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Jiang argues that the Pentagon bureaucracy shapes reality to fit expectations because it does not want bad news about its limitations.
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"...the Pentagon has become this bureaucracy where it doesn't really want bad news. It doesn't want to admit its limitations. And so it's going..."
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"...a curious moment in a scene of Act Four where the bad news of Macduff's whole family being slaughtered comes to light. And he's..."
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"...right. Because if it doesn't happen, it's going to be really bad news for the Republicans come midterm elections. Because the one thing that..."
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"...for different countries and different estaba that's the real fear this bad news over here propaganda running through the internet forming like feminine get..."
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"There's no bright spot. There's no good news. It's all bad news."
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"...government would actually bring an outside advisor who would tell them bad news, it's very inconceivable. But let's just say, let's just for the..."
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"...resilience we want to hear good news we refuse to hear bad news okay but there's lots of bad news happening so So for..."
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"...of World War 3. So I have both good news and bad news. The bad news is we are now approaching the end of..."
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