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Jiang applies the law of proximity to nations: what looks like interstate behavior is often determined by the conflict within each nation.
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Foreign policy
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "So we're going to use a lot more energy. And I'll just say one other final point. The world is not running out of..."
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Anglo-American foreign policy is framed as serving private transnational capital rather than national interest.
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He argues that America was founded as a Christian nation, its soul remains Christian, and descendants of its early Christian leaders now control the military and foreign-policy apparatus.
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He interprets the U.S. policy mix as politically brittle: energy strain combines with diplomatic isolation and perceived disrespect toward allies in a way that increases coalition-friction.
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Sara says moralistic U.S. foreign policy failed because Washington and Jerusalem listened too much to diaspora anti-regime voices and underestimated regime loyalists and nationalist backlash.
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Jiang predicts MAGA/America First will eventually win the U.S. foreign-policy debate and bring America and Russia to terms.
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From Jiang's perspective, Epstein behaved as if he were real power in the world, which explains why he would presume to dictate or frame foreign policy.
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He predicts that Trump's scheduled April 2026 visit to China will produce major rapprochement and that US-China relations will gradually improve rather than deteriorate toward war.
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"So we're going to use a lot more energy. And I'll just say one other final point. The world is not running out of..."
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"We're not persuaded. And they should be allowed to be not persuaded, in my opinion, without the president going completely berserk as he's done,..."
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"It is interesting because China really gets more energy through the strait than anybody else in the world and therefore has a bigger vested..."
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"...that you know for the most part this kind of moralistic foreign policy doesn't really work um but it was fed in the iran..."
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"too many in washington and probably in jerusalem listening to only like people like sam and me and not realizing and i started warning..."
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"they get both material benefits and sort of spiritual and ideological sustenance from the regime and they're true believers and they're the sector of..."
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"...like myself that's why i try to be modest about my foreign policy predictions i haven't been to iran in 25 26 And I..."
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"...the end of the day, America First, MAGA, will win the foreign policy debate. And eventually, America and Russia will come to terms."
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"Yeah, I know. Then you go to work, where you're competing in order to win the favor of your boss and to be popular..."
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"And the conflict within nations is the one conflict that determines how nations behave against each other. So today, what we will do is..."
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"...transnational capital that has influence over any country. It's Anglo -American foreign policy. Okay? Do you understand? Anglo -American foreign policy, it's not to..."
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"...the world and that's why he thinks that he can dictate foreign policy to everyone okay so um um I don't think Jeffrey Epstein..."
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Relevant Lectures And Readings
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Jiang treats the Xi–Trump visit as a strategic theater.
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Jiang reframes Hormuz disruption as a production-system collapse and argues that escalation incentives make the Iran conflict a political-economic choke point beyond price shocks.
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Jiang frames the Iran conflict as a managed long war: visible ceasefires do not remove structural incentives that keep military pressure, debt extraction, and elite coordination in place.
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Jiang frames the Iran war as a structural problem: empires that enter forceful conflicts without strategic reserve burn out, and the current administration is trying to steer around collapse, domestic optics, and a volatile...
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The interview begins as a fight over whether the Iran war has helped anyone, then turns into a harder question: what happens when a regional war reveals that waterways, energy corridors, diaspora hopes, and...
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The lecture names the law of proximity: people and nations play many games at once, but the nearest game is the one that governs action.
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