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Jiang says the historical agents themselves often believe they are the true sons of God or genuine messiahs, while the societies around them can treat them as useful idiots serving a larger project.
Jiang describes the victorious elite type as pathologically power-obsessed, expansive, and willing to worship every god or demon in a search for the deepest secrets of reason.
Jiang says that risk of exposure is part of the appeal for abusive elites because danger and possible public discovery intensify the excitement.
Jiang says prolonged depression after failure gave him a more nuanced account of world power that many successful Ivy peers still lack.
Jiang compares current European leadership to World War I decision-makers who would sacrifice millions rather than admit they had made a strategic mistake.
Jiang models NATO's behavior as gambler psychology: after catastrophic losses, leaders keep betting because going home and admitting defeat is politically impossible.
Jiang says Washington contains an entrenched Russophobia that never disappeared after the Cold War and still mixes contempt with fear toward Russia.
Jiang says Dr. Strangelove reveals how American elites think: faced with nuclear danger, they imagine saving themselves in bunkers rather than preventing the catastrophe.
"What drives these individuals like Julius Caesar, Napoleon, Hitler, Stalin, Trump, and Putin? What drives these individuals like Julius Caesar, Napoleon, Hitler, Stalin, Trump,..."
"Alright, so they're gonna go back and they're gonna create their own history, and that's why people think that they stretch all the way..."
"search for reason okay they are looking for the greatest secrets of the universe so they are open -minded they are looking for all..."
"And so like they're looking for like novelty in their lives. And that's what children bring. Okay. There's also, and then I was like,..."
"I failed as a journalist. I failed as a teacher. I couldn't really find employment. I became extremely frustrated. I became very angry. And..."
"Yeah. In this CNN, New York Times mindset in that, you know, Trump is just deranged and after he leaves office in, you know,..."
"those four or five years where these millions of people were dying for no reason, and the reason why was these leaders just could..."
"years Putin was was offering peace all this time and we said no and oops we made a mistake sorry they can't do that..."
"then you can just go home well and then you're like I can't go home because that reason I have to explain this to..."
"friends and they all tell me you know there's a entrenched russia phobia in washington dc uh there's a deep contempt there's a deep..."
"even after the the end of the cold war it's still there let's let's just then discuss what happened so the europeans go in..."
"but they won't do that because of some cause Ford policy because they might be able to agree on because of They felt that,..."
The conspiracy story is false as history and true as prediction.
Jiang starts with his own formation story: a bullied immigrant reader, Yale disillusionment, depression, poker, game theory, and then a predictive method that treats society as a game played by distinct personalities.
This interview starts with a forecasting method and quickly turns into a map of imperial decline.
Mercouris opens by asking for predictive geopolitics rather than another issue-by-issue panel, and Jiang answers by folding Ukraine, Europe, Iran, China, and domestic American disorder into one machine.
Jiang treats the next Israel-Iran war not as another regional flare-up but as the real conflict the earlier 12-day war only rehearsed.
Canadian Prepper keeps pulling Jiang from immediate war forecasting into theology, bureaucracy, civil unrest, Canadian overmanagement, disaster culture, and Taiwan.
Uberboyo pushes Jiang from geopolitics into demography, soft power, religion, bureaucracy, and aging.
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