Jiang applies the law of proximity to nations: what looks like interstate behavior is often determined by the conflict within each nation.
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Jiang applies the law of proximity to nations: what looks like interstate behavior is often determined by the conflict within each nation.
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Key Notes
The government does not have infinite bailout capacity, so finance and AI are fighting over which bubble will be rescued after the burst.
The law of proximity explains the leader killings: domestic factions provide intelligence to external enemies in order to weaken internal rivals.
Jiang qualifies that he has no direct evidence, but says game theory makes internal civil conflict the best explanation for how leaders are being located and killed.
Jiang predicts U.S. ground troops will produce a national draft, youth refusal, protests, National Guard deployment, and civil conflict in America.
He argues that anti-immigrant violence in Britain after the Southport attack shows how immigration becomes a civil-conflict trigger even when the accused attacker was not himself an immigrant.
He predicts increased immigration, civil conflict, and foreign wars as parts of the collapse pattern, not necessarily in a fixed sequence.
He compares Putin's possible failure to Muhammad's death, arguing that a charismatic unifier may almost bind the world but leave civil conflict if he dies too soon.
Timestamped Evidence
"Yeah, I know. Then you go to work, where you're competing in order to win the favor of your boss and to be popular..."
"...look at three examples of this. We will look at the civil conflicts in America, in Israel, and in Iran to figure out why..."
"And the way they operate is they just lend money to each other. Okay? It's like I give you a billion dollars, then you..."
"Right? So, they're going to fight over who bails who out. Okay? If the Democrats can win the House and the presidency into 2028,..."
"...getting killed? Why are they getting killed? Because of all these civil conflicts within these nations, okay? These different factions are providing intelligence to..."
"...other's leaders. That's not actually common, right? So I think this civil conflict within these nations offers the best guide, the best understanding of..."
"...Guard. And this will create the recipe for a lot of civil conflict in America. Okay? Another thing that will happen is because you..."
"So good afternoon class. Today we do death by gerontocracy. Gerontocracy just means rule by old people. Last class we discussed the decline of..."
"he was sentenced to 52 years behind bars so he's gonna spend the rest of his life in prison so justice was done what..."
"...today is why is this happening why are the all these civil conflicts caused by immigration throughout the western world so this is happening..."
"So, remember, in the rise phase, society is democratic and open and meritocratic. But as you move on, it becomes more bureaucratic and ultimately..."
"...see less freedom and democracy. They're going to collapse, increase immigration, civil conflict, and then ultimately stupid foreign wars. And I'm not saying this..."
Relevant Lectures And Readings
The lecture names the law of proximity: people and nations play many games at once, but the nearest game is the one that governs action.
Jiang makes the Iran war a test of religious prediction: if Al-Aqsa survives and peace arrives, his model fails.
Western decline looks like immigration crisis, unaffordable housing, assisted death, fake prosperity, debt, surveillance, and war.
Societies do not fall because one problem gets worse in a straight line.
The episode's pressure is not that religion sometimes decorates politics.
A June 2024 lecture arguing that the next American civil war will not repeat 1861.
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