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Jiang frames the Iran conflict as a managed long war: visible ceasefires do not remove structural incentives that keep military pressure, debt extraction, and elite coordination in place.
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Jiang frames the Iran conflict as a managed long war: visible ceasefires do not remove structural incentives that keep military pressure, debt extraction, and elite coordination in place.
Servile wars, piracy, and the Sulla-Marius civil war show the Republic's turmoil escalating until generals do the previously unthinkable: march armies into Rome and kill fellow citizens.
"...other. Okay? And so the civil war was between Sulla and Marius. And the civil war becomes so intense that both Sulla and Marius..."
"...you can get rid of the Gracchi brothers, well, you'll have Marius Cadiman up here. Then you'll have Julius Caesar up here. You're always..."
"...to solve this sort of conflict within Rome. The first is Marius who promised reform, but really didn't deliver. Then you have Sulla."
"And he's the nephew of Marius. And that's why he was, he was proscribed. Okay? Now, the good thing is, if you're rich, you..."
"...second civil war. The first civil war was between Sulla and Marius. Okay? So now it's Caesar, versus Pompey. Any questions so far? About..."
"...what motivated him is exactly what motivated someone like Sulla and Marius and other great generals of Rome. They wanted to make Rome great..."
Jiang frames the Iran conflict as a managed long war: visible ceasefires do not remove structural incentives that keep military pressure, debt extraction, and elite coordination in place.
A source-grounded reading of Jiang's Roman lecture: Rome begins as a poor borderland war machine, invents a liberty of obedience, uses Greek historians and Augustan poets to launder violence, and reaches its deepest secret...
Julius Caesar was not only a general or politician.
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