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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Look, you're absolutely right, okay? Listen, if you're an American baby boomer who's white, okay, and who's male, if you're born in the 50s,..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Look, you're absolutely right, okay? Listen, if you're an American baby boomer who's white, okay, and who's male, if you're born in the 50s,..."
Jiang answers that ordinary white American baby boomers enjoyed an unusually privileged standard of living because the American empire transferred global wealth upward into the United States while much of Africa and East Asia remained poor.
Jiang says the image of America as Atlas carrying the world is hypocritical because imperial prosperity depended on other populations living with deprivation while ordinary Americans consumed the surplus.
"Look, you're absolutely right, okay? Listen, if you're an American baby boomer who's white, okay, and who's male, if you're born in the 50s,..."
"People don't have even access to, like, clean water. And that's what the empire is. So for America to say, you know, we're the..."
Jiang starts with a tactical question about Trump and Venezuela, but the interview keeps widening until Venezuela becomes only the first front in a larger story: a Monroe Doctrine empire that prefers calibrated coercion...
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