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Jiang says Washington, the Trump administration, the foreign-policy elite, and media elite are trapped in a bubble that has not considered losing the Iran war.
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Elite failure
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He says elite failures in Afghanistan, Iraq, the 2008 financial crisis, and COVID policy have destroyed trust in government, media, science, the military, and other institutions.
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Jiang says European elites have no solution to their overlapping crises and describes Europe as a dumpster fire.
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Jiang says Trump returned to power because Biden-era and broader Western leadership were corrupt, inert, strategic failures whose discredited rule created demand for radical change.
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He says Julius Caesar rose not because ordinary people naturally crave tyranny, but because he treated people decently and shared gains with his soldiers while elites ignored popular suffering.
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"this okay so again certain things to appreciate first of all the foreign minister I got you he is not at all concerned about..."
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"the same things and that's very problematic if you are to continue fighting this war okay all right let's continue this is Rabbi Sneerson..."
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"I mean, what's the point of that? So, and, and still at this time, the Europeans are still talking about drafting young men to..."
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"So let's look at why Trump is in power, right? He's in power because Biden really screwed up. Biden was in power for four..."
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"Not only did they beat him to death, but they also beat his brother to death. And these are known as the Gracchi brothers...."
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"He treated people with decency. You know, he went off to Gaul to start off these wars. And rather than take all the plunder..."
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"So, they came to believe that the problem was democracy itself. The problem is that people could not be reasoned with. Therefore, liberalism makes..."
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"And everyone was screwed, okay? Then you had COVID, right? COVID. Where the... The government, the elite, locked down the entire nation. Kids could..."
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Jiang makes the Iran war a test of religious prediction: if Al-Aqsa survives and peace arrives, his model fails.
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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 opens by saying the American empire is no longer even pretending to run a liberal order.
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Jiang's argument begins with a simple civilizational scorecard: energy, openness, and cohesion.
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A June 2024 lecture arguing that the next American civil war will not repeat 1861.
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