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The interview starts with a ceasefire question and ends in a resource apocalypse.
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The interview starts with a ceasefire question and ends in a resource apocalypse.
Jiang says the old American-led order looked multilateral because a tight social club of transatlantic elites shared schools, manners, spaces, and assumptions while making real decisions behind the scenes.
"...was able to make an illusion that it is a multilateral consensus because the people in charge were good friends with each other. They..."
"...was a conspiracy well not conspiracy but but there was a consensus that this guy needed need to be gotten rid of but then..."
"...about what the Americans are trying to do right now the consensus seems to be the Americans first want to control the Shirt of..."
"...so they are determined to maintain hegemony. And this is a consensus among all Washington elite."
"Yeah. And unfortunately, I think it's a dangerous consensus that leads us in the wrong direction. Let me finish up with a couple of..."
"...hubris. Maybe the first generation appreciates the importance of collaboration. Of consensus. But the second generation, their children, are arrogant. They have hubris. They..."
"...the evolution of the pre -existing order, call it the Washington consensus, the Bretton Woods and all that, right? How do you see it..."
"...laws okay so the legitimacy of the government comes from the consensus of the people which is a general will the general will is..."
"...now America has changed its attitude. It's no longer focused on consensus."
"Well, since 1945, though. So this system of consensus and multilateralism, it was managed under the clear leadership of the United States. I mean,..."
"Like what you said about the fake consensus, because after the Cold War came to an end, and then two years later, the Soviet..."
"...political groups they're supporting they're quite contradictory they're not there's no consensus between them which makes me think there's no realistic opposition they can..."
The interview starts with a ceasefire question and ends in a resource apocalypse.
A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central reversal: if Trump's goal is to preserve the old American empire, the Iran war looks insane.
Fukuyama's end of history becomes, in this lecture, a temporary American spell: Pax Americana, science-priesthood, and dollar worship.
A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on America as the world game: Britain invents the imperial board but cannot scale it, the dollar turns wealth into an idea, the Constitution keeps the game above...
Jiang opens by saying the American empire is no longer even pretending to run a liberal order.
A source-grounded reading of the interview's central move: Iran is treated as the forced war of a declining empire, but the larger target is China, whose trade access, savings, and room to maneuver sit...
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