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Jiang says a future U.S. war against Iran would likely generate Vietnam-like protest and civil unrest in the United States, with anger at Israel becoming more salient than Chinese students' presence.
Jiang says empires collapse for three reasons: overextension, debt, and civil unrest.
Jiang says the American empire is heading into trouble over the next ten years because overextension, debt, and civil unrest are happening at the same time.
Jiang invokes Peter Turchin's elite overproduction idea to argue that too many aspirants are fighting over too few positions of status and power.
Jiang suggests both left- and right-coded militant street formations are incubated or manipulated for later activation during unrest.
Jiang says more aggressive ICE deployment and National Guard use are likely being cultivated as pretexts for martial-law style domestic control.
Jiang says Democrats are tolerating shutdown chaos and possible unrest because they expect to profit electorally in the next midterms, but he questions whether normal midterms will even happen.
Jiang predicts the Ukraine war will generate serious political dissent in Europe and could produce major civil clashes within five years if NATO tries to draft European soldiers.
"And that's why they let Donald Trump to come back in. But obviously, Donald Trump, you kind of pissed off about what happened 2020...."
"...organizations if you want to activate them for a for civil civil unrest. So I think in the first stage will be establishment versus..."
"So I think that you'll see Trump using special forces more, especially Delta Force, and that builds loyalty to Trump personally. You'll also see..."
"Look, at the end of the day, Trump is a king of chaos. And as an executive, if there's chaos, he can impose martial..."
"...starve and there will be possibly riots? Given the possibility of civil unrest and possibly civil war, you would"
"think the Democrats would want to quickly come to an agreement with the Trump administration, but they're not doing that. They're just sort of..."
"And that's what he's saying. So it's not like this war in Ukraine is going to end. It's just that these European countries are..."
"It's possible that in five years you'll have major civil clashes throughout Europe because NATO is trying to draft soldiers. And the young European..."
"...very likely that within a year or two, it will instigate civil unrest in the United States. We've seen reports that Trump plans to..."
"...all these Antifa militia people ready in the wings to create civil unrest, in which case the National Guard will have to come in..."
"Sure. There are lots of different. Possibilities. Okay. I think. The. Most obvious. Possibility. Is that. Trump. Arrests. A lot of. Republicans. Gone after...."
"Massive. Protests. Very. Much. Reminiscent. Of. The. Vietnam. Era. Where. You. Know. Young. Men. Refuse. To. Fight. And. So. The. National. Guard. Has. To...."
Danny asks whether Jiang's Iran-war prediction is now playing out.
The host begins by asking who Jiang is and what Predictive History means.
This interview is useful because it does not merely pile up predictions.
The interview starts with an optimistic claim about a China-US reset, then widens into a harsher model of late-order politics: China and America still need each other, but both systems are drifting toward state...
The interview opens with Jiang's method and then keeps testing it across one pressure system.
The conversation starts with Iran, but it quickly becomes a wider map of how Jiang thinks history moves.
The interview starts with Iran and ends with American civil unrest, but Jiang treats the whole arc as one machine: a declining empire overextends abroad, factional war at home drives the timing, and chokepoints...
This first community livestream begins as an ask-me-anything, but Jiang keeps pulling the questions back into one picture: America is drifting toward a disastrous Iran war, domestic politics has become theater, and the only...
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