He presents war as an attempt to put a rival into check by attacking political systems rather than purely military systems.
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Great Power Conflict
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Key Notes
The host proposes that what look like separate Russia-West and China-US conflicts have partially merged into one larger geopolitical process.
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"as a frame of reference okay so the king is the political system so the first idea to understand is that when you fight..."
"grand strategy okay you just throw them away you don't really care okay does that make sense all right so now let's apply this..."
"russians or the chinese or the iranians okay all right so the way you put america into check is by enhancing the polarization and..."
"absolutely do recommend to everybody to everybody who is viewing us as well so Professor Professor tiang let's let's begin we are now I..."
Relevant Lectures And Readings
Jiang reframes the Iran-Israel-U.S.-Russia conflict as a long-horizon contest in worldview and political systems, where structural elites, narrative control, and religious grammar shape strategy more than leaders changing seats.
Mercouris opens by asking for predictive geopolitics rather than another issue-by-issue panel, and Jiang answers by folding Ukraine, Europe, Iran, China, and domestic American disorder into one machine.
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