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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...the conflict between Russia and Europe will converge again in the Balkans. But I don't know enough about the area to comment specifically. I..."
Jiang says Russia-Europe conflict is likely to converge again in the Balkans and that he had expected a major proxy war there, even though he refuses detailed regional forecasting because he lacks enough local knowledge.
Nationalism makes multi-ethnic empires such as the Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian empires untenable, leading Balkan and Slavic national struggles into the chain that starts World War I.
"...the conflict between Russia and Europe will converge again in the Balkans. But I don't know enough about the area to comment specifically. I..."
"...in Istanbul. Okay? But they also occupy what we call the Balkans, Greece, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia. Okay? So, the Greeks rebelled against the Ottomans..."
"it may surprise you to hear, like, most of its history, the Greeks didn't consider themselves as one people, as one culture, as one..."
"Right? Which brings the Austria -Hungary Empire into direct conflict with Russia. Which then brings in Britain and Russia, sorry, which brings in Britain..."
"...Asian countries, et cetera. Recently China has been kind of using Balkans as an entry into Europe with their infrastructure investments. investments. Right after..."
"...the second front. They tried Georgia that failed. They tried the Balkans that failed temporarily, you know, and the third flashpoint, I think would..."
"...United Services Institute, wrote a paper where they said that the Balkans would inevitably become the second front in West's war against Russia. Well,..."
"...and Middle Eastern nations unite to achieve to a sweep the Balkan exchange agreement to prevent American interference driven by its own interests. Okay...."
A farewell class becomes a compressed world model: empire is a game with no friends, collapse is survivable if imagination and community survive, AI is funded for control rather than liberation, and the deepest...
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.
The midterm turns a ceasefire into a world model: history moves like a river, eschatology makes prophecy into a plan, and the people who survive collapse are not the ones with the best machines...
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