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    1. Saurya.meth‏ @Saurya Jan 6
      Replying to @Saurya @eigenrobot

      Saurya.meth Retweeted eigenrobot

      This just doesn't square with my understanding of how America won its independence. Seems very mythologised to me, in the sense that YES, from a certain angle it is true but within a greater context.https://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1330612966849277952 …

      Saurya.meth added,

      eigenrobot @eigenrobot
      A ragtag army drunk on liberty defeated the most powerful empire on earth to birth this country and you can't spare a moment to take pride in inheriting the system they built with pen and sinew and blood? pic.twitter.com/X4XslDRM9Q
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    2. Saurya.meth‏ @Saurya Jan 6
      Replying to @Saurya @eigenrobot

      Also worth noting that the British Empire was nowhere near the most powerful in 1776. It would sort of be like Canada saying it defeated the global superpower because of the failure of America forces to invade British Canada in 1812

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    3. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Jan 6
      Replying to @Saurya

      what would you identify as the most powerful state on earth in 1776? The British had footholds in India and China already; had just won the Seven Years' War; were easily the richest country on earth in practical terms holland richer per capita, but quite smallpic.twitter.com/KAU0BJXuLf

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    4. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Jan 6
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      china was probably richer in absolute terms, but had no ability to project force globally (a feat that really only Britain was capable of as far as I know)

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    5. Saurya.meth‏ @Saurya Jan 6
      Replying to @eigenrobot

      I would place France up there as poorer but more able to project power globally than the British. I wonder why that chart doesn't have France on it, seems like an odd choice. I'd love to know how rich France actually was during that period. I'm basing this off of [some book]

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    6. Saurya.meth‏ @Saurya Jan 6
      Replying to @Saurya @eigenrobot

      Similarly, the Ottoman empire was also fairly prosperous around this time, but lacked the power to project towards America and was in decline. An honorable mention. European powers also didn't have THAT much projection power until quinine in 1820.

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    7. Saurya.meth‏ @Saurya Jan 6
      Replying to @Saurya @eigenrobot

      Mm, one sidenote: the Ottomans and the conflicts they were embroiled in during the 1700s actually bear quite a few resemblances to the American revolution. I was reading an article on the Hotaki war, where the tactics of the Afghans was...VERY CLEVER. Info war shit.

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    8. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Jan 6
      Replying to @Saurya

      oh interesting. do you have any reccs for 18C Ottoman history reading?

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    9. Saurya.meth‏ @Saurya Jan 6
      Replying to @eigenrobot

      If you haven't watched the Caspian Report on the decline of the Ottoman, it's great though mostly economic history: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-SUlb4rwls … Haven't read Ottoman history recently, just Afghan (The Last Afghan Empire) and Chechen (Lone Wolf and The Bear) but they keep showing up!

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    10. Saurya.meth‏ @Saurya Jan 6
      Replying to @Saurya @eigenrobot

      OH embarassing, I think this is what I was reading after I got curious about the Hotaki from the Afghan history stuff: https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/hotaki-persia-and-no-nadir-shah.266622/ … You hear a lot about Persians ruling Afghania, not vice versa, so this seems like an interesting idea

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      eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Jan 6
      Replying to @Saurya

      awesome, thank you!

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