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The oceanic currents model imagines the world as interacting ecosystems whose currents collide and produce new developments without moral judgment.
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Historical model
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Jiang says the Western financial system has functioned like a Ponzi scheme since the Bank of England and can survive only by continually expanding to absorb new participants.
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Jiang says the war looks irrational because declining empires routinely launch wars they cannot win, overextend themselves, and make the whole world's collapse more violent.
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Jiang argues that every understanding of history is really an analytical model with embedded values and assumptions.
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Jiang proposes that civilizations rise through a combination of energy, openness, and cohesion.
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"Right. So, um, the entire financial system of the west is a Ponzi scheme, and this has been true since 1694 when the bank..."
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"Right. So - Again, I agree with you in that this war doesn't make any sense. It's not rational. And everyone knows that America..."
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"Um, and that's how, how artificial intelligence works. So, um, so my great insight is, well, we, we, we do the same thing with..."
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"So, in my analysis of world history, I see that when civilizations rise, there are three factors at play. The first is energy, this..."
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"And it helps us also predict what will happen. Okay? And this model is what I call the oceanic currents of history. Imagine the..."
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The interview sounds scattered at first, but its logic is consistent.
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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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The host begins by asking who Jiang is and what Predictive History means.
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Jiang's argument begins with a simple civilizational scorecard: energy, openness, and cohesion.
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History is not a cycle, and it is not a line moving politely toward truth.
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