Jiang argues that one major sign of imperial decline is the collapse of sustaining hypocrisy: the empire no longer seriously claims it is spreading democracy or protecting rights.
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"yeah it's it's really decline of Empire where you know what made what made the Empire sustainable was a hypocrisy where the people bought..."
"you gave a speech like that in public and so like screw this let's just let's just ignore this it's it's let's not waste..."
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