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American military doctrine is described as a Cold War inheritance built for flexing, impressing, and spending rather than for resilience, openness, or winning a drone war.
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Cold War
The game-theory argument says America had strong incentives to guarantee Apollo success because a failed mission would break a country already strained by Vietnam, Soviet space superiority, and political assassinations.
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The game-theory argument says America had strong incentives to guarantee Apollo success because a failed mission would break a country already strained by Vietnam, Soviet space superiority, and political assassinations.
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He treats postwar Anglo-American support for Islamic extremism as a later example of the same security-state pattern: destabilize rivals, undermine nationalist or socialist oil politics, and support the Saudi-Wahhabi compact.
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Stalin neutralized America by making Roosevelt and democratic public opinion identify the Soviet Union as a friend, making betrayal politically difficult until after Germany was defeated.
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Jiang says postwar Americans realized they had been duped and that the Cold War followed from recognizing Russia, not Germany, as the real enemy.
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He argues that modernist art was spread by capitalist Western powers to create a cult of the self as a response to communism's appeal to collective action.
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Jiang argues that modern art spread in part because it served liberal individualism and opposed collective action during the Cold War.
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Jiang says the Soviet elite lost belief in communism and self-sacrifice in the late 1980s, which he presents as part of the background for the Cold War's end.
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"This missile, guys, costs one million dollars. One million dollars. So, there's this $50,000 drone coming your way and you throw a million dollar..."
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"...And, unfortunately, the Americans are used to fighting something called the Cold War. Right? And the Cold War, you can't actually fight the war...."
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"Alright? Also, the other thing I have to say this, okay, is if you look at the American military, it's corrupt. So, this is..."
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"Well, we can use game theory to logically deduce what happened. Okay? So let's use game theory. All right. So we know that NASA's..."
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"The first to orbit the Earth. The first to walk in space. The first to send a lunar module to the moon. So it..."
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"so, according to game theory, America could not afford to take the risk of sending people to the moon. If they died, if it..."
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"...time in history, the Soviet Union and America was fighting a Cold War."
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"Okay? So there were no Islamic minorities within America, but guess what? There are lots and lots of Islamic minorities within the Soviet Union...."
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"So by supporting Islamic extremism, you're undermining the Soviet Union. You're undermining these ideologies, which is exactly what happened in Iran. And the last..."
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"...enemy are the Russians. And this would eventually give us the Cold War. So it was after World War II the Americans realized we..."
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"...by communism. And this will be obviously most obvious during the Cold War. Okay?"
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"As long as you think happy thoughts, you'll be good. Okay. This idea of positive psychology, right, that we have today. Carl Jung and..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's conspiracy lecture: Apollo, JFK, 9/11, Freemasonry, bureaucracy, and the number 33 become one model of spectacle, disclosure, guilt, and perception control.
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Modernism begins as a religious problem before it becomes psychology, literature, art, social media, and depression.
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Freud is not introduced as a neutral founder of psychology.
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