Jiang contrasts the IVC with steppe peoples whose harsh grassland environment forced cattle ranching, raiding, and eventually aggressive expansionist opportunism.
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Aggression
The Beijing visit is only the front door.
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The Beijing visit is only the front door.
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Mercouris argues that late-stage Athens became simultaneously more irrational and more aggressive, expanding wars even while its internal crisis deepened.
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"Indeed, I mean, actually, you see the point you've made, because again, as somebody who knows the history very well, because it is the..."
"So, I think that by trading with these two civilizations and other civilizations, um, it reinforces the deep cultural values of the IVC people..."
"They'll kill people if that's what benefits them. They are not that moral. Okay? They're very optimistic, opportunistic. And, and as, and I remember,..."
"...Iranians. Right? So what Vladimir Putin says is, this absolute, unprovoked aggression of U.S. bombing against Iran has no basis and no justification whatsoever...."
"...President Trump has so memorably emphasized, our purpose will not be aggression or perpetual war. Rather, our goal is peace. Peace is the highest..."
"...security strategy including trump's uh talks of aniseing greenland including trump's aggression towards canada including trump's discussion of using special forces against mexican cartels..."
"...no protests against this war against Iran, this unprovoked war of aggression. Second of all, everyone thinks for whatever reason, it's Trump's a moron..."
"...solution of all that, but, uh, with this radical and mat aggression or Trump, maybe the, the, uh, uh, deeper state, deeper, not deep,..."
"...iran is really seen as a way to counter uh russia's aggression in ukraine basically once russia wanted ukraine um america has actually no..."
"...case how do you defend against again st this sort of aggression because remember the seas who controls the seas in South China Sea..."
"...navy to come to conflict with Japan Cre ate as much aggression as possible which is Japan and South Korea are forced to pay..."
"...protect these trade routes. And so you will see much more aggression among the Japanese in the South China Sea, especially around the Strait..."
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