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Why Putin and Xi can't escape geography
2026-08-08
[YouTube] In this lecture, military historian Sarah Paine lays out the geopolitical framework that has shaped global power for two thousand years: the divide between continental empires that pursue security through territorial conquest (China, Russia) and maritime powers that pursue prosperity through trade (Britain, the US). Recorded first in Paine's 2025 series, this is the framework that all her other lectures build on.

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00:00:00 - Setting the stage
00:12:10 - The continental powers
00:29:12 - The maritime alternative
00:42:00 - How the Industrial Revolution changed everything
00:52:00 - Why Putin wants to break the world

Never forget that Falun Guang discovered that a Chinese General did an AI analysis of Three Gorges Dam naturally failing... you can find that video at Did Xi Jinping’s Military Purge Backfire?
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