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Jiang's term for the Western war-making model in which bankers and states finance repeated conflict and therefore become structurally unable to admit defeat without collapsing the system built on that debt.
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debt financing
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...is that the Western model of fighting a war is through debt financing, okay? So like the example is, you look at the Napoleonic..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...is that the Western model of fighting a war is through debt financing, okay? So like the example is, you look at the Napoleonic..."
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model
Jiang argues that the Western way of fighting major wars is debt financing, and he uses the Bank of England in the Napoleonic Wars as the model for why backers keep escalating even when battlefield reality says they are losing.
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"...is that the Western model of fighting a war is through debt financing, okay? So like the example is, you look at the Napoleonic..."
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"And that led to like seven wars. Why? Because even though Napoleon was defeating all his enemies, the Bank of England could not afford..."
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