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Americans who benefit from empire, such as Wall Street, the military-industrial complex, and suburban beneficiaries, and therefore want war with Iran.
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Empire beneficiaries
The Beijing visit is only the front door.
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The Beijing visit is only the front door.
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"Okay? So, again, unfortunately, there are a lot of Americans who benefit from empire. Okay? That's why they want war with Iran. So, these..."
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"...in America. Okay? So in other words, there were two major beneficiaries of this system that was created. Even though this system doesn't really..."
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"...economy is under a lot of strain there are two main beneficiaries of the global economy the United States and China so both are..."
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"...and the trade settlement currency uh i think that the ultimate beneficiaries however are you know a level above and that"
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"...that China, by not being directly involved, has been the biggest beneficiary. Do you share that? I actually don't share that view, Piers. I..."
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"...the Strait of Hormuz in particular being open. It's the biggest beneficiary of that Strait being open. And so even though some of their..."
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"...okay, well, how about China? Because China is actually the main beneficiary. Of oceanic trade. And China is going to do China. Which is..."
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"I am a beneficiary of what we call the meritocracy, right? I worked hard, my IQ was very high, I did well on tests...."
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"So if you look at the main beneficiary of this war, it is Israel because Israel has an ambition called the greater Israel project,..."
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"...in the way of that is Israel, which is the only beneficiary of this war. As you just said, I think that's true. Can..."
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"...civil unrest is how they gain power. They were the net beneficiaries from COVID. They were net beneficiaries from, you know, and so the..."
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"The tech guys were the net beneficiaries from COVID. And at the moment, they're supporting subordinate to finance because they still need access to..."
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Relevant Lectures And Readings
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Jiang treats the Xi–Trump visit as a strategic theater.
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Jiang frames the Iran conflict as a managed long war: visible ceasefires do not remove structural incentives that keep military pressure, debt extraction, and elite coordination in place.
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The interview begins as a fight over whether the Iran war has helped anyone, then turns into a harder question: what happens when a regional war reveals that waterways, energy corridors, diaspora hopes, and...
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A source-grounded reading of the episode's central claim: American war culture has learned to convert military failure into rescue spectacle, while real wars are still decided by economics, organization, logistics, and endurance.
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Jiang's education argument begins with a narrow definition and ends with a democratic dream.
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This interview is useful because it does not merely pile up predictions.
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