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Jiang predicts the U.S. military will expand rapidly over the next ten to twenty years because America needs direct control over the western hemisphere.
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prediction
Jiang predicts that Russia will focus military expansion on Ukraine, the Baltic states, and Central Asia, and that this outward conquest can preserve Russian cohesion if Russia keeps fighting.
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Jiang argues that after succession conflict, elites may redirect internal struggle outward by launching wars of expansion because they cannot agree internally and seek unity through conquest.
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Jiang says easy money turns the dollar order into an addiction, so America protects the system by expansion and war in order to create more demand for U.S. dollars.
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The demographic pressure of roughly a million British colonists against far fewer French settlers drives expansion, Native conflict, and the French and Indian Wars.
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Manifest Destiny is introduced as the American pattern of pushing rival powers out of North America under a providential mission.
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Jiang emphasizes the speed and scale of Islamic expansion: in less than a century, the Umayyad Caliphate became one of the largest and wealthiest powers of its time.
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Once energized by empire, borderlands become wealthier, more populated, and more militarily sophisticated, creating internal pressure to expand and sometimes conquer the empire.
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"meteors basically um so it's not like you know like you know like like we'll come to my house and we'll start a contract..."
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"to colonize places like um mexico colombia honduras cuba greenland uh possibly even as far as venezuela and so basically if you're in the..."
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"This is exactly correct, okay? The Chinese don't trust the Russians. Because the Russians are extremely nationalistic, extreme, I mean, there's Russian supremacy, okay?..."
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"...Russia will just expand outwards. Okay? So you have this massive expansion that might go on for 10, 20 years when it basically conquers..."
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"...Okay? And so the way to protect the system is by expansion, war. You don't care if expanding your system makes any sense. You..."
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"And so Herzl and yeah, was seeing the like national project is giving salvation to ourselves in some sense. He speaks an awful lot..."
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"Are they in a position of great strength or are they in a position of weakness? Because it seems like the world is turning..."
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"...is these colonies are practicing a rapid form of colonization and expansion. What they do is they bring in immigrants, then as the population..."
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"induced us to peruse attentively such books as were written upon the subjects proposed that we might be able to speak about. So they..."
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"The Russians are here as well. But over time, the Americans will push everyone out. And this is what they call Manifest Destiny. Okay?..."
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"the Al -Aqsaq Mosque is very interesting. The era of Islam was lightning fast. In less than 100 years, they spread from the desert..."
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"...Okay? They have to expand now. And in the process of expansion, what happens is, now and then, they will conquer the empire. All..."
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