Jiang argues that the military-industrial complex needs new wars to justify its bureaucracy, especially after spending billions on weapons that create pressure to be used.
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Jiang argues that bureaucracies hide their intentions because their primary imperative is to avoid mistakes and justify their own continued growth.
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"like the military industrial complex it's a important factor uh you need to justify the bureaucracy the military industrial complex bureaucracy by starting new..."
"Right. The bureaucracy needs to justify its existence. But the rule of bureaucracy is don't make mistakes, don't. And the way you make mistakes..."
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The host begins by asking how Jiang became a public analyst and ends by asking how history itself gets rewritten.
Uberboyo pushes Jiang from geopolitics into demography, soft power, religion, bureaucracy, and aging.
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