A balance-of-power model where war is continuous and rivals are managed rather than eliminated.
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19th-century imperialism
A balance-of-power model where war is continuous and rivals are managed rather than eliminated.
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"to keep attacking to keep escalating to keep um trying to unbalance the other side because maybe hopefully somehow in some way they might..."
"more oil because of all these atrocities you're committing in China Japan had actually no choice but to go to war also um America..."
"...taken off the mask now I mean we're essentially in 19th century imperialism now in the 20th and 21st century there's like this veneer..."
"...uh you know it looks like we're back to again 19th century imperialism I mean what do you make of that yeah so um..."
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Jiang frames the Iran conflict as a managed long war: visible ceasefires do not remove structural incentives that keep military pressure, debt extraction, and elite coordination in place.
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