Jiang's phrase for the universal ethical stance a real world leader must publicly claim and defend, not merely a tactical opinion on one conflict.
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moral high ground
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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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...
Key Notes
Jiang says the live-streamed atrocities in Palestine give China a near-perfect chance to seize the moral high ground, but China has refused to take that opening.
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"...opportunity for china to step up and take the the moral high ground and if china would just step up and say listen uh..."
"high moral ground unless you're willing to articulate a vision that unites all humanity unless you're willing to take risks actually you know basically..."
"...point where the United States is forced to send millions of ground troops into Iran, it's going to destroy both places, both the United..."
"...ends could lead them to justify more social control on the ground that it serves progress. The conservatives preoccupied with public order and fascinated..."
"...times on the stream is that there's going to be a ground troop invasion, but it seems like it's hit somewhat of a stalemate..."
"...way that he seems fit, okay? And that could mean sending ground troops. That could mean negotiating a ceasefire. That could mean withdrawing from..."
"...economic strangulation, okay? That's the first pillar. Second pillar is a ground invasion, but a limited ground invasion. So what you're trying to do..."
"...people to war. Right. Right. Right. And eventually, when you have ground troops, people are going to be indifferent as well. And eventually, you're..."
"Losing the war means that America would send ground troops. Iran would survive. They would survive this ground invasion. And this would be so..."
"So you think the United States is going to put ground troops in, Iran is going to resist, and then chaos is going to..."
"Yes. Okay. So let me explain to you why ground troops has to be sent. Okay. All right. Okay. So in phase one of..."
"...operating base is a spearhead of the military, where you insert ground troops to hold an area in order to resupply, in order to..."
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