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Claims (58)
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury did_business_with
Ottoman Empire documented
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“By concluding a series of bargains with... Turkey (which surrendered Cyprus to Britain in return for a guarantee of her Asian territory)... Salisbury paved the way for Disraeli’s diplomatic “triumph” at Berlin.…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 2: The World's Banker, 1849-1999 · ch. NINE “On the Side of Imperialism” (1874-1885)
Ottoman Empire carried_out_attack
Jerusalem documented
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“The Romans destroyed Jerusalem and killed as many as one million Jews in the year 70, followed by similar slaughters in 113 and 132.…”
source: book — Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making · p.284
Ottoman Empire carried_out_attack
Battle of Vienna documented
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“...culminating in 1683 in the Battle of Vienna.…”
source: book — Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making · p.187
Ottoman Empire operated_in
Hungary documented
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“After all, it was control of Hungary and rivalry with the Austro-Hungarian empire that was at the center of the last Ottoman (Turkish) invasions into the heart of Europe...…”
source: book — Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making · p.187
Rothschild family did_business_with
Ottoman Empire reported
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“They will not be the last, as they are not the first, of their kind.” The memorandum set forth that important firms deal- ing with governments would always have such fanciful stories attached to them.…”
source: book — The Rise of the House of Rothschild, 1770-1830 · p.403
Administration of the Ottoman Public Debt operated_in
Ottoman Empire documented
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“On December 20, 1881, the Sultan promulgated the Decree of Muharrem which reduced the Turkish debt and annual charges 15 and established a new Administration of the Ottoman Public Debt.…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 2: The World's Banker, 1849-1999 · ch. NINE “On the Side of Imperialism” (1874-1885)
Rothschild family financed_via
Ottoman Empire documented
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“the revenues of Smyrna were already hypothecated to the guaranteed loan which the Rothschilds had issued in 1855.…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 2: The World's Banker, 1849-1999 · ch. NINE “On the Side of Imperialism” (1874-1885)
Ottoman Empire sold_to
United Kingdom documented
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“Turkey (which surrendered Cyprus to Britain in return for a guarantee of her Asian territory)…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 2: The World's Banker, 1849-1999 · ch. NINE “On the Side of Imperialism” (1874-1885)
Ernest Cassel did_business_with
Ottoman Empire documented
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“the efforts of Ernest Cassel “to direct the policy of the Ottoman Empire” by financial means…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 2: The World's Banker, 1849-1999 · ch. TWELVE Finances and Alliances (1885-1906)
British Government carried_out_attack
Ottoman Empire documented
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“Following Britain's declaration of war on the Ottoman Empire in November 1914...…”
source: url — Balfour Declaration · p.1
Muhammad Ali of Egypt worked_for
Ottoman Empire documented
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“...following the occupation of Syria and Palestine by separatist Ottoman governor Muhammad Ali of Egypt.…”
source: url — Balfour Declaration · p.1
Palestine located_in
Ottoman Empire documented
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“The year 1916 marked four centuries since Palestine had become part of the Ottoman Empire...…”
source: url — Balfour Declaration · p.1
Young Turks overthrew
Ottoman Empire documented
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“...Young Turks (Turkish nationalists who had taken control of the Empire in 1908)...…”
source: url — Balfour Declaration · p.1
Ottoman Empire member_of
Central Powers documented
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“...and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, and, later that year, the Ottoman Empire).…”
source: url — Balfour Declaration · p.1
Triple Entente targeted_for_regime_change
Ottoman Empire documented
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“Their agreement defined the proposed spheres of influence and control in Western Asia should the Triple Entente succeed in defeating the Ottoman Empire during World War I...…”
source: url — Balfour Declaration · p.1
West Germany did_business_with
Ottoman Empire documented
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“They successfully urged the Ottomans to show lenience towards Zionists but were not attempting anything like an equivalent to the Balfour Declaration.…”
