KrautIn this, the first video of a series on Imperial Japan, the collapse of Japanese democracy is shown in detail and several myths about the social makeup of Japan before the second world war are questioned.
Imperial Japan: The Fall of DemocracyKraut2018-10-20 | In this, the first video of a series on Imperial Japan, the collapse of Japanese democracy is shown in detail and several myths about the social makeup of Japan before the second world war are questioned.
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France is famous for having a heavily centralised and big state with a huge buerocracy. In many ways France invented the modern buerocratic state. In this video, a collaboration with my friend @RavignonCh we try to tell the story of how the centralised french state came to be.
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Ukraine will join the European Union. This is now a certainty. It will take time. Ukraine will probably not join until the war is over, and there are many requirements for membership that Ukraine has to meet. But it is by now a certainty that Ukraine is a member of our European family, and many in Europe are celebrating this. But we should also take a moment to think about the challenges ahead of us. The main challenge will be agriculture. Ukraine is home to the largest stretch of fertile soil in Europe. Ukrainian farmers are able to outproduce and outcompete every other European farmer. And we, must prepare for this and discuss it.
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With there being a lot of talk about a new space race in the media, I thought it may be a good idea to make a little video covering the geopolitics of space. Focused a little more on geography than usual I would like to give you a good overview of the geopolitics of space travel and what the future space race may look like.
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The modern French Police was built by Frenchmen who had worked with the Nazis during the second word war.
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Neutrality has for centuries been a part of European politics. It is very significant therefore that Finland and Sweden have recently decided to abandon their neutrality to seek out NATO membership. In this video I would like to discuss what the consequences for the other neutral states of Europe may consequently be.
Correcting some errors in the video.
1: Swiss mandatory military service does not last 5 years. I have a Swiss friend who told me that it took him 5 years to complete his service. And I have assumed from then on that it takes 5 years. I did not know that the Swiss have the option of splitting up their mandatory service over a time period of 5 years or completing it all at once within one single year. In actuality, Swiss mandatory military service lasts 245 days.
2: Czechoslovakia was not allied to Britain, but only to France, before the Munich agreement.
Clearing up misunderstandings:
BAE is not a Swedish defense corporation, but a British one. It aquired the Swedish arms manufacturer Bofors in the 2000s. When editing the video I was unsure if I should add in the old Bofors logo, or the BAE logo. If I added the Bofors logo, people would have pointed out that Bofors no longer exists, if I added the BAE logo, people would have pointed out that the company is British. In the end I chose to go with the BAE logo, because even though it is owned principally by the British and based in Britain, BAE operates a substantial arms industry in Sweden. The now famous "NLAW" for example was mainly developed in Sweden.
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My friend Frog made this excellent video critiquing realism that i can recommend to you as well: youtube.com/watch?v=PtJkio3eK2I
The war in Ukraine is overly "gepoliticised". That meaning, people exclusively look at it from a geopolitical lense. Often refusing to acknowledge internal political developments within Ukraine, and mainly applying theories of geopolitics that I believe can be incredibly misleading. One of these is realism as advocated by john Mearsheimer. And in this video i would like to present you with some points arguing against the realist position on Ukraine.
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This video is a starting point. Sort of to kick us off into a series. I would like to make several videos discussing and presenting how Imperialism throughout the ages and various Empires affected the political and economic developments of various societies across the world. And what better place to start, than with one of the first Empires, that of Alexander the Great, and how his idea of a universal Empire endured beyond his death throughout the ages.
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What even is the European Union? What is it's purpose in the context of the history of Europe? Meaning history as a political process of development? Europe is a political process that is intent on preventing war between nation-states and creating a post-imperial system of politics, and in this video, I outline the case for that.
Intro (0:00) Ni Hao (1:40) The Myth of peaceful nationalism (4:17) Peace through reconciliation (8:43) Post-Imperial Politics (11:55) A French hangover (15:35) Cooperation as an international order (17:18) Outro (18:14)
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This video is for all the Austrian subscribers who kept asking me to make a video touching on the country I live in. It's about the Danube, the second-longest river in Europe that flows through Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria, Moldova, and Ukraine. One of the most interesting things about the Danube is that rivers like it are usually economic cores of industry and trade, but the Danube is not. This is due to a century of neglect in development, and we examine that neglect and its consequences in this video.
