A student infers that Dante may be conflicted about Augustus because he cannot decide where to place him.
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Conflict
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Jiang states that the conflict at Dis cannot be resolved from within hell and therefore requires direct divine intervention.
He argues that any civilizational supremacy, whether white, Chinese, or Japanese, would arise from the same deeper logic of empire, communal pride, and conflict over whose story is legitimate.
He says both China and the United States may need open struggle before any grand bargain because domestic factions treat compromise as betrayal, so leaders use conflict to dissipate internal opposition before cutting a deal.
He identifies three current battlefields in this phase: Ukraine, Iran, and North America/Cuba,
Jiang says the U.S. plan is to create conflict among China and Japan, Iran/Israel/GCC, and Europe/Russia so America can control resources through key choke points.
Fresh water is used as a stability index: regions with abundant water are less prone to conflict, while water-poor regions become future conflict zones.
Jiang says the last twenty years overindulged the animal soul and abandoned the divine soul, leaving the human soul off balance and producing conflict.
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"Conflicted. The only reason I can think of that he's not there, other than when Virgil mentions him, is Dante cannot decide where to..."
"...the only path forward now? Are they able to resolve this conflict by themselves? No, okay? So God has intervened now, right? Okay. All..."
"...be a struggle over supremacy. And this is what leads to conflict, okay? So, yes, white supremacy does exist. But again, I don't think..."
"...out the American nation. So you need to engage in certain conflict and warfare in order to dissipate or reduce domestic tension in order..."
"...out okay and um what's gonna happen is that as this conflict increases the conflict between the united states and russia will increase as..."
"states believes that it controls all trade access because the oceans represents trade access and so what the united states has been doing has..."
"What I anticipate is a move towards more low intensity conflict where it's a war of attrition, right? So it's a naval blockade. You..."
"Gents, thank you both so much for making time from your hefty and busy schedules to the chat today. Thank you for the invite,..."
"...perspective, what I anticipate is a move towards more low intensity conflict where it's a war of attrition. Right. So it's a naval blockade...."
"So I'll hand over to Alex. Yeah, Alex. Thanks. Go ahead. It's a it's a very, very difficult question, Danny, and I'm not I'm..."
"...out. So I think that we have a bit of a conflict between two two layers of the command and control structure where you..."
"And so everything that he at least ostensibly tried to achieve gets derailed fatally, permanently. And so on the other side, why do they..."
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