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Jiang reads the Melian Dialogue as Athens abandoning liberty rhetoric for pure imperial might: the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.
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Might makes right
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...a new world where it's a law of the jungle. Might makes right. If you're willing to die for what you believe in, if..."
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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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"Lacedonians although they are colonists or that you have done us no wrong will aim at what is feasible holding in view that holding..."
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"...others want liberty too bad because the Athenians are stronger might makes right okay alright um so this war will drag on and because..."
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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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"...a new world where it's a law of the jungle. Might makes right. If you're willing to die for what you believe in, if..."
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"So might makes right. So in many ways, evolution is a rejection of Christianity. So you would think that Christians would oppose Darwinism and..."
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The interview opens as a first-week war briefing and then keeps widening.
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's Hellenistic World lecture: empire stabilizes itself into stagnation, borderlands beat it with energy and openness, Greece wins as a borderland, then becomes the empire whose universities, cities, and translations...
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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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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's dawn-of-humanity lecture: Darwinism becomes a rival theology, cave art becomes a portal, speech begins as song, and modern society is accused of socializing people out of empathy.
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