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The political force Jiang associates with Trump and places in conflict with the American Empire.
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America First
The political force Jiang associates with Trump and places in conflict with the American Empire.
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Glossary
1930s U.S. isolationist movement associated here with Charles Lindbergh and reluctance to enter World War II.
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Jiang interprets the National Defense Strategy as a shift from ideals, globalism, and rules of engagement to concrete interests, America First, and warrior ethos.
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Jiang separates Trump from the American Empire: Trump can appear to seek regime change while ultimately using imperial overreach to intensify the conflict between America First and the empire.
diagnosis
American public and elite attitudes in the 1930s are framed as isolationist, anti-communist, and in some elite circles pro-Nazi, making U.S. entry into the war difficult before Pearl Harbor.
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"...US government neglected, even rejected, putting Americans and their concrete interests first. Previous administrations squandered their military advantages and the lives of the American..."
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"Okay, so certain things to keep in mind, okay? Concrete interests first means that we have to think about resources. We have to think..."
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"...it's really a struggle between the two. It's a struggle between America First, represented by Donald Trump, and the American empire. You would think..."
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"...surrender. And now a conflict emerges between the American empire and America First. And Donald Trump can now aggravate this tension by standing with..."
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"So that's the optimal strategy of the American Empire, to overthrow the regime with as little casualties as possible. Hopefully, through bombing, decapitation strikes,..."
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"...an American named Charles Lindbergh, and he founded something called the America First Party. And he was very popular, and there's a very good..."
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"Communism was a real threat to America. So communism, anarchism were real threats to the American political system in 1930s, especially the Great Depression...."
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"...National Defense Strategy calls for a four -point program to put America first. The first thing that America is going to do is going..."
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"So this is what the first paragraph is saying here. It's a new vision of American power. Before it was about ideals. Now it's..."
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"...elite is the empire. And counter elite is MAGA, which is America First. And so, they have two different ideals for America. The empire..."
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"...British identity. In America, you have Donald Trump, who is proposing America first. So all that's going to plan, this plan also recognizes that..."
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On June 22, 2025, the morning after Trump orders strikes on three Iranian nuclear facilities, Jiang turns the Iran war into a three-player game.
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