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A student links Purgatory to real pilgrimage routes where bodily ascent and prayer become a form of purification.
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Mountains
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He says the invading troops are encircled because Iran's mountainous geography makes the country a fortress and makes extraction difficult once troops are inserted.
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In response to an Iraq-route question, Jiang argues that Iraq's sovereignty, Shia militias, mountain terrain, and drones would prevent an easy staging or withdrawal route for U.S. troops.
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He adds that Venezuela's mountain terrain would produce guerrilla warfare, American casualties, and a domestic political revolt, making any sustained US military operation there politically unsustainable.
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Mercouris describes Iran as a geographically difficult, mountainous, and culturally resistant country that Western observers underestimate, making any invasion inherently hard to sustain.
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"...unesco saying that it's a privilege so you go through the mountains to you know purify your soul and all that the other one..."
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"...which, and Americans are not good at fighting, um, again, in mountains. They're good at fighting in deserts because of their air power, but..."
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"...it's also a place where you could absolutely withdraw into the mountains. I mean, it's Afghanistan multiplied with enormously, a much, much more sophisticated,..."
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"You know why? Because Iran are all mountains. It's a fortress. Okay? Meaning that to get these troops into the country, you have to..."
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"And once it becomes trapped, some cost fallacy comes into play and America just puts in all its resources into the country, but it's..."
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"...a staging area in Iraq, they still have to deal with mountains. Okay? Do you understand? Alright? I mean, the problem is you have..."
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Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
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Jiang's through-line is that American decline will not end in a peaceful handoff to China or Russia.
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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 the lecture's central claim: the Iran war that looks like American domination is the moment the United States becomes trapped, because geography, supply, domestic politics, sunk cost, and nuclear deterrence...
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