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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...how after the war started, you have this huge bump in military spending in the Russian Federation. But the thing to keep in mind..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...how after the war started, you have this huge bump in military spending in the Russian Federation. But the thing to keep in mind..."
Jiang argues that Russia has not yet fully shifted into total war because military spending remains moderate as a share of GDP and Putin still frames Ukraine as a special military operation rather than a formal war, leaving room for a later surge in mobilization.
"...how after the war started, you have this huge bump in military spending in the Russian Federation. But the thing to keep in mind..."
"...in its military. America accounts for 41 % of all global military spending. Who's next? China. China spends 8.2%. Russia, which is America's main..."
"...Pentagon books okay we're trying to an accounting of the Pentagon military spending and we can't find $220 there's $220 missing from the budget..."
"...know America already outspends uh everyone else in the world in military spending I know there's no military in the world that can actually..."
"...that we're going to be able to expand to increase Canada's military spending to 5 % of GDP, that we could compete with the..."
This lecture turns a current conflict into a strategic exercise: the war is too short to be explained as U.S.
Jiang opens with the harshest possible premise: empires do not retire peacefully.
A source-grounded reading of the interview's central move: the Iran file is really about strangling China, while Canada's new China turn is read not as strategy but as a banker trying to offload a...
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