source: url — Balfour Declaration · p.1
Talaat Pasha worked_for
Ottoman Empire documented
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“On 12 December, the Ottoman Grand Vizier, Talaat Pasha, gave an interview...…”
source: url — Balfour Declaration · p.1
N M Rothschild & Sons funded
Ottoman Empire documented
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“In August the London house was able to inform Landau that a £5 million loan to Turkey had been secured with an Anglo-French guarantee...…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 2: The World's Banker, 1849-1999 · ch. TWO The Era of Mobility (1849-1858)
France funded
Ottoman Empire documented
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“In August the London house was able to inform Landau that a £5 million loan to Turkey had been secured with an Anglo-French guarantee...…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 2: The World's Banker, 1849-1999 · ch. TWO The Era of Mobility (1849-1858)
United Kingdom funded
Ottoman Empire documented
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“In August the London house was able to inform Landau that a £5 million loan to Turkey had been secured with an Anglo-French guarantee...…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 2: The World's Banker, 1849-1999 · ch. TWO The Era of Mobility (1849-1858)
Ferdinand de Lesseps proposed
Ottoman Empire documented
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“Lesseps, on the verge of bankruptcy, had been touting around the idea of selling the canal to one or more of the European powers since 1871, but the Ottoman government vetoed all the schemes mooted…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 2: The World's Banker, 1849-1999 · ch. NINE “On the Side of Imperialism” (1874-1885)
Mahmud Nedim Pasha worked_for
Ottoman Empire documented
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“It was the declaration of Turkey’s bankruptcy by the Ottoman prime minister Mahmud Nedim Pasha on October 7…”
source: book — The House of Rothschild, Volume 2: The World's Banker, 1849-1999 · ch. NINE “On the Side of Imperialism” (1874-1885)
Lloyd George ordered_assassination_of
Ottoman Empire documented
“And they were considered not to be direct colonial subjugations in order to continue the illusion that Arabs were in charge of their own futures in Mecca and Medina. In 1917, Prime Minister Lloyd George, which remember, he's like the king o…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in The Empire on Which the Black Sun Never Set, Chapter 10 @ 33:07
Russia defeated
Ottoman Empire host_asserted
“which ended with a decisive Russian victory, and the Ottoman holdings in Europe declined sharply. Next we get to the Suez Canal. Suez Canal was built in 1869 by a French-led company. It's very interesting. If you can go from London to Mumba…”
▶ The Real Story behind World War 1 @ 1:05:00
Ottoman Empire allied_with
Austria-Hungary host_asserted
“Seven years later, the British military occupation to protect their interests after what was known as the Urabi Revolt, which I'd be willing to bet that British, I think the story of British spies provoking that to give them the excuse to o…”
▶ The Shadow State 79 Pilgrims Society 5 Churchill 1 @ 1:06:56
Ottoman Empire lost
Bulgaria host_asserted
“Territory lost between 1800 and 1877 was up here in Romania and down there in Algeria. They lost a bunch more from 1878 to 1913, including Egypt to the British. They lost Georgia, Bulgaria, most of the Balkan territories they lost. This is …”
▶ The Shadow State 79 Pilgrims Society 5 Churchill 1 @ 1:02:55
Ottoman Empire involved in
World War I host_asserted
“They know that their embedded network is going to be able to manipulate the U.S. behind the U.K. on everything that they do. Yeah, those deals have already been made prior to World War I behind closed doors. And it started with the Pilgrim …”
▶ The Real Story behind World War 1 @ 57:19
United Kingdom targeted_for_regime_change
Ottoman Empire host_asserted
“So you have to get rid of the Ottoman Empire first. And the Balkan Wars in 1912 and 13 were fought to do exactly that. This was all premeditated, planned well in advance. The British were very keen on acquiring what it's all strategic terri…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in The Empire on Which the Black Sun Never Set, Chapter 10 @ 14:28
Ottoman Empire allied_with
Germany host_asserted
“Seven years later, the British military occupation to protect their interests after what was known as the Urabi Revolt, which I'd be willing to bet that British, I think the story of British spies provoking that to give them the excuse to o…”
▶ The Shadow State 79 Pilgrims Society 5 Churchill 1 @ 1:06:56
Ottoman Empire overthrew
Georgia documented
“Many different flags over the last 2,000 years. They've lived under the rule of Rome, Armenia, Persia, Parthia, the Eastern Roman Empire. They were raided by the Khazarians, the nobles, I'm sorry, the nomads to the north. The Arab Empire ru…”
▶ SitRep with War_Hamster and Colonel Towner-Watkins @ 32:57
