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A claimed reason that makes escalation, including nuclear escalation, politically usable.
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war pretext
A claimed reason that makes escalation, including nuclear escalation, politically usable.
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Jiang says Romans habitually blamed enemies for starting wars; against Carthage they created pretexts, demanded weapons, then demanded the city move inland before destroying it.
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Jiang says the repeated claim that Iran is one month away from a nuclear bomb has been made for ten years and, in the imagined Trump speech, would have no evidence.
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"Okay? It's basically able to pay off pay Rome off. And Cato the Elder he is traumatized by this. He goes back to Rome..."
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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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"...will do that. If it has enough, if it has a pretext."
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Hannibal can destroy an army, but he cannot make Rome accept defeat.
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A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central claim: the Iran war that looks like American domination is the moment the United States becomes trapped, because geography, supply, domestic politics, sunk cost, and nuclear deterrence...
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