Jiang uses it as an example of expensive weapons spending with little relevance to modern warfare.
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Golden Dome
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...systems that have no relevance in Modern Warfare it means the Golden Dome right um and you know there's five percent no spending it's..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...systems that have no relevance in Modern Warfare it means the Golden Dome right um and you know there's five percent no spending it's..."
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Invoked as a flashy weapons-system announcement Jiang treats as part of elite extraction rather than strategic renewal.
Jiang argues that increasing the military budget from $1 trillion to $1.5 trillion would chiefly enrich the military-industrial complex rather than restore real capability.
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"...systems that have no relevance in Modern Warfare it means the Golden Dome right um and you know there's five percent no spending it's..."
"...systems that they will announce like Star Wars 2.0, right? The Golden Dome. So that's the state of America. And these are the classic..."
"...Greenland, then making a deal with Europeans to just put the Golden Dome over Greenland. So now, I think that's off the table. But..."
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