Ben Meiselas
speaker
401,206 appearances
2,788 recordings
6 series
first heard Sep 2024
last heard today
Ben Meiselas’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You are Sparta as we see it.
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We, China, are the ascending power.
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We're Athens in this example.
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That's what the Thucydides trap is.
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Thucydides is an Athenian who wrote the story or a story on the Peloponnesian War.
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Two decades long.
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And the idea of the Thucydides trap was coined recently as a reflection of Thucydides' writing about the Peloponnesian War.
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You should read this.
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It was a really good story on the Peloponnesian, not a great story, but he was a good writer about everything that went down.
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But how the conflict was inevitable when the established power Sparta saw the rising power Athens and what
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What that meant.
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Ultimately, Sparta won the war against Athens, but then Sparta was destroyed shortly thereafter.
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So everybody loses in the Thucydides trap.
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But what he's saying in the United States, after Trump rolls out the red carpet, after our Air Force brings the red carpet, our army gets down on their knees.
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By the way, nobody should do this.
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We shouldn't have anybody doing this for foreign leaders.
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But like what we you couldn't
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Hire a contractor, you couldn't hire other people to like do that.
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It had to be our service members getting on their knees with that visual.
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I mean, for I don't think anybody should be in that visual, but our freaking army, our freaking air force, that's what you were doing.
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