Geopolitics in post-Imperial Europe (0:00) What is the Danube? (2:49) The Danube's use in history (6:21) A century of neglect (8:08) Forget the Balkans (11:22) Why Serbia matters for the Danube (12:32) Why the Danube matters for Europe (16:54) Groupings and Regional politics of Europe (19:08) Outro (24:36)
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Queer Svit a charity for LGBT people in Ukraine and for persecuted LGBT people in Russia and Belarus, my friend asked me to promote them instead of giving her a shoutout. Their homepage: queersvit.taplink.ws Their twitter: twitter.com/QueerSvitUK Their Instagram: instagram.com/queer_svit Their telegram: https://t.me/queersvit
The regime of Putin is often described as "non-ideological". As a simple mafia state without any political theories driving it. This is false. The Putin regime does have ideological foundations and theories it acts upon. And in this video, we will examine these.
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Sponsor (0:00) Intro (1:29) Ivan Ilyin (5:12) Lev Gumilev (23:01) Carl Schmidt (32:31) Dugin the useful bigot (44:27) Some Opinions (46:03) Outro (53:13)The Limits of Geographic DeterminismKraut2022-10-28 | Play War Thunder now with my link, and get a massive, free bonus pack including vehicles, boosters, and more: https://playwt.link/krautwt2022
Subscribe to my friend Ravignon here: youtube.com/c/RavignonCh Within a week he will publish a video examining the failure of neoliberal policies in creating peace between Palestine and Israel. Until then, you may enjoy his series on the history of Quebec: youtube.com/watch?v=vFkSAKoKFZM
Over the last few years of making videos the most engaging and interesting criticisms of my videos have come from people who I would call Geographic determinists. People who believe that the way certain socio-political structures are shaped, is heavily dependent upon and influenced by the geography that surrounds a society. I want to make clear that I do not dismiss geographic determinism, I find it to be an interesting position, and have to concede that more often than not - geographic determinists are correct. I would merely like to explain why I, am not a geographic determinist.
Let's have a "chicken or egg debate" about what matters more: Geography? Or Society?
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Sponsor (0:00) Intro (1:09) A question about mountains (2:49) The known unknown of Cambodia(4:09) A few more examples (8:49) The problem with ecology (11:27) The case for policy (13:24) Outro (17:07)
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The idea that race as a biological concept impacts and shapes the political development of societies is racist drivel and complete nonsense.
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1500tasvir(1500 pictures) - memorial and investigation of victims of regime, including November 2019 victims, also reports on protests and posts footage recorded by people in the protests: twitter.com/1500tasvir twitter.com/1500tasvir_en
"Association of Families of Flight PS752 Victims" has also shared footage and videos from protests in their social media : ps752justice.com twitter.com/ps752justice
Rich kids of Tehran - twitter account reporting on regime official's scandals and luxurious lives of Aghazadehs in other countries, also tweets in English twitter.com/RKOTOfficial
Eterazebazar - reporting on financial corruption and embezzlement, footage of protests and strikes, works as a platform for public reports : https://t.me/Eterazebazar twitter.com/EterazBWhy Saudi Arabia is doomedKraut2022-08-22 | Go check out Ground News at https://ground.news/kraut
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Saudi Arabia may seem to many of us to be a country with a golden future. A country with enormous reserves of wealth, collected from almost a century of trading in oil and holding a monopoly on the world's hydrocarbon market. BUT... I would argue that the enormous economic power the Saudis built on the hydrocarbon market has doomed their country, as well as those of their neighbors in Qatar or the UAE. The holding of such a monopoly stagnated political development and therefore left these countries in a position of being ill-prepared for a world after oil. To showcase this, I will however take you to a different place first. The Congo
Why Nations Fail by Darren Acemoglu and James Robinson A world History of Slavery by Milton Meltzer Conquerors by Roger Crowly
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What is feudalism? A common historic materialist perception of feudalism is that it was an economic social order, enforced by a warrior elite with the help of the Christian church to exploit a European peasantry. This perception however is false. Feudalism was itself a religious social order built upon and through the institutions of the church, in response to the instability following the collapse of the Roman Empire.
