Used ironically by Jiang to name the possibility that Trump's seemingly foolish moves are actually part of a deeper strategy to accelerate domestic conflict and imperial breakdown.
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five-dimensional chess
Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
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Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
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"...like the guy is completely incompetent or he's playing like five -dimensional chess, right? So if you just assume that Trump wanted to instigate..."
"...like captured a flag or the king in the game of chess right uh the standard bearer is what gives uh direction hope and..."
"...motivations and predict how they behave. Like Peter Thiel is a chess player. And like the other person I admire a lot is Vladimir..."
"...the country. Do you truly believe this is Trump playing 4D chess? Or is this just a lucky result where America basically stumbles into..."
"Okay, Trump is not playing 4D chess, okay? Trump is stupid. He's playing 4D chess in American politics where he's trying to get a..."
"...to think long term and execute with perfect timing. He's a chess player. Okay? And he's really the only world leader that's able to..."
"So what's the chess move to respond? Because if they're both looking at the expansion of their empire, the value of money, there must..."
"...world, okay? And to do that, I'm going to use a chess set, okay? Okay. All right. This is the key. This is the..."
"...what I want to do this class is just introduced the chess board or the players and How the game we played over the..."
"...each country i want you to imagine each country as a chess set okay so this is a chess set and i want to..."
"...don't score really significant wins in all these uh geopolitical grand chess boards uh things are going to start to implode at home yeah..."
"...my big problem, I think, with Donald Trump playing the 7D chess there is that I don't see that happening. I just see it..."
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