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Trump Has Lost the Thread on Iran: If the war was a tactical triumph, the cease-fire has been a disappointment.
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u/SE_to_NW — 1 month ago
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The Ming's DongChang (Eastern Depot) is well known even today (in TV dramas and fictions) as a secret police force maintaining tight control in a pre-modern context. In the early 1600s, when internal rebellions broke out, this internal security was not able to suppress these rebellions at early stages before they spread. What explains the failure of DongChang in maintaining Ming rule?
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