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Jiang's model for a polity that is internally decaying and therefore lashes outward through unwinnable wars.
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Empire in decline
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...lose this war. The problem is that when empires are in decline, this is just the way they behave. And there's just, the historical..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...lose this war. The problem is that when empires are in decline, this is just the way they behave. And there's just, the historical..."
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Jiang says the war looks irrational because declining empires routinely launch wars they cannot win, overextend themselves, and make the whole world's collapse more violent.
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"...lose this war. The problem is that when empires are in decline, this is just the way they behave. And there's just, the historical..."
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"basically decided to just not do anything to avoid any political responsibility and so it's destroying the checks and balance systems of the u.s..."
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"And so, so you see us, you see our empire in decline."
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"...then is you have division and corruption. Okay? So an empire in decline always suffers from corruption and division."
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"...and that's exactly what's happening right now america is an empire in decline we can tell because uh five percent of uh white american..."
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"...people are starving in cuba um so this is an empire in decline it just lashes out against the world it attacks everyone um..."
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Jimmy Dore brings Jiang on because an earlier prediction seems to have landed: Trump is back, the United States is now at war with Iran, and a forecast once dismissed as wild suddenly looks...
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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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