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Jiang frames the Iran conflict as a managed long war: visible ceasefires do not remove structural incentives that keep military pressure, debt extraction, and elite coordination in place.
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Jiang frames the Iran conflict as a managed long war: visible ceasefires do not remove structural incentives that keep military pressure, debt extraction, and elite coordination in place.
Jiang says the winners and writers of history use historical narratives to manipulate the poor and the losers of history, and he labels neoliberalism a mechanism of colonial exploitation.
"You're absolutely right. So the problem for us is that history is not an objective study of the human condition. It's really a tool..."
"...the equation. And so this is why, you know, we've had colonialism for the last 500, 600 years and why this colonialism never ends."
"...regions. And so this is a constant which has given us colonialism, which has given us forever wars. And it never goes away. And..."
"...-industrial complex because you're going to you know this is new colonialism that you have to defend which means that you need to be..."
"...my preferred lenses of a leftist critique of imperialism, maybe neo colonialism, someone I've referenced on the show a million times Kwame Nkrumah from..."
Jiang frames the Iran conflict as a managed long war: visible ceasefires do not remove structural incentives that keep military pressure, debt extraction, and elite coordination in place.
Jay Shapiro does not let Jiang hide inside the viral avatar.
The host opens by asking whether history can be protected from geopolitics and ends by asking what to do about elite overproduction.
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