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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "OK, so Peter Turchin has a theory called elite overproduction. And this is what explains the decline of empires. That you have too many..."
Jiang proposes that Trump's maneuvers are ultimately aimed at exposing and overthrowing the deep state, and that Israel should be understood as one of that deep state's projects.
He says that historically kings are the political actors able to rally the people against entrenched elites and then redistribute land and erase debt.
"OK, so Peter Turchin has a theory called elite overproduction. And this is what explains the decline of empires. That you have too many..."
"And the only person who can actually deliver relief are kings historically, because kings are the ones who are able to rally the people..."
The interview opens with leaked Epstein emails and ends with Ukraine, but Jiang's through-line never changes: public politics is wrestling, elite trust is held together by blackmail, and the American empire now looks most...
The conversation starts with Iran, but it quickly becomes a wider map of how Jiang thinks history moves.
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