A model of civil war as riots, local fights, secession, insurgencies, and coups layered over decades.
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Civil war as episodes
A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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"...be one event. But it will be a series of violent episodes over 10, 20, 50 years. Okay? Does that make sense? So, let's..."
"They succeed. And guess what? They have their own army. Their citizens are armed. Okay? But they'll most likely be attacked by other states..."
"...but you remember the scene where, um, is it, is it episode two? Um, but, but you know, like, like Luke has to kill..."
"OK. So this is a very famous episode from this history, where after the Ghibellines take over Florence, they want to kill all the..."
"...It's like, have you guys ever seen the Homer, the Simpsons episode when Homer's in hell?"
"episode one, yes, do we know for sure Dante wrote the Inferno first, yes, yes, because he published"
"...have behind the scenes conversations with the guests and also the episodes that we've never ever released. And so much more. In the circle,..."
"...know your thoughts down below. Subscribe so you don't miss an episode. Hit the bell notification. Catch me on Substack, CapitalCosmos.Substack.com. And I will..."
"...guy that's like we said at the very beginning of the episode there's two ways out there's there's there's through or retreat right and..."
"...it today on my show you know we jokingly made the episode it's over right we but i said in that episode you know..."
"...make Greece militarily defend Turkey. Are we in a Twilight Zone episode? That was that was a very interesting breakdown of Turkey's history. I..."
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