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Jiang says imperial retreat does not heal elite conflict; it internalizes it, because struggles that were previously exported abroad are forced back into the home territory.
Jiang says no external nation can defeat America directly; the only way to defeat America is to cause civil war or revolution that forces retreat from global obligations.
Jiang says the resulting American civil war would be low-intensity and sectarian rather than a classic army-versus-army conflict, but still sufficient to force imperial withdrawal from the world.
"This is about an empire in decline will always use force in order to maintain its advantage over the world. The problem with this..."
"What would it look like? Well, there are two movies that have come out in the past year that sort of tell us how..."
"So remember, it's impossible for any nation in this world to defeat America. Just impossible. Even if the entire world were to get together..."
A farewell class becomes a compressed world model: empire is a game with no friends, collapse is survivable if imagination and community survive, AI is funded for control rather than liberation, and the deepest...
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...
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