Jiang connects the creation of the Federal Reserve with America entering World War I, the 1929 crash, the Great Depression, and World War II.
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Great Depression
He claims the Great Depression and frontier closure force America to conquer and scale the game to the world after World War II.
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He claims the Great Depression and frontier closure force America to conquer and scale the game to the world after World War II.
Jiang claims the United States was on the brink of communist revolution in the 1930s and that fear of communism shaped anti-Soviet incentives.
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"...Then you have the 1929 stock market collapse followed by the Great Depression. And then 1941, America joins World War II. Okay, do you..."
"...people are now controlling all the money, which leads to the Great Depression, okay? So now the solution is America has to go and..."
"...Why? What's happening internally in the United States right now? The Great Depression. What ideology is a threat to the American government? Communism. Okay?..."
"...% fall in GDP. That's as big a downturn as the Great Depression. So, that alone is coming away right now out of this..."
"...real threats to the American political system in 1930s, especially the Great Depression. Okay, so does that answer your question? Great. Okay, question number..."
"...involved in the affairs of Europe. But it's suffering from the Great Depression. Its economy has collapsed. Okay? Japan, the Japanese empire, is a..."
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