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Jiang reads burden-sharing as vassalage: Japan, South Korea, Europe, and NATO are no longer friends but subordinate partners ordered to protect U.S. power.
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Allies
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...-Pacific through strength, not confrontation. We will increase burden -sharing with allies and partners around the world. And we will rebuild the U.S. defense..."
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The Terror is directed not only at enemies but also at left-wing allies when they threaten the revolution's survival or Robespierre's vision of it.
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Hannibal's crossing of the Alps is framed as an almost impossible act that brings him to Rome's doorstep and lets him rally Rome's enemies inside Italy.
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Jiang argues Graham Allison's Thucydides-trap reading is wrong because Sparta was an insular agricultural power, Athens was expansionist, and the war came from Athenian abuse of allies more than inevitable hegemon-challenger rivalry.
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He says the closer modern parallel is not China threatening America, but America behaving like Athens by bullying vassal allies through tariffs, NATO demands, Greenland, Canada, and hemisphere claims.
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Jiang says the report still fits what he considers Mossad's normal method: avoiding direct war and instead dragging allies into it through covert provocation.
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Jiang says Trump’s national-security strategy openly rejects the old burden-sharing logic of multilateralism and reframes allies as free riders exploiting American consumers and military power.
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"...-Pacific through strength, not confrontation. We will increase burden -sharing with allies and partners around the world. And we will rebuild the U.S. defense..."
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"...in order to protect its interests, as well as protect its allies. We will increase burden -sharing with allies and partners around the world,..."
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"All right. Okay. So Thucydides' trap was coined by a Harvard historian named Graham Allison, and he did it for his reading of Thucydides'..."
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"...rebel today, but over time, the Athenians started to abuse their allies and turn them into vassals. And then these vassal states start to..."
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"...The real issue is that America is trying to exploit its allies, right? So let's go back to two months ago when Trump was..."
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"And its allies see that America has become arrogant and is engaged in bullying behavior. So they're trying to break away somehow. And ultimately,..."
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"Khorasan on his show said that he received information from the Qataris that they had arrested two Mossad agents who were trying to infiltrate..."
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"like to drag their allies into the war right and it's in the best interest actually of the Israelis to create a regional conflagration..."
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"Yeah, so Mark Carney is responding to national security strategy, right? So national security strategy, what the American said is basically, you know, for..."
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"military feasible politically it could be suicide who is china's greatest ally out of all the different nation states it has exactly one north..."
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"And Japanese allies. In order to help. Build up Africa. Because Africa is the future. If you look at demographics. It is the fastest..."
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"This is what the British did. This is just divide and rule. This is what the empires have been doing. For centuries. So yeah...."
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Jiang's through-line is that a declining empire does not retreat cleanly.
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