Wahhabis carried_out_attack
Ottoman Empire host_asserted
“They failed to industrialize. They had a national awakening in the Balkans. People wanted to be nationalists. That's why they lost those. You had the Wahhabis of Arabia revolted. That would end up being the Lawrence of Arabia story. In 1818…”
▶ The Shadow State 79 Pilgrims Society 5 Churchill 1 @ 1:03:30
Ottoman Empire overthrew
Istanbul host_asserted
“And then one tribe continues across Persia and right here where Bursa is, right on the front doorstep of the Byzantine Empire, which is a Greek Christian empire. Longest lasting empire, I believe, in history, as I understand it, or at least…”
▶ Live Research Dig w WarHamster and GBPH @ 1:17:25
Ottoman Empire carried_out_attack
Armenian Genocide guest_asserted
“the reasoning that it was given, that they viewed them as a threat. They didn't view them as a threat necessarily because of their wealth. They viewed them as a threat because of their religious beliefs and their refusal to convert to Islam…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Splendid Blond Beast #3 @ 50:05
Ottoman Empire assassinated
Armenian Genocide guest_asserted
“That was ongoing throughout World War I, which led to, and you're right in the fact that it wasn't, but they didn't just take Armenians that had wealth. They wanted them all gone, which is why they rounded them up and put them in the desert…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Splendid Blond Beast #3 @ 50:33
Ottoman Empire assassinated
Jesus host_asserted
“And the whole thing about the infiltration of Christianity by the Old Testament and ignoring the New Testament is a really, really long old psyop. And people really forget that the Romans assassinated Jesus.…”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 18 @ 1:50:01
Bolivia member_of
Ottoman Empire host_asserted
“you know, we're talking about, if you will, that's associated with Romania. One of the things everybody has to really look at is the maps prior to World War I, because these people were actually in existence for a long time. Gladio is only …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Bulgaria @ 1:18:51
Ottoman Empire had land army same size as
United Kingdom host_asserted
“And Russia was just massive in terms of the land army. Ottoman Turks were pretty big considering their population. They had about the same size as the United Kingdom. That's going to matter when we get to World War I. And the U.S. didn't ha…”
▶ The Real Story behind World War 1 @ 54:51
Ottoman Empire lost_territory_to
United Kingdom host_asserted
“They lost a bunch more from 1878 to 1913, including Egypt to the British. They lost Georgia, Bulgaria, most of the Balkan territories they lost. This is prior to World War I. And what you see here in the green is what the Ottoman Empire was…”
▶ The Real Story behind World War 1 @ 1:02:45
Ottoman Empire lost
Algeria host_asserted
“Territory lost between 1800 and 1877 was up here in Romania and down there in Algeria. They lost a bunch more from 1878 to 1913, including Egypt to the British. They lost Georgia, Bulgaria, most of the Balkan territories they lost. This is …”
▶ The Shadow State 79 Pilgrims Society 5 Churchill 1 @ 1:02:55
Ottoman Empire lost
Egypt host_asserted
“Territory lost between 1800 and 1877 was up here in Romania and down there in Algeria. They lost a bunch more from 1878 to 1913, including Egypt to the British. They lost Georgia, Bulgaria, most of the Balkan territories they lost. This is …”
▶ The Shadow State 79 Pilgrims Society 5 Churchill 1 @ 1:02:55
Ottoman Empire lost
Georgia host_asserted
“Territory lost between 1800 and 1877 was up here in Romania and down there in Algeria. They lost a bunch more from 1878 to 1913, including Egypt to the British. They lost Georgia, Bulgaria, most of the Balkan territories they lost. This is …”
▶ The Shadow State 79 Pilgrims Society 5 Churchill 1 @ 1:02:55
Ottoman Empire lost
Romania host_asserted
“Territory lost between 1800 and 1877 was up here in Romania and down there in Algeria. They lost a bunch more from 1878 to 1913, including Egypt to the British. They lost Georgia, Bulgaria, most of the Balkan territories they lost. This is …”
▶ The Shadow State 79 Pilgrims Society 5 Churchill 1 @ 1:02:55
Ottoman Empire recognized
Serbia host_asserted
“They failed to industrialize. They had a national awakening in the Balkans. People wanted to be nationalists. That's why they lost those. You had the Wahhabis of Arabia revolted. That would end up being the Lawrence of Arabia story. In 1818…”
▶ The Shadow State 79 Pilgrims Society 5 Churchill 1 @ 1:03:30
Ottoman Empire acknowledged_independence_of
Serbia host_asserted
“They had a national awakening in the Balkans. People wanted to be nationalists. That's why they lost those. You had the Wahhabis of Arabia revolted. That would end up being the Lawrence of Arabia story. In 1818, they acknowledged Serbia as …”
▶ The Real Story behind World War 1 @ 1:03:18
Ottoman Empire lost
Balkans host_asserted
“Territory lost between 1800 and 1877 was up here in Romania and down there in Algeria. They lost a bunch more from 1878 to 1913, including Egypt to the British. They lost Georgia, Bulgaria, most of the Balkan territories they lost. This is …”
