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Jiang rejects the idea that control simply belongs to whoever commands money flows and instead argues that power accrues to the actors willing to handle the practical nuts and bolts of an institution.
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Dante's Hell is not just a ladder of sins in this lecture.
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Dante's Hell is not just a ladder of sins in this lecture.
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Jiang says Dick Cheney could orchestrate the Iraq War and the war on terror because he knew how to get things done inside the U.S. apparatus and therefore controlled the practical levers of action.
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"Okay. I mean, you can make the argument that, look, the people in power are those who control the money. And, you know, I..."
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"...because he knew exactly how to get things done within the apparatus. So money is important, but ultimately it's really who's willing to do..."
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"...he proved that the ultimate weapon against a blood -soaked political apparatus is radical uncensored love and spiritual freedom he used his poetry to..."
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"...And these people today control the American military, the national security apparatus, the CIA, the FBI, all right? They don't call the Freemasons, but..."
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"...Clinton, under Obama, it was Wall Street that controlled the policy apparatus of Washington DC. That's why in 2008 they got this massive bailout,..."
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"...there's a parallel system. A state -acted system. A state -acted apparatus that actually takes care of day -to -day bureaucracy. And that's secular...."
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"...come into power, meaning these are people from the national security apparatus, people like Abigail Spanberger, who is now governor of Virginia, okay?"
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"...you negotiating with the irgc are you negotiating with the political apparatus and then you also have basically warlords essentially 31 different warlords who..."
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"...That's the idea of elite power, where you can control the apparatus of political power in order to obtain rents, in order to engage..."
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"...the power. They have all the wealth. They control the political apparatus. There is one demographic that actually supports this war in Iran."
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"...you have the military -industrial complex, you have the national security apparatus, you have secret societies like the Freemasons, the Rosicrucians, Knights Templars, you..."
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"...em ason ry that actually control Americ a the national security apparatus and he wrote a book called Mor als and Dog ma okay..."
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Dante's Hell is not just a ladder of sins in this lecture.
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The conspiracy story is false as history and true as prediction.
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The interview sounds scattered at first, but its logic is consistent.
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Jiang treats the Middle East conflict and global monetary system as parts of one strategic architecture: empire, geography, and control of energy channels.
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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.
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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...
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The interview starts with a ceasefire question and ends in a resource apocalypse.
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