How Empires Die: The Lesson of the British for the End of the ‘American Century’ w/ Sina Rahmani
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The Death of the Queen Elizabeth I
The death of queen elizabeth an. sparked a really interesting, though somewhat frustrating, in many ways, conversation about the legacy of british empire. The estimate is something like the u k. Drained forty five trillion dollars of wealth from india betl Like just, you know, sitting here, i'm talking to you from lebanon, just being in the middle east,. i mean, we had the establishment of all these horrible gulf monarchies that were literally, like, funded by the british Empire. But ultimately, when you kind of look at its global scope, it's just in its own, let's say, sort of 200 year trajectory.
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