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The practical logic that lets enemies cooperate when each has blocked interests.
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The practical logic that lets enemies cooperate when each has blocked interests.
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The First Triumvirate works because Pompey, Crassus, and Caesar each have issues blocked by the Senate, so political expediency lets them cooperate despite being enemies.
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Caesar's genius in the alliance is his charisma and manipulation: he can form a working coalition with people technically and politically opposed to him.
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"Oh. Okay. So Pompey and Crassus and Caesar, how did they form their alliance? Right? Okay. So the first thing to understand is Pompey..."
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"...differences and form an alliance for the sake of interest and expediency. Okay? Does that make sense? But obviously, this would not last very..."
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