Jiang argues that it is astonishing for Jimmy Carter's national security adviser, at the height of the Cold War, to frame democracy as bad and Marxism as good, and he reads this as elite preference for the endpoint of history rather than loyalty to democratic America.
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Cold War
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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.
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.
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.
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.
Jiang says postwar Americans realized they had been duped and that the Cold War followed from recognizing Russia, not Germany, as the real enemy.
Jiang argues that modern art spread in part because it served liberal individualism and opposed collective action during the Cold War.
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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"...Jimmy Carter. At this time, this is the height of the Cold War. America is fighting a war with the Soviet Union. And the..."
"...mafia support and the Italian mafia support. Why? Because during the Cold War, the"
"CIA did not have foreign intelligence networks, but the Jews and Italians did have foreign intelligence networks. Okay. So this is how they were..."
"...protection of the American military. And at this time, during the Cold War, your adversary was Soviet Union. And because of mad, mutually assured..."
"...after World War II, and it was designed to fight the Cold War. And the Cold War was really about muscle flexing, about who..."
"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..."
"...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...."
"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..."
"friends and they all tell me you know there's a entrenched russia phobia in washington dc uh there's a deep contempt there's a deep..."
"even after the the end of the cold war it's still there let's let's just then discuss what happened so the europeans go in..."
"...are there to to to emulate what Reagan did during the Cold War yes in the belief that this is going to bankrupt Russia..."
"...peace agreements with the Russians and that the end of the Cold War was successfully negotiated on that basis yeah uh Nico says so..."
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