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The assassination proves the opposite of the conspirators' fear: Caesar could be killed only because he did not surround himself like a would-be king.
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Assassination
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...Maduro regime and look for possible weaknesses, in order to plan assassination attempts, to look look to like, try to look for any opportunities...."
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Jiang presents Caesar as a historical problem organized by three questions: his motivation, his exceptional success, and why intimates who received mercy still assassinated him.
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Jiang argues that Caesar was killed because his new myth of Rome surpassed the old myth of Rome and made the old guard uncomfortable.
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Caesar is killed by friends and close associates because changing Rome, even for Rome's good, produces cognitive dissonance and anxiety about the future.
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Jiang says Philip was assassinated by his bodyguard in 336 BCE and that no one knows why it happened.
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Jiang emphasizes that Philip was assassinated before invading Persia, while still young and in the prime of life, leaving Alexander to inherit the army.
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Jiang evaluates Philip's assassination using motive and opportunity and rejects Persia as likely because it had motive but no plausible access to Philip's inner court.
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Jiang also treats the personal-lover explanation as unlikely because Philip was unusually good at inspiring loyalty and reading people.
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"...Maduro regime and look for possible weaknesses, in order to plan assassination attempts, to look look to like, try to look for any opportunities...."
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"Yeah. So I think Ukraine is lost. Project Ukraine is lost. Zelensky is expandable. The problem though is, who do you bring in to..."
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"...go back and um you look at things like the jfk assassination uh 9 11. uh the recent charlie kirk assassination if you look..."
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"cook was sitting he sat beside a table with three hats white hats with number 47 on all three hats okay and 47 of..."
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"Okay? He could become king, but he chose to not become king because to become king would mean the death of the Republic. And..."
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"Right? Otherwise, Caesar would surround himself with party guards. Otherwise, Caesar would not make himself available to his enemies. So, upon the death of..."
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"Okay, so today we are doing Julius Caesar and the fall of the Roman Republic. Julius Caesar is considered the greatest historical figure of..."
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"In only... 55 years. And the last question is, why did they kill him? Because he was killed, actually, by his friends, by his..."
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"Okay? Does that make sense? That's what a myth maker is. And that's why ultimately Julius Caesar was so successful. Okay? But the problem..."
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"And that's why he was able to accomplish so much. Okay? Does that make sense? And so he became a myth maker. The problem..."
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"Caesar because even though Caesar was making Rome better, he was changing Rome, which caused them to feel uncomfortable and anxious about the future..."
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"Okay, and actually at the wedding ceremony Between Eurydice and Philip, Attalus gave a toast and he said here's a toast and I pray..."
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