Alexander says another reason for dysfunction is structural: the military-industrial complex was grafted onto an American polity that historically was not built for permanent large militaries or continuous arms production outside wartime.
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Mercouris opens by asking for predictive geopolitics rather than another issue-by-issue panel, and Jiang answers by folding Ukraine, Europe, Iran, China, and domestic American disorder into one machine.
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