Glossary
Jiang's modern moral label for Achilles dragging and mutilating Hector's body.
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war crime
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...right? You guys see that? Okay, and this is considered a war crime, because you're not supposed to target civilian infrastructure. Now, you can..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...right? You guys see that? Okay, and this is considered a war crime, because you're not supposed to target civilian infrastructure. Now, you can..."
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The speaker says Trump ordered the destruction of Iran's largest bridge and characterizes targeting civilian infrastructure as a war crime, while noting possible dual-use arguments.
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Jiang calls attacks on civilian infrastructure war crimes or violations of international law, while explaining them as the move actors make when they need more pressure to win.
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diagnosis
Achilles' mutilation of Hector is a war crime and a symptom of self-guilt over Patroclus rather than simple hatred of Hector.
diagnosis
Jiang calls the attacks on desalination, civilian oil facilities, and a school full of children war crimes and says they reveal a strategy of destroying Iran rather than simply forcing attrition.
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"...right? You guys see that? Okay, and this is considered a war crime, because you're not supposed to target civilian infrastructure. Now, you can..."
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"...picture of Tehran, it's all black. Okay? And this is a war crime or this goes against international law because you're attacking civilians. But..."
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"That is a war crime. Then the Americans struck oil facilities in Tehran. These are civilian oil facilities, so -called 되게. that citizens in..."
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"They're not going to give up. They're not going to focus on the destruction of Iran as opposed to regime change."
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"...around the walls of Troy. It is a, it is a war crime. It's disgusting. It's hideous. The Trojan are going crazy. But, we..."
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"The games are over now. The gallant army is scattered. Each man to his fast ship and fighters churn their minds of thoughts of..."
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"Flaming over the sea and shore would find him pacing. Then he yoked his racing team in his harness lashed the corpse of Hector..."
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Reading
A source-grounded reading of the episode's central claim: American war culture has learned to convert military failure into rescue spectacle, while real wars are still decided by economics, organization, logistics, and endurance.
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s law of escalation: the actor with the biggest weapon can still lose if the weaker actor has calibration, legitimacy, options, and a way to make the bully destroy himself.
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Glenn Diesen asks Jiang the practical questions first: what is this war for, who is exhausting whom, where is the weak point, and why would Washington choose such a disaster?
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on Homer as the big bang of Greek civilization: empire turns writing into control, the polis turns speech into civic training, and the Iliad turns war into the...
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