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The dynamic by which a war generates consequences and obligations that make simple exit impossible.
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war momentum
A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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He says war has its own logical momentum: once inside a war, every new problem becomes a reason to escalate rather than a reason to leave.
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He describes British anti-Napoleonic war finance as Ponzi-like because once a war began, investors and the state had to keep fighting or lose everything.
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Jiang says war, once begun, acquires its own momentum and can outrun even the personal preferences of the president.
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"...just like like um so it's so war has a logical momentum of its own once you're in a war it's almost impossible to..."
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"be for the global economy right you i mean like um it's entirely possible that in six months time there will be a massive..."
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"And in America, this became the federal reserve system. So, so in other words, all this wealth in Europe that was looking for stability..."
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"...that okay this when a war starts war developed its own momentum so let me play out for you using game theory what happened..."
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"Yeah, so unfortunately, once a war starts, it achieves its own momentum. And even if Donald Trump personally wants to stop this war, and..."
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"...is purged. At every step, the beast moves faster, always gaining momentum till it smashes him and leaves his body squalidly undone. Those wheels,..."
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"...Well, I, I, I think he had what we might call momentum in Indra's net."
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"...idea that once you start a fight it develops its own momentum its own logic. You can't really stop it. So no two guys..."
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"...unfortunately, once you commit to a war, the war achieves a momentum and a logic of its own. And this is what happened in..."
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"Right. So once this war starts, it achieves a momentum and a logic of its own. So the United States doesn't really have an..."
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"...pointed out previously when war a war starts it achieved a momentum and a logic of its own it's very hard to stop a..."
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"...you send in ground troops then it creates a logic a momentum of its own and then you have mission creep and then some..."
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A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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Sneako presses Jiang after the Iran war turns him into a sudden internet figure.
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Redacted asks Jiang whether the Iran war is already out of control.
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Danny asks whether Jiang's Iran-war prediction is now playing out.
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Jimmy Dore brings Jiang on because an earlier prediction seems to have landed: Trump is back, the United States is now at war with Iran, and a forecast once dismissed as wild suddenly looks...
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A source-grounded reading of the interview's central move: Iran is treated as the forced war of a declining empire, but the larger target is China, whose trade access, savings, and room to maneuver sit...
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