prediction
Jiang says America resembles the 1920s Weimar period and predicts that a Great Depression and stock-market collapse should be expected.
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Great Depression
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...the 1920s so i think what we should expect is the great depression um and a stock market collapse and r asks what kind..."
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He says states can engineer a financial crisis and then use draft structures to force work and teach practical skills, with military training functioning as a more useful education system than ordinary schools.
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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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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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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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prediction
Jiang's dollar-collapse chain is that allies stop buying U.S. Treasuries and hosting bases after seeing American unreliability, forcing base closures and a depression-like collapse inside America.
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Jiang invokes the Great Depression to argue that states prefer to enter large wars after economic collapse has already made populations desperate enough to comply.
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Jiang says even perfect advance knowledge of major events would not necessarily change outcomes because participants still optimize within the game they inhabit.
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"...the 1920s so i think what we should expect is the great depression um and a stock market collapse and r asks what kind..."
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"...what you do is you engineer a financial crisis like the Great Depression, so that you're forced to work because your parents have no..."
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"And then you have a national draft to teach you skills that you will need in order to contribute more effectively to the economy...."
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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..."
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"linchpin of American Empire now transfers transfers over to Iran and they become the client States of Iran that's the first major consequence the..."
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"much more self -sufficient economies and stop buying U.S Treasuries um then you would have um Europe which would which would then be like..."
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"...civil discontent we're talking about something much much worse than the Great Depression take the Great Depression and magnify 500 times become close to..."
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"of events in America and so if you are the elite in America your options are wait for the revolution to happen sooner or..."
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"...World War Two in 1941. This is like 10 years of Great Depression when people had they couldn't find any work, when people didn't..."
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"...documents showing that, oh my God, guys, we're headed towards the Great Depression. We're headed towards World War II. The Nazis will rise. The..."
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"...people are now controlling all the money, which leads to the Great Depression, okay? So now the solution is America has to go and..."
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"...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?..."
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