The host uses this for a US posture oscillating between trust-building and coercion.
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strategic vacuum
Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
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Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
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"...at the moment it seems to be a bit of a strategic vacuum. They want to build trust, but at the same time, they..."
"...creativity it doesn't make sense you can't do it in a vacuum you can't do it in a blank slate you have to fully..."
"...what he's doing but ultimately um donnie's not working in a vacuum right it's not like he's doing what he's doing he's doing what..."
"No, of course, all these leaders never appear in a vacuum. And there's, so I do see this being one of the consequences of..."
"...also goes dark. And it doesn't just disappear and create a vacuum. It finds a way to flex its way into the next thing..."
"...-sum game and that if they don't take it, that power vacuum will be absorbed by somebody else. And I agree with you that,..."
"...by the Mongols. And when the Mongols leave, it leaves a vacuum of great powers."
"...the country. And after they destroyed the country, there's a power vacuum. And so, basically, Iran came in and tried to take over the..."
"...creativity is a response to need. It doesn't exist in a vacuum. Students are creative because they see social problems and they respond to..."
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