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Moscow fits Jiang's recurring model that marginal powers can overwhelm apparent great powers because disadvantage forces creative destruction, toughness, and innovation.
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Marginal Power
Moscow fits Jiang's recurring model that marginal powers can overwhelm apparent great powers because disadvantage forces creative destruction, toughness, and innovation.
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"...the greatest power that will eventually overwhelm everyone. It's always the marginal power. Okay, so going back to and reviewing what we've learned so..."
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"...they're all stronger at this point in history. But it's the marginal power that seems weak at first. That will overwhelm. Same thing with..."
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"Same thing with Rome. Rome, at this point in history, maybe 500 BCE, it is the weakest of all these Italian states. The Etruscans..."
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"First of all, open, cooperative competition. So, they're always surrounded by these adversaries, and because they don't really lack, and because they don't have..."
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