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He says America will lose the Iran war but does not need to defeat Iran if Iran remains in chaos and helps keep choke points under American control.
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Chaos
Transnational capital plans decades ahead and tries to create chaos because chaos generates profit.
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Transnational capital plans decades ahead and tries to create chaos because chaos generates profit.
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Jiang says stillness produces no profit, while conflict and blood in the streets create opportunities to make money.
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Saudi Arabia wants a conflict where the United States, Israel, and Iran destroy each other so Saudi Arabia can come out on top.
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Jiang says Saudi Arabia has no choice but to hope chaos creates new possibilities because, given the current game structure, it has a poor future.
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Jiang explains the transition from an egalitarian agricultural society to urban patriarchy through mythology: Tiamat is coded as chaos and Marduk as order, so destroying the old is justified as creating peace and order.
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The water serpent represents both life and divinity because it resembles the river, but the flooding river is also chaotic and must be tamed by irrigation and walls.
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The Bronze Age system is described as both globalized and chaotic: the same centers became wealthy through trade, war, and piracy.
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"...It just has to make Iran constantly in a state of chaos and war. Okay? Does that make sense? Because the point is to..."
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"Okay? Does that make sense? Okay? America doesn't really care anymore if it loses its war in Iran. That's not the point. The point..."
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"...capital, what they do is they're trying to create as much chaos as possible because in chaos, there's profit. Like if you're sitting around..."
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"Okay? Does that work? So, if you're Saudi Arabia and you see the future, it's a pretty dismal future because eventually, your oil is..."
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"...far behind everyone else. Okay? It can only hope that this chaos leads to new possibilities because given the structure of the game so..."
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"...this, the answer is embedded in the mythology, right? Tiamat represents chaos. Marduk represents order. So even though we are letting go of the..."
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"Why? Because if you think about it, the serpent, the water serpent, looks like the river. And the river is the basis of all..."
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"Okay? Does that make sense? So the main point is that this world was interconnected. It was a globalized world. We call this globalization...."
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"...this ground invasion. And this would be so politically damaging that chaos breaks out in the United States. And the US ground invasion is..."
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"...put ground troops in, Iran is going to resist, and then chaos is going to break out in the United States?"
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"...strategy one. Strategy two is you need to create as much chaos within Iran as possible. You want to turn this fortress into a..."
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"...national defense strategy, right? Let's create Fortress America and then create chaos throughout the entire world so that we can sell everyone weapons and..."
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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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Mesopotamia turns geography into mythology: where Egypt imagines divine generosity and pyramidal immortality, the land between two uncooperative rivers learns struggle, creative destruction, and the more fragile immortality of being remembered by the people...
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The Bronze Age Collapse is not treated as a freak disaster.
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