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Jiang argues that becoming the world reserve currency or world leader is undesirable because the hegemon must spend its resources defending that position against everyone else.
Jiang says Russia does not want to inherit American hegemony; it wants to remove the dominant bully so Russia gains more freedom of movement, even though that would not make Russia peaceful.
Jiang defines 'peace through strength' as hegemony: America creates peace by being feared, and fear produces obedience.
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.
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.
Jiang formulates the hegemonic rule as: whoever controls world trade controls the world, and whoever controls the heartland controls world trade.
Greek culture was culturally hegemonic over Rome because Greeks built the core of Western civilization through figures such as Homer, Plato, and Herodotus.
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.
"So we're assuming that anyone, someone wants to be the new leader. And the reality is that it's actually stupid to be the world..."
"Russia is going to exert its power where it can, but it will have more freedom of movement. Okay. It sees America as its..."
"...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..."
"...a very small part of the world. America insists on maintaining hegemony throughout the entire world, in Africa, in South America, in Europe, in..."
"prevents it from imploding is the fact that all debt in China is localized instead of nationalized all right? So even though these Chinese..."
"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..."
"Right. So, before this rules -based international order was the bipolar world, right? The Cold War between Soviet Union and America, and when the..."
"These were vibrant middle -class societies that were well -educated and which was prosperous. And now if you go to Libya, Syria, and Iraq,..."
"...uh whether it's uh you know uh wanting to uh maintain hegemony ensure as you said earlier that russia china iran cannot uh unite..."
"china and anyone uh else uh who needs to be dominated uh inch to ensure that their trade routes uh are directed by the..."
"...engages in these silly pointless wars in order to maintain uh hegemony through force and violence and we"
"What you want to do is this. You want to destroy CENTCOM and destroy Iran, okay? Those are your objectives. Why? Because if you..."
Kim Iversen brings Jiang on because the channel has become a prediction machine.
Danny asks whether Jiang's Iran-war prediction is now playing out.
Jimmy Dore brings Jiang on because an earlier prediction seems to have landed: Trump is back, the United States is now at war with Iran, and a forecast once dismissed as wild suddenly looks...
A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s law of escalation: the actor with the biggest weapon can still lose if the weaker actor has calibration, legitimacy, options, and a way to make the bully destroy himself.
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