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Jiang treats Erdogan as an unstable fence-sitter whose policies make it unclear whom he actually serves.
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Erdogan
Jiang frames the Iran war as a structural problem: empires that enter forceful conflicts without strategic reserve burn out, and the current administration is trying to steer around collapse, domestic optics, and a volatile...
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Jiang frames the Iran war as a structural problem: empires that enter forceful conflicts without strategic reserve burn out, and the current administration is trying to steer around collapse, domestic optics, and a volatile...
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He presents modern Turkish leadership as still potentially marked by Dönmeh continuity, citing Ataturk's family background and rumors around Erdogan as signs that the line may still matter politically.
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Jiang reports a popular prophecy that Erdogan will fall, a NATO-loyal Turkish faction will provoke war with Russia, and Anatolia will then rejoin the Orthodox world as the Byzantine order is restored.
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Jiang says Erdogan is tactically clever and plays both sides, but will never choose full confrontation with Israel and will continue materially supporting it.
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"uh turkey is broken up and that guy erdogan okay i think he's a cia asset if you just look at the way he..."
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"knowing exactly how dangerous that region is right like you know like pick a side man um so i i think turkey is really..."
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"...Turkey today, the people in charge are descendants of the Domei. Erdogan, who is the current president of Turkey, he himself is rumored to..."
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"The prophecy says that Erdogan will lose power, and a new political faction will rise, which is loyal to NATO. And because they're loyal..."
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"...really matched by any other nation around it, especially not Turkey. Erdogan is a very savvy political leader. I mean, he like strategically, politically,..."
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"...overtaken Syria without the full support of Turkey. So I think Erdogan is playing all sides and he's really interested in his own political..."
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"...a very bad situation. They are an extremely corrupt, ossified system. Erdogan has been in power for a long time. And honestly, there's some..."
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"...Israelis also have a very tough rhetoric about Turkey and especially Erdogan. And with the war as well, the amount of destruction that will..."
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"...little hope for Turkey. It has suffered a great deal under Erdogan. If you go back and look at how Erdogan came to power..."
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"...an article that came out yesterday who's going to succeed uh erdogan and so for the us orthodox christians this is one of the..."
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"...people the muslim community the islamic community was was calling on erdogan to do something to defend the palestinians he did nothing um and..."
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"It's kept together for the political maneuvering of Erdogan. Once he's gone, then all these ethnic tensions, these geopolitical tensions, these economic tensions that..."
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Jiang frames the Iran war as a structural problem: empires that enter forceful conflicts without strategic reserve burn out, and the current administration is trying to steer around collapse, domestic optics, and a volatile...
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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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Jiang opens by saying 2026 is not yet the final explosion but the year the whole machine visibly speeds up: a Ponzi-like global economy, imperial consolidation around trade routes and resources, and nation-states losing...
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The interview begins with an old historical puzzle and turns it into a present-tense accusation: dead sects do not stay dead when their stories, inversions, and elite habits get embedded in modernity.
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Jiang begins with prediction as a disciplined loop, then turns the whole century into a religious struggle in disguise.
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Danny from CapitalCosm asks the obvious question: where does the world go from here?
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The episode's pressure is not that religion sometimes decorates politics.
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The episode begins with two escalations: Ukraine expands, Iran heats up.
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