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He says the strategy is not isolationism but focused divide-and-rule around core American strategic interests.
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Isolationism
He says the strategy is not isolationism but focused divide-and-rule around core American strategic interests.
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American public and elite attitudes in the 1930s are framed as isolationist, anti-communist, and in some elite circles pro-Nazi, making U.S. entry into the war difficult before Pearl Harbor.
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Because helot revolts were a constant threat, Jiang says Sparta became conservative, conformist, and isolationist, with little interest in the world outside Sparta.
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He compares Sparta to historical China: both are described as conservative and isolationist because internal peasant or subject control absorbs political attention.
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He argues that the empire-democracy split intensifies civil conflict because Wall Street and imperial beneficiaries profit from wars that the poor pay for and fight.
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Jiang predicts that once the war ends, America will likely become a Christian, isolationist theocracy because that faction is most willing to fight and has personnel in coercive institutions.
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He says that after winning in 2028, Trump could pivot from the Iran war to ending it and making America into a Christian isolationist theocracy.
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Jiang predicts that if the United States fights a war in Iran, it will retreat back to its borders and become isolationist.
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"Our oil, our gas, our coal, our nuclear power. And when it's available and it's appropriate, we could maybe get some energy from wind..."
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"What impact will that have, do you think, on geopolitics globally? I think that we are coming to a point where the world is..."
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"This does not mean isolationism. To the contrary, it means a focused and genuinely strategic approach to the threats our nation faces and how..."
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"Okay, all right. So this does not mean isolationism. It's about how to best manage them. So the idea here is that America, before,..."
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"So what was Stalin's response? And what did he promise the people to get them to fight to the bitter end? Okay, great questions...."
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"Communism was a real threat to America. So communism, anarchism were real threats to the American political system in 1930s, especially the Great Depression...."
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"So young soldiers would often... They would often be required to patrol at night, okay? They would maybe lie in the fields. Because now..."
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"The Spartans, as a culture, were very conservative, okay? They liked the way that... They liked the way... They wanted things to stay the..."
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"There's too much internal chaos. China just is not interested in the outside world. So China, for its history, has both been conservative, doesn't..."
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"major division in America that's important is the one between Empire and democracy meaning that there are many a lot of people in America..."
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"There's no war. Okay? But there could also be some places, like New York City or Los Angeles, where there is just a lot..."
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"The first was to build a military base. Multicultural, secular empire to spread democracy and freedom around the world. Okay? That was the first..."
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Relevant Lectures And Readings
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Greek history begins with geography, but it ends here as a theory of abundance, blocked status, and pointless war: when the line stops moving, the young do not overthrow the old order directly.
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A June 2024 lecture arguing that the next American civil war will not repeat 1861.
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Jiang reframes Hormuz disruption as a production-system collapse and argues that escalation incentives make the Iran conflict a political-economic choke point beyond price shocks.
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