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Jiang says Trump's national-security strategy argues that post-World-War-II America bankrolled Europe and East Asia and is now demanding that those regions pay more for their own defense and for continued access to American protection.
He argues Washington's current answer to decline is to force the rest of the world to bankroll the United States 'in retirement,' a policy he predicts will backfire by producing discontent in Europe and Southeast Asia.
"Look, I mean, if you look at the national security strategy, it's very simple. What Trump and his administration say is, look, for the..."
"It's time that the Europeans paid for their own defense. It's time for the Europeans to obey American orders because America controls the seaways...."
"People don't have even access to, like, clean water. And that's what the empire is. So for America to say, you know, we're the..."
Jiang starts with a tactical question about Trump and Venezuela, but the interview keeps widening until Venezuela becomes only the first front in a larger story: a Monroe Doctrine empire that prefers calibrated coercion...
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