Jiang says wartime actors will commit seemingly suicidal actions because war produces hubris and an unstoppable drive to win even when the strategic logic is broken.
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Insanity
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...troops into iran but but anyway like um the amount of insanity that's gonna happen this war is gonna be beyond our imagination okay..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...troops into iran but but anyway like um the amount of insanity that's gonna happen this war is gonna be beyond our imagination okay..."
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"...troops into iran but but anyway like um the amount of insanity that's gonna happen this war is gonna be beyond our imagination okay..."
"...possible to win this war so there's been a lot of insanity going going on the uh american homeland will be more chaotic i..."
"...uh in the near future let's say given all of the insanity that is geopolitics right now right so um i've always"
"experiment in big big government central banking fiat currency insanity and so the like the the americans we were only in the position to..."
"...culture and in terms of political power of the woke leftist insanity that we've seen over the last 15 years, well, Donald Trump just..."
"...so desensitized. What I'm also realizing is you're talking about the insanity of it. And Hegseth saying we negotiate with bombs. He is treating..."
"...religious fanatics who believe that if we drive the world to insanity, right?"
"I think they're completely missing the unique insanity of a place like Israel, that's tapping into these 2000 3000 year old kind of stories..."
"...raging, Trump attacks Cuba or Mexico or Colombia. It is complete insanity. But this is again, unfortunately, this is the way an empire behaves...."
"What are your immediate predictions with this war? The amount of insanity that's going to happen in this war is going to be beyond..."
"...kills the field. Okay? So, clearly, this is a sign of insanity. But the Greek soldiers who come to retrieve him are determined to..."
Relevant Lectures And Readings
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Sneako opens by telling Jiang that the predictions have started landing.
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