Tom Bilyeu

The seas just won't matter anymore.

Britain's response was to make sure that nobody ever united the heartland by any means necessary.

Fund wars, back opposing factions, keep Europe and Asia divided and at each other's throats, force commerce back onto the water where the British Navy could control it.

The Napoleonic Wars, which most people think of as a story just about French ambition,

It's that, but in large part, it was about Britain spending enormous amounts of blood and treasure to make sure France didn't unify continental Europe.

Same with Russia's attempts to push towards warm water ports.

Same with backing the Ottoman Empire to keep Russia contained.

Every major British geopolitical move for 150 years was a variation on that same theme.

Prevent Eurasian unification.

Keep the heartland divided.

Then, when the British Empire was simply too battered, bruised, and indebted after World War II, they were forced to pass the baton onto the new great power, the United States, and America

understood the playbook, and they have been running the exact same method ever since.

Different tools, sure, but same objective.

They just absorb more ideas faster.

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This is a bandwidth problem, not a discipline problem.

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