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Rome’s post-Carthage war machine produces slavery, debt, corruption, land seizure, and inequality by turning conquest into the economic basis of nobility.
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War machine
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...know the empire and he saw he saw through uh the war machine and you can't do that and that's why he's got he..."
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Once Rome has no external enemy sufficient for its war energy, military aggression turns inward as civil war.
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"...believe anything you read. Okay? So, let's look at the Roman war machine. Because after the war against Carthage, after Rome destroys Carthage, Rome..."
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"...has no choice in the matter. This is the entire Roman war machine. Okay? So, because Rome is a poor place, the only way..."
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"...no land. And so, what's happening is that what the Roman war machine is doing is creating slavery, debt, corruption, and inequality. Okay? And..."
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"...end of the Roman Empire. Okay? In other words, the Roman war machine doesn't know how to stop. Even when it becomes an empire,..."
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"So, the Romans aren't killing other people, they're killing each other."
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"...know the empire and he saw he saw through uh the war machine and you can't do that and that's why he's got he..."
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"...National Settlements and Transnational Capital was helping to fund the Nazi war machine because it was profitable to do so. Okay. And you think..."
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"...They're able to position, target these airplanes that are the greatest war machines in the world. Okay? So America is home to the greatest..."
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"...cultures and now you know we're this barbaric mechanical unimaginative uh war machine that goes around and kills people"
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"...was the undisputed master of the Mediterranean. But it had this war machine that kept on going to start wars overseas. Why? Because the..."
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"...American companies of the time was helping Hitler to industrialize its war machine. So given all this, you could imagine that America would eventually..."
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"...these prisoners of war are a huge problem for the Nazi war machine. And because a lot of these soldiers are dying in prisoner..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's Roman lecture: Rome begins as a poor borderland war machine, invents a liberty of obedience, uses Greek historians and Augustan poets to launder violence, and reaches its deepest secret...
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Jiang's argument begins with a simple civilizational scorecard: energy, openness, and cohesion.
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Hannibal can destroy an army, but he cannot make Rome accept defeat.
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