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Takimag The Donald’s Doomed Persian Adventure The president probably hasn’t read Thucydides, but he can still see when it’s time to cut losses. TakiMag Predicting the outcome of war is a tricky business, especially nowadays with the Donald at the helm playing Alexander the Great while listening to Iago Netanyahu. So, any wisdom offered is from the past, Athens and Sparta to be exact, the former back then being the equivalent of the United States today. We all know the result: Athens, the Greek superpower, took on more than it could accomplish. Back in 431 BC, when the Peloponnesian War began, Athens was the richest and…Open