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Jiang's phrase for a hidden imperial mode where special forces maintain power without citizens seeing or owning the violence.
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Empire without guilt
Jiang's phrase for a hidden imperial mode where special forces maintain power without citizens seeing or owning the violence.
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"...all allows is for America to be an empire without the guilt of being an empire, okay? You have special forces doing all the..."
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A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central claim: America mistook Iraq's one-off success for a universal doctrine, built an empire without guilt through hidden special forces, and now carries that hubris toward Iran.
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