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Ryan says the war benefits no one except perhaps Israel because it is exhausting American military power, immiserating civilians, and providing China a live tutorial in how the U.S. fights a conventional war.
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Catastrophe
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"government from Northrop Grumman, from GED, and from others, go look at quantitative analysis and see how many stocks I've traded since I've been..."
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"a catastrophe for the United States, and it's a catastrophe for the people in Tehran who are seeing, you know, this indiscriminate bombing. There..."
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"...led to the rise of ISIS. It was pretty well a catastrophe. So I think people in Britain and others in Europe that went..."
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"...to see it happen but it means we have to avoid catastrophe from global warming. I know you believe that it's a myth. Your..."
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"forewarning a major catastrophe approaching the global economy that's going to come very soon so she points out one third of the world's fertilizer...."
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"...that I will make is that these policymakers know that this catastrophe is coming. And the thing about policymakers is that they don't let..."
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"...go with this war. So they need to create an economic catastrophe to make the population more obedient. And you want to introduce an..."
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"...lying us into a disastrous war and this war is a catastrophe already so we have to be talking about that but like it..."
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"...total systems collapse. And it'll be brought on by an environmental catastrophe. So there's something called the geomagnetic excursion event, which is like the..."
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"...in the next 20 years, there will be a major environmental catastrophe. And it's possible it's a perfect storm of catastrophes, meaning pestilence, famine,..."
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"...dark ages there'll be there'll be no central authority there'll be catastrophe after catastrophe um there'll be floods everywhere there'll be earthquakes um there'll..."
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"...are still wars going on. There's still a lot of environmental catastrophe going on brought on by the geomantic excursion. There might have been..."
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Jiang reframes Hormuz disruption as a production-system collapse and argues that escalation incentives make the Iran conflict a political-economic choke point beyond price shocks.
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Jiang treats the Iran shock as a long-cycle pressure system: initial strikes fail, the state shifts to durable economic coercion, and public attention is expected to absorb scarcity, distraction, and control mechanisms as this...
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The interview starts with the end of the world and Satoshi Nakamoto, but the deeper line is Jiang's theory of front men.
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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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A source-grounded reading of the episode's central claim: American war culture has learned to convert military failure into rescue spectacle, while real wars are still decided by economics, organization, logistics, and endurance.
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Piers brings Jiang on because two earlier predictions already landed and a third appears to be unfolding: Trump won, war with Iran came, and now the question is whether America can survive the kind...
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s law of escalation: the actor with the biggest weapon can still lose if the weaker actor has calibration, legitimacy, options, and a way to make the bully destroy himself.
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