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Used to describe maintaining American public support for war, which Jiang says the film treats as more important than the European war front.
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home front
Used to describe maintaining American public support for war, which Jiang says the film treats as more important than the European war front.
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Jiang argues that Saving Private Ryan frames the European war front as secondary to winning the American home front and keeping the public behind the war.
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"makes us look bad. We have to win the home front. Okay? Europe, this war front, it's secondary to the home front. We need..."
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"...wall. Project them from the fire. So, what everyone sees in front of them are shadows. Now, these shadows are nothing. They don't exist...."
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"Okay. So if you look at the Ukraine front lines, right now, Russia is preoccupied in trying to control the Donbass, which is basically..."
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"...can't actually move. And all they can do is stare in front of them at a giant wall that's empty. Okay? Now, behind these..."
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"...talked global warming and I think he's completely wrong on that front. Global warming will end. You don't think that the technology will, let..."
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"...different battlefronts of the same war and they're losing on all fronts I don't know where they're going with this but you know the..."
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"...tried and they will continue to try to open the second front. They tried Georgia that failed. They tried the Balkans that failed temporarily,..."
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"...where they said that the Balkans would inevitably become the second front in West's war against Russia. Well, that failed too. Since Trump came..."
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"...in mind that we must carry on, put one foot in front of the other. And I think that we are in a unique..."
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"...this is part of the strategy. If it's not on the front page every day, like in Gaza, they can continue the war in..."
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"...first major pillar is to secure the Western Hemisphere, the American home front. The second pillar is to contain China. The"
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"...I say. Then I can go to the Pentagon website, the front of war website and download the national security strategy. It is in..."
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A source-grounded reading of the episode's central claim: American war culture has learned to convert military failure into rescue spectacle, while real wars are still decided by economics, organization, logistics, and endurance.
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