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The interviewer says the real catastrophe is the illusion of escalation control: leaders imagine they can manage every variable of widening great-power war.
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Great Power war
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The host frames early 2026 as a rare peaceful shift of power from West to East led by China's rise and asks whether such a redistribution can avoid major war.
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Jiang says future global conflict is less likely to take the form of World War I or World War II because nuclear weapons make escalation too hard to control.
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"Well, thank you for taking the time. And yeah, it's, as you began saying, this war against Iran, it's hard to believe that they..."
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"So we see a massive change now in the international system, but usually the big changes in world order, they tend to come after..."
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"Right. So, I think that in the future, global conflict will be less and less likely. And the reason why is nuclear weapons, right?..."
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Glenn Diesen asks Jiang the practical questions first: what is this war for, who is exhausting whom, where is the weak point, and why would Washington choose such a disaster?
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Jiang opens by saying the American empire is no longer even pretending to run a liberal order.
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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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