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Jiang reads Trojan Women as a direct response to Athens's attack on Melos, confronting Athenians with the suffering their empire inflicted on women and children.
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Melos
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...me, because obviously I'm Greek. Is Venezuela like the attack on Melos? Another action that Athens really didn't need to take, but it attacks..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...me, because obviously I'm Greek. Is Venezuela like the attack on Melos? Another action that Athens really didn't need to take, but it attacks..."
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Mercouris proposes Melos as a model for a declining empire lashing out at a smaller neutral state in order to demonstrate power in its own sphere of influence.
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Jiang says Melos was the moment Athens dropped all liberal and democratic pretense and openly declared that might makes right.
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Jiang argues that Gaza or Palestine, not Venezuela, is the better modern analogue to Melos because it is the scene where the world has given up hope in the United States and become disgusted by American supremacy.
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"...me, because obviously I'm Greek. Is Venezuela like the attack on Melos? Another action that Athens really didn't need to take, but it attacks..."
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"what you claim to be your sphere of influence?"
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"Yeah. So for me, Melos was a turning point in the war, because that's when Athens shed all pretense of hypocrisy, all pretense of..."
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"But Euripides, he criticized Athenian democracy. All right? So, the example is, in 415 BCE, and this is the height of the Peloponnesian War,..."
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"Okay? And been forced to be the mistress or concubine of the Greek, uh, heroes like Odysseus. Okay? Then you have Andromache. Andromache um,..."
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"...height of the Pelagian War, Athens was attacking everyone, okay, including Melos, an island called Melos. And when they attacked Melos, they killed all..."
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Mercouris opens by asking for predictive geopolitics rather than another issue-by-issue panel, and Jiang answers by folding Ukraine, Europe, Iran, China, and domestic American disorder into one machine.
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