Sources: [1] Max Weber: The Protestant Work Ethic. [2] John Hanjal: European Marriage Patterns in perspective. [3] Alan Macfarlane: The Origins of English Individualism [4] Marc Bloch: Feudal Society [5] Jack Goody: The European Family [6] Francis Fukuyama: The Origins of Political Order [7] Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Émile (Books I-III) (https://brittlebooks.library.illinois.edu/brittlebooks_open/Books2009-08/rousje0001emile/rousje0001emile.pdf) [8] Karl Marx: Pre-Capitalist Economic Formations (Part I) (marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1857/precapitalist/ch01.htm) [9] Samuel Ottewill-Soulsby (2016) ‘Those same cursed Saracens’: Charlemagne's campaigns in the Iberian Peninsula as religious warfare, Journal of Medieval History, 42:4, 405-428, DOI: 10.1080/03044181.2016.1167768 (repository.cam.ac.uk/bitstream/handle/1810/254535/Ottewill-Soulsby%202016%20Journal%20of%20Medieval%20History.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y) [10] Adriaan E. Verhulst, The Carolingian Economy. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. 160 pp. $50 (hardback), ISBN: 0-521-80869-3; $18 (paperback), ISBN: 0-521-00474-8. (eh.net/book_reviews/the-carolingian-economy) [11] Friedrich Engels: Origins of the Family, Private Property, and the State. (1884) Part II: The Family, Chapter IV - The Monogamous Family (marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1884/origin-family/index.htm) [12] Manifesto of the Communist Party, (1848) Chapter I: Bourgeoisie and Proletariat (marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/ch01.htm#007)
Sponsorship (0:00) Intro (0:51) Modernization Theory (3:02) Why Weber and Engels were wrong (3:34) Non-tribal practices of medieval society (4:20) Tribal social practices (5:05) The origins of the error (6:00) Why feudalism isn't tribal (8:12) Religion in early Society (10:12) The tribal clash with Christianity (11:31) Christianity reorganizes Europe (12:32) War creates the social foundation (13:49) The Christian Church emerges as a social authority (14:55) Christianity destroyed the tribal family (16:57) The Impact of the missing European tribalism (18:27) Conclusions (19:47) Subscribe to Ravignon! (21:41)
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A recently reemerging idea in the English speaking political landscape is that history is the story of an almost natural progression of humanity into liberty culminating within English and American democracy. This is nonsense. And it also has a name: "whig history" In this video I would like to show you why whig history is bunk, and also detail to you how economic liberties that are so often praised by advocates of whig history, can very often result in the creation of oligarchies that then proceed to undermine and destroy the very economic liberties that created the oligarchy in the first place.
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Sponsorship (0:00) Intro (0:56) A short political history of medieval Hungary (2:37) The Hungarian oligarchy (3:34) The Decline of Oligarchy (06:00) What is whig history (07:33) The rise and fall of Venice (11:38) Warnings of Oligarchy (16:11) The birth of American Oligarchy (18:05) The death of American Oligarchy (23:34) A warning from History? (25:33) Outro (27:16)
Sources: Why Nations Fail by Darren Acemoglu The Origins of Political Order by Francis Fukuyama
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In February 2022 the foundational agreement upon which almost 50 years of European peace had been built was shattered. In light of these events, many seem unaware of what the consequences of this mean to us. And I would like to remind some of you of this, as well as encourage you to discuss what the new security architecture of Europe should be.
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Intro (0:00) Kekkonens Peace (1:10) The consequences of Peace (3:01) The End of Helsinki (6:37) The consequences of war (8:01) What next? (13:16)The Origins of the Greek debt crisisKraut2022-02-17 | If you would like to buy an Artist Pro 16 like I did, here is a link to it in the XP Pen store:
In this video we discuss and examine the reasons for the 2008 Greek debt crisis. We debunk the nasty myth of the "lazy Mediterranean" and show how centuries of political, social, and economic developments that began with the Ottoman Empire are ultimately to blame for this crisis. I hope you enjoy it.
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Sponsorship by XP Pen (0:00) Ottoman Legacies (2:52) What is a Low trust Society? (4:47) Independence continues low trust (7:22) Fascism undermines the State (11:17) the corrupt right (14:28) the corrupt left (16:41) The broken public sector (18:39) A summary (20:34) THIS IS INCORRECT CHECK PINNED COMMENT (22:04) What comes now? (22:29) Outro (25:11)
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Sources:
Trust, Social Capital and the Scandinavian Welfare State by Gunnar Lind Haase Svendsen Summa de legibus Normanniae in curia laïcali An Economic History of Sweden by Heckscher Struggle for the People: 500 years of Danish History by Ove Korsgaard The Origins of Political Order by Francis Fukuyama Why Nations Fail by Daren Acemoglu and James Robinson The Dynamics of Social Solidarity: The Danish Welfare State, 1900-2000 by Niels Finn Christiansen & Klaus Petersen
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Note: For further reading I suggest you read up on the Kanzlergerade agreement. Flexicurity. The Danish Model. These are things I cut out of the video to keep them a little short: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanslergade_Agreement
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During the 1850s Karl Marx summarized what became known as the Asiatic Mode of Production. A theory according to which Asian societies developed economically and politically around cliques of wealthy city rulers, exploiting a peasantry. This was an attempt by Marx to force his theory of historical materialism onto Asian history, by defining a replica of European feudalism. Of all the errors of Marxism this is one of the worst, and unfortunately persist in many circles to this day. In this video I will be taking the examples of India and China to show how political development in many Asian countries occurred very differently from many of the theories that outdated European political theorists cooked up. China and India underwent two vastly separate political developments into statehood that resulted in two vastly separate social contracts and state structures. I hope you will enjoy this brief overview of Indian and Chinese political history.
