Glossary
Here the term means internal disagreement and argument inside a political system that Alexander treats as a sign of institutional health rather than weakness.
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dissent
A source-grounded reading of the nation-state as war machine: Rousseau turns liberty into sovereignty, Fichte turns language into blood, Bismarck turns welfare into war infrastructure, Mussolini turns myth into death, and 21st-century war turns...
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A source-grounded reading of the nation-state as war machine: Rousseau turns liberty into sovereignty, Fichte turns language into blood, Bismarck turns welfare into war infrastructure, Mussolini turns myth into death, and 21st-century war turns...
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Alexander says a healthy political system is one that can conduct dissent, argue internally, and still reach consensus and decisions, whereas a system that demands constant agreement is one that will decay.
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Alexander says the recent visible dissent around Putin should not be read as a sign of crisis and instead treats it as evidence that the government in Moscow works better than governments in Western countries at the present time.
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Jiang links the university crackdown to possible preparation for an invasion of Iran, arguing that campuses would likely become the center of antiwar protest and therefore need to be neutralized in advance.
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"...and actions president putin is respected again will this will the dissent continue i think he's always been"
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"...i mean any political system that has the ability to conduct dissent to to have a conversation with itself and even an argument and..."
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"...else I would look at very closely is the crackdown on dissent in the universities. Right. How Trump is going after these universities. Because..."
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"...the civilians against the government by sowing as much discord and dissent as possible within society. And you do that through economic sabotage, through..."
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"So their strategy then was to promote DEI. To sow dissent and discord and say, like, no, what matters is that class. Okay. That..."
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"...bubble. And so if you are negative, if you voice any dissent, if you're critical, like Joe Kent, well, you're pushed out of the..."
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"...challenge the assumptions and the values of this cafeteria, now there's dissent. Now there's rebellion going on. Okay? And different people are talking to..."
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"...you have to unite your population, which means basically crushing all dissent. You can't, we can't argue anymore. We have to unify for a..."
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"...expensive. You have to consolidate wealth. You cannot allow for any dissent because a private central banking system relies heavily on the creation of..."
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"...it don't think it's really good at doing any more squashing dissent right so um you know if bernie centers won a nomination in..."
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"...and day. Remember, in the first Trump term, there was vocal dissent. In the streets, there were violent, they weren't violent protests, but there..."
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"...And I think that this is going to cause tremendous political dissent within Europe."
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A source-grounded reading of the nation-state as war machine: Rousseau turns liberty into sovereignty, Fichte turns language into blood, Bismarck turns welfare into war infrastructure, Mussolini turns myth into death, and 21st-century war turns...
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Sneako presses Jiang after the Iran war turns him into a sudden internet figure.
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Redacted asks Jiang whether the Iran war is already out of control.
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s law of escalation: the actor with the biggest weapon can still lose if the weaker actor has calibration, legitimacy, options, and a way to make the bully destroy himself.
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Mercouris opens by asking for predictive geopolitics rather than another issue-by-issue panel, and Jiang answers by folding Ukraine, Europe, Iran, China, and domestic American disorder into one machine.
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Stephen Akela invites Jiang on to explain how he predicted war with Iran, but the interview keeps widening until prediction becomes a whole model of late empire: a debt system that cannot tolerate peace,...
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The interview starts with an optimistic claim about a China-US reset, then widens into a harsher model of late-order politics: China and America still need each other, but both systems are drifting toward state...
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The interview opens with Jiang's method and then keeps testing it across one pressure system.
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