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Jiang says the war in Ukraine has defied ordinary geopolitical logic for years, which he uses as evidence that conventional historical reasoning no longer explains current wars.
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Irrationality
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Jiang says the war makes no conventional sense even a week after it began because no coherent public reason for destroying Iran has been articulated.
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Mercouris argues that late-stage Athens became simultaneously more irrational and more aggressive, expanding wars even while its internal crisis deepened.
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Jiang uses the Ukraine war as evidence that the American empire is too desperate and strategically irrational to assume it will stop itself from making a disastrous Iran decision.
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Jiang says American hegemony is marked by hubris: it assumes its own actions are rational while dissenting states are dismissed as irrational.
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"um okay i will say this whatever you believe about what is happening whatever you believe will happen will be completely wrong whatever happened..."
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"ukraine just surrendered and negotiated terms all right putin doesn't even want all of ukraine he just wants what is traditionally russian okay which..."
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"in um the jewish tradition it is where god lives right so if you want god to return to the world you need to..."
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"logic to analyze this one iran it makes no sense even today a week after the war started even though a lot of damage..."
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"Indeed, I mean, actually, you see the point you've made, because again, as somebody who knows the history very well, because it is the..."
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"And now it's just coming to fruition and, and really it's, I think I'm running a marathon, right? You you're, you're like so close..."
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"war ends, but I'm pretty sure like after the war ends, Ukraine is no longer a functional society. They've lost too many, um, men..."
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"So game theory, the problem with game theory applied is that it's often too mathematical and not psychological enough. So there's not enough empathy..."
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"So the issue right now is that we are run by the American empire, and the American empire is insistent on imposing its values..."
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"...is a slaughter bench. There, there is so much violence and irrationality, things about history you can't find any meaning in. I think for..."
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"...they would have won. And, you know, if you talk about irrationality, go back to World War I. And, like, for"
Relevant Lectures And Readings
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The interview opens as a first-week war briefing and then keeps widening.
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The host begins by asking who Jiang is and what Predictive History means.
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This interview starts with a forecasting method and quickly turns into a map of imperial decline.
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Mercouris opens by asking for predictive geopolitics rather than another issue-by-issue panel, and Jiang answers by folding Ukraine, Europe, Iran, China, and domestic American disorder into one machine.
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Jiang begins with prediction as a disciplined loop, then turns the whole century into a religious struggle in disguise.
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The host opens by asking whether history can be protected from geopolitics and ends by asking what to do about elite overproduction.
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