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Capturing a society's leader can destabilize its system and potentially enable governance through intermediaries or puppets.
Unresolved speaker · Si Sheppard – How did a few hundred Spanish soldiers topple two empires? · 1 Oct 2026
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“Taking that individual destabilizes the whole system,”
“potentially even means that it can be functionally governed through the use of intermediaries or even puppets.”45:50Report a misattribution
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