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Published · transcript-backedSarah Paine: belief
4 Oct 2023 Dwarkesh Podcast Sarah C. M. Paine — Why dictators keep making the same fatal mistake
“I believe if you measure the number of locals who died in Iraq and Afghanistan and then they've had the civil war on top of it, it's thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of people.”
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- Sarah Paine
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- belief
- Recorded
- 4 Oct 2023
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
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…It's the same reason Russia has had so many Russians dying. I believe if you measure the number of locals who died in Iraq and Afghanistan and then they've had the civil war on top of it, it's thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of people. We go, “Oh, it wasn't too bad for Americans.” For those who live there, it was quite bad. The Taiping Rebellion, I guess another……
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