Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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+ Agricultural states tend to be aggressive, centralized, & expansionary w/nationalistic narrative: Russia, France, China, pre-Bronze age Akkadians, Hittites... +(Maritime) City states are commercial, multicultural & tolerant. You expand by doing more trade, not invading lands. — PolitiTweet.org

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2) There are exceptions: Carthage went aggressive (occupied Sicily for agricultural land then got the Barcas). England became aggressive & occupied land. Switzerland was non aggressive but noncommercial early on. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted April 3, 2022