▶ The Shadow State 79 Pilgrims Society 5 Churchill 1 @ 1:02:55
Praetorian Guard located_in
Ottoman Empire host_asserted
“in cuba um with a little help from the cia until that happens um the victorian guard guards the oligarchs if i may colonel the reason i love that term so much is because historically the original victorian guard was in rome and by the secon…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 10 @ 56:54
Russia carried_out_attack
Ottoman Empire host_asserted
“which ended with a decisive Russian victory, and the Ottoman holdings in Europe declined sharply. Next, we get to the Suez Canal. Suez Canal was built in 1869 by a French-led company. It's very interesting. If you can go from London to Mumb…”
▶ The Shadow State 79 Pilgrims Society 5 Churchill 1 @ 1:05:16
Ottoman Empire member_of
West Germany host_asserted
“English banks that forced the Ottomans to the point where they had no choice but to join Germany by indebting the entire Ottoman Empire. But the one banker who profited the most from World War I was J.P. Morgan. That's no accident. He got p…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy part 35 (37) @ 1:06:05
United States had bigger economy than
Ottoman Empire host_asserted
“because 50 years prior to this chart they were really still one of the most world's ultimate powers united states you can see started in about second place and by the end of um well 1940s they were bigger than the other five economies put t…”
▶ The Real Story behind World War 1 @ 52:43
Praetorian Guard overthrew
Ottoman Empire host_asserted
“in cuba um with a little help from the cia until that happens um the victorian guard guards the oligarchs if i may colonel the reason i love that term so much is because historically the original victorian guard was in rome and by the secon…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 10 @ 56:54
Greece carried_out_attack
Ottoman Empire host_asserted
“They failed to industrialize. They had a national awakening in the Balkans. People wanted to be nationalists. That's why they lost those. You had the Wahhabis of Arabia revolted. That would end up being the Lawrence of Arabia story. In 1818…”
▶ The Shadow State 79 Pilgrims Society 5 Churchill 1 @ 1:03:30
Ottoman Public Debt Administration controlled
Ottoman Empire host_asserted
“The European creditors and bankers, they create something called the OPDA, the Ottoman Public Debt Administration. The European Union created a bureaucracy. I'm sorry, the Europeans, not the Union, doesn't exist yet. The European bankers cr…”
▶ The Real Story behind World War 1 @ 1:10:06
Ottoman Public Debt Administration controlled
Ottoman Empire host_asserted
“The Ottoman Public Debt Administration. The European Union created a bureaucracy. I'm sorry, the Europeans, not the Union, doesn't exist yet. The European bankers created a bureaucracy inside a sovereign nation that's run by bankers and bur…”
▶ The Shadow State 79 Pilgrims Society 5 Churchill 1 @ 1:10:28
Mustafa Kemal overthrew
Ottoman Empire guest_asserted
“For the Turkish people, he kind of, on numerous cultural levels, saved them in making a structure whereby they could, you know, function without a king. And yes, the Armenian genocide happened. And what is stated is that they...…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Splendid Blond Beast #3 @ 47:13
Ottoman Empire overthrew
Italy host_asserted
“to get the Orthodox Pope and the Catholic Pope to see eye to eye so that we could actually launch the first crusade. Like, like they were so caught up in this power that their church is right. And all the other churches are wrong, you know,…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Zaire-Congo 1975-1978 @ 1:50:06
Ottoman Empire carried_out_attack
Southern Italy host_asserted
“they initially came ashore in southern Italy. So the Ottomans come ashore in southern Italy, and people were led to believe that if they took refuge in the Catholic church, that they would be safe. There is a Catholic church that in the aft…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Splendid Blond Beast #3 @ 1:19:08
Ottoman Empire carried_out_attack
France host_asserted
“they were eventually then pushed back out of Europe. But it was horrific what happened. But if you read anything about Genghis Khan and his tirades through the countrysides and country after country, that's the way they did warfare back the…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Splendid Blond Beast #3 @ 1:23:02
Ottoman Empire carried_out_attack
Spain host_asserted
“or you would be killed. Now, when they got into Spain and southern Italy, as they were coming into the European continent, they realized quickly that the modern city-states that were very different than going across desert areas where there…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Splendid Blond Beast #3 @ 1:16:45
Mentions (60)
▶ 1:16:29
Because I always had a bad feeling about the whole crusade narrative. And nobody ever talks about the fourth crusade. And the fourth crusade, as Matt has taught me, was they went straight to Constantinople. They sacked it. They raped it. Th…
