He says some financial elites have already switched into the tech camp, but a larger conflict between globalist Democratic elites and nationalist Republican tech elites still remains.
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Financial elite
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Key Notes
He defines the main catalyst of imperial breakdown as elite overproduction, expressed here as civil war among elites and specifically as conflict between the financial elite and the AI elite.
Whichever elite controls Washington directs bailout policy: the current system bails out finance, while Trump’s success would redirect bailouts toward AI/Silicon Valley.
He argues that Washington was captured by elites and that the Democratic Party shifted from a working-class party into the party of the professional and financial elite.
Jiang predicts that Trump may redirect pressure toward Mexican cartels, which he describes as tied to the CIA, a global deep state, and transnational financial elites.
Jiang says an attack on Iran is easier to explain because it would clearly benefit several entrenched factions, including Zionists, financial elites seeking tighter control over Middle East trade, and military-industrial or oil interests, whereas he cannot identify a comparably coherent beneficiary bloc for war with Venezuela.
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"Absolutely. So people like Larry Fink, uh, Steven Swartzman, uh, they're, they, they switch sides. Uh, absolutely. But you know, that's, but that's how..."
"what's the the main Catalyst if it's not the people rising up uh Elite overproduction so"
"...and that's why I keep on mentioning the war between the financial elite and the AI elite yeah and you mentioned the"
"...what will happen is that was hington will bail out the financial elite tr ump is able to succeed and am ass more power..."
"deregulation of the financial industry, the repealing of the Glass -Stengel Act, where retail banking and investment banking were kept separate. And this led..."
"...basically the Democratic Party has now been co -opted by the financial elite. And this is something that still continues today. So unfortunately, it..."
"...controlled by the CIA and the global deep state and the financial elite of the world. So I think that I cannot possibly imagine..."
"...deep state. OK, so you have the Zionists. You have the financial elite who want to better control trade in the Middle East. You..."
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