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Civil Wars and All That

The Victor Davis Hanson Show

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The History of the Civil War in Greece by Thucydides

Thucydides, who an exiled athenian general for 20 years, travelled around the greek world. He tried to write why this war broke out when it did, how it evolved and how it ended. In a stable society where people had family connections, s and friends, that suddenly it was you're either a democratic athenian sympathizer or you're an oligarchic corinthian spartan sympathizer. The logic of a civil war is innately extremist, and it gets more advanced and more advanced. To day's revolution re is to morrow's counter revolutionary. It doesn't mean anything. Words don't represent reality. They represent political agendas. And

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