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Jiang defines 'peace through strength' as hegemony: America creates peace by being feared, and fear produces obedience.
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Hegemony
Jiang's second principle is that the winner of open competition is the group most willing to adopt innovations for the purpose of destroying others.
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Transnational capital deliberately moved economic gravity from the United States to China, but China has not become hegemon because it does not want global reserve-currency and overseas military-base responsibilities, while America also resists.
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Israel’s optimal strategy differs from America’s: Jiang says Israel would want CENTCOM, Iran, and Saudi Arabia destroyed so Israel becomes the sole Middle East hegemon under the Greater Israel project.
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Jiang formulates the hegemonic rule as: whoever controls world trade controls the world, and whoever controls the heartland controls world trade.
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Greek culture was culturally hegemonic over Rome because Greeks built the core of Western civilization through figures such as Homer, Plato, and Herodotus.
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Jiang's second principle is that the winner of open competition is the group most willing to adopt innovations for the purpose of destroying others.
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Jiang argues that the most ruthless groups in a competitive system adopt innovations for destruction and become the sole hegemon.
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He says different nations currently want different hegemonic outcomes: America wants American hegemony, Putin wants Russian hegemony, and China wants Chinese hegemony.
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"...and therefore we'll have peace, okay? So it's the idea of hegemony. Peace through might, peace through power. We have to demonstrate we are..."
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"prevents it from imploding is the fact that all debt in China is localized instead of nationalized all right? So even though these Chinese..."
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"United States to China and the problem with China the reason why China has not become the hegemon is that China's not interested in..."
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"What you want to do is this. You want to destroy CENTCOM and destroy Iran, okay? Those are your objectives. Why? Because if you..."
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"...to fight this war, because that's their entire strategy to maintain hegemony in the world, to prevent the heartland from unifying. All right? Does..."
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"Why did it rise? Why did it decline? Okay. But before I start with my explanation, are there any questions about what I just..."
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"...Caesar sponsored the writing of the Aeneid in response to the hegemony of Greek culture. So even though you're right in that most of..."
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"lot of time on the Greek city -states like Athens and Sparta and Thebes because before, we actually thought the origin of Western civilization..."
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"Does that make sense? They are the most ruthless in adopting all innovations for the sole purpose of destroying others and becoming the sole..."
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"So, if it is true, if my predictions are correct and society is approaching collapse, then there should be a lot of space and..."
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"...of what America needs to do in order to maintain imperial hegemony."
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"...a lot of people expect that China wants to challenge American hegemony and replace America as the global superpower. But China does not want..."
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Byzantium survives for a thousand years because it solves Rome's political problem.
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