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Jiang's description of Washington, D.C. being subordinated to professional and financial elites rather than the working public.
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Elite capture
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Yeah. No, I think the main reason is the Indonesian elite has been co -opted by the Americans. And so the people just follow..."
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Jiang says Indonesia's elite has been co-opted by Americans and that ordinary people then follow the orientation of the elite.
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Jiang begins a longer explanation by saying religious fanatics embedded themselves into Western power over centuries, and he introduces Jeffrey Epstein as an example of elite networks serving larger hidden organizations.
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Jiang says the 2008 crisis did not punish the financial elite; instead it deepened inequality, corruption, and elite control over both U.S. parties.
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Jiang says both major US parties now serve elite interests and that debt, inequality, and military overextension are symptoms of an imperial system hollowed out by easy money.
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He argues that Washington was captured by elites and that the Democratic Party shifted from a working-class party into the party of the professional and financial elite.
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Jiang rejects oil as the main explanation for attacking Venezuela, arguing that the United States could obtain Venezuelan oil more cheaply through elite capture and that Venezuela's oil is capital-intensive and expensive to extract.
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Jiang says one of the American empire's core strengths in the Western Hemisphere is its ability to co-opt local elites rather than defeat peer powers militarily.
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Jiang says the contemporary world has been captured by small groups of fanatical religious zealots, including Christian Zionists and zealots across multiple traditions.
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"Yeah. No, I think the main reason is the Indonesian elite has been co -opted by the Americans. And so the people just follow..."
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"Right. So I think the main reason is that these religious fanatics have spent centuries planting the seeds, embedding themselves into power so that..."
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"And not only that. Not only did no one go to jail for all these crimes and misdemeanors, but in fact, the financial industry..."
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"And the people became arrogant, lazy and corrupt, which led to massive inequality, which led to the co -optation of the political system by..."
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"So you know, Trump has announced that the military budget will now increase from $1 trillion to $1.5 trillion. That does not mean the..."
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"...the second big trend. The third big trend is basically the elite capture of Washington, D.C. So if you may recall. In the 90s,..."
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"And 2008, 2009 marked a turning point. And basically the Democratic Party has now been co -opted by the financial elite. And this is..."
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"So this is all very curious. Now, I don't know why this is happening, but I do find the timing very suspicious. OK, that's..."
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"It's very capital intensive. It's labor intensive. It's cost prohibitive. And that's why, you know, Venezuela has not risen to the ranks of great..."
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"Yeah. Um, I mean, this is the American empire. And eventually they will control the entire Western hemisphere eventually, uh, which includes Canada, which..."
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"Look, look, I mean, I hate to emphasize this, but what's crazy about the world right now is that it's been captured by small..."
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"years china invested billions of dollars into kazakhstan in order to co -opt the local elite um then the russians backed another political faction..."
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The interview sounds scattered at first, but its logic is consistent.
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Jimmy Dore brings Jiang on because an earlier prediction seems to have landed: Trump is back, the United States is now at war with Iran, and a forecast once dismissed as wild suddenly looks...
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The interview opens as a first-week war briefing and then keeps widening.
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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's argument begins with a simple civilizational scorecard: energy, openness, and cohesion.
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The interview opens with leaked Epstein emails and ends with Ukraine, but Jiang's through-line never changes: public politics is wrestling, elite trust is held together by blackmail, and the American empire now looks most...
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Jiang begins with prediction as a disciplined loop, then turns the whole century into a religious struggle in disguise.
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Danny from CapitalCosm asks the obvious question: where does the world go from here?
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