▶ 1:17:25
And then one tribe continues across Persia and right here where Bursa is, right on the front doorstep of the Byzantine Empire, which is a Greek Christian empire. Longest lasting empire, I believe, in history, as I understand it, or at least…
▶ 1:20:16
They invite the Europeans to come to Baghdad. Baghdad was far more advanced and sophisticated at the time than Europe was. They were doing surgery. They were using all kinds of medicine that did not exist in Europe. They were putting people…
▶ 1:20:45
And it's all because of what you said. Venice goes to Constantinople and sacks it. Charlemagne. Charlemagne. Thank you. It was Charlemagne. Yeah. And that story, that's such a good story. And that's really what I think in a lot of ways we'r…
▶ 1:21:18
And I will make the argument that World War I, one of the main reasons that we started it was to break up the Ottoman Empire. Coincidentally, this whole area, which is listed as Arabia, is where they had just discovered oil. Correct. And th…
▶ 1:21:48
regime change. It's exactly what we've been doing throughout the 20th century. And it's almost always about oil or gas or natural resources. And that brings us right back to Ukraine. Why is that war happening in the first place? And it's ab…
▶ 1:22:09
Eastern Mediterranean politics. Harun al-Rashid, he's the guy whose name I couldn't remember, who sent the emissary, sent the war elephants to meet with Charlemagne. It was 840 AD. Yeah. And the British then come in and put their thumb on t…
▶ 1:22:36
That's where it culminates, where you have the British then going to these other Arabs and saying, let's overthrow the Ottomans. At the end of World War I, the Ottoman Empire ceases to exist. That's where you really started your research. W…
▶ 1:18:51
you know, we're talking about, if you will, that's associated with Romania. One of the things everybody has to really look at is the maps prior to World War I, because these people were actually in existence for a long time. Gladio is only …
▶ 1:19:49
Bridget, you know the guy's name from Waco that was the Branch Davidians and all of that. Victor Hotez. Yeah. They keep saying he was a Bulgarian, Bulgarian, Bulgarian. Well, he wasn't. He was part of the Ottoman Empire. So, you know, it's …
▶ 1:50:01
And the whole thing about the infiltration of Christianity by the Old Testament and ignoring the New Testament is a really, really long old psyop. And people really forget that the Romans assassinated Jesus.…
▶ 41:17
During the First World War, a large part of the Ottoman Empire, which was headquartered in Turkey, broke apart. Many will tell you that's the whole reason why we had the war, is so they could break up the Ottoman Empire. Almost the entire p…
▶ 41:42
It was late in the whole Ottoman Empire setting up. Originally, when the Ottoman Empire began, it was convert or die. They just literally killed everybody that didn't convert to Islam. But as that empire grew so big, especially as it branch…
▶ 42:35
Not necessarily industrialized, but just more advanced cultures. And as that happened, the leadership in the Ottoman Empire kind of, and I'm definitely just glossing over this, trying to give you kind of a 30,000 foot look. All of this is m…
▶ 49:52
turkish state that kind of got chopped up um in because it was part of the greater ottoman empire um basically um was very unstable it was be the best way to say that um and that basically was used as um a mechanism…
▶ 25:43
the West where Persia, which of course they turned into Iran, and then part of it's Iraq, and you go right into what used to be the Turkish Empire or the Ottoman Empire more specifically.…
▶ 1:47:26
And I'm like, what? Why do we not know that? And I'm not saying it as a pejorative to the religion, but it's a relevant artifact, piece of history, because I never associated the Ottoman Empire with the Muslim religion, even though it was l…
▶ 1:47:50
by the Muslim religion because our history books never associate the two things together, which is completely different than the Christian crusades in which they used to deride Christianity all the time. So why is it the Ottoman Empire and …
▶ 1:54:44
The Crusades followed 600 years of Muslim conquest. He did not say that there were good guys and bad guys. He said it was justified to take the territory back from the Muslim Ottoman Empire as it had encroached into Europe and along the way…
▶ 1:56:09
not in formaldehyde or anything else, are in glass cases that are shuttered in the turrets of this. And they were all in the basement of this particular church when the Ottoman Empire arrived. They went down into the basement, chopped every…
▶ 1:57:01
No, I totally understand. That's what I wanted to give a little bit more of context, because there was a political and economic context behind all this, you know, because the European nobles saw the Crusades as an opportunity to gain some l…
▶ 1:06:05
English banks that forced the Ottomans to the point where they had no choice but to join Germany by indebting the entire Ottoman Empire. But the one banker who profited the most from World War I was J.P. Morgan. That's no accident. He got p…
