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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...historically been true. This is what happened in Russia during World War I when the Bolsheviks came into power. It almost happened in Germany..."
Jiang says Putin reads this as a historically recurring pattern, citing World War I Russia and near-revolutionary Germany as cases where prolonged war fed radical political turnover at home.
Jiang connects the creation of the Federal Reserve with America entering World War I, the 1929 crash, the Great Depression, and World War II.
Jiang compares the Bronze Age collapse to World War I and the present: heavily globalized systems can believe trade prevents war just before slaughter or collapse arrives.
Nicholas II's personal decency is irrelevant to statecraft; Jiang presents him as unequipped for a time of war, famine, discontent, Rasputin scandal, and revolution.
Lenin is described as a useful idiot first for the Russian secret police and then for Germany, whose wartime interest was to knock Russia out of World War I.
British foreign policy seeks balance of power in Europe, so the German Empire proclaimed in 1871 becomes a threat Britain must challenge.
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.
After World War I, extreme nationalism rises as fascism, which Jiang defines as an extreme version of nationalism.
"...historically been true. This is what happened in Russia during World War I when the Bolsheviks came into power. It almost happened in Germany..."
"hold that position yeah um I absolutely do I think this is the end of American Empire the thing about war that people don't..."
"to win this war at all costs um and you look at a guy like Peter hexap whenever he does a press conference I..."
"...three things happen, right? The first is that America enters World War I. Then you have the 1929 stock market collapse followed by the..."
"those four or five years where these millions of people were dying for no reason, and the reason why was these leaders just could..."
"...wars throughout the world. You know, you go back to World War I, and one of the great injustices of that war was that..."
"Yeah. Well. A key problem as well. If you look at all of the previous. Two world wars. If you're going to look towards..."
"But. It seems like. The delusion. The fact that they will be able to control this. And somehow that the Russian responses. To Europeans..."
"over the next seven yeah yeah so I think in the age of nuclear weapons a kinetic war is extremely unlikely um you know..."
"...eventually and that's why you have to lead up to World War I right because it's either you send your people to die off..."
"...seen this before. So, this is the world right before World War I. As you can see, it was heavily, heavily globalized. Okay? And..."
"I mean, their intelligence service and my six are very, very clever. They're very. They're very. They're very good at that. So it would..."
A source-grounded reading of the nation-state as war machine: Rousseau turns liberty into sovereignty, Fichte turns language into blood, Bismarck turns welfare into war infrastructure, Mussolini turns myth into death, and 21st-century war turns...
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This lecture turns a current conflict into a strategic exercise: the war is too short to be explained as U.S.
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