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He argues that U.S. attempts to force global oil purchases are unlikely to save the petrodollar because such coercion serves elite factions rather than national interest and can coexist with economic collapse.
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Elite factions
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Collapse begins when elite overproduction creates factions that recruit parts of the middle class and the people, aligning society into power blocs.
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Jiang says the real American conflict is between an old Wall Street-centered global elite and a newer Silicon Valley bloc around Trump, Musk, Thiel, and Vance.
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Greg speculates that elite factions may not need a single top dog because they can pursue multiple agendas at once while maintaining an implicit agreement not to expose one another.
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Jiang argues that because Trump was trained by powerful patrons he both depends on and resents, he has learned their mentality well enough to play rival elites against each other.
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"The problem is that the United States is doing this not for the natural interest. The United States is doing this in order to..."
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"So I study history and I look at historical patterns. And I think that if you examine what's happening in the United States right..."
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"Weishaupt and bringing together the Bavarian Illuminati and the Freemason slash Jesuits and the Kabbalistic Jewish mystics. I mean, we can never really know..."
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"empire by being basically a slumlord okay he was taking advantage of government subsidies he was abusing exploiting his tenants but he was able..."
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"age has been mentored by these very powerful individuals and so yeah he got to where where he is because of these powerful individuals..."
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"Okay? Do you understand? They push the workers harder to generate more wealth. All right? So, in the decline phase, this is not really..."
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A farewell class becomes a compressed world model: empire is a game with no friends, collapse is survivable if imagination and community survive, AI is funded for control rather than liberation, and the deepest...
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Jiang opens with the harshest possible premise: empires do not retire peacefully.
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The interview begins with an old historical puzzle and turns it into a present-tense accusation: dead sects do not stay dead when their stories, inversions, and elite habits get embedded in modernity.
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This first community livestream begins as an ask-me-anything, but Jiang keeps pulling the questions back into one picture: America is drifting toward a disastrous Iran war, domestic politics has become theater, and the only...
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Societies do not fall because one problem gets worse in a straight line.
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