They're competing against each other, the German Empire, the Russian Empire, the British Empire. They're all interrelated. They're all, being funded by the same central banking ideas, these international bankers. Let's talk about the East India Company's penchant for opium and, maybe something like David Sassoon, the opium magnate from Iraq back in the day. And he's, they were known as the Rothschilds of Iraq. Right. This use of opium, this illicit drug trade, and how it ties into the banking 

and, transforms over years to even this day. Well, look, the within this system of empire, there's always a sort of a internal tension. And so let's just take the history of the British Empire. You've had commercial interests associated with the city of London, with the big trading companies, and then you've had the monarchy per se. And there have been long periods of time where, you know, 

quite frankly, through too many generations of inbreeding, you had idiots on the, you know, British throne. But then there have been other periods where you've had, you know, occasions where the monarchy has reasserted and has been the dominant force. Well, beginning at the basically at the time of Shakespeare when the initial royal charter was given to the, British East India Company, that group of merchants, a lot of it, you know, sort of modeled on already the existing Dutch East India Company, 

set up a massive military shipping operation that extended all the way to the Far East. So the idea of geopolitics and empire is essentially social control, which is something that has been worked on for thousands of years by various rulers and various empires. They've laid it down for other rulers to emulate. And then you got people like Machiavelli along the way who write handbooks for people who might enjoy power 

on a a different level. But the the essence has been and continues to be social control because they even though they argue that you don't have free will, that you don't have a soul, they have to act in reality as if you do. So they have to afflict your free will because they don't control you. They have to make all these attempts to improve their abilities of social control. You know why? Because they don't control you until you acquiesce your intellectual self defense in many cases.