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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...in certain conflict and warfare in order to dissipate or reduce domestic tension in order to advance a deal. Okay? Does that make sense?..."
Jiang says conflict within nation-states is often greater than conflict between nation-states and that wars frequently deflect attention away from domestic tensions.
"...happens, it's often as a way to deflect from the greater domestic tensions within the nation state."
"...in certain conflict and warfare in order to dissipate or reduce domestic tension in order to advance a deal. Okay? Does that make sense?..."
"...other and they use war as a way to resolve their domestic tensions as opposed to trying to conquer each other. And this gives..."
A farewell class becomes a compressed world model: empire is a game with no friends, collapse is survivable if imagination and community survive, AI is funded for control rather than liberation, and the deepest...
A source-grounded reading of Jiang's Hellenistic World lecture: empire stabilizes itself into stagnation, borderlands beat it with energy and openness, Greece wins as a borderland, then becomes the empire whose universities, cities, and translations...
The conversation starts with Iran, but it quickly becomes a wider map of how Jiang thinks history moves.
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