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Jiang uses the phrase as the optimistic thesis he is rejecting, arguing that East Asia's social and demographic weaknesses undermine it.
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East Asian century
The conspiracy story is false as history and true as prediction.
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The conspiracy story is false as history and true as prediction.
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"of power yeah I'm not too optimistic that um um the century belongs to East Asia you know I I know there's a lot..."
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"...leader, Jacques de Molay in 1314, okay? So the Freemasons think centuries ahead and they plan decades in advance. And again, this is all..."
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"...poem, let alone the Connecticut national reading to identify with 17th century, New England and the English. U S ever after. Okay. So this..."
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"...u.s iran war it's really the first war of the 21st century um and so i want to explain to you how warfare has..."
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"of the 19th century how traditionally wars wars were fought for hundreds of hundreds of years within sort of centuries something happened which is..."
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"...new glories on you okay so now Now, in the 21st century, our goal is to use the population against the state, to turn..."
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"...the most powerful region of the world starting in the 19th century. Okay? But of course, the problem of nationalism, the problem with populations..."
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"...you look at the war in Ukraine, it's essentially a 19th century war. Okay? It's almost like World War I. I know World War..."
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"...will show you is that Iran will be the first 21st century war. Okay? So America, in round one, tried to use shock and..."
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"...months, America is going to shift its strategy into a 21st century war strategy, which will have three components. The first component is economic..."
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"...best weapon is the Iranian people themselves that's what a 21st century war looks like it's very slow it's very methodical it's pretty evil..."
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"...their economy all right okay so this is what a 21st century war looks like it's slow you focus on triangulation as opposed to..."
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The conspiracy story is false as history and true as prediction.
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The lecture starts by warning against overconfident certainty, then rewires from literary method to a hard model of AI: today’s systems are pattern-fitters optimized for compliance, so power becomes control over what counts as...
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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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Jiang frames the Iran conflict as a managed long war: visible ceasefires do not remove structural incentives that keep military pressure, debt extraction, and elite coordination in place.
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Jiang frames the Iran war as a structural problem: empires that enter forceful conflicts without strategic reserve burn out, and the current administration is trying to steer around collapse, domestic optics, and a volatile...
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The interview starts with a ceasefire question and ends in a resource apocalypse.
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