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Elite overproduction causes society to break into factions symbolized by princes, with losing factions exiled into new colonies until no frontier remains.
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Colonization
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He says Spain and Portugal colonized South America by exploiting mineral wealth, enslaving local populations, and converting them to Catholicism.
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He presents Spanish conquest and plantation extraction as the first profitable European model in the Americas, which then draws English, French, and Dutch competitors into the New World.
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He names plague, climate change, and Yamnaya colonization as the three things that destroyed old Europe, with plague as the most important.
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Manifest Destiny is presented as a religiously justified project of violent colonization across the Americas.
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He presents the sending of dissenters to America as a way for England to manage religious conflict by letting them build their own kingdom of heaven.
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Jiang says Yale's China investment should be read less as philanthropy and more as a colonizing project aimed at ripe territory.
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Jiang argues that Canada has no realistic way to stop American colonization because Washington can entice Canadians with passport conversion and financial guarantees rather than military force.
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"I think of all the universities, Yale, of all the universities in the United States, Yale is probably the most invested, the most interested..."
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"Okay, so realistically, there's nothing Canada can really do to stop America from colonizing Canada. There just really isn't. And America doesn't have to..."
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"But over time, what happens is that the elite, okay, become hereditary. The game becomes how do I, the elite, pass on my privileges..."
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"Okay? So if there are four princes, okay, who are about to inherit the throne, there are four different factions that support them. That..."
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"So they started to chart new areas. Okay? Spain and Portugal primarily. And what they discovered was there's all this new territory in South..."
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"...you can I I think industrialization has been really about the colonization of the Chinese mind and what I mean by that is that..."
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"Yeah, I completely agree with your assessment. So before this idea of the liberal rules -based natural order. It's basically these Western nations bullying...."
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"Because Alberta has talked about secession. So I think eventually, America will colonize Canada. Though the they'll need to pick it up first. And..."
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"And they were able to do this in order to redeem humanity from the prejudices, the atrocities of civilization. Okay? So that's the argument..."
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"...all, the weather's very cold. Okay? So it's not hospitable to colonization. Second problem is that you have lots of Native Americans in North..."
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"So that's the first thing that happened in Europe. The second thing that happened in Europe is what we call climate change. So about..."
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"Was actually the plague, right? Europeans had these diseases they brought over and that killed most of the local population, okay? So the plague..."
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A source-grounded reading of the interview's central move: the Iran file is really about strangling China, while Canada's new China turn is read not as strategy but as a banker trying to offload a...
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's World Game lecture: empires do not usually come from the obvious rich center.
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on immigration as a game: school success is not status, rule-following can become a trap, fertility and cohesion beat obedience, and America's open-society ideal begins as a settler...
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The host begins by asking how Jiang became a public analyst and ends by asking how history itself gets rewritten.
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Jiang treats World War III not as one future declaration but as a chain reaction already set in motion: the rules mask has fallen off the American empire, Iran has become the hinge of...
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Jiang's through-line is that American decline will not end in a peaceful handoff to China or Russia.
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America begins here as a cure for civilization: a clean-slate game built from Enlightenment rights, self-help, property, and fair rules.
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