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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "he argues that multi -lateralism is dead it's a lie and multi -lateralism is a pretext for the Europeans the British to free ride..."
Jiang says the old multilateral order was always a pretext for European and British free-riding on American power and that every state should now act in open self-interest.
Jiang says Trump’s national-security strategy openly rejects the old burden-sharing logic of multilateralism and reframes allies as free riders exploiting American consumers and military power.
"he argues that multi -lateralism is dead it's a lie and multi -lateralism is a pretext for the Europeans the British to free ride..."
"Yeah, so Mark Carney is responding to national security strategy, right? So national security strategy, what the American said is basically, you know, for..."
"...argument that for the longest time, NATO, Europe, Canada have been free riding off of America's generosity and goodwill. It is America that provides..."
Jiang opens by saying the American empire is no longer even pretending to run a liberal order.
Jiang opens with the harshest possible premise: empires do not retire peacefully.
Jiang starts from the harshest frame available: Iran is not one more crisis but the hinge on which the next half-century turns.
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