Jiang treats Achilles as alive in the scene because he listens, responds to Agamemnon, and frames himself as a warrior who came to Troy under Agamemnon's command rather than from hatred of the Trojans.
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Key Notes
Jiang says the only available response in tribulation is to be a good person and show kindness.
Jiang predicts that a false-flag trigger is the most likely remaining path to direct attack on Iran and that outsiders underestimate how forcefully Iran will respond.
Mercouris predicts that some form of attack on Iran is likely sooner or later even if not immediately, and he frames the key question as how China would respond.
Jiang predicts Iran will be more prepared in the next round and that American and Israeli planners will be surprised by the ferocity of its response.
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"And so are you really sorry, but that's the only thing we can do. Okay. Yeah. Like just, just, just be a good person...."
"services like they killed a lot of police officers basically and and Trump was about to go on airstrikes to back up these protests..."
"history the Persians are different people the person are not the Arabs okay the Shia Muslims are different people they are not the Sunni..."
"...alive in the scene. He is listening to Agamemnon. And his response is this. Why are you stealing from me what is rightfully mine?..."
"...why is Achilles saying this? Achilles is saying this as a response to Agamemnon. But he's also saying this in order to win sympathy..."
"sit back and win very very very different from the American and and Western one but um let's just turn now to the events..."
"burn themselves out or would he take action as he did in Korea"
"most corrupt institutions in iran and now that there's an existential crisis facing iran um they really need to rally behind uh their their..."
Relevant Lectures And Readings
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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.
The interview starts with Iran and ends with American civil unrest, but Jiang treats the whole arc as one machine: a declining empire overextends abroad, factional war at home drives the timing, and chokepoints...
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