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The speaker argues that fertilizer, rather than fuel prices or airline tickets, is the central concern because fertilizer is needed to support food production for 8 billion people.
At the start of the Caesar-Pompey civil war, Caesar controls Rome and poor Gaul while Pompey and the optimates control Spain, Greece, Anatolia, Syria, and North Africa, including Rome's food supply.
Pompey's best strategy is containment: because Pompey controls Rome's food provinces, he can wait for hunger, troop disloyalty, and Roman resentment to weaken Caesar.
Hannibal ultimately loses, in Jiang's answer, because he has no reliable organizational and logistical support or food supply, and Rome learns to avoid battle while cutting off supplies.
Jiang says a prolonged closure of the Strait of Hormuz could leave GCC populations facing hunger because the region imports roughly 80 to 90 percent of its food.
Jiang links the Venezuela conflict to the wider U.S.-China trade war, arguing that China's retaliatory shift toward Brazilian and South American food imports exposed a strategic dependency Washington can now threaten.
He says Trump's strategy is to cut off China's oil and food supply in order to force Beijing to the negotiating table ahead of scheduled 2026 leader meetings.
Jiang says Washington sees Russia and especially China as having encroached too deeply into Latin America through security ties, investment, trade, ports, and food-supply links.
"if you want to fly, it might cost you 10 times as much as it does now, okay? And this will happen very, very..."
"six percent of the water supply for the GCC okay second is that these are not agricultural nations so they need they need to..."
"it presents something called the trump corollary and the idea of that is that trump will now enforce the monroe doctrine and the idea..."
"...what he wants to do is cut off China's oil and food supply and force China to the negotiating table. What Trump is really..."
"Right. So, the White House a couple of weeks ago published the National Security Strategy. And it is a very clear statement that Trump..."
"And it's really to disrupt as much as possible China's burgeoning relationship with South America."
"...independent. Uh, South America supplies China with one third of China's food supply."
"Everyone back here are not allowed to say anything. Okay? Because you go in turns. The people who sit at the front are the..."
"Okay? That's a problem for Caesar because remember, Rome gets its food from the provinces. Okay? So in other words, all Pompey has to..."
"...But he had no organizational and logistic support. He had no food supply. Because he was basically doing this on his own initiative. Carthage..."
"...place to place okay i don't have to destroy the entire food supply i can't do that i don't have weapons but i'm being..."
"...what you want to do is you want to take these food supply based in carbohydrates from Russia and then that add value to..."
A source-grounded reading of the nation-state as war machine: Rousseau turns liberty into sovereignty, Fichte turns language into blood, Bismarck turns welfare into war infrastructure, Mussolini turns myth into death, and 21st-century war turns...
The interview starts with the end of the world and Satoshi Nakamoto, but the deeper line is Jiang's theory of front men.
A source-grounded reading of the episode's central claim: American war culture has learned to convert military failure into rescue spectacle, while real wars are still decided by economics, organization, logistics, and endurance.
Fukuyama's end of history becomes, in this lecture, a temporary American spell: Pax Americana, science-priesthood, and dollar worship.
Danny asks whether Jiang's Iran-war prediction is now playing out.
Jimmy Dore brings Jiang on because an earlier prediction seems to have landed: Trump is back, the United States is now at war with Iran, and a forecast once dismissed as wild suddenly looks...
Glenn Diesen asks Jiang the practical questions first: what is this war for, who is exhausting whom, where is the weak point, and why would Washington choose such a disaster?
Sneako opens by telling Jiang that the predictions have started landing.
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