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Rulers use war to distract or dispose of people who might otherwise revolt; in power logic the choice is war or revolution.
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Distraction
Rulers use war to distract or dispose of people who might otherwise revolt; in power logic the choice is war or revolution.
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He forecasts deliberate, long-duration U.S. strategy designed to limit U.S. casualties while using domestic distraction through new conflicts and economic pressure cycles.
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"Right. So what will happen is that this war will be drawn out. Right. So the Americans will behave much more strategically, much more..."
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"Cuba is definitely on the menu. So Trump will want to take over Cuba at some point. So you're distracting the population. The third..."
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"Is there any chance that the government tries to use a war to distract the people? Like, they're trying to hide all of the..."
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"Yeah. Yeah. That's a great question. And the answer is, that's what wars are for. It's to distract the people. Right? Because if you..."
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"...It took 48 hours. And the CIA created a lot of distractions. And the Americans spent a lot of resources to save the man..."
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"He needs to distract America, and the distraction will be Iran. Remember how, for the past few classes, we've been discussing how America wants..."
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Societies do not fall because one problem gets worse in a straight line.
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Jiang treats the Iran shock as a long-cycle pressure system: initial strikes fail, the state shifts to durable economic coercion, and public attention is expected to absorb scarcity, distraction, and control mechanisms as this...
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