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Alexander Mikaberidze - Napoleon, War, Progress, and Global Order

Dwarkesh Podcast

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The Importance of the War

War has a great homogenizing effects. It suppresses some of the sharper edges, or in some areas, it actually makes those sharper edges even more pronounced. War also creates conditions where bright, talented, however you want to that individuals have an opportunity to distinguish. Who knows how things would have turned if there was no war, and whether napoleon would have been able to distinguish himself?

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