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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...as it stands, it's very hard to maintain its integrity. The European leadership does not seem to know what it's doing. Investors feel as..."
Jiang says European leadership looks directionless, still acts as if it can go all in on a lost Ukraine war, and therefore gives investors little reason to trust Europe's future.
He argues that current European leaders are unpopular, incompetent, and functionally obedient to American priorities rather than to European publics.
Alexander says Europe's current leadership class is detached from reality, trapped in a mutually reinforcing bubble, and therefore cannot be expected to respond rationally to the material limits on war with Russia.
"...as it stands, it's very hard to maintain its integrity. The European leadership does not seem to know what it's doing. Investors feel as..."
"so i think that the problem is that the europeans have lost national sovereignty they have lost um autonomous decision -making uh decisions uh..."
"the people hate the leaders you know something um in any rational world I would completely agree with you listen to the people who..."
"Yeah. So, the pattern is this. Right now, the entire European leadership has been co -opted by the American empire. They owe their jobs..."
"Yeah. Yeah. No, I think the European leadership has dug a hole for themselves. And they're not very creative. They don't know how to..."
The interview begins with a European emergency and ends in the Caribbean, but Jiang treats both as one argument: Washington is willing to let allies absorb the blast radius while using regional pressure to...
Jiang's through-line is that a declining empire does not retreat cleanly.
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.
Danny from CapitalCosm asks the obvious question: where does the world go from here?
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