Dune and the Global Chessboard [podcast #57]

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Imagine Frank Herbert's novel Dune was about real-world geopolitics. The House of Atreides is really the British Empire, the Harkonen are the technologically gifted Germans, the planet Arakkis is Arabia, and spice is Arab oil. As in the novel, the Atreides beating the Harkonen, the British beat the German Empire.

German industry had become such a threat by the 1920s that the British sought to discredit the German racial unity underpinning the new German nation founded by Otto v...