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on the Genealogy of Morals, a polemic by Friedrich Nietzsche.

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Japan to claim your copy. Hello, and welcome to the history of Japan podcast, episode 391, The Lords of the Sea, part two.

Even to this day, piracy on the high seas is something that correlates heavily with the

political stability of an area. The more stable the political order of a given region is,

the less likely it is to be attractive to pirates, who would have to face up against

governments that are organized and equipped to take them on, and to block the sale of their

ill-gotten gains.

That's why, for example, modern-day pirates operate in places like Venezuela, which is, of course,

in the throes of an ongoing economic and political crisis, thanks to the difficulties

of the Venezuelan government, or the Indian Ocean, thanks to the ongoing civil war in Somalia,

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