I watched that livestream and did not take away from it the same as you did.... Ghost is a huge history buff and spends an enormous time digging into it.
Here are 2 of his very detailed and research-intensive substack articles:
"This is why it is such an important practice to consume the literature and rhetoric of your enemy. Not only will it challenge your own beliefs, helping to galvanize your convictions— or even replace them— but it will also help you better understand your enemy. Only with this greater understanding will we possess the guidance to defeat said enemy, and avoid becoming them in the process—avoid becoming the monster you seek to destroy.
(As you read this, the enemy stokes tensions in the streets of nations around the world, certain that one side will act, and the other will respond.)"
I watched that livestream and did not take away from it the same as you did.... Ghost is a huge history buff and spends an enormous time digging into it.
Here are 2 of his very detailed and research-intensive substack articles:
https://badlands.substack.com/p/horseshoe-theory-part-1
https://badlands.substack.com/p/arabian-nights
And a relevant quote from the first one:
"This is why it is such an important practice to consume the literature and rhetoric of your enemy. Not only will it challenge your own beliefs, helping to galvanize your convictions— or even replace them— but it will also help you better understand your enemy. Only with this greater understanding will we possess the guidance to defeat said enemy, and avoid becoming them in the process—avoid becoming the monster you seek to destroy.
(As you read this, the enemy stokes tensions in the streets of nations around the world, certain that one side will act, and the other will respond.)"