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He argues that for most people in medieval Europe wealth was not the supreme object of desire, even though elite politics and Church corruption were still shaped by money.
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Elite politics
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Jiang says high-level actors operate with divided loyalties inside a multidimensional power game, which is why personality-reading fails and game theory is the better tool for prediction.
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He argues that targeted sanctions on Russian business elites removed their Western option and unified them around Putin, whereas broad U.S. pressure on China allegedly leaves Chinese business elites able to resist Xi Jinping.
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Jiang says the world is better understood through deals among transnational elites than through a simple map of sovereign nation-state interests.
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Jiang extends the psychopathy diagnosis to prominent modern leaders, arguing that charisma and respectability do not cancel out psychopathic behavior in elite politics.
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"I'm interested about the charitable concept of all of this. Like, I know this is not the modern age. In the modern age, you..."
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"...corruption, but for most people, they didn't really care. At the elite politics, it did matter, but for most people, it did not matter,..."
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"All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. way that..."
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"I'd rather just stick to game theory analysis. Wakar asks, what do you think about PDB and Manny Hassan?"
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"um, I mean, the elites have, the elites have no loyalty except in themselves, right? They're always playing a double game. So, we see..."
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"doing things but in my society but in a mass society where it's not human beings that are in control but actually um corporations..."
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"do some check on checks on this guy people around them die all the time all right it's i mean like like it's common..."
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"Second example are these American sanctions against Russia, specifically targeting Russian business people with close ties to the Putin regime, which is basically every..."
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"And that's where they like to have their second homes. And we know this because of what's happening in China. So there is a..."
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"Now, these rumors are completely false. They're fabricated. But it shows you that he's not as powerful as people like to believe. So when..."
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"...more accurate? Do you rely on the economic structure then, the elite politics, ideology, or military balance, if you would assess 2026?"
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