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Jiang's analogy in which America plays Athens, the perceived aggressor that drives other states into alignment against it.
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Peloponnesian War analogy
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "to the peloponnesian war the main aggressor was athens and what happened ultimately was that um the entire world ultimately aligned against athens because..."
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Glossary
Jiang's imperial model in which a dominant power exploits allies for futile wars until those allies reconsider who their real enemy is.
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"to the peloponnesian war the main aggressor was athens and what happened ultimately was that um the entire world ultimately aligned against athens because..."
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"closest historical analogy is the peloponnesian war between athens and sparta and if you read flucidities what he tells you is that uh the..."
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"russia enemy or is america our enemy i think eventually they'll come to conclusion that they're actually better off with russia than they are..."
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"Let's just pursue the Peloponnesian war analogy, which is an interesting one for me, because obviously I'm Greek. Is Venezuela like the attack on..."
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The interview begins with Iran and the petrodollar, but Jiang's answer keeps widening.
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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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