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Jiang says a Dantean reading of the present would pity the boomers because they built a hell for everyone and must themselves inhabit it.
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Current events
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prediction
Jiang forecasts near-term current-event topics for the post-break course: America about to attack Iran, moves on Greenland and Canada, and Trump visiting China in April.
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The class will use current events not to moralize that events are stupid or wrong, but to explain why they happen and what they lead to.
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Jiang plans a second-semester geopolitics course that analyzes current events, explains why they are happening, and predicts what will happen.
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Jiang identifies Ukraine, the Middle East, and the United States against the world as the three major conflicts framing the 2025 semester.
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Jiang's method for the lecture is to treat Raisi's death as a current-event analysis problem: information is sparse, may be false, and may be filtered through an official narrative, so game-theory reasoning is needed to explore possibilities.
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Jiang says the Cooperative History Substack is where he writes more concretely about current world developments, and that some politically sensitive material there is not fully free.
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"Sorry about this. Julian, asked, what would Donnie say to this? And see you on Monday in class. Yeah, so Julian is part of..."
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"...apply it to the modern world so we look at specific current events so during the break i want you guys to focus on..."
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"...uh during a break uh please focus on keeping up with current events all right okay guys all right see you after the break"
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"...And so we will be in this class studying and analyzing current events to understand how the world really works, why people behave the..."
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"And this requires you to actually follow the news, okay? It's not hard to spend five minutes and just read up on the news...."
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"right so my YouTube channel is called predictive history and that's where I upload all my lectures but I also have a sub stack..."
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"...geopolitics. So what I'll be doing is I'll be looking at current events trying to analyze why these events are happening and making predictions..."
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"...to predict the future. Okay, so if you have been following current events, and I hope you have, there are now three major conflicts..."
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"war in Ukraine, it is still happening, and it's affecting everything and everyone because obviously, it brings a lot of instability and uncertainty in..."
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"There are these geopolitical factors, as I've discussed, but there are also these religious factors that we looked into a bit last semester, but..."
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"...so when you do history or when you do analysis about current events, you're always going to encounter three major problems, okay? The first..."
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"...going to do is I'm going to move on and discuss current events. So what I've done is this past week, I looked at..."
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