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Sponsorship (0:00) Misconceptions on the history of Statehood ((2:06) China creates the first State (2:46) How Religion shaped the first Indian societies (8:48) The conflict between Confucianism and Legalism (15:56) The difficulty of creating an Indian State (24:32) The advantages and disadvantages of the powerful Chinese State (30:47) The advantages and disadvantages of the powerful Indian Society (36:16) Challenges China and India face due to their political history (42:56) Dedicated in memory of Faith Olive Falcon (47:51) Outro and whats next (48:00)
Sources: The Origins of Political order - Francis Fukuyama Jacques Garnett - A History of Chinese Civilization Ran Sharan Sharma - India's Ancient Past
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"String Quartet No. 15 in D minor, Mov. 2, K. 421", a free-use public domain song by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, courtesy of Musopen: musopen.orgThe Origins of Russian AuthoritarianismKraut2021-08-20 | Why has there never been a consistently functioning Russian democracy? No functioning system of public accountability? Why is Russia so incredibly corrupt? Why is it that Russia seems to have spent almost the entirety of its history as an authoritarian state? In this video, I will explain to you the political developments that over the course of centuries came to shape the authoritarian Russian state.
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The Origins of Political Order by Francis Fukuyama Why Nations Fail by Daren Acemoglu and James Robinson Lord and Peasant in Russia by Jerome Blum A History of Russia by Nicholas Riasanovsky and Mark Steinberg Feudal Society by Marc Bloch
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Music: From Russia With Love - Huma-Huma youtu.be/2iEWbHJDlo4How the Greeks created the first European StateKraut2021-07-29 | Go to https://Surfshark.deals/kraut and use code KRAUT to get 83% off a 2-year plan and 3 extra months for free!
Ancient Greece, in particular ancient Athens, is a weirdly romanticized thing in our day and age. Throughout much of the Western world a popular image exists of ancient Greek city states being a long lost liberty, an ideal worth striving to continue in the modern age, after it had been disrupted by a dark age. But is this true? No. Ancient Greek societies started as family tribe structures, and throughout the long history of the Greek polites family structure and communal loyalties and norms, had a far more important role in society than any notions of an “ancient liberty”. The vision of ancient Greece that many of us hold, is by in large a romantic myth. But ancient Greece, in particular ancient Athens, can still teach us something very valuable. It can show us how tribal societies create a state. One of the first states in human history.
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Sources: Fustel de Coulanges: The Ancient City Daron Acemoglu & James A. Robinson: The Narrow Corridor Larry Siedentop: Inventing the Individual Francis Fukuyama: The Origins of Political Order
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Sponsor (0:00) Greek Tribal Society (1:02) Governance in tribal Greece (4:32) The Decline of Tribal governed Athens (7:09) Solon and the first Athenian state reforms (8:40) The continuation of the state-building project after Solon (10:50) Side note on Ancient Greek currencies (12:22) The creation of democratic state structures in Athens (13:06) Side note on Ancient Greek Statues (15:03) Outro on what Ancient Greece means to us (15:42) Teaser of next video and Outro (18:08)The Mexican American Border | From War to WallKraut2021-06-24 | Go to https://Surfshark.deals/kraut and use code KRAUT to get 83% off a 2-year plan and 3 extra months for free!
In 1911 Mexico underwent an enormous transformation through revolution. But the Republic born that promised to end inequality and authoritarianism dragged Mexico into further poverty and authoritarianism… all of which leads to an important question: What went wrong?
