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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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He says Trump still sees the 2020 election as a deep-state and global-financial-elite operation that robbed him of the presidency and triggered the later legal and political persecution against him.
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Jiang says the political purpose of such a civil war would be to overthrow the global financial elite and establish a new domestic power base.
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Jiang says Trump and Putin both see the global financial elite as parasitic and want prolonged war to expose, bankrupt, and destroy that 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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"...if it were not for the collusion of the entire global financial elite in which they pour $6 billion into defeating Donald Trump, if..."
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"Well, I mean, it's to overthrow the global financial... elite. That's the main purpose. And to establish their own power base. But also, the..."
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"They both believe that the global financial elite are parasites on their nation state, on their people. And this war will eventually expose the..."
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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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"...america's resources in rebuilding america and detach america from the global financial elite so i'd say these are two major factions i don't think..."
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"...to emerge and try to challenge the supremacy of the global financial elite, which is what's happening today. So it's really... One of opportunism...."
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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 conversation starts with Iran, but it quickly becomes a wider map of how Jiang thinks history moves.
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The interview starts with Iran and ends with American civil unrest, but Jiang treats the whole arc as one machine: a declining empire overextends abroad, factional war at home drives the timing, and chokepoints...
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This first community livestream begins as an ask-me-anything, but Jiang keeps pulling the questions back into one picture: America is drifting toward a disastrous Iran war, domestic politics has become theater, and the only...
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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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