Jiang uses this for an overextended power that has lost legitimacy and compensates with coercion.
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dying empire
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"What do you mean dying Empire? What does that imply for the rest of global stability? In the past, historically, when an empire nears..."
"Well, so if you look at the empires, their defining characteristic is their hubris. What I mean by that is that in the 1950s,..."
"And yes, Mark Carney said there was a lot of hypocrisy to this. But at the same time, people did benefit. And so people..."
"...strike on Iran, because this is the desperate act of a dying empire. And why wouldn't they do the same towards Russia? Indeed. They've..."
"...And again, it's part of America's grand strategy to maintain their dying empire for control of trade routes."
"...a lot of effort and energy. And if you're in a dying empire like America, you don't have the energy to build this AI..."
Relevant Lectures And Readings
Glenn Diesen asks Jiang the practical questions first: what is this war for, who is exhausting whom, where is the weak point, and why would Washington choose such a disaster?
Jiang starts from the harshest frame available: Iran is not one more crisis but the hinge on which the next half-century turns.
A source-grounded reading of Jiang's Roman lecture: Rome begins as a poor borderland war machine, invents a liberty of obedience, uses Greek historians and Augustan poets to launder violence, and reaches its deepest secret...
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