Glossary
Jiang's term for the phase after imperial overexpansion when victory or defeat matters less than total depletion and parallel decay.
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exhaustion
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "But then what happens, and this is really interesting, is just exhaustion. Where they either lose or they win, but everyone's exhausted and then..."
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model
Jiang says the long-run result of that expansion is exhaustion: whether Russia wins or loses, the empire eventually decays because it fights too many wars at once.
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Jiang says 2016 still contained a real anti-incumbent excitement around Sanders and Trump, but by 2025 people are exhausted and no longer expect leadership changes to improve their lives.
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"But then what happens, and this is really interesting, is just exhaustion. Where they either lose or they win, but everyone's exhausted and then..."
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"think people were excited there was definitely an anti -incumbency trend in 2016 uh bernie sanders uh on the left donald trump on the..."
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"...these are indeed turbulent times to a large extent by the exhaustion of the West, but also the rise of new centers of power..."
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Jiang's argument begins with a simple civilizational scorecard: energy, openness, and cohesion.
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