How Scotland Was Sold? The Darien Project and the Bankruptcy of a Nation.
Автор: Dark Money Historian
Загружено: 2026-02-02
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In 1707, the Kingdom of Scotland disappeared from the map.
History calls it a political union.
But the truth is colder: it was a financial transaction.
In the 1690s, Scotland gambled its entire national wealth on a colonial project in Panama known as the Darien Scheme. Led by financier William Paterson, the project promised control of global trade routes.
Instead, it collapsed into disease, famine, and total financial ruin.
Nearly half of Scotland’s circulating capital vanished.
The nation was bankrupt.
England offered a solution:
debt relief in exchange for sovereignty.
The payment was called The Equivalent — 398,000 pounds sterling.
Soon after, the Act of Union 1707 dissolved Scotland’s Parliament and merged it into Great Britain.
This was not conquest by cannons.
It was conquest by balance sheets.
This video explores:
• How the Darien disaster bankrupted Scotland
• How debt was used to reshape political power
• Why financial rescue always comes with conditions
• How this pattern still defines modern geopolitics
When a nation loses control of its finances, someone else designs its future.
Debt is not just money.
Debt is command.
This is the blueprint of modern financial power.
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