Intro: (0:00) ChapterVIII (1:54) ChapterIX (37:43) ChapterX (1:20:51) Outro (1:59:08)
Sources: Why Nations Fail by Daren Acemoglu and James A Robinson Contemporary history of Latin America by Halperin Donghi Harvest of Empire by Juan Gonzales The Oxford History of Mexico by Oxford Publishing Political Order and Political Decay by Francis Fukuyama
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The 19th Century was an important era in the shaping of relations between Mexico and the United States of America. Expansions West and North formed the foundation for an Imperial war of expansion between the two countries that would shape their modern border. We will deeper examine the origins of this conflict, as well as tell the story of Texan independence and how it shaped Mexican-American culture. And in the final part of this video we will also tell the story of the Industrial Revolution the Americas, and how it resulted in the creation of the dominant force of global capitalism in the USA, but in the creation of a kleptocratic failed state in Mexico.
Research and fact checking. Many thanks to Solaris, a Mexican economist and armchair historian who helped fact check the video. You will find Solaris on twitter here: twitter.com/solairis_ And you will find him on medium here: medium.com/@solairis_
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Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson American Nations by Colin Woodard American Character by Colin Woodard The Forgotten Continent by Micheal Reid A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn These truths by Jill Lepore The Contemporary History of Latin America by Tulio Halperin Donghi The Narrow Corridor by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson The Origins of Political Decay by Francis Fukuyama The Age of Walls by Tim Marshall Harvest of Empire by Juan Gonzales
Thank you all for watching I hope to see you all soon again for the next video.The Mexican American Border | A Tale of two ColoniesKraut2020-12-30 | Why is Mexico so different from the United States? Why is one country poorer than the other? In this video, the first of a 3 part series, I would like to take you on a journey through the socio-economic developments that took place in two countries throughout their recent 400 years of history and compare them.
I feel obliged, first and foremost, to thank a group of artists, who chimed in to help finish the video sooner. A significant amount of the donations and patreon support for this video will go to them.
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Why Nations Fail, by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson American Nations, by Colin Woodard American Character, by Colin Woodard The Forgotten Continent by Micheal Reid A People's History of the United States, by Howard Zinn These truths, by Jill Lepore The Contemporary History of Latin America, by Tulio Halperin Donghi The Narrow Corridor, by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson The Origins of Political Decay, by Francis FukuyamaThe Turkish Century | New BeginningsKraut2020-09-28 | This is the final part of a three part video series, summarizing the history of Turkey, from antiquity to Nomadic tribes, to the Seljuks, to the Ottomans, to Attatürk’s revolution to today. You will find the links to the first two parts here:
Thank you to a group of artists, who decided to help me. When i started in October 2019, I had no idea how much work it would be. Without their help it would have taken longer.
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Here are the links of the fine artists who helped finish this video faster:
Thank you again, and don't forget to subscribe to watch more.The Turkish Century | From Hittites to AtatürkKraut2020-03-26 | From the first to work with bronze in the Anatolian plains to nomadic horsemen fighting with Chinese kingdoms, to the conquerors of Iran, to the heirs of Rome, to the mightiest power in the hemisphere, through a century of turmoil, to a revolution with radical vision and the republic it birthed. This is the first part of one of the greatest stories in our history books. The story of Turkey.
Thank you again, and don't forget to subscribe to watch more.India & Pakistan - A continuing StoryKraut2019-12-30 | My sincere apologies for keeping you waiting for a month with this video. It was supposed to only be 12 minutes long, but I got lost in the research and the scope and size of this topic, so I ended up making an almost one-hour long video. And still... I think this video doesn't contain enough information. The Topic is India and Pakistan, their conflicts for independence and the historical background of such. As well as the conflicts that resulted out of independence. An overview of the Indian republic and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. As well as a brief intermission on Bangladesh and the geopolitics surrounding Sri Lanka. I hope you enjoyed the video. Don't forget to support the channel. And as said in the video, here is a bibliography:
Hermann Kulke - A History of India, 1998
Frédéric Landy - Dictionnaire de l'Inde contemporaine, 2010 (many thanks to the French subscriber who provided translations and information)
Laurent Gayer - Karachi: Ordered Disorder and the Struggle for the City, 2014
Laurent Gayer - Armed Militias of South Asia: Fundamentalists, Maoists and Separatists, 2008
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Some sauces: The Precarious Nature of Peace: Resolving the Issues, Enforcing the Settlement, and Renegotiating the Terms jstor.org/stable/2991840?seq=1
AVOIDING A STRATEGY OF BLUFF THE CRISIS OF AMERICAN MILITARY PRIMACY
Thank you again, and don't forget to subscribe to watch more.Trumps Biggest FailureKraut2019-10-16 | Well... this took longer than expected.
