The Ottoman Debt Trap — How Britain Bought the Middle East | Economic Warfare

Описание: This documentary explores economic warfare — how Britain and European banks used debt, interest, and financial control to strip the Ottoman Empire of its sovereignty long before World War I.

In 1854, the Ottoman Empire took its first foreign loan. By 1881, it no longer controlled its own finances. This was not a military conquest, but the world’s first modern debt trap — executed through loans, compound interest, and financial institutions.
This video examines how British and French banks turned wartime loans into permanent leverage, how reckless borrowing fueled imperial collapse, and how the Ottoman Public Debt Administration quietly seized the empire’s tax revenues.
From the Crimean War loans to the seizure of customs, railways, and salt taxes, debt became a weapon. The Middle East was not conquered by armies — it was bought with money.
The Ottoman Empire did not fall suddenly in 1918. It was financially conquered decades earlier through economic warfare, setting the blueprint for modern financial imperialism.
This channel explores economic warfare — how empires collapsed through money, debt, and financial weapons.
Our mission is to educate and inform through historical analysis, helping viewers understand how economic warfare shaped the modern world.

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This content is for educational and documentary purposes only.
It presents historical case studies on sovereign debt, financial control, and economic warfare.
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