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- noun The actual reasons for going to war. These may differ from proschemata, the pretexts offered to the public.
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Ancient Greek πρόφασις (prophasis, "pretense, pretext, excuse"), first popularized by Thucydides, who attempted to discern Athens' alethestate prophasis, or "truest reason" for waging war on Sparta in the Peloponnesian War.
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Iran's President Anyways Lots Of Nostradamus prophases came true and this prophase hasn't come true yet but if obama takes the seat of the president of the United states According to Nostradamus All Hell Is Going To Brake Lose in this world
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