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Jiang defines America First as a revolt against the multilateral order that enriched global financial elites and now seeks to put narrowly American interests first.
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Global financial elite
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Does Trump's America First strategy mean he's going to pull out more from the Pacific and be less engaged in China and Taiwan and..."
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Jiang says behind-the-scenes coordination between Trump and Putin is plausible because they share a common enemy in the global financial elite.
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"Does Trump's America First strategy mean he's going to pull out more from the Pacific and be less engaged in China and Taiwan and..."
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"...past years, these past 40 years really popped up the global financial elite. That's why, you know, if you actually go and look at..."
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"...you're Trump, you have a common enemy, which is the global financial elite. Right. So I would not be surprised if there were a..."
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"...America. The first major faction are the transnational capital, the global financial elite. And they've been in power, since the Clinton years, right? And..."
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"...elite, who is like Wall Street. Okay. This is the global financial elite as represented by Wall Street. But then you have a new..."
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"...He sees it as a source of power for the global financial elite, who he sees as his real enemies, right? So remember, in..."
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"...oligarchs and the new oligarchs oligarchs of course of the global financial elite which is aligned with the european elite and then you have..."
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"...made explicit in the Bible. The third faction is the global financial elite, Wall Street, City of London, because for them, if they're able..."
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"...now until they reach the mountaintop then you have the global financial elite and these people are opportunists they're speculators"
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"...They will eventually overwhelm both the American empire and the global financial elite."
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The title promises Iran war prediction, but the interview's real shape is stranger.
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Jiang opens by saying the American empire is no longer even pretending to run a liberal order.
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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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Jiang opens by saying 2026 is not yet the final explosion but the year the whole machine visibly speeds up: a Ponzi-like global economy, imperial consolidation around trade routes and resources, and nation-states losing...
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The episode starts with Iran and ends with Putin, but the real machinery is the formula between them: mass times energy times coordination.
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