"Politics is who does what to whom... who has the power to do to make you do stuff." - Yanis Varoufakis [00:02:36]

"We have created machines and machinery—network machines—that are not produced means of production... these contraptions pack a remarkable new power: they are produced means of behavioral modification." - Yanis Varoufakis…

"it turns out that the book [Red Star Over China] really is a fantastic show piece where the communists tell their story exactly the way they want it to be totally unchallenged..." - Frank Dikötter [00:03:21]

"it is Stalin who sets the parameters it is not Chairman Mao." - Frank Dikötter…

"To understand what made me and my colleagues become the people we did become, we've got to understand the history because we went through a harrowing period that tempered us—that either broke us or tempered us." - Lee Kuan Yew [00:02:10]

"They are like radioactive dust. How do you get rid of it? You got to vacuum the whole place out and with it…

"Russia and China are eternal neighbors, they're not eternal friends. They have been their worst enemies over the years." - Sarah Paine [00:00:18]

"I can picture one ending to the Ukraine war where China gains a lot of territory in return for putting the screws on Russia to end things in the west." - Sarah Paine…

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"The interesting twist in his argument is that what we're seeing now is we're ending up with a version of neoliberalism that's stripped of its international component." - Janet Gornick [00:02:07]

"The first sort of reduction of inequality between the countries has in some sense produced the conflict between China and the…

• "Strategy is first of all a psychological exercise." - Thomas Gomart [00:08:26]

• "War and trade are only two ways to reach the same aim, which is to possess what you desire." - Benjamin Constant (quoted by Gomart) [00:16:51]

• "The dollar is our currency and your problem." - **John…

"2,300 years before John Nash sat down at Princeton and wrote the 27-page thesis that would win him the Nobel Prize in economics... a man in Pataliputra wrote the same theorem. Not a similar idea, not a philosophical forerunner—the actual theorem." - Ronny [00:00:00]

"He names the players in the system... entirely by their structural relationship to…

"The whole point of the maritime order is one country doesn't own it. If one country owned it, no one would join it." - Sarah C. M. Paine [00:00:09]

"War is burnout money. They're negative sum. Whatever you get is damaged, and therefore the loser's loss is bigger than what you get." - Sarah C. M. Paine…

"The fact that it seems to stand on book and that the fate of our world should be in a meaningful sense determined by these two men is not just politically morally normatively horrified but also intellectually what are we supposed to do" - Adam Tooze [00:15:26]

"We are in the midst whether we accept it or not environment... we now face also the…

"just like the United States today is the argument against democracy the back then were the argument against monarchy right so both systems have a terrible flaw in that they can produce awful leaders." - Roy Casagranda [00:12:44]

"he had two real objectives the first one was to disassemble the British and French empires and then replace them...…

"If you want to understand world history regional Middle Eastern politics and our world's broader contest between democracy and autocracy you have to understand Iran because it's not a country that's peripheral to world order It is one of the pressure points." - History Uncensored Host [00:00:00]

"Ferdowsi wrote it mostly without Arabic vocabulary…

"the 1989 protests in China are not as it were the vain uh heroic charge of human rights activists against the monolithic totalitarian state... but much more familiar if you like protests over the process of reform in China" - Adam Tooze [00:04:28]

"inflations are first and foremost distributional struggles over who gets access to credit who gets to raise prices who…

US-Iran war explained by Chinese AI animation: Legend of the Valley of Gold

• "did you know there is an invisible system that controls nearly every trade on the planet and I don't mean supply and demand" - Felix Pin [00:00:00]

• "every single day the world burns through about 93 million barrels of oil" - Felix Pin [00:02:30]

• "the dollar was gold you could walk up to a…