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Across the late 1800s to mid 1900s, a few things happened at the same time:

Empires collapsed

Finance became international

Media became mass scale

Bureaucracies exploded in size

Intelligence agencies became permanent institutions

Wars and crises reshaped borders

A small number of highly educated, well connected people operated across countries

That is real.

And it did create a class of people who

moved across borders easily

worked in banking, law, academia, journalism, politics

had international networks

influenced events beyond their numbers