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In this strategy, attacks on water, electricity, food access, and transport are meant to make civilians angry and channel that anger against their own government.
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Food
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...in order to fuel this manufacturing base. And these resources include food and energy. Okay. So China imports about, um, uh, two thirds of..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...in order to fuel this manufacturing base. And these resources include food and energy. Okay. So China imports about, um, uh, two thirds of..."
Key Notes
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He argues that the Iran war is already moving the world economy by raising prices for energy, fertilizer inputs, jet fuel, diesel, gasoline, and food.
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Jiang rejects the NATO-response explanation of Ukraine and says the invasion implements the Third Rome strategy by giving Russia food, energy, and Black Sea export control.
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Global food abundance rests on fertilizer trade: land-poor and populous southern regions depend on northern exports of petroleum-derived ammonia fertilizer.
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Food is finite but abundant enough to feed people; hunger and starvation are artificial crises, not simple consequences of natural scarcity.
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Jiang clarifies that rat utopia is an artificial experiment: in real life rats do not receive free food; in the experiment they are left alone and fed every day.
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The first major steppe innovation Jiang lists is a pastoral economy: cattle, sheep, and goats convert grass humans cannot eat into human food.
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Jiang argues that China's economy and demographics have collapsed and that China is extremely vulnerable because it depends on the world for oil and food.
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"...in order to fuel this manufacturing base. And these resources include food and energy. Okay. So China imports about, um, uh, two thirds of..."
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"And that's basically what the Western hemisphere, right. And that's controlled by, by the United States. So that's the second thing. The third thing..."
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"So those are the three things that China wants from the United States. Okay."
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"...I want to destroy people's capacity to access water, electricity, and food, the basic necessities of life. Okay? Why do I want to do..."
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"...of 10 million people and they do not grow their own food they require food to come from the countryside from elsewhere so if..."
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"population power plants okay these are all power plants around uh iran and it's really easy to destroy these power plants all right so..."
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"...urea is important fertilizer uh diesel gasoline fertilizer so basically um food and energy their price"
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"have gone way up okay donald trump makes a statement saying that the iranian flag cargo ship tuska has been boarded by the americans..."
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"...Sea, you are now able to export your energy and your food to Africa, to the Middle East, to Europe, to Asia. Okay? So..."
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"...massive shrink. Okay? You're like, okay, how? And, the answer is food scarcity. Food is not, is today, pretty common. But, food is based..."
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"And, that's it, guys. You understand? If this were to stop for the reason, people in the south would be in a lot of..."
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"...wouldn't be jet fuel that would be affected but also be food because"
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Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
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