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He argues that American strategy subordinates narrative, politics, and economics to a military strategy of decapitation and forced surrender.
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Surrender
Jiang says Hitler framed World War II as a renewed struggle in which Germany lost World War I because it lacked faith and surrendered too early.
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Jiang says Hitler framed World War II as a renewed struggle in which Germany lost World War I because it lacked faith and surrendered too early.
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The Senate's refusal to negotiate after Cannae is presented as the unique Roman act that Hannibal cannot understand and that allows Rome to win fifteen years later.
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Jiang argues that the mystery of Rome is why it refused surrender after Hannibal united Rome's enemies and inflicted enormous costs.
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Rome refuses Hannibal's peace terms because surrender would mean surrendering liberty, understood as Rome's laws, institutions, and history.
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Roman devotion means all or nothing: Romans neither surrender nor show mercy to enemies.
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"...their economic strategy. Okay? Their economic strategy is decapitation, which forces surrender. Right? So what they want to do is, they want to not..."
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"So, for example, in the political space, Donald Trump has ordered NATO to come and open up the Strait of Hormuz. Okay? And also,..."
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"result will not be the Bolshevization of the earth and thus the victory of Jewry, the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe, okay?..."
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"...in this people, one word I've never learned, and that is surrender, okay? So, he's telling the people, we're going to fight this war..."
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"...It's bleak. It's hopeless. But there are Romans. Romans do not surrender. So the Senate told Hannibal, we will continue the war. We will..."
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"...they've conquered, and they've landed in Africa. And forced Carthage to surrender. All right? Okay, so this is the mystery. Why did the Romans..."
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"...even though Hannibal had defeated the Romans the Romans refused to surrender. Because surrendering would mean surrendering their liberty. Right? Because Hannibal would impose..."
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"And if you don't have liberty your life isn't worth living. Give me life or give me liberty. Okay? The third element of Roman..."
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"The Carthaginians believed the Romans and thought if they surrender all their weapons they go away. The Romans got all these weapons they were..."
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The apparent U.S.-Iran war is recast as an imperial succession crisis.
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Hannibal can destroy an army, but he cannot make Rome accept defeat.
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