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  "id": 79395,
  "title": "Thucydides the perspicacious",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/03/thucydides-the-perspicacious",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-03T10:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Aeon",
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    "url": "https://aeon.co/essays/thucydides-account-of-war-is-as-timely-as-it-is-misunderstood"
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  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Far from thinking that ‘might makes right’, the great historian’s analysis of war identifies a vice common to all states - by David Polansky & Daniel Schillinger Read on Aeon",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}