Jiang describes the bureaucratic state as a parasite that implodes from greed, incompetence, and its own weight once maintaining the bureaucracy consumes too many resources.
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Incompetence
Kim Iversen brings Jiang on because the channel has become a prediction machine.
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Kim Iversen brings Jiang on because the channel has become a prediction machine.
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Jiang predicts that whatever conflict the United States enters next, including a possible invasion of Iran or Venezuela, people will be surprised by how incompetent the American military is.
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"...It's going to implode to its own greed, to its own incompetence, due to its own weight, basically."
"is that no matter what climate the United States um gets into and it could be um an invasion of Iran it could be..."
"...the best analogy. And a lot of it is driven by incompetence among the ruling elite. The Democrats, the oligarchs absolutely refuse to admit..."
"...seeing all this corruption, being in China and seeing all this incompetence, and just meeting people who were extremely successful. And then you're like,..."
"...point Okay? And you could argue that Okay Maybe it's bureaucratic incompetence But at the same time It could also be part of the..."
"...with Israel. What it's going to reveal is the corruption, the incompetence, the mafia within the Islamic elite. And what we'll see after the..."
"...is on the surface level demonstrating such a massive power. Massive incompetence, getting involved in this trade war and all this, and with the..."
"...I'm an American, I'm just shocked by the sort of corruption, incompetence, and just ignorance and indifference of my government."
"...told to never attribute to malice what can be attributed to incompetence but what is the functional difference between an incompetent elite class and..."
"...theories later on this semester. Now, the last reason is bureaucratic incompetence. The government is just stupid, okay? Now, there is an overlap among..."
"...detonating a nuke, it shows the desperation, anxiety, and quite honestly, incompetence of the American military. So for that reason, I don't think America..."
"...who pulled this crap would have been arrested and executed for incompetence. Only Stalin, who, because of the Great Purge, consolidated power only in..."
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