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Empires Without Imperialism with Jeanne Morefield

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The Obscenity of Disavowal

Soleme made an example of ignati's response in two thousand 14, two thousand 15 to what was happening in syria. The crisis for him was sort of what he saw as a crisis of order, and the the world order in in the middle east was breaking down. He gives this astonishing quote where he says, you know, the peace that was brought about by sykes pico is finally coming to a fiery denemois. It is like the obscenity of disavowal. Yes, that's exactly what it does, right? It does. And it does that over and over again.

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