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Virgil's propaganda makes Roman destruction of Carthage look compelled by Carthage's cursed vengeance, not by Roman savagery.
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Justification
In Jiang’s street-fight model, escalation is not just the two fighters; spectators, friends, police, and God become audiences before whom each move must be justified.
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model
In Jiang’s street-fight model, escalation is not just the two fighters; spectators, friends, police, and God become audiences before whom each move must be justified.
definition
Calibration means timing, structuring, or strategizing a response so that it achieves the strategic objective while preserving justification before spectators and authorities.
model
Jiang frames Catholicism as orthodoxy, hierarchy, and justification by works, and Protestantism as direct access, egalitarianism, and justification by faith.
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"Okay, endless war. Alright, so the Aeneid is first and foremost political propaganda. Alright? And so, Rome's epic war is with Carthage. Rome and..."
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"And Iran doesn't. Therefore, the United States and Israel have a huge advantage over Iran, okay? But what I will show you today is..."
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"Push. Push. And then they hit each other, okay? Punch. Punch. And then they start the fight. And then one pulls out a knife..."
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"Because you might hit that person, he might go to the hospital, and you've won the fight, but then you go to prison for..."
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"why you threw that punch in a certain way to the police so that you don't go to jail. Okay? Alright, so another way..."
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"...have three basic ideas, right? There's orthodoxy, there's hierarchy, and there's justification by works. So the idea is, hey, if you want to go..."
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"...okay? And they become extremely wealthy and powerful. The third problem, justification by works, is it leads to hypocrisy. You can be the worst..."
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"And the third idea is justification by works. The second idea is justification by faith. The problem though, of course, is that these three..."
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"...with Morocco. So they are looking for the legal framework and justification to control the world's choke points, which would bring them directly in..."
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"...threaten America with a nuclear weapon because that gives America the justification to use its nuclear arsenal, okay? But the other problem, and this..."
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"...War was the first war. And the Cold War was a justification for the MIC, the military industrial complex, to get as much government..."
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"...led to the Cold War. And, the Cold War was a justification for the MIC, the Military Industrial Complex, to get as much government..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s law of escalation: the actor with the biggest weapon can still lose if the weaker actor has calibration, legitimacy, options, and a way to make the bully destroy himself.
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