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A source-grounded reading of the nation-state as war machine: Rousseau turns liberty into sovereignty, Fichte turns language into blood, Bismarck turns welfare into war infrastructure, Mussolini turns myth into death, and 21st-century war turns...
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Jiang says that in the 1980s Harvard scientists came to China for DNA studies because Chinese authorities did not require meaningful permission to take blood samples and were willing to allow it for quick cash.
"...in the Western world so I'll give an example in the 1980s um you know these Harvard um scientists were coming to China to..."
"...The Iran -Iraq war. war which is what happened in the 1980s okay an eight -year war between iran and iraq right and guys..."
"...Jimmy Carter. Mao Zedong welcomed Richard Nixon to Beijing. In the 1980s, start this massive cooperation between America and China. Now, people appreciate that..."
"...Carter presidency. That is what allowed Reagan to defeat Carter in 1980."
"if you go back to the 1980s um and just look at his speeches about foreign global trade about globalization his position has remained..."
"...for America. The America that I grew up in. In. The 1980s and 90s, which is, you know, is a much different country and..."
"...to what he said all the way going back to the 1980s he was essentially scolding Japanese and others for uh for you know..."
"So in the 1980s, China was embarking on economic reform. And there was a real concern among party elders, like people who went through..."
"...Americans have done stupid things like this before. Okay? So in 1980, in 1980, the Americans implemented something called Operation Eagle Claw. And the..."
"...Iran, so we should just go home. Okay? So that was 1980, when Americans were pretty sane. Unfortunately, Americans are no longer sane. Okay?..."
"...America and Iran would have sat down, you know, like 1979, 1980, whenever, and just agreed on economic solution to their debt to the..."
"...States are codependent. What I mean by that is that in 1980s, America did offshore its manufacturing to China. What China did and which..."
A source-grounded reading of the nation-state as war machine: Rousseau turns liberty into sovereignty, Fichte turns language into blood, Bismarck turns welfare into war infrastructure, Mussolini turns myth into death, and 21st-century war turns...
Jiang frames the Iran conflict as a managed long war: visible ceasefires do not remove structural incentives that keep military pressure, debt extraction, and elite coordination in place.
Jiang frames the Iran war as a structural problem: empires that enter forceful conflicts without strategic reserve burn out, and the current administration is trying to steer around collapse, domestic optics, and a volatile...
The interview starts with a ceasefire question and ends in a resource apocalypse.
The interview begins with Iran and the petrodollar, but Jiang's answer keeps widening.
A source-grounded reading of the episode's central claim: American war culture has learned to convert military failure into rescue spectacle, while real wars are still decided by economics, organization, logistics, and endurance.
PBD brings Jiang on to challenge the viral Iran prediction.
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