The Life and Times of Machiavelli with Alexander Lee
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Theo Political Tactics of Rome
Machiavelli is inspired later on by theo political tactics of rome, of extreme forgiveness or extreme punishment. He really doesn't see te middle ground at all. The whole point of his engagement with er foreign affairs andbe the that the war with pease, for the next few years, is dominated bit by this idea that any middle ground is going to fail. And he says we either have to win them over with niceness, or we have to just obliterate them,. Nothing else will work.
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