I am sorry you had to wait so long for me to finish this video, I had some reading to do, then write the video, record the audio, and then the editing itself, which took a month and two weeks. But then again, you voted for this video. As I described it when I put it up to be voted on, I believe Trump's single biggest failure as a president is his handling of China and the way his ineffective and lack-luster foreign policy allowed for a communist dictatorship to rise and build a superpower within a block of unfree states that can even rival the United States and has by now even found ways to influence the politics of democratic nations.
I would like to underline one thing though. I despise the "orange man bad!" "Dump Drumpf" political culture developing in the United States, in which even Trump's opposition just constantly meanders about pointless and meaningless things rather than actually criticize the president's stupid policies. With that in mind, videos I will be making about the election as 2020 approaches will be more focused on looking at and critiquing actual policies and not about pedantic nonsense. Because I genuinely believe that Trump has been a terrible president, but the reason why the U.S public complains about him has nothing to do with why he is terrible.
I hope you enjoy this video. It's long because I believe for people to understand the gravity of the situation one needs to have a basic understanding of Chinese history going back a few thousand years, from the many Dynasties of the Han, Qing and Yuan, to the century of Humiliation, to the brutal civil war between communists and the Kuomintang, to the founding of the Peoples Republic of China, to where we are now, which is China is a world power that actively challenges America's role in the world. The Belt and Road initiative that builds a new silk road, the Chinese Dream policy, and doctrine, the String of Pearls strategy, it's influence of Australian and European politics, and the way it created and opened markets in African nations such as Kenya are all discussed here in a historical context, that I hope will give you much insight. I hope you will enjoy it.
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Thank you again, and don't forget to subscribe to watch more.illiberal democracies explainedKraut2019-08-10 | Illiberal democracy is a term first coined by the Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban during a conference of his national-conservative party Fidesz. The idea behind it is that a democratic society doesn't need to adhere to liberal principles to function and prosper. That it is possible to have a government for the people, with some influence by the people but not governed through the people or accountable to the public. And this is an idea that has in recent years fallen on fertile grounds all across the world. Not just in Hungary, but also in the United States with President Trump, in evermore countries across Eastern Europe from Poland to Belarus, to the Islamic Republic of Iran with its Ayatholas, to countries such as Singapore and Brazil with its president Bolsonaro, to his neighbors in Venezuela under Maduro and Bolivia and Evo Moralez. The idea of the illiberal democracy is however far older than Orban. Illiberal democracies have existed as long as democracies existed and could be undermined by those who sought power but didn't fancy the accountability that came with it. fancy terms such as majoritarianism, liberation, solidarity, modernization and more. but the ugly truth behind all these states has always been that they are in truth, once the veneer of ideology is wiped away, nothing but crooked oligarchies and crony states.
Thank you.How Vodka ruined RussiaKraut2019-08-02 | The stereotype of the drunk Russian is common and widespread. The Russian alcoholic is, however, more than just a stereotype. Downing a bottle of Vodka, slurring his words and making a fool of himself, the Russian with a drinking problem is the result of four centuries of a systemic alcohol problem that is by now deeply engrained within Russian society. More sad than funny, Russias relationship with Vodka is built on a fascinating history of Tsars, peasants, industry, mercantilism, monopoly, population control, oppression, monarchy, authoritarianism, prohibition, communism, ideology and the abuse of addictive substances to create addicts that can be easily controlled and oppressed. Stretching from Tsar Ivan the third, to Cathrine the Great, to Nicholas the second, to Lenin, Stalin, Gorbachev up until today. And more than just a history lesson and explanation of Russias current alcohol problem, this Russian history of the drink is also a foreshadowing and warning to all who try to ignore the Social issues, misery, and problems that come with widespread and systemic substance abuse.
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Thank you again, and don't forget to subscribe to watch more.What Americans dont understand about Public HealthcareKraut2019-07-27 | Public Healthcare, or as Americans call it: Social Healthcare, is an issue of contention almost every single U.S election. And the 2020 presidential elections won't be any different. Bernie Sanders, Cory Booker, Elisabeth Warren, and Bill de Blasio already voiced their support during Democratic primaries. However, what every election cycle in the United States also has in common is that the candidates who support public healthcare never actually present any plans for how the system would work or what it would even look like. Additionally, many American advocates of public healthcare don't seem to know much about the social sacrifices, reforms and additional health measures that come with public healthcare to ensure a healthy society. In this video that will be discussed and several American misconceptions about public healthcare will be talked about.
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