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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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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "What do you mean dying Empire? What does that imply for the rest of global stability? In the past, historically, when an empire nears..."
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The host summarizes Jiang's argument as Israel benefiting from American decline by riding the coattails of a dying empire through AI and asks Jiang to confirm that reading.
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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..."
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"Well, so if you look at the empires, their defining characteristic is their hubris. What I mean by that is that in the 1950s,..."
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"And yes, Mark Carney said there was a lot of hypocrisy to this. But at the same time, people did benefit. And so people..."
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"...it's almost like Israel will be riding the coattails of a dying empire and benefiting from it while the U.S. dies? Because you just..."
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"...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..."
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"...And again, it's part of America's grand strategy to maintain their dying empire for control of trade routes."
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"...something else. I think that there are, like America is a dying empire. Pax Americana is a dying empire. It's over -extended. The domestic..."
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"...is growing competition between Israel and America, where America is a dying empire and Israel is the emerging empire. What I think will happen..."
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"...How does this work then? Because the United States, it's a dying empire, but it will want to see its empire preserved. And no..."
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"...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..."
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Relevant Lectures And Readings
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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?
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Jiang starts from the harshest frame available: Iran is not one more crisis but the hinge on which the next half-century turns.
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Jiang starts with a tactical question about Trump and Venezuela, but the interview keeps widening until Venezuela becomes only the first front in a larger story: a Monroe Doctrine empire that prefers calibrated coercion...
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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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