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Jiang says even inside transnational or national blocs, only a few factions can win, so internal conflict never disappears just because larger monetary alignments exist.
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Internal conflict
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Jiang says AI-driven job loss and government shutdowns that leave people unable to eat are setting the conditions for a major internal American conflict.
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Jiang says that in geopolitics the more important conflict is often the struggle within states rather than the struggle between states.
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"Yeah, no, it's been a great conversation. I've learned a lot. It's my special reason in economics or finance. So just having a chance..."
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"Because ultimately, at the end of the day, only a few people can win out. Not everyone can win out. That's point number two...."
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"You know, people are just disgusted with everything that's going on. With AI, people are going to lose their jobs. Government shutdown means people..."
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"is that in geopolitics, the conflict within states is more intense, more great and more important than the conflict between states. So the question..."
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"...why this leads to decline is they're so focused on their internal conflict they ignore the larger picture and they only win if they're..."
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"...are happening the way they are. Because empires decline, all these internal conflicts that are destroying the empire from within are projected outwards. And..."
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"...empires, which before included Rome and Persia, they would externalize their internal conflict. So we can see from this how all this combines together...."
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"...many people who are trying to join the elite this creates internal conflict And this is what's happening throughout the world today. So what..."
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"...question is about how Trump is going to deal with the internal conflict in America. Right now, he only has like 37 % of..."
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"...that people are much more interested in war. In their own internal conflict than the outside global conflict, okay? And so this understanding now..."
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"...Washington is a very complicated place. And so I think this internal conflict is what drives a lot of this decision making in Washington,..."
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"...say is that Turkey's interest in Somaliland is engaged in the internal conflict with Saudi Arabia. And so that is it's going to be..."
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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...
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Jiang reframes the Iran-Israel-U.S.-Russia conflict as a long-horizon contest in worldview and political systems, where structural elites, narrative control, and religious grammar shape strategy more than leaders changing seats.
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The lecture names the law of proximity: people and nations play many games at once, but the nearest game is the one that governs action.
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Jiang opens by saying 2026 is not yet the final explosion but the year the whole machine visibly speeds up: a Ponzi-like global economy, imperial consolidation around trade routes and resources, and nation-states losing...
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This interview is useful because it does not merely pile up predictions.
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Stephen Akela invites Jiang on to explain how he predicted war with Iran, but the interview keeps widening until prediction becomes a whole model of late empire: a debt system that cannot tolerate peace,...
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