Jiang predicts that America may seem to win short term but will lose its empire and retreat to the Western Hemisphere because of corruption, division, and nationalism.
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Collapse
Collapse pushes some people toward religion because they seek comfort, story, and explanation as the world collapses around them.
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Collapse pushes some people toward religion because they seek comfort, story, and explanation as the world collapses around them.
Jiang states a severe forecast that in the coming 50 years of chaos and war, 90 percent of humanity may be wiped out.
The lecture's central inversion is that if Trump wants the American empire and global economy to collapse, then actions that look buffoonish become genius strategy.
The Third Rome strategy is to keep Russia coherent through territory, nationalism, religion, faith, war, and allies while the United States, China, Europe, and the Middle East collapse.
The Technate is introduced as America's self-sufficient North American response to Moscow's Third Rome: if the world is collapsing, North America can become a fortified resource bloc.
Trump's strategic insight, in Jiang's telling, is that Putin is right: the world is collapsing, so America should accelerate collapse in a way that benefits America.
Jiang says it may be in America’s long-term interest for the economy to collapse if that drives transnational capital out and leaves America brighter afterward.
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"But for the war between America, you previously said that America will lose the war, but according to the analysis that you just did,..."
"Yeah. So again, the major prediction is that America may in the short term seem as though it is winning, but in the long..."
"...who undergo the transformation will most likely survive the coming world collapse. Okay. So, you can choose to say like, I want to be..."
"...war in Iran? What if he wants the American empire to collapse? What if Donald Trump wants to destroy the global economy? Then he'd..."
"...unified, cohesive, it'll be fine. Okay? Because as this global order collapses, as the global economy collapses, every other society will face eternal collapse...."
"...war against each other. But this is also an age of collapse. So as long as you're able to stay coherent, as long as..."
"Okay? And so the grand plan for America is something called the Technate. Okay? Sorry. There's something we'll discuss more later on. Okay? But..."
"...it in a way that allows America to benefit from this collapse. Okay? So by collapsing the GCC, by collapsing the Middle East, you..."
"...the long -term best interest of America for the economy to collapse and for transnational capital to go elsewhere. And this is something we'll..."
"...So to leave America, what you want is a stock market collapse, okay, an economic collapse. Why? Because economic collapse not only allows you..."
"...do is cause America to implode. We need to cause a collapse in America. And how do you do that?"
"That's all that matters. So given the current state of state of events it's very hard for the western world and really for China..."
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