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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Look, the reality is that it's not just the Roman Empire, it's all empires. Eventually they produce an elite that is hereditary, which is..."
He says Dugin has already made much of this plan public, but the Anglo-American empire does not counter it because its current rulers are aging and do not care about what happens after their deaths.
Jiang generalizes that all empires eventually produce hereditary, corrupt, rent-seeking elites that turn inward and prey on their own populations after external conquest is complete.
Jiang argues the contemporary United States is ruled by an insulated gerontocracy that is divorced from ordinary Americans, and that this social condition keeps generating demand for Trump-like relief figures even if Trump himself disappears.
"Look, the reality is that it's not just the Roman Empire, it's all empires. Eventually they produce an elite that is hereditary, which is..."
"And so I think it's a very similar situation right now in the United States, where you have this gerontocracy, these people in their..."
"So we'll see what happens the next 10, 20 years. Now, having said all this, I have to say, it's not... It's not secret...."
The conversation starts with Iran, but it quickly becomes a wider map of how Jiang thinks history moves.
The episode's pressure is not that religion sometimes decorates politics.
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