▶ 1:38:05
for all of those cities not to be reduced to rubble. And so that modernization drastically changed the Islamic religion as a whole. And you find that from that time on, post-World War II, when the Ottoman Empire is demolished, that there wa…
▶ 7:38
Communists seized power in 1917 and took the country out of the European war a few months later. Though a civil war continued in the East, the Ottoman Empire in the Middle East disintegrated. The quote-unquote Republican government supplant…
▶ 3:19
It was the Turkish government's attempted genocide of the country's largest Armenian population that had led to the demand for a clear international ban on crimes against humanity. Turkey was the center of the Ottoman Empire, and the Armeni…
▶ 10:35
denouncing the mass killings of Armenians as crimes against humanities. They warned the leaders of Turkish governments that they would be held personally responsible. But there was little behind the rhetoric. The associated powers basically…
▶ 13:31
Well, the Armenian people. Jamal afforded the Allies their one great opportunity to subvert the Ottoman Empire from within and to save lives. They let it go. Nor did the Allies exploit his attempted...…
▶ 17:15
as part of the price for his support to this effort. Again, resources over people. Another pattern that just keeps repeating itself. The Ottoman holdings were of extraordinary value, perhaps the richest imperial treasure since the Europeans…
▶ 17:40
had begun eroding for decades, but by the time the Turkish defeat of World War I, it still included most of what is today Turkey, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, and the oil sheikdoms of the Persian Gulf. The European go…
▶ 31:36
but not near enough. Armenians lost a great deal under the terms of the new treaty, while Western commercial interests prospered. The new Turkish leader, Ataturk, agreed to relinquish all claims on the old Ottoman Empire outside of what was…
▶ 32:01
thus formally opening the door for the Anglo-American control of the Middle East oil. Again, brought about by Alan Dulles for his real customer, Standard Oil. The settlement of most reparation claims against Turkey and an agreement between …
▶ 46:43
from being taken over by them and simultaneously was able to take out the Ottoman, the Sultan, the king of Turkey. And so I just want to give that context because he's like a superhero.…
▶ 50:05
the reasoning that it was given, that they viewed them as a threat. They didn't view them as a threat necessarily because of their wealth. They viewed them as a threat because of their religious beliefs and their refusal to convert to Islam…
▶ 56:12
what is now NATO and going back all the way to World War I, is that these, obviously, you can make the argument that World War I was fought under false pretenses, as you just articulated, to destroy the Ottoman Empire and to take all of the…
▶ 56:59
cobbled together the remaining aspects of that and to establish some type of Turkish beachhead was Ataturk. And that is the reason why he is still to this day in Turkey. It is the last bastion of the former Ottoman Empire. And if you guys u…
▶ 57:29
to Turkey was huge. So Turkey has always been of paramount importance. And Ataturk was like the last man standing after World War I. And that is the reason why, because it was the head of the caliphate of the Ottoman Empire. It was critical…
▶ 59:16
Copy that. Okay, so we're kind of on the same page there. But the point I was going to make is World War I, the reason that Turkey had to be brought in with World War I, and specifically Germany had to be brought in with World War I, is bec…
▶ 1:14:56
Yeah, so they would tax the hell out of you if you didn't convert to be a Muslim. You had to pay special tax, but it's my data that they didn't kill them. If you have different data, I'd love to see that. I have tons of different data, Carr…
▶ 1:15:26
basically in control of all of that territory. And I have visited churches in Southern Italy. There's one particular church, and I still have the flyer out in my box out in the garage, that I have never seen anything like this in my life, a…
▶ 1:15:54
They basically and you have to understand that their motto as they were creating the Ottoman Empire, it was not any different than Genghis Khan or anything else. I'm not talking about Islam as a religion. I'm talking about this as a effort …
▶ 1:16:21
Every empire was created by killing people. You don't create empires by shaking hands and saying, hey, I'm going to be in charge now. This is not singling out a religion. It's just historic fact. There was a lot of people killed in order to…
▶ 1:17:11
There were trading posts in most of the territory that the Ottoman Empire embraced at the time was not well developed. Some were. Most of it was not territory wise. But Europe was very different than that. And they quickly realized when the…
▶ 1:18:38
That was viewed as a critical mistake within the militant element of the Islamic religion. They viewed it as a watering down that once that began to happen and you started making deals with the quote unquote devil, that that was the beginni…
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they were eventually then pushed back out of Europe. But it was horrific what happened. But if you read anything about Genghis Khan and his tirades through the countrysides and country after country, that's the way they did warfare back the…
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Do we really want to bank in bed with the church? The question was asked back then as well. Most of their expenditures were for Renaissance art and architecture, papal armies and diplomacy, basically fighting against the Ottoman Empire's ex…
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Their biggest competition was Constantinople. And they basically eliminated their competition to make that happen. And, of course, opened the gates of Turkey to what became the Ottoman Empire. So once Constantinople fell, the rest of what's…
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Romania experienced a transformative period that solidified its independence, modernized its institutions. This is also when Romania got its independence from the Ottomans after the Russo-Turkish War. And Shaila is there. He's also in Serbi…
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Here's the breakdown of major events in Greece from 83 to 85 and Egypt, because I asked both, which is where he'd go next. So Greece went from a constitutional monarchy. What do I have here on Greece? They did a bunch of economic modernizat…
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Ten years later, after a fellow bonesman was in Greece. Okay. 1893, Greece has a national bankruptcy. The government falls and is replaced by a government of Deligianus, who's a nationalist anti-Ottoman. Bit of a dictator. This leads in 189…
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The Ottomans tried to invade them a couple times, got stuck in the swamps, had their boats sunk. What the Venetians had was a mastery of the Carthaginian navigation. It kind of passed down from, well, these are the oligarchical families of …
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Why is that so important? Well, because you can see parallels of their rise and their fall. You can see the parallels with Rome. You can see the parallels with the British Empire. And you can see the parallels with today's American Empire. …
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in the Caribbean. And it is now considered a unitary monarchy. But, back in the Roman days, the Romans had made the division of this area between the upstream, which is Germania Superior, which you should be able to see here a little bit, a…
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of individual liberty, equality, and all that stuff. It's a very, very strong Saxon influence on that. They didn't have tribal chiefs. They were pretty much equal on all decisions. So we get to the Roman era. I'll go back to that. We had th…
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It would incorporate it into the province of Germania Antiqua by 7 BC. You can sort of see, oops, going too far. This is kind of how they had it carved up at the time. It's a famous battle called the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest in 9 AD. …
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We're fighting against a German general by the name of Arminius. Arminius was actually a Roman citizen and military trained by the Romans. He went back to Germany and led his people. And the battle changed history quite a bit. Basically, ev…
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Kind of a big deal. Kind of. We get to the early Middle Ages. It was about 411 A.D. to about 1000 A.D. The Roman government in the area had collapsed around 406 A.D. So the Franks came north and they would conquer and unite all the territor…
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You know, we talk about the European disease of wanting to, you know, spreading their ideology all over the world as they colonize everything. It's a way of thinking that's dominated Europe for quite some time. And of course, they probably …
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Japan industrialized after the 1868 Majai Restoration. All they did is they imported Western technology. And you know how good they are at innovation. It was a natural benefactory. So why didn't other countries do well? Russia, China, the O…
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And another is his brother, Alan Dulles. They're there at the Treaty of Versailles. And this is where basically the British and the Americans and their French partners are carving up huge swathes of the Middle East, Africa, creating artific…
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increasing their ability to compete with the British in industrial might. Reason number two is the Suez Canal. The English had built the Suez Canal, but that's in Egypt. At the time, I think something like 48% of the world's trade was going…