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Jiang speculates that Turkey may be split or dragged into the war because its strategic position around the Black Sea and Bosporus makes fence-sitting unsustainable.
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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 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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"so that's why i'm saying that you know if you're over 65 and you're a veteran well we may we may have to send..."
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"knowing exactly how dangerous that region is right like you know like pick a side man um so i i think turkey is really..."
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"...becomes again completely dependent on your traditional choke points you know Bosporus Gibraltar Strait of Hormuz Babelman Deb Strait of Malacca and again you..."
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"...start aggressive policies against Russia like for example closing off the Bosporus and allowing NATO warships to enter the Black Sea which will force..."
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"...that he shifts the capital from Rome to Byzantium on the Bosporus. And today we call this place Constantinople. It's still there, guys, if..."
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"...the meeting place of so many rivers. Okay. This is the Bosporus. Okay. So that is the Roman Empire, okay? So this is the,..."
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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 opens by saying 2026 is not yet the final explosion but the year the whole machine visibly speeds up: a Ponzi-like global economy, imperial consolidation around trade routes and resources, and nation-states losing...
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The episode begins with two escalations: Ukraine expands, Iran heats up.
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Byzantium survives for a thousand years because it solves Rome's political problem.
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