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Jiang's model for a great power launching a pointless, initially promising expedition that becomes the hinge of imperial collapse; here he maps it onto a future US invasion of Iran.
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Sicily expedition analogy
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Yeah, so I love talking to you because you know so much about the Peloponnesian War, but yeah, the turning point in the war..."
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"Yeah, so I love talking to you because you know so much about the Peloponnesian War, but yeah, the turning point in the war..."
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"And I think it'll be exactly the same as what happened to the Athenians in Sicily. They go into Sicily, and they win 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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