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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "over the next seven yeah yeah so I think in the age of nuclear weapons a kinetic war is extremely unlikely um you know..."
Jiang argues that after the French Revolution elites recognized that mass uprisings could overthrow them, and he uses that insight to explain later peace arrangements, the road to world wars, and the eventual shift toward new forms of control in the nuclear age.
"over the next seven yeah yeah so I think in the age of nuclear weapons a kinetic war is extremely unlikely um you know..."
"so after the French Revolution after the public wars you had something called the concept of Europe which guaranteed peace um in Europe for..."
Stephen Akela invites Jiang on to explain how he predicted war with Iran, but the interview keeps widening until prediction becomes a whole model of late empire: a debt system that cannot tolerate peace,...
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