Christian Robertson
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first heard Nov 2025
last heard 5 Jun
Christian Robertson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You know?
Yeah, and also, I think this whole war, so this war, it exposes kind of this...
I don't want to say incompetency, just like an obsolete old way of fighting war on the side of the European established models and styles of warfare.
That was definitely – it exposed those weaknesses for sure.
But it also exposed kind of the weaknesses of the colony, one of the big weaknesses of the colony, which is essentially that the –
they were too deconsolidated.
So we talk about deconsolidation a lot and how the American system, a system governed for the people, by the people, the consent of the people, but they hadn't really, they needed something to kind of bring them together.
And so that Albany plan of union that Franklin brought in was a key movement here because what it did is they're looking around
They're saying we need a we need a more of a centralized representation is right now.
It's like, you know, it's a wild west out here.
It's just I mean, every man for himself.
And it's great.
We're governing ourselves.
We need more of a formalized structure, though, that later will pave the way for how they're going to go against the monarchy that they are still under that authority.
Well, you see it in this way.
So they win the war, which is great.
Everybody claps and like, thank you for getting rid of the French.
But they lose the goodwill of colonial America.
They lose all that goodwill.
And the reason why was because they racked up a massive war debt.
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