay? Alright? So the allies helped the Bolsheviks and Wall Street gave money to the Bolsheviks for mercenaries. And that's how the..."
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"...the money to finance this war, in order to pay off Wall Street, okay? They expropriated every valuable they could, get their hands on..."
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"...Hungrians, okay? How did they get all this money? Transnational capital. Wall Street and the City of London were bank -holding the Soviets. Why..."
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"...Okay? All right? All right. So this is a book called Wall Street and the Russian Revolution. It's started by a man by the..."
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"The pro -Bolsheviks... The Bolshevik faction on Wall Street had a most outspoken pitchman in the aforementioned William Boyce Thompson. Departing Petrograde, he arrived..."
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"He pooh -poohed reports that there was anarchy. Okay. There was anarchy in Russia and said that the Russian people were trying to adopt..."
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