Jiang argues that a Venezuela invasion would rebound domestically because Americans would revolt against the taxes, sacrifices, and forever-war burdens required to sustain such occupations.
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American People
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Jiang says it would be the greatest thing for both the world and the American people if the American empire came to an end.
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"...and to occupy it. That's number one. Number two is the American people would rise up and revolt against you because they're the ones..."
"greatest thing for the world and for the American people for the American Empire to come to"
"...a figure a messiah figure would have to rise to rally american people in order to change and that i don't think is likely..."
"...American government has borrowed its money from the American government. The American people. So if the American government were to default on its debt,..."
"...bureaucrats and technocrats basically run America to the benefit of the American people"
"...go away but it would be the umpteenth time that the american people vote they always vote for anti -war presidents for anti -war..."
"...the most. But everything you said, you could be describing the American people, or you could be describing Croatian people. I'm Croatian. You know,..."
"They know that they're not up against the British people, the American people, the French people, they know that they're up against, a ruling..."
"...everybody's interest to take the system down, including the French people, American people, and so forth. And so you wouldn't want to overtly be..."
"...approach to this war. Second thing is to continue to distract American people with more conflicts, possibly with with Canada's Mark Carney. It's possible..."
"...the space race was also a great unifying event for the American people as well. So maybe people are in poverty, maybe, maybe there's..."
"...going to blow up in their face because I think the American people are much more resilient, much more creative than they believe it's..."
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