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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Look, when empires decline, they decline not because they face a superior foe. That never happens. Empires decline because of internal factors. So elite..."
Jiang argues empires do not collapse because a stronger enemy defeats them; they collapse because of internal dynamics such as elite overproduction and bureaucratization.
"Look, when empires decline, they decline not because they face a superior foe. That never happens. Empires decline because of internal factors. So elite..."
Jiang treats the next Israel-Iran war not as another regional flare-up but as the real conflict the earlier 12-day